Mid-Autumn Festival at Gardens by the Bay

Next Wednesday, Chinese around the world will be celebrating Mid-Autumn Festival. As usual we be indulging in mooncake and tea. This year, I notice that compared to last year, there are lesser lanterns. At the Supertrees area, this year there are only dragonfly lanterns on the Supertrees. Last year, there were many gigantic lanterns spread around the Supertrees area. 

At 7.45pm, my cousin and I watched the 15-minute light display dancing to a medley of Mandarin and English songs.After watching, we went home.

Yummy Home-cooked Noodle

I love noodles prepared by my mother who is a great cook. My mum always add lots of other ingredients like fishcake, carrot, cabbage, egg and fragrant fried shallot and garlic. Noodles fried by my mum is the best in this world!

My Nice Home Gallery: HDB 5-room Flat

Today I'm going to share Singapore public housing, Housing Development Board (HDB) 5-room flat. This 5-room HDB flat has 4 rooms and 1 living room, a kitchen, 2 bathrooms and a bomb shelter room.  A typical 5-room BTO flat is about 110 square metres. Only Singaporeans are eligible for new flats or Build-to-Order (BTO) flats. I hope this scheme continues else Singapore permanent residents will buy more and drive prices up. 

BTO 5-room flat is only for family unit and Singaporeans singles are unfortunately not allowed to buy BTO 3-room flats and above. Singaporeans singles can only purchase BTO 2-room flat. This is a headache for me as I'm not allowed to rent out the room even after 5 years minimum occupation. If I want to buy HDB 3-room flat, I can only buy a resale one which means second-hand aka used home for me. The other option is to buy private housing which is very expensive and there is no grant. I monitor the situation and see how. Or I can buy a 2-room flat using my CPF. After 5 years, if I have more cash, I buy a private property for rental income.

Click here to view My Nice Home gallery on other public housing showflat.
Read my earlier post on 2-room flat showcase here.

4-room and 5-room show flats.

 Living room 

 Kitchen and dining area.

 I like this master bedroom design. This is the type of flooring I want for my home! I also like light pastel colour.

 

Moonlit Sanctuary in Melbourne

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First local meal in Singapore are laksa spicy rice noodle and fishball dry mee pok flat noodle. Although I prefer fried carrot cake at Tampines round market, but its quite a distance from my home so I just brought another favourite local dishes like laksa and fishball Teochew noodle. 

Laksa

Fishball mee pok aka flat noodles dry.

Back to Singapore Tomorrow!

Be back to Singapore tomorrow late night.

Beach in Melbourne.

I'm in Melbourne.

I'm now in Melbourne waiting for shuttle bus to hotel. I won't be updating the blog for a week.

Flying to Melbourne!

It's weird.  I thought we be flying with Emirates but it turns out to be Qantas airline. Anyway I quite like Qantas airline.

Tampines Hub: One Stop Service Centre Shopping Mall

Tampines Hub, a giant one-stop service centre with many facilities is now officially opened. 
There are bowling alley, swimming pool, library, public services (HDB, ActiveSg and many more), stadium, shopping mall, hawker centre, restaurants, gym and many more!

After holiday, I will be using ActiveSg gym to exercise. I need to shed off extra weight after eating so much.

 Restaurant

 Inside the hawker centre. 

 There are different Tray return station. This is non-halal tray return station.

 To encourage diners to return tray, there is reward system. You need a card to scan for reward points.

 There is bak kut teh stall which is pork organ soup. 

 Singapore kindness movement.

 Many senior citizens like to watch the giant screen. 

 This place is very big. Need a few hours to really explore all facilities. 

 Hawker centre

Modern Yaki Pasta at Miam Miam

I love the modern yaki pasta at Miam Miam restaurant. It is actually aglio olio with mushroom, cabbage and omu egg topped with mayonnaise sauce and seaweed. The pasta is aldente and tasty with garlic fragrant and sesame seed. A plate of modern yaki is about $14.50. 

French toast with drink cost $8.80. I don't really recommend it. 

Going to Melbourne Again this Week!

This Wed evening, I be flying to Melbourne, Australia with my buddy. We will arrive on this Thursday early morning. This will be my third trip to Melbourne. This time I'm going there to decide if I should go there next year for a short course. Frankly speaking, I'm still not sure if I should go there to study next year. I only like 3 of the subjects but don't like the 4th subject offered as there is a lots of calculation and I don't really like complex Mathematics.

I wanted to fly with Singapore Airlines but the timing is not so good compared to other airlines.

We be going to Yarra valley, Philips island to see cute penguins  For me, it will be my second visit. But I'm looking forward to it as I like nature. 

One place we will visit is Victoria State Library in Melbourne!