Ben Zen Wantan Mee

If you don't go to the Great Wall if you visit Beijing then you are not a hero. If you don't eat wantan mee when you visit Pontian (Ben Zen), then you are really Ben (Stupid).

Not at home

What's special with this photo? Yupe. The god statue is not at home. It only happened once a year where the god statue will be out for parade for 3 days.

Ningbo food

What sort of interesting foods are available in Ningbo? Well, its mostly Seafood. Funny looking fish. Funny looking small fish. Tiny Crabs. Good tea. Good beer. Last but not the least, good liquor.

Li Chun

Li Chun. The first day of Spring or I often call it “the day the egg stand tall”. Guess what? We give it a try for the first time today and it really does work.

Sleeping & Walking Monitoring

I have been wearing the Mi-band2 for the entire year. The final results are as follow:- Average sleeping time= 6 hours 33 mins with deep sleep of 1 hour and 18 mins (20%). Average walking/steps of 6,968 per day for the year of 2017 (87% of target).

Passaat

Today mileage of my Passat hit exactly 40,000km. That’s pretty high consider I only own the car for 568 days. That is an annualized usage of 25,685 km per year. On the other hand, this car has high depreciation, therefore I should maximize the usage inst

ead of sitting in the garage.

The Great Britain Circus

We went to the circus! That’s the first ever circus experience for the kids and for Sa. The kids sure enjoy the show, particularly when it comes with toys (swords with lights) and junk food.

HY Graduates!

Time flies as HY has graduated from Kindergarten school! It is a fantastic event that I am pretty sure primary, secondary and even college graduates won’t be able to match. There are plenty of performances too. It commences with a group singing, swearing from the graduates, follow by a ground band, two dancing performances (one from class and another from Full day students), the actual graduation and graduates singing (three songs). I don’t remember doing anything at all for my kindergarten graduates, except maybe wearing the hat.

Placement in primary school Part II

After months of applications, appealing, running around and making phone calls everywhere, I finally able to place HY to the same primary school as I do. It’s exactly 6.5km (less traffic) from house and is second closest school, following Yat Chee of 5.5km (but heavy traffic). For comparison, HY’s current kindergarten is 9.6km away from home.

New Camera- Canon G7X Mark 2

I bought this camera as own birthday present as well as for the Kun Ming trip as the previous Olympus has retired after 6½ years of hard work. Following are some function worth noticing.

1. Check out the HDR function- (Before and After) particularly impressive when there are little lighting.

2. Selfie function- may be little bit closer as compare to using a selfie stick, but still suitable for certain angle.

3. Remote function- guess who is taking this photo? Myself using handphone.

4. The background defocus effect.

5. Panning effect? I am not professional enough to capture one yet.

There are a lot more function, however, we are just too much of a newbie to try during this trip.

Kun Ming Part 2

Top twelve Kun Ming food.

(1) Big Biscuit, road side food is always the best.

(2) The bakery- Bull-horn bread, chocolate bread and the flower cookie.

(3) Mei Cai Biscuit. Sacha’s favourite

(4) Chili spicy Prawn. Taste good despite really spicy.

(5) The craft beer & steak. Beautiful ambience too.

(6) Special Rice and Noodles at Pasar. Very unique indeed.

(7) Little-Biscuit that taste like Guo-Tie.

(8) Jiao Zi & soya milk at Pasar

(9) The lamb steamboat.

(10) Cross the bridge noodles. The food that represent Kun Ming. Everyone must try. Must .

(11) The junk food and beer before bed time. Sound simple and that you can have it anytime and anywhere but not the case for us. It’s a rare experience for us. Particularly love the Har-Er-Bin Beer.

(12) Grill spicy drumstick