have just bought two tickets today. had to travel a long way. took almost two hours. was in a light rain. the ticket number is two hundred sixty something, means that there are less than 300 ppl on "gallery" so far. three days to kick-off. first time in national stadium.

on that day remember to bring camera, umbrella and plastic bags!!!

We took the bus from Lower Pierce Reservoir to Angmokio MRT. Lots of people were on the train at that time, and we really had to zip ourselves to fit in there. Luckily, we alighted at the next stop: Bishan.

This chinese restaurant is situated in Junction 8, Bishan MRT. Lots of people were waiting outside. Before this, I always find it ridiculous to make a long queue before being served. Even at some restaurants, they announced the minimum waiting time is 30 minutes, but people kept queuing patiently and tirelessly. In Vietnam, "Q"ing and waiting to be served never exist in our dictionary. Except very formal restaurant, we always come inside any restaurant and ask for a table easily. Fortunately, this time, we didn't queue, instead, we had the queue number, and we gathered and waited beside the gate. Notice the queue number, it was 214. Ours is 224. About 10 minutes later, they called in.

The food was delicious. It was really different from what we have to eat everyday at Singapore food courts :-). They served dim sum, wan ton, rice, soup, vegetable,... and tea. I liked the rice best.

Later, we went to Vivo city. The weather was not so good, and we were all tired.

We knew a small party was waiting for us at home...

This entry is about Christmas, and this event was brought by my nice neighbor next door. Without his arrangement, this trip will never be made. That's why the title of this entry is about him.

This trip saved a poor and wet Christmas. It's been raining since last week, few tennis games have been canceled, and now I still don't know when I can play again. However, my finger will have more time to heal.

We should have made this trip earlier, but due to our busy schedule, we postponed this trip until this Christmas. Oh I forget to mention that we went to Lower Pierce Reservoir.

The weather supported us as it didn't rain in the morning, even the sun shone on our way back. As usual, we didn't start on time but some 20 minutes late. Two taxis took us to the reservoir's car park after about 15 minutes. The streets were empty and the drivers throttled up to 90 km/h.


The first stop was an Indian restaurant call "Casuarina Curry" that according to my neighbor, some food here can not be found anywhere else, and people can drive a long way here just for breakfast. The restaurant was filled with not-Indian-customers. That's fun.


We didn't like Indian food much. Otherwise, the restaurant was not clean enough. The tidiness is the same with some food courts around Clementi. The toilets were awful. After we had our breakfast, an old man came to clean the table while we were still sitting there. He had the worst behavior for a waiter I've ever seen in Singapore. Without a word, he picked one empty disc and dropped it onto a curry disc to make the curry "flew" into us. Without looking at us, he used his index to announce us to leave the table in our surprise.


A short 2-minute walk led us to an entrance to the reservoir: the Lower Pierce trail. See how fresh and healthy we were before the trip. The Lower Pierce trail consists of the Hevea trail, Cyathea trail, Bamboo trail and Oncospermum trail.












In part 2 of the story, I will lead you to a nice Chinese restaurant (!) in Bishan MRT.