Saturday, June 23, 2007
Photos!
These are the photos taken yesterday while I was out dinner at the Stuttgart town. The building structure was beautiful! It was freezing cold yesterday as it started to rain around 9+pm, stop around 10pm and started to rain heavily again at 11+pm.
This photo was taken at 8+pm. Look at the sky, it was still very bright. Sunset at around 9.30pm
Vapiano, the place for pizza and pasta
My dinner
Pirates of Carribean 3 is very popular here
The cute little SMART car. It can be seen everywhere on the road
"My" little white SMART car :)
Greetings from Stuttgart, Germany
Finally have the time to login and enter my blog. I arrived in Stuttgart on Sunday night (17th June) and today is my 6th day here. I'm going to spent another week till 29th June before taking the morning flight to fly from Stuttgart to Paris to meet up with Hui.
The hotel I'm staying is situated in Sindelfingen while my office is in Ehningen. It's about a 15min drive from my hotel to office. No pictures were allowed in the premise of my company building but I will try to take some photos secretly! :)
I'm here for a business workshop for 2 weeks and Hui will be in Paris for a seminar for 1 week on 25th-2nd july. Hence I will meet up with him and spent 2 days in Paris before flying back to Singapore. It was really hard planning the itinerary to fly to Paris as all the transport timing just doesn't seems right! We spent 4 days before coming up with the transport and hotel settled.
Nothing much to see here and the food...YUCKS...Only a few were nice but I really don't enjoy german food.
Went out with the colleagues to this place where they called it the Beer Garden. Basically it's just a open space area where there's a line of shops selling food and you get to drink beer, eat and chilled out with your friends. Didn't took any pictures because I forgot to bring the camera along. I should have brought Hui's K800i over with me! So I can snap any pictures anytime anywhere!
The workshop was boring but it did help me to understand more about the processes since I'm new in this role. I'm just looking forward to the Paris trip and hope everything goes smoothly without any flight delay or cancel, and reach back safely in Singapore on 2nd July, 6.30am.
Although the tough times will come when I'm back in Singapore because there is so much solutioning design to complete at a tight deadline, let me enjoy the week in Europe first before I really get myself started to the long working hours!
The hotel I'm staying is situated in Sindelfingen while my office is in Ehningen. It's about a 15min drive from my hotel to office. No pictures were allowed in the premise of my company building but I will try to take some photos secretly! :)
I'm here for a business workshop for 2 weeks and Hui will be in Paris for a seminar for 1 week on 25th-2nd july. Hence I will meet up with him and spent 2 days in Paris before flying back to Singapore. It was really hard planning the itinerary to fly to Paris as all the transport timing just doesn't seems right! We spent 4 days before coming up with the transport and hotel settled.
Nothing much to see here and the food...YUCKS...Only a few were nice but I really don't enjoy german food.
Went out with the colleagues to this place where they called it the Beer Garden. Basically it's just a open space area where there's a line of shops selling food and you get to drink beer, eat and chilled out with your friends. Didn't took any pictures because I forgot to bring the camera along. I should have brought Hui's K800i over with me! So I can snap any pictures anytime anywhere!
The workshop was boring but it did help me to understand more about the processes since I'm new in this role. I'm just looking forward to the Paris trip and hope everything goes smoothly without any flight delay or cancel, and reach back safely in Singapore on 2nd July, 6.30am.
Although the tough times will come when I'm back in Singapore because there is so much solutioning design to complete at a tight deadline, let me enjoy the week in Europe first before I really get myself started to the long working hours!
Friday, June 08, 2007
Pioneer Food Village
Sometime back in April or May, we heard 93.3FM DJ Chong Qing recommended a place over radio that sells very nice Zhu Chao food. After tons of "pestering" by Hui that he wanted to go there and eat, today we finally drove all the way from Eunos down to Tuas West Ave for the food!
It's a long long journey! You will exit from the 2nd last exit(Tuas West Road) in AYE to reach the place. If you missed it, you may still exit from the next exit(Tuas West Drive). But if you are blind enough to miss that exit again, you will be heading straight to Second Link checkpoint and by then, get ready your passport to go Malaysia for dinner instead!
Hai Siang Joo Seafood Restaurant was situated in Pioneer Food Village, a coffeeshop located at Tuas West Ave. By 7.30pm, all other stalls in the coffeeshop will be closed and the only stall left open will be Hai Siang Joo. It is opened till 10pm and last order probably is around 9.30pm.
At the stall, we saw that one of their dish was being recommended in the newspaper and it was the 'Crystal Kway Teow or Fen Pi fried with XO sauce and seafood'. It was highly recommended by the lady taking our orders but we didn't eat that as we wanted to try out their Zhu Chao.
We ordered Sambal Kang Kong, Sweet & Sour Pork (My all-time favourite), Tou fu with broccoli (The lady said the Tou fu is made of beancurd and is one of their speciality dish), 2 bowl of rice and 2 cups of home-made water chestnut drink.
As for the price, I would consider slightly expensive for a stall located in a coffeeshop at Tuas area. The minimum price of a vegetable cost about $8 and a S size plate of meat minimum cost $10. Seafood cost about $20 and above. But at least I think the food was really worth that price as it really had the standard of a restaurant even though it is located at one end of the red dot on the globe!
Since there were only 2 of us, we couldnt order too much dishes as we would not be able to finish. But I would want to re-visit the place again, this time with more kakis to try out their seafood. Any fellowship for Journey To The Extreme West??
Yummy dishes..Gone in less than an hour!
HAI SIANG JOO SEAFOOD RESTAURANT (海湘裕益食家)
29 Tuas West Avenue, Tel: 6863-3651
Opening hours: 11am to 2.30pm, 5 to 10pm
It's a long long journey! You will exit from the 2nd last exit(Tuas West Road) in AYE to reach the place. If you missed it, you may still exit from the next exit(Tuas West Drive). But if you are blind enough to miss that exit again, you will be heading straight to Second Link checkpoint and by then, get ready your passport to go Malaysia for dinner instead!
Hai Siang Joo Seafood Restaurant was situated in Pioneer Food Village, a coffeeshop located at Tuas West Ave. By 7.30pm, all other stalls in the coffeeshop will be closed and the only stall left open will be Hai Siang Joo. It is opened till 10pm and last order probably is around 9.30pm.
At the stall, we saw that one of their dish was being recommended in the newspaper and it was the 'Crystal Kway Teow or Fen Pi fried with XO sauce and seafood'. It was highly recommended by the lady taking our orders but we didn't eat that as we wanted to try out their Zhu Chao.
We ordered Sambal Kang Kong, Sweet & Sour Pork (My all-time favourite), Tou fu with broccoli (The lady said the Tou fu is made of beancurd and is one of their speciality dish), 2 bowl of rice and 2 cups of home-made water chestnut drink.
As for the price, I would consider slightly expensive for a stall located in a coffeeshop at Tuas area. The minimum price of a vegetable cost about $8 and a S size plate of meat minimum cost $10. Seafood cost about $20 and above. But at least I think the food was really worth that price as it really had the standard of a restaurant even though it is located at one end of the red dot on the globe!
Since there were only 2 of us, we couldnt order too much dishes as we would not be able to finish. But I would want to re-visit the place again, this time with more kakis to try out their seafood. Any fellowship for Journey To The Extreme West??
HAI SIANG JOO SEAFOOD RESTAURANT (海湘裕益食家)
29 Tuas West Avenue, Tel: 6863-3651
Opening hours: 11am to 2.30pm, 5 to 10pm
