Monthly Archives: August 2008

Singapore National Day and Farewell Party

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Today is Singapore’s National Day, their 43rd birthday! We leave for San Francisco tomorrow so my coworker was nice enough to let us host a farewell party in her place. We started in the late afternoon with us all playing the Wii, we played Wii Fit and had a fun time with it. Ron cooked us a wonderful meal of mostly Korean food and we shared some good wines while watching the National Day Parade.

Many thanks to Peng for letting us stay at her place for our last two weeks in Singapore and for letting us have one last get together before we fly home.

NUH Pharmacy BBQ at Labrador Park

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My last day of work! Woo hoo! But I’ve only got a break for one week before starting work again in US… sigh. But tonight I still get to be a part of the NUH pharmacy staff and join in on their department BBQ at Labrador Park. The park is a bit out of the way but is very nice and spacious and seems like it could be a fun place to relax and hang out.

We had a buffet set out and they had a raffle along with birthday announcement and gifts. We were there working on our coworker Peai Tean’s wedding card and putting on the finishing touches.

The technicians I worked with in Singapore are wonderful young ladies and so sweet, they all wanted photos with me before I leave Singapore. I will miss them when I return to US. They taught me a lot and they had a great attitude at work, no matter how crazy the day might be. I hope that I’ll be able to go visit there again one day or that they may be able to come visit us 🙂

Diandin Leluk at Golden Mile Complex

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Ron had a dinner event with a group of Singaporean entrepreneurs. We went to dinner at Diadin Leluk at the Golden Mile Complex, aka Little Bangkok.

I ordered for us and ate while Ron chatted.

We had green curry.

Pad thai.

Green papaya salad.

It was good but I wouldn’t make a trip all the way out there again just to eat it. The green curry is simple enought to make at home with green curry paste. The pad thai noodles were a bit chewy for me. The green papaya salad had too much fried onion for both of us.

I didn’t get a chance to see the other interesting parts of Little Bangkok but oh well.

Fish & Company at IMM

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Tonight Ron and I went to dinner with Peai Tean at Fish & Co. and IMM.

I had the classic fish and chips.

Ron had the crab and lobster spicy pasta.

We had their special cola (wasn’t that special…)

Peai Tean gave me a lovely farewell gift of a four leaf clover pendant since she was off to get hitched on Friday and I wouldn’t see her again before we leave for US. Congratulations to her and Ray!

Korean food at Food Culture

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One of my favorite Korean dishes is something I’ve always known as “rice pinkies” because they are rice noodles about the size and shape of your pinkies. They have it in Singapore but it’s really hard to find in US so you usually have to go to a Korean market to buy your own noodles. This is what it kind of looks like except the noodles are usually round, not square like this.

I really like spicy tofu stew but this was not spicy enough and not quite the right type of red bean spicy paste they use in Korean restaurants.

I’m looking forward to going back to US to our favorite Korean restaurants for really spicy tofu stew!