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Koi Garden in Dublin

We arrived in SFO about an hour late but luckily for us, Ron’s parents live and work in Millbrae so they were waiting with us at their office. My parents were will them so they all came to welcome us home. On arrival in SF, some of our luggage was delayed and would be arriving on the next plane from Singapore. I think it worked out better that way or else customs may have wanted to search through our lugagge! We’d already gone through so much packing and unpacking in Singapore, I didn’t want to have to repack and unpack again in San Francisco.

I went home with my parents while Ron stayed with his so that he could pick up our luggage that evening. I didn’t sleep much on the plane so when we got back to San Ramon, I fell right asleep (after checking on my kitties of course!).

My parents woke me up to head out to dinner. My dad and my brother both had their birthdays last week so we went to have a belated birthday dinner at Koi Garden in Dublin.

We had peking duck, winter melon soup, mushu pork, fish stomach, and steamed fish.

SIN to SFO

We are flying from SIN to ICN (Korea) to SFO. We almost didn’t make it because of our luggage situation… but luckily everything worked out and we boarded the plane in time and got all our baggage checked in after some repacking and having to purchase new luggage and having to convince the lady at the check-in counter that we weren’t going to pay $3000 to put our luggage on the plane! Yikes. We were stressed but very glad to get to the gate in time even after getting our duty free tax refund.

This was the first time I’ve been on Singapore Airlines and although the plane itself isn’t much different than other airlines, their in-flight entertainment can’t be beat, they have lots of current movies, current TV shows, and even older movies that I enjoy watching again. They have lots of foreign films too. I didn’t really sleep because there was so much to watch.

The food was okay but not the best airplane food I’ve ever eaten. I think nothing can beat business or first class meals.

We had a short layover in Korea so they made us disembark while they cleaned the plane before they let us on again. I’ve never had to do that before so it was a bit weird since the layover was only about 1 hour.

Almost home…

Singapore National Day and Farewell Party

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

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

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.