Flea @ Scape, once again

Flea @ *scape Sky Terrance with the girls :) Leecher was grumbling that I've eaten into his space in our walk-in-wardrobe and that I had to clear my stuff or else, face punishment of my stuff being thrown away! Meanie! At the same time, Minqian & Fionn were facing wardrobe crisis too, so we decided to hold a flea to sell our pre-loved & brand new items. It has been almost quite a while since my last flea with the sisters.

Hate going to town on weekends cuz we had to pay for ERP, so the best thing to do? Get into town before the gantry starts charging. The event starts @ 1pm, so I thought I'll reach by 12 to reserve a 风水位 - to my surprise, when I reached at 12.15pm, a lot of tables were already taken up & store owners setting up for business. Managed to find a table and began setting up for business while waiting for FMQ & Fionn to arrive.

Setting up our store, completed with the portable clothes rack that I lugged from home.

Lady bosses for the day! We were all eager to kick-start our business, haha! 

Unlike the previous flea which was held at the lower ground level of *scape, this flea was held on lvl 4 of the building ~ where it consisted of both indoor & outdoor space. Fleas are held almost every weekend (Sat & Sun), where rental for Sat is higher as compared to Sun.

 

It was quite a torture waiting for customers to come and visit your stall, waiting for them to browse through and finally making the purchase. Mostly came to look, browse through the rack before heading off to other stalls with the same routine. Fionn with her money bag, earning the first buck for the day.

Subsequently, we all made our first bucks for the day :) The joy of receiving money was definitely priceless! 

The day was spent chit-chatting, exchanging gossips/updates and playing with the phone, in between waiting for customers to come patron our mini stall :)

Brought bread along to snack as time passed.

With a few hours left, we decided to drop the prices down to $2 bucks each, as we didn't want to carry the clothes back home. Really good bargain for all the bargain hunters!   

Upcoming fleas around Singapore. 

 

The stall opposite us enjoyed really good business! I think around 6 friends shared the stall and there were almost 5 luggages worth of clothes on the floor and tons more on the tables. 

 

The stalls packing up & calling it a day.  

 

At the eleventh hour, this auntie came along and wiped out all of our clothes! I even gave her my robinson bag to put all her purchases, thankful that I don't have much to carry back, lol! 

  

Our tired yet happy faces ~ having cleared most of what we brought over :)

Tian Tian Chicken Rice

Happy April's Fool! I hope everyone survived their day well today without falling prey to jokes and tricks :) I enjoyed my long weekend break, feeling exhausted as I was busy keeping the house clean & tidy. That was also part of the reason why we are having lesser people @ our place now, since it was just too messy with things all over the place from my trips. I jerked out on bed on Sunday morning, thinking that I was late for work as the clock showed 8am, lol! Guess I must be too stressed out lately with all the hectic schedule .... that calls for a holiday trip soon!

After our visit to Forty Hands and Ben & Jerry's, we parted ways with the rest & headed to the hospital to visit my baby bro.

 

Walking on the roads #likeaqueen, since it was a Sunday and no cars were spotted along the way.

Taking pics with the "Reduce Speed" sign, lol!
 

Leecher with his artistic shot ~ I had to stand there for 5 mins while he tried to capture the best shot out of 20 + attempts.

 

It must be a tiring "climb" for the man who was dressed in jeans+long sleeve shirt in this weather. 

 

Dinner @ Tian Tian Hainanese Chicken Rice. Hainanese chicken rice has always been voted as Singapore's national dish (beating the likes of char kuay tiao & hokkien mee etc). When it comes to recommendations for the best chicken rice, Tian Tian is always on the recommended list. This humble stall has even gained the approval of Anthony Bourdain, who once said that the rice here is so good that you can eat it on its own. 

 I've been to the Maxwell outlet, where there are always long queue during lunch hour. This was my first time visiting the branch @ Joo Chiat road.

Steamed chicken hanging at the display window, enough to whet your appetite just looking at them! 

 

For all food outlets, it is a must to showcast all the publicity given by the media, be it newspaper cuttings, being featured on foodie channels or taking pictures with famous celebrities. These are the standard SOPs in the F&B industry nowadays.

I've always thought that they do just chicken rice, but I was wrong. They have a full menu of not only chicken rice (their signature), but also other side dishes (zi char dishes) & porridge available too.

 

Leecher took an extremely long time with the menu ~ sometimes, guys are really more fickle-minded than girls. He even wanted to google for the recommended dishes before placing his order >,< 

 

Just as he was taking his own sweet time with ordering, the tables in the restaurant got filled up.  

I prefer my chilli with dark soy sauce while Leecher prefer his chilli plain.

Steamed 1/2 chicken for us to share. This was (deliberately) served slightly chilled. 

 

The skin was smooth & the rice was fragrant - true to the testimonial of Anthony Bourdain - you can even eat the rice on its own! As for me, I had my quick chicken rice fix and would be back to try out more from their zi char collection.  

Tian Tian Chicken Rice
443, Joo Chiat Road 
Singapore 427656
Tel: 63459443
Opening Hours: 10.30 am till 10pm
Closed on Mondays

Tian Tian Chicken Rice
Stall 10 Maxwell Food Center
Singapore 069184
Tel: 96914852
Opening Hours: 11am till 8pm
Closed on Mondays

London 2012 Part Four

A long weekend as it's Good Friday today! This week was a pretty short week, given that I was in KL for a day and Friday is a public holiday ~ only 3 working day in the office, with a farewell drinks session for the boss last night. I reckoned he should be on the flight back to LDN by now & I'll have to start getting used to the empty seat next to my desk soon. A brand new month/quarter next week, so let's all enjoy the weekend first!

 

*** You can read all about P1, P2 & P3 here.

I had a good night rest and woke up to see this straight out from my window :)

 
I wished I was here on vacation instead of a conference ... just sipping tea & eating scones out from my balcony window, basking in the warm morning sun.
 
Breakfast @ the Restaurant, which I totally enjoyed all my meals there, especially the wide range of desserts that they have!
  
Breakfast, just one of the sides that I started with :) We were really well-fed during the conference, with 2 tea-breaks on top of the 3 meals.  

We attended one full day of conference, divided into morning & afternoon session. For the morning session, we listened in to the new features of the upcoming product launch. It was also a moment of personal glory when the deal that I was working on (the 1st combi-deal signed ever) was mentioned by the big bosses during the event :)

Lunch ~ I must stressed that the cheesecake was really finger-licking good!
With some time to spare before the next session commenced, we headed up to the roof terrace. This place offered stunning picturesque view of the city. I didn't have my camera with me, so I used my iphone to capture the panaromic view.

Most of the colleges can be viewed from the roof garden. It would be nice if I had a glass of champagne in my hand, relaxing on one of the sofas and watching the world passes by *dreamy mood*

Is it me or everything just looked too wonderfully-to-be-true here? Even the flowers looked extremely picture-worthy, lol!

Sales & AM team were put to a stress test during the afternoon session, where each individual was assigned a scenario to role-play. It was nerve-wreaking, as you had to present in front of all your peers, who clearly knows the product as well as you do, perhaps even better. Scores were also given based on your presentation. It was all good-fun & we now know what are our strengths & weaknesses, so we can perform better during our clients meetings. I left the room with more insights on myself & what are the areas that I could work on.