Saturday, September 27, 2008
Mooncake festival has passed and this year my family had fun eating mooncakes, going to Chinese Garden to see the lantern festival and also taking lanterns in Bishan Park. The mooncakes we bought this year...
Durian mooncake from Goodwood Hotel - I'm anti-durian so my mum ate all of them!
Snowskin with dark chocolate crunchy pearl
Traditional baked mooncake with single yokeAnd this year, we decided to go to the Chinese Garden Lantern Festival 2008 - F8 - Hello Kitty Go Races! It is the "BIGGEST CHARACTER LANTERN SHOW EVER IN THE WORLD, with close to 300 character lanterns handcrafted by 106 lantern craftsmen", said SingaporeSights. We went on a peak day, hence entrance fee is $15 for adults and $10 for kids 3-12 years old. 
This is so innovative! The kids enter a big ball filled with oxygen and they were then pushed into the water. So fun! But I think I would have burst the ball!
In Bishan Park...
Congratulations to Nathan and Vani for having such a cute little girl, borned on 22th Sept 2008.
Daddy, Mummy and Grandma!
All the gifts!
The canteen in Shaw Centre, run by Les Amis, opened with much publicity and anticipation. We decided to go try it since we were in town for Isetan's Private Sale. The food is like atas hawker food, and it is also quite expensive. Imagine $13 laksa and $16 mee pok! haha
My Laksa Udon $13 
Crab Mee Pok $16.50The Canteen is located in:
1 Scotts Road #01-01A/B Shaw Centre
Tel: 67382276
With Singapore making history, me loving Singapore so much, of course I must be there! What am I talking about? Of course it's the much-anticipated Singapore Grand Prix - the first night race in the history of Grand Prix. We bought the walk-about tickets $38, only for Friday as I wanted to watch the qualifying and final race on the TV. The track spans 5,067km and it runs through so many beautiful places in Singapore. What a scenic drive, not that they would actually stop to admire!
We began our walk from Turn 13, at the Fullerton Hotel. We could already hear the cars from Raffles Place MRT Station. What an adrenaline rush to hear the cars!
The grand stand at the Bay
The Raffles Grand Stand
There's even a tent devoted for prayers!
Break-time between session 1 and 2
Hawker Village at the padang - with stalls selling food at exorbitant prices. 
Our ice kachang for $5!
And ice lychee for $4!
And my mum spilled $2 worth of it on the table! heart-pain!
A big screen to walk the race
Singapore's CBD as the backdrop
Ferrari zooming by.. the cars were so loud you definitely need a ear plug!
