Singapore Botanic Gardens

It's a short weekend trip on a Sunday, when Alex, Emilia and I visited the Singapore Botanic Gardens.

At the entrance opposite to Gleneagles Hospital, where I underwent DALK surgery.













Along the Swan Lake




Pretend-to-be-emo-shots




Ah... A nice place to destress...


Ginger Garden... Gingy's hometown?


We spotted somebody taking bridal photoshoots in front of a small waterfall, how lovely...
But why did the bridegroom show that stupid face? -_-lll

The National Orchid Garden
On that day, the admission is free for student, so 3 of us entered without paying.
I'm not sure that whether this is whole year long or for some particular periods.



Our one and only group photo, taken by a foreign tourist in return.



Don't the orchids look like added photo frames? Haha...







The Coolhouse. Let's just hide inside and enjoy the air-con.







We could have had a picnic there, but sadly we didn't bring any food.

It's 6pm and it's about time to leave. We didn't manage to walk the entire garden though.
That was a quite tiring but nice trip - at least we got to see greeneries (really good for our eyes) and relax ourselves as 3 of us were doing internship.

Singapore Botanic Gardens
1 Cluny Road
Singapore 259569

For more photos, please check out my photo album "Singapore Botanic Gardens" on Facebook.

2nd Kitchen @ Balestier Rd

Emilia and I ran into Wei Zheng during that Sunday service at Faith Methodist Church and we had lunch together at 2nd Kitchen 二廚 where Alex joined also.

Having lunch there is of course not earlier planned, but we're mistakenly asked by Alex to take bus to Thomson Medical Centre to wait for him first, since we still have to wait for him, we walked around that district and found this restaurant.

From the outside we can see that the dishes inside are those expensive Chinese-cuisine-styled delicacies.

If you know Chinese, try to read "躉". (Walao, so many strokes...)
All four of us didn't know the reading of this character, after looking up dictionary, we realized that it's read as "dǔn".

We ordered three dishes and four bowls of rice, then took photos while waiting for Alex.

Why do they put so many fish inside one aquarium? Isn't that suffocating?





Pork Ribs in Champagne & Stout 香檳排骨 ($12)


Crispy Cereal Prawns 麥片蝦 ($18)


Hong Kong Kai Lan with Bean Curd Skin 豆筋扒香港芥蘭 ($12)


They look tasty right? Well, they really did.
After filling our stomachs with delicious food, we then headed for Singapore Botanic Garden.

2nd Kitchen
592 Balestier Rd #01-03
Singapore 329901

Gurney Drive Café @ Suntec City

Ok, a lot of you, especially those who're from Penang will be thinking the wrong thing after seeing the blog title.

Gurney Drive Café is actually a restaurant in Singapore featuring famous Penang street food, as Penang serves its role as the street food capital of Malaysia (my goodness, I made myself so proud of being a Penangite. Haha...). It has currently 2 outlets, one at Jubilee Entertainment Complex, Ang Mo Kio and the other here, Suntec City.

Alex and I who're going to visit the PC Show 2011 later, found this restaurant while we're scouting for place to take our dinner near the Fountain of Wealth. I've not been back to Penang for about 4 months, let's make it an excuse for taking dinner here - to taste Penang.

As noticed, there're familiar images of certain locations of Penang on the walls in the restaurant. Ah... my longing for home was once again triggered...

Penang Cendol 檳城煎蕊 ($2.50)


Penang Koay Teow Soup 檳城粿條湯 ($5.50)


Gurney Special Fried Rice 檳城特式炒飯 ($6.90)


Penang Fried Koay Teow 檳城炒粿條 ($6.90)


By the way, coincidentally both of us are Penangites, and we'll meet another Penangite later during PC Show.

Gurney Drive Café
Suntec City Mall,
3 Temasek Boulevard,
#B1-058 Fountain Terrace,
Singapore 038983