Visit to Jin Fu Kong Temple

Mom & dad decided it was high time they visited the temple to give thanks and pray for whatever they pray for. So since I could take pictures, I tagged along.

The Side Entrance We Came Through

Located along Jurong West St 91, this temple seems to be getting bigger everytime I visit. This time I went with my parents. Basically with no idea what I was doing, I just copied them all the way, offering joss-sticks to the different effigies without knowing anything about them. So if anyone can tell who they represent then let us all know by leaving a comment.

Pick A Few Candles, Joss-Sticks & Joss-Paper,
Light Them Up And Start Your Journey







This Obviously Has Something To Do With The Tiger















Hi Aunty, Nice To Meet U Too Ya





Just Rub His Tummy


Give A Little Donation, Pour Some Oil...


Finally Ring The Bell


And When You're Done, You Can Have A Drink


Me Concerned Momma!

I think I could guess which one was the God of Gambling ~ the one with all the pots of numbers and sticks infront of it.

Shake Shake Shake Till Something Fall Out, Either A Lucky Number Or Ur Arm

For those who are interested in art, you could get a lot of examples by just walking through the temple. With paintings, sculptures and carvings all over the place. From stone panels telling a story all around the temple walls, huge incense stick pots, paintings, to door guardians, pillars and even a decorated ceiling.

If you want to look at fauna and flora, they have some of those too! I only got a shot of one banana plant which beared fruits. There were a lot more plants and one was a huge curry leaf plant, grown so big it looked like a small tree.

One Huge Bugger!


Fishies




Papa, Mama & Lil Chickies Too!


Goreng Pisang?

After all the pictures were taken, we just headed across the entrance of the carpark and sat down for our lunch. The duck horfun there was interesting.

Time To Reflect

So Long & Goodnight

My Chemical Romance - Helena

This caught me by surprise and I'm kinda liking it.

If We Can Carve, So Can You!

Although it's no where near Halloween or Thanksgiving, let alone Christmas, a lone pumpkin and some of it's friends were saved for a special carving session.

As we had both wanted to do a carving on a pumpkin together, and with Shirley in NYC on Halloween, I got a big pumpkin and waited for her to get back. The good thing about last minute shopping is that u get perishables cheap, with discounts amounting to almost 90%!

Anyhoo... We started the evening with a slightly odd dinner combination of pasta and riceballs. The cute little riceballs were made by Shirley and was flavoured with either cod roe or plum (and one with both, lucky me got that... YAY!). If she ever decides to sell those balls I think she'll get a good pocketful of bills out of it. The flavour was well mixed through the riceball and the plum gave off a lovely lavender bouquet (waaah cheem, but only thing i can think of ya?).

Carving started right after dinner and it proved to be a workout. The pumpkin was rather green, although the colour didn't show, and it was really tough to get through. Cutting off the top worked up such a sweat you wonder if this should be an all new exercise routine. Good thing pumpkins can't yell in pain or twitch, with all the stabbings I made, I wouldn't get the lid off if it did.

After prying the top off, Shirley started scooping out the stringy bits and seeds. Saving the pumpkin seeds for our next experiment, we dug everything out, making it nice and clean.

Started drawing our designs and then transferring it onto our huge canvas. Slowly, but rather tediously, we carved out our patterns. Shirley finished first with her simple 7 letters and decided to add the character on top, while I was still halfway with mine. She left me finishing mine with a star and we were all set for the lighting.

Finally getting enough candles to give a lovely glow, we each took turns getting our faces taken with our patterns. When it was all done, both of us had sore arms and were tired and sweaty. Well within the "curfew" of 12 midnight, we made our way back and into our beds, too tired to even upload the pictures. Great way to end a day with fun company.

And It's DONE!

Doggie's Evening Out & Midnight Nummies

Went out yesterday evening with mom for lunch (breakfast incl. for mom, yeah we're owls) and tagging along was the furry one. Took a walk to S.G. Holland Village Eating House and while on our way there, Mr Furry Butt stomped over an ant's nest and got a bunch of them stuck to his fur. Soon the little buggers got pissed off and started biting him, which made Furry Butt jump around doing some sort of acrobatic act. It wasn't long before we reached our destination and got rid of some angry ants, one of which died a horrible death for biting me! With all the energy used up from twitching and twirling around while walking, he was too tired to even bother with the kids around him. He just sat quietly in his chair, although a bit sad, but soon cheered up when he got some drink (aka my drink) and a few hellos from strangers.

After filling our tummies, mom got some food for grandpa and I got some for our super-late dinner. With a craving for fish and seafood, my eyes landed on a picture of barbecued stingray and was enticed to pack that home. Ordered two fish, a bunch of prawns and some sambal kangkong to go. When the packets arrived at the table, it smelled so good I wanted to eat it right then.

Had a slightly slower walk home and somehow the ants were at it again. Decided to have a look and was shocked to find a whole bunch of them still clinging to his fur. Once we were done getting rid of those pesky things, we continued home and that's when he flopped out. Not as tired as the other day, he started playing and running around the house again within the hour. I think my dog is mad.

Later that night after dad was done with his war movie (more like he slept through most of it), we all sat down to a tasty meal. Now how good can this be? Dad actually liked it. With a fussy person like dad, who only says that none of these BBQ seafood beat those in Pangkor (Malaysia), that's a compliment. This stall is also competing with a ZhiCha stall that serves up seafood that's still swimming around in tanks. If it isn't good, it would not be open.

Sambal Kang Kong

BBQ Sole Fish

BBQ Prawns

Why bother with plates and washing up when you can just eat them off the packets and throw them away? With hot fluffy rice and nice spicy sambals over the food, what else can u do but just enjoy the meal with your loved ones and ur fingers!

Better than KFC

Time To Eat

Wishing Mak Gila, LoveeButts, Metra, Syed, Kak Nurul, Pak Hitam, Nazril & Fara, Siti M., Aryanty, Amin, Adi (M), Adi (F), Ari, Heikel, Yana & Mac, Big Siti, Small Siti, Faliq, Sadali & Family, Rizal, Darni, Sal & Family
a Great month of enjoyment ahead!

Not forgetting any Muslim who reads this too!

Selamat Hari Raya Adilfitri

Mambo Bamboo

As you saw in the previous post, me dad and I went to the Geylang bazaar which had loads of food, some of which I bought. One of them was the lemang that I got for the first time in it's bamboo tube. When you ask to get one, the vendor would split it up for inspection and ask if you'd like it taken out of the tube. I bought it more for the bamboo tube than anything so it went home with me.

Mr Vendor's Tips:

1. Pick one that is firm to the touch but not hard.
   
2. Discard a little off both ends as that's where coconut milk and rice coagulate and turn hard.

Okay, not much of tips but better than eating both ends and wondering what's wrong with the damn thing. Don't throw the bamboo away either. You can make a whole set of musical Ang-Klongs or a windchime if you're bored.

So what do you do once u get the roll of rice out? Remove the layer of banana leaf, cut it into shorter rolls and eat it with rendang!

Enjoy

Finger Lickin' Good

Festival Of Lights

Wishing Vinnie, Ada, Kuna & Family a Happy & Joyous Diwali.



And to all other Hindus who actually see this!



Happy Deepavali to all!