2016, make me richer than I was in 2015!

This is not a food or review post. More of a reminder-to-self kind of post.

After the festive seasons like Christmas and New Year, not only my weight must have increase at least 3kg, I always felt that the hole in my pocket are getting bigger and bigger. So, one of my 2016 resolution is save more money!

Was searching online for some tips on how can I save money. I noticed that this website, http://www.wikihow.com/Save-Money compiled all the important tips on how to save money of course, they are called 'wikihow'! Here are some I found more relatable and have combined them to make more sense tips taken from the link are in bold.

1) Put away money next. Whenever we receive our salary or allowance, put a small sum or 10% aside before we start spending it. Also, save for an emergency fund/rainy days. It is also recommended to start saving as early as possible. Have a reasonable savings goals with a time-frame established. Last, but not least, pay off any debt.

2) Keep a budget and record your expenses. Avoid accumulating new debt. 

3) Don't get discouraged.

My personal experience with the 3 tips I compiled above,
1) I do put the money aside but whenever I am broke, I will always end up using my saving/ emergency funding.

2) Once again, I did keep a budget and record my expenses... The keyword is 'DID'. I only managed to keep record of everything for 2 weeks only and that budget, it burst when I decided to sign up for another facial package.

3)

  

 

Anyways, I have set four saving goal for myself this year, 2016!
1) Save at least $8000 by 31 December 2016
2) Only take taxi when needed maximum 2 times per month. Use other form of public transportation like buses and MRT every time.
3) Spend money on necessary items only. Wait.. Is facial and slimming necessary??? 
4) Save more money according to this 52-weeks challenge I found online.

By 1 January 2017, I will post an update for this post and 
whether did I meet the goal!

Row Row Row Your Kayak

After reading thesmartlocal post, I decided to jio asking him along X to go Kayaking with me.

Row, row, row your kayak, gently down the stream. 
Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream.

We went to Water Sports Centre located near Stadium MRT and Singapore Sports Hub. It is kind of difficult to find this Water Sports Centre, but it is so damn near to the MRT. Why? Because we reached there at around 8am, but we were lost for more than 30mins. For those who are going there as well don't make the mistake as us, when you exit the Stadium MRT (Exit A), just walked to the end of the covered/sheltered linkway, turn LEFT!

Anyway, this is their rates :)

My memories of kayaking were during Primary and Secondary School Camp. I think during Primary 5 (11 years old) and Secondary 3 (15 years old) that time. Not much impression about it except for the one during secondary camp. I remember I was too heavy that time, I have to partner with one of the bigger size teacher and the worst part was I was heavier than her. Anyway after 10 years, I am going to attempt this activity again.

So when we were sitting on the kayak, the lighter one will be seated in front and the heavier one will be behind. I get to sit in front! Finally! So the heavier one will get in the boat first. Please note this is a very tricky part. During those school camp, you get in the boat when the water is shallow. This time, you get in the boat like somewhere in the middle of sea! I admit I panicked and nearly backed out. I mean, what if I dropped inside?! But I manage to get on board after a while and getting impatient stares from lifeguards.

To be honest, kayaking is so fun and scary at the same time.

The fun parts are...

1) Scenery. It is like those Chinese painting with mountains and lake/sea, but here you get buildings and sea.

 

2) Away from the noise..... Okay, I lied. When we went there, there were some team training dragon boat and Standard Charter Marathon for Kids event. But I do enjoying seeing those dragon boat team train, nope, not because of the hunks or babes their movements are very in-sync.

3) Bonding time with your love one. Well, we saw a father-son duo kayaking together and some couples too. Seems like a more affordable dating place.

4) Best place to quarrel. Well.. you can paddle someone further away from the crowd and have some shouting match or just push him/her into the water.  Just joking!

The scary parts are...

1) The lifeguards/trainers will only give some safety advises, how to get on the kayak boat and then... OFF you go. No further instruction about how to kayak and etc. I guess you need to either ask them or just figure out yourself.

2) I don't know how to swim, so I have constant fear of falling off the boat and become fish food. Throughout the kayaking session, I keep relaying my fear verbally to X. His reaction is pretty similar to this image ↓. 

 

Lesson learnt: Don't trap in a island surrounded by water with me! 

We will be trying out hiking soon!  
soon = unknown future and most probably next year.

Review: The Butchers Club Singapore

Roaming around Clarke Quay with X on a relaxing Friday night, and while walking towards Liang Court, we are attracted to this store.

The Butchers Club
3A River Valley Road
#01-01B Clarke Quay
Singapore 179020

not sure what filter is this on Camera360, but make this photo looks very pretty!

According to their waitress, they are serving dry-aged beef patties burger... So what is dry-aged beef?

Dry-aged beef is beef that has been hung or placed on a rack to dry for several weeks. After the animal is slaughtered and cleaned, either the entire or half will be hung. - Wikipedia

Sounds interesting enough to try them out, right?! And just look at their menu ↓

 

 Their menu already screaming eat me! Eyeing on their RED-EYE REDUCTION!  

BACON, EGG, HASHBROWN. All my favourites!

 

X already started eating before I can take photo of the food. :x

The Red-eye Reduction is sold out! T.T So we tried Double Happiness ($38). 

Ignoring the fact that despite its name is Double Happiness, there is a knife stabbed in it. O.O I can totally imagine the burger saying, "Awww... are you on diet? But this burger is so nice, so just prepared for your death! FAT DIE YOU! evil laughter" 

Okay, but to the burger. It comes with double patty with double cheese and all the fixins between these two grilled cheese buns or what they called sammys. To X, the patty wasn't seasoned enough to his liking, but we both agreed that they cooked the patty very well with a light pink in the middle. The cheese and fixins are nice, I am secretly addicted to their bacon, it taste kinda sweet~

Their Duck Fat Fries ($8) is an add-on order, not a set meal kind. Wondering why is it called Duck Fat Fries? No, it is not just a random name. All this thick fries are cooked in DUCK FAT... To be exact, triple fried in duck fat! But sadly, it is not my cup of tea fries..

Definitely going back to try out their Red-Eye Reduction and maybe giving their fries another try?. The fries wasn't that nice during our last visit. Hope that our next visit the fries will be nice and like crispy. 

GIVEAWAY! [CLOSED]

Season of Giving is just around the corner and what do you love the most? Christmas light, carols or presents? For me, I love presents! So I decided to have a mini giveaway.

1 set of My Scheming Blackhead Removal Activated Carbon Mask Set

 

 This giveaway is not sponsored. I have bought specially it for this giveaway :)
 

How to take part?

You can email me with the title: I want to win this giveaway.
Winner will be announced on my instagram  and I will contact you with 24hours after the contest close :)

Terms & Conditions:
1) Contest will end on 11 Decemeber 2015, 2359.
2) Only applicable to those resident in Singapore.
3) Item will be mailed via SmartPac.

Hello from the other side.

Sharing one of my favourite singer's new single. 

Hello, how are you?

It's so typical of me to talk about myself

I'm sorry, I hope that you're well

Did you ever make it out of that town

Where nothing ever happened?

Review: Pince & Pints Restaurant & Bar

Cafe-hunter, X and Nana on a mission to find food at Tanjong Pager area 

after 6pm!

I felt that there is a need to write about this place that we visited during the long weekend in August. Yes, it is that long ago!. X and I decided to explore around Tanjong Pagar. We reached there at around 6.30pm, but most of the cafes are either closed during the long weekend or at 6pm.

We were really hungry when we were there hope it explain why I use the cub picture! At first, we intend to have Korean BBQ since Tanjong Pager have a wide variety of it. But we  really want to try something new, so we walked to Duxton Road randomly shhh... stomach stop shouting!. We came across..

Pince & Pints
32-33 Duxton Road
Singapore 089497

A simple looking restaurant that gives off a very old english wine stall feel  feeling ah. And... there is no queue when we walked past it. But after we were seated down, the crowd start to keep coming in non-stop. Most of the customers regardless of ladies or guys are dressed to impress, except for X and I are in comfy clothes which are tee and shorts. Okay back to the restaurant... Firstly, the staffs are very observant. When we drank finish the plain water, they filled it up immediately thumbs up!.

When I saw the menu, my first reaction "Wah, only 3 mains only?". Okay... 4 main courses if you count the Grilled or Steamed live whole lobster as 2 different dishes. And they only serve lobster leh!

Some random facts about Lobsters! 

Chilli Lobster ($58++)
"Uncle, more mantou please. Thank you.", this is the first thought when I saw this dish. They are very generous with the sauce or gravy whatever you called it, so scared that we don't have enough mantou to eat with the sauce. The sauce is sweet, not like the usual spicy kind we had with Chilli Crab. I actually prefer this sauce, X don't really like it la. But both of us agreed that the mantou and lobster are good! Mantou is so crispy on the outside, and fluffy on the inside. So sedap good!


Grilled Live Whole Lobster ($58++)
This is served with very-atas-looking Salad, Straight Cut Thick Fries and Herbed Butter Sauce. The lobster meat really deserves my 2 thumbs up! Even though the lobster is grilled, the meat is not dry at all. What sorcery is this? It is sweet and so juicy. I love their thick straight cut fries! X love everything about this dish from the salad to sauce. 

They are not joking when they said they will serve the whole lobster! Just look at the photos, very very 满足 satisfied. Like finally there is a store that serve a whole JUICY lobster, not those skinny-meat-little kind. The lobster taste a little sweet and more to the sea water kind of taste X said the sea water part. This is the face I give when they serve us the main courses.

I wanna...

I think this post is pretty random and shortest post ever, I can't decide whether should I continue with my work or start on my school assignment both are due tomorrow. I am totally aware that precious time are slipping away, but I just want to vent express my feeling somehow or other.

Recently, I notice that as a full-time working adult and part-time student, I fail at time management terribly like now! Overtime, project from both work and school and assignments are really draining me out. There are so many things I really want to do, like travelling... But I don't have enough leave for me as I took most of them to prepare for my exam. ☹

In order to remind myself of these goals and wants, I decided to add a column on the right of this blog create a page just for it sorry... I have too many wants!. Do look out for that page!