Ok! Back from work and had a quick dinner (canned eel, veggies, noodles and the chilli sauce from Singapore). Received an email this morning about my application for Masters and there's an interview/audition in a month's time. Haven't called them back yet to set a time, but... I feel so screwed =(

ANYWAY! It was rise and shine to... Day 3 in Singapore =D

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Breakfast was at this hawker centre, introduced to us by MV. It has the best wanton mee and sure enough, it was really good~ the chilli paste was not extremely hot, but hot enough to send us sweating, especially in the Singapore heat that early Sunday morning =D It was close to church, so we went there the following Sunday morning too, and requested for some of the chilli paste so we could bring it back to Sydney. The lady knew MV well because he always went there to buy  food for his family, so she obliged.. but usually, the recipe for the chilli paste is top secret and only she holds the knowledge to it, so the chilli paste is not for sale.

After church, it was lunch at another shopping centre. I'm actually not too sure where we went this time, there's so many shopping centres. Have to say though, we didn't go to many "touristy" places and stayed mainly indoors where there's aircon.

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We had lunch at this Thai restaurant my sister recommended. She really only just liked the desserts there =P This was tt's pad... something! (It wasn't the non-existent-in-thailand pad thai was it?)

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My tom yum hor fun. I was after something that wasn't dry (been eating wayyyy too much "heaty" food(or [yang]- as opposed to "cooling" [yin] food) and non-spicy, but they only had hor fun with a soupy base in tom yum flavor... but they did say they can make it less spicy for me =D

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My sister's pineapple fried rice... it didn't come in a pineapple shell! But it was still quite nice, she did finish most of it =P

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Prawn toast! This was really really nice, and the sauce D= Prawn toasts are always good, whether it's at yum cha or at a thai restaurant.

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This was what my sister was after. Their dessert of sticky rice and mango. I don't think I've ever tried it before, but it is nice~ goes well together.

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Walking through the shopping centre, we saw this huge banner for OSIM and it's the cutest thing ever. OSIM is pretty big in Singapore, though I haven't seen a shop of it in Sydney before. It sells massage chairs and all sorts of massaging equipment. I tried on one that massages the head, it was like putting on those head sets that sends people into virtual reality. Once switched on, it tightens around the skull and for while, I thought it was going to crush my head... (and it wasn't just me, my sister tried it before and felt the same, and so did tt) I guess I'm just not the sort to relax for a massage...

I think for the rest of the day, we were strolling through the shopping centre and enjoying the aircon... or I just can't remember what we did that day because the next photo...

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was dinner. =D Any guesses on what kind of porridge this is? (Yes, I call it porridge, though some people like to call it congee. =_= Porridge can be savory too!)

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A closer look... hm... what's that hanging out? A... leg maybe? ^^

While the idea might seem kind of gross to some people [who do not know how to appreciate good food], it's really just a frog. Frog porridge. The famous description of frog tasting like chicken is very true. I used to eat frog legs all the time in Hong Kong, but once in Sydney, they don't sell it =( Considering how frogs are such pests, we should just eat them =D Eat them all!

This is strange. We ordered two pots of frogs- one that was just in plain porridge, and the other was in a spicy sauce... but I don't have any photos of the other pot of frog!! Must have been to busy eating to take photos =D Oh well, just imagine it- bits of meat with legs sticking out here and there covered in a thick gooey brown sauce ^^~ Hm.. delicious =P

I think this was the day that the Formula 1 event was ending, so we rushed dinner and went to a bar, right in front of their big tv to watch the F1 race. I never actually knew much about racing cars or the F1, but MV, being a huge car fan, explained as we watched all thirty-something rounds. It was quite relaxing, just sitting there, sipping mocktails, watching the race and eyeing the pool table right next to us, where an elderly man was fully beating everyone that challenged him. Apparently, he goes there quite often, and since the rule of the bar was that you pay $2 for a game and the winner stays on without paying until he loses or quits, he goes there, pays $2, and pretty much stays the entire night (we were there for around 2 hours, and he won every round, though after some time, he exhausted the line of challengers and settled to having a drink behind us)

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After watching Lewis Hamilton win (on the tv, because even though the F1 event did happen in Singapore, we didn't actually go... who would want to sit on the bleachers with thousands of people in this heat and get deaf from the racing cars??) we headed to a durian cafe =D

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Many many durians~ it was a cafe that only sold two fruits- the King and the Queen~

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Yummmm~

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The queen of the fruits- Mangosteen! Fact: Durian is a "yang" fruit, and the mangosteen is its queen because it's a very "yin" fruit and is meant to counter the heatiness of the durian with its cooling properties.

Sure learn something new everyday! =D We had two durians and quite a few mangosteens. One durian was bitter but really nice smelling, the other was sweet, but didn't smell as strongly as the other.. both were really nice and sure beats any that are sold in Sydney because they freeze them here =(

Because durian has a very strong smell,and my sister isn't exactly a big fan of durian,(though, good on MV for getting her to try a bite! I've never, in my whole life, ever seen my sister even put a piece of durian close to her mouth, much less bite into one!) MV said that by washing our hands in water that's rinsed in the durian shell, it will get rid of the smell on our hands, and if we drink some of the water that's in the shell of the durian, we won't get durian breath. Doesn't sound very plausible, but we tried it anyway, and surprise surprise, it worked.

So feeling quite full of durians, we headed back home, sleep and it was soon.. Day 4 =)