The clock strikes twelve - Adidas Sundown Marathon

Tonight at 11.59pm, while you guys are sleeping soundly, i will be starting on my marathon. Anyone living in tampine, Kembangan, Siglap areas??? I might be running past your place too!

maybe I will be somewhere behind, trying hard not to fall asleep!

The good goodiebag consist of: Adidas sleeveless tee, TCC voucher, shaver, facial wash, Adidas Tote bag...

Started off my morning with McGriddles breakfast from McDonalds. Just for today! Mcdonalds breakfast is sure a good way to get lots of calories early in the morning.

Followed by a trip to the supermarket to get my essentials. Peanut butter for my peanut butter toast later in the day, Banana for my dinner... Isotonic drink and Redbull... for its high sugar content and caffeine... CARBS!!! Lot of them!

This was for tea break, Toasted Banana Walnut Bread, with very generous servings of peanut butter and banana... two of this!


After finishing the race, I will go for the massage service provided there! There will be screening of 3 superhero movies there as well... so I will be lying under the stars, watching the movies until dawn... then go for breakfast! Shiok!

tata.

Random Food - Bak Chang - Focaccia - Coca Cola - Raisin Wheats - Glucosamine

Home-Made Bak Chang - Make a guess, what is so special about this Dumpling???

MAKE A GUESS!!!!

I doubt anyone can get it right... haha

Focaccia Bread from Swiss Bake - I hereby declare that I am officially a fan of Swissbake bread! The multigrain bread, the german bread, the tomato bread blabla... it seems that I am in love with all their bread... and Focaccia is my latest love.

I left the clip beside the bread so that you can visualise the size of the bread. The smell of herbs is very strong, and is topped with sea salt! Tie this around my neck, and it can last me for breakfast to dinner!

Glucosamine Sulphate supplements for my joints, free from the Salcony run. I need that man, I am killing my knees run by run, day by day...

Coke seems to taste better in a Coca-Cola glass

This is why my friends call me "ACT ANG MOW", for I don't eat rice, but carbo source comes from crap like this. lol. Raisins hidden in the wheat! Taste very bland on its own.... but goes well with yoghurt! But of course... i still prefer Home Sweet!

So Far Seoul Good - Part 6 - Post race Steamboat Shabu Shabu dinner

Continuation from... So Far Seoul Good - Part 5 - Post race BBQ - Myeong-dong - Faceshop

So after our shopping trip at Myeong-Dong, and throwing away money in Faceshop... We went for something veryvery important... at least to me... and that is... DINNER!!!!!!

I am soooo famished! Dinner was postponed to about 8+ 9pm due to delay in some of the activities.


A very funny thing happened over here. I guessed people from other countries do not have the habit of taking photographs of food! After i started snapping pictures of food, soon I see delegates from other countries doing the same thing as well! haha

Shabu Shabu - accompanied by korean side dishes...

Rice in a metal bowl, and the idea of using a metal chopstix simply sux.

introducing the sides! From most top anticlockwise - Kim Chi - Cabbage - dunno - and Fried Octopus!!! The brown strips of stuffs at the right bottom! omg... i think i ate a few plates of that... that is like the highlight of the whole steamboat to me....lol...

Poor porky being sliced into what we call... shabu shabu...

Let it boil, let it boil....




Tada!!! Makan time!

Let's feast!

Seafood pancake, the worst food I ever had in the whole trip... A few plates of these were seen lying on the tables.. UNTOUCHED. It taste like crepes, but too soft and think and yet oily and cold... eeeks.

Beef Stew - Yums. Soft and beefy and it has a very unique acquired taste, very different from the normal beef stews we see in SG.

Cold Noodle Vermicilli with special broth and hardboiled egg - so guess who ate the egg?!?!?!
Its non other than ME! haha. The broth is cold and sweet... pretty nice and goes well with the steamboat to cool you down.

I miss those days when I was young, drinking softdrinks straight from glass bottles. For some reason, perhaps psychological reasons, soft drinks seems to taste better in glass bottleS!

Burps... everyone had a satisfying meal...

Can't wait for breakfast buffet tomorrow!

New Balance - Great Singapore Sale and Factory outlet sale

Only applicable at NB Concept Stores (Velocity @ Novena Sq, Raffles City, J8, Tampines One)




and from what i understand, the factory outlet discounts can be literally "crazy"




Don't say I bo jio =p

Yes! He did it!

Woke up to the alarm at 5am for my breakfast

Passion Run starts at 8am

After months of training

From someone who can barely run

to someone who completed his first 10k race at the age of 30+

His timing was pretty good - ~ one hour

Paced him for the whole of 10km

He thanked me

I am happy for him

Now he is aiming for half marathon

Everyone can do it

JUST BELIEVE IN YOURSELF

Its a keychain, not a medal! so sadddd


Race Reviews: I thought the race was pretty well organised, except some glitches. The shuttle bus there and back was insufficient to cope with the turn up. And the shuttle bus that takes us back starts at 10am, but at around 9am, many people have already ended their race.

The baggage collection point is pretty well-organised, but I have no idea if there is any problems with the collections and deposit, because I always go for my races empty handed.

Timing is staggered, so there is minimal overcrowding a the starting point. Water points are sufficient, in fact i did not utilise any for the 10km.

The singlet is not very nice imo, the cutting is quite wierd, and the colour is a bit too over-patriotic (RED). The sling bag is not too bad, crumpler look-a-like.



On a side note: My left hamstring is giving me problem throughout the whole race, in fact it was pretty bad. The pain has been there since last thursday after I did my 3 hours race. Hopefully in 6 days time, which is my sundown marathon, I will be fine.

We yum cha @ Yum Cha

Post-Exam (a very much delayed post) DimSum Buffet at Yumcha

Yum Cha which means 飲茶
which is not literally = lim teh (drink tea)
it just refers to the dining experience of eating small servings of different foods

Guess how I know?
Cos I use Wikipedia ma! I where got so smart... =\

Dimsum Porn!

Mango Prawn Dumpling - I like how the mango and prawn goes together... Too bad it fried... so everybody were like sharing... *health conscious friends i have, hehe.

The Hargow is surprisingly better than what I expected.... fresh prawns and thin skin... BUT the skin tears apart too easily... and This is the STAR of dim sum for me, and it took them soooo long to start serving this... maybe like an hour into the buffet?

Glutinous Rice (Lor Mai Gai)

Phoenix Feet - It just is CHICKEN FEET!

Siew mai took them quite a while to start serving too... and it is again above what I expected... perhaps I came down with a very low expectation after my previous experience.

Fried HarGow

Custard Roll

Fish Fritters

Dumpling with scallop - The scallop is quite big as you can see... but same as the har gow, the skin always tears apart easily

Chilled Chicken
Woots!~ I ate like... hmmmmmmmmmm.... 6 or 7 portions of this? haha. Cos I just came back from the gym, and just nice, free flow of protein for me, so why not? hehe. This chicken is chilled and tender, love it.

Soft Shell crab - more like eating flour rather than crab

Beancurd dumpling

Xiao Long Bao - I like this too. I thought it was pretty good.

Chee Chong Fun - comes in 3 different variety, and we had all 3. Charsiew, Prawn and fish slice (now that's something new)

Yam Puff - The only fried dim sum that im willing to die for, but too bad it wasn't fantastic, and it does taste... hmm.. healthy? Cos it was too dry inside, kind of like eating yam....lol. Peach Garden has nicer ones... will blog about it at a later time!

Guo Tie (Fried Dunpling)

Century Egg Porridge

Dumpling with sharksfin - I don't really rally like to eat sharksfin, because of the cruelty nature of getting the fins. Anyway, this dumpling where got sharksfin lor! that is a good thing actually...

Bamboo shoot + Crab Stick + Chicken - Like this, crunchiness of the bamboo shoot, along with the tenderness of the chicken, and slight tinge of crabby taste

Unknown dumpling

Scallop dumpling

Chicken stuff

Pork Ribs

Dumpling again....





OVERALL -
Each person paid $20 after all the ++
The food is pretty decent
If I take into account the price, and considering that this is a BUFFET, I must say that the food is pretty good for its price
A very wide variety of dishes

Location: http://www.yumcha.com.sg/Contact.html