Pre-CNY Seafood Lunch

Long Beach Seafood Restaurant
Jurong East St 21
Level 3 IMM Building

Chinese New Year
Prosperity Lunch
Salad Prawns, Ngoh Hiong,
Chicken Cubes and Jellyfish

Christmas Lunch Today

Rendezvous Restaurant
(formerly at Rendezvous Hotel)
The Central #02-72/73,
6 Eu Tong Sen Street,
Singapore 059817
Nasi Padang Christmas lunch with korma chicken,
fried chicken, begedil fried potato and sayur lodeh

Japanese Buffet Lunch Today

Kuishi Bo Japanese Buffet Restaurant
1 Jurong West Central 2
Jurong Point #B1-47/51

Japanese Food Street
Singapore 648886

Western Lunch Today

Fish and Chips

Harry's @ IBP
1A International Business Park #01-01
Singapore 609933

Western Set Lunch Today

Hans Cafe by the Poolside
The Chevrons

48 Boon Lay Way#01-18

Dory fish, fries, salad, tomato, cucumber,

toast, mushroom soup, tea and peach jelly

Ban Mian Lunch Today

Lai Xi Hand Made Ban Mee
Broadway coffee shop @ Blk 286E, Toh Guan Road

Ban Mian with sliced mushroom, carrot strips,

chicken egg, minced pork balls, and ikan bilis

Fish Lunch Today

House of Fish Soup
Food Court @ TradeHub21

XO sliced fish soup with bee hoon

My Humble Lunch Today

Lunch @ Toh Guan Broadway

Bee Hoon Mee with Otah,

Ngoh Hiang and Curry Veg

Lunch Today ... My Favorite Dish

One of my favorite dish ... Nasi Pattaya

@ IMM Red Ginger Halal Cafe

Unsocialable or Thinking Alone

Many people think I am unsocialable because I usually lunch out alone, but the truth is, lunch time is the time my mind is set free to think, relax, and rest, in order to do a better job later.

As a writer, I work better using the mind and writes better creatively when my mind is relaxed. Many time when I rush with time, I lose focus and in the end accomplish nothing. There are of course days when I have to gather all the information I need to write an article or a presentation instead when there is a creative block or a lack of inspiration. In such cases, I often do not achieve my goals and fail to get angle of the story through to my audience. Readers and audiences read a story only because there are points or a point to be made, rather than being flooded by tonnes of information.

On days when my mind is clear and ideas start falling together, I often accomplish the task much faster, usually half the time I spend on compiling information for writing, yet with the article or presentation standing out better than all the hours of pressured compiling and writing, reaching out to the audiences further than ever before. Such is the power of inspiration!

So, you who are reading this blog, the next time you encounter someone like me, don't just jump to conclusion that the person is being unsocialable. You'll never know the real reason why he or she declines lunching with you. Maybe, like me, the person is merely thinking of the next move.

ChRisTmaS ... tHus faR

While other people are enjoying the festivities of this season, not much actually takes place for me apart from a Christmas lunch on last Friday at Melt the World Cafe in Oriental Hotel, sponsored by the company I'm currently working for.

Saturday was half a daY at the hospitaL for an ultra scan due to recent health report, with afternoon at the movies, Chronicles of Narnia - The Lion, the witch and the wardrobe. Enjoyed the two-hour movie with certain parts extremely touching, especially when Aslan the Lion has to sacrifice itself to be humiliated and cruelly murdered to save Edmund from the hands of the witch.

Today, attended service in the morning, with a Christian artiste and singer, Bobby Michaels, sharing the word and musicals. Beautiful music and carols with a powerful voice. After service, did not go for any special Christmas lunch because everywhere is just too costly and my finances are tied down for a major cold weather holiday trip for next year's Chinese New Year to Saint Petersburg and beyond.

Hope everyone is enjoying the festivities! Here's wishing you a veRy MeRRy ChRisTmaS and a blessed 2006! (",)