All posts for the month May, 2006

Visit Chek Jawa

Update An additional walk has been scheduled on Saturday, 1st July. Remember that the booking lines open tomorrow morning! In the coming quarter, guided tours to Chek Jawa in Pulau Ubin have been scheduled for Sunday, 16th July and Monday, 17th July at 8.30 a.m. on both days. Visits to Chek Jawa have to be [...]

Werner’s Oven

On Sunday, I had dinner with Adrian and Gerry at Werner’s Oven in Siglap. Both of them had eaten there before and recommended it. The dish I had – Grilled Farmer Sausage – was okay. Good, without being particularly memorable. The appetizer… Call me suaku, but I had never heard of Fried Camembert Cheese prior [...]

Concept Planning & MRT Dreaming

A few days ago, I came across URA’s Concept Plan 2001 via a forum detailing the changing local skyline. There was something deeply worrying about the plan. Keeping Rustic Areas Unlike the 1991 Concept Plan that envisaged new towns at Pulau Ubin and Lim Chu Kang, the Concept Plan 2001 aims to keep these and [...]

My photo has been Today-ed!

Yesterday, an observant friend noticed a familiar photo published in TODAY. She told me that the photo looked something like this. —> I checked out TODAYonline, Friday 19 May 2006, and browsed to page 60 (pdf version). Lo and behold, my photo was used – albeit slightly cropped – in an article entitled Backyard Adventures. [...]

My friends rave about Botak Jones | Jean-Luc blogs

Photo modified from Botak 03 and Botak 04 by Tikigu, with permission from the author. Guess who is the reliable source in this positive review about Botak Jones? Botak Jones, for the unintiated, is a western fare food outlet at Sungei Kadut Eating House. I’ve been meaning to go there for ages. But it’s just [...]