After almost 2 months of japanese food for every meal... its time to have some good old traditional chinese/singaporean dishes... Hmmm, ... what can taste better than good old porridge and dishes... - home cook Teochew Muay style...

Sesame Oil / Hwa Tiao chinese wine chicken , and sweet onion stalks with mince meat in oyster sauce .... hmmmm looks like i'm not the only one enjoying the taste of HOME :P

First Visitor!!

Had our first "hotel guest" since we moved into our permanent apartment, eventhough its just for a night, it was really great to catch up with an old friend ... after leaving Singapore for 2 months...

Still not as fully furnished as I liked it, but it is what I would call a minimalist setup at the moment, but I guess our guest was at least not dissapointed :)

So "IS", hope you enjoyed the Yaki-Niku and finally the Tonkotsu Ramen.... we'll go to the Standing Sushi bar next door when you are up next trip.... and hopefully Verg will be here as well.

Japanese Efficency : Myth or Truth ?

Exactly 45 days after moving to Tokyo..... how do I feel about Tokyo now ? Nothing much has changed my impression of Tokyo.

Tokyo is still fairly interesting to me, except it amazes me how the most highly "wired" country can be so manual when it comes to policies. Being singaporean.... probably i'm saying so because i am comparing between Singapore and Japan.

Trying to renew my wife's tourist visa, took 2 visits to the immigration department and short of reaching across the counter to choke the immigration clerk. Converting my wife's tourist visa to a dependent visa was a little bizzare.

First we queued inline, had clerked asked us question, checked all the application forms against our passport and "Alien" registration card to make sure our particulars are filled in correctly. Then we waited 6 hrs till we were called, all hopeful to get my wife's new visa, but instead were told to fill up a postcard with our mailing address and then to go home and wait for them to mail us the application result. The immigration clerk says they don't know when they will know the result, just wait at home. ?!?!?!

Hmmmm..... spend a total of 3 trips to the immigration dependent, just to be told to go home and wait.. Why can't they have save us that 6 hr wait by just accepting our forms, ask us to filled the postcard and go home to wait at that by that first clerk ?? hmmmm..... so much for japanese precision and efficiency :)

This is probably the first time I REALLY REALLY appreciate just how efficient singapore is.....