Crazy Rich Asians

Youtube has lots of videos on Crazy Rich Asians.  I just finished reading the book.  It is hard to put down the book once I started reading it!  I was reading it even while driving at traffic stops where the lights take a long time to change to my favour.

I was talking to B2 about it and he told me he watched the movie the day after he landed in Toronto.  The prologue is captivating is an understatement.  In the dialogues, there are lots of our local lingos.  Alamak! Kan nee nah! making it very easy to identify.  It is funny and also heart tugging at times.

I just started book 2 last night.  The hook is very good.  It makes me wants to continue to read it.

Perpetual Crowd

Every time I go out, there are lots of people no matter what time of the day.  It is stressful to walk as there is a constant need to watch out to avoid knocking in other pedestrians.  Only early in the morning like 7 to 8 it is more manageable.  By 10am there are just a sea of people at all time.  The food is quite expensive.  However, unlike our hawker food, it comes with real meat rather than processed MSG laden flavored flour like our fishballs, fishcakes, ngoh hiang, that garnished our carbo.

I love the beef, roast goose and the egg tarts.  The standard and quality are much higher.  The HK milk tea is good too, better than our teh si.

Although it is only one week, I am glad to be back home as the crowd at all times can be exhausting.

B2 Going Back to Toronto

B2 is going back to Toronto tomorrow.  He has been back for a couple of months now and school will be starting soon.

We will send him partway tomorrow and then have a short holiday in Hong Kong.  Looking forward to Cantonese food!  The beef is good and the Roast Duck.  Yummy!  Here I come!

Yishun Chong Pang

This morning, we have to go to Khoo Teck Puat to get my invoice.  So, we ate at Chong Pang hawker center.  The bak chor mee is still quite good.  Same owner and cook.  There is a new plant shop.  The Indian guy there is quite enterprising and do good business.  We bought a Fu Kwei plant from him for $28.  He asked for $38 and we wanted $25 but finally settle for $28.  We also bought two plants from an old lady.  She called it Fa Chai flower.  Anyway, she is so old and still doing business there everyday.

It is nice to visit the old town.  A lot of the hawkers had changed since I first lived there 20 years ago. 

Python

The heat is on!  So I have to water my plants a few times a day.  I am not fishing as often.  When I go, I bring along two water bottles instead of one usually.  Even the water in my fish pond dries up.  I feel lethargic in the afternoon.  Nap is welcoming instead of cycling for exercise.

I am now practising more programming using the free Python programs and free books or tutorial on Youtube.  I am still a novice and need to put in more time to get more conversant.  I am glad finally I am making progress compared to when I first started out.  I had blogged about the difficulty when I first start out. 

It is more than a year.  I am not conscientious in practicing.  Hence I did not progress as quickly.  However, now I am getting the hang of it and it is becoming more fun than frustration.

National Day Fireworks Rehearsal

I was working at my office when I hear explosions.  At first, I thought it sounds like gunshots.  Then the flood of popping sounds continue and I realised it is the fireworks.  This is the first time I heard it.  Usually there were rehearsal on Saturdays but this time I don't think the fireworks were used until this evening.

Good Sunday Morning

I have not been writing much even though I am at my desk. My favorite book site is gone.  So I am lucky I managed to download some books that I liked.  It is a very good site and easy to use.  Unfortunately, some authors complained and the site has to be shutdown.  I was having trouble and then googled to find out why.  Then I saw the disappointments of others who had known the shutdown earlier.  It is also known as the Napster of books.

Anyway, I am glad to bring my books around and read while queuing instead of surfing the net.  There are so many interesting reads.  I find that it is harder to finish the books as my mind is trained to read small bits of information by the web.

I do not like the PDF format in Kobo.  It is hard to navigate as the screen become touchy.  So the size keeps changing and when it does that the page just changed a few times in size and if it is big, it is hard to move the page so that I can read continuously. 

EPUB is a better format for Kobo.  The other thing is it is in eInk and therefore no color.  So all the colour pictures do not look good especially the pixels are quite big compared to a tablet.  The weight of ebook is so light and easy to hold for long time.  It get tiring to hold a tablet for long.

Overall, Kobo is very convenient to bring around and make reading convenient!