自從Google Earth installation失敗後，一直都沒去看一下這些衛星地圖。

最近，看到我們公司裏的那些 Saudi trainees 拼命的玩Wikimapia，無需安裝任何軟件，我也想着去試試看...

看看能否找到我家...

果真找到了... 真厲害！我也八卦地在 Wikimapia 上 add on 荃威花園，讓我家的芳名在這網路上留下腳印...

http://wikimapia.org/#y=22378378&x=114103709&z=16&l=0&m=a&v=2

有興趣者可去看看... :)

科技真好，讓那麼遠的地方，在瞬間變得這麼近。

若Wikimapia早點面世，大概沒有甚麼國家會有甚麼藉口去誤炸其他國家的大使館吧...

Went to the very famous crab place in Ang Mo Kio with PA & gang. After the very satisfying experience last year, we decided to indulge ourselves again... This time, at the "Original" stall.

(P.S.: We went to the so-called "branch" of this crab place during our last crab fest, just opposite the "Original" stall. The "branch" was reportedly opened by the brother-in-law of the Original's boss and many claimed that standard of food at the Original is much higher)


7:30pm.

We were supposed to meet at 7pm. Still, I was the earliest to arrive and naturally, I joined the queue to get a table. The queue was awfully long... and the waitress told us we had to wait at least one hour for the crabs.

More than one hour?? That's a bit too much for the hungry me, but nonetheless I waited - anyway the rest were not here yet.


To make matter worse, someone has to cut queue and irritate me - a hungry gal is an angry gal, she should count herself unlucky to meet me at that moment.

(Background info: there were two queues, one for those who made prior reservation, another for walk-in customers. I was the first in queue at the walk-in line)

Me: Excuse me, are you looking for the end of the queue?


Somebody: Oh, I was queueing up at the next line, but the line didn't seem to move at all! So I come to this queue and take a look loh."

Me: (thinking: duh, what lousy excuse) Duh, please queue up. Did you make any reservation?"

Somebody: "I don't know, that queue didn't move wad, so I come here loh."

Waitress: Miss, have you made your order?

Somebody: I need a table for 4....

Me: Eh, you didn't queue up, please go to the back and join the queue.

That lady: But the queue I was at didn't move!

Me: Did you make any reservation? I bet you didn't. In this case go to the back and queue.

That lady: errrr....

Me: You didn't make any reservation rite. Go to the back of this line, queue up and do not stand in front of me! This is not the place for you.

(Waitress was kinda stunted)

Me: I hope I wasn't too fierce?

Waitress: It's ok. These people deserve such treatment. I'm sorry, I thought she is your friend and I almost took her order instead of yours. Sorry...

Finally, I got my table for 8, the rest joined in one by one, with PA being the last, as usual. PA, seems like you can't shake of the Curse of Butter Crab! Next time, please don't let JN know you are going for crab.... shhhhhhh....

The taste was just ok imho and the heavenly feeling of our last crab fest was just not there. Maybe our expectation was too high? I don't know, but really I think it could have been much better.

Still, I enjoyed this outing a great deal. No matter how the food is, good company is the most important thing in any outings. Hope to meet up with you guys soon!!

(P.S.: Some tips for the crab lovers who want to visit this legendary stall. Do not go there at normally dinner time, say 6 to 7pm. The queue is very long and you really gotta wait ~1.5 hours to get your crabs. Arrive late, like us. If you order at 8pm, the waiting time for crabs will be much shortened to less than half an hour.
Besides, it may not be that bad an idea to visit the "Branch" - it is less crowded, more peaceful, waiting time is shorter and crabs are equally delicious, if not better.)

新年前夕，和MF & David 到了Esplanade去看煙花。

根據線報，煙花共有四場，分別是十時、十一時、十一時半和十二時countdown時。

大家都累了... 只想在新年前夕湊個熱鬧，感受一下節日的氣氛。所以，原定計劃，是只看過十時第一場便返家早抖了。

經過上次世界煙花滙演的教訓，MF早已作好打算，提議到二樓的ichiban boshi坐定定，一面吃飯，一面輕鬆地等煙花開始。

Esplanade一帶的人潮是真的多得有點不像樣，加上不怎麼好的人潮控制，路上擠得水洩不通。﹝但比起煙花滙演當天的crowd control好得多...﹞

終於到了十時。

「喂，點解乜都冇既？」

「係囉，有煙花最少有聲係咪？」

「光速會比音速快...」

「........」

十時半，居然下起雨來。

「嘩，咁仲有冇得放呀~」

在海旁等候的人群倉猝擁至室內避雨。從高處望下，一把把傘子拼湊成七彩的圖案，好一個場面。

坐在二樓的我們，不禁心生幸災樂禍之感。此時，我真的很慶幸，MF作出的英明部署.... :)