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It is the third day of using Aquafarm. My newly air pump is doing well. My wheatgrass is growing pretty fast and strong. The roots has grown out off the net pots too. Hopefully by next week I will be able to havest the wheatgrass.</div>
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My <a href="https://www.backtotheroots.com/shop/aquafarm" target="_blank">Aquafarm</a> finally arrived to Singapore! Have been waiting for a month to receive this. My DIY hydroponics set isn't doing to well. But most likely due to the seedlings aren't in good condition and I didn't add air pump to it. Anyway, hopefully I can learn more with Aquafarm.</div>
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When I opened up the box, there is a brief introduction about the concept of Aquafarm at the inner box. You can see there is 3 gallon tank, net pots, chemicals, piping, gravels, grow stones, fish food & some seeds. I got 3 wheatgrass & a basil. The instruction manual is very easy to understand and we are able to set it up very quickly.</div>
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I have 6 tropical fishes & 3 shrimps for the tank. It is still quite spacious even though the advice is just 1 betta fish. But later I would buy some plastic plants to decorate the tank. We are soaking the wheatgrass overnight. Everything is working fine. The setup is running, my fishes are happy. Then suddenly the pump stopped working. It is just one hour after the whole setup is working!</div>
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Lucky I have a spare pump which I have bought earlier for my DIY hydroponics set. But the spare pump is too powerful for Aquafarm. The water keep on spilling out from the net pot. Next day, my bf went to buy another air pump with lower power. Now the Aquafarm is working fine. I expect better quality since it's all made in USA, but still the quality is like from China.</div>
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Next morning, I have planted my wheatgrass and now all we have to do is wait.</div>
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This's our 3rd month trying for a baby and we have bought OPK to catch my ovulation period. As I mention earlier in my blog, I have been taking birth pill and I'm not sure whether my ovulation has began yet. I didn't want my bf to get disappointed especially if my ovulation hasn't began yet.</div>
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Sadly I didn't capture any LH surge at all. I do have some days which has testing line appeared. But the line is not darker than the control lines. 2 days ago, I start having spotting. I guess AF is coming, and I will try again next month *HAIZ*</div>
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After trying Sushi Express, my bf & I decided to try Old Street Bak Tuk Teh just beside Sushi Express. Heard from my colleague that the shop is kinda famous, so I have high expectation for it.</div>
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When we went in, we are waving around for someone to attend to us. But no one even bothers about us *SERIOUSLY* So my bf walked up to one of the waitress to ask them take order for us. Surprisely, the waitress asked all orders are taken using Ipad which is stored at the table's drawers! At least inform us when we came into the shop, don't just ignore us. Not alot of shops are as high tech as you *roll eyes*.</div>
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I patiently click here and there using Ipad. It is very user friendly and I doubts anyone would have trouble using it. After 15mins or so, our food is served!</div>
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The soup is quite yummp. But the ribs are kinda disappointing. The meat is rather dry & stick to the bone. The pig trotter is too fatty for my liking as I prefer leaner ones.</div>
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Total bill cost us SGD49.90! Which is kinda expensive. If we have ordered the same food at our favourite Bak Tuk Teh @ Lakeside hawker centre, it would costs us around $20. And lakeside hawker centre is tastier than this.</div>
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Most likely I would not be coming back.</div>
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</div>Donna Pixiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14614518740785549762noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6759341472818063789.post-73813101533759945792014-02-12T18:14:00.001-08:002014-02-12T18:33:00.436-08:00Cai Xin seedlingsI have started on my hydroponics project last month. Grow some cai xin seeds on soil before transplanting it to my hydroponics system. I choose cai xin because it suppose to be easy to grow & short harvest time (about 1 month). <br />
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Below photo is taken on 29 Jan, you can see the seedlings is quite small even though is already 2 weeks old. Currently my 3 weeks old seedlings are taller but the size is still the same. I definitely cannot harvest it within a month =(<br />
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Nevertheless I will transplant these seedlings into my hydroponics system and hopefully it can grow into adult cai xin for harvest.<br />
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Below is my lavender seedlings which I have planted in December. It didn't died which is a surprise to me. Hopefully it will eventually grow into an adult lavender plant *pray* But I guess I couldn't give it to my bf on his birthday, which falls in March.</div>
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As Valentine Day is approaching, I decided to do a Valentine card for my Oppa. While my bf is busying gaming GTA5, I went to my table and start my scrapbooking project. After 20mins, I have completed the card for my Oppa (right hand side). Happiness tagged to wish him to find his happiness soon. </div>
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After completed my Oppa card, I decided to do one for my bf too. What I hate most is tying ribbon. I always find it as the most difficult craft (beside cutting & trimming papers of course). I still thinking what to write in the card for my bf though... hmmm, waiting for my muse to come...</div>
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</div>Donna Pixiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14614518740785549762noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6759341472818063789.post-53329315278526569102014-02-08T19:55:00.000-08:002014-02-08T19:55:00.333-08:00Cat cafe in Hongdae - Cats Living<div style="text-align: justify;">
My bf is a cat lover. Not that he hates dogs, he just prefer cat (so much more).
Hence I make it a point to visit a cat cafe when we are at Seoul. I guess cat cafe is very common in Seoul, we were just wandering around and bump into one - Cats Living. When we reached there, there isn't any people. We just peek into the glass door, the cats are already 'standby' to welcome us. The 'entrance' fee is won8000 and comes with a free drink. As compared to cat cafe in Singapore, it is really cheap.</div>
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We have to remove our shoes & sanitize our hands before entering the cafe. The money loving cat is the first cat who greeted us. He keep sniffing and biting the wons when I flashed it to him.</div>
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I not sure what happen to the below cat. He was greeting us but when the owner came out to greet us, then return back to the kitchen to make our drinks. He jumped and hang onto the window grills. I "plucked" him out and put him on the floor. But he jumped and cling to the window grills again!</div>
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Below is my favourite cat. Look at his innocent looking face! So adorable right! *melts* I think he is long haired scottish fold. Super duper shy but very curious. He was looking thru the window grills at us. When I took his photo, he is frightened by the "click" sound and stay a distance away from the window grill.</div>
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Below are the cats they have in the cafe. As compared to Singapore cat cafe, Cats Living has alot of different breeds of cats. Hopefully one day Singapore cat cafe can have the same standard. In terms of the breeds of cats, and the pricing of the 'entrance' fee as well.</div>
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Few months ago, my bf had suggest that he hopes to have a family. I wasn't ready then. But few months later, I decided to give it a try. I'm no longer young so maybe having a baby isn't that easy too. I have stopped my BCP in October 2013 and have been trying since. Unfortunately, there isn't any good news, so I decided to buy Ovulation Testing Kit from <a href="http://www.qoo10.sg/" target="_blank">Qoo10</a>. </div>
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Will start to test for my ovulation, and hopefully it already kick start...since I have already stopped my BCP in October 2013 *pray*</div>
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My bf also been 'feeding' me with magnesium vitamin for a month or so. He read somewhere that some of my 'chronic' sickness maybe is due to lack of magnesium. When our magnesium pills finished, we saw <a href="http://www.blackmores.com.au/products/conceive-wellgold" target="_blank">Blackmore Conceive Well </a>so we decided to give it a try.</div>
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There isn't much review about it. But the reviews I read is kinda good. You have to take 1 tablet & 1 capsule per day. The size of the tablets & capsules are quite huge. So if you are not used in swallowing medicine, you might have some problems with this. The smell of the tablets are also quite stinky. I let my dogs smell it, they just turned away! I feed my dogs with salmon oil capsules, and they will swallow with ease and love their salmon capsules tons. Imagine they are turned off by the tablet, you can imagine how stinky it is. Each box cost about SGD45 (if I remember correctly), so it is consider quite expensive. Lucky Guardian having promotion so there is 20% discount. </div>
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I have been taking the capsules & tablets for 2 weeks now, and with my ovulation strips on hand, I'm ready for my fertile period to come in another few more days.</div>
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I planned to buy <a href="https://www.backtotheroots.com/shop/aquafarm" target="_blank">Aquafarm</a> and one of my friend recommend Betta Flora to me. He said it kinda have the same function as Aquafarm. So I went to buy it with a very good discount as my friend's friend is working there.</div>
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Currently one of our favourite past time for my bf & I is baking breads & stuffs. Saturday we bake, Sunday the part time maid cleans and we have a week supply of breakfast. Mainly breakfast for my bf though because I don't really take breakfast. </div>
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We were planning to give the pumpkin bread a second try but realize our spare pumpkin has grown mouldy. Flipping my recipe book, my bf decided to bake Ciabatta instead. The steps are pretty easy and not much kneading is needed. But LOTSA time needed for the 'yeasting'! 4 hours needed for the yeast to work with the dough. After adding in one more cup of flour into the 'liquid' dough, another 1.5hr for it to rise again. After shaping the dough on the baking tray, another 0.5hr to rise again! </div>
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Fortunately Ciabatta tastes exactly like the ones my bf ate in Italian restaurant and he loves it. When he offered some to his colleague, his colleague also comment that it is same as Italian restaurant! At least this is a successful attempt as compared to the pumpkin bread.</div>
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I'm always been 'fan' of Groupon and has been buying their vouchers many many times. But this time is really false advertising. Let's take a look at the voucher I bought.</div>
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Everything seems plain and simple right? Things only start to unfold during my first appointment with them. During the briefing, I was told that I <strong>must buy the hygience kit</strong> which cost $10, for every session. In the voucher, it is clearly indicated that hygiene kit <strong>may need to be purchase</strong>, if required. I guess every salon would have these small fine prints whereby they mis-interpret, so I just closed one eye and go ahead with it. </div>
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Now is the eyeball-dropping part, the staff told me the <strong>voucher includes only 10 shots</strong>. But the whole Brazilian IPL will needs 30 shots. I need to <strong>buy additional 20 shots which cost $60 for every session</strong>! That's totally extortion as clearly the <strong>voucher did not include this limitation</strong>! Unfortunately, I purchase 9 sessions for SGD145. So I asked the staff whether can I combine the sessions as I have 9 session which equal to 90 shots. The staff told me that they cannot combine the sessions. Either I pay additional $60 for full Brazilian IPL or just accept 10 shots of partial IPL which will not have any results at all!</div>
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I don't know how my bf & I decided to bake a pumpkin bread. But that's what we did over the weekend. I went to steam the pumpkin, mash it up and mixed with plain flour and salt. Add in the yeast and water to make it to a dough. My bf took over the kneading portion. </div>
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Voila! Pumpkin bread is born. Look kinda professional, yeah? However the brand of yeast we used is not very active. I tried 2 packages but both doesn't foam well so I thought it is this way. After we tried the bread, it kinda stiff and not fluffy. So I guess the yeast is the problem. Nevertheless I bought the brand of yeast I always used. We will tried it again.
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I'm not sure whether putting the bread in the freezer is a wise choice. Because we put our already stiffed bread into the freezer. And it became a hard rock. No kidding! So I guess it is better to finish off the bread within few days.
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</div>Donna Pixiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14614518740785549762noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6759341472818063789.post-78821326904727350812014-01-12T18:31:00.000-08:002014-01-12T18:33:18.291-08:00Osaka - Shinsekai (新世界) <div style="text-align: justify;">
Shinsekai (新世界) is Osaka's "new world," a district that was developed before the war and then neglected in the decades afterwards. At the district's center stands Tsutenkaku Tower, the nostalgia evoking symbol of Shinsekai. </div>
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The area was developed into its current layout following the success of the 1903 National Industrial Exposition, which brought over five million people to the neighborhood within just five months. Shortly after the expo closed its doors, work began to improve and update Shinsekai. </div>
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Paris was chosen as the model for Shinsekai's northern half, while the southern portion was built to imitate Coney Island in New York. Tsutenkaku Tower was constructed in 1912 after Paris' Eiffel Tower. Although it was scrapped during WWII, the tower was reconstructed soon afterwards in 1956. The current tower is 103 meters high, with the main observatory at a height of 91 meters. </div>
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Another noted attraction is kushikatsu, one of Osaka's best known specialties. It is a dish, composed of various skewered, battered and deep fried foods. Varieties on offer range from chicken and beef, to pumpkin and asparagus, to the banana and ice cream dessert varieties. Many of Shinsekai's kushikatsu restaurants are open 24 hours, but only truly come alive when the lights come on at night. </div>
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Shinsekai is also home to Spa World, a huge bath complex with a large number of pools on a European themed floor and an Asian themed floor (enjoyed naked and gender separated). The floors are switched between genders each month. Natural hot spring water is pumped up from far below the earth's surface. <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"></span></div>
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Shinsekai is a short walk from Shin-Imamiya Station on the JR Loop Line, Dobutsuen-mae Station on the Midosuji and Tanimachi Subway Lines, and Ebisucho Station on the Tanimachi Subway Line. <br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Taken from:http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e4012.html</span><br />
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Until the end of the Meiji Era, the Kuromon Ichiba Market used to be called Emmeiji Market, because there was once a large temple called Emmeiji nearby. Since there used to be a black gate northeast of this temple, the marketplace later came to be called”Kuromon Ichiba Market”(Black Gate Market).</div>
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The market has a total length of close to 600 meters with 170 shops, the vast majority of which specialize in the freshest and best quality meat, vegetables, eggs and other ingredients from around the country and abroad. Although well over half of total sales are for the business (professional chef) market, Kuromon Ichiba caters also to the general public. For more than 170 years, everyone from restaurant chefs to housewives have come here, drawn by the taste, freshness and variety of its products. You’ll love it. <br />
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Transportation: Subway Sakaisuji Line Nippombashi Sta.(exit No.5 and 10)</div>
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One of <a href="http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2157.html" target="_top">Osaka</a>'s most popular tourist
destinations, this street runs parallel to the Dotonbori canal. It is a popular
shopping and entertainment district and is also known as a food destination. At
night it is lit by hundreds of neon lights and mechanized signs, including the
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I would prefer to go during the night when all the neon lights are light up. But previous day, my parents are too tired to carry on walking. And we will be flying back to Tokyo by tonight. So we just went walking for awhile in the afternoon. </div>
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The wall features are still amazing. Food is amazing delicious as well. And I would definitely come back again with my bf. </div>
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My little Pixie is always very timid and obedient when I'm not around. I don't really dote her. Of course I love her alots, but if she does something wrong, I would also punish her. But still, she behaves very differently when I'm around her. She will become very bossy and demanding.</div>
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So whenever my bf & I pick Donna & Pixie up. She will boss Donna around, bark at her, disturb my bf when he is driving. But when my bf picks them up without me, she will be very timid and obedient. Just sitting quietly and hope to see me soon.</div>
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It's all started from Clover growing kit. Unfortunately the Clover doesn't live to see it.
Few weeks after I planted my Clover, my bf bought me another growing kit - Basil. When I unwrapped the package, it contains a small ceremic pot, soil pellet, basil seeds and instruction. </div>
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I follow the instruction, soak the soil pellet, drain the excess water and plant the basil seeds. Photo taken on 12 Sept 2013.<br />
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When the soil is dry, it will turn slightly lighter. Then I will water it. Very quickly basil seedlings are poping out everywhere! I guess the germination is almost 100%. Photo taken on 23 Sept 2013.</div>
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Due to overcrowding, alot of seedlings died. I didn't thin it too because I not sure how to go about it. I'm afraid end up I will thinning the stronger ones. So I just let them fight it out. End of the war, I left with 5 strong basil seedlings. As you can see, they just grow 2nd sets of leaves. Photo taken on 20 Nov.</div>
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On 6 Jan 2014, my basil seedlings have already grown their forth set of leaves. I was quite skeptical on guarantee growing kit. But I guess this Basil growing kit works. Not only the seeds germinate, the seedlings already grow to survive. Hopefully my 5 strong seedlings will grow to full adult plant eventually. Meanwhile, I already started on my Lavender growing kit.</div>
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Few years back, my bf went to France and fall in love with their French King Cake. Not sure why, he suddenly have a craving for it. So his gf has to make his craving come true. I was googling for the recipe of the cake. But most of them needs Frangipane, I guess is one type of almond filling. I don't seem to find it at NTUC. Being his resourceful gf, I have to find an alternative. After searching for awhile, I found a recipe for almond filling. Not so sure whether does it taste like Frangipane, but I guess it won't be too off.</div>
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The recipe for the almond filling is quite simple. All you needs is almond, sugar, butter, egg whites and almond extract. Mixed them together using the food processor, and you will get the almond filling. For more details, you can visit it at <a href="http://www.simplysogood.com/2013/07/my-favorite-almond-paste.html" target="_blank">Simply So Good</a>. After I prepared the almond filling, I put it in the refrigerator.</div>
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I bought the ready-made puff pastry from NTUC and now is the time for my bf to perform *haha* He rolls the dough & put it on the pie plate. I spread the paste on the pastry while he continue to roll for the cover of the cake. After putting on the 'cover', I beat an egg and spread it around the cake. My bf slightly slit crisscross on the cake and put 4 small venting holes. Last step will be putting into the oven.</div>
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After 15mins, I took the cake out and sprinkle some icing sugars on the cake and put it back to the oven for another 10mins. *Tadah* Below is the end product. Though my bf said that there is still difference in the taste as compared to the French King Cake he ate in French. But the taste is similar. Our next project will be trying to improvise our French King Cake. His sister is coming back from France and she will brings Frangipane with her. I guess my bf will be waiting for our next attempt.</div>
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At last completed my Halloween scrapbook after 2months! It is just a simple album with centre open door, done by my bf & me *smilez* My cutting skill is quite lousy, so my bf helps me in all the cutting. I would say he done a pretty good job!</div>
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When we opened up the album, we have our couple photo taken at USS Halloween night. A pocket at the bottom to store all the cards. I have also paste one of my photo sipping fruit punch in the blood bag. Different cards also have different stuffs at the back. One of it is another photo of me in the dark eerie sesame street at USS Halloween night. Rest of the cards are still blank though.</div>
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My family decided to give Ryokan a try so I booked Matsubaya Inn as per their review in Tripadvisor. When we stepped in, it is as per the photo shown in their website. The room is warmth and cozy as compared to hotel. I totally love sleeping on the thick futon. But be mindful not all places provided thick futon. The apartment I stayed in Tokyo provided thin futon which is not as comfortable. There is heater, free drinks & snacks. The toilet is small, as per Japan standard. But the worst is the room wall is rather thin. I can hear my siblings whom are resting at the next room. The journey from the Kyoto train station to the inn is around 15mins walk. We would shivering everytime we walked from the train station and back to the inn, Lucky there are vending machines around and we can buy hot drinks to warm us up.</div>
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Nearby the inn, there is a traditional japanese restaurant. You have to take off your shoes, hang your coats on the wall. People are drinking & smoking inside the restaurant. The mistress of the restaurant is very nice and friendly. Although her English is quite limited, we still enjoy ordering food from her. We are not frustrated at all. Food is nice, and price is reasonable.</div>
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Today our plan for Osaka is to visit the Osaka Castle. Actually my plan is to go Nara from Kyoto. But my cousin insists in going to Osaka because Osaka Castle is a must. After walking 15mins from the train station, we have reached the outskirts of Osaka Castle. We would quite surprise even during cold weather (around few degrees) people would pinic at the park. There are even joggers wearing quite thin material as clothing. </div>
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This is the entrance to the Osaka Castle. It looks quite small, more like a side entrance. But it is the main entrance. I guess this is the strategy of the castle who once never failed to protect its owner until one fateful war who torn it down. </div>
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Just in front of the Osaka Castle, there are vendors selling hot steaming snacks. I want to buy some, but I'm afraid that I can't eat in the castle. So end up, I didn't buy any. But there are several Japanese buying the snacks and sitting on the bench. Surprisely, most of the people are locals instead of foreigners. I guess it is a norm that people staying nearby would come to walk their dogs or just mingle with their friends in the park.</div>
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Once we enter the castle, we are lead to the lift queue. The security guard explains that the max level we can go up using the lift is 5th floor. Remaining of the floor we have to climb by stairs. We cannot take photos in most of the areas. So you really have to go down personally to look at what is in store for you. You definitely won't regret if you love Japanese culture and history.</div>
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In summary, Osaka Castle is built by Toyotomi Hideyoshi who was born as peasant. After several "careers" changed, he finally worked under Oda Nobunaga. This castle helps him won lotsa of wars and he gains fame & power over the years. He adopted several children and did not have any children until age of 50plus. Unfortunately during his early 60s, he suspected that his wives & adopted children is planning for rebellion, he killed them all. (That's pretty sad) At his death bed, he asked his minister to take care of his 6yrs old son.</div>
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This is one of the story I remember quite clearly because I find is quite a tragic. There are also other stories about his wars and how he lead his life.</div>
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The recommended approach to Osaka Castle is through
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Mt Fuji is a MUST visit if you go to Tokyo. Although we miss our meeting time due to some misunderstanding. The tour agency re-book our tour for next day. I guess it is blessing in disguise, because the next day is a wonderful clear day.</div>
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According to the tour guide, it is only 10% chance that we are able to see mt fuji clearly due to the clouds & fog. Hence she keeps on saying we are very lucky.</div>
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Below is the photos that I took on the way to the mount fuji information centre. This is very near to the amusement park which I also want to go. Hopefully my bf would accompany me because he doesn't really like rides.</div>
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When we reached the 5th station, everywhere is covered with ice. The funny part is ice cream at the ice cream palor is out of stock! We only have 30mins to take photo and look at the beautiful scenery. I hope we have more time so that I can try the food at the restaurant and browse the souvenir store. I told my bf my regrets, and he said that he will definitely come here with me. I love my bf so much!</div>
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I saw a post @ <a href="http://oyhz.blogspot.sg/2013/11/fullhouse-signature-singapore-clarke.html" target="_blank">OYHZ blog</a>
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At first I have difficulty locating the restaurant because it is at the second floor of the shophouse. When you first enter you can see a family happily posing wall feature, which is kinda cute. The restaurant also beautifully decorate.</div>
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My bf had make a reservation for a romantic seat. Hence we are lead to the "bed" seating. I must admit it is kinda romantic. But the seating isn't comfortable. I guess they should provide more comfortable cushions on the bench.</div>
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We have ordered lavender peppermint tea which is very nice! I totally love the tea, tea pot & tea cup. Shortly the mussels also arrived. But the taste is just average. We have also ordered mushroom soup, but it isn't really nice. Next is the steak and chicken chop. </div>
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My bf find that chicken chop is quite nice and he has finished it. As for me, I have requested medium for my steak. But was given well done. So I didn't finish it because the meat is rather tough for me. The manager saw that my steak is only 1/4 eaten, and asked me what's wrong. I told her the situation, she apologised and said she would replace a new one for me. I told her it's ok because I'm already fulled. Being very friendly, she told me I can change to other dishes too. But since I'm really fulled, I told her is really ok. </div>
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<strong>Fullhouse Signature @ Clarke Quay</strong>
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3A, Clarke Quay, River Valley Road,</div>
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#02-04, Singapore 179020
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(Located above Tomo Japanese Restaurant)
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Opening Hours:
11:30am - 01:00am daily
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Tel: (+65) 6338 0885
Fax: (+65) 6338 8280
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