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Happy 27th Birthday Li Xiang!

Lester Chan — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 15:45:10 +0000

This year, birthday celebration with Li Xiang was pretty simple, we just had an early dinner at Jones The Grocer located at Mandarin Gallery did some shopping at Orchard and have an early supper at Ramen Santouka located at Cuppage Terrace!

Soup Of The Day (Tomato) (SGD$11.50)

Beef & Blue Cheese Burger (SGD$26.50)

Mushroom Risotto (SGD$25.50)

Macadamia Chocolate Chip Milkshake (SGD$7.50)

French Earl Grey (SGD$5.50)

All Her Presents!

My Present For Her, iPhone 4S (32GB) With Case-Mate Waddler Penguin Case

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Happy 27th Birthday To Me

Lester Chan — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 16:29:00 +0000

I am Twenty Seven today! Damn, looks like now I can be classified under late twenties!

Li Xiang got me there when she ordered 2 cakes from Pine Garden to be delivered to my office. I was shocked when I received the cake. My colleagues even lighted up the candle and sing a short verse of the birthday song, making it even more embarrassing! Suddenly the whole office knew my birthday!

Had a simple Thai dinner with Li Xiang at Coffee Stars By Dao located at Wisma Atria. Food was good!

Birthday Cake Surprise From Li Xiang

First Present From Li Xiang

Second Present From Li Xiang

Third Present From Li Xiang

First Present From My Brother & Huimin

Second Present From My Brother & Huimin

116 Wall Posts on Facebook!

This is truly a very memorable birthday! Thanks for all the wishes through Facebook, Twitter, Whatsapp and even SMS! Thanks guys!

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Happy 26th Birthday Li Xiang!

Lester Chan — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 00:23:12 +0000

Celebrated Li Xiang’s birthday with a stay at Marina Bay Sands (MBS) on Friday. We book pretty early and chose the Rise & Shine Package which includes 1 night stay and breakfast at Rise Cafe for two. Paid SGD$389 (SGD$457.85 after tax).

It is pretty expensive but I say it is totally worth it! Considering we paid SGD$270 for our 6th anniversary stay at Scarlet Hotel which has nothing and the room is much smaller and lack any window view. I would say MBS is not too expensive.

Inifinity Pool Left View

Infinity Pool Right View

Infinity Pool

Infinity Pool Night View

Night View At The Skypark Observer Deck

We spend most of our time swimming and sunbathing at the Infinity Pool at the Sky Park. The Infinity Pool at night looks gorgeous as well but unfortunately we only went up to take pictures as we are heading to another location for dinner. I guess we will be back at MBS again for the night view at the Infinity Pool!

Dinner was at Nueva Cuba located at Customs House. I was at Nueva last week for a The Open Room: “Your Blog Here” session with Luca Penati organized by Ogilvy and was impressed with the quality of the food and drinks there. So I decided to recommend it to Li Xiang! While you are there, try the Grilled Sirloin Steak!

Grilled Sirloin Steak

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Happy 26th Birthday To Me

Lester Chan — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 13:31:07 +0000

Celebrated my 26th Birthday at Resort World’s Chilli’s yesterday. It was my second time at Chilli’s, first time was at Tanglin Mall branch. Chilli’s food is fantastic but it is a bit pricey. Love the free flow of Tostada Chip for only SGD$6.90. The steak is very expensive, SGD$41.90, totally not worth it, don’t bother trying. But the Fajitas is very nice.

Universal Studio

Chilli’s

Tenderloin Steak (SGD$41.90)

Skillet Queso + Bottomless Tostada Chip (SGD$9.90)

Fajitas Mushroom Jack

Our Food

Total bill is SGD$107 including Li Xiang’s Strawberry Lemonade (SGD$4.90) and my Bottomless Beverage (SGD$4.90)

Ice Cream Mudpie Birthday Cake

FCUK Tweet T-Shirt

LV Porte-Cartes Simple

I would like to thank my parents for the nice ice cream mudpie birthday from Island Creamery and they even wanted to buy me an iMac which is in my wish list! Thank you mom and dad!

I would like to thank Li Xiang for the lovely FCUK Tweet T-Shirt and my brother, Leroy, and Humin for the expensive LV card holder!! Thank you!

I also would like to thank all my friends for the birthday greetings via Facebook, Twitter, SMS and Whatsapp! Thank You all!

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Happy 25th Birthday Li Xiang!

Lester Chan — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:50:43 +0000

Today is Li Xiang 25th birthday! This year is a little bit more relax for us as we manage to have the whole day to ourselves.

We had dinner at TWG Tea at Ion Orchard as Li Xiang always wanted to try the dessert and tea there.

The main courses there are a little on the pricey side. It ranges from SGD$27 to SGD$32 and there are like like 5 choices of main course available. Not forgetting the portion is kinda little. I would not recommend having any full meal there.

Shrip Beignets (SGD$27)

Pike Perch Fillet (SGD$28)

On the other hand, the tea and dessert there are pretty good. There are like hundreds of tea selection available which I really do not know how to start choosing. The price starts at SGD$10 per pot, a pot is enough for 2 persons. We ordered the Happy Birthday tea which fits today’s occasion. The Happy Birthday tea is a little fruity!

Happy Birthday Tea (SGD$10.50)

There are some cakes available but we did not order them. Instead we ordered a Carrousel which is basically a very large Macarons filled with Strawberries and their homemade cream. We also did ordered two ala carte Macarons at SGD$2 each. The Macarons at TWG is nice, it is not too sweet.

Carrousel (SGD$10)

Macaron (SGD$2 each)

Total bill amounted to SGD$93.55 after 7% GST and 10% service charge!

We donated SGD$10 to the We Are One charity project at Ion and we are entitled to placed 5 Lego bricks!

Donated To We Are One

Did not watch any movie today because Li Xiang will be having her end-semester FYP presentation tomorrow. Instead we will be watching 2012 this Saturday at midnight at GV Max!

Happy 25th Birthday Penguin! All the best for your studies! Going to graduate soon! Jia You!!!

Facebook Gallery: Li Xiang’s 25th Birthday

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Winners Of Wii Birthday Party Bash Give Away

Lester Chan — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 05:53:46 +0000

Here are 5 winners from last month’s Wii Birthday Party Bash Give Away.

Ang Meng Kok: SXXXX834C
Loh Guan Liang: SXXXX627D
Lim Pei Yi Esther: SXXXX698Z
Johan Yu : SXXXX555Z
Tan Hong Liang: SXXXX686F

Congratulations to all winners! You all should have already been contacted via email on how to collect your copy of Birthday Party Bash from Take 2 Asia office. If not, just drop me an email and I will hook you up.

Birthday Party Bash Review

Lester Chan — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 16:00:30 +0000

I received the Birthday Party Bash Wii game by 2K Play 3 weeks ago. Played the game during our “Games Day” which is on the 1st August 2009 to celebrate the end of our internship!

Birthday Party Bash as the name suggest is extremely suitable to be played during birthday parties as the focus of the whole game will be on the birthday boy or girl. When you start the game, you will get to choose 3 options, “Custom Party”, “Quick Party” or “Free Play”.

Since I am hosting the games day at my house and reviewing the game, I was arrowed to be the birthday boy. We choose Custom Party play mode because we want to be able to customize our birthday party. We can choose from 10 different types of Birthday Party themes.

Themes

How Many Wiimotes To Use?

The next few screens involved customizing the birthday person.

Birthday Boy Or Girl?

I Am Only 25!

Customizing The look

It will take some time to customized the looks! The customization is more detailed than Mii.

How Many Party Goers?

Despite the limitation of only 4 Wiimotes, you can assign up to 12 players to the game (take turns to play). But the downside to this is that before every mini-game starts, you need to choose who is playing in that mini-game. After a few mini-games, this becomes a little irritating. They should do a check on the number of Wiimotes vs the number of players assigned, if both the number tallied, there is no need to show the choosing of party goers screen.

After customizing the birthday boy, the next screen sill show an empty room which is not decorated with anything. As each mini-games is completed, the room will be decorated with an item. The details of the room is quite well done, they have a banner which displays the birthday boy name.

Empty Room

The mini-game instructions is detailed and there is even commentary to teach you how to play. This is useful for kids who may not understand what is written on the screen. But for older kids who read faster, they may find the instructions lengthy.

Mini-Game Instructions

Here are some in-game videos.

I lost count of the number of mini-games per session in order to fully decorate the room, I think it was about 10. The last item will be the birthday cake with your age on the cake itself! Pretty cool.

Decorated Room

Birthday Cake

Once the room has been fully decorated, you have completed the session and your birthday song will be played with your name in the lyrics! Pretty neat.

Birthday Song

In conclusion, Birthday Party Bash is a very kids oriented game and hence it might not be suitable for older children. This would make the prefect game to play during a children birthday party to keep them entertained. I think this game would make a good birthday present for the birthday boy/girl if he/she has a Wii.

Birthday Party Bash retails for SGD$39.90.

5 Copies Of Wii Birthday Party Bash To Be Given Away

Lester Chan — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 02:32:32 +0000

Together with 2K Play, we will be giving away 5 copies of 2K Play’s Birthday Party Bash Wii video game worth SGD$39.90 each.

Submit your answer to this simple question by 7th August 2009:

Birthday Party Bash by 2K Play is exclusively available on Wii. True or False?

Sent your answers to Albert.Hoolsema@take2asia.com with the following details

Full Name
IC Number
Email Address
Mobile Number
Occupation

Winners will be notified and collection will be at Take 2 Asia office in Newton, Singapore.

Check out my blog post on Birthday Party Bash.

Wii Birthday Party Bash

Lester Chan — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 16:00:11 +0000

Christmas came early for me on Friday! I received 3 parcels altogether! One is for the Nokia Technophobe Challenge #2, the second one was Wii Birthday Party Bash game from 2K Play and the third and last parcel was two netbook cases from Gear Zap / Mobile Fun.

This post is about the Wii Birthday Party Bash. I am going to review this game when my friends come over my house on the 1st August 2009 for a Wii party, we called it the Games Day! The packaging is excellent, this is no doubt the best packaging I have seen for a Wii game.

Here is a snippet from the press release

Birthday Party Bash provides a unique and entertaining way to host a child’s birthday celebration, offering state-of-the-art party games that can be enjoyed by up to 12 children at a time on the Wii. By modernising classics like Pin The Tail On The Donkey, Sack Race, Musical Chairs and 19 other traditional birthday games, it’s the perfect way to host a memorable and fun birthday party – without breaking the bank. The birthday boy or girl can also choose from ten party theme rooms for an unforgettable experience, from “Pirates,” complete with sword and treasure chest, to “Princess,” with a royal castle and magical unicorn.

The Invitation Card (Front)

The Invitation Card (Back)

The Mysterious Box

The Mysterious Box Opened

What Is The Game About? (Front)

What Is The Game About? (Back)

Wii Birthday Party Bash (Front)

Wii Birthday Party Bash (Back)

Wii Birthday Party Bash (Inside)

I would like to thank Fiona from Take 2 Asia for the game!

Official Site: Birthday Party Bash
Gamespot: Birthday Party Bash

Happy 25th Birthday To Me

Lester Chan — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 12:45:56 +0000

Turned 25 today, and I am 1/4 of a centurion (a one hundred year old person)! This website was also borned on the 24th March 2002!

Had a simple birthday lunch at Shokudo : Japanese Pasta and Pizza at Cineleisure before catching Dragonball: Evolution. The tickets cost only SGD$6.00 per ticket and including a small popcorn combo set when you pay using UOB! Good deal, seldom watch movies on weekdays, pardon my slowness. Dragonball: Evolution is kinda disppointing and again, Hollywood destroy my favorite childhood anime. And who is Yum Cha? I don’t remember him in the anime.

Presents

NET T-Shirt (Na)

NET T-Shirt (Scared)

NET T-Shirt Custom Made Tag (Front)

NET T-Shirt Custom Made Tag (Back)

Swatch Watch Gift Wrapping Box

Swatch Irony Carbonoir Watch In Clear Box

Swatch Irony Carbonoir Watch Close Up

Thank You
A big THANK YOU to all my friends for the birthday greetings on my Facebook wall, commented on my Facebook status, via SMS, via Twitter and via MSN. THANK YOU so much.

Thanks to Li Xiang for the wonderful t-shirts from NET and along with a custom t-shirt tag with message on it! Thank you Penguin very much!

Thanks to my brother for the lovely Swatch Irony Carbonoir Watch.

Thanks to my mom and dad for buying me so many things during the normal days.

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PS: Paging for Annette! I want Nokia N97 as my birthday present =p

Happy 24th Birthday Li Xiang!

Lester Chan — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 12:46:38 +0000

Yaki Yaki Bo
Yesterday was Li Xiang 24th birthday. Had a mini celebration with her by eating at Yaki Yaki Bo at Jurong Point at the newly opened Japanese food area called Shokutsu 10 – Osaka. It is a Teppanyaki Restaurant, similar concept to Sakae Teppanyaki. The interesting thing is that instead of placing your food on plates or aluminum foil, the place it on top of a bread perhaps to absorb the oil. Prices range between SGD$12.90 to SGD$29.90 for the executive set meals.

Personally I think that the chef at Yaki Yaki Bo do not have much skills as compared to the chef at Sakae Teppanyaki. There is almost no performance and the way the cook is very “neat” whereas the chef at Sakae Teppanyaki do perform some tricks and he cook the food almost all over the place.

You can view the photos that I uploaded to Facenook here, Lay Hiang 24th Birthday.

Quantum Of Solace
After dinner, we went to watch Quantum Of Solace at GV Jurong Point. The show is at 9.25pm. The movie as average, lots of action but the storyline is a little confusing at least more confusing than Casio Royale. Many people say you need to re-watch Casio Royale before you can watch Quantum Of Solace which I think that is true to a certain extend. Basically I have no idea what is going on, I just watch it for the action.

Presents
Bought 3 presents for Li Xiang, the first present is Kipling new Autumn/Winter 2008 Collection wallet, called “If | New Money Cuby Brown”, the second present is a book called Package Design Now and the last present is also a book called Little People in the City: The Street Art of Slinkachu. Li Xiang is a bookworm!

Happy 24th Birthday Penguin!

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Mum’s Birthday Celebration

Lester Chan — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 16:48:42 +0000

Last Friday, 11th July 2008, marks my mum 50th birthday. We went to celebrate at Pete’s Place in Hyatt Hotel. Food there was rather disappointing as compared to their Sunday lunch buffet. The price range from SGD$20 to SGD$40 for a main course. Each main course is entitled for the bread bar.

Skype with my dad when we came home and we cut the cake “in front” of him. Technology really brings people closer regardless of the location he is in.

We bought my mum Microsoft LifeCam VX-3000, i.Tech CLIP V and Altec Lansing BXR1120. I also ordered flowers on behalf of my dad to my mom from FarEastFlora.com. She likes lilies, so I ordered a bouquet of 6 stocks of lilies (PN27 – Pure Bliss).

Last Monday, I also surprised Li Xiang with a bouquet of 18 stalks of roses (PN17 – In Love with You) from FarEastFlora.com, delivered to her office. Been a long time since I sent her flowers, so I think this surprise comes in quite well.

FarEastFlora’s flowers maybe a little more expensive then others, but it is worth every cent of it. The quality of the flowers is excellent and you can even track your orders online. It has been more than a week since I gave Li Xiang the bouquet of flowers and the flowers is in excellent condition. I would definitely recommend FarEastFlora if you are ordering flowers online. They even except PayPal payments too.

I will be going to KL for a short trip with Li Xiang, my mom and my uncle on Friday and will be back on Sunday. My uncle will be driving there.