1st Public Service Week

This year, the public service held its first public service week from 14th -20th May to remind all public officers of their role in advancing Singapore. This will be an annual event.

Anyway, to celebrate it, I actually got a four of my colleagues from my school to participate in a MRT trail competition where they go around Singapore solving clues by only using MRT as the only public transport.

It was held on a Saturday. So early morning at 7am plus, I woke up the whole family and we went down to Bukit Batok Civil Service Club to go support my colleagues.

It's our first time there and the Bukit Batok CSC has a huge fish pond. Check it out!





Initially, wanted to bring Caleb to swim there but the pool wasnt open yet. It's a nice huge wave pool with a kids pool by the side. Looks really fun. We even prepared Caleb's swim shorts.

Anyway, after spending a while there, we drove to my sis-in-law's place which is at Bukit Batok to go visit her and drop by since we are there. Caleb had his bath there.

When it was close to lunchtime, we drove to IMM, which was just 5-10 mins away and had lunch there, as well as to do our weekly supermarketing at Giant. Had lunch at a foodcourt. I had Nasi Padang- beef rendang, chilli brinjal, and some interesting curry dark leafy vegetable. I am quite a sucker for nasi padang indonesian style. I think the cooking style as compared to Chinese cooking, is rather intricate and complex because of the spices involved.

Nevertheless, I was glad I had some spice in my life. :)

Giant was as usual crowded. Kind of enjoy the fish section there as it seems much more fresh than other Giant joints...maybe because its closer to Malaysia waters.

After our stay at the West area, we were all exhausted since we were out the whole morning. But on our way back, we dropped by at Mandai Link gas station for the first time to pump gas. Usually, CT does it at his workplace in Jurong Island. But anyway, I was pretty excited since it is my first time at a gas station.

Here's the huge empty station with about 10 pumps.


It is pumped from the front of the car. However, you can always get someone to install it at a different location of your car if you like.

Here's poor Caleb exhausted from the whole day's outing with his mouth wide open while sleeping.



Anyway, just for your info, total cost in pumping gas was $11 bucks. Slightly more expensive than the one in Jurong Island...

With the price of petrol going up, I do not feel that affected...since my last time visiting a petrol station was a couple of months back...