iFly Singapore - my teambuilding event

 SINGAPORE - I booked the iFly for my staff team building and it was a fun and excited day event.   We assembled at iFly lobby at around 11:30 - half an hour prior to 'take off'.   The half an hour is for temperature taking, safe entry, and registration.   At 12 noon 'take off' - we had to watch a short video on safety.  After which our instructor introduced himself and taught us the hand signals as the iFly take off area is loud.    

We suited up and get ready for 'take off'.   

Ready for take off

Ronald - that's me

We all had 2 rounds of flying and it was exhilarating - for the 2nd round, the instructor flew alongside and up to the top, then back down - repeated 3 times and it was over.   

Well worth the day event.   

Lesley, back in Singapore - Dinner @ Knuckles Bistro

SINGAPORE - Since Lesley left in March 2020 over the weekend to see his family - then Covid struck and lock-down began.   It was good to see him again after so long.  Our dinner was at Kuckles Bistro at Hougang (near Heartland Mall).   We had a good time catching on old times.

Pork Knucles pasta

The Pork knuckles was dry and tough - the worst pork knuckles I have ever had. 

Ceasar Salad

Crafune - Leather making team building

 Singapore - my team went for a leather making team building for 3hr - starting at 2pm and ended around 5pm with 3 leather products made.   

We were taught :the basic knowledge of leather, types of basic leather crafting tools, scoring, cutting and gluing of leather, Saddle stitching, edge finishing & burnishing. 

The types of leather available include full grain, top grain, genuine, bicast, and bonded. 

Leather finishes include aniline, semi-aniline, brush-colored, degrained, die-cut, embossed, embroidered, handworked, metallic, nappa, nubuck, oily, patent, pigmented, printed, split, suede, and waxy.

The leather that we used were vegetable-tanned genuine leather. Genuine leather means it is the lowest quality of all products made out of real leather. Basically, you should read it as: "At least it's genuine leather."

busy leather crafting

leather name card holder

We learn how to saddle stitch which last much longer. In addition to using thicker thread with hand stitching, each stitch is made up of two strong, independent, stitches. Unlike the lock stitch which will completely unravel, if a thread does break, the saddle stitch will still hold together.

Key chain, name card holder and coin purse

Positano Rito @ 66 Bussorah Street

 Singapore - We had our lunch group gathering at this Italian restaurant along Bussorah Street, and the dishes were sizeable portioned and remarkable delicious.   The seafood was fresh. 

Lunch gathering

Arancini Balls

Delicious arancini balls served golden brown, stuffed with melted mozzarella.

Wild Mushroom soup

My mushroom soup was creamy, served hot and it was very good.  The blending of the mushroom was authentic.

Squid Ink seafood spaghetti

I selected mildly spicy and the level was just nice.  The seafood was fresh and the portion was perfect.  The spaghetti was cooked well and tossed skillfully.

Eggplant Parmigiana

This dish looks like a pizza but in fact is based on eggplant baked and topped  with melted mozzarella and parsley and their homemade tomato sauce.

Calzone

According to the owner, this is their speciality to served it pizza style looking like a star.  

A wonderful lunch served at a secondary school classmate's restaurant 

AirSoft game @ Khatib TeamNS

Singapore - Today we had a tactical game of Airsoft.  Airsoft is a competitive team shooting sport in which participants eliminate opposing players by tagging them out of play with spherical plastic projectiles launched via replica air weapons called airsoft guns.  

The airsoft game scenario is Urban warfare - Fighting In Built Up Area (FIBUA) - navigate a 400sq ft area and win your opponents.  The Airsoft game is booked for 1hr and is broken up into security briefing, watching a short security video, wearing of vest and helmet, then to draw the weapon and 3 magazines.  

There are a number of scenarios - Team death match, capture the flag, etc but we just played 3 rounds of team death match.   Each round is 15 mins and it was very tiring and lots of bullet marks on your hand and body - even though I wore long sleeve and pants.

My colleagues and team after Airsoft PvP

 

Omakase @ sushi masaaki

 Singapore - 2020 will always be remembered as the year Covid-19 brought the world to a standstill.  We are still reeling from Covid-19 with today's tally at 71,919,725 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 1,623,064 deaths, reported by WHO.

What a coincidence that the last time I posted was 15 December 2019 (exactly 1 year ago).

Today, I went for a Omakase lunch @ $120++ it was expensive and the meal was delicious - small portions but very fresh that melt in my mouth.

The meals were like fine art and extremely delicious.  

The 2nd course was the sea urchin which was so sweet.  Then the sushi one at a time.

The right was the tuna toro. 

A unique type of Maki sushi - rolled it yourself sushi

Mochi 

Special scoop of ice cream

Sidecar Vespa tour

 Singapore - We rode in vintage vespa scooters around the Katong and Joo Chiat Road.  The 1hr tour was very memorable and scenic and we rode around the Peranakan town.  

Willy and Glen

Anthony, Clifford and Daryl

all 6 of us in the line up

Our vespas and street art

Colourful Peranakan houses

Night soil 

Night soil workers will collect the buckets of shit during old Singapore - not that night soil hole has been sealed up for good.

We are very lucky that it rained at the end of our 1hr tour - so we ran into a coffee and watch as the Vespa side car started to collect water.   It was a good and enjoyable tour.