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.

Kensington Park - Hyde Park - Royal Imperial College - Natural History Museum

London - Today, we went to Kensington Park and it is lovely park - nice, cold weather and the attractions is the pond.   There were so many swans and ducks that you can just approach so near.

Black Swan

Hey swan...

Beautiful swans

Ducks

Queen Victoria statue

This marble statue of Queen Victoria overlooks the Broad Walk outside Kensington Palace Gardens.

Another different duck

Then, we went to Princes Diana Memorial Fountain....

Princess Diana Memorial Fountain

The design aims to reflect Diana's life, water flows from the highest point in two directions as it cascades, swirls and bubbles before meeting in a calm pool at the bottom. The water is constantly being refreshed and is drawn from London's water table.

We walked and walked; entered the Royal Imperial College and rested for a while.

Then we walked to the Natural History Museum,  you will be able to see dinosaurs, sea and land creatures, insects and many many more...

T-Rex

Pangolin

Blue Whale

Special exhibit - Suface of the moon

Dodo

Humming bird display

After this we went for our dinner...

London Zoo- Camden Town - Jewish Museum

London - Today, we went to London zoo, a very good zoo which allows you get close to the animals and insects.  Set in Regent's Park and has been in operation since 1847.

Next to the entrance was the The Reptile House.

tortoise

python

The next sanctuary was the Bird Safari.

So colourful is this duck

Gorilla and Pax

Then we walked to the Tiger sanctuary - Tiger Territory.

Tiger up close

Warning sign not be the meat for the tiger

Komodo dragon

Blackburn Pavilion

And into the B.U.G.S. sanctuary.

Spiders everywhere

You walk into an enclosure and everywhere are spiders....

Question mark roach

One the roach wings have a question mark and so they are named as such.

stick insect

Penguin feeding time

After spending about 3hrs at the London zoo, we took the bus to Camden town - it was only about a 15 mins ride but to my surprise the town was very crowded with tourist.

very crowded Camden town

We had our lunch at a Chinese buffet restaurant.

Chinese buffet -sweet & sour pork ribs

After our hearty lunch, we went to the Jewish museum London within Camden town.

2nd floor exhibits

Jewish soldiers in the British army

Jewish ceremonial ornaments