Today I took the whole team (everybody that was there when we spontaneously decided) out for lunch. Got a last minute reservation for 30 at Crystal Jade in Holland Village. It must have been the biggest and greatest lunch in a long time. To give all of you a little flavour of our 7 or 8 course meal, here’re some of the things we had today:

• Rice Rolls with Shrimp, BBQ Pork and Gourd
• Ha Kau and Siew Mai
• Steamed Chicken Feet
• Fried Beancurd Skin
• Fried Carrot Cake
• Boat Congee
• Flying Colours
• Sliver Fish
• Chinese Herbal Jelly
• Peking Duck
• Shark fin Soup
• Lemon Chicken
• and Chinese Tea

After 2 hours of fine lunching, we returned to the office (stop-over at StarBucks) and finished the planned activities in time. A great achievement for the team, we have come a long way and the team lunch was a well deserved celebration. I can recommend Crystal Jade @ Holland Village for all your celebrations.

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Staff & Service
Setting & Ambience
Location
Value for Money

Dear visitors, I have implemented a few new features over the weekend that might have caught your eye.

1. I can now differentiate between review hearts 
   
   and rating stars (see below)
2. It is possible to rate posts as well as comments, reviews can only be done by the author
3. I have added a widget in the sidebar to show the most recent ratings
4. I have added a LifeStream, which is a “new” feature to aggregate my social networks activity
5. My LifeStream now automatically posts a daily digest on my blog

I hope you enjoy these improvements.

Today my blog got added to the index of ExpatFinder, as expat blog search engine. Chekc it out if you are looking for specific information an expat would need.

Hi everybody, how do you like my new theme?

I have asked the guys from Web2Feel to make me a custom theme with a travel look-and-feel to it. Hence the stack of Polaroid pictures, the nightly city skyline, tropical island with palm tree and aeroplane. I personally think Jinson Abraham did a marvelous job. I know I am probably not the easiest customer, but I knew exactly what I wanted, all my wishes were granted and the website came out even better as expected. I particularly like the Flickr banner at the bottom and the possibility to change the Polaroid picture to wherever I am at the time (Singapore at the moment).

I am still testing the final details, but this is basically how my website will look for the foreseeable future.

I hope everybody like it too!