Bryan Chung’s Blog

I have received my first cheque from Nuffnang! Such good timing, considering it is Chinese New Year. Can consider it as a red packet from Nuffnang. Oh by the way, Nuffnang is an advertising community that I am a member off. Initially I was quite skeptical if it will really earn me money. Now I am sure they will! For my first payment, I received $51.10! Now that also help me relief some cost that I spent on the Levi’s watches I bought few days ago for my girl-friend.

So if you are looking for an advertising company to earn money for your own blog, consider Nuffnang!

Let me take this chance to wish all Happy Lunar New Year! And whether you are single or attached, Happy Valentine’s Day!

Jokingly I told my friend Sebrina, “I should have gotten attach only after Valentine’s Day.” Then all she said was, “Cheapskate!” Haha! Since being attached a week ago, I was already thinking of what to buy for my dear for Valentine’s Day. Or even wondered if I needed to buy anything since it was barely a week into the relationship. Then Louis convinced me it was not right if I did not get my dear anything. It is after all, Valentine’s Day even though it falls on Chinese New Year. So for the past few days, I visited many watch shops thinking of getting a couple watch for my dear and myself. Finally I went out with her yesterday, together with Louis. Louis wanted to go Uniqlo to buy a pull-over. So while in town, we were shopping around. Then my dear finally saw few watches that drew her attention.

We were at Wisma Atria City Chain. Altogether we tried about 4 watches. She was considering between the black or white design. I made up the mind for her of choosing the white one. Then I told the sales person to pack it. But I did not want to buy one for myself because it was rather expensive. But when I asked my dear, “Should I buy?” She replied me, “I thought it was supposed to be a couple thing?” With her reply, there was no more second thought for me and I told the sales person to pack the other. But because black suits me more, she decided to take the black one too.

Even with a 10% discount, both the watches cost me $250. With that, it crossed the Chinese New Year budget my parents gave me. Surprisingly I do not really feel that heart pain to spend the money. “Well that is love eh?” :) Maybe because I know I can take back some money during Chinese New Year from the red packets plus my birthday red packets too! I think I should be financially still fine through February.

At the end of the day, it was her happiness and “thank you” that mattered the most. :)

“I love you my dear!“

There were two days for the past two weeks that I spent shopping with Louis for Chinese New Year clothing. First time round we went to Orchard and I only bought a single shirt from Far East Plaza. I could not find much at Orchard. The following week we went to Bugis where I normally get my clothing for the past years. So again I bought the rest of the clothing I needed at Bugis Village and Bugis Junction.

The top left shift was bought from Domanchi in Bugis Junction. It was a nice piece and having 20% discount. Then I bought a Kobe Bryant t-shirt from B.I.R.D. Okay actually that and the next yellow shirt are not really for Chinese New Year. But because I wanted a Kobe Bryant t-shirt and more yellow shirts, so I bought both yellow. Bought a long pant from Messy in Bugis Village and so is another short pants. That pair of white shoes cost me only $29.90! I did buy a pair of white shoes at Tampines 1 not too long ago. Did not know why I spent to buy another pair. But I like this with the brown and since it was not too expensive, I bought it. Oh not forgetting the first ever pair of jeans I bought myself from Uniqlo! I really hate jeans but decided to give it a try since Louis said, “It’s a must to have one pair!” Now then I realised I forgot to take photo of the first shirt I bought from Orchard.

Oh well anyway I spent about $277.90 in total. Are you done with your Chinese New Year shopping? :)

The last time I invited friends over to my place for steamboat was last year to celebrate Louis’s birthday. Yesterday once again, I invited my friends over to celebrate my birthday, two weeks early. My birthday falls on 17th February, which would be the Chinese New Year week. While next Saturday is eve of Chinese New Year, so everyone will be eating their reunion dinner with family. Hence, that is why for the early celebrations. However yesterday steamboat was not just to celebrate my birthday but also Chee Hoong’s birthday – whose birthday is a day after mine.

Earlier in the afternoon, I went to buy the food with Louis, Chee Hoong and Brittany. My mom had already bought some food for us. But I felt it was not enough. So after checking with Louis and Chee Hoong, we decided we needed more. Special thanks to them 3 for following me to buy the food and much of the preparation work. Friends started to arrive later that evening. Got a chance to meet up with my good friend who came despite not knowing many of my other friends. Thanks to my god-sister Amanda for bringing her sister Matilda and cousin Serea over too. And of course thanks to other friends like Edward, Russell and Derrick who joined us too. I believed I mentioned everyone who came!

I did feel quite bad for Chee Hoong because it seemed more like celebrating my birthday rather than co-hosting it with him. He received one present from the group while I received about 4, from individual friends. Nevertheless he mentioned he will be having his own buffet party too on another day. Of course he needs to have another party because this year he will hit the milestone for 21st birthday! Surely he needs a better celebration!

A: Kobe Bryant shirt from Group
B: Tweety Bird from Jiayun
C: Chocolates from Matilda & Serea
D: Photo frame from Derrick’s Mom

And more photos…

Once again, thanks for all who took time off to come and enjoy the celebrations for me!

It was many years ago that Dominos closed operations in Singapore. However after almost a decade, they are back in 2010! Back then, I did not even get a chance to try their pizza. Few days ago while driving home, I spotted their new outlet under renovation just 200 metres away from where I lived. Then it was not long that the shop opened for business! So after playing basketball with my friends; Louis, Edward, Brittany, Amanda and I, we decided to try Dominos! It was also the first time Amanda joined us for dinner after basketball.

Unfortunately it was not 2-for-1 pizza like many pizza brands nowadays. But because of the promotion of the second regular pizza at only $0.10, it was as good as 2-for-1! Hence we did not mind trying. So we ordered 4 9″ pizzas with two of it costing only $0.10 each. Together with a bottle of 1.5l of Coke and two boxes of garlic cheese onion rings, we paid about $55.  We tried both the classic hand tossed and crunchy thin crust, both crusts were good! From the top photo of 4 pizzas:

Top left: Classic Pepperoni – All time favorite with generous portions of beef pepperoni and 100% mozzarella cheese.

Top right: Classified Chicken – Succulent smoked chicken breast, fresh onions and mushrooms.

Bottom left: Hawaiian Paradise – 100% mozzarella cheese with succulent smoked chicken breast, turkey ham and juicy pineapples.

Bottom right: Meatzza – Smoked chicken breast, turkey ham, chicken sausage, cabanossi, beef pepperoni and ground beef.

All of the above 4 were very good! If I am to pick a “must-try”, I would say the Classified Chicken. Because it is not tomato sauce based, I really like the taste of this! Meatzza is really stuffed with a lot of meat while the other two are more common flavors.

Louis and I are already planning to eat again, at least before the promotions are over. You can find their promotion coupons at their official website – www.dominos.com.sg. I expect Dominos to give Pizza Hut a good competition!