WeTheSlogs

It is well known that Sin Heng Kee undoubtedly serves up one of the most ingredient-filled delicious porridge in Singapore. In fact, if one were to google best porridge in Singapore, Sin Heng Kee would undoubtedly pop up on the list. Papa Slog is no porridge fan but after his first bowl, he has become quite the convert. We buy from the Hougang stall very frequently now and there is almost always a queue. If one wants to eat there, that can be an even bigger challenge because there are a limited number of tables and a hot piping bowl of porridge isn’t a meal that can be quickly consumed. Further, most of the patrons are elderly folks which will not be hurried to move along This is the interior of the shop. After one joins the queue to order (and the staff will usually ask if one wants to take away or eat in while one is queuing), one will then be given a number. Mama Slog usually crosses the road to do some grocery shopping if the queue number is about 20+ numbers away from the one show...

 When even a fish supplier tells you that the best fish soup they have ever tasted is First Street Teochew Fish Soup, you know you are on to something good. Mama Slog’s own mother, Grandma Slog introduced this stall along Upper Serangoon Road to her more than a decade ago. Despite the challenge of finding parking given the very limited number of parallel parking lots along the side of the road, this fish soup store is one that the Mama Slog frequented almost weekly three years ago. Then, the prices were more reasonable and the stall was helmed by the old man himself with his younger son serving early in the morning. Now, the business has been sold/franchised and the food tastes somehow different. Even the outlook of the store (as well as the chefs) has changed - where it used to occupy just one stall, it has now expanded to take up two stalls.  In any case, a large bowl of batang soup with a bowl of rice costs close to $10. There is a decent amount of fish slices in the bowl a...

Over the weekend, Mama Slog and the Minion Slogs had some errands to run in town and ended up having lunch at Sanpoutei Ramen restaurant at Shaw House. It was a restaurant that Papa Slog and Mama Slog used to frequent without the Minion Slogs but it had been quite some time since we last ate there, mostly because of the queue. When we reached at 11.20am on Saturday, the queue looked like this The two young guys behind me stood in line for all of two mins before saying they would rather leave for Sushiro. Even the Minion Slogs said they would rather eat elsewhere. Ah, the youth really do not have much patience. If they had waited, they would have seen that the store would open in 10mins and without anyone in there yet, this queue would move along quickly.  And so it did and we found ourselves seated in a matter of minutes in the rather spacious interior. There was even a window which allowed customers to have a peek at the noodle making process.  And from their very extensive m...

I ordered “About Science Home Practice Primary 3/4” by Manisha Nayak because it appeared on my Amazon feed when I was searching for science assessment books i.e it had not been a book recommended to me.  Nonetheless, it proved to be one of the books that the Minion Slogs both managed to finished this year because it was one of the more engaging ones.   For example, it has crossword puzzles for every chapter. And for parents who like tearing out pages of assessment books, this book has pages which are very easily torn out (dotted line on the left hand side). This makes it easy for the child to do one particular chapter for science as opposed to folding pages in a book .    As you can see from a snapshot of the picture below, the questions are well presented to a child and also easy to understand. The Minions actually enjoy doing the book because it is one of the easiest and shortest (for each chapter) ones that they have. Mama Slog’s view: Doing this book alone would ...

 What on earth is a slog, one might wonder, given that slog is a verb rather than a noun. In fact, if one were to google, the definition of slog is to work hard over a long period of time. Perhaps then it now becomes clear that we, the self-named “slogs” are those who toil.  To be precise, we, The Slogs in this blog are an immediate family of four with the parents entrenched in the grind of hustling for the family (Papa Slog, Mama Slog) and two mini Slogs (Slog 1 and Slog 2) being school-going children.  As it is said that a picture speaks a thousand words, I present you with, for the purposes of self introduction, a picture drawn of The Slogs by Slog 2. This picture was drawn several weeks ago before this blog was started so it might not be wrong to say that it can be said to be a rather accurate albeit unflattering one of The Slogs (especially of Mama Slog) This blog is written by Mama Slog (aka Helicopter Slog) with the occasional input from the mini Slogs (aka Minion ...