An old pal in town (Beatrice Tan)

Can you believe it's already mid February of 2015? It's startling how time flies, especially in the recent few years.

I remember when I was approaching my 21st birthday, the adults used to tell me that once we've passed that, time will just go so quickly and before we know it, it's probably 5 years down the road. So here am I typing this while I'm trying to recall what happened for the past years and I can hardly remember anything.

Thank goodness for this journal to safe keep memories of the past. With that said, it's time for another update and here we go again ;)

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An old Korean friend of mine visited Singapore this week for business and it was also the first time we met here in Singapore.

His name is Choi Bom Soon, and I've known him for about 5 years since 2010 back at LG's international blogger forum (my first 'work-trip) which took place in South Korea. He was the PR/events guy handling LG's account and also one of the few who spoke English. I guess that didn't take us all long to become friends ;)

For the past few years, a very fortunate me had the opportunity to visit Korea for work a couple of times – once for Korea Tourism Board and once for a press trip for Belif/VDL. And each time when I'm back there, I'll definitely meet Bom Soon up for a meal at least to have a catch up. It's always then I wish I had learned the language to better communicate with the Korean pals and besides that, it would be really awesome to be able to use that to understand the culture even more. Korea is definitely one of my favourite countries and in fact, a couple of friends and I intend to make visiting Korea a yearly affair and *fingers crossed* I think we might be heading there in April!

With pooties & Bom Soon. I thought it will be really nice if Pooties joins us for dinner as she (together with my another friend, Sharon) will be my Korea travelmates in April. Even if our trip doesn't realize, I suppose it's always a good thing to introduce good pals to each other and it'd be fun if any of us visits each other's hometown!

Was contemplating where to bring Bom Soon for his first leisure meal and as the meet up was pretty last minute, we had to play with options around town and decided on Hai Di Lao. Glad we didn't have to wait long and were seated around 15 minutes later.

Look at how happy pooties was <3

The past few times at Hai Di Lai were always with Pooties. I tried the one in China before and I thought the standard here in Singapore was comparable – except that the HDL in China had a lot more variety of food.

We never fail to order the fried 'nian gao' whenever we visit Hai Di Lao. Thanks Pooties for the recommendation and it has now become our must-have ;)