{"id":15383,"date":"2011-12-04T17:39:33","date_gmt":"2011-12-04T09:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/?p=15383"},"modified":"2011-12-04T17:46:59","modified_gmt":"2011-12-04T09:46:59","slug":"hannah-nex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2011\/12\/04\/hannah-nex\/","title":{"rendered":"Hannah @ NEX"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Nex Shopping Mall at Upper Serangooon opened last year, and is a short 10 minute drive from our Rivervale home. It\u2019s also become one of our favorite weekend spots. The place has everything: a huge range of kopitiam-styled, small eateries and dining places \u2013 including what is my favorite western restaurant now \u2013 supermarkets, a community library, electronic gadget shops, and a department store.<\/p>\n<p>The two down sides to it is the much-criticized car park layout, and also that the mall is situated along an already very heavily utilized main road. We try to get to the mall on odd non-peak hours, but when that\u2019s not possible, Ling takes the wheel lest I tear my hair out in frustration just trying to navigate road traffic!<\/p>\n<p>A couple of pictures of recent family outings to the mall over the long weekend.=)<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-top: 0px; border: 0pt none;\" title=\"blog-2011-hannah-OLYP4241-library-nex-flickr\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/blog-2011-hannah-OLYP4241-library-nex-flickr_thumb.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-2011-hannah-OLYP4241-library-nex-flickr\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The mall hosts a small community library on the top floor, and the library has a nicely done-up children&#39;s reading corner too.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-top: 0px; border: 0pt none;\" title=\"blog-2011-hannah-OLYP4245-library-nex-flickr\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/blog-2011-hannah-OLYP4245-library-nex-flickr_thumb.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-2011-hannah-OLYP4245-library-nex-flickr\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hannah&#39;s got into the habit of going to the shelves and carting back loads of books, not all of which she wants to read!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-top: 0px; border: 0pt none;\" title=\"blog-2011-hannah-OLYP4256-library-nex-flickr\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/blog-2011-hannah-OLYP4256-library-nex-flickr_thumb.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-2011-hannah-OLYP4256-library-nex-flickr\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">She&#39;s not at the edge yet where she can read independently on her own, but she enjoys turning book pages nonetheless and trying to make sense of the pictures.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-top: 0px; border: 0pt none;\" title=\"blog-2011-hannah-OLYP4194-NEX-Lenas-flickr\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/blog-2011-hannah-OLYP4194-NEX-Lenas-flickr_thumb.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-2011-hannah-OLYP4194-NEX-Lenas-flickr\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">At my favorite western restaurant, Lenas. Hannah gobbles up everything we order - and it&#39;s included a variety of baked rices, hotplates, pastas and pizzas.=)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-top: 0px; border: 0pt none;\" title=\"blog-2011-hannah-OLYP4225-NEX-Fairprice-flickr\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/blog-2011-hannah-OLYP4225-NEX-Fairprice-flickr_thumb.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-2011-hannah-OLYP4225-NEX-Fairprice-flickr\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hannah looking pensive at the Fairprice hypermart on the third level. It&#39;s smaller than the massive store at AMK Hub, but there&#39;s still a large range of produce.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>When we&#8217;ve moved to The Minton, we&#8217;re gonna be heading to the Nex even more often since it&#8217;s just a 3 minute drive away.=)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nex Shopping Mall at Upper Serangooon opened last year, and is a short 10 minute drive from our Rivervale home. It\u2019s also become one of our favorite weekend spots. The place has everything: a huge range of kopitiam-styled, small<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-read-more\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2011\/12\/04\/hannah-nex\/\">Read More<span class=\"cleanwp-sr-only\">  Hannah @ NEX<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[508,514],"class_list":["post-15383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-children-blues","tag-e-pl2","tag-lumix-20mm","wpcat-7-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}