End of Long Weekend

Finally a chance to update the blog. This week seems to pass fast, and this is the first night this week that I am able to relax a little at home after work. I was waiting for the rain to stop on Monday evening, and ended up staying back in the office to do some work. Was out with Pete on Tuesday night, and Sally, last night. I feel like a zombie today ha ha.

The last day of the long weekend last week was spent at a dog cafe, as well as the museum (again! ha ha ha!) We met up with my colleague, Jinglin aka Jingle Bell aka one of the sian-ers, together with her sisters, brother-in-law, and not forgetting.......Summer, their golden retriever for lunch at Pawtobello Cafe. It is the first time at a dog cafe for Pete and myself, and we enjoyed the experience :) It was nice having your meal with dogs running around, sniffing and rubbing against your legs at the same time.

Summer was a little excited at first, pouncing on almost everyone, and getting very friendly with the other dogs. In the end, she had to be hooked to the canine hitch, and had to stay under the table, while watching the other dogs roam around. Poor Summer *pat pat* But she sure gobbled down fast the crepe that was ordered for her, leaving no crumbs or remnants for the other dogs that came by the table.

Summer says hi



Pete and the Schnauzer which enjoyed being stroked by him

Human food :) Pete's Fish & Chips



My order of Rosemary Chicken



Smile, Summer, smile :)



A pair of beautiful collies

After lunch, Pete and I decided to visit the Asian Civilisation Museum. We walked quite a bit before reaching our destination. I thought it was a little too historic for me...

A picture taken at the Chinese culture area in the Museum

We had dinner at Genki Sushi at Marina Square, before heading back to face the new week the following day.

Next long weekend is in May... :D

Long Weekend...Aahhh....

I love long weekends, don't we all! This long weekend has been made longer by Pete and I taking leave on Thursday, a day before Good Friday. We ran errands, as well as enjoyed ourselves. The day started with breakfast at Macdonald's. I have been craving for sausage macmuffin for the longest time. Finally sunk my teeth into it on Thursday morning *chomp chomp* :D Pete has decided to become a student and go back to school again, so on Thursday, we made a trip down to NTU to get his certificate stamped and certified, as well as to request for his past transcripts. Felt a little weird to be walking amongst the young ones in the campus hahaha!

We headed down to Suntec City after NTU, and I did a little shopping. I won't really call it shopping though. Bought 2 tops (same top, different colours). I prefer to call it "replenishing basic utility tops". These are tops that are useful and easy to match with the stuff in one's wardrobe ;) On the other hand, shopping is when one purchases items that are a little different, like a new bag, new shoes, a new dress...Wahaha!

Bearing in mind my broken stomach, I had sweet potato soup for lunch, while Pete had a nice lunch of omelette fried rice with cabbage and sausages at the food court. Our next destination was K-Box, the reason why we decided to take leave in the first place: To sing to our hearts' content. And we did just that, spending about 4 hours singing and acting silly (Pete acting silly :P) I remembered the last leave we took was also spent singing. I think this will be a tradition we will try to uphold hahaha! Actually, it's quite an effective way of relieving stress. Dinner for me was soup with carrots, sweet corn and pork ribs. This was my third bowl of soup this week after my major explosion at Hard Rock Cafe last week. I must say, with all the light meals since the explosion, my tummy is so much flatter and I do not feel so bloated. I.....like it! :D

What's great about this weekend is that after Thursday, it's only Friday the next day. I can sleep in on Friday, and what's even greater was waking up to think: it feels like a Sunday, but it's not. It's not even Saturday! Being Good Friday, I attended mass with Pete and his parents. It's quite a wonder that I did not fall asleep at all heee... We went for an evening swim after that, and managed to cover 20 laps. Worked up some appetite, but settled on fish soup and sweet and sour fish with rice at the foodcourt in WestMall instead.

Today (Saturday) was a pure chill-out-at-home day, but...not till we had sausage macmuffin again! I was still craving for it, and Pete and I made a rush for it just on the dot of 11am! Pete brought along his old laptop, for he has decided to donate it to me. Yay! We spent the afternoon watching 2 episodes of the recorded Channel 8 9pm show, as well as surfing around on my new donated laptop. Managed to file our income tax returns, as well as book the tickets to watch Broadway Beng 3. Oh ya, we killed 2 cockroaches as well :S

Pete is out with his friends this evening, as I'm typing away on my new lappie :) Managed to catch up on some reading just now as well. To me, this has been quite a good long weekend. It's Sunday tomorrow, and I'm looking forward to meeting Summer, my colleague's dog tomorrow for lunch at Pawtobello Cafe. It will be my first time to a dog cafe, and I hope my stomach will behave herself. Well, am saving that for the next entry. So till then...ciao!

His Broken Back, Now My Broken Stomach

Last weekend was quite a nice one, if not for my stomach...again. Met up with Cindy and Gen for dinner at Hard Rock Cafe on Friday night. It was my first time there, and I was looking forward to soaking in the atmosphere with the live band. Alas, we did not get to experience the live band, as they did not start till later in the night. Even if they had started earlier, I doubt I would be able to appreciate it with my broken stomach.

As I was warned by my colleague that the food portions were rather large, we decided to order 2 dishes to share amongst ourselves. We ordered a Jumbo Combo made up of various sides like buffalo wings, spring rolls, huge onion rings and some other potato and fried sides, accompanied by 4 different dips. We also ordered a crabcake dish. Needless to say, it tasted crabby, a little too crabby for my liking actually! We each ordered a Cecil iced tea, which tasted good!

We chatted over dinner, and in less than an hour, my stomach started to act up. Went to the toilet twice and exploded big time in there. By the time I was done, I just wanted to go home, and that ended our night out.

Jumbo Combo

Crabcakes - Crabby taste, maybe a tad too crabby for my broken stomach's liking

Stomach was feeling better on Saturday morning (and flatter too!), and I met Pete for a breakfast of toasted bread at a coffeeshop in West Coast. We proceeded to purchase 3 more CD players from Sheng Shiong for my office before heading back to my place. We went for lunch with my mum and brother at the delicious chicken rice stall at Queenstown before dropping off the CD players at my office. The rest of the afternoon was spent lazing in front of the tv, with Pete nodding off while I watched an episode or so of the recorded channel 8 9pm show. I think the show is hilarious ha ha!

As my stomach still feels unstable (from my imagination or what, I don't really know anymore), we decided to hang out in my "safe haven" - Vivocity. Recently, am in the mood for some local Chinese songs ( 新谣 ). Went to the 2 CD shops in Vivo to look for them, but not much results. Had a light dinner of yong tau foo beehoon soup, but despite its lightness (did not finish it even!), I experienced some indigestion after the dinner :(

We caught "Horton" on Sunday, and we thought it was rather good and funny! It's a good movie to catch on a lazy Sunday afternoon :)

Horton - Worth a catch

Lunch on Sunday was teriyaki chicken rice bowl from Yoshinoya (a safe option for my broken stomach), and dinner was at the Club with my mum, brother and Pete. Took the safer option of wanton noodles for dinner. Nevertheless, I continued experiencing the indigestion feeling after both meals. I think my stomach lining must have came out with all the puke on Friday night or something. The indigestion feeling continued after my meals on Monday, but now it's better. Am really cautious with what I eat now, and am eating lesser as well. My phobia of developing stomachaches has also increased, so much so that it's causing more stomachaches. All I can say is SOB! SOB! *wails*

Pete is starting to put me on a stringent diet of abundant fruits and light, soupy stuff. I guess such is my life...even milkshakes, ice-cream, cakes and other sweet treats do not entice me anymore. Oh well...

Letter to HDB

14 March 2008

Housing and Development Board

To whom this may concern:

RE: Please Do Not Make Us Wait So Long Laaaaa

I am writing in to beg you to allocate us a good queue number for our next ballot for the flats. I know there are many couples out there like us who have waited even longer for a new pigeon hole. Maybe I can give you a reason why you should consider giving us a good chance the next time round. Actually, the reason is very simple, I really do not want to be housemates with the pigeons living in my roof currently, and would very much prefer my own pigeon hole instead.

For some time now, pigeons seem to find my current home an attractive place to hang out, so much so that some have decided to marry, and start a family in my roof, right above my bedroom. It is bad enough that I have to put up with their rough landings, tap dancing, koo-koo-koo-ing, and babies chirping, recently, I suspect one of them has died and decomposed right up there in my roof! The stench of decomposition for the last week was pretty strong that I had to sleep in the living room or brother's room (once again!). And oh, I even resorted to wearing a face mask as I moved around my room last week. Hilarious, huh? Not really, you know, Officer, if you think of the germs that the decomposed bird may have.

I think it would be some time before the roof/bird/pest people came to give our roof a good clearing-up, as I think I am living in a stat board. Several quotations have to be gathered before the pay master will agree to get some action going. Being in a stat board yourself, I am sure, Officer, that you would understand this. I am just hoping that it would take a little faster over on your side, as mine is the mother of all stat boards.

I have a roach problem too, but I do not want to go into that. To sum it all up, I am living in a roach-infested room, with a family of birds in my roof. I am hoping that with this, HDB can consider granting me a good queue number in the next ballot.

Please laaa, Officer...

Thank you, and I hope to hear good news from you soon.

Yours Faithfully,

Ah Mi (Ms)

Weekend, lao lang style

Another week(end) has passed, and it's back to work once again. Allow me to fulfil my responsibility to show off what we did during this weekend hor. not very good to keep asking ah mi to write abt weekends :P

Let me see... weekends are supposed to start on Friday nights, right? We went to our usual hideout, the bestest, fantasticest and wonderfulest mall in Singapore, Vivocity, for dinner. Before dinner, we went to the newly opened Love & Co to have a look at the wedding band collection there. As it is a specialty shop selling mostly wedding bands, the variety available there was quite wide. we were very sua ku cos it's the first time that we had gone to look at wedding bands. *blush* anyway, the girl serving us was very helpful and patient to us and we managed to shortlist 3 pairs of bands. 1 white + rose gold combination, 1 white gold design and 1 platinum + rose gold design. platinum rings are more expensive than the rest though. ( i think cos platinum weapons are +3 in AD&D bah :P) for me, it was an interesting experience, cos i had never tried on rings before and i was kinda not used to having a ring on my finger.. they are used to being naked le... wahahahaha!

I went for my (very early) morning swim on Saturday, and there was already a crowd there le!!! i din noe that normal human beings wake up so early on sat mornings.. so as i was doing my laps, i had to siam left and right thru the human traffic in the pool, and occasionally tread water in the middle of the pool cos some buggers want to swim across.. it was like a good analogy of the overcrowding situation in Singapore. Mental note: go earlier next time!

Went to ah mi's place after that to smell the weird smell in her room. the stench was quite strong and smells abit like decomposition. sigh.. she very poor thing.. has to live with not only puchis (roaches) and pigeons tap dancing on her ceiling, but rotting dead birds too.. (that's my guess lah) anyway, i dun think it's very healthy for her to sleep in her room while a bird carries on to decompose in her roof, so she will need to sleep elsewhere again.. sigh.. had lunch at west coast market, and picked up 3 sets of cd player to lug to ah mi's office. talk about working on a sat, huh? So anyway, we lugged the players over to her office and went back to her place to get ready to go out. ah mi specially prepared a mini pillow for my back for movies as we are going to catch "The Leap Years" that evening, i felt even more like a lao lang.. but the pillow really helps lah..

We caught the movie at Cathay Cineleisure, and it was really a very 小混混 place with many many many youngsters there. I actually bumped into someone i know there, so i guess that makes me a 小混混 too huh? the movie was actually better than i expected. I thought Wong Liling was quite convincing as a woman who waited to meet a guy every 4 years, and you can see her maturing throughout the years. The guy actor (Orlando Bloom wannabe), was a bit lacking in that aspect. he looks the same throughout the 12 years, with the same hippy long hair. one interesting thing about this movie is that the entire movie is based on only 5 days of her life. and with only 5 days, Catherine Lim manages to map out an entire love story. very impressive...

however, the deepest impression that i had with the movie is the groom who was deserted at the altar (or rather chinese wedding dinner). why is it so that usually it's the guys who get left behind, because the gals had a sudden waking up of her idea on who is her one true love at the end. i admit that it's a very romantic notion, but pls spare a thought for the other guy also loh. y in the first place do u get married when you are unsure?! i kinda sympathise with that poor dumb guy left standing there dumbly saying "Go now.... before i change my mind." it's all good and noble, but do u think he has any say in the matter?

*imagined dialogue*

Raymond: Go now.... before i change my mind.

*Lee-Ann spends 5 seconds crying away*

Raymond: Ok, I changed my mind! You have to marry me!

Lee-Ann: Oh Raymond, my dear....

Raymond: (hopefully)Yes, Lee-Ann?

Lee-Ann: Do you really think I give a damn about what you think?

Raymond:......

*end imagined dialogue*

anyway, it was quite a good movie in my opinion as a guy.. (damn, i'm becoming a softie...)
Dinner after that was at a korean/japanese outlet at the basement of cathay cineleisure. they had quite nice tak kal bee wannabe dishes there, and not too pricey too. however, the thing is, halfway thru our dinner, i suddenly realised that we were the oldest customers there.. I'm sure that the other people there is less than 23 years old loh.. we are 2 lao langs at a 小混混 place... sigh...

Sunday was a very relaxing day, where we went to the National Singapore Museum (what do u expect, we are lao langs) and we saw a huge..... statue of Michelangelo's David (nude!) inside.. i haven't been to the museum for quite some time and it is very different already, with lots of empty spaces (wasted space, can build flats here u noe?) and new galleries.. the thing is, we gone in and were out in less than an hour, and after we came out, we realised that we did not visit the Greek exhibits (weee!!! more nude statues!).. but at that time, it was too late to go in again.. so that was it for our historical trip..

We had dinner at the Marche style japanese restaurant at the basement of Raffles city.. there was no long queue that day, so mai tu liao! there was quite a lot of different japanese food to choose from, but i kinda realised that most of them have eggs or unagi in them.. so i can safely declare that japanese cuisine is based on eggs and unagi! hahahaha.. we had ramen, fried rice and a japanese omelette.. how to put this, we are not very adventurous lah.. hahaha..

and with this, we end our weekend.. it may seem like a boring way to spend the weekend (go to the museum?!? are u kidding?!?) but for lao langs like us, it is more than enough.. between my broken back and her broken stomach, i think we make a perfect pair... ;P
Pete out.

P.S: ah mi will proofread this entry for grammatical and spelling mistakes, so this will not be the final draft.

P.P.S: however, my ang mor is not that bad, so maybe there won't be too much changes.

P.P.P.S: then again she is very very strict one, so.... sigh.... :P

P.P.P.P.S: proof-reading for the glaring mistakes are completed, only 14 changes are made. :D