2 Against 1... Again!!

Once again, we had a family lunch. That's the beauty of having a closely-knit extended family. There's always something to meet up and celebrate about. This time, it was to celebrate my niece, Lil N's 7th birthday. For the longest time, family lunches were usually dim sum. Somehow, that has recently changed to Italian cuisine. Just 2 weeks ago, we had an Italian lunch at The Turquoise Room at Gilman Village. Today, we went Italian again, but at Pepperoni at Greenwood Ave. Among the twenty or so of us, we had five, 21-inch pizzas and some pasta! All yummy!


In the evening, at YJ's suggestion, him, Shades of Pink and I decided to head to Pasir Ris for a drink. Mid Summer Nite Breeze was a quaint, non-poser place to chill out by the sea. Great ambience and pretty decent food. It was Tomato based Seafood Spaghetti with Sausages for YJ, while Shades of Pink and I shared an extra spicy Tom Yam Spaghetti. Not forgetting the Chilean wine YJ ordered. We were, afterall, there for a drink, right? :)




Since the food was so good and we were so greedy, we decided to order more food. Finger food. We had the option of calamari, spring rolls, squid balls, samosas, french fries etc. Wanna make a guess what we eventually had?

Spring balls. At least that's what YJ told the guy who took our orders. Check out the delicious spring balls we had...

It's actually a serving of spring rolls and squid balls la. SPRING BALLS? What was he thinking??

After some really good food and wine, we took a little walk to the breakwater and engaged in a rather interesting conversation on relationships. Learnt some things about Shades of Pink and some of YJ's thoughts that I never knew before. Fun. We should have more of such sharing sessions ya? ;p

Then somehow, the topic got steered back to the continuation of Purples' story at a coffee session just two days ago. And, like two days ago, it became a 2 against 1 conversation. Again. YJ had replaced BFC. Needless to say, the fun was gone.

Tsk.

But I had a great time nonetheless.

My english question for the day... ...

"She _________ got my number and called me."

1) sluttishly

2) slutlessly

3) sluttily

Now, which is it?

They Ganged Up Against Me!

Once again, I met up my other 2 witch counterparts for our usual catch up session over coffee. Only this time round, they ganged up against me for something I had done.

To start off the update session, BFC told us about her dream of being served a bowl of piping hot soup by a certain someone, only to realise upon drinking it that there was a pair of dirty socks in them! Then she ended it looking really deep in thought and saying, "There must be a meaning to it you know, but I just dunno what." That statement, coupled with her 'deep-in-thought' expression got us laughing. Funny as the dream was, what really bothered her was the fact that this person would occasionally appear in her dreams. You know what BFC? I get these dreams too with people who shouldn't be appearing in them appearing. But I guess they will fade with time. Dreams are funny things really. Despite being just that - dreams - they make you wonder and re-think about life's certain episodes. Shades of Pink says that things WILL get better. Hor, Shades of Pink? ;p

BFC: "Shades of Pink, did you know that Purples did such-and-such today?"

Shades of Pink: "Ya. I know la. So Purples, why ah? And what happened?"

Purples: "Oh. Like this lor. And like that lor. Because like this and like that la."

And that's when they ganged against me. And as the expression goes, I got it left, right, centre.

BFC: "Can you believe her?"

Shades of Pink: "I think there's something really wrong with her brains you know."

BFC: "Ya! I bet she went, 'I neh neh neh neh neh, so neh neh neh neh....' SHEESH!"

Shades of Pink: *bursts into laughter* "BFC! You are so funny!"

YJ: *wants to laugh but tries to stifle it*

It's not funny hor. And YJ, luckily you had the sense to stifle your laughter. Still can laugh with the 2 witches! Want to die is it?

Anyway, all said and done, the session was a great one. I simply love you both to death. What would I do without you two?

As with most of our sessions, Shades of Pink whips out Kelly (her cam) and we pose for a picture. And as with all vain pots, witches or not, we had to do a check in the glass window to make sure we looked ok for the picture. Funny how we did this unanimously. Just look....

Make A Guess...

From where, this dress?

If you've read my previous posts and think,
You'll arrive at the answer in a blink.

The purpose of my visit to the area was really just dinner,
But somehow, of the lure of this shop, I was much keener.

Dinner would take a while to arrive, I knew
So to this boutique I went to see if they had anything new.

They did, and quite a fair bit I must say,
Thank goodness it's tomorrow that I get my pay.

Did You Guys Really Think I'd Say That?

I'm sure you've experienced one of those instances when people mistake things you say for something else and vice versa. Well, I had one of those days this week. It was hilarious.

One of the many things planning for a trip with friends entails is sorting out the rooming arrangements. So while Digital Curls, Ms Troublesome and I were planning for our trip in December, we were discussing how the rooming was to be since Digital Curls' hubby and RT might also be joining us. Here's the bit of the conversation that went awry.

Me: The 2 guys can share a room and the 3 of us (Digital Curls, Ms Troublesome and I) can triple share a room.

Then I thought about it and decided that it wasn't nice to separate a pair of newlyweds.

Me: Or Digital Curls and hubby take one room, Ms Troublesome, RT and I can triple share. Alternatively, we could book a suite la, if the…

Before I could even finish my sentence, I had 3 pairs of bulging eyes staring at me. Accompanied by 3 faces with horrendously shocked expressions.

Ms Troublesome: Huh? You want to switch with who? Can switch with Digital Curls meh??

Me: Switch what?

Cooking Girl: You said Digital Curls and hubby take one room, Ms Troublesome, RT and you triple share. Then can do a switch!

Me: No la! I said 'Book a suite' la!

Cooking Girl, Digital Curls, Ms Troublesome: You said ‘switch’!

Me: ???

Really meh? Is my diction really so bad?

The Shoe & Shoo Elves

Why do my shoes always do this to me? Hmmm.

Today, it wasn't one heel, but both heels that were making embarrassing nail clicking noises. I decided to wear them to work anyway and get them fixed somewhere within the vicinity of my office.

I checked with YJ and he mentioned that there was a cobbler opposite both our offices that opens at about 9ish or 10ish. So while my coffee and lime juice buddies went to get their morning doses of caffeine and citric acid, I tried my luck at the cobbler across my office.

On the way there, YJ messaged me, saying, "the shoe elf is setting up...". I personally thought that was quite funny. Shoe elf?? It's been so long since I read "The Elves and the Shoemaker", I can't even remember the story! That's how old I am......

So, there I was at the shoe elf getting the heels of my shoes fixed.

Seconds later, my phone rings and a laughing YJ goes, "Why are you dangling your feet in the air like that?" What did he expect me to do la? I didn't have an extra pair of shoes with me. And if I didn't make some effort to lift them in the air, they'd be on the ground la! Dirty you know?

At this point, the nice shoe elf offered me a pair of 'ah pek' slippers to slip into while he fixed my shoes.

My phone rings again, and a still-laughing YJ goes, "Now what did you just slip you feet into?"

Tsk. Weren't you supposed to be working???

I'm thankful for these shoe elves who are available within the CBD area, surprisingly. Thankful that I can get my shoes mended at a fraction of what it would cost at some places where it's probably more worth it to buy a brand new pair than to get an existing pair fixed!

For the Shoo Elf, aka Shades of Pink, I'm thankful for all the times she's listened to me repeatedly about the same issue. And not shoo me away. She will manage though, at that moment in time to shoo the issue away. Thanks for keeping me in your prayers. I do believe things WILL get better. But when huh? ;p

Childhood Biscuits.

Sometime last week, Oyster, Cooking Girl, Digital Curls, Ms Troublesome and I trooped down to Whampoa for a visit to Jolie Femme. Yes, to Cooking Girl and moi, I know some of you would like to say, "Whampoa?? Again??" Well, the garments we came back with on our first trip there inspired many others to want to make a trip down. I know at least 2 others who have mentioned that they have made a trip there after reading my post on it.

Only somehow, we didn't manage to find anything that really interested us. Ms Troublesome commented that we (Cooking Girl and I) must have bought up all the nice pieces the last time we were there. Heh.

But it wasn't a wasted trip though. On our way back, we passed one of those ancient provision stores selling those really hard-to-find-nowadays biscuits. Not that surprising actually, given that Whampoa is a pretty mature estate. Anyway, the biscuits were those that come in huge tins and are sold by the kati. Know what I'm talking about or not? Or as RT calls them, the suaku biscuits. Haha. I didn't get a shot of the tins they come in, but here's what they look like after you've made your selection of buscuits.

Very unglam right? But the contents are very yummy, mind you. And really, you can find all sorts of biscuits you can think of from your childhood days. Like those belly button biscuits with coloured icing on top or the cookies laden with pineapple jam that's so sticky-you'd-get-a-tooth-decay (these are in the pic). Ms Troublesome even managed to convince the aunty at the shop to mix $2 worth of different buscuits together cos she couldn't decide which ones she wanted. Champion hor? That explains the nick I've given her.

Anyway, Cooking Girl has reminded us to look out for this week's HDB Tai Tai, as they will be featuring another Jolie Femme type of store.

Hmmm. Guess who'll be skipping lunch this week? ;p

You would think that all this lunch-forsaking for the sake of shopping would result in some weight loss right? You're wrong, you know. See how the trip to Whampoa in a bid to buy clothes resulted in the eventual buying of so much junk food? Our office cubicles look well stocked up for war.

Digital Curls, can you quickly go find out about that fruit juice detox thingy?

Post Edit: Thanks to RT, I've now got pictures of the tins that these biscuits come in. Take a look! Don't know why, but these were in RT's office pantry! Since when do office pantries stock up on such things???

Of Mice and Moose

Met up with RT for dinner today as the guy's just gotten back from his 10 day long business trip to Colorado and Taiwan.

Dinner was at Zen at East Coast. I decided on a Crab Meat Mee Sua and he, a Red Curry Chicken Laksa. Along with that, we shared a portion of soft shell crab and a serving of tom yam soup. I didn't exactly find my dinner that fantastic, so we popped next door for some strawberry milkshake and chocolate sundae.

Here are some little gifts which he'd brought back for me from his trip. There was a keychain from Coach, a top from Levi's and a cap and t-shirt set he'd gotten from his trip to the Rocky Mountains. Thanks! Good taste for a guy, I must say. The keychain's a perfect blazing fire-engine red, the cap and t-shirt are in one of my favourite colors pink, and the top is certainly something I would pick out myself. Only thing is, RT must have thought that I'd signed up for a crash slimming course or something during the 10 days. The top from Levi's was a size 'S'. How to fit ah?



Anyways, check out the animal on the cap and tee. Familiar? Well, it's an elk and it's used on Abercrombie clothes! Ms Mountain Tortoise here just found that out from RT. But hey, it could very well have been a deer, gazelle, antelope or moose right? The elk isn't really that common an animal to most (i think).

Speaking of moose, anybody knows the plural of moose? Make a guess. Is it mooses, meese or moose? Someone once said that the answer is mice. *fainted*

Even if I weren't sure what it was, I'd know for sure it's not mice lor. Sheesh.