well well well. another seat-gripping account of the numerous exciting things that happened this week.

hit the gym on sunday before dinner. had a fantastic italian, i should say 'meal' but really, the amount of food i consumed sufficiently constituted 3 full meals.

monday went with melho to get ingredients to make her lamb kebabs, and surprise surprise bumped into siqian at bukit timah plaza. shows how small singapore is. after the rebound, we hit the aisles at ntuc and decided to bake brownies for her bbq too. after the flurry of domestic activity, mel and sq left for home and i headed out for dinner with the cousins at holland v. dessert at cold rock was sorely disappointing. all of us heard recommendations from friends to check the place out (no worries, benedict!) but i think the hype purely stemmed from the gimmick of teppanyaki ice cream. the ice cream they used tasted like the cheapo $1 for a 1L tub type of ntuc ice cream, and the toppings (1 type for $1) was too damn expensive and too damn small a portion! grr. this is a sweet-toothed dessert-fanatic speaking here! honestly! $1 for a meagre teaspoonful of nutella mixed on a (potentially) unhygienic slab with an over-priced cupful of (what was) cheap ice cream can get on your nerves.

but the company was good, and the holland v atmosphere was soothing on a weekday late night. think it's one of the best places to go to at such a time. no cars, no crowd. it's getting hard to find such places in our beloved furiously-"upgrading" singapore.

tuesday (ie. today, for those slow on the uptake) woke up at 6pm! i amaze myself at times, and apparently others as well. my mom nearly went into shock when she arrived home from work only to find out i woke up only a half-hour ago. and gloria and yiting had to ask several times ("a.m. or p.m.??" "wait, 6p.m.?!" "what time?!) before they could fully grasp the situation. and the funniest thing was that i was pretty sure when i got out of bed that the clock said 4pm. so i went downstairs, thinking that that's not too bad, still have a few hours of daylight to muck around before having to go over to glo's house. so i was reading the papers, and then mom came home. and still i (unwittingly) thought, wow she's back early from work today. imagine the trauma i experienced when the next time i walked into the kitchen i saw that the time was 6.45pm! i felt like rip van winkle. (did i get that right? it's an uncommon name.) anyways, went to ridley. had a BEEEG dinner trailed closely after by azabu sabo ice cream (NO green tea!) and or-ni. then played monopoly deal with glo yt yiling and jiawei, which was a hoot. (no it wasn't a nocturnal bird, although some of our cards were flying through the air at times, pillows even)

then a rather unhappy event happened, which is an Unmentionable, and cannot hitherto be written down here. but anyway because of that i was stoning quite a bit midway through monopoly deal.

and that's that. now it's time to squeeze in a few hours worth of harry potter before i catch it at the GV GOLD CLASS theatre (muahahahha) on thurs (muahahahhaa). i hope there's a free flow of champagne, or at least seats with inbuilt massage capabilities. maybe a bed? we'll see. it'd be dumb if i fell asleep during the movie though.

till then.