Dinner, Lights, Action

Just went out to have dinner and some weekend fun. I thought 18 October was the best day yet to come when I would be free at last, time left to do admin work, time to plan budgets and write notes, plan stuff. But noooo... I was far wrong, had been arrowed to do this and that, many quite useless..... if you know what i mean..... Not that i mind, I gladly help but i was just wondering how did they get by...... When did they start caring about stuff that they did not know? When did they realise it was important for them to know?

Back to my weekend:
Reliant on the little yellow drowsy formulae pill to get my nose to stop flowing, I took some to get me to sleep the night before. Feeling slightly better this morning, I decided to give my male nurse a treat to Yakun at United. He has been eating the regulars on the Patient's Menu since I got sick and not to mention donning on the chef's hat for the best of the Patient's Menu. The Chef's Specials included Mee Suah, Teochew Moi, Fish Porridge and not to forget handy services like warm water with little yellow pills in hand.
So the little crusty bread with a thin sticky layer of Singapore's Own Pandan-Coconut-Egg (kaya) Spread with square cubes of butter(which i remove rather religiously), but it tastes damn good with! Also the best soft boiled egg hands smoothered with delightful black sauce and a sprinkle or more of white pepper. Yums! (KS can eat four of those at 2 goes with me and Pres watching in amusement/horror(?))

Relied on the little yellow pill to sleep in the afternoon and awoke just about time for dinner.

Orchard
Mil wanted to go to orchard so we went down and parked at Isetan Scotts. $2.10 on weekends after a certain time. Cheap. We went to California Pizza Kitchen For dinner

California Pizza Kitchen
Food:Mainly pizza's and pastas and some damn good lookin desserts. 8/10
Best: Peking Duck Pizza, Flour tortila, Tequila Chicken Pasta.
Delivery: Yes! they deliver, but i have not tried their service
Cost: Can be ex but joining the CPK club seems like a good deal.
Service: not bad
Return factor: definite, considering my male nurse raves about the food there.

then we decided to head down to Sultan mosque area for the Ramadan Light up. Well, apparently, there is some small bazaar near Aaliwal street. It was a small bazaar, some 2nd stuff, jewellery and knick knacks. Not that fantastic yet but it may be a major thing in time to come. They just need some stalls selling food and it would definitely draw in the crowd. The light up was not super glam unlike the christmas one at orchard but its a start. What I enjoyed most was the kompang, or malay drums, which so far i have only heard at Malay Weddings. IT was cool! I love the way the boys whacked the kompang and the rest followed to a really groovy beat and catchy rhythem. Like an impromptu band. And the restaurants there, mostly muslim, arabic themed like Samar and all that, with people smoking shisha.

That place brings back memories. I used to work at 48A Kandahar street, between 2 really good eating places, Bumbu and Sabar Menanti. Sabar Menanti (Wait patiently) is a nasi padang stall with lotsa great spicy curries and dishes to go with rice. Bumbu(ingredient) is a thai, indonesian food place with really fantastic food. A bit ex but some stuff is really out of this world. We used to go there n eat really often. And at the back of Kandahar street likes a corner teh tarik stall. I love the nasi goreng sambal and teh. We always ta pao back to the office for tea break. And My office, which withstood the early Jap Days, was haunted. I experienced it! First hand account. Will talk about that another time.

Saw a key figure, Minister LSS with his family. Characteristic White shirt, even when not at work!?!!! He was enjoying the show of kompang and lights and all that i guess.

We decided to go for dessert at Lavender st Food centre. A place i would recomend for food but please, try not to use the loo. As much as toilet upgrading went, they upgraded it, renovated it but did not maintain it. What's the point? It reminded me of the toilets outside Yuyuan Garden in Shanghai. YuYuan Gardens is a popular touristy area, a recommended place to go for the best XiaoLongbao and sights and all that. But outside one of the exits, my goodness, the public toilet was a nicely tiled longkang (drain) with doors to the height of your waist and everyone can look over and see what you were doing. Yeah, so u just squat by the drain and do your business and watch everyone else business go by underneath you. At least, some toilets in india have proper doors. though the sanitary aspect of it aint too spectular either. I think we should abolish squat toilets in singapore. We hve done a great job so far in upgrading our toilets, but still more can be done. There is always more to be done.

Anyway, back to dessert at Lavender. Chengtng sucks. $1.50 for pathetic stuff. nuf said.