Tuesday, October 24, 2006
selamat hari raya!
okay random choice of title.
anyway today was a pretty good day since lots of nice things happened. haha. mostly family stuff. went to eat at some dimsum restaurant in chinatown.. which was really really nice. the food and the atmosphere and everything. that's not to say it was quiet or had nice lighting or anything.. it was just very.. chinese in character i guess. bright, noisy, with servers running around pushing trays and random orders being shouted (sporadically) across the room. not to say it was like a coffee shop or anything, but it was really quite nice. well and the food was quite good too so yep ^^".
after that went to some small little dessert place further down the street. seems like chinatown (or at least the part that we went to anyway) has a character of its own, not like the rest of singapore.. maybe it's just a different side to singapore, away from all the towering skyscrapers and clean air-conditioned places. narrow lanes right next to the road, little shops selling interesting little trinkets and a surprisingly large number of tailors. it wasn't really a commercialised, fake chinatown we went to (or at least it seemed to me), although i suppose being a third-generation singaporean i have no idea what a "real" chinatown should look like.
thne went to borders! i've been wanting to go to borders for a long time but just didn't have the money to.. so it's nice when your parents bring you there and let you buy stuff using their money :P bought 3 books. seems like my taste in books have changed somewhat.. away from the entertaining but ultimately rather shallow fantasy and sci-fi to the more personal, human-relationship and real-world kind of stuff. i hope i'll be able to make them last.. i don't want to end up back there buying more books anytime soon. hurr.
finally went to island creamery! well it was supposed to be some coffee joint (which i might have enjoyed more? well not really) but it seems that the place closed down so we ended up there instead. haha. until today i still can't imagine my parents in a place like island creamery. well. had a slice of mudpie which was really really sweet. and of course my parents just had tea and coffee ><" sis had brownie. so we didn't actually try any of the interesting ice-creams there huh. then sent sis back to her hostel (which really looks like a condo in need of a paint job) and then came back.
okay that's like. summary of the day. tmr's mr toh's concert. haha. i wonder how it'll turn out to be like. for those not in the know, he's on life! again today. and so are jz and zf! haha. go and read. too bad they didn't get interviewed or anything.
stained with coffee at 6:45 PM
