best weekend yet!

...and hopefully more like this to come!

Thursday: After working, I went to Orchard Rd. to do a little more shopping and found some clothing for work. I was debating whether to get a Marc by MJ travel wallet because everything right now is 50% off, but it isn't something I need, so I ended up not getting it. Poor D because he had to wait for about an hour in Zara, but it was so worth it because I got great deals, etc. :D Then we went to Chatterbox, which used to be a rotating restaurant, but it wasn't rotating then. The view of the city was so nice - and while he ordered the Chicken Rice (which really was amazing), I ordered the Lobster Laksa. The restaurant is incredibly overpriced, BUT the scenery was worth it for just a nice dinner. I love looking down at the city - really! It was the 39th floor and lit up at night. So lovely. Afterwards I just met up with a few friends at the mrt station and then we all went home together. Haha.

Friday night...I was at a company cocktail (sipping on some white wine) and talking to the shipyard company at Harbourfront. The office was so nice! I got a little goodie bag and ran off to Esplanade (but I came too late and was turned away even though I had tickets). Then I was totally bummed out and went to Orchard for a little bit, met a friend at Wisma, and we went to East Coast Lagoon (?), which is the nicest hawker center (centre -_-) I've seen so far. It is one of the touristy places to go, so it's also one of the most expensive of the HC's. There also is a manmade lagoon (which is no bigger than our pond at home) where people can 'water ski' being pulled by a cable in circles. Blag! I mean, it seems like fun, but I think the real thing should be much better. Perhaps I will introduce Tubing here since I had so much fun (and embarrassment! :p) the last time at RM's lake house. Then we made plans to go to Sentosa! hooray!

Saturday: woke up super early (630) and got ready to go to SILOSO beach again (at Sentonsa). Swam around a bit, played in the sand a bit, and threw the frisbee around in the water (after waiting for the grocery store to open to buy some fruits, drinks, etc.). It was just nice to relax with a few friends, and I did get a tad sunburned. I have been using Darphin Soothing Gel, and let me tell you. This baby works miracles. I think my sunburn on my face, within 24 hours of developing the sunburn, is practically non-existent. Saturday night I went to Dempsey Rd: Samy's Curry House where I ate delicious Indian food (duh) for PT's farewell dinner. Afterwards I went to go see the latest installment of Batman (The Dark Knight), which was incredibly dark for me. Because I'm not much of a movie person, this one really disturbed me probably due to the psychological factor that I recognized in Joker and the tactics he used. I wish I was still in my Criminal Psych class for this movie! Especially with H. Ledger after this film.

Sunday: Woke up and went to Suntec City to help KF out at this Educational Convention thingy. We were representing Purdue along with four other people, and we would just answer questions from potential applicants. It was cake, but it did drag a little bit. Right before I went into it, I had the best Pho I've had here in Sg. I mean, they say that it is cooked for at least 10 hours with all the right ingredients (but the one at home is, of course, much better) with homemade pho (noodles), but considering that I don't get to eat it very often, I suppose going all the way to Suntec City will become a monthly thing unless I find a better place (like Pho 69, which I have yet to locate along Amoy St. as Fpoo tells me. Sunday night I went out again with PT (as this is the 2nd farewell dinner) at Geylang (big difference from Dempsey :P!) and had beef kway teo and all these other dishes...but the beef kway teo was saturated in msg (my lips....well baby you know). I made some new friends (including Americans!), which is really good. After dinner, K and I went to the fruit stand to buy some mangosteen, durian (bleck), and .....rrruuuuuummmm something. It's sort of like lychee (which apparently is not pronounced 'lee-chee' but 'lie-chee' here) but with a pink, prickly outer coating. I am secretly in love with mangosteen WOW so GOOD! Everyone was trying to get me to try the stinky stinky durian, but I just CANNOT. I was like......are you pressuring me? HAHA Then Y looked back and was like.....um no! So funny.

Oh yes! I met S last night, who I met a Zouk with CN, so it was like my two groups of friends coming into a circle. It was crazy!! Seriously, I was so surprised. I know Sg is little, but I don't have enough friends for that to happen. Even so, ameropat asked me how I like Sg, and I told him that it keeps getting better with the more people I meet. I think this is a fair answer.

Singapore gets better as I meet more people. And I am still sunburned.

Love,
Sans