Weekend (20 - 22 January 2006)

Friday (20 January 2006)

met Kerry for dinner... was at Pearl Centre first to check out the prices of the new Motorola L7... lowest quote was $440 with a 256MB flash card... decided not to buy cos not urgent...

we went to this "ulu" place in Chinatown called Relations... it's opposite Maxwell Market... no wonder no business... hahahaha...

they served very nice fried potatoes... as well as chicken drumlets... i had the spaghetti while Kerry had the rice in egg... i enjoyed the food very much... and the very Balinese setting...

before we left, Kerry met his old-time Army mate, Cyril Wong, the poet!!!!!

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after dinner, we met Kal to shop at Chinatown... the place was packed with people... we could hardly move in the small lane... i was perspiring like crazy the whole time... but it was a nice feeling to know that Chinese New Year is around the corner... the atmosphere was great... there was also a laser display near to Chinatown Point...

Kal and i were the biggest spender for the night... we kept telling Kerry to stock up on his CNY goodies and decorations... hahahaha... maybe we can drop by after our "countdown" at Happy on CNY eve to get the cheap lelong stuff... by then all the stall owners would be frantically trying to sell all the goods away... since most of the goodies are perishable... food for thought...

Saturday (21 January 2006)

did a presentation to the office staff this morning... so tired after that... but still went to Liang Court to buy an Acer notebook... supposedly on offer (for Straits Times subscribers)... spent close to $2,700 for the notebook... basically it had what i was looking for: 1G DDR RAM, 100G HDD, DVD-RW, 15.4" screen, etc... some free gifts: a 40G portable HDD, a Brother printer-cum-scanner-photocopier that can read 5 different types of memory cards, 2006 McAfee anti-virus software and some insurance coverage for 6 months... hahahaha... i also extended the warranty for another 2 years at $250...

reached home and started to play with my new toy... so much so that i was late for Kerry's housewarming... we had too much food AGAIN... hahahaha... quite normal for potlucks...

we were busy playing Uno from 10pm to around 1am... took a cab home and was so dead tired by then... gotta leave my toy alone and headed straight to bed...

Sunday (22 January 2006)

supposed to meet Ros for running at MacRitchie... SMSed him last night to say that i can't make it... too tired... need to sleep...

the whole day was spent on my new toy again... installing this and that...

met my ex-students for dinner at Novena Square... decided on Fish & Co... boring stuff but the food was great... i was glad that the two of them managed to pass their N levels... i was tutoring them Mathematics for the last 2 years, until i lost my hearing in June last year... one of them managed an A1 for his prelims but only got a B3 for his N levels... he got me 2 bottles of vodka from Bangkok... so nice of him... appreciate it... hahahaha...

anyway, they've requested for tuition since it's their O levels this year... and i have agreed...