Adding on a bit more for the record :)
To commemorate our 6 months anniversary then, I planned to go to Fort Canning Park to collect Saga seeds. Thought it would be pretty nice to get her a large bottle of this xiang xi dou, since she have never received any as a gift. On the day of the FOC appreciation dinner, I went to the fateful hill and spent about 5 hours under the afternoon sun (bumped into Jay who was in the area also, and had to lie my way thru to excuse myself to do the needful), combing the hill and managed to collect around 800++ seeds. (there were many curious stares from passer-bys and endless attacks by mosquitoes) Think i looked pretty much like a fool, climbing in and our of thick bushes (its where there are the most seeds cause most of the seeds in the open have been cleared by others...). It was the reason why I was late for the dinner and din want to take the chartered bus from hall. Back in hall, I washed the seeds and dried them in the dark (was worried that the guys at 69 might laugh at me for doing this). And finally gave it to her on our 6th month anniversary.
She had always wanted to visit the zoo. It would be a nice place to go, since the both of us r animal lovers. Then there was a good opportunity, when it was during the term break, and I had borrowed the car from dad for the day. I had promised to bring her to the zoo that day. However, I wasn’t feeling too well the night before, and on the morning of the visit itself, I can feel that I was going to fall sick with fever. Nonetheless, I still went along with the original plan, since it was such a rare opportunity and dear was so excited about it. Thus I just endured and toured the zoo with her. She liked the elephant show. I loved to see the raccoons. The white tigers were awesome. And we both agreed that the polar bear was so pitiful with the layer of algae sticking on its coat. But after we toured one round about the zoo, I couldn’t take it anymore. It was a sunny day but I felt cold and pain whenever the wind blew upon me. The tough front I had put up had collapsed. Then dear knew that I wasn’t feeling well. After some rest at the kfc, where we had some fun trying to feed the 2 roaming birds with our bun (remember how we favoured the timid one to the aggressive one?) I felt slightly better after that, so I thought it would be nice to finish the day by bringing her to our fave prata shop for some prata and milo dinosaur (even though I knew very well that I shouldn’t be eating that since i was sick). My fever took a turn for the worse when we returned to hall. Dear then took the trouble to keep rubbing me with wet towel to try to bring my temperature down. And thanks to her efforts, my fever finally went away that night. Thank you dear, sorry to make u worry!
And of course there are so many small small things and gestures that I did for her:
I hated shopping a lot, especially window shopping, just like any other normal guy would. It was a waste of time to go round n round the shopping malls, looking at things that guys wouldn't buy. But ever since IA started for me, I had been going window shopping with dear for almost every weekend cause that was 1 of the activity that we can spend a lot of time together. Although I still dun like shopping, but I'm still willing to go along with her. Just spending time together is happy enough. (though i still dun like shopping)
Talking on the phone was another one of my most dreaded activity. Being the "telephone operator" at home since young (receive a lot of calls, but absolutely none r mine) made me hate the telephone. Used to hate receiving calls, even if it was from dear. But ever since IA started, I took the initiative to call her every other night, cause she said she like to hear my voice. Initially it was a pain for me to make the calls. But as time went by I gradually got to enjoy talking on the phone with her.
Whenever we have our meals together, if I see her cutlery falling onto the table (the tables r not very clean in NTU), i would just exchange mine with her. If we ordered the same food, I would give her the plate which looks better. During our daily studying days at Canteen B, I would always buy yakult for her after dinner everyday so that she will be healthy! (i tink its a bit ex to buy the individual bottles). I would pass her my windbreaker whenever she felt cold (even if i'm feeling cold too, but its ok since I can take the cold better than her) I would always try to help her carry her bags, especially when its heavy, from the school to shopping malls to trekking. It doesn't matter whether the bag she is using is girly or not. As long as she won't get tired. Although I know many of my guy frens consider that opening the car door for ur girl is pretentious in the modern society, I'd do that whenever its convenient or appropriate (not the type where I have to get out of the car, go over to open the door for her, then get back into the car again). If she is happy when I do it, then I'm ok with what others perceive.Whenever its dark, I would insist on sending her home (irregardless of how late or how tired I was) and would always walk her to the doorstep, without fail, because I dun think the area looks safe at night.
I never liked to borrow Baocun's car. I knew that he was fine with lending people his car (esp me cos he trusts me and I'm his roomie!), but i dun tink its appropriate for people to constantly take advantage of him because he is nice. However, I would still occasionally borrow Baocun's car to help buy supper for everyone (only when dear is hungry!), bring her to JP for a quick meal or buying groceries, or even fetch her from her workplace (during her IA) Thanks Baocun! (sorry for borrowing 'my' car for so many times!)
Dear wanted to borrow my laptop to do her fyp in school, and I lent it to her (that's y i have to write my blogs in office; because that was my only comp at home!). It was pretty heavy and she had quite a bit of notes to carry then. Dad's van wasn't available then, so I couldn't drive her back to school and she had to take the train instead. I was worried that the luggage might be too heavy for her, so I accompanied her back to school on train, just to help relieve her load. It added up to a total of 4++ hours of travelling time on a late Sunday night. (i still have to work on monday morning!). It was an awful long time for someone so used to personal transports.
Last semester when we were both in school, dear din have any free periods on friday for lunch. I thought it would be good that I buy her lunch and send it to class for her. So with the only free period i have for the day (1230 to 1330), I'd go from South Spine to North Spine to buy her a Macdonald's Lunch, and go up to the tutorial rooms and wait for her outside. Sometimes she would sneak out from her tutorial class (she claimed it was Not Too Useful too) to eat with me. It was a pretty cute sight, and the cleaner auntie (who was scheduled to clean the toilet around the area at that time every friday) would always comment that "u r so sweet to ur girlfriend" whenever she saw me waiting there with the MacDonald's meal.
Whenever we have to walk in carparks, along pavements next to the road, or on the roads where there are no pavements, I'd always put myself between her and the road, or go infront of her when there are no pavements, to reduce her exposure to dangers. So that in case if anything bad happens, she would be less likely to get injured. (I'm more aware and reactive to the surrounding dangers, so it better for me to face the dangers than her. Actually I'm rather selfish, I'd rather go earlier than her... CHOI !!!!)
Love u my dear!!!
(coming up next: Things that my dear did for me!! I remember and appreciate them! )
Thursday, March 31, 2005
Wednesday, March 30, 2005
Recounting some of the stuff i did for dear makes me realize that i really love her soooo much!
I had always tried to fulfill dear’s wishes. No matter how big or how insignificant it may be. Many a time it may be just a casual remark on her part, but to me it is always a mission to be accomplished. It had always been so. From the moment we got together till now. From replacing her missing necklace to cooking the fish & chips for her.
Still can remember the moment when she told me that she liked NYDC mudpies, I secretly went alone to try it, and tried to memorize what types of mudpies were available there. So that next time I can bring her there without looking like a klutz myself (prior bad experience on my part ).
When she lost her necklace during the IBG basketball session at SRC, I was secretly happy that it was a good chance for me to get her something that she can wear everyday. Then I searched for something similar to the one she lost. Can’t be too similar either, otherwise it won’t feel like a new present from me.
I remember that when we were organising the night cycling event, dear did not get much chance to cycle. All she cycled were just that short stretch near orchard road. I thought it was a pity that despite all the effort she put in organizing the event, she did not have the chance to clock some proper mileage on the bikes. So I thought of remaking the event the best portion of the night cycling event for her on our first valentine’s day. Re-tracing the exact path of the event, only going thru the most fun part of the route so that she won’t be worn out. Even to the extent of remaking the bridge lined with lit lanterns so that it would look exactly like the actual event. However, things turned out differently. I had to discard the plan cause it would cause too much inconvenience to baocun if I had to borrow his car. So we ended up only with a small part of the grand plan left. I remember that she had said that she liked those ‘glow-in-the-dark” thingy. So I planned to hand-make some of these stuff and asked yifan to help me to surprise her with it.
I thought that it might be good to get a pair of matching earrings to compliment the necklace I had given her, so I searched around for it on a limited budget. After all I had spent quite a bit on the valentine’s day. When I finally found the pair I wanted, it turned out that it costs 3 times the original budget that I had planned for. But it was so perfect for that necklace, so I just bought it, breaking the ‘fat piggy bank’ I had saved up during my army days.
Dear was so enthusiastic about going to Redang during the holidays. I wasn’t too keen in the beginning, but seeing that she was so excited about that holiday, I just went along with her. Luckily it turned out to be pretty good as I pretty much enjoyed myself on the island as well as enjoyed her company on the holiday.
She had been craving for steamboat for a long time. But I had always thought that it was pretty pointless for just the 2 of us to go to marina south for steamboat. Luckily last x’mas nobody had made any programs, so I jumped at the chance to bring her there. (to put it bluntly, that x’mas gathering was possible because she wanted to go there)
Knowing that this year’s valentine’s day is on a Monday, I was actually quite willing to go back to office to work on the Saturday before CNY, so that I can have a stronger claim for an Off on valentine’s day. She had not had any BBQ for quite some time already, so I secretly prepared the BBQ for her on the Sunday before V-day. Luckily I managed to get an Off on V-day as well, so I went back to hall on Sunday and waited for her to finish her lessons on Monday morning before going out with her again. She had often said that she feels lonely and misses me a lot whenever she see couples walking around in school, especially so when it is V-day. So I planned to pick her in school to dispell that feeling she has, and surprise her with a bouquet of roses so that she can bring it out and show that "she is taken", on V-day.
For her birthday, it was another elaborate and slightly lavish plan. She had mentioned before that she hope to be able to go to a hotel 81 someday to relax and enjoy after her frens had told her how nice it was. So I had planned to fulfill her wish on her birthday, as well as provide her with a bit of fun n relaxation before she start to work for the exams. Checked around on the internet and found that most of the hotel 81 branches are in geylang, so I asked Baocun for suggestions cause he had been there with Johnson and KK before to watch soccer. I din wish to see dear having to go pass those sleazy places in geylang, and thus I took the recommendation that Baocun made. Marina Mandarin Hotel next to Suntec. The cost of a room there is already more than double the budget of that I had planned, but nonetheless I still took the 5 star hotel to be doubly sure that she enjoyed her birthday. Beforehand, I had actually scrimped and saved on my daily expenses on IA to make sure that I had enough money to spend on her birthday. Strictly $2 lunches with no drinks, no newpaper, cycle to work so that I can save on the bus fare, even to the extent of not buying any new year clothes for myself. (Actually I still could afford it with the savings I have in my bank, but I can’t bear to take out most of it as I still haven quite given up on taking class 2A lessons even though I kept putting it off for more than 2 years already because I can’t decide whether to blow the money on bike lessons which may not be useful afterall, or spend it on dear) Thus the drastic measures to save up, even though I would spend quite a bit of money every weekend when I bring her out. I always try to pay for all our meals together, so that I know she can keep her money for meals in school. I dun want her to skip meals because she has no money to eat.
All I wanted was to make her happy and live comfortably. I really dun mind doing all these for her. As long as I can see her smile happily.
There are so many more things to write about, but think I should stop here for the moment. Still in office now and gotta work ya know
Still can remember the moment when she told me that she liked NYDC mudpies, I secretly went alone to try it, and tried to memorize what types of mudpies were available there. So that next time I can bring her there without looking like a klutz myself (prior bad experience on my part ).
When she lost her necklace during the IBG basketball session at SRC, I was secretly happy that it was a good chance for me to get her something that she can wear everyday. Then I searched for something similar to the one she lost. Can’t be too similar either, otherwise it won’t feel like a new present from me.
I remember that when we were organising the night cycling event, dear did not get much chance to cycle. All she cycled were just that short stretch near orchard road. I thought it was a pity that despite all the effort she put in organizing the event, she did not have the chance to clock some proper mileage on the bikes. So I thought of remaking the event the best portion of the night cycling event for her on our first valentine’s day. Re-tracing the exact path of the event, only going thru the most fun part of the route so that she won’t be worn out. Even to the extent of remaking the bridge lined with lit lanterns so that it would look exactly like the actual event. However, things turned out differently. I had to discard the plan cause it would cause too much inconvenience to baocun if I had to borrow his car. So we ended up only with a small part of the grand plan left. I remember that she had said that she liked those ‘glow-in-the-dark” thingy. So I planned to hand-make some of these stuff and asked yifan to help me to surprise her with it.
I thought that it might be good to get a pair of matching earrings to compliment the necklace I had given her, so I searched around for it on a limited budget. After all I had spent quite a bit on the valentine’s day. When I finally found the pair I wanted, it turned out that it costs 3 times the original budget that I had planned for. But it was so perfect for that necklace, so I just bought it, breaking the ‘fat piggy bank’ I had saved up during my army days.
Dear was so enthusiastic about going to Redang during the holidays. I wasn’t too keen in the beginning, but seeing that she was so excited about that holiday, I just went along with her. Luckily it turned out to be pretty good as I pretty much enjoyed myself on the island as well as enjoyed her company on the holiday.
She had been craving for steamboat for a long time. But I had always thought that it was pretty pointless for just the 2 of us to go to marina south for steamboat. Luckily last x’mas nobody had made any programs, so I jumped at the chance to bring her there. (to put it bluntly, that x’mas gathering was possible because she wanted to go there)
Knowing that this year’s valentine’s day is on a Monday, I was actually quite willing to go back to office to work on the Saturday before CNY, so that I can have a stronger claim for an Off on valentine’s day. She had not had any BBQ for quite some time already, so I secretly prepared the BBQ for her on the Sunday before V-day. Luckily I managed to get an Off on V-day as well, so I went back to hall on Sunday and waited for her to finish her lessons on Monday morning before going out with her again. She had often said that she feels lonely and misses me a lot whenever she see couples walking around in school, especially so when it is V-day. So I planned to pick her in school to dispell that feeling she has, and surprise her with a bouquet of roses so that she can bring it out and show that "she is taken", on V-day.
For her birthday, it was another elaborate and slightly lavish plan. She had mentioned before that she hope to be able to go to a hotel 81 someday to relax and enjoy after her frens had told her how nice it was. So I had planned to fulfill her wish on her birthday, as well as provide her with a bit of fun n relaxation before she start to work for the exams. Checked around on the internet and found that most of the hotel 81 branches are in geylang, so I asked Baocun for suggestions cause he had been there with Johnson and KK before to watch soccer. I din wish to see dear having to go pass those sleazy places in geylang, and thus I took the recommendation that Baocun made. Marina Mandarin Hotel next to Suntec. The cost of a room there is already more than double the budget of that I had planned, but nonetheless I still took the 5 star hotel to be doubly sure that she enjoyed her birthday. Beforehand, I had actually scrimped and saved on my daily expenses on IA to make sure that I had enough money to spend on her birthday. Strictly $2 lunches with no drinks, no newpaper, cycle to work so that I can save on the bus fare, even to the extent of not buying any new year clothes for myself. (Actually I still could afford it with the savings I have in my bank, but I can’t bear to take out most of it as I still haven quite given up on taking class 2A lessons even though I kept putting it off for more than 2 years already because I can’t decide whether to blow the money on bike lessons which may not be useful afterall, or spend it on dear) Thus the drastic measures to save up, even though I would spend quite a bit of money every weekend when I bring her out. I always try to pay for all our meals together, so that I know she can keep her money for meals in school. I dun want her to skip meals because she has no money to eat.
All I wanted was to make her happy and live comfortably. I really dun mind doing all these for her. As long as I can see her smile happily.
There are so many more things to write about, but think I should stop here for the moment. Still in office now and gotta work ya know
Tuesday, March 29, 2005
Guinness Stout
Burnt quite a bit of moola over the last week, so I jumped the chance when Richard came knocking to invite me to do part-time work.
Worked for the Guinness Stout Irish Party which was held at the empty grass patch next to CHIJMES. It was pretty good money for an assignment type part time job. Not too tough either (garung guni was crappy!)
It was a 1 and half day assignment. Started on Good Friday and ended on Saturday night. Nothing much to say about the work, just that Richard and I had free flow of stout on Saturday night. Haha. Somehow the stout din taste too bad on that night, and we kept drinking n drinking since it was free for us.
One thing that made me feel bad was that both Dad and dear came to wait for me to knock off. I had specifically told mum to tell Dad to not come to pick me as I wanted him to have more rest. More importantly I din know the exact time as to when I’d knock off, so I din want him to wait aimlessly and waste time there. However mum did not do as I told her to and Dad came way the work had ended. Anyway, dad came and though I din wanted it to be so, I was still quite touched by what dad did.
I din expect dear to travel all the way to come and visit me. And she had brought along some herbal tea for me to drink just when I desperately needed some drink. So sweet…. She came around 6pm, and waited for me to knock off so that I could have some company when I go home and I dun have to travel to her place to pick her for supper. So understanding… she waited for me around the area till around 10pm, when I finally got to know that we had to work OT. Dad came around that time, so I thought of asking Dad to send her home first, in case all the shops closed and she’ll no place to stay while waiting for me. When I called her to tell her to go home with dad first, she sounded so disappointed. I had sinned. To make her wait so long and go home empty handed is so cruel… I’m so sorry dear!
In the end it was the right decision to send them home first. Work ended around 2am and by the time I reached home everyone was asleep already. I wanted to make amends by asking dear to come out for supper, but she was too tired (sleeping when I called her) so I had to go to sleep with an empty stomach and a guilty mind. I felt so bad...
Worked for the Guinness Stout Irish Party which was held at the empty grass patch next to CHIJMES. It was pretty good money for an assignment type part time job. Not too tough either (garung guni was crappy!)
It was a 1 and half day assignment. Started on Good Friday and ended on Saturday night. Nothing much to say about the work, just that Richard and I had free flow of stout on Saturday night. Haha. Somehow the stout din taste too bad on that night, and we kept drinking n drinking since it was free for us.
One thing that made me feel bad was that both Dad and dear came to wait for me to knock off. I had specifically told mum to tell Dad to not come to pick me as I wanted him to have more rest. More importantly I din know the exact time as to when I’d knock off, so I din want him to wait aimlessly and waste time there. However mum did not do as I told her to and Dad came way the work had ended. Anyway, dad came and though I din wanted it to be so, I was still quite touched by what dad did.
I din expect dear to travel all the way to come and visit me. And she had brought along some herbal tea for me to drink just when I desperately needed some drink. So sweet…. She came around 6pm, and waited for me to knock off so that I could have some company when I go home and I dun have to travel to her place to pick her for supper. So understanding… she waited for me around the area till around 10pm, when I finally got to know that we had to work OT. Dad came around that time, so I thought of asking Dad to send her home first, in case all the shops closed and she’ll no place to stay while waiting for me. When I called her to tell her to go home with dad first, she sounded so disappointed. I had sinned. To make her wait so long and go home empty handed is so cruel… I’m so sorry dear!
In the end it was the right decision to send them home first. Work ended around 2am and by the time I reached home everyone was asleep already. I wanted to make amends by asking dear to come out for supper, but she was too tired (sleeping when I called her) so I had to go to sleep with an empty stomach and a guilty mind. I felt so bad...
Dear's birthday
Expected dear to be quite contented with the weekend programs, so she probably won't expect anything more on her birthday. Planned to give her another pleasant surprise by cooking for her on her birthday itself.
Since we had enjoyed the “Traditional English Fish & Chips” so much at the hotel, I decided to remake it for her. (though definitely will not be as good as the hotel standard). I wanted to make everything by myself.
Went to the supermarket the night before her birthday to buy the ingredients. White snapper fish, cabbage, potato chips, tartar sauce, lemon, chicken wings, baking powder, coleslaw dressing, milk. (now I think it costs more to make our own meal…)
Went back home and started immediately on the preparation of the coleslaw. The first attempt ended up a large bowl of coleslaw which was not even close to what I thought it was supposed to be. All of us were used to seeing coleslaw with some whitish dressing. But the recipe indicated that I should use vinegar as the dressing. I did. And I got a big bowl of edible but overly sour coleslaw. I was quite skeptical about using that coleslaw, so in the end I stayed up to make another bowl (a much smaller one this time) of coleslaw, finally using the coleslaw dressing I bought (cheat!)
The next day I rushed home after knocking off to make the final preparations for the meal. Made the fish batter, ate a light hurried dinner at home, before borrowing the van from dad to travel back to hall. (initial plan was to go back by bus cos dad needs to go out, but luckily bro lent dad his car, so I could save loads of time by driving)
Decided to make this surprise a more power one, so I went to buy a slice of cake (chocolate of a thousand leaves) from the Coffee Bean at Tampines. (getting a full-sized cake is pointless, not yummy and we can’t finish so much food). Wanted to get a bouquet of roses there too, but was shocked to find that the florist had closed down. Eventually I had to travel to JP to get the roses, as well as a cup of Ultimate Iced Mocha (our fave!) It was pretty embarrassing to get seen running around in the mall with a bouquet of roses in my hands….
Dear got a surprise when I went into her room with all the barang barang I brought along. Soon we got started on our “happiest ever fish n chips”. (sorry I can't provide the photos here, cannot load anything from the office). The cooking was pretty fun too. Though could had been better with better cooking utensils.
Finally settled down on dinner with the cake looking filmsy with a candle on top. Sang her a 2nd birthday song of the day (her 1st was at 12am sharp in the early morning over the phone)
The dinner was pretty nice, just that the food had cooled down a bit (can’t cook everything at one go with limited utensils!). Fried fish, home-made coleslaw, baked beans, potato chips, oven-baked chicken wings, home-made iced lemon tea, coffee and cake from Coffee Bean.
Hope that she really had an unforgettable and enjoyable birthday. Love you dear!
Since we had enjoyed the “Traditional English Fish & Chips” so much at the hotel, I decided to remake it for her. (though definitely will not be as good as the hotel standard). I wanted to make everything by myself.
Went to the supermarket the night before her birthday to buy the ingredients. White snapper fish, cabbage, potato chips, tartar sauce, lemon, chicken wings, baking powder, coleslaw dressing, milk. (now I think it costs more to make our own meal…)
Went back home and started immediately on the preparation of the coleslaw. The first attempt ended up a large bowl of coleslaw which was not even close to what I thought it was supposed to be. All of us were used to seeing coleslaw with some whitish dressing. But the recipe indicated that I should use vinegar as the dressing. I did. And I got a big bowl of edible but overly sour coleslaw. I was quite skeptical about using that coleslaw, so in the end I stayed up to make another bowl (a much smaller one this time) of coleslaw, finally using the coleslaw dressing I bought (cheat!)
The next day I rushed home after knocking off to make the final preparations for the meal. Made the fish batter, ate a light hurried dinner at home, before borrowing the van from dad to travel back to hall. (initial plan was to go back by bus cos dad needs to go out, but luckily bro lent dad his car, so I could save loads of time by driving)
Decided to make this surprise a more power one, so I went to buy a slice of cake (chocolate of a thousand leaves) from the Coffee Bean at Tampines. (getting a full-sized cake is pointless, not yummy and we can’t finish so much food). Wanted to get a bouquet of roses there too, but was shocked to find that the florist had closed down. Eventually I had to travel to JP to get the roses, as well as a cup of Ultimate Iced Mocha (our fave!) It was pretty embarrassing to get seen running around in the mall with a bouquet of roses in my hands….
Dear got a surprise when I went into her room with all the barang barang I brought along. Soon we got started on our “happiest ever fish n chips”. (sorry I can't provide the photos here, cannot load anything from the office). The cooking was pretty fun too. Though could had been better with better cooking utensils.
Finally settled down on dinner with the cake looking filmsy with a candle on top. Sang her a 2nd birthday song of the day (her 1st was at 12am sharp in the early morning over the phone)
The dinner was pretty nice, just that the food had cooled down a bit (can’t cook everything at one go with limited utensils!). Fried fish, home-made coleslaw, baked beans, potato chips, oven-baked chicken wings, home-made iced lemon tea, coffee and cake from Coffee Bean.
Hope that she really had an unforgettable and enjoyable birthday. Love you dear!
Monday, March 28, 2005
Super Happy Weekend with dear!
Spent the entire of the last weekend (19 ~ 20 Mar) with dear to have a pre-birthday celebration for her. It was filled with the feeling of happiness and bliss!
It started on 19/03/05, Saturday. This day is supposed to be a "Rich Man's Life" as I had planned to have everything good today with no expenses spared (not really literally la, u think wat, i print money one ah!)
We had arranged to meet at Tampines Interchange to go to Sakura Restaurant at Tampines SAFRA for a buffet lunch (which dear had craved for so long!) We ended up the first customers to enter the restaurant, and I showed no mercy in swiping off half of the salmon sashimi on the shelf. The food was pretty ok, with the tempura ebi being the most gratifying. Then came a situation when we were having our deserts: a prong broke off from the plastic fork that she was using. We suspected that she ATE it. I was so worried as she kept coughing and dunking drinks. Luckily she felt better after some time.
After that we braved the drizzling rain together to the bus stop to return to the MRT station. Next stop: City Hall
I had booked a room at Marina Mandarin Hotel for a day in advance. But to my horror, I found that half of marina square was under construction, and I couldn’t find the entrance to the hotel (I only knew of the entrance from marina square shopping centre). So we ended up walking around marina square, and all these while I was trying very hard to not let dear know what I was going to do. I wanted to see the pleasantly surprised look on her face when I approach the check-in counter at the hotel directly. In the end we had to enter the hotel from the main entrance facing Suntec. Another shock greeted me. I couldn’t find the reception counter on the ground floor! Only the concierge and cab counter was available, so in the end I had to ask the concierge where to check in and lost the chance to spring the surprise on dear. (what a disappointment after so much effort on my part!) All these while dear had been expecting me to bring her to some shop to buy some items for her as her birthday present.
Got room 1404. Not too shabby eh. But amazingly I forgot to request for a room with harbour view. Ended up with a room with Westin and Padang view. Ha ha. The room was pretty comfortable, though it can't be compared with that of Fullerton's! (can't compare the prices too!)
Went off to Carrefour to buy the green tea ice-cream (from meiji) which I had been craving for so long. Managed to get the last piece off the freezer, but the box was broken n so we tot maybe we should taste the ice-cream a bit before buying, in case it sucked. So we walked around the store as I tried to pinch bits of the ice-cream off the box for tasting. The conclusion: It sucked. In the end we settled for a Haagen Daaz Rum n Raisins ice cream. Dear bought a packet of US strawberries too. Yummy!
Went back to the hotel and feasted on the ice-cream. Sedap sia. It was really heavenly. As we were both still pretty full from the buffet, we decided to skip dinner and go for the Jacuzzi and a dip in the swimming pool. After that its back to the hotel room and with glowing recommendations from Baocun, we ordered a set of “traditional English fish n chips” via room service. I watched the Man Yoo - Fulham match as we chomped on the food. It was the first time that I had tasted such delicious fish n chips. (their chips were still warm!). All these while we had been taking photos of the city in daylight and night view. The esplanade looks pretty cool at night. We had endless chatter on everything under the sky till both of us fell asleep.
Woke up early at 730 the next day to catch a view of the city in the early morning. Pretty! Went for the Jacuzzi again and a morning dip. After that we had the complimentary breakfast buffet by the hotel. After that we slacked off in the room till around the check-out timing, then had to rush to pack everything to leave, like as if we were thieves making their get away. The sight was damned farnie….
After we checked out, we went over to suntec to get a subway sandwich as lunch for our macritchie reservoir excursion. I planned to bring her to the HSBC Tree Top Walk, which she had wanted to visit. Armed with just a vague lousy printed map, I thought we could reach the TTW in no time as I had planned to take the shortest route. In the end, we found that there were many small road signs directing us to the TTW, so I din bother to follow my preplanned route and just followed the road signs. In the end we ended up going the wrong direction due to one wrong sign and went further n further away from the TTW until we came to a large sign post which gave indications of where we were then I realized my mistake. Luckily dear held out as we back-tracked to the correct place and finally managed to go up the TTW before it closed.
Well, that was the last program for the weekend. Dear did not expect that there was more to come on her birthday...
Tuesday, March 08, 2005
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Went to sentosa with dear 2 weeks back. It was sort of like a holiday for us 2. The highlight of the day was the Calsberg Sky tower that we took. The view up there was simply too good! I kept taking pictures until my cam got overheated. Dear seem to be pretty happy that day. We also had a stroll along the dragon trail, and had some nice pics of the area. We also went up Mt Imbiah. There was nobody there and it was so quiet, how I wished we could camp up there for the night and watch the stars at night. If only I brought along my hammock. It was so sweet and comfortable to go out for such a date with dear. (the only downpoint was that I was pretty tired that day, so I ended up sleeping on the tram most of the time)
Been rewatching the entire series of Slam Dunk lately. (or should I just say watching, cos I had never really watched the entire series properly. Only bits here n there) Its making me itch to play basketball again and again. Played with cedric’s gang last Sunday at Feng Shan CC. Think the ring there is pretty much lower than my home ground. I could easily grap the ring with a slightly pumped jump. Maybe if I train harder, I could be able to dunk there. (thanks to slam dunk for once again making me wanna train myself to be able to dunk) Ha ha. Anyway that will have to depend on my knee injury, cos I feel that it is getting worse. So I have drastically reduced my running sessions to maybe only once per fortnight. Maybe I should visit the doctor someday and see if there’s anything I can do about it.
Been rewatching the entire series of Slam Dunk lately. (or should I just say watching, cos I had never really watched the entire series properly. Only bits here n there) Its making me itch to play basketball again and again. Played with cedric’s gang last Sunday at Feng Shan CC. Think the ring there is pretty much lower than my home ground. I could easily grap the ring with a slightly pumped jump. Maybe if I train harder, I could be able to dunk there. (thanks to slam dunk for once again making me wanna train myself to be able to dunk) Ha ha. Anyway that will have to depend on my knee injury, cos I feel that it is getting worse. So I have drastically reduced my running sessions to maybe only once per fortnight. Maybe I should visit the doctor someday and see if there’s anything I can do about it.
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