melancholic
will you wait for me? how important a friend am i to you? feeling melancholic today. its the littlest things that upset me. something which might not even be important or noticeable. i cant help but feel this way. when do people become frens even? when you hang out and talk more than work. something personal. like how you feel how you think. long chats about anything.
how things have changed. i can say proudly that i m a loyal fren. somehow things will not stay the same. the only constant is change. that is wat clarice said today. how i hang on to the past. but it is my principle, not others. i can force my opinion on others. everyone has his or her own rules. it matters to me that you buy the same birthday cake. it matters to me that the birthday gal is the first to show up and wait for everyone to cut the cake. it matters to me that what i have said before is not remembered. i know people cant wait for me. but i sure will feel happy if you wait for me occasionally. i said go ahead. to go ahead at all times sure hurt. new people old people left behind.
if you dun wanna do something, dun do it. i feel worse looking at you trying to celebrate my birthday. thanks for surprising me. best birthdays include pizza and sushi in uni outside lt20. all of my friends were lovely to orchestra that. buy food and get me there. though i did suspect something. another was the ktv at delfi. cos i love ktv. to plan something i love. these are things which make me cry. there is thought into the plan.
thank you to frens who wrote to me while i was in uk. it makes me smile. cos you remember. Clarice, D, JP.... people who had long chats with me over msn-menu, jam, R, X, princess. it makes things more survivable.
the return of 22 bucks. courtesy of honest botak jones
I thought i could say goodbye to 22 bucks. but i couldnt. so i decided to try my luck in the end. for lunch, we ate at botak jones. as usual it was a long wait. there was no queue when we first walked in. however the queue built up while we were deciding what to eat. chilli fries. yum yum. i love fat fries!
N and I were almost finished with our food. then mr ng's order of cajun chicken was served. i gave the guy 50 bucks. the total bill was 28 bucks. after we were done, we left in a hurry cos had to meet my frens at ecp.
two hours of cyclin in the hot sun. really hot. sunblock sunblock. thought sotong had graduated from her sotong phase. she was showing so much potential at usurping our positions in the royal court. after a rest stop, she got onto my bike. i looked at her and she looked back at me. she was ready to ride off when i said "eh, that's my bike leh". haha. apparently sotong din hear that we were going to stop for sugar cane drink at the hawker centre and continued with her cycling. menu and i went after her but din see her in sight. was thinking she might have turned in at the jetty! at most we could meet her back at the bicycle kiosk. so we enjoyed our sugar cane drinks without sotong. sorry ah. the sugar cane stall lady said the lady packin the dirnks for us was very slow. hands like legs. bleh. she really sounded angry. we hurriedly grabbed our drinks and left. i wanted takeaway. she served the sugar cane drinks in disposable plastic cups. i thought i would get them in bags. thus we had to sit down and drink.
dinner was chilli crabs at jumbo. haven been there before. yum yum. crabs. this time round mr ng ordered some yummier food. the prawns were fresh and succulent. the yam scallop rings were cripsy and sweet. the corn crab soup that K recommended was delicious too. with lotsa vinegar that i added myself. slurp. the kang kong quite spicy. the chilli crab oso quite spicy. got sausage lips after eating. the gravy tastes so good with the buns. i wan more buns. but too full. after a satisfying meal, it was time to pay. i opened my wallet and thought to myself "why i so broke leh?". AH I DID NOT GET BACK MY CHANGE OF 22 AT BOTAK JONES! boo hoo. mr ng offered to act as gangster and accompany me to get my money back. i thought it was too much trouble on his part. so i said forget it. take it that i took taxi or wat. but i could not forget my 22 bucks.
忘不了 忘不了 .....
on the mrt i decided to go alone to botak jones. i prepared my speech mentally. do u remember me? i was here in the afternoon with two other frens. we had the con carne served as a side dish in a separate bowl.......
it was much easier. i saw the guy who served us and he immediately said that i did not take my change in the afternoon. wah so honest.
since i got back my 22 bucks, i happily went to jurong point to spend it. late night shopping. i like. in the end, i spent more than 22 bucks. i could not resist. bought minature perfumes from sasa (20% off!). i like to collect nice bottles. plus the fragrance is alrite. the promo is until end of june. can go and buy more. haha. john little having sale as well. good for ladies. undergarments cheaper. stock up. bought a top from double index too. one of my favourite shops, along with bega. and 3/4 from baleno. oso having sale. 15 bucks! ok ok i must stay away from shopping malls from now on. otherwise i will be seriously broke by the end of GSS. but then again, gst increase in july. better shop more now....
april 21 around bath part two
more walking on the free tour. the buildings explained. old and new. about the facade being brick like or a single smooth surface without looking like bricks.
the sweet shop. the sweets looked yummy. but too bad, by the time we made it back here later, the shop was closed! it closed at 5pm. we reached a few minutes after 5. so sad. no sweets to buy.
sally lunn shop. oldest house in bath. famous for the sally lunn bun. we bought the bun on our way back. you will get to see the picture of the bun later.
the deco
hospital for treating ailments. with the spa water.
centre of the square. palladian houses form a square.
the circus. palladian houses in a circle. 
Number One was the first house to be built in the Royal Crescent, John Wood's masterpiece of Palladian design. palladian style has 5 storeys. cellar, ground floor, secon, third and attic. attic for the servants. cos its the hottest during summer and coldest in winter. Crescent cos the houses form a crescent shape. prestigious to live at crescent.
My lovely french meal at bistro papillon. for about 11 quids. yum.
H's main course. her starter was mussels. which was out of this world.
