A small gathering in the west, and we didn't get lost getting there.

Woah! We finally met up over ice cream at Sunset Way. The Lychee Martini ice cream was very very good, despite the fact that my tastebuds had gone to hell from the lousy cold I had.

Our focus point was Winnie and Eric's boy.. very zen one who's unafraid of strangers. He grabbed my arm as I was standing near his pram, held my palm firmly and chewed my finger as he was teething.


The rest of us...




Photo credits: SzeSze.

My first DIY potatoe dish of the millenium.
Toss potatoe bits in dijon mustard and olive oil, put in oven, stir occasionally to make sure nothing is stuck, and serve. Turned out OK!

A is for Andy.

20 YeArs After WArhol. An Andy WArhol Exhibition.


I took a picture of a picture of Andy taking a picture.


K & L taking the same picture of the picture of Andy taking a ... you get the picture. Hahahahah!


A Bird, a Plane...


On our way out. More Lichtenstein than Warhol.

Handshaking Etiquette

I just got back from a long and leisure walk at the beach with Friend.

We bumped into Friend’s ex-colleague who was sprinting away. Very friendly and energetic chap. I knew Friend would introduce us. I was chanting silently to myself.. just wave from where you are…don’t offer the hand, offer the hand, don’t offer the hand…as he was perspiring from the crazy running. He offered, so we shook hands.

Friend later mentioned that he would definitely offer to shake hands as he’s very “corporate”. She noticed that the guy had to really stretch out his hand towards me before I took it. It wasn't as bad as I thought though.

I'm often caught food greasy-handed when introductions are forthcoming. I would then refuse to shake hands, but would try to beam an appropriate smile to make up for it, but really, under such circumstances, when your hands are not in tip top hygienic condition, what are you supposed to do?

But I do think the ultimate worse scenario is when your hand is just a little bit greasy, so the other fella can't tell, until he shakes your hand, then you'll feel bad for spreading the grease, but if you don't want to shake, you would appear anti-social. More awkward moments.

I think some etiquette book would advise NOT using hands to eat when OUT. But eating grilled chicken wings with chopsticks is just not as delicious!

Shop Eat Eat Shop Eat Eat. Go Jo!

For once, we moved our lazy butts and got out of Siglap for our Sunday meet-up. I had a woozy good time. Cold medication and leisure shopping/makan prove to be a good mix.

So we shopped 30 minutes, had tea for 2.5 hours, shopped for 20 minutes, had dinner for 2.5 hours at Dempsey Hill.

No pictures of shopping, because when we shop, we forget everything.
No major mishaps, though the mirror in the fitting room almost keeled over while the three of us were sharing a fitting room, and some other almost realised accidents but thankfully, did not materialise.


We all bought stuff from Jo's Hansel label. Go Jo! I got a stretch cotton plain creamy top with white stripe on collar, and a mini mini skirt in herringbone fabric. It's now or never, in a few years, no more legs qualified to wear short skirts.

Took some pictures of us while waiting for tea to commence - food and playing with iTouch.
No pictures of dinner, we had rissotto, cheese platter, salmon patties, french onion soup and wine at Gros the Joner [a.k.a Jones the Grocer]



Controlled Wilderness outside House, our view while having cakes in air-con comfort.


So anyway next week, I think we will be back at Siglap Starbucks/Coffee Club. Or not. I dont' know.

1. Trivial Info that hopefully would not turn Useful one day 2. TV is my School

There is an article in The Sunday Times today on missing persons.

When you think someone is lost, you don't have to wait a minimum time period before lodging a missing persons police report – it can be done as long as a missing person’s close ones feel that they need police assistance in finding the lost one.

Haiya...all along, I thought you need to wait 24 hours prior to making a missing persons police report. I think I got such misleading info from Hong Kong TV shows, and subconsciously think it applies to Singapore. Anyway I hope I would never ever need to file such a report, though I had in the past, filed a lot of missing bus passes, wallets and I/C reports before, and come to think of it, there was no minimum waiting period as well.

In general, I absorb a lot of facts from TV shows…such as House, blah blah and heh heh, even Miami Ink, so I hope the info from these shows was at least remotely accurate. I’m not including CSI because though the series is entertaining, the technologies they use on the show are obviously far-fetched!

Below: A very entertaining Hong Kong TVB Police-Forensics show. Forensics techniques featured were much more realistic. I'm pretty sure the 24-hour rule was mentioned in this show as well. Anyway... Long Live Channel 55!

Marni is not Armani

These Italian brands all sound alike.

I decided I better channel Marni’s style for now. I have recently put on weight and wearing clothes similar to Marni’s designs (u may be pregnant, u may be not) will allow me to hide the extra bits and momchalently pretend to World that everything’s still the same while I try to meanwhile lose them. I don’t really know how’s that going to happen, since I don’t believe in diets and exercising. Hopefully, the extra weight will just evaporate on its own. The cute little tummy is not so cute or little anymore.

Marni Spring'08:

Proportion and construction of the clothes are pretty unconventional, and the accessories look abit art deco lego, cute cute cute. And see the hortizontal slit in the front part of shoe? When you wear patent leather cover-up shoes, that's the area which will crease and make your shoes look very untidy/worn out, so the designer simply remove that part of leather, smart smart smart.

HONORARY MENTION
Meanwhile, Karen C wants an honorary mention for helping me lug 15 pounds of senior dog food from Parkway Parade to car. BIG Thank You! Next time help me again, ok?