Deepavali Spa

I'm so glad we are a multi-racial society, and that Deepavali is celebrated! Horray!!!!!

Went to House for a massage session. The recep explained that I will lie on the bed, and the therapist will stand on the bed, and hold on to a hanging rope, and use her feet to massage my back. That sounds interesting, I thought. But before that, she will stretch my body/muscles in various yoga positions. Great! that's like benefiting from Yoga but without doing the workout yourself. Lazy yoga... and the session was very good. I did panic at various points though:
1) I agreed to having someone step all over me, but it was ok when I met my therapist, and realized she was skinnier and probably way lighter (i.e. 25kgs) than me, so she probably won't damage my internal organs.
2) During the yoga session, she was seriously contorting my body and I experienced PAIN.

After all that, I had a hot ginger tea in a very restful nonSingapore looking area.
Reminds me of US (crate and barrel shabby chic "country look") Indiana.


Then I had a freshly baked strawberry shortcake, and a pineapple-cucumber juice out in the sun. This was backdrop.
While chilling out, my boss sent me a SMS and asked for a report. Sigh... I explained that I was at a spa, and he agreed to extend deadline till tomorrow.

I am so drowsy as I'm typing all this out. I will have a very good sleep tonight.

Japan eats

I was FORCED to eat and drink SAKE. My friends do not see a problem with that. I woke up the day after with a sore throat and japanese virus. Fell sick and took a week to recover. But I still had lovely lovely memories of the food. Japanese food taste better in Japan. I love Japan but I love Japanese food better! Getting to the point where I miss Japanese food along with mee pok tah when I travel (not to Japan). Of course, I'll miss Mee Pok Tah when I'm in Japan.

Very succulent meat with yummy fats that melt deliciously in the mouth.

Very good sashimi! I like that they are not cold. First time that I have bonito sashimi (top left). Why did I not try this in Singapore before? Not that I liked it alot, but wondered if it was always available in Singapore and I always overlook it when ordering sashimi. Bonito is meaty red, and doesn't taste very good, I thought.


Scallpss and mushrooms. Very juicy. I'm getting hungrier as I'm writing this blog.

J Sights

Pictures discreetly taken in between meetings with sterny faced Japanese, while out with company clients.

Japanese like to use transparent plastic-ky umbrellas.
They are very polite. If they are sick, they will wear the white thing over their respiratory system so that they won't rudely infect others.