Being back in Singapore is always an exhausting affair. Not that I’m complaining cos being able to see the people I love again always makes me a happy camper.
Matt and I were waiting to board the flight back to SG from Phuket last week when I started getting all excited about our first flight together in a looong time. I think it’s nine months to be exact. After having been in seven different cities together, we had only been on the same plane like, erm, four times?
Just cos we hardly get such shots together!
I’m normally an aisle seat hoarder but with Matt, I love taking the window seat (and yes, leave him to the miserable middle seat) so I could feel like it was my tiny little space and best bit is I could lean on him to hoard more space (yes I’m a skinny person who needs loads of personal space). Aww, how I love him for allowing me to do that! Hahahaha
After we touched down in SG, we got home, showered and the boy took off for work and I headed for the bed. Naiceeee…
Molely woke me up a few hours later and I was all alert and ready to meet her. Mum came home from work earlier than usual to catch me (awww) and we had a nice 15-minute chat before I headed out. Sigh, the thing about whenever I return to SG is, there are always social and romantic (hahaha) obligations. A few would sometimes make send me on guilt trips if I don’t spend enough time with them but the person who deserves the most of my time doesn’t even squeak a single word of complain. :( I’m a bad daughter.
Molely asked me if I wanted her to take a cab to pick me up or the other way round. Still thinking she stays in Siglap, I told her “of course I’m picking you up!” until she reminded me she’d became Bern’s neighbour. Oh yes! And how odd to see her face instead of Bern when the cab was headed that way. I miss those lazy days of picking Bern up when we were late for school!
So she hopped onto the cab and the teasing and laughter started. Naice. We were waiting for the girls to be done with work so we just did what women who don’t have to work on weekdays do – shop. Hur hur.
Saw Minie Mouse and bf (nice glasses!) at Miss Selfridge and upon seeing her, immediately regretted I couldn’t spend alone time with her whenever I’m back. I’m a bad friend. Ugh, hate all these self-induced guilt trips. Bad sister, bad aunt, bad girlfriend…
After spending hours trying to decide where to go for dinner, the BADSPY finally met for our two-year friendship anniversary at Heaven’s Loft at that new, funky, hard-to-navigate-around building with the most vomit-inducing carpark opposite The Centrepoint. (Yes, that’s what I do when I can’t remember the name of something…)
We swear the poses were totally unintended.
I picked up where I left off with the girls and sometimes, it felt like I never left. The teasing was about the same stuff. The squabbles were about the same stuff. Hahaha, I love my pals. :)
I also caught up with the makan girls. Organising a meal with them is the most effortless thing in the world, I tell ya! Pop a “I’m coming back!” email and ta dah, a time, date and venue will be set within two hours. Amazing! This time round, we took PF’s and Char’s suggestion of Spruce at Phoenix Park. The food is so damn bloody good and affordable!!! Love the ambience too! But not loving the mossies.
I can’t not take pics of the cutie pie right?!?!
And I can't resist carrying her too!
It was rather short-lived as I wanted to catch Matt for a bit before I took off for the airport but it left me feeling quite fulfilled. :) I was casually asking Char and Candice for their advice on an issue and they probably didn’t realise it but their words resonated with me till now.
And I came back to HK for a chillax weekend with Ray and Karlye. First stop was the latter’s cosy studio apartment in Wan Chai for a Singaporean lunch. Yumsss. Karlye made curry and I brought my bak kut teh leftover. After I waved the white flag, Ray offered to demolish my bak kut teh and such a delightful feeling!!! To have someone wanting to demolish your cooking! Hur hur hur. We then took a short tram ride to watch Ice Age in 3D!!
We all look like chee ko peks (hokkien for dirty old men), don't we?
With sale signs all over the place, we scratched our itch to shop in Pacific Place and Festival Walk at Causeway Bay.
We were all dressed in damn lau ka (hokkien for downstairs cos we Singaporeans don’t dress up whenever we just pop down to the void deck of our HDB flats for a quick takeaway at the coffee shop) in our shorts, T-shirts and flip-flops so I think the people at I.T., and Lane Crawford weren’t too impressed with us. Phuw!
I was contemplating a pair of half-price Balenciagas and asking Ray for his opinion when he told me his words of wisdom: “If you buy something expensive now, you may regret it temporarily cos it’s a pinch to your wallet. But if you don’t, you may regret it forever.” He tried to look smugly intelligent with his statement but I considered it for a while before I told him off! What kinda advice is that?!?!
I didn’t heed his advice and we scooted off to Ralph Lauren where it was his turn to be in a dilemma. I told him the same thing he told me and after some chuckling and contemplation, he heeded his own original advice! Good example! Practised what he he preached!
Like the Pied Piper of Hamelin, I led them into my fave store and having bought a dress the day before, I couldn’t see anything else that I like but Karlye left with a new leather wallet and Ray left with a really nice shirt. Hur hur hur.
I was super good that day! Didn’t make any fashion purchase at all. But I was a si lai (Cantonese for auntie) and bought home stuff. Went to Broadway and got a kettle for like bloody S$90!!! That’s when Ray’s evil advice wiggled its way into my brain and I succumbed to his “Buy this Philips one that I have! It’s in finished (dunno what word he used lah!) metal!” and I also got a Princess cake mixer so I can attempt baking Matt his fave Oreo cheesecake the next time he comes to HK.
And more auntie purchases when I got a new shower curtain, charcoal (to ward off the bad fridge smell. I know, so O_o right) and a pink water tumbler for my boiled water! Hahaha, cheap thrill.
It makes my bathroom a tad more glam, no?
