Feasting Season

All the dinners with good old friends recently had made me fat and down with gastric pains, despite the attempts to exercise more nowadays. Wave set on the low with the need to give myself a break, to watch my health and get 'detoxificated'. Maybe to eat vegetable for a while will be good.

Since late June, these are where I had been (eating):

Wasabi Tei, one Japanese restaurant well-hidden on the 5th level of Far East Plaza. Esmer and I spotted a long queue of patrons on a Friday evening and joined the queue for curiousity sake. The pricing is reasonable, for good serving of good authentic Japanese food, but just too long a wait. Esmer and I could hardly walk after the meal. It was too much.

It felt like many years since I last met Adele, whom we got to know each other through the housing re-construction trip we had made with Habitat for Humanity to Aceh, Indonesia in Dec 2005. Dinner at Hooters @ Clark Quay, had us caught up with each other.

The group that is familar to itself crowded around a table of home-cooked dishes at YongLiang's place, as we enjoyed special company from Perth. Thank you, Andy, for the words and love you've brought! (photos: YongLiang, BingXin, ChongZhen, Andy and Mervyn/ JinYu, Andy and me)

Szechuan Court at Raffles The Plaza served pretty delicate and unique Chinese cusine. That was where we went for our company's mid-year dinner. Nice ambience and company of bosses and colleagues: Wan, Robin, Mr Ng, Lao Wu, Vincent, Jessie and NanNan.

I had attended three wedding receptions within 2 weeks, there were:
Rachel (her husband, Ray), my poly-mate from SP (DAT), at Novotel (photo: Lydia, me, Rachel and Peiling. It has been long since we meet up, gals. It was great to see MeiMei, Ridzuan, Nicole and Jeff again),

Adrian and Daphne, (on 070707, together with 700 other couples in Singapore on this day), at our church and

Tsu Ching (her husband, Jeffery), my secondary school-mate from CTSS, at Grand Copthorne Waterfront Hotel (photo: Kevin, Nancy, me, KongSeng, ShuJun, HuiYin, Eugene, Teck and Moses).

Mum's birthday is just around the corner. Her culinary skill never fail to satisfy the 'multitude' as she provided lunch for her regular singing khakis at the church carporch (photo: Sis, Mum and 'god-grandmother'). Jie (in her 6/7th month) posed with my nephew, KaiJie, whose birthday is nearing too!

Last Tuesday was the second round of the singing competition. No, I did not get through this round. I am disappointed but it is not something to dwell on for too long. It will take a lot more that singing, to become a good stage 'performer'. I cannot totally say I am not heading that way. Therefore I need to keep improving. We had supper, with Sean and Esmer at Cineleisure's Xin Wang Hong Kong Cafe before heading home that night.