on a restful Deepavali and the start of my "evil" plan...

heh heh, slept past 8am yesterday morning~ Shiok-est! :D First time I slept through the rainy morning, playing extra rounds of chess with 周公, instead of battling against that teeny-weeny voice to tell me to do ungodly stuff (take urgent leave for no other justified reason than to sleep in late). Well, had my first cuppa and cranked up the laptop, and checked my e-mail as well as go onto Facebook.

After that, left house around 9-ish and made my way downtown to Carlton Hotel. There was an exhibition on ancient Bible artifacts. Actually, my friend and I wanted to go on Wednesday evening; but the event organisers said the exhibition would be closed at 4.30pm.
It was a very interesting exhibition, as we were able to look at a fragment of the Dead Sea Scrolls, feel and touch a 19th century Torah, and several copies of various bibles dated from 1500s till 1800s.

It was well-worth the $10 ticket* - the guided talk given by Dr John Lampe was certainly very informative and candid. It certainly refreshes my memories of church history, and reminds me how precious is the Bible that we have in our hands. For those of you who thought that the Bible came to us in its unadulterated English form from the Almighty Himself, you need to go and read up on bible history again. :P

We took a lunch break at noon, and went over to Purvis Street for lunch. We wanted to eat the famous beef noodles - but it was not open. So we adjourned instead for that Phad thai and Som Tham Thai. It was absolutely heavenly, with the fresh prawns in the phad thai, and the fantastic fish sauce in the papaya salad. My friend recommended the Thai tangerine drink - it was not bad at all, a tinge of sourness along with enough sweetness and fragrance.

We went back to the exhibit to catch up on the part of the guided talk which we've missed earlier. Am glad we went back for the missing portion, as it gives us more insight. After that, we went separate ways and I made my way down to Changi Airport. The original intention was to try to go to the new Terminal 3 (T3) for a sneak tour. Unfortunately it is still closed to the public. The open-house will only take place next week. I wanted to hang around at the airport, and try to find a quiet spot to finish reading some of my books. But there were just too many people! :p

In the end, went back to Causeway point and had a nice little Long John Silver's dinner. Thank God I could still get a table to myself. Usually the joint would be swamped with people. I managed to get a corner seat and enjoyed my 2 fried chicken (with extra crumbs) and a small cuppa clam chowder soup. All in all, not a bad day... Niak niak niak, this week marks the start of my 4-day workweek "evil plan" till the end of the year. Hopefully can finish up on my readings.


* Pastors can get in for free - but I didn't think it was a good idea to impersonate one, just to get in free... .:p