wanted to wake up at 7 plus plus a.m to go swimming, but somehow the bed was too warm and the air was too cold :p Went back to snuggle in bed till 8am. Then saw the morning brightening up~ woot! Took my bike and went to the Woodlands swimming pool for a dip. Steady! Loved the changes they did to the pool - think the kids would loved the new wading pool,with a small slide and the falling-water structure. Din exactly fancy the shade they put over half of the adult deep pool; made that half od the pool very much colder... brrr!
Din do a lot of laps, as there were simply too many children classes going on - didn't even worked up to 60% of my max. heart rate. Just paddled around a while, and looked at faraway scenery objects. Then zipped over to Civics Center to update bank passbook, buy newspaper and zipped back home on my faithful Jamis-maru. Bro was already outta house, on his 闭关修炼 for his upcoming quizzes. Sis was still snoring away. Chatted with mom a while, before hitting the newspaper. Saw the M1 $0 offer for the Sony Ericsson K530i phone and decided to head town early to get it. Am quite impressed, didn't have to wait that long at the Paragon service centre, and the service was efficient. Could be also because I went there during lunch time (around 12-ish) and there wasn't that many people in town as yet bah.
After that, walked over to Wheellock place for lunch appointment at 1pm. Initially wanted to have lunch ta Fish and Co., but my friend last minute sent sms said she had fish and chips last night, can change to either Sakae Sushi or Big-O? Between the two, I chose Sakae and went there early to get a seat. Business is good, i was there around 12.50-ish, and the place was already crowded! had to wait 10 minutes before getting a booth seat by the glass window. Then my friend sms me at 1pm to tell me she was held up and will be slightly late. (grrrr!) so had to sit down there and endure all the stares from those standing in the queue, looking enviously at me drinking my green tea in the spacious 4-seater booth by the conveyor belt.
Finally my friend arrived and we quickly ordered our lunch. Had a good time catching up with one another as I haven't seen her for a while lately. Another common friend later joined us as she need his help to help her choose a digicam. We parted from there around 3-ish, and while they made their way to Sim Lim via MRT, I was legging my way over to SKS at Tan Boon Liat building au pied. Bumped into my friend who was having lunch with his colleagues opposite Great World City, at the famous nasi padang kopitiam. His eyes just popped out when he heard I was walking from Orchard to my destination.
Reached SKS bookshop and had a good time walking around the store, browsing through the books. Kept myself from buying any more new books, except the one I was getting for a friend to use for CG session. After that, decided to walk from there to Serene center for ice cream at Island Creamery. Walked a big detour, as I went Grange road to Chatsworth road, Tanglin Raod, cut through botanical gardens that side to Bukit Tiamh road, before finally reaching Serene center before 6pm. Thank God He held back the rain, as it was getting real cloudy by then. Enjoyed my "pulot hitam" and Kahlua latte double scoop. It's a pity they didn't have the Tiger beer sorbet, if not I would have ordered it in place of the "pulot hitam".
came home for a nice home-made dinner, and realx in front of the TV watching "Japan Hour". Life is good~ Yatta! :D
