Geely, My Wife & Me
4th June 2006, Monday
The workplace was slightly much livelier than the ghost town on Friday when a few souls including yours truly actually refrained from applying for leave and came to work after Vesak Day...
Spent a huge chunk of the day in our little work corner, doing my routine process while walking down the memory lane with BY regarding those ageless characters that made our working days at our previous company so colorful as well as having our own pop trivia about how Mariah Carey's career turn into a whore house as well as the 1001 useless "one hit wonders" boy bands from the 1990s...
The weekend to me has been a rather satisfying for me despite the lack of any outstanding event...
Spent a good deal of Saturday just recuperating at home, trotting between Football Manager and my selection of addictive NDS games...
Had the intention to go dowtown to dropby my usual haunt but dragged the idea till the missus returned from half day at work, when she drove me down in the family weekend car, before her May Day concert at Singapore Expo...
Chan was the obvious absentee at La Tendo, of course we had yet seen Vincent as well as he extended his recent culture trip in Japan to pay a visit to his in-laws...
Meanwhile Tay-chan returned illustrating how a great number of the students they brought for the trip recently were hit by a bout of flu which led to the Toyama prefecture government from quarantine them and nearly delayed their return to Singapore...
He also told us that our Japan-bound jovial friend had acquired a Nintendo Wii and now the latest gaming craze from Nintendo is residing in Tay-chan's place and the offer to have a go at it was laid on the table though no one was there to grab it...
Of course NDS Lite took the spotlight recently as the gang were well immersed into the various games and Ouendan being the number favorite and my final song, "Sekai wa Sore o Ai to Yobundaze" got Ferris engaged in a vociferous hitting of my touch pad with the feeble stylus.. I don't blame him 'cos the umpteen attempts leading to persistent failures can be hard to bear and something burning within you that just wanna clear it...
We duly left as the shop closed for operation for the day and everyone retired early for the badminton session the following day...I think most probably not...
The session on Sunday was held at Yio Chu Kang stadium, just a stone throw (make that with the help of a good catapult) from our place and we had the luxury of our faithful Geely again since Dad had to work OT...
I tempered with the idea of driving the short distance to our venue but the wussy side of me got the better of everything, as I wryly handed the car key to her...
Since we got there rather early, we joined EK and Karen for some jogging round the tracks...
My wife who had been well devoid of any cardiovascular exercise for ages managed to clock 3 rounds, much better than some guys I had seen in IPT while I persevered for 6 under the punishing weather... as for the above mentioned duo, their habitual jogging built enough stamina to jog a full 10 laps...
Despite a proper cool down, I felt decapitated by fatigue from the jogging by the time I was sparring with Chan at the badminton court...not that I did had a stark improvement in the racket game either...
A fulfilling session despite having merely 1 court, all 7 of us who attended had a good 2-3 games under our belts...
After wash-ups, my missus proposed doing health checks on the gang for a personal project for the side line but the time and venue didn't permit, so it had to be shelfed...
We then drove down to a place filled with nostalgia for me..Serene Center at Bukit Timah Road...
My buddies, TW and Foo were already raiding Comic Mart for some reading materials and I noticed a great deal of changes to the infrastructure of the building though most of the shops there remained intact...
The McDonald branch was a usual haunt for me and TW a good decade back on Friday evenings when we were done with our weekly acquisition of comic and going through our haul with a cup of lemon tea (we known as a 'Steven' named after one of the crew at the comic shop)..
The restaurant now was a remnant of the glory days with just the ground level now but still a great place for friends to meet, students to mug exams and comic & cards geeks to cuddle in their little wretched world...not that we are well supportive of the famous golden arch...
We spent a good 3 hours or so (resulting in the final car park fee at an alarming $7.50!!), merely reminiscing the good ol' days as well as discussing the current status of movies, Kamen Rider genre and American comic scene....all these time, my poor wife was trying to pretend to be a wee bit interested and eventually took a quick forty winks...shouldn't had put her through this hang-out session...
There seems to be some celebrity-spotting for the past few days when we caught Chen Liping, a local rotund actress well-adorned by the heartland aunties bringing her toddler son and maid for an unhealthy Sunday brunch, and supposedly too irritated by our presence and made an escape too premature that she left her jacket behind in the restaurant...
We went on seperate ways when TW was supposed to pick his lass up from shopping (how can he not be the perfect boyfriend?)...
At the carpark, my buddies obliged with the health check , enlisting themselves to be guinea pigs 1 & 2 for a grand total of 1000 down the road...
Seems like TW had put on a bit too much weight since his return from Japan and now mere 3 kgs lighter than myself while Foo seems to be well troubled with sweaty palms which would lead to reproductive problem if left uncured.
Seems like my missus with her dabbling with Chinese medicinal practices lately has the remedy for it without the need of surgery...
With the luxury of the car, we sent Foo to his doorstep at Lorong Asu before embarking eastwards to EK's place at Tampines...
The street directory played its part guiding us to an area of the island we had almost no knowledge of and when we got there, Ferris and Karen were getting bored with rigging up their resin kits...
Yanhui, the mistress of the house was no way in sight, so there were only 3 candidates for the health check and seemingly all 3 were in the pink of health with minor health issues...
One of the prime candidate, Chan was at La Tendo inquired on whether we would be interested in catching "Pirates of Carribean: At World's End", a hefty 3 hours show at 8 plus.. Taking into GV's records of excessive advertising, the show should start by 9 which means it would be Monday morning when we came out of the theater, not an appetizing thought with work beckons barely hours later, so I duly rejected...I just felt "Shrek 3" would be a better choice as it was shorter...
After some fun on NDS and amazingly amused by Phua Chu Kang final season which Chan has "burnt" for EK, we went on separate ways with Karen having to pillion on Ferris' chopper down to town for the show in the evening.
Meanwhile, we duly topped up the fuel for the vehicle for the great distances it had brought us over the weekend before heading back, stopping by her place to pick something up as well as heading to Northpoint where I got a Bengawang Solo's trademark Pandan cheese roll (a favorite pastry introduced by my old colleagues) and rented 3 DVDs to make up for not catching the movie with the rest...
All in all it's a fun time, just hitting the road with my missus, driving around from one place to another and perhaps when we have our offspring like my old friend, Rizan (congrats to the new-born!), we can go travelling the island around as a closely-knitted family unit as long as the traffic permits (highly unlikely) and I wouldn't be surprise as useless as I am as of now, I wouldn't be the driver, Bob...
The workplace was slightly much livelier than the ghost town on Friday when a few souls including yours truly actually refrained from applying for leave and came to work after Vesak Day...
Spent a huge chunk of the day in our little work corner, doing my routine process while walking down the memory lane with BY regarding those ageless characters that made our working days at our previous company so colorful as well as having our own pop trivia about how Mariah Carey's career turn into a whore house as well as the 1001 useless "one hit wonders" boy bands from the 1990s...
The weekend to me has been a rather satisfying for me despite the lack of any outstanding event...
Spent a good deal of Saturday just recuperating at home, trotting between Football Manager and my selection of addictive NDS games...
Had the intention to go dowtown to dropby my usual haunt but dragged the idea till the missus returned from half day at work, when she drove me down in the family weekend car, before her May Day concert at Singapore Expo...
Chan was the obvious absentee at La Tendo, of course we had yet seen Vincent as well as he extended his recent culture trip in Japan to pay a visit to his in-laws...
Meanwhile Tay-chan returned illustrating how a great number of the students they brought for the trip recently were hit by a bout of flu which led to the Toyama prefecture government from quarantine them and nearly delayed their return to Singapore...
He also told us that our Japan-bound jovial friend had acquired a Nintendo Wii and now the latest gaming craze from Nintendo is residing in Tay-chan's place and the offer to have a go at it was laid on the table though no one was there to grab it...
Of course NDS Lite took the spotlight recently as the gang were well immersed into the various games and Ouendan being the number favorite and my final song, "Sekai wa Sore o Ai to Yobundaze" got Ferris engaged in a vociferous hitting of my touch pad with the feeble stylus.. I don't blame him 'cos the umpteen attempts leading to persistent failures can be hard to bear and something burning within you that just wanna clear it...
We duly left as the shop closed for operation for the day and everyone retired early for the badminton session the following day...I think most probably not...
The session on Sunday was held at Yio Chu Kang stadium, just a stone throw (make that with the help of a good catapult) from our place and we had the luxury of our faithful Geely again since Dad had to work OT...
I tempered with the idea of driving the short distance to our venue but the wussy side of me got the better of everything, as I wryly handed the car key to her...
Since we got there rather early, we joined EK and Karen for some jogging round the tracks...
My wife who had been well devoid of any cardiovascular exercise for ages managed to clock 3 rounds, much better than some guys I had seen in IPT while I persevered for 6 under the punishing weather... as for the above mentioned duo, their habitual jogging built enough stamina to jog a full 10 laps...
Despite a proper cool down, I felt decapitated by fatigue from the jogging by the time I was sparring with Chan at the badminton court...not that I did had a stark improvement in the racket game either...
A fulfilling session despite having merely 1 court, all 7 of us who attended had a good 2-3 games under our belts...
After wash-ups, my missus proposed doing health checks on the gang for a personal project for the side line but the time and venue didn't permit, so it had to be shelfed...
We then drove down to a place filled with nostalgia for me..Serene Center at Bukit Timah Road...
My buddies, TW and Foo were already raiding Comic Mart for some reading materials and I noticed a great deal of changes to the infrastructure of the building though most of the shops there remained intact...
The McDonald branch was a usual haunt for me and TW a good decade back on Friday evenings when we were done with our weekly acquisition of comic and going through our haul with a cup of lemon tea (we known as a 'Steven' named after one of the crew at the comic shop)..
The restaurant now was a remnant of the glory days with just the ground level now but still a great place for friends to meet, students to mug exams and comic & cards geeks to cuddle in their little wretched world...not that we are well supportive of the famous golden arch...
We spent a good 3 hours or so (resulting in the final car park fee at an alarming $7.50!!), merely reminiscing the good ol' days as well as discussing the current status of movies, Kamen Rider genre and American comic scene....all these time, my poor wife was trying to pretend to be a wee bit interested and eventually took a quick forty winks...shouldn't had put her through this hang-out session...
There seems to be some celebrity-spotting for the past few days when we caught Chen Liping, a local rotund actress well-adorned by the heartland aunties bringing her toddler son and maid for an unhealthy Sunday brunch, and supposedly too irritated by our presence and made an escape too premature that she left her jacket behind in the restaurant...
2 days ago, I also caught Joanne Peh at Ghim Moh Hawker Center doing some filming..she was almost unrecognizable with a hideously highlighted hair and a frame more associated with an anorexic..
We went on seperate ways when TW was supposed to pick his lass up from shopping (how can he not be the perfect boyfriend?)...
At the carpark, my buddies obliged with the health check , enlisting themselves to be guinea pigs 1 & 2 for a grand total of 1000 down the road...
Seems like TW had put on a bit too much weight since his return from Japan and now mere 3 kgs lighter than myself while Foo seems to be well troubled with sweaty palms which would lead to reproductive problem if left uncured.
Seems like my missus with her dabbling with Chinese medicinal practices lately has the remedy for it without the need of surgery...
With the luxury of the car, we sent Foo to his doorstep at Lorong Asu before embarking eastwards to EK's place at Tampines...
The street directory played its part guiding us to an area of the island we had almost no knowledge of and when we got there, Ferris and Karen were getting bored with rigging up their resin kits...
Yanhui, the mistress of the house was no way in sight, so there were only 3 candidates for the health check and seemingly all 3 were in the pink of health with minor health issues...
One of the prime candidate, Chan was at La Tendo inquired on whether we would be interested in catching "Pirates of Carribean: At World's End", a hefty 3 hours show at 8 plus.. Taking into GV's records of excessive advertising, the show should start by 9 which means it would be Monday morning when we came out of the theater, not an appetizing thought with work beckons barely hours later, so I duly rejected...I just felt "Shrek 3" would be a better choice as it was shorter...
After some fun on NDS and amazingly amused by Phua Chu Kang final season which Chan has "burnt" for EK, we went on separate ways with Karen having to pillion on Ferris' chopper down to town for the show in the evening.
Meanwhile, we duly topped up the fuel for the vehicle for the great distances it had brought us over the weekend before heading back, stopping by her place to pick something up as well as heading to Northpoint where I got a Bengawang Solo's trademark Pandan cheese roll (a favorite pastry introduced by my old colleagues) and rented 3 DVDs to make up for not catching the movie with the rest...
All in all it's a fun time, just hitting the road with my missus, driving around from one place to another and perhaps when we have our offspring like my old friend, Rizan (congrats to the new-born!), we can go travelling the island around as a closely-knitted family unit as long as the traffic permits (highly unlikely) and I wouldn't be surprise as useless as I am as of now, I wouldn't be the driver, Bob...
Japanese word of the day: 巡航 (Cruising) I really doubt Modern Talking Greatest Hits will be the best cruising music but then I was wrong
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