not much

dun really have much to add now. just thought that i should put in a new post, seeing that it's a new year and all. the year of the monkey has arrived. my reign as the goat has ended and i'll have to wait another 12 years.

according to the Life! article about the new monkey year, it's gonna be a good year for the Goats. let's see how that goes, shall we?

these four days have been excellent, mostly cos they involved not working.

not that i hate my job, mind you. just that altho it's only been three weeks, i needed a break, so CNY came along nicely.

let's see...what did i do yesterday?
ah we had lunch at Kia Hiang (sun plaza) with the farrer court gang minus the Wee family, dunno why tho. it was the usual fare - dim sum, yu sheng and the rest.

it was pouring but i still went out after, to meet up with yubin, partly cos i had to repay her all that money! we sat at bakers' inn for a while, where i learnt that they DOn't serve tap water anymore! each table has a typed-up sign saying that sorry you'll just have to pay $1 for a bottle of mineral water becos we're just too miserly to give you the water that's coming out of our tap.

so we decided not to eat there. i just had a cappucino. headed to ajisen to have their $13.80 ramen + starter+ drink set. not too bad. but the place is a little stinky, with bad ventilation.

We hung out there until almost 10, interestingly, cos it definitely wasn't a hang-out place but when we left, all the shops were closed (why aren't there any 24hr shops here???) and it was still pouring outside.

but to hell with it, the NEL was right beneath us and Clarke Quay just a stop away so it was off to Cafe Iguana and their $37.90 jug of lime magarita. quite yummy with enough alcohol to give a buzz and not just make me sleepy (unlike the crap they serve at China Jump!) the ice did melt a little too fast for my liking tho.

what i was terribly disappointed with was that at 1230 the nice waiter told us "last order". 1230!!!

they closed at 1!!! on a saturday!!!

how disgustingly early.

everything else around that area was really quiet tho and it was still pouring so called it a night, grabbed a cab home.

ok, this post is more than 'not much'.

another thing to add: was reading an old issue of Spin and an article was highlighting good non-US tv series. one of them being the Beeb's Office, which I've previously heard good things abt tho prob won't get to watch. Another was Money, that Pierre Png dramedy that only had one season tho it was actually quite a decent show to come out of this drab little island i call home.
Here, let me type out what the esteemed Spin writer wrote:
"...Despite the premise, Money isn't a traditional sitcom but rather a 1/2hr dramedy, with no laugh track and continuous voice-over narration from its introspective lead - like Ally McBeal, except with characters you actually care about."
how terribly fascinating!
in case you wanna know: it's the Nov 2003 issue of Spin, the one with Dave Matthews on the cover.