Iron Man 3 & Mata Thai

Tomorrow is a public holiday. Make full use of it!

Collecting My New IC & Passport

ICA called to inform me to come down personally to do my IC since my thumbprint is unclear.

Last Spree

12/3
My Queen Helene Mint Julep mask is running out soon. It's just been a couple of years, but it seems that sprees have gone out of fashion. O no!

Galileo 2

:DD

The new female lead took some getting used to. Are they using the male lead to propel starlets?

10/10, easily.

To a Less Poor Future!

Check out my new therapy fees!

Revised for the better. Cheers!

Jap Buffet and G.I. Joe

Ala carte buffet lunch at Irodori Japanese Restaurant at Riverview Hotel. This cosy (read: small) restaurant fills up quickly. The waitresses are local/Malaysian aunties, which contributed to the non-Japsy atmosphere. The only thing Japsy there are the deco and food.

Therapy Fees Reduction

Since the start of the year, my PT and OT have informed me that they might have to convert me from "active" therapy to "maintenance". Today, this has been confirmed.

Farewell & Visit to Office

This week, my laptop gave me a health scare. The fan became damn noisy for no reason. I thought that was the harddisk. Phew. Anyway, it became a reason to retire the aging machine.

It so happened that my team was having farewell lunch at Casuarina Curry Restaurant. I could go to office later to pick up my new laptop.

Tonbi

とんび

Came across raving reviews for this dorama, which follows a man's journey of single-parenthood with his son. 常盤貴子 acting as a mum! It's the touching, family kind, quite different from the genre I usually watch. Maybe the first and last is ひとつ屋根の下. No harm checking it out...

The father is an idiot who's still shy among his family. Funny while you are watching it as a third party, but I think I will be friggin' frustrated if I were his family. Now I know why 常盤貴子 could allow herself to play a mum... her character died young.

It also helps that there's a cute guy in the show :P

8/10

Doctor Down!

2 days before my appointment, the ortho clinic called to inform me that Dr L is on hospitalization leave...

Hosp... hospitalization leave? Not just MC? Seriously!

My appointment will be postponed till June and if I was ok with it. Otherwise, I could still stick with my current appointment and another doctor will attend to me.

Totally ok! I don't want to see any other doctor. From experience, his kah kias all don't know what to do. Till date, I still can't fathom why. Coz Dr L is too domineering?

No idea what's wrong. Hope he's fine already.

Read Your Bills!

A routine credit card statement review got me riled up. HSBC has sneaked a late charge of $55 and finance charge of $32.31 on me despite me having a giro arrangement! WTF is going on?

New IC & Passport

Deadline approaching. Have to apply for my new IC already. Got motivated to do it partly because my passport was expiring. Can use the same photo. I don't know when I'll get to travel again but, just do it.

$70 for the passport! So expensive! I thought it was $50 last time? *grumbles*

Gold Food Thai Chinese Cuisine

Sunshine Plaza, dead on a weekend except the food.

Gold Food is an eatery with outdoor and aircon seating. The aircon was quite weak lah... no deco to speak of. The place felt more like the dining room of a really old HDB.

Food portions are huge here. The mango salad is an honest plate full of mango shreds. Tomyam soup came in a bowl with a flame. Not too spicy, sweet-tasting. We also ordered a stir fried (forgot what) meat and pineapple fried rice. I tried Thai milk tea for the first time. Eh... so sweet one?

Stuffed!

While we were eating, the owners brought out their own lunch and started tucking in. If our portions were huge, theirs were huger, humongous! There were like around 5 of them, eating an equivalent of 1 huge rice cooker of rice!

Just a few minutes ago, I was complaining full. Then we went next door for ice-cream... Yummy~

Buffet Town

Annual CNY dinner with Father's friends. This year, we went to Buffet Town. Finally gonna try it, after being put off by the queues in the past!

Farewell @ Pastamania

Farewell lunch for a Vietnamese colleague whom I have only met once. Today, we will meet for the second time, to say goodbye.

Is He Interested At All?

It's not the kind of person you are probably thinking about.

Bliss Restaurant, Goodies Shopping

CNY is coming like soon, yet we haven't bought our goodies! Here's an excuse to go out for dinner too.

By Brother's recommendation, we tried Bliss Restaurant @ Cheng San CC. I have never heard of a restaurant in a CC!

Lots of outdoor seating. Rather quiet, aircon was cold. Looks more high-class than expected. Actually, we are here because Brother said they sell white beer.

Food prices are cheaper than a regular restaurant, but still not up to my cheapo expectations.

Quality-wise, not bad for the price! Didn't try the desserts coz they looked expensive.

9+ already! So, the primary objective has been relegated to optional objective. NTUC haven't close yet, still can shop!

Ended up just viewing the CNY goodies available as a catalog as it's cheaper to buy from Ang Mo. So we bought everything BUT CNY goodies.

Bed Bugs Relapse

19/1
During spring cleaning, Mother found bed bugs and eggs on Brother's mattress! We threw it out immediately. That explains the find on my table.

Hope this ends the episode.

Bedsheets & Yummies

Mother told me to buy bedsheets, so here's an excuse to go shopping!

Rurouni Kenshin

るろうに剣心

It's great that they have finally made a movie of this manga! I wasn't sure of the male lead Takeru Satoh. Thought he looked too thin and scrawny. Eh... could be apt for a jobless assassin lah. After finishing the movie, I thought he pulled it off.

Enjoyable, and I spy a rising star!

8/10. I don't like the signature Japanese 拖拖拉拉 I stare you, grimace and you stare back scenes.