Alexandra Ferri and Sting

Home Alone II

So hubs is off to India again on business... and since S was home alone as well tonight, and we were feeling kinda sick of the office, we decided, at 6.45pm today, that we would go off and shop/eat/watch movie, whatever... just get out. We even managed to bully H into chucking her work too.. haha... but being the super dilly-dallyers that we were, by the time we dissected Sections 29, 30(3) and 31(9) of the BTA, mulled over the last few documents, cleared our emails, and moseyed around, it was past 8pm. And we discovered that most restaurants are closed on Monday. Dang...

We finally ended up at the new Au Petit Salut at Dempsey and stuffed ourselves silly... S and I valiantly resisted the 4 course set menu at the outset, but changed our minds 5 minutes from having our orders taken. Lobster tails, foie gras, beef and souffle were just too tempting... ;) H on the contrary, was a good girl, and only had one entree, one main (melt-in-your-mouth kurobuta!) and one dessert.... We had a great time chatting and sharing the latest goss... All Monday nights should be like this! Sure helps to chase away the blues...

2 more days till hubs is home.

4 more days to the weekend!!

Weekend Warrior

After a harrowing week and a half, and a mad scramble to get submissions in by Wednesday, I did get my long weekend afterall!


Thursday, 9 Aug: Happy 42nd Singapore!!

We had Char-emy, D, I & K over for National Day. We were wading around in the jacuzzi when we saw the Chinooks with the giant flag fly overhead, followed by the fighter jets. Cool! And we were just about finishing dinner when the fireworks starting blasting away. We tried pointing them out to K outside the window but she didn't seem too interested... heh... think she preferred to concentrate on the food... oh we also discovered that there's a delay of approximately 2 seconds between real-time and the tv telecast.

Friday: Gardening and Attempted Exercise

After a late breakfast, headed to Mum & Dad's to feed their thirsty plants. Gee... it's practically a mini forest there - and it took us a good hour to fill up all the pots with water, indoors and out. I even saved Mummy's herbs from a nasty looking caterpillar. Visited Granny for a bit and brought her Jln Tua Kong meepok (yumz!), before heading off to ECP.

Team Hungry had to eat again, of course, and we ordered McDees at the drive-thru, fully intending to work it all off with at least an hour of rollerblading. But alas, hub's wheels fell apart after the first 20 mins and we ended up on a bench facing the sea, chatting and watching the turquoise waters slowly turn green in the setting sun.

Saturday: Burn, Fats, Burn!!!

Tennis! Gym! and Ultimate Frisbee! All in one (blazing hot) day! Whee!!! We must be mad.


Sunday: too soon...

Ballet class this week was a little challenging. My thighs were burning from the exertions of the day before, and the longer-than-usual series of jumps left my heart racing and my head pounding. But I'm pretty pleased with how my pirouttes are getting more steady, ever so slowly, and I think I might just about be able to manage a double on the right real soon. :)

Hubs took me out to dinner, and we decided to try something new. Our choice of Coriander Leaf was closed so we decided to give Ivory (Indian cuisine) a shot, and were pleasantly surprised with how good it was, and how huge the portions were. We had the Malabar Trio for starters - prawn, chicken and lamb, followed by chicken in chettidad curry and a mutton pepper fry, served with chickpea-green onion pilaf. It could probably have fed another 2 persons. But of course, Team Hungry polished it all off. Heh...

*****

Certainly one of the best weekends I've had in awhile. I'm glad we managed to spend lotsa quality time together before hubs goes off on his business trip. I'm going to miss him bad...