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- 01:53 morning from singapore, tweeters all. bed is still lumpy, back hurts, but it's a new day pregnant with possibilities! Lunch with @devinjay #
- 01:54 @tug no, god wants you to eat cold meat and drink ale on sunday night, like our forefathers did. #
- 01:56 @boyshapedbox lucky you! were there pix? we can only hope... #
- 04:35 @jallen285 don't give in, ever! #
- 12:47 had a lovely lunch with @devinjay, then Chinese high tea with BK, HWMBO, and Leslie. Now resting before dinner. #
- 12:48 @kevjumba lovely weekend, spent partly in the air, partly in singapore. darned hot, but the food's good. #
- 12:49 @dirrtysean please, tell us all! ope your eyelid gets better... #
- 00:02 @helenroper that's nothing--I was a Latin and Greek major in college, and many of my peers also ended up in tech instead of classics. #
Oct. 21st, 2008
Singapore Monday
Oct. 21st, 2008 10:29 amI woke up at 4:30 am and tossed and turned for a while, eventually falling back asleep until about 8. Breakfast in the house and then a cup of kopi (coffee) with BK at the breakfast place across the street.
I then got ready to fact the day and went to Plaza Singapura to meet![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
devinjay. He was a bit late due to the thunderstorm that was then sweeping across Singapore, but arrived on time, bright-eyed and bushy tailed. (I originally wrote "busy tailed" and God only knows how that would have come across...)
We wanted to eat at Mosburger, a japanese chain that has lots of branches in Singapore, but it was full of students bulking up on calories from cows and deep-fried potato. So, we repaired to Carl's Jr, where we both had Guacamole Bacon Cheeseburgers (a LOLCAT would have had a field day) and talked for two hours or so.devinjay is interested in religion, mostly the RC faith, so we had a lot to talk about and his knowledge of the faith and his devotion are really heartfelt. I took a picture.
After that, I met HWMBO, BK, and Leslie for "high tea", Chinese-style. There are two restaurants in Novena Centre that serve Chinese high tea. The one we wanted to go to, Lao Beijing, was absolutely stuffed, so we went upstairs to another restaurant serving chinese high tea, but vegetarian (Lao Beijing is for carnivores). We sat and talked from 3 until about 5, eating little dim sum-like dumplings and other delicacies. The herbal tea was especially good; I must have drunk about 6 glasses. BK showed off his new Asus Eee with the broadband key to connect up to the Internet and everyone was suitably impressed.
Back to Bishan afterwards with HWMBO, where we walked around Junction 8 for a while (it hasn't changed much) and then back home for a nap. Ate a late dinner with HWMBO and BK across the road at a food stall, where a table of elderly "gentlemen" was smoking up a storm right under the "Smoking Prohibited" sign. I wasn't best pleased.
Back home, where I had a nice chat withkingbitch on the phone. Slept well, and about to go out for kopi with BK before facing the day. I don't have a dinner companion for tonight, any takers?
I then got ready to fact the day and went to Plaza Singapura to meet
devinjay. He was a bit late due to the thunderstorm that was then sweeping across Singapore, but arrived on time, bright-eyed and bushy tailed. (I originally wrote "busy tailed" and God only knows how that would have come across...)We wanted to eat at Mosburger, a japanese chain that has lots of branches in Singapore, but it was full of students bulking up on calories from cows and deep-fried potato. So, we repaired to Carl's Jr, where we both had Guacamole Bacon Cheeseburgers (a LOLCAT would have had a field day) and talked for two hours or so.
devinjay is interested in religion, mostly the RC faith, so we had a lot to talk about and his knowledge of the faith and his devotion are really heartfelt. I took a picture.After that, I met HWMBO, BK, and Leslie for "high tea", Chinese-style. There are two restaurants in Novena Centre that serve Chinese high tea. The one we wanted to go to, Lao Beijing, was absolutely stuffed, so we went upstairs to another restaurant serving chinese high tea, but vegetarian (Lao Beijing is for carnivores). We sat and talked from 3 until about 5, eating little dim sum-like dumplings and other delicacies. The herbal tea was especially good; I must have drunk about 6 glasses. BK showed off his new Asus Eee with the broadband key to connect up to the Internet and everyone was suitably impressed.
Back to Bishan afterwards with HWMBO, where we walked around Junction 8 for a while (it hasn't changed much) and then back home for a nap. Ate a late dinner with HWMBO and BK across the road at a food stall, where a table of elderly "gentlemen" was smoking up a storm right under the "Smoking Prohibited" sign. I wasn't best pleased.
Back home, where I had a nice chat with
kingbitch on the phone. Slept well, and about to go out for kopi with BK before facing the day. I don't have a dinner companion for tonight, any takers?