a simple pleasure indeed

i like to eat that 2 dollar rice ball from mr bean. i've been eating that quite frequent recently for dinner, stopping by at this branch near simei mrt everytime on my way back from work.

it tastes good, healthy and cheap. only that i'm not sure if frequent intake is good. i mean, it's not something that people eat everyday, right? how i do i know it's not doing something bad to my body?

especially after someone has said that i'm a bit flabby at the abs.

oh god, i realized it myself actually but to have someone put it in my face like that? it's like i've been given a reality check.

so i went for a jog today. i really did. i couldn't even remember when was the last time i put on my running shoe, you know, to run because i hate this kind of endurance stuff. give me sports anytime but running or swimming is a torture.

it's not my fault i'm a bit under exercise recently, my regular badminton partner is missing in action, and don't even get me started on tennis. the bowling season is over too so what's left is me + my hand.

oh but not before clinching the top prize in company bowling carnival held at marine bowl east coast last aug-18. my team came out first. on top of that, me and my doubles partner swept clean the high series and high game trophies too.

how great was that? for once i felt like i'm invincible, well, at least till that same night when i played with my friend in yishun safra and lost to him with only 136 pinfalls. but then, i was probably tired or something.


the weekend that we finally waited for was finally over. the wedding in jb was, well, fun. it wasn't all oh-my-god fun but it was ok. i guess the hype leading to the day was too big, so frankly i was hoping for a little bit more.

i mean, i didn't get to meet all those people that i hoped to meet. those long-lost friends. even those that were there, somehow were not around to chat much of the time so when i think about it, the only difference about the wedding with the usual dine-out was the fact that we were all wearing green.

still, i was glad to be there. i did.



snow white and 7 oversized-dwafrs

d'throne for the 1-day king

you'd think a group of friends having gathered on saturday night would resort to doing something, well, fun considering we only get to meet like this once in a blue moon but somehow we found out we were on the way back to singapore at 7pm. that pretty much summed it all up, doesn't it?

ok maybe it was my decision too, but it was raining, and some of us had to do errands at the end of the day, so it's not like we could do anything anyway. to save the night, we detoured to the night safari instead.


that wasn't my first time in the night safari. ok i've seen most of the animals, and let's face it it's not like you'd see polar bears there, but it was the company that i enjoyed most.

plus, i didn't get to see the animal show last time round, nor did i touch any slimy-looking-but-suprisingly-dry phyton so that was still a worthwhile trip.

fun in the safari tram

we paid $5 each to take photos with these cheetah and phyton, only to be forced by the safari-lady later to touch the snake. i was like oh-thanks-but-no-thanks but the whole earth was staring at me from down the stage, so i touched it anyway, for a good 5 seconds.

it was like touching a cold, moving wallet. seriously.

bet the cheetah all bored

not enough befriending mother nature, we went to jurong bird park the next day. but not before my first visit to hajah maimunah restaurant in joo chiat. i've been wanting to give this place a try like forever, and since my bangkok friends wanted to eat malay food, the time couldn't be more perfect.

i was glad i did. visiting the restaurant i mean. you know it serves one of the better malay food out there. if you're all for malay food, give it a visit. it was cheap too, $19 for 3 people. don't be turn off by the queue, it's moving pretty fast, and there's ample dining tables in the 2 storey unit.

it was my first time in jurong bird park. it took a good 20 minutes drive from simei, which just shows how small singapore is, or maybe just how efficient the highways are.

a rockstar ready to ruffle some feathers

i don't think the park is a kind of place that you must go before you die or something, it looked kinda old and worn out but i quite like the lory loft. it's this jungle section covered with high rise nets where you could walk from stage point to stage point by crossing wooden hanging bridges. apparently it's the world's largest walk-in lory flight aviary, where there are easily 1,000 free flying lories that flock all over you for a drip of that special nextar water.

check out the photos i took with my canon G7.

gosh it was fun playing with the birds. i felt very much like a sugar-sweet-honey getting swarmed by bees. never had i felt so eagerly desired-for in my life.

ok that was obviously a lie.

the thing is, i had fun. what's not so much fun?

the fact that i have to continue with my physical endurance activities.

bummer.



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