Cottage by the River

Dear Bloggie,

Had a wonderful weekend. =)

Long wordy post ahead…

Friday

After work, meet up with HY for dinner. Have not seen her since x’mas, so its really nice to be able to do some catching up with her. Met her at AMK, had sushi for dinner… We chatted till the shops are closings, but what to do… There is simply so much stuff to fill up. She is the only one now, whom I have confided in the entire story. HY never fail to give me the ease to open myself up and talk. She never judge, and always have my best interest at heart.

Still not prepared to call it a night, meet up with AY and SS at Hougang. They came pick me up, and off we go to Safra Tampines for bowling. Yesh, you never get it wrong. I’m going bowling. =)

I am still the high-score holder (starting from the back unfortunately) at Kingsmen I think, having successfully bagging the ‘trophy’ for coming in last for 2 consecutive years at their annual Bowling Competition, and no one ever comes near enough to challenge my ‘high score’.

But still, not wanting to stay home alone on a Friday night, I agreed to go bowling with AY and SS, together with SS’s friends. And yesh, I did not fail to meet expectation. I manage to score at 49. A new personal high score record. Although I chipped my nail after the 4th throw, but I really had fun. SS and his friends were all giving me pointers, but I still did plenty of ‘long kang”… And I had fun.

After that around 1plus, a friend drop by to send me home. And just outside the condo beside TP, we spotted an animal on the road. A puppy shih tzu. I made him stop the car in the middle of the road with hazard lights, and both of us went down to catch the dog. Puppy was scare, and he bites me, but nevertheless I manage to coax him in the end and I brought him home. Thou my description sound easy, but trust me its not. We were like running around the road at 2am. But I couldn’t just leave the poor puppy on the road. It’s so aimless and scared, and it’s dashing all over the road by itself. Chances of him surviving are so slim…

It’s just the beginning of my weekend, but happening ah. *smile*

Saturday

Woke up early, coz the doggies was so noisy. Having 3 doggies at home is really not a kidding matter.

Meet AC at Hougang, to buy QH birthday pressie. Then we took MRT down to Chinatown for some shopping. I have all along heard the Chinatown sells cheap working clothes, but have never actually know where the exact location is and how cheap it is. So this is an eye opener for me.

Girls, this is really a cheap place for working clothes. It’s at level 3 at the newly renovated Hawker Centre just beside OG Albert Court. But do not expect it to be air-con with nice comfy fitting room. We are talking about shopping at a Hawker Centre.

AC bought some stuff, and then we queue for the ever famous yong tao fu. The queue is easily 4m long, but I’m really not sure what is so fascinating about it. It tastes pretty normal to me. After the meal, we went back to Hougang, to prepare for dinner.

Dinner is steamboat at my house. I did a count, and we had approx. 15 varieties. A lot right considering its just 4 girls. The bill at NTUC came up to $100; we bought some beers and wine to go along with it.

Cut the story short, dinner’s fantastic. The time spent with the girls was even more fantastic. It’s amazing how much we have grown and mature all these years. Sure, the regular gossips on some old classmates and also some recent updates like what we usually do. But other then that, we also talked about HDB flat, weddings, being future god-mummy to their kids and some other xxx topics. It’s amazing now how the topics discussed changes over the years. We stop eating at 11pm, and we did what we did best. Mahjong.

So with more booze and girlie talk, we mahjong-ed till 6am.

That ends my Saturday. Or it’s more of, Sunday morning.

Sunday

Coz there are 3 doggies in the house, they woke me up at 10am, again.

Supposed to go swimming with HF at 9am, but I sms-ed to cancel it at 6am. No way I could swim when I’m so deprived of sleep.

The house is really dirty with 3 doggies. I couldn’t stand it so I mop the house after I woke up. I so much wanted to get back to sleep after that, but simply couldn’t. The 3 doggies are noisy, my own shih tzu wanted to play with the puppy, but the puppy seemed to be so afraid of it, and kept yapping and running away. With so much yapping, panting and the sound of their paws on the floor, I simply cannot get back to sleep.

So I slack till 3.30pm, AY and SS came over to pick me up, and off to their place. For more mahjong. *smile*

AC played together with us too. And her boyfriend calls from Hong Kong while we’re in the car. He asked what she’s doing with Xin, more mahjong? So I was like please tell him we’re just meeting up for more girlie chat please… I do not want IV to think “xin = mahjong”.

So we mahjong at AY house, and got the maid to buy Ponggol Nasi Lemak for us. It’s so sinful, but it’s so yummy! Did I tell you that my dieting actually works? I have lost 2kg recently, and I can feel my skirts getting looser. I can even wear the levis from Poly, thou still tight, but at least its doesn’t make me uncomfortable.

After dinner and 1 more round of mahjong, we decided to call it a day.

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Actually, I am really grateful for all my friends. For being with me despite me ups and downs. For being with me when I’m lonely, talking to me when I just need to get something off my chest, giving me the confidence I need to move on. Because of all of you, I am sure that I can get through all obstacles. =)

This is a very eventful weekend, thus this post. But I’m sure next weekend will just be as exciting. Coz we’re going out of the house, for more drinking session on Saturday. Not the uncle at void deck beer session, but we’re going to put on our best gears and we’re going clubbing. Can’t wait darlings. =) *and I have totally forgotten about school assignments, omg*

And btw, I have called up SPCA, someone has reported a lost dog at Tampines, which might be the puppy’s owner…

Okie, that’s all for now. Its Monday, hope the whole week will be wonderful for all kae!!

Love,
xin