gnatweds

Since I stopped work on Friday, its been a whir of goodbyes: On Friday afternoon, Kok Min (as the locals would say: super lao peng you) took me out for lunch.
I only managed to get one pic on the Sony Ericsson but its a damned good one.

Hahahaha!
But the chap is off to big things; in NY and Dubai - financial adviser to crown princes and all. Anyone watched the movie Syriana? I was telling Kok Min to tell me if its actually like that doing the financial advising to these chaps....

Then in the pm, Neil kindly delivered his curry puffs to the office (for my bye bye treat) and they received rave reviews. Just maybe you'll see a review of those puffs in the Straits Times soon!

Leaving the office for the final time for a year was surreal though. Everyone was really busy, and the admin the leave took forever. BUT it was also strangely melancholic. Just sad la; like I said, it's the only life I've known for a while. And the goodbyes were a bit harder than I thought they would be. Bertha (my boss) gave me a HUGE bouquet of flowers that said: DON'T FORGET TO COME HOME! *heh* I won't. Promise. I'll be around again really really soon.

Then on friday night: we had a poolside session with Karen, Rez, Neil, Alana, Simon, Wendy and Vince. Of course, the new Bahari addition - Cayden - was in tow.

Couple of pixes again:

Cayden and Uncle Neil (of the curry puff fame...) The juxtaposition of the two photos is entirely out of convenience - they are both vertical pixes - but hehe, issit just me or is there a resemblance in the forehead area....
Neil managed to do the classic-let's-swing-beer-that-someone's-been-ashing-into thing.
Karen was happily ashing her ciggie into a tiger beer can, Neil takes a swing, swirls it round, hears the stub in there - and hollers: "THERE IS A CIGGIE IN MY BEER".

Beer: $2.45
Cigarette: $0.50
Karen's expression: Priceless
Neil's expression: Priceless
Everybody laughing their guts out: Priceless

Neil starts insisting that he can taste the burnt ciggie in his beer - which makes you wonder why didn't he stop swigging when he *first* tasted it.

You can REALLY see a colour gradation among the girls hor? Heh. Post Bali tan... super shiok man.

Saturday was packing day - bah. Have boxes all over the place.
Then; in the evening, couple of workmates came over for a modest party. Gene made his now-famous jambalaya and whipped up a mean beef stroganoff, and I helped with a salad hahahhahah. Yes not the cook in the family.
well, it started out modest but turned out preeettty darned boozy.





Then on Sunday night (after a non-starter of a day = both of us slept for the entire afternoon) my philo mates - some of whom can be found on MiriLi - came to say goodbye. They treated us to a superb nosh at Por Kee in Tiong Bahru in anticipation of the US sojourn.
Then it was more drinks at our place (yes, its getting used well in our last days as tenants. We move out on Monday, June 12).
My brain was so dead that I forgot to take photos.
Gah.

In my two days of domesticum so far, been out for lunches, been doing laundry and some packing. The packing is not moving as fast as it should, but ahjhbpart from that...
aiyo...damned tragic, today, I decided to do a bit of housewife-y cooking... (just to immerse myself in the whole domestic felicity thing and also, I owe Ai-Lien some sambal balachan lucheon meat. It sounds terrible, i know, but she's addicted to the stuff. And since am planning to clear out the kitchen on Thurs... means, well, that's it la, no more cooking, thought I'd do a spot of cooking.
UNFORTUNATELY, while holding on to one of the cans, the label slipped off and the tin slipped out of my grasp and completely gashed my hand.
Blood yada yada.
Me yelling: "Errrh, G ... come and look please!".
G rolling his eyes and getting pretty miffed: "STOP COOKING WE'RE GOING OUT TO EAT"

He reckons it will need a couple of stitches, but after bleeding loads, it seems to have closed pretty okay, but will see a doc tomorrow if it starts to gape again.

Arti tells me to fluff up all the time so G will insist on me stopping cooking altogether. Heh.

What can I say? Not meant for domestication laaaaaaaaaah.

At least i can still type, surf the net and play computer games heheheh