WHAT A WEEK!! I knew it was going to be a killer week when my friend called me on monday to ask for undertakers number, his uncle had just passed away 79years old and married for 53 years. That was monday, tues was a busy day at work had multiple appointments plus the regular litany of problems here, managed to get out in one piece though and i met frodo and bala for a light workout at the kingfisher gym. Yes folks thats right the gym laugh it up, Wens was another nightmare here at a little place called the Concentration Camp. we had tons of things going on, leaking pipes, water spray testing, eletrical problems, you name it we had it PLUS i had to work until 8pm even though it was my duty. I was dog tired and had a headache by the time work was done so i decided to take a cab home anyway while in the cab my mood was made better by a cab driver who was listening to eric clapton and singing along so half way home i told him "Uncle, to pasir ris!" i decided to go the wake. I am glad i did, i always feel that everyone deserves a good send off, it is the last chance to do something for the physical person on earth, i dont like wakes but i always feel i should go and am always guilty when i do. So that was wensday
Thursday, i skipped out of work at 1 and met Sherwin n Bala for some serious shopping. I had my list and i check it twice. We started at centerpoint where we decided maybe we should eat first so after looking for a bite and meeting up with bala we decided on marche. Now i know there are alot of marche fans out there, and i admit the food is good but for the prices we are paying i think they could at least learn to be polite (could it be my luck?) Firstly some of the counters had no menu or price and when i asked the guy "what have you got?" his reply "Pasta" was not helpful at all. The other thing is the buyer does all the work, u get the table or hunt for it anwyay, you walk around with that card in your hand always afraind that you might lose it and have to pay 100 dollars, you are FORCED t owalk aroudn the whole place cause you dont know what ALL the stalls are selling. Then you find out what you want but there is no clear start to the line you finally get to the counter and have to have a little discussion with the dude in the back who is hard of hearing so you have to shout the fact that you are a greedy pig ordering everything in sight also that you are cheap cause you keep asking HOW much?? how much?? after all that they tell you, come back in 5 mins. So you thinkl ok 5mins ill go back and grab a seat for 5 mins which you do. 5 mins later your back at the counter and he looks at you as if your an ape that cant tell time and says 2mins more, no sorry no please no i'll send it to you nothing just TWO MINS MORE. now you see why i;m not a fan? and you dont know how much your total bill is untill you pay. damn stupid system.
Back to shopping, we went down from centerpoint through Taka, lucky plaza,paragon, far east plaza, dfs, borders till we reached tanglin mall. A little sidebar i dont like shopping esp for girls, it sucks and its hard i am always afraid i will disapoint them. Guys its easy, books, belt, socks, vouchers, cigars alcohol...but with chicks...sigh..TLOML gave me specific instructions on waht she wanted from Topshop but that was a fiasco as was the disaster that was Mango...i could feel the fear in the shops as we walked in. They said lipstick, sounds easy, you know how many coloured lipsticks they have like a million. red alone comes in 68000 shades how the hell do i know, you seen one you seen em all. Next year i am leavign all the chick gifts to TLOML.
After all taht we met a couple of friends for drinks at Muddy Murphys had a great little waitress named Aundrey who was all perky and smiles, i figure had been working there for a week and when i asked hershe said yes 1 week is it so obvious? heheh yes Audrey your just oo happy.
Friday i ahd to attend the funeral, it was a bittersweet occasion, a celebration of a great journey come to a close, as Father Time said it so well "his 79years as a pilgrim here on earth are over" His grandson gave a moving eulogy which had even the casket company people crying.
Then it was more shopping, thank god i had Jazzy with me she was most helpful, from the swiss butchery to the inside of isetan she knew what to do and where to go!! Finally last night was mexcian night at mums place, a great time with the whole gang, check out Alisons or Philips blog for more details
LAstly...forgive me for the many typos and lack of pictures, its been a long week.
Right about 2005 years ago Joseph would have been telling Mary," its not long now honey only 12miles to go till we get to bethleham(its a good thing we got the four leg drive donkey instead of that jackass zach and liz have:)....i shall entertain you with a song....99 green bottles on the wall 99 green bottles if one of those bottles should accidentaly fall 98 green bottles on the wall...." Mary "Joseph...you know how i am without sin? well if you dont shut up that could change!"
Philip and i were stalking the sun in more ways then one today. We went to the Mandai Orchird Garden again this morning to try and photograph some sun birds, both the Olive backed and Crimson variety. I took almost 300 pictures and was very excited to see the shots on the big screen but alas i was to be disappointed. While my composition of the subjects was OK, i used a faster iso to compensate for the poor lighting conditions and this is where things when wrong. The pictures came out grainy to my disappoint. I am fairly happy with the performance of my new sigma lense though, it handled well and was pretty ok even at 300mm. Anyhow looks like i shall make a return trip to the Mandai Orchid Garden!
