near the beach. Shock of shocks its closed down!!!! Frodo and i stood there wondering what the hell happened to it, not a sign of it exists! life goes on i guess . We ended up at a quiet corner of the fishermans village, the food wasnt half bad but i forgot to get cash from the atm so was at the mercy of everyone else..heheh shit happens ya. After putting everyone in a cab frodo and i took a nice long walk, just talking about everything and anything had us a couple of cigars before we called it a night. I have always enjoyed long walks and great talks, its one of those things that make me feel good inside and frodo is a good partner for something like that. It strikes as strange how alike the two of us are, in thought that is, who would have guessed 5 years ago the way things would turn out.(or that they would rip away a nice little place on the beach, adios short chairs...)
<------THE NEW CARSaturday was more eventfull, the wife, the moo,the doo and I went into town to pick up the wife's new IPOD ( a nifty little device if ever there was one) . The thing was waiting for us at funan but we couldnt park anyhere near funan cause we we worried about the traffic caused by the IOC people and the NDP stuff going on at the padang, so we parked at golden shoe which as most people know is abit of a walk to funan.
Having made our little trek through boat quay which i must say seems to be more of a resturant row than a club or pub place these days, we proceeded to pick up the ipod from a store that had dramatically rude staff. I hate rude people, there is no reason to be rude, someone holds the lift door open its not difficult to say thank you, or excuse me when u feel the need to shove past someone is not a great task. anyway i seem to have wondered abit, right the ipod, well its a nice shade of blue the IPOD took like 10mins to pick up but the search for the perfect skin was something like 45mins needless to say the ideal skin was discovered and all was well, then we did something silly. We went into a camera shop...called JOHN 3:16 where i met probably the best camera folk in town, polite smart and generous they let me take a canon eos 350d out for a test. I was sold, it didnt take much to get me hooked but the price was just out of my league(as always). We left John 3:16 and popped into Harvey Norman and low and behold the camera was cheaper, had a great bundle that included 2 x 1gb cards a tripod, camera bag, camera cleaning kit (2 of em) and the additional battery pack/grip AND they had a great interest free installment programe (thanks to the moo, who helped greatly with the purchase)so what do you think we did, we went for ice cream and after much deliberation we went and got the camera!!!! YES I AM THE PROUD OWNER OF A CANON EOS 350D! A FINER THING OF BEAUTY I CANT CONCEIVE.
Now as if
that wasnt exciting enough, we had a great dinner at Em's place with lots of my favourite things, twas her birthday and while it is doubtfull she will ever read this HAPPY BIRTHDAY again!
Which leads us to sunday....with the new camera in tow the doo,moo and i went on a photographic adventure down the kranji trail at sungei buloh, of course i have a very very simple working knowledge of what is a complex piece of machinery and so spent lots of time fiddling with the camera. I took 1gb of pics!! mind you at 8mb per pic thats not difficult to do, i havent uploaded any of the pics yet but will do so soon. i am pretty sure that the moo took some great dragon fly shots as well but i must admit it was fun yet tough using the new camera. After walking for a couple of hours and then gettign a little snack and a drink we took a drive and found a strange and to my mind wonderous place...its called The Farmart Centre at Sungei Tengah Road, and gouped together they have an assortment of cottage industry type stores, from pet shops to a place selling croc meat to plant shops to a nice looking wine bar. We of course popped into a pet store
(the second silly thing we did) where we fell in love with a little scruffy looking shih tzu(and thus we did the 3rd silly thing we took the puppy out and played with it), dirty face and all. The doo and moo seemed on the edge of getting it but i think the guy over priced his pooch at $900.00 so the pup wasnt purchased...and thus PEPPER's standing as top dog is safe! Finally dinner time sunday the wife and i went for a great dinner at fish N co at the ariport, i really like the calamari at this place got all the right mixes of spice and flour. I really enjoyed going out with the wife after such a busy weekend and it was the perfect cap to a great weekend, she was happy with her new car, i was happy with my new camera and we were happy with each other and all was well with the world...untill this morning when i came to the office but that my dears is a blog of another colour....
