absolutum dominium

i love my internship. apart from the only drawback of not having enough work to keep my mind occupied, everything else is perfecto. :)

and i love my bf too. *muakz* he's been picking me up with the car for the past 2 nights. which is absolutely fantastic coz i miss long car rides with him driving since canada.

fortunately, i think those 2 nights' experiences have more than made up for it.

yesterday i met him at city hall. my 'work' had ended after my sitting in at the lim ah seng sentencing, so we had the lavender chocolate mousse at bakerzin; before i followed up with beef noodles at the food court upstairs (which i was craving).

after tt, deciding tt town was too fucking crowded (everyone and their grandmother was out in orchard and city hall and poor ben was caught in a jam in orchard for almost an hour(!!!)), we decided to do what we love to do best - drive around.

we took the ecp up to changi beach near the pulau tekong ferry terminal to watch the planes land. we spent a fair bit of time there coz this was the first time i was watching planes land and i was extremely excited. it was crowded at changi beach, but most of the crowd were malay families, and they all seemed to be happy and enjoying themselves just spreading out their mats and sitting around enjoying the view and night breeze.

i think tt no one in singapore knows how to enjoy life better, or be happy with what they have, as much as the malays. for tt, i have to admire them. hee hee.

after this, we drove past changi village and onto the tpe towards the sle, coming out at ang mo kio. original plan was to pay dear diana a visit and call her out for supper again, but tonight she was out, so we decided to do something else. first we wanted to have supper at the roti prata house at upper thomson, but it was so ridiculously crowded we decided to move out - i.e. drive some more and maybe eat at fong seng instead.

so we went back down the pie and changed to the aye to get to fong seng, and then we headed down pasir panjang road looking to drive around mt. faber. first we took this really long flyover hoping tt it would beat the traffic, only to realise tt there was no way to get off and tt it connected right to the ecp... except for brani gate.

with a sigh of relief we turned down at brani gate - only to realise tt only authorised container trucks went through brani gate, and tt there was no way to avoid having to drive through the checkpoint. so we two idiots asked the mata at the checkpoint how we could get out of there, and he told us to reverse our car all the way out to the main road. (!!!)

ok, we reversed half the way, did a u-turn, and drove in the opposite direction of the road out until we found the main road.

after tt we did find mt. faber, but by this time i was really sleepy, so after visiting tt place and a few others along the way to fong seng, i changed my mind about supper and ben drove me home. by tt time it was at least 1.30am anyway, so i went to bathe, came online for a short while, and then crashed all the way until this morning.

had a breakfast of chwee kueh, and then a lunch of kway teow mee, with the parents. my mom was subtly trying to get me to listen to her take on family values. but it was better now. they seemed happy tt i like my mentor and my internship quite a bit.

then ben came to fetch me after tt. we were supposed to watch the dvd 'city of god', but tt plan was postponed coz there wasn't enough time. fetched his brother and the gf somewhere, and then we had a dinner of the famous paper wrapped chicken at union farm at clementi rd.

after tt, we drove to ang mo kio to fetch diana out for dessert at the bakerzin - coz i was craving chocolate. but coz we took a wrong turn off the cte towards braddel rd, we ended up driving through lornie, farrer, and holland rd, to take the kim seng/river valley route to the one fullerton. but once we got there i ordered the sweet pleasures, which consists of a hazelnut praline layer in between layers of wafer and chocolate, a white and dark chocolate mousse flavoured with sumatran coffee; ben ordered a black forest chocolate ice-cream, while diana ordered 3 tapas consisting of a chocolate fondue with strawberries, a chocolate caramel ice-cream, and a pistachio creme brulee. we got a fantastic table - right by the railing overlooking the marina bay sea; the view and the sea breeze was amazing. and tonight singapore was neither hot nor humid, but rather cool, slightly breezy, and relatively dry, so it was an absolutely wonderful time to be out. except later we observed it to be both cloudy, and to have very pink clouds, so it might very well rain heavily tomorrow.

after bakerzin, we decided to take diana on a spin. so we drove her to changi beach so tt she too, could see planes take off and land for the first time. then we drove thru tampines before taking the tpe - sle route back towards ang mo kio - to pump gas for the 2nd time in 2 days. after tt we decided to get supper at the roti prata house at upper thomson coz it wasn't as ridiculously crowded tonight.

there was a small incident with the server completely guai laning us and getting me and ben kinda riled up, but apart from tt it was ok. we ordered plain, egg and paper prata, while diana ordered a really fluffy mushroom cheese prata. yum. after tt, we sent diana home and ben fetched me back.

but once again... it was at least 1.30am when i reached home.