absolutum dominium

lalalalala. =)

yesh, finally i am entitled to do a "i-woke-up-and-brushed-my-teeth" type entry after a long draught. bah.

my mom made breakfast today. and when i say she made breakfast, i really *mean* she made breakfast. she *made* chee kueh and chye dau kueh, which she fried with black soya sauce and 2 eggs. amazing stuff! the chee kueh was big and packed with fragrant rice; the chye dau kueh tasted even better than what you get outside. heehee.

and after breakfast, i went to bukit timah market for breakfast part II, where he ordered mee siam (to soothe my mee siam mai hum craving), and i had tau huey.

and then we had black pepper ribs (me) and black pepper chicken for lunch less than 3 hours later. tt was quite a lot of food! and all we did for the rest of daylight was nua and watch dvds - at least, 1 dvd: this movie 'take the lead' starring antonio bandaras in a strictly ballroom meets you got served meets dangerous minds type movie.

predictable, but very nice dancing. yay!

damn the sun tho. it refused to come out, even though it didn't rain today. bah.

we met chiang liang, his gf, and a whole bunch of other people for dinner at chinatown food street - celebrating cl's birthday in advance. parking in chinatown on a sat night at dinner time is a bit of a problem; fortunately we still managed to find parking. all in all, it was a group of 12.

they had a pushcart stall selling the kolo mee tt was featured in the today's newspaper today, so i and ben got to try it. it's more expensive than normal bak chor mee, and it looks like maggi mee, but it actually tastes quite good. besides the fact tt it does not get soggy, it also absorbs and retains the taste and flavour of the soup/gravy used to cook it, so it's really delicious.

and it's really interesting tt with half the group, the conversation always revolves around dota. cl and ben were trying to get cl's gf to play dota again. it was really hilarious, but it's obviously not gg to work. even though her dota is a hundred times better than mine. bah.

after dinner, we went over to gv marina to catch a movie (in the cinema). the only movie tt looked worth watching was the preview for 'singapore dreaming' at 11.40pm. it being 9.00pm at the time, we had quite a bit of time to kill. so, against both our better judgments, ben went back to chapter 2 to have his hair cut again.

big mistake. after the hair cut, everyone who looked at him stared at his hair. besides the incredulous stares tt we got from the commonfolk, there was this girl in the esplanade as we were walking in, who gave him this blatant stare tt screamed "omg mad man mad man!"... all conveyed in a single look. perhaps the fact tt he was wearing a lock cock t-shirt and his short sexy jjc shorts didn't actually help matters. wahaha.

but anyway apart from the fact tt he *really* looks like he just woke up, his hair is ok. i compared it to tt second hair cut tt he got in vancouver tt was probably part of the reason why my mom ended up thinking tt he was a no-good rogue. basically any haircut in singapore is better than tt hair cut (and the drug addict one too).

we then went for sinful dessert - the 'madagascar' fondue, which is basically this so-called 'top of the line' dark chocolate fondue, which you dip red and green apples, strawberries, bananas, marshmellows, bread sticks and apricots (yuck) into. it was pretty okay - more worth it than max brenner's in terms of price and quantity i guess, but nothing beats the rich creamy smoothness of the haagen daz chocolate fondue.

of course, having a double espresso shot with a rich dark chocolate cube from chocz nearly sent my bf to heaven. now, if only he could be allowed to smoke at the same time... it seems the 3 'C's just go together.

at 10.45pm, we made it outside... for the last song in the set played by EIC! argh! if i had known tt they were playing outside the esplanade on sat night i would have come by to watch them much earlier! *pout* but on the bright side, at least we managed to catch 1 song in tt set, and the song was coldplay's 'yellow', which is one of my fave sing-along songs (as well as a song tt ben and i regularly sang together to on our long car journeys). yay!

and once ben had done his customary smoking thing, we walked from the esplanade through marina boulevard and towards kallang. it's interesting how through experience, you end up being intimately familiar with certain places, such tt a simple walk will give you a lot to contemplate and to speak of.

by the time we walked back to the cinema, it was time to collect the popcorn and go in for the movie. i don't want to give too much away, but i do recommend this movie. i feel tt it is a relatively accurate depiction of the common singaporean; although there are stereotypes, these are not unfounded, and it does speak volumes about the vacuous nature of chasing purely materialistic dreams.

the movie is however, depressing. and not an easy pill to swallow. i was immaculately depressed thereafter. it just reinforces my views tt singapore is not an easy place in which to be happy. and i fear tt i might become like one of the few characters inside, and i might violate the principles tt i now uphold. do your dreams dissipate with age, or marriage, or with the onset of dull insidious practicality, such tt you settle for the mediocre and the mundane to chase impossible and unfulfilling wisps of smoke?

i feel tt all singaporeans should watch this movie. even if you do not wish to be depressed, at least for awareness. however, the sad thing is tt the singaporeans who should watch this the most, won't and never will. *sigh*

after the movie ended, i was strangely hungry. so my baby drove me to get mac's, and then he drove me home.

and thus ends the day worth blogging about. =)