It began at Little India MRT station, I managed to get out of the office and rushed down to the MRT station by 7pm. We had dinner at Muthu's -- not worth posting pics here because it was way too atas and not worth picture space on the blog. A very short dinner but was very happy.

Next day was a tough day at work, but started off with a good morning at Komala Villas along Buffalo Road. I had a dosai, he had an onion uttapam, we both had wonderful company on a Friday morning. Armed with a SIM card, we were ready for the next 4 days.

Komala Villas, Buffalo Road - our favorite for the trip

Onion Uttapam, Poori, Dosai

In the middle of Friday, there was a surprise snack pack of Marks and Sparks Jaffa cakes and sour cream and chives potato chips. A sweet surprise to make the horrible day at work seem much easier to deal with. It was my lifelife as I worked till 1am at night.

Saturday... already very tired and sleepy. It promised to be a day of fire fighting, but at 5pm we went to the Cage for some soccer. I thought it was too crowded and went for a run along Tanjong Rhu, but when I got back, I played for about half an hour. It was nice to meet your friends, though some of them will become my bosses somewhere down the road! Then it was off to Chai Chee bak chor mee (note: not Chai chee fishball mee, and don't drive into jams when you are hungry). We got there, food was ordered and he jumped out to eat.

Despite each having a full bowl of noodles and some side dishes as supplements, we jumped back into the car and decided simultaneously that it was not enough. And so we proceeded to the location below for some carrot cake and sugar cane and 100+. Note: This was no. 8 can of 100+ between us in a span of 4 hours.

A very happy Saturday, and then I had to return home to work after being ordered by the powers above to produce some info for Sunday's dialogue at the Grassroots club. Of course, a Sunday morning has to start with some good company and indian food (since we are obviously on an indian theme) so we travelled from Little India to Thomson for some Casuarina prata.

Many Kosong, many egg, and 1 paper.

Off to the dialogue, then to lunch with the family and relatives at Laguna Club, and then to Raffles City! A very quick meet up in the afternoon (almost like a preview of Monday), bought some apricot cheese, dropped him off for his wedding dinner and off to tuition for me. Monday morning went back to work, went off for early lunch at Hong Lim - I always like the old Singapore feel of the food centre. Walked to Starbucks at Central, at it was there that I concluded I needed to get away from work and so I promptly took half a day off. Collected my barang from office while he waited, and we trooped to Raffles City to do some case studies. Such a lovely afternoon spent sitting on the couch at Gloria Jean's, testing each other on some case interviews.

Hong Lim Complex

Gloria Jean's at Raffles City basement

Paid a visit to the rented apartment at Paterson on the pretext of measuring the doors :P Then dinner at Banana Leaf Apollo along Race Course road with Mamba and Lynn, some simple icecream at United Square, then back home. Tuesday, last day. Breakfast at all time favorite joint of the trip, then back to work. Took off at 1 to go to the airport, and had some ramen at Ajisen. Tears and goodbye... got to wait a few more weeks if promise is not broken.

And boooooo. A phone call from the power above that threw me right back into work to prepare for the interviews on Thursday and Friday.

But you know, a short 5 days is very much needed once in a while, to remind me of what's good in this world, and to give me some hope for things to come. That few seconds of you and me as I send you off to the gate... it makes the wait worth it.


Please please. I'll take a credit on next year's birthday wishes for this to work out.