Duplicates

many velles and wjs. Eeeks!

Sour Spicy Fish

Introducing....

Another new dish which we tried in sz!

Worth every penny spent. Lots of huge chunky fish bits with beanspouts and salted veggie.

We ordered the non-spicy one (cos we saw many people ordering the spicy one and it looks like it was covered with chilli oil!!!) and it tasted really savoury even without chilli. Really good to go with plain rice....my verdict: very worth it! But... just abit too oily on the downside.

Eventful

Suddenly, i felt a burst of need to do some shopping for my footies. So wj and I did some shopping on sunday... Whoppee! hahah, actually i felt really good = (refreshed! happy! and lotsa smug smug smug) after some shopping although along the way i did feel abit guilty but sigh, i have been working OT 3 nites in a row...damn shag aredi...so i guess a few shoes to pamper myself wouldnt kill rite? Just have to think of creating space again for those new shoes now. So....hmmm *it's really hard to follow what my mind is going thru now, kinda like many things are racing at a time! Well like they say, women are multi-taskers!!!!* ....rite where was i?....yup and so I bought a few shoes and tops while wj got himself a new leather bag. But before we went shopping, we started the day early at about 10am and caught TMNT at noon (we wanted to catch Pirates but can you believe it! it's not opened here. Damn.) before taking the train down to 东门, 老街= A place where many locals frequent to get some cheap and trendy shopping done. Even though it was a rainy day, there were still quite abit of crowd walking around the area with coloured umbrellas. Splish-Splash. Many couples scuttering across the alleys and taxi honking at cars waiting to pick passengers. Honking is a way of life here in china BTW. Sometimes i think the locals just love to honk their honks as a way of destressing by making some noise. (Some even honk in a pattern!) As the noise went on, many others were seating at cafeterias watching the drizzling afternoon, as they sipped their chinese tea and ate their cheongfans. i wish weekends were here to stay.

~happy footies

take a walk with me

wj and i were cooped up in the apt last saturday. Well i didnt feel like popping by the city area so we stayed at home. Ate instant noodles and watch korea drama the whole afternoon. Finally i thot enuff was enuff and pulled both of us out of the apt for dinner. However, on route, we passed by the usual garden which is directly opposite our apt and decided to take a look. It's really funny how wj has stayed here for 2 years and yet he has never been to see this eco-garden before!

And my my!

The landscape was impeccably green, lushed bushes, timber planks with benchs, pebbled paths and stony tracks with water streams trickling down some areas. Bamboos lining jogging paths and manicured hedges along seating areas. There was a glass bridge over a pond of fishes with toads croaking and the park was an acting green buffer sandwiched between the residential area and a school which was filled with students playing basketball at the court.

The landscape was so pretty, neat and green! and i simply loved it. So now im looking forward for my next weekend at the eco garden again.

PHEW!

cant stand OT-ing in the office!

it is blardee hot in here! becos after working hours, the main system will shut down by itself, super duper right on the dot, reminding everyone that IT'S AFTER OFFICE HOURS... uhu people...time to go home and eat and make babies, okie forget the plural part since china is still a one baby system so tactfully it's time to go home and eat and wear a condom unless u havent made one (baby) yet....rights, back to me again, since im always deviating to some remote conversational bits of trash...rites where was i...oh yah...but no, we are an architecture firm and what do we do? we slave (echos aways) the nite away coal miners in a BLARDEE HOT coal mine. Needless to say we are all 'sauna-ing' in the office like little rats in the musty sewers.
I wonder issit becos the main building didnt charge all the offices after hours 'aircon' utility bills. And so they off the aircons! Off with their heads! Crazy! And there is no singular unit system in our office. So literally we are airconless!

~Should i cut my hair?

footies

Summer is here already!

let's take a moment to pause.

do not ask me how many shoes i have. (no comments)

do not ask me how much are these shoes. (S$12; S$4)

Communities which shape and being shaped

Let's take a moment to pause.

The collective memory of a city is based on common places that a community remembers. Buildings that evolve over time are key to the collective memory of a city: they are shared memories that shape a city's identity. These buildings urban artifacts, and likened them to works of art because they help shape and are shaped by the public's unconscious. These urban artifacts evolve over time: they change their functions, they grow, they shrink, but the core stays the same.

Aldo Rossi