Breaking Fast at Esplanade

Yesterday had dinner with my wife's group former work colleagues. We ate at Alhot cafe at the Esplanade. The food was ok, but the ambience was quite nice. The sambal belacan was power, and the cheesecake was glorious. The view was quite nice too. Managed to catch up with some, talked for a while. However he was not able to follow us to Geylang after that though.

After that, went to Geylang Serai to walk around. Bought a TV console tablemat for sixty bucks. My wife and I are hopeless at bargaining. While bargaining, we thought of several people who would have been able to help up, cos they are quite good (exceptionally good) at bargaining. Anyway, felt that the price was quite reasonable.

I dunno, it just seems to me that the bazaar at Geylang is not what is used to be. It lacked a bit of ooommpph. The stalls offerings have been pretty similar for the past few years. The weirdest thing is why do they have to sell cars at a bazaar? Is it really necessary to do so? Anyway, do people really buy cars at a bazaar? How do they take out the car for a test drive? It seems pretty packed around the Geylang bazaar, how will they ever manage to ask the potential buyer to drive out the car from the bazaar? It's BIZARRE!

Well, today after sending my wife to work, came home and managed to fix up the remaining speakers for the surround system and VOILA, managed to make it work. Now I can listen to surround sound even whilst watching cable. Woohoo, it ROCKS!!! I feel like buying a CD or DVD just to immerse myself in it. Read my email and the DVD for Batman begins is ready for rental. Maybe will pop by Tampines Mall later to rent it.

Bought a sofa

Hahahaha....... even though I have resisted to buy a sofa for my home, finally got one. Quite huge and its BLACK!!!!! My fave colour. Just imagine, went to Changi South, Tampines area and finally went to Kallang and bought the sofa there. The sales guy, Nelson, was really helphul. The sofa will be delivered on Friday, was a bit scared they wouldn't be able to deliver before Hari Raya.

So there's gonna be a lot of work to be done before the delivery. Need to move the TV console and other stuff on it before Friday.

Both my family and my wife's family came to our house last Sunday to break our fast together. What a load of food there was. The food was not fully consumed and my wife and I have been eating the left overs for sahur and break fast since then, hehehehe.

Was working on Saturday, so didn't get to see the Man Utd game. It's always the case, everytime I don't get to watch the game live, they go and play like there's no tomorrow. Well, hopefully, this run of good form will continue and we can catch Chelsea. Although this seems like a really far fetched idea at this time. Nine wins out of nine for Chelsea, and they beat, no TROUNCED, Bolton 5-1. Emphatic win, considering that Bolton was up 1-0 at half time.

Will put up photos soon, I promise. Gonna take photos of the car, the new sofa. Oh ya, this Thursday gonna go out and break fast with my wife's old work mates. Then they wanna go to Geylang after that, so I hope to take some photos then. See ya!!!

After some time...........

Halos.... It's been a while since my last post. Can safely say that I am on the way to full recovery from the flu and cough bug. And I passed the bug to my wife, hehehehehe. sorry Hon, love you. Well, so much has been happening, but I was too tired and groggy to update. So here goes......

First and foremost, how the heck did England top their group! Well I can safely say that if it ain't for Rooney, Lampard and Crouch, England wouldn't be where they are today. Not forgetting that Beckham was suspended for the Poland match. Finally England's midfield was fluid again. Not a big fan of England though, but nice to see them at World Cup 2006. Will be supporting Holland again, hopefully, they will progress much further than the previous World Cups, under the guidance of Mr. Marco Van Basten. Good luck guys!

Next, I read in the papers the other day, that the telephone companies in Singapore are against the number portability issue that was raised. Why are they doing this to us consumers? It's not fair. The reason that they gave was that it was not feasible. Oh come on, just setting up the database will not put a big dent on their increasing profits year after year. I feel that we as consumers should have more say as to decide what we want

It's the month or Ramadan. Today marks the 10th day of fasting. The days seem like they flew past us. Soon, we will be celebrating Hari Raya Aidilfitri. I just can't help to wonder how people in the affected areas by the earthquakes are coping. It must be damn tough. Insya'Allah they will persevere during this holy month and be strong.

Last week, a fellow officer passed away in a traffic accident. One of my friends who was very close to him was quite perturbed. Yesterday we had a discussion about this. How would the person that survived the deceased will cope. It made me think for some time, I am not exactly what you would call a class A product, don't have insurance, has a sizeable debt, working my ass off, but no savings. I dunno, I think it's just me, the money that I have, I wanna spend. On hindsight, I could have probably bought more practical stuff and save a bit more. Well, I guess I just made some mid October resolutions now. Not gonna tell all of you though what the resolutions are. Hopefully, come January next year, I will be able to say that I have achieved what I set out to do. Insya'Allah.

Just finished the morning Sahur. Well, gotta go prepare for work now. Ciao cin Ciao...... hehehehe

Cough, cough

I feel really sickly. Feel numb throughout. Anyway feel much better than yesterday. Was coughing like crazy, couldn't sleep well. Ended up, drinking cough medicine, honey and strepsils in the middle of the night. Couldn't even swallow without feeling any pain. At least the coughing has reduced somewhat this morning.

Had campbell soup (the one with the pasta bits in it) this morning for "Sahur" (eating before the fasting begins). After that coudnt sleep, so wasted my time on several games of jawbreaker on my O2 mini. Got a relatively high score today of 3400. Sent my wife to work and now just lazing about at home. So many things to do before Hari Raya, clean this, clean that. But too tired/sick to do it today. Maybe in the next coming weeks. I work well under "pressure"....... hehehehe

Where has the weekend gone?

Its the end of the week,or is it the beginning???? I really don't know right now. It never seems to amaze me, I look back and wonder where has the weekend gone. One minute it's Friday nite, and the next, Its already Sunday evening, and a case of the Monday blues.

Anyway, the weekend was fruitful. Went for classes, attended 2 family functions, MAN U winning again! :) But this cough just won't go away. Well you can't win them all can you.

It's been a while since I last met up with my cousins and my wife's family, and I enjoyed meeting them. Anyway, the fasting month is coming up soon, hopefully will lose a few kilos (Yeah right, and gain more than double after Hari Raya) hahahahaha.

Went and finally bought the Microsoft Office, it's been a hassle really without the excel or word programmes. Couldn' even put up my appraisal last week, cos didn't have word and had to do it in office (with the help of a friend though). Many thanks......

Tiring Day

It's been a tiring day after work and the best part is I CAN'T sleep. Arrggghhh! been tossing and turning about for the past one hour. So I decided to update this blog. And the BEST part, now I'm feeling sleepy. Oh well, gotta sleep though, tonight working again. So sianz.

Okie, now that I have a blog to update, I will soon be out and about taking pictures and putting them up here. Haven't decided whether want to wash the car or not, cos it looks like it's going to rain. hehehehe....... me and the "occasional" laziness