What a HOT weekend!

It's a beautiful Sunday morning. I turned in late last night at 1am but my biological clock woke me up at 7.30am this morning after only 6.5 hours of sleep! Argh. I was tired, but could not get back to bed. I wanted to get a full 8hours sleep. I had to wake up and go get my breakfast as I did not eat dinner last night and was hungry!

Dad has not been driving for the past few nights cuz of the small accident that he met with on Wed night. Ah, it's all that young man?s fault. Duh, fancy hitting into the rear of the taxi. He admitted it was his fault and my dad had to follow him to his landed property somewhere in Mountbatten to copy his IC number and take down his particulars. What a screw-up. He did not even have his IC on him and that car belongs to his mum!

So the taxi is being fixed at the repair workshop now and Dad is off for these few days until Monday when he can collect the vehicle.

As I was hungry, and needed to go downstairs to buy bread for breakfast, I thought of going down to Delifrance to eat the buffet breakfast spread. Asked Dad along as he was awake watching TV and we made our way down after I showered. I'm in such a lethargic state that I need my coffee to perk me up man! And carbohydrates as well. Since I did not take any proper dinner last night. The breakfast is priced at $6.95, which I would normally not bear to spend that kind of amount on. However, I thought I ought to give myself a small treat after working so hard for the past week. :p

It is almost 3 pm now. I spent the last few hours online checking out my friends' blog and posted some photos and also surfed for online shopping information about Birkenstock sandals! I so badly want to get a pair. I do not have a proper pair of good walking shoes for going out and I intend to invest in a pair of Birks. I have 2 other friends who are keen to get and we plan to order online together so that we can offset the shipping fare. Found a website that would offset the fare as long as we make purchases of above $250. Great bargain!

It's a HOT day... So much so for staying in the operating theatre for the entire week and suffering from the extreme cold down there. Not knowing if it's raining or sunny outside... I was so thankful for the hot sunny day yesterday when MH and I decided to go down to Little India. It has been raining and cloudy for the past week and I was crossing my fingers that it not rained yesterday. Thankfully no.

I had wanted to go down Little India for quite a sometime since the lights were lit for the Diwali festival. I decided to go down yesterday although I would have loved to come home to rest after work. However, due to the fact that I am going to start shirtwork in another week's time and my timings are going to be really weird, I decided to grab this weekend and just went ahead.

I felt more or less like a traveler. We ate at 'Blue Diamond', this Indian restaurant that serves great chicken briyani. It was a very filling lunch, and hence the reason why I did not eat dinner after that. I took in quite a lot of fluids though. We began our 'exploration' and shopping around Sheng Siong after that. We controlled our shopping at Sheng Siong for we did not want to carry big bags of plastic while walking around! Haha. And we were pretty good at that!

MH did henna painting on her hand, as can be seen in the photos below. I finally did my threading, and my eyebrows do look pretty 'fakely neat' now. :p The time when I did in Iran was different as it was more painful (perhaps being the 1st time then) and not so neatly trimmed. Gee. Haha. I might present as a shock to some friends if they see me within these few days!

We visited the Veeramakaliamman Temple, of which I have been inside for a few times before. Then we walked down the streets and checked out some pasars(bazaars) which have been set up for this festive period along the way. The colourful desserts in the display windows, the authentic Indian cuisine, the many 'ABC' shops encountered along the way, the various stalls selling Indian-style jewellery for the ladies and decors for the Diwali festival, and the many small alleyways that could be explored made the entire experience quite out of the extraordinary. It's not something many would do in Singapore. Especially for the locals who would rather prefer to stay in the comfort of the air-conditioned shopping malls and spend their money on restaurants that charge for poor service. I found it a very good way to spend my Saturday afternoon just walking the ethnic enclave of our very own country and expose myself to the atmosphere that hangs so vibrantly in the air. I always thought if I do not even understand my own country's multi-cultural society, how on earth am I going to appreciate the world's?

We spent the last few hours in Mustafa Shopping Centre. I wanted to get a couple of stuff there and also to cool off my sweat-soaked shirt. The crowd got bigger as the night approaches and when we got to the clothing department, it was somewhat difficult to navigate your way through the narrow walkways in the mall. Hah. I did not bother to try on anything as a result. I would just wait to go down on a weekday after my work or something.

The 2 of us walked to Bugis to take the train from there. I love Bugis too. There's much to explore there and I feel it's an area in Singapore that's being undermined for its history and what it has to offer. I would love to pop over another afternoon and assume the status of a 'tourist'.

I have not watched a movie since I left for Iran in May. I cannot remember my last movie and I certainly would not spend $9 (or is it $10?) in the theatres unless it's a really good movie well-worth my time and money. There have not been any good films recently, unlike last year when I caught quite a number of foreign films around the same period. I love movies, but am also particularly choosy about the type of movie I watch. Even more so with the price hike. It's simply ridiculous to throw my hard-earned money into a trashy movie when I can do other more meaningful things.

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Aiye, aiye. I have photocopied the roster for November yesterday after work. I am still on office hour for the week of 7th-12th, but will be doing shift work from 14th to 26th. With some night shifts and afternoon shifts. Sigh. The cruel reality of working as a healthcare professional is setting in soon! I would be getting a little higher than usual pay but at the expense of my normal lifestyle. I would like to see how my body would take it. AH!

It's going to be another week of O.T.(operating theatre) for the coming week, still under training. But the week after that, I would be on my own independently. Mmm... I'm going to have to turn up ½ hour early for work and maybe go back home late, with only 30min of lunch. Sian. The worst part is the cold. Argh.

I am going to be working on Deepavali too! From 8.30am to 3pm. Not planning to go anywhere, so might as well just work. :p

It's a HOT day. I got to hydrate myself well to prepare for a long run I plan for later! Hmph!

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YL was off to Shanghai last night with her mum for a 10day trip. Good for her! It's a well-deserved break after working so much overtime for the past week! I am not feeling envious nor feeling the bug biting me, for I know I have had my share during my student days. However, I am reading Dervla Murphy's 'Full Tilt', of which it is about her travels on a bike from Dublin, Ireland to New Delhi, India in 1963! All solo! Cool! I simply cannot get enough of travel tales! Hah! She travels a lot and there are so many other books by her. She's already an old lady in her 70s and is still living in Ireland now. So cool... I would love to write and travel on day like her too...


"This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. "
~George Bernard Shaw