Of gluttony, entertainment and stuff

I’ve had an incredibly busy weekend, one which requires an extra day (or three) to sleep it off and recover, not that i’ve had that luxury.

I’ve decided to buck the regular trend of listing events chronologically, and instead am going to list them thematically.

If that doesn’t float your boat, i don’t know what will.

Exercise

I woke up ridiculously early on saturday, and decided that while i’m up, i might as well go get some exercise! So i drove (yes, drove, i do get the irony, thank you), to the gym and got in a solid 40+min session. A happy, aching start to a busy day!

On Sunday, I had to wake up at 6am (groan) to reach the Padang for the 7.30am start of the Shape run. As usual, Sam was already there and waiting (I had to take an alternate route because my regular one was blocked off due to above mention run), and finally managed to make it to the starting point, yawning and ready for bed. Sam also said that we should try running part of the run at least. I told her I was going for the Shape Walk, not the Shape Run, and asserted that she was crazy.

Having said that, I did run a teeny bit (started and ended the route running), and finished the run in 51 minutes! (I was predicting my taking an hour and a half, quite honestly). After this we lined up to pick up the goodie bags, and some other tshirt, and went home happy, all set for a well-deserved shower.

Beautifying

After the burst of exercise on Saturday, I ran home for a shower, and rushed out again for my facial. Now my skin is smooth and glowing! (for the next half day at least!)

In the afternoon, I met up with Sam (yes, she features a lot in this weekend’s happenings), for a pedicure, where we made life changing decisions (which nail colour to get?), and important observations (Sam’s magazine told her liquid eyeliner is in, mine told me that in the summers, it’s okay to leave the house wearing next to nothing, because it’s fashion!)

People sightings

After the pedicure, we waited for miss koh in Plaza Singapura, and while there we saw Baxter (our MD!). We also popped back into our office to use the loos (The ones at PS were nasty), and to our surprise, saw that the lights were on. Sam went to investigate, and we learned that Danny was in the office. We also bumped into Snigdha (another Weber person) at the bbq later in the evening.

On Sunday, while dad and i are lounging in the living room, reading the paper/books and listening to music, dressed super casually (i was in a tshirt and pyjamas), we heard the lift door open, and an uncle stepped in, looking rather bemused. He had wanted to stop by to give us a little box to sweets to celebrate his son’s engagement, and somehow managed to end up in our house. Creepy. We thanked him and all, and when the lift door closed, my dad looked and I looked at eachother, and smiled sheepishly.

Oops.

Fooding

I decided that for Lucas’ 3rd birthday party, which I was attending on Saturday night, I should make cute little cookies for the kiddies. So i decided on these little jam sandwiched cookies, and after my gym trip, I mixed together the dough, and put it in the fridge to harden while i popped out for my facial. I came back and got to rolling out the dough, cutting the shapes, baking them, rolling the remaining dough, cutting shapes, popping them in the oven, rolling the dough…(you get the idea).

Turns out that little sandwich cookies are rather time-consuming! I finished just in time to put them in a box, put the box in a bag, to grab my things and the car keys, and make a run for my pedicure!

Two little kiddies in particular enjoyed my cookies. So much so, that I had to stop sam and johju’s little grubby hands from constantly reaching into the box while I was driving them to the birthday boy’s party!

And at the bbq, i stuffed myself to the point where i couldn’t really move off my seat, and in a half daze started to make really dumb(er) comments on life in general. Which also lead me to think about what kind of drunk I would be. (I can’t remember what conclusion we got at, but whatever it was, Alvin agreed it would be a rather scary version of me to come across).

At some point on Sunday, I said to my father, “Dad, I’ve got bad news for you.”

Dad: *doesn’t look up from the paper he’s reading* “hmm, which is?”

Me: “I bought some wholewheat flour. Which means that I’m going to start using it in my baking.”

Dad: “And…?”

Me: “And that means that I’m going to test them on you, so you’re going to have to eat them”

Dad: “Oh. that’s not all that bad to hear!”

Entertainment

Ruha’s in town these days, so met up with her on Friday night, and had dinner, at a Spanish (i think) restaurant at Clarke Quay. Also then tried to figure out how she should get herself home, by examining bus maps, and through phone calls to her mother.

I dragged father to see the Dark Knight after dinner. Batman is only there as a prop, he’s barely in the movie (loved his motorbike though), and the main character in the movie is the Joker, followed by Harvey Dent. Although looking at what our hero gets up to (Batman, not Joker), it’s no wonder all these people need disguises. Can you imagine the huge bills these guys would be smacked with to restore destroyed cities if the authorities knew where these guys lived???

But i digress, the movie as a whole rocked! go see!

Literature

I read the Reluctant Fundamentalist, by Mohsin Hamid. He previously wrote “Moth Smoke”, which I strongly recommend everyone to read. His latest offering is ok lah, but then I guess it would be kind of hard to top his first book, so i forgive him.

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