Nine Courses and Five Beers ago...

An enormous thank you to the man I married and a friend for making our first Dinner and Beer a tummy-felt success!

#1 - Crab salsa bruschetta.

#2 - Roasted peppers.

#3 - The cod was baked in a combination of miso, mirin and mushroom.

#4 - Lamb with dijon mustard.

#5 - Pork belly rolled in bacon.

#6 - Ribeye skewers with fresh herbs (middle plate).

#7 - A trio of sausages - farmer's grill, neurnberger and spicy italian.

#8 - Tri-fromage aragosta frittata, aka triple cheese lobster omelette!

#9 - Dual potato mash baked with hearts of quail eggs.

This was the assortment of bear that paired with the food famously!

Kumxia to those who labored to make the evening a deliciious event, and all those who lent us their empty tummies. :-)

7:59pm

Tonight was a rare treat. We were on our way home along the CTE before 8pm! As we approached the ERP gantry headed north, the large LED clock read 7:59pm. EVERYONE SLOWED DOWN! Hahaha… I think many people were slowing down to pass under the gantry at 8pm so they wouldn’t need to pay the S$1.

I guess that explains the signs we’d passed earlier, prompting heavy traffic ahead! ☺ Though there were a lot of people trying to get on and off the PIE via the CTE.

Thank you for a good chuckle!

It's the thought of the crepe cake that counts!

Heard from a friend at dinner this evening, about something that happened yesterday. The man I'd married had went way out of his way to try to buy me highly recommended crepe cake. When he got to the shop, he had $50 on him, but the cake was $60, and the store didn't take anything other than cash. So... no crepe cake.

With the direction my weighing scale's been going lately, I'm glad he couldn't get the crepe cake, though I thank him for the thought. :-) And my friend for telling me. :-)

Sector 7

Kumxia my techno-geek friend who passed us this URL for Transformers fans!

www.sectorseven.org

password: codeblack

Check out the Transformers movie! It's LOUD!:-)

Thank you anyway...

I have been quite happy with my bags for the last year and a half, after my husband had braved a sea of estrogen to buy for me the very first tokidoki for LeSportsac bag (a very useful stellina) in February 2006. My close friends then got me a citta caramello last November and I got myself a paradiso campeggio during the same period. I have been and will continue to be happy with the bags as the super kawaii characters make me smile. :-)

The stellina from last year started with minor problems, it was the zip, when the bag is unzipped the zipper gets caught in the end of the bag, causing the stitching and fabric there to wear out. When I'd gone last year to the LaSportsac counter to ask the salesperson for help, and she had plainly told me not to open the bag to widely... how silly an answer is that? I had to suppress my laughter when I heard it. Nonetheless, the bag still works, I just stitched the zip shut just before the end so that it won't catch the fabric every time the bag was opened.

I was prepared to put up with a temperamental zip when I purchased the campeggio, I just stitched the zip up before the fabric got chewed. The bag worked fine for 7 months until this evening when I'd notice that the stitching along the top of the leather band that held the strap to the campeggio had completely unraveled. Augh... :-(

I wrote an e-mail to the customer service e-mail address listed on the LeSportsac website to express my disappointment. Did you know that their repair department does not fix limited edition merchandise such as tokidoki? And even for the classic items they do fix, you got to send it to Kentucky, USA. Not many choices for international customers. Anyone know a good bag repair person in a country near me?

Oh well, no more bags for me from them. And to think the latest spiaggia was the cutest to date with the fishes, surfers, sea urchins, dolphins and crabs... Thank you anyway... it was good while it lasted...

Another Sunday

Need to kumxia all the nice heavy truck drivers along the airport's coastal road last Saturday, 16th June 2007. Many truckers were kind to allow us cyclists a whole lane when they past us panting peddlars.

Especially to a kind gentleman, XB/D8912?, hard to see too clearly past sweaty eyes, who had allowed the 2 of us to pass before him, even after the light had just turned in his favor. Thank you! :-) I feel safer on the road when I know that there are such nice drivers along that road. I kumxia all the drivers who ply that road on Sundays. Kumxia kumxia...

Pro Bono Baker Strikes Again!

Kumxia to the one who feeds both my belly and my mind. Very yummy pretzels, but got the seeds stuck in my teeth all morning. Thank you!