Saturday, May 05, 2007
Eileen and Yitsun flew off to Taiwan today and will be in the US on Sunday. Took the gruelling one hour 858 trip to terminal 1. Woke up at 9am but in the end didn't make it to the airport at 11am, all because of the 20 mins wait for the bus to arrive. But luckily check-in wasn't that early. Had my lunch at the airport's staff canteen. The variety of stalls were really A LOT.
The first half of the bus trip was -.- because a man sat beside me had a reeking smell of cigarette. Lucky I had the air-conditioning focused on me so at least it won't be as strong. He alighted at Jalan Kayu stop which kinda save me from the suffocation.
On my way back on 858 again, a decent young man clad in office wear sat beside me. He was not that decent, at least from my point of view. In the beginning of the bus trip, he had newspaper in his hands and was reading it but spreaded the paper so wide that I had to squeeze to one side of the seat. And the way he read the paper was... It was like he only read the right side of the paper. After keeping the paper, he decided to nap. The way he slept was like no one on-board the bus. His style of sleeping was slumped all the way to the right, which was to where I was... Really felt like changing seats but all were filled. Luckily for me when he was close to slumping onto me the bus jerked and he sat upright again. Kudos to the driver for all those times. Coincidentally, he also alighted at Jalan Kayu stop.
Anyway, survived the bus ride and met up with Sarah to pass her Winnie's present because I realise I didn't have the time to rush down to Jurong West and then reach back home before 4.30pm.
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Had dinner at Rabbit Brand Seafood Restaurant. Yea... the name Rabbit. My dad called the restaurant for directions and here's how he started... "Hello? Is this Rabbit?" - My brother and I just burst out in laughter.
They were having some promotions for seafood and the Nonya-styled Patin fish was extremely delicious. It was literally melt-in-your-mouth kind. The fish was really fresh and doesn't have the soil/mud taste like some freshwater fish have. But the vegetable - brocoli with prawns is extremely expensive and not worth the money. It's like $20 for not even one whole brocoli and a few shelled prawns. The rest of the menu was okay - garlic steamed scallop w/ shell and beef slices with onion and ginger.
I saw their supper menu and it's rather woth the money as the dishes doesn't cost more than $6 each except if you order shark fin and Buddha jumps wall.
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Had my eyes checked finally. The short-sightedness was okay didn't change much. But my astigmatism did. The optician was talking about mine being diagional rather than the horizontal or vertical which I didn't quite get it. But she did say it made me dizzy which was true. And since the astigmatism was diagional means I couldn't get the disposable contact lens which I had hoped to try. So in the end, I sticked to wearing spectacles instead of ordering the permanent contact lens. Yeah!! Got a groovy frame today, haha, can't wait till I collect it. But it totally burnt a hole in my pocket because I offered to pay for the whole thing myself~ $200 for everything (after discount)
I am going to be so broke because several birthday invitations have surfaced which meant more spending~ I have to find a job soon...
