Friends From All Around

Phew. This was an extremely busy (and probably fat laden) weekend. But it was fun, catching up with old friends from all around.

CI came back from the States recently and we finally met up. She wanted to play with Russy and K so she came over on Saturday morning. Had yummy ice cream at Ice Cream Gallery to counter the blazing mid day heat. Here's a photo of K and CI:

Met J & D at Mimolette for lunch. They came back from HK for J & W's wedding. Whilst waiting for them to arrive, lo and behold, bumped into L, he who is the reason why my basketball jersey (which I am coincidentally now wearing to sleep). He just finished lunch and was hanging around in the al fresco area. Small world. Anyway, lunch was good, Mimolette was thankfully relatively quiet and K, as usual, charmed the waiters and some patrons. We had a great time . Pity we couldn't hang out with J more cos J & W's wedding at Sentosa was scheduled to start at 5pm.

'Cos Mimolette is located at the Saddle Club off Bukit Timah, Lil K saw her first big horsey! Lil' K in her bright orange Aussie-inspired hat:

Went to check out the latest property launch, Breeze at East Coast, to be located at where SC used to stay. The place was nice (but then again, aren't all showflats nice?) but it was way way too expensive for the area, I thought.

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Slept in on Sunday. Good thing we have trained Lil K to do the same. Nice lazy Sunday mornings are always best! Met J & C & E for lunch at Parkway and to do grocery shopping. Needed to stock up on Lil K's food for the week. Checked out My Gym and signed K up for the Tiny Tykes class, hopefully that would help her motor skills a little. We start next week. Can't wait!

We're giving Herbie up for adoption tomorrow. Its been a good 3.5 years with Herbie. He's never given us any problems and has always been an ever-reliable boy. Hopefully when Herbie becomes mature tomorrow (and becomes Henrietta? Ha. G hates that name and insists it'll still be Big Herbie), it'll be as reliable and trusty. Can you spot Snowy, the guardian of our car?

Decided to brush off the layers of dust on my piano (I have not really played for the last what... 15 years at least? Not counting those times that I tinkered on it just for fun...) and try to impress Lil K with my sub-standard piano skills. Bones have all hardened and fingers are definitely creaky. Managed to bang out a couple of tunes. Tried to bluff my way through sight reading. Lil' K wanted a piece of the action too!

S came over after his run in the evening. He's my bestest male friend ever! He'll soon be flying off to Oslo and Geneva for a super duper shiok fake-work-and-mostly-play overseas posting in less than 2 weeks time. Haven't seen him in ages cos he's been flying around for work like crazy, always disappearing into black holes, I always say. We've always been hanging out loads since we first met in the same OG during orientation camp in Raffles Hall way back in 1997. I hope things still remain the same after he gets back at the end of this year... by then Lil K should be able to totter around like a drunken sailor. We'll leave Uncle S to totter after her and chase her then.

Oh, of course, we had to celebrate Lil K turning 7 months. Cake is a Maple Walnut Cheese Cake from SSC. Yums.

Since we are losing Herbie tomorrow, we decided to bring Russy out to East Coast for a walk. Its been at least 7 months since he's enjoyed a car ride and the air con that comes with it. Poor Russy boy. He enjoyed himself today though he went slightly hysterical when we first arrived at East Coast and we were backing in to park the car. As always, he tried to terrorise the cats along the way. We ate at The 360, the restaurant at Ski 360 at East Coast lagoon. That was the rest stop during our Saturday night Husky Walks (now defunct). The restaurant looks like it underwent a change of management. The food now sucks big time. It was beyond not-that-great, the food was AWFUL. How can anyone get pasta wrong? Geez. Even I can cook better pasta! The presentation looked promising, but it just tasted real bad. Here's a photo of Russy waiting for us while we tried our darnest best to stomach the food.