Life Rocks!: Chinese and the romantic pier

Well, as promised yesterday, here are some snaps i got from the net...

The hawkers (food courts) near our place

Thats' ECP again... Whoever took that picture-you rock!

An aparment looking exactly like ours, with clothes hanging out in the Singapore drying style!

And ya.. about today.. since this has become our usual routine, i wouldn't stress much on our uselessness!! Got up at 0921hrs for a visit that we were to give to the ministry of manpower for our visa, and for an appointment that sharvil had with his supervisor at 1000hrs! This time we didn't panic, coz we now know precisely what's to be done! We tried calling the supervisor, but we didn't have the number. So called the secretary instead, and asked her to inform him!

Took bath (which was compulsory as we didn't take bath the prev day inspite of a really sweaty day!) and left to MOM by taxi (ya, company's refund still holds!). Got the visa thing done, and came to office. We were told that the meeting with the supervisor was at 1500 hrs. So went to the cubicle and got stuff ready to submit to the HR. Submitted, and went to the bank to open an account. This bank is called the POSB. Excellent service here.. within 15 mins we had the account ready, pass book and ATM card at hand! That was really cool!

Came back to office, had lunch (which was really good.. mutton, fish, rice n all..), came back to cubicle. While sharvil was trying to fix his comp with help from the IT helpline here, i was browsing and mailing ppl, coz my supervisor was on leave today!

After that there's nothing much to add.. slept for a while, woke up and took the company bus to MRT and came home.

The evening me and sharvil went jogging to the beach, about 3-4 kms., and jumped into the water! Had a great time there.. running along the shoreline, writing names on the sea shore, and see them get washed away by water.. all this at 1930 hrs! Then half naked, we took a shower there, and went to the pier and started chatting for a while with the wind blowing at out face!

Wow! I should be here with my girl friend man! I miss her so much, more so when i see other couples here... which is everywhere and all the time, except the office!! I so wish she was here. Seriously, for those who read this blog, and plan to come to singapore, you should do so with your girl friend or boy friend.. it's gonna be the best thing you've ever done in life! And remember to pay a visit in your 20s itself, and not after you get married with family n all. Of course you could come then, but that should be after you've made your 20s trip! And for those who are in their 30 plus, better later than never! :)

We had an awesome dinner today... Coming back from the pier, we stopped at a hawkers' and ordered some chinese stuff.. What follows may be skipped by pure vegetarians.. non veggies read on!

First we ordered this ham-mushroom soup. First it tasted pretty weird, but with a bit more of salt and pepper, it was good.. mmm! Then arrived our noodle dish: Alio-e-Olio! These were the ingredients... Noodles, prawns, fish (all boiled, and with very l'll masala), and for the best part... the part that made us try it... the oyster, also boiled (couldn't find any masala on it though!) But it tasted pretty good. I mean, we liked the taste. But am sure most wouldn't like the taste! Probably we wouldn't have too, had we not been hungry and in the enthu to taste something different! But nevertheless, the stuff was good.. And here's a hint on how to eat chinese food stuff.. Don't try experiment or open (if possible) to see what's inside a particular stuff you've been served! Seriously, if you'd seen the oyster, you'd definitely, if not puke for in the worst case, atleast loose your appetite for sure! But I was determined to! So i saw it, and inspite of that had it! But it tastes fine! Much like meat... But you can feel the parts inside! Yuck? But it was indeed a 'wow' dish!!

So after that lovely dinner, we had a coke, got some really huge plums in a nearby fruit store, and came home. The plums were just absolutely tasty man! Never tasted plums like those before!

Had a long chat with jini, and my wingies selp and terror, who are planning to come here this october. Let's hope it works out fine!

And 0134 now... I don't wanna think about tomorrow! All I know is that neither of us is feeling sleepy at the moment! And that I, though not in a mood to blog just a few minutes ago, am in a don't stop typing mood now!

Some more pics...