Dieting

After a somewhat filling weekend with Michelangelo’s, Coca, Provence, California Pizza Kitchen and Canale, I decided to go for a low carb lunch and went for fish soup with a bowl of rice. (I said low carb, not no carb)

It was relatively satisfying but I have no doubt I’ll be hungry later.

My colleague wanted to buy crystal jade egg tart for tea time and I tagged along. Then I saw this...


Man, they always make it so difficult to diet.

But im glad to report that I declined my colleague’s offer of the free egg tart she got.

Sweets!

Saw these hand made sweets at a shop in Central.

Made from a long rod of hardened candy and then “hand chopped” by the staff. Imagine the effort trying to do the little images in the centre of the sweet.

Rare Sight

Caught a rare sight today..someone entering the phonebooth and using a phone card. However, he came out after a while and went to another booth and subsequently left that booth too. Probably none of the phones work anymore.

Sad State

I went to Ion today. It wasnt my first time so it was a calmer and more relaxed walk through the mall.

As with the first time i came i had some bread from Provence. Now, Provence isnt new to me as i used to have it once in a while from Holland V during those Uni studying days. And oh those custard-filled babies.. oh man. The Provence in Holland V was popular but it wasnt overflowing with people.

But not the Ion one.

Throngs of people queuing and also watching the bakers. And people, most aunties, were just grabbing the lighter-than-air custard and also chocolate thingies almost like they were free! Oh man.. When it got to my turn, i am embarrassed to report that i did the same too.

In the middle of our whacking in the crowded bakery, we saw another group forming when the bakers brought something new out. Not knowing what's inside and what it tasted i re-joined the queue. Wahahahaha..

No regrets man... super fluffy and super light and filled with cream cheese. These babies are great.



People watching is so fun in times like this. Couples are sitting and waiting at the tables with a drink and waiting for the chocolate thingies to come out.

But what happened next took the cake (or fluffy creamy bread). A young couple with a pram and their parents were waiting outside for a table. When there was an available table, they all came in and left the pram outside, simply cos it was too crowded to push the pram in!!!! THAT WAS SOOO WEIRD!!! The young mum went like " Aiyah, outside can la.. we can see him from here."

So the baby's parents and grandparents sat on our right and on our left is another table before you see the pram outside the shop. The picture below shows the pram, partially hidden, while the parents are seated on my right.



Throughout their time there, they were more interested in the lighter-than-air bread than their kid/grandkid. In 5 seconds, someone could have to pushed the pram away.

Gosh..

Blogging about the bread now makes me quite gian of it man.. haha

Eeks

Im usually not judgemental on people’s dressing but I thought this one takes the cake.

This dude is in a macho Stanchart Marathon tee and sporting pink Crocs! PINK!

I was eyeing him for some time and wondering if he lost a bet and had to wear these. But no, it didn’t seem like it.



Ok, im very judgemental.

Leap

Went to KL yesterday for a day trip.

Very tiring. It was supposed to be a meeting between the working group but then suddenly the client's big bosses decided to come for the meeting as well.

Oddly, the client's office's air con is spoilt cos the building owner was too cheap to repair the air-con system. So we had our meeting at the lobby lounge of this busy hotel. From a meeting of 5 people, it grew to 9 people and it was quite difficult for the big bosses to see from my laptop from so far away.

Thank goodness i had my self-binded nicely printed on letterhead documents to distribute to them. I was happy.

We took a huge leap forward in securing a deal. Upon reaching Singapore at 930pm, i bought two apple pies and nuggets to , in part, celebrate and in part, last me through the night. Had a call with my lawyers in Dallas then conference call with my colleagues in Chicago and Atlanta till 12:30am. Yawn.

Next week, they're coming to Singapore for a meeting and we are hosting them for dinner. Hopefully it works out.

Also, tomorrow, a mayor of some chinese town is coming to Singapore and my bosses want me to meet them for a nice dinner cos i speak mandarin. I always knew my mandarin would be my burden. Bleah.. Client dinner on Friday night. Hopefully it leads to another deal.

Deflated

My birthday balloons are oddly enough still floating, albeit a little deflated.

It has been a crazy few weeks and therefore i havent been blogging. So crazy that i feel
kinda like my balloons.



It was a little embarrassing to float deflated balloons so i decided to place them on the floor but they still float to my sitting height so it's a little weird. I hadnt shown this before but holding the balloons down was this - a Playmobil Prince. No idea why they got me a prince. I guess maybe they think im a prince. Man, that sounded so lame i actually feel embarrassed to type that.



This is too much text about some balloons so im going to change topics.

Im flying to KL tomorrow to hopefully move closer to a deal that'd make or break my year. This year no deal yet and this one could very well materialise to a deal. So ive been busy. So busy that i havent had time to collect my IC. So busy that i forgot to think of where to eat for lunch. So busy that i didnt even have time to write my daily To-Do list. Phew.

In many ways, im very anal. I can feel a number of you nodding your head vigorously. Hoping to give a better presentation, i decided to print it on nice letterhead paper, with color pics and wire binding from downstairs. Advisor has said no need so nice la but i was stubborn and i wanted to create a good impression with the client.

So tonight i rushed and rushed to get it out. Finally done at 730pm. The binding shop downstairs had already closed. Had to walk to suntec to do the wirebind cos i didnt want the cheapo looking plastic bind.

Alas the suntec shop had already closed as well. Dejectedly, i walked back to the office. But not before buying some gummy candy to accompany me as i bound my documents alone in the dark office when the aircon's off.

Here's me in the binding room and my bag of gummys.