week of lavish

Had a slightly extraordinary weekend...

Was asked to help out in the animal course on Friday to replace my colleague who was on leave...It was a little bored, but it was the only time I got know a little more about my HOD, whose birthday fell on that day...and got to work with rhon.

Since I had a little time before my swim, I got rhon to have a game of pool with me...

TY din play me out..went to Yishun SAFRA and had a good swim. 20 continuous laps (10 rounds ) non-stop. That was the first time I had this rush of motivation in me...guessed i was forced by anger...
TY was like.."whoa, you seemed to have a lot of stamina today huh? never see b4"
But I think I gained back all the calories after a heavy supper-chicken cutlet.

Went to look for ally on saturday morning. We had a chat and went to town to have crepes from Out of the Pan. Spent $30 there and caught "The 40-yr-old virgin" at PS. It was kinda funny with some explicit scenes though. Well, Ally enjoyed it, at least, and I'm glad.

Met KT and Choon for dinner at Taka. We spent about 45 min deciding on the dining place because KT had a low cost budget; anything less than $20... :O to me that's my high end budget...
We ended up in San*r and it was a disappointment. The range was little, the food is pricey and the dishes aren't tasty. The waitresses there were friendly though. Each person ended up paying $23....
Total expenditure: $62.50

Lide asked me to accompany him to donate his blood to a friend's dad, who's suffering from leukemia. It was raining cats and dogs and our shoes were soaked when we reach the heamatology block in SGH. To our disappointment, the department was closed...it was a wasted trip. We went on for tea at Maxwell market by a cab. Spent $7 on dim sum, dessert and hum chim pang. Lide commented that I seemed to get mellower each time he sees me...no longer bubbly...

It was still early so we went to check out the salsa bar in pagoda street. We were thinking of signing up classes but no one approached us when we were at the entrance...the dancers carried on practicing in the small studio despite our presence...Typical dancer attitude..*sigh*

Time seemed to crawl as we roam around Chinatown aimlessly. He suggested a movie and we went ahead. Caught a 6pm show by Andy Lau, though I prefer to watch Flight Plan.

"Wait till you are older" is more meaningful than I thought. Both of us confessed that we teared during the movie. It tells us "Life is a journey but it's only one way. Yet it's a good thing that it never repeats" Something we did wrong will forever be wrong. . No matter how much we swear to change, and never let it happen again...By the time we regret, there's no turning back. But it's never too late to realise cause we still have time. But Andy Lau doesn't, because he drank a potion, that makes him age and became older than his dad. He wanted to become his daddy's boy again but there's no way. After the movie, it set both of us thinking...if we had wasted our life on meaningless things...he spent to much on dancing, and i spent too much on feelings. The movie made me felt better. We sat down for tea and soup outside borders. The mushroom soup was good but it costs me $7.50. Got milk from the supermart for tomorrow's breakfast and proceeded to the food centre near my house. Had prawn mee and tea which makes it perfect on a cold night.
Total expenditure: $30

For once, I'm willing to spend money on weekend movies. Guess it's part of retail therapy.