12:55 PM and still at work

In 6 months, I'll have my work from home program and i wont have to do this anymore!!! I can just do this from home. Hooray!

I was very productive today. I finished my CRM issue sheet + Process Guidelines, finished AAI for my CRM Analysis Table, did the incidence counts for Mal/Sing/Thai, did a big chunk of my BEM Analysis Plan, coordinated my FGD with Australia, launched my airport research, and wrote this Blog.

I had a productive long weekend as well. I finished two-thirds of my backlog of laundry and ironing, saw Mamma Mia on Saturday (which was pretty darn good, s.t. I have Mamma Mia + Dancing Queen LSS), I read books 1, 2, and 4 of The Sandman Series, along with that book where he collaborated with a japanese watercolor artist (I forgot the title), The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (all 5 books - Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, and the 3 other books after that (forgot the titles) + Young Zaphod something (I forgot the rest of the title), and Coraline, by Neil Gaiman.

I also ate a Lau Pa Sat last night (monday) with Gots and Lloyd, ate at Coca Steamboat Restaurant with Gots, Lloyd, Brian, and Wilfred (SGD 20.00 for a full steamboat buffet), and went with Gots to her jazz class.

The day before that (sunday), I went to my choir to rehearse for our concert on Dec 4 and the whole weekend of the 17th.

Saturday, I was late for Mamma Mia, but it was ok because it was just 10 lousy minutes and the cab was taking so slow to get to the esplanade because of the traffic, and when I got into the theater I couldn't make sense of anything at first, then soon got into it, and the 3 old women were just really good from a singing and acting perspective. I won't bother to deconstruct the play here as I am sleepy, but will be glad to do it in person.

After Mamma Mia, we (Me, Gots, Lloyd, Ben, Brian, Zada) went to Raffles Mall, where we met Mike Abito, who came from an interview. We ended up walking around the mall, looking at all the luxury stores and coveting the stuff. After we got bored, Mike and I went to the Starbucks near the MRT station to smoke and read, while the rest of them (except Ben, who left earlier) went to the Church across the street. When they got back, we took the train to Boat Quay to go to Jumbo, which is a Chinese lauriat place famous for the Chili Crab and the Black Pepper Crab. We met Wilfred there, who was late again (as usual) and who still kept talking about investments (because that was all his class was about). After that, we walked to the Fullerton hotel for the dessert buffet, but since we couldn't get enough seats to for our group, we ended up going to the town cafe adjacent to it, for some fudge and conversation.

We ended up going home at 3 am.

Wednesday night (thursday was Hari Raya, which was a holiday), I went to Shalini's house with Tripti and Gots to play with her dog, Leo, and have dinner. She had a nice balcony. The food was good and Leo was malikot. After that, I went to Ice Cold Beer at Emerald Hill to meet up with Rachel (Singaporean), Silke (German), Nick (Aussie), Pyush (Indian). I had 3 beers. Then we decided we had enough beers, and played some darts at the back, and some pool upstairs. Then we decided we had enough of that, and Rachel's buddy called at 2 AM to invite us to a house party at some obscure part of Singapore with "a nice view of the ocean", so we got out of Ice Cold Beer, stopped by 7/11 for 2 6-packs (since it was BYOB) and some Ruffles and Beef Jerky, then we all took a cab to that obscure part of Singapore with the "nice view of the ocean" and walked straight into a house warming party where none of us really knew anybody, except Rachel, who saw one of her friends who worked in MTV and was stoned drunk and who was making out with some ugly bald guy who seemed vaguely Filipino-ish, but with whom i didn't get to talk to. We met some DJ person, and we all had to wear nametags, but we ended up fooling around with them and sticking nametags all over the place, and mixing them up, so nick was "madie" for a while, I was "beavis", and rachel was "piyush". The guy who ended up getting Rachel's nametag was a radio producer at some Singaporean FM station, who was really gangly and Chinese-looking.

After that it was 3 am so we got bored and decided to take a cab home, and it was a pretty long walk from the condo with "a nice view of the ocean" (it really was breathtaking, to give them credit) to the main road, so we flagged down a cab despite calling for one (poor driver having to go to that obscure part of Singapore), and went home.

I had decided to go on an adventure anyhow and screw the need for sleep because the day after (thursday) was a holiday anyway, and I had never been to Sentosa, so I went, reached there at 4 am and slept on the beach. Just me and my towel, and my beach mat, and I felt so stupid for not bringing a blanket because it was freezing cold, and I was damp. The sunrise was not great, but at least I did it.

At 6:30, i got breakfast at the 7/11 (instant noodles, spicy beef flavor), and walked all the way from palawan beach to siloso beach (that's the entire half-perimeter of Sentosa) all the way to the Shangrila Hotel at the head of Sentosa (took me about 45 minutes), with the beach becoming progressively more idyllic the closer I got to the hotel. Pretty soon, the beach was as good as the one in Shangrila Mactan (obviously fake, but the sand was powder-soft and very very white, so I didn't really mind at all). When I got to the hotel, I inquired about the rate: USD 400 for a pretty nice room, went to the entrance to flag down a cab to get to the underwater world, but ended up walking, as it was only 5 minutes away. Then I spent the morning looking at neon colored cuttlefish which would flutter spasmodically when you agitate it (by hitting the glass and making faces), pudgy sharks, a very big dugong that weighed 400 kg, a giant tilapia as big as a car, etc. Then I took the bus to the other side of the island to see the crappy pink dolphin show, where the emcee was so painfully nasal i just wanted to throw a rock at him because I couldn't understand a word he was saying.

I was dead tired after the dolphin show, so i took a cab back home and slept all the way, ended up sleeping at home and Lloyd and Gots arrived, and they went to Crystal Jade for lunch, so I followed, and had some pretty kick-ass dimsum. After that we walked to Cineleisure planning to catch the Incredibles if it was on, but it wasn't so we just walked to Takashimaya and admired all the bags from LV and Dior and Fendi and Burberry, and the luxury watches, and the diamonds and pearls at Mondial, and ended up at Kinokuniya, where we parted ways. Then I chose some books, went to eat at the basement foodcourt of Lucky Plaza, then went to a McCafe (under Isetann Scotts) to read, then I headed home. and slept.

Then I woke up and went to work on Friday.