and yesterday a call (it's mingyao on the phone! halt, world!) at the junction resulted in :

1) a date at city hall
2) a visit to the pharmacy to purchase drugs (nurefen)
3) the purchase of TMAX400 b/w film (two rollls)
4) visits to Cathy and Ruby that excited Choy and made me drool at the Leica(s). i also took a cola sweet from the cashier counter to suck on.
5) laughing at funny shop names at peninsula plaza when standing on mecahically mobile diagonal steps going up and down.
6) being betrayed by l. wanton mee stall. it was closed. (wretched! wretched!)
7) slipper lobster fettuccine (fettuccine is one my favourite words to say. it rolls off and cuts about your tongue in an addictive way. the word itself makes me order the dish though i also like the way it feels like mee pok to the tongue, and actually they gave us crayfish not lobster)
8) a visit to kinokuniya bookstore to check out motor magazines
9) a visit to borders bookstore to check out motor magazines (him) and girly magazines (me) and design magazines (me) and the purchase of very pretty christmas cards to snail mail (me)
10) a meeting with the temp boss on the tender drawings (me) and an impromptu purchase of japanese (red bean with green tea/white dunno what) moochi at the japanese supermaket to share enthusiastically with his girlfriend when he meets her later to surprise her with (him) and eating japanese moochi in the car before we drove home (us!)