pssst.


i like white tiles and patterns.


cropping to see with a different eye.


turkey burger with cranberry sauce. too dry, ying says. i prefer your roasted beef sandwich.

at p.s. cafe with ying and sharon. we talked about my new york+san fran and about hers in dec. hello, it's a lazy saturday and we had some tea and mudpie and chicken wings later in nydc. i'm craving for something savoury, sharon says, because i baked a cheesecake this morning. you must go to here, here and here, i tell her, about the hidden places in america. and i bought a 'dwell' magazine.

i had dinner with my family - it was delicious loud banter - fighting to talk and hearing everything at the same time. my brother is getting taller. i've always been this tall, he says. i really like the wrapped duck dish and my mother and sisters tell jokes in the car.

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last night

i went to the URA conservation talk. linghao's shophouse extension project + presentation was very nice. i was smiling all the time. then the bosses and collegues went to the Front Row cafe at ang siang st. they had marmalade on toast. us three shared two cookies and had teas in very pretty cups and saucers. it's all about the experience of being in a very nice shop. later the rest of us went to chomp chomp - because matthew had a car - and had chicken wings+carrot cake+hokkien mee+prawn mee+rojak+sambal stingray+kueh pai tie - matthew asked if we wanted kueh lapis, with seafood and we were dumbfounded, only later we realised he meant kueh pai tie, that was funny - and we went to have some shakes and coffees after at cafe cartel. so nice being in the neighbourhood. my friends are funny folks.

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that day i went with mingyao to siglap. we went to coffee club to have dinner with eni. that was nice.

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quiet. quiet.