tonight was fun. mingyao's collegue organised a wine tasting dinner at sage, the restaurant at robertson walk. it was really nice finally meeting his collegues and the food was wonderful - kinda fusion but very tenderly done and since this was my first official wine lesson i got to taste rose for the first time and yeah, a lot of wine basically. sage's a really intimate restaurant but it's probably in this context that made me appreciate the food better than if i had just come in and any-old-how ordered something. anyways there seemed to be alot of attractive japanese restaurants in that area which we should explore should they not be so costly; and i hope they're not.