The great exciting 'Project Meeting' and other lesser unexciting mumblings

Yizhen and I decided to exchange bags... or rather, I thought her backpack was really cute. Now I feel like getting a backpack - makes me look young, feel young!
Is it me, or do we actually look vaguely similar? She loves purple too.
Ray (Lemon), Chengwei, Yizhen, Serene, Lynn - Gelares @ Holland Village
Bad cards bad cards... should I bid hearts or spades?
Lynn and Serene @ Gelares
Goods cards good cards... Yizhen plays no- trump!!

Yesterday, the group came over to my place for a project meeting. To give ourselves credit, serious discussion lasted about 2.5 hours. Post-Project activities lasted the rest of the day, til we almost missed our last bus/mrt. China no China, shopping no shopping... we always manage to have fun - exchanging Beijing Photos, Waffles and Bridge at Gelares, trip down Nus to return library books, picnic shopping at Carrefoure (as usual, we procrastinated over what to buy...), surprisingly Lynn with a picnic at the Esplanade, more Bridge... and 4 crazy girls, 1 poor Lemon boy and a camera... too bad Darren was missing.

It's been 3 weeks since Beijing. I look back on all the trigger happy photo whoring, crazy late nights doing project, crazier late nights play bridge/clubbing/KTV-ing, the singing on the way back to hostel late at night, the bargaining and shopping madness (ok, I admit, I get impatient if I shop in big groups at times...haha)... I look at all the photos, plus those copied from Lynn and Yizhen yesterday and I smile at the fond memories. Then I think about Singapore. I recall the excitement when Lynn and Serene came to say Hi to me at work, taking pictures with random plants in the toilet in the Spageddies apron, shopping with the same girls + Darren, seeing Visha at the Club again, all the Bridge we played yesterday... I look at my MSN nick and think about Serene deciding that I should be called B.A.B.E (Bread And Biscuit Eating monster) after living with me for two weeks, I think about what Yizhen said in the cab yesterday about us probably being the only group meeting up and still having the same amount of fun. I look at more photos... then I smile. For I feel thankful and amazed at the same time, that we became friends so easily. The new ones whom I've come to love hanging out with, the old ones whom I still love.

But there're still old f.r.i.e.n.d.s to miss - Chris, Manda, Elayne, Jingyi, I'm thinking of organizing badminton next Saturday, come play! Whoever else is interested msg me! =) I haven't talked to Chris, Elayne and Jingyi since I got back... everyone's meeting up on Friday, but I've to work. =(

And there're still more people to meet up with, like Linda, who wanted to go clubbing tonight, but I couldn't make it... and whom I haven't gone shopping with. Like Qiuyun, my penpal. Visayon, whom I'm supposed to go K-Box with. When I woke up this morning, I was surprised to see a message from Engsiang - he's back in Singapore! Yay, can't wait to meet up with my old HC friend for lunch tomorrow. Then dinner with Kelvin. And there's badminton next week, more project meetings (naturally, we'll make it work, and plaayyy), bridge with Tim, Ray and Kai. It feels like my schedules always packed by work and friends every week, no matter how hard I try to leave myself days to slack.

And I still miss being at home, eating at home, playing the piano at home... there's always this Sunday to slack at home, I hope.

Spageddies was filled with female servers today... maybe that's why it seemed a little busy for a weekday evening. There were two very troublesome tables... I spent about 20 minutes taking table 14's order! The guy asked me to recommend some fish and chicken that was not fried...after lots and lots of suggestions and me running to the kitchen a couple of times to check with Chef Bon if he could prepare the food in the way the guy wanted it... we finally settled on Fish and Chicken combo. By right, the dish consists of french fries, fried chicken and fried fish. The guy requested for roasted potatoes, boiled chicken and grilled fish. Without all the flour used to deep fry the meat, it just looked pathetic with all the tiny pieces of meet... and tasteless. I really can't understand some guests! If you want healthy food, just go somewhere with healthy food or order salads! That's not all, they ordered tomato brushetta, then changed to garlic bread with cheese, then requested that the cheese be left out from two pieces, and then, settled for just plain garlic bread. And they asked for their soup to be split into two portions. Hello, the serving size for the soup is already so small... serving it in two bowls would leave bout 3 spoonfuls per bowl! On top of that, half the people at the table were vegetarian and the others were not, so they argued over whether they should all go vegetarian while stood there holding up the order sheet, smiling like an idiot.

And table 14... on top of creating lots of trouble for Jade, the server who took their orders, attempting to speak Malay to Kaifeng (really don't know why...since they're from Switzerland and merely wanted to order beer), asking 'Where's my discount?' as a joke (except that no one knew it was a joke, thus creating confusion for all of us who thought the bill had mistakes... when I went to check with the guy, he said, 'Oh no! Nothing wrong with the bill. It looks very pretty to me.' *rolls eyes*), calling me 'Ms Spageddies' just because I don't have a name tag...the guy even requested that I put the pepper into his pizza in front of him and as I grinded the pepper in front of him, he actually said, 'yep, do that for 30 minutes!'... and he noticed that no pepper was coming out and decided to open the bottle himself to check... it was empty, I took one other bottle over and ahhhh, it was empty as well! Am I unlucky or what, for the guy said, 'Now you must grind the pepper for 40 minutes.' Maybe the guy thought he was being funny or it's some kind of Swiss humour... but I've only one, typically Singaporean, reaction, 'SIAO AH!

So many crazy customers in one night.

I'm tired, goodnght world.