Fifth Post

I was buying peanut waffles (after like months) at a bakery when I saw a standee about some Mother's Day promotion for their cakes.

Mother's Day, Mother's Day......

Sure, it's a day we celebrate our mothers being our mothers, but it seems to be a day we take for granted. When it comes, we celebrate it as if it's an ordinary day, and then not think about it after it passes.

It struck me ten seconds later. A tinge of sadness crept up on me.
Mother's Day...... just how many more Mother's Days are we going to have?
Ten? Up to Twenty?
What a really small number...... it's like a countdown.
Mother's Day seemed so much more precious, our mother's presence seemed so much more precious.
How could we have gone through twenty-four years of Mother's Day without respecting our mother enough?
And yet when the number comes down to ten left, we start to feel the reality of eternal separation......

I then imagined myself as a parent with many children, maybe even one that looked like First Post boy... one year old, two years old, three,
four years old, five years old, six,
seven years old, eight years old, nine years old, ten,
eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen,
the number never seems to go down. Oh, the passing of each number, the death of each time of age...... they're never coming back again.
It kinda makes you appreciate the people around you that our days are numbered and we will one day have to say goodbye. Oh, if only time could stop or if we could go back time.



갈수록 짙어져간
그리움에 잠겨
시간을 거슬러 갈순 없나요
그 때처럼만 그대 날 안아주면
괜찮을텐데 이젠

As I soak in the thickening missing of you, can't we go back in time?
If you hug me like that time,
now would have been alright.......

Samuel

Labels: 2017, thoughts

Fourth Post

Hello! A lot of things happened in the past few weeks......

Basically, I went out with my junior (henceforth affectionately known as "my little brother") three times in the past few weeks during the weekends :) yes, he's the one mentioned in my First Post

25th March 2017, Saturday
I met mlb on the train as we went to Somerset station ;) we were dining at a quaint, quiet, little restaurant called Arteastiq at Mandarin Gallery at 10 AM. LOL
Wow, I waking up so early on a Saturday morning? The things I'd do for mlb ;)
The decor of the restaurant was very artsy, and we took our time selecting what dishes to share. Luckily mlb had eatigo, a reservation application that gave us a 50% off the bill ;)


Artsy shirt *-* even the wet napkins needed to adhere to the artistry of rotational symmetry ;)

Allegory of Love - Chicken & Waffles | Symphony from The East - Salted Egg Yolk Capellini
See how we smart Hwa Chong kias decided to rotate the table so that we could share food more comfortably ;) NOT TO MENTION GOLDEN CUTLERY
ATASITY: IT'S OVER 9000

This is how you attempt to eat a cut of waffles with chicken in one mouth :P side effects include 45 likes on Instagram

The prawn on top smiles as its purpose has been served -- to us ;)

After brunch which was at around 11.30 am (I footed the bill, by the way), the both of us continued exploring one of the embodiments of atasity which was Mandarin Gallery, then we decided to walk towards Shaw Tower :) but on the way at Bugis, we walked past innisfree...... I hesitated to enter the shop, but at mlb's behest, we ended up inside. I looked at the samples on display and after reading their descriptions, I tried the White Tone Eye Serum..............................

Selfie~~~~~ at 1.02 pm
One of the staff came up to me to ask if I needed help, so I asked if they have anything for dark eye circles. She pointed me to this product:

Win liao lor. Just look at its name.
JEJU LAVA SEAWATER EYE SERUM. $46 FOR 20 ML?!!!!!?
Then we left the store HAHAHAHAHA

We continued on our way to Shaw Tower where I introduced mlb to Tom's Palette, an ice-cream shop that sells flavourful ice-cream sure to please people's palettes ;) 1.53 pm
Remember, it's PALETTE, not PLACE, nor PLATE... ;)

Blueberry Cheesecake on the left, Granny's Favourite on the right, artsy didi in the back, shuai ge not in sight ;)

After ice-cream, we wanted to get to MBS but it was raining :( so didi lent me his cap while he used his umbrella :P
at 1.53 pm
DON'T ASK ME WHY SAME POSE IN ALL THREE PICTURES KTHXBYE looking well-fed too LOL

We crossed the overhead bridge to Suntec City, trudged the underground towards Millenia Walk and then braved the rain under an umbrella towards MBS.

I THOUGHT THE DOUBLE HELIX BRIDGE WAS FULLY SHELTERED :@
In the end, our shoes were soaked in Heaven's tears xD but I think the shared experience was what was mushy instead of our feet x)

I brought didi to..................................... look at MBS's iconic ceiling and the sight below it.
The sight of the belly of the beast.
The sight of the CA$HINO :D
I have brought many people to look at the casino's interior before, but this time I thought it would be good to get him to shut his eyes as I led him to the forefront of ledge. I guess that didn't build up as much anticipation as I had expected :\

We hanged about at the observation level as I told didi about my past, specifically my past relationships. Usually I don't like talking about my shameful, failed past relationships, but since he asked and because I liked him, I thought it was okay. Oh my, he knows so much now ;)

Afterwards, we chanced upon the exhibition that was currently held at the convention hall at MBS O.O

We spent a good 40 minutes or so browsing the coins and notes of the world's currencies on display... I had to whisper words of wisdom to dissuade him from becoming an impulsive buyer LOL
I myself bought two Starbucks cards at $1 each :P but one can only be used in USA and the other in Germany. I liked how the cards had gloss and also the German sentences on the card......

Didi and I left MBS and walked towards Tanjong Pagar since he had a dinner appointment with his family there at around 5.30 pm. I led him along the path from MBS towards Marina Bay Residences. He couldn't believe that the behemoth of a building was actually a condominium LOL
We cut across the tall towers and decided to have a short bite at Lau Pa Sat since he has a black hole stomach WHICH HE CONVENIENTLY PASSED ON TO ME :@ nowadays when I eat, I feel even hungrier LOL. Sighhhhhhh


Didi paid for this injeolmi bingsu :) he paid for Tom's Palette too, by the way, since korkor already paid for the $25.05 brunch ;)
The bingsu didn't taste that nice, though :s but the portion was beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeg ;)

We continued on our way to Tanjong Pagar by foot :) I'm so impressed with my map sense, you know? One look at the map and I can lead you to your destination ;) which should have been my arms ;__;
Well, we reached Tanjong Pajar, embraced and parted ways :)


The time was 5.30+ pm, the weather still rainy, and I randomly walked about Tanjong Pagar, somehow ending up near Maxwell Food Centre......
I decided to look up Wut because I had plans for the night, and lucky for me, he was at Clarke Quay eating bak kut teh with some Thai friends of his :P
His friends were named Bible and Khem O.O
BIBLEEEEEE!!!!! @@

I brought them around Clarke Quay like the tour guide that I was, and somehow we ended up near Victoria Concert Hall o.o there was a jazz festival going on with some musical performances, and I brought them to have ice-cream too :P you know those ice-cream vendors that station themselves outside primary schools during school dismissal? xD
Luckily for us, they were charging only $1 a piece of ice-cream, unlike $1.20 or $1.50 a piece elsewhere in Singapore :@
I told them too that I was here before for a performance by my high school's Chinese drama club :P on Ong Teng Cheong, I guess. Or was it Tan Kah Kee.................... I THINK IT WAS TAN KAH KEE BECAUSE I REMEMBER TUSTIN JEH ACTING IN IT.



The emcee of the jazz festival welcomed the audience to enter The Arts House at The Old Parliament to participate in some activities, so I led the Three Thais inside to view the exhibitions


Psychedelic
It's like HUNDREDS OF RIPPED PAGES from a storybook HIGHLIGHTED AWAY FOR SOME PARTS. How painstaking it must have been!
There was also an exhibition of Tinder chats...... ughs, just sick shit for some of them LOL

Afterwards, I brought them upstairs to check out what there was, and we entered a room with some art supplies :P
I decided to draw portraits of them because there was nothing else better to do LOL

Behold: my arteastiq flair!

Portraits of Wut, Khem and Bible, signed by yours truly :)

Afterwards, I thought of bringing them to have dinner or supper, so I led them to Lau Pa Sat where I was hours ago ;)


I'M SO ENVIOUS OF THEIR GOLDEN KOPITIAM CARDS LAH. IT'S LIKE 20% DISCOUNT :(
Unfortunately, they weren't hungry, and the char kway teow stall was closed already :( I had intended to head to the Bar along the Road later to catch up with CC, but CC said he wasn't going :( my mind started to wander and my mental faculties quivered, so I decided to send them off first :) I think we parted at Downtown station.

I then trudged towards Maxwell, asking people if they wanted to go there with me..........................................
Well, with a dying phone and also my fear of going there alone, I settled for a quick dinner instead.

A bowl of porridge with century egg to satiate my belly ;)
Fml, though, because I missed the last bus home and had to take some stupid bus to Clarke Quay, then I boarded Night Rider home. Omg, I was sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo tired on the bus that I almost missed my stop :( not to mention I had to dig for $4.50 in coins to pay for the fare, because my EZ-Link card was short by a few ten cents :(

Anyhow, I reached home, slept............ and I woke up to some donuts my mommie bought :)

Chewy Junior :) its logo kinda exudes innocence. Something I wish I had as I was growing up...... but its logo and the donuts were just filled with my mother's love for me :) even though I'm a piece-of-shit son x(

Alright, so that's my day that day :) on the twenty-fifth (and -eighth) of March, two thousand and seventeen.

Samuel

[3.46 am] P.S. Look at the number of steps I took in the week HAHA. My poor feet T.T

Labels: 2017, iwnwil, MBS, meetup, mlb