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woke up at around 3pm and wanted to spend the day with my wii but colin called and asked if i wanna meet up with him and vincent (goh).

it has been a couple of months ago that i last saw vincent so i didn’t mind and went down to tiong bharu plaza to meet the 2 of them.

vincent wanted to buy some hair cream or something and a new pair of swimming trunks but he couldn’t find them so decided to make a trip down to great world city.

took a bus from tiong bharu plaza but realised that the bus doesn’t go to great world so instead of changing bus, we decided to settle for china town.

vincent brought us to some ulu building in china town and even had to walk up a few stories just to get to a particular shop that sells almost everything that watsons, guardian and all the other pharmacies combined together.

the shop felt like an oven so i decided to just stand outside since i know i won’t be getting anything andthe place was practically crawling with aunties bargaining like crazy for the just a few cents.

we’ve officially promoted vincent to aunty vincent!

vincent still wanted to get his trunks so we walked to china town point and went to some shop on the 3rd level…

he ended up buying a pair of green slippers.

went for dinner at swenson’s and ooohhhh boy! the food there really sucked!

the last time i had swenson’s was during a company outing when i still in microsoft and that was like 2 years ago.

i had beef baked rice, colin had fish and chips and vincent had an omelet with cheese and onions, he was vegetarian for the day.

my beef baked rice really tasted like field ration, i had to add in plenty of salt and even some tartar sauce to give it some taste,

tried a little of colin’s fish and chips and it tasted bad as well,

with such poor quality, i think even hans is better than swenson’s.

it was still early so we sat down at the nearby coffee bean and talked a bit before sharing a cab back.

here are some pictures we took during dinner at swenson’s using 2 different phones.

the food looks nice?

that’s because vincent’s a good food photographer,

finally got to watch the national competition semi final game.

been following this anime since it was released years back.

sad to say, this series will be ending after the national competition final game.

no, not that useless male beauty pageant.

manhunt as in hunting for a man,

a mutual friend between colin, kc and me, tim sum, seems to be missing.

we’ve been trying to get him on his mobile for days but it was always off.

tried calling his house and it was either the maid who can’t answer anything properly in english or the phone was hung up.

and so after a few days, we started to get worried so decided to go down to his place for a visit today.

and i still thought colin was angry with me and will be ignoring me for the next few weeks…perhaps he’s practicing anger management course at home secretly.

being absent minded, i totally forgot the plans about going down and actually made arrangements to meet trond after his work.

had to sms him again saying i can’t meet him.

that’s like 2 times in less than 12 hours.

sorry trond!

colin’s dad was driving down to toh payoh so we decided to hitch a ride down to toh payoh before taking a train down to town to meet kc.

met kc and took a bus over to tim sum’s place.

as expected, no one was home, or rather, no one was answering the door bell.

since it was still early, we went to a nearby coffee shop for some drinks and snacks before trying again later.

after over an hour, we decided to drop by his place to give it another try…

as it turns out, we met his maid on the way back and cornered her.

cornered was seriously the right word to use.

lol!

after trying all ways and means trying to understand her english, we found out that…

• tim sum’s unreasonable elder sister is at home but refuses to answer the doorbell or the phone (super attitude problem).
• the door bell was working fine.
• tim sum left home at 6am (which was uncommon since he loves to sleep)
• tim sum was not home yet (which again was uncommon since he loves to go back early)

although colin strongly suspected something was wrong, there was nothing much we can do so we left a card with the maid and told her to get tim sum to call us back or else we’ll report to the police tomorrow.

alright that was a lie but it was to scare her into making sure she does pass tim sum the message.

went to have yet another snack before taking bus back.

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on the way back from the bus stop, my neighbour called and asked for free technical help again…

i probably won’t be answering his calls much after today.

went over to his place and couldn’t seem to solve the problem so i pushed the blame to operating system and told him to get his people to format the system.

also managed to crack his wireless router password, now i can have free internet whenever i want.