Sunday, February 04, 2007

Warmth...

Its the weekend again... 5 torturous days have finally passed. Nothing special really much happened during the week except that we are given this goodies bag. Inside, the biggest thing is a bottle of baileys. Secondly is a bottle of olive oil, butter cookies, belgian chocolates, sweets, nuts and mixed dried fruits... However, we have yet gotten our pay... I think they are trying to bribe us with the goodies bag. Anyway, 4.45pm on the dot, I just close all the program on my computer and chop chop leave the company... after that its steamboat at my apartment as usual. After which we go down stairs and play with fireworks. Its not those like fly up in the sky and explode de. Its a mini version. Fly up around 1 meter high and explode less violent. 6 shots cost 15 rmb...

The saturday sun rises up with me sleeping like a pig on my bed... I was hoping this weekend would be a restful one. Because I am pretty sick of walking aimlessly around Shanghai looking at those buildings liao. Sat as usual I went to my aunty house and we had dim sum for brunch while my friends go visit the 七宝古城. After which I joined them for dinner. Dinner was at this ultra posh restaurant. Its nothing like the pekin duck palace setting. This one is more power... This is zen like, one look you know the restaurant mean business. We have a total of 14 pax. And we booked the restaurant 1 week in advance. So while alot of people is waiting ourside to be seated, we just go in like vip. We had a room like the vip room, inside is a long dining table. The restaurant is a stamboat restaurant. But the special thing is that its a personal steamboat. You can choose from a large variety of soup base and the food is shared. We ordered hell alot of shit... from all kinds of balls, to beef, to vege, to fish paste and also mushrooms...Usually those pekin duck, those chinese restaurant very nice and grand at most only 50+ rmb per person. This super posh meal cost us 100 rmb each... by far the most expensive shit I've ever eaten. After dinner its the usual clubbing. However I gave it a skip. I returned home to my beloved bed and... a sweet phone call.

Sunday my friends were saying we go find some good food... so that we can get our morale high before the start of the week. In the end, we found this power restaurant that serves..... Sinapore food! From Laksa, to fried guay tiao, to hokien mee to chicken rice... and sides include sambal kangkong, cuttlefish with beansprout, otah, and many many more like chilli crab and fried carrot cake. Although the meal cost around 60+ rmb, we were more than happy to pay for it... the desert was an ice cold bobochacha... sieok!

After I eaten the meal, I had the same feeling as when I go outside the building... the weather is getting better and the sun is shining quite brightly... Yes the feeling is warmth. Warmth comes in many ways, sometimes obvious, sometimes subtle... But wat I know is right now, right here, sitting on the foor of my living room, I felt warmth...