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I’ve been sleeping late everyday because I’ve been chatting with my sisters. Argh. The other day I went to bed at 7 a.m . It was 3 a.m in Mauritius. Huge eyebags now. >.<
One of my sisters and I are meeting in Hong Kong next week. It has been 1 year since we've last seen each other.

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Häagen-Dazs ice cream!

They were SGD 5.15 cheaper if buy 2 at ‘Shop n Save’.
I have never tried these two before.

I love anything Green tea: green tea hot drink, green tea cold drink, green tea candy, green tea cake, green tea milkshake, green tea ice cream etc.
I only ate a few spoonfuls. I will try the Summer berries & Cream when I’m done with this one.

Too tired to edit photos…

A short update..

From this page at Raffles Medical Group website,

Current influenza vaccination does not confer any protection against the Influenza A (H1N1) virus.

However vaccination is still necessary because if you come down with flu like symptoms after vaccination, then there is higher alert as to whether you may have contracted Influenza A (H1N1) or avian flu. Early treatment can then be initiated.
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You may get mild soreness or fever after 1-2 days from the vaccination.

I am going to travel to Hong Kong and mainland China soon. I went to the Raffles Medical Clinic at Block 131 Jurong East Street 13 #01-267 today but the flu vaccines were out of stock. I should have phoned first. Argh. I’ll be calling the other Raffles Medical Clinics tomorrow.

I met up with Diana and Bryan for lunch the other day.
We were going to eat at Café Cartel but then we saw this place called Margarita’s Bar.

It didn’t take us long to order our food. We all wanted to eat spare ribs. We chose the spare ribs set meal which was highly recommended on the menu.

The set meal consisted of spare ribs, coleslaw and fries and because it was before 3pm, we also got a free soup of the day, 1 scoop of ice cream and free flow of soft drinks.

The soup of the day was Celery and potato soup. Bryan and Diana told me that they don’t like celery. I love celery!

500g of spare ribs! hehe.

I still managed to finish all my food. 500g was a bit too much for me. About 300g should be okay. The sauce on the spare ribs was a bit weird. A tad too sweet. I put tabasco all over my spare ribs and the taste was slightly better. Next time, I’ll be eating someting else.

We were all very full after eating the spare ribs but we still had room for some ice cream.

I used to see this from my window but ever since I moved to the new place last month, whenever I look out of the window, I only see buildings.

The good thing about living on the 24th floor is … I can see the sunset.

As seen from my window:

I’ve been very busy during these past few days and my blog was also down. It didn’t really bother me because I was too busy to blog. Many thanks to those people who emailed me about my blog being down.
I just woke up (crazy party last night..) and the first thing I do is check my email. What do I see? A spam comment… This means that my blog is up once again! I’ll be updating later in the evening.

My neighbour just rang the doorbell to ask me if I need anything from downstairs. It was a pleasant surprise. I hope that he couldn’t tell from the look on my face that I was very surprised. Maybe it’s a very common thing to do in Singapore. I had just run into him a few hours ago when I was on my way back from grocery shopping. We both took the same lift and we made some small talk. I didn’t know who our neighbours were when we were still living at Hillivew. If our new neighbour wasn’t our agent (real estate), maybe we wouldn’t ‘know’ him either.

Back in Mauritius, I know who my neighbours are and I won’t hesitate to smile at them or even make some small talk. I used to go over to one of my neighbour’s house to play when I was a kid.
In Shanghai, when I was living in the international students dorm, I’d often run into people living on the same floor when I take the lift and sometimes we talked but it wasn’t the case with everyone. Sometimes we just smile at each other but at least, I always knew who lived on my floor.

I asked the guys if they were okay with me posting their photos and they all said yes but then I forgot to blog about it. Some of the photos are already on my facebook.

The first thing I did after the BBQ was to take a shower. Never have a BBQ during the day in a hot country like Singapore! I was sweating like crazy. argh.
We transferred photos to Kersley’s laptop, talked about the good old days etc. Then Kers started to pack his things. He was taking the plane in a few hours. He was in Singapore for a few days only.
I wanted to try Bryan’s Nikon camera. I found it a tad heavy at first but soon I was happily taking photos of everything in sight. Kers and Di also had fun taking photos with that camera.

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Pay attention to the photos. I will ask a question at the end of this entry.
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Adrian was the only person who let me take many photos of him. The others were moving about too much or they were busy talking to each other.

Left: Me, my cousin Kers and Di.
Right: Me, Kers, Adrian. I included this pic which I titled ‘OMG I need to tan’.
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My family used to buy papayas quite often back in Mauritius but as far as I can remember, I had always hated papayas when I was still in Mauritius. I used to watch my youngest sister eat papayas and I couldn’t understand her love for that fruit. I used to find the smell and taste of papayas disgusting. Apart from papayas, there was no other fruit that I hated. Then I went off to study in Shanghai and during my 4th & last year there, I bought a papaya one day. I don’t even know why I bought that papaya. To my surprise, it didn’t taste as bad as I remembered it to be. I even drank papaya milkshake once.

I bought 2 papayas a couple of days ago at Fairprice. My first 2 papayas in Singapore! They were S$1.80 each. I felt like buying the papayas because my sisters were both telling me that they have been eating papayas everyday.

The two papayas that I’ve bought. There weren’t many left at Fairprice and I just chose two which seemed okay. I have no idea how to choose a good papaya.

These papayas are from Hong Kong? hmm.

Photo taken after cutting the papaya in half. I hadn’t removed the seeds yet. According to my sisters, this papaya looks a lot like the Solo papaya that they love because of the orange red color of the flesh. I was like “Solo papaya?What’s that?”. haha

Guess what ? I didn’t have dinner that day and ate one whole papaya by myself. I was sitting in front of the laptop with the two halves of the papaya on a plate in front of me and a spoon while watching a show. I somehow managed to eat both halves. I should have put one half in the fridge. argh.. See the photo where it’s written that it’s from Hong Kong? It’s also written that the net weight is 1.0 kg. Minus away the skin and the seeds, there’s still a lot left. I didn’t eat anything else for dinner. The papaya was more than enough. ah… and it was really good. Sweet but not too sweet. I haven’t eaten the other papaya yet. I’m keeping it for the weekend.

I’ve sent the photos to my sisters via MSN and they were surprised that I’ve bought papayas. Not one but two big papayas. They both said that they thought I hated papayas. Yes I did but that was when I was in Mauritius.
Hmm.. I can’t think of any fruit that I hate now. I love fruits.