*1086 - bloobry

Oh looky, it's my tiger friend again, this time with a yellow pail around his neck, hunting hungrily and savagely for the ripest bloobries.



And looky, it's his friend EV, also with a yellow pail around her neck, frolicking wildly through the bloobry shrubs.

*1085 - cape cod

Third time at the Cape, but first time staying at a beach house.







What is a trip to Cape Cod without lobster rolls?



And what is a trip to Cape Cod without a slew of pictures of kids leaping off rocks/benches/etc with the sunset in the backround?







(Yes, you saw that right, that's a tiger right next to me)

*1084 - adele 21

By the way, Adele has some pretty awesome songs beyond Rolling In The Deep and Rumour Has It.

Also, if you like down-tempo electronic jazz, kind of Koop Island-ish, try Bitter:Sweet.

*1083 - EV on a ferry

My M-Day #2! i.e. a day of fun where a group of highly competitive market researchers abandon their work for a day and take over Georges Island, Survivor-style.

*1082 - overeating

Boston restaurant week + friends visiting + EV/others leaving = a lot of good food, because that's how one best celebrates an occasion.

• Thursday: Dinner with visiting Y (Shanghainese long beans and sizzling black pepper beef mm)
  
  
• Friday: "Gourmet" pizza with D
  
  
• Saturday: A day of foodie goodness with visiting J--lobster eggs benedict and two types of french toast for brunch, homemade peach, raspberry, and blueberry crisp, saag paneer + lamb curry for dinner at our fav Indian restaurant
  
  
• Sunday: Continuation of the previous day's foodiness with a 3-course Boston restaurant week meal at the Union Oyster House, then a party at S's with homecooked amazingness and tupperwares filled with leftovers for all of us
  
  
• Tuesday: Farewell lunch #1 at a seafood restaurant--scallop risotto
  
  
• Wednesday: Using up a groupon on pizza fries (doesn't that just sound terrible) and enormous subs--half each filled us up!
  
  
• Today, Thursday: Farewell dinner #2 that is a 4-course Boston restaurant week meal at the Elephant Walk--French-Asian fusion--along with a very sweet gift that reminded me of how I was so blessed to be on such an amazing team when I first started on my very first job ... and I can hardly imagine any sort of project team coming close to the very special team that we were. I am gushing, but that is how I feel :)
  
  
• Tomorrow, Friday: Farewell lunch #3 at a Mexican restaurant, Farewell dinner #4 at a Thai place (this means I will have three meals in a row with some people)
  
  
• Saturday: Another 3-course Boston restaurant week meal at L'Espalier
  
  
• Sunday: Should be used to recuperate if I am wise enough
  
  
• Monday: Farewell lunch #5 which is looking to involve epic calzones the length of my arm and the thickness of my ... thigh

And I dare not think beyond that.

Then we fast forward to Friday morning, just about a week from now, 2 am and we hail a cab, 5 am and we will be on a plane together, sailing from this coast to that coast ...

... which sounds like a dream, but think about the fact that we would likely not have slept at all, be struggling with at least 150 pounds of luggage each, and be thoroughly exhausted from the previous week of packing and shipping and carrying and rushing while trying to work in between the flurry plus the handicap of having sent both our cars off and being furnitureless (for me, at least--everything will be gone, including my mattress along with my car, oh dear) BUT!

But! It still sounds like a dream to me, yes, very much, and I know that it will be amazing.

*1081 - this explains everything

龙虎斗

Now we know why we quibble!

*1080 - fatigue

Do you suffer from decision fatigue?

Yes, sir.

*1079 - view of Boston

Perhaps the most definably "romantic" evening that he's whisked me off to, and though we giggled about that and thought it was all awfully cute, it actually was really lovely, really beautiful.

*1078 - August 16

Yesterday: my one year anniversary as an out of college, working lady.

I made it!

*1077 - downfall

I think the one final attribute that swings me from online window shopping to being an actual purchaser, after all the other basic variables like style, price, quality, etc., is FREE SHIPPING. It ups the value of all the items disproportionately in my mind. Even though I know that, I cannot help myself.

*1076 - my education

Observe the differences, comparing two girls who only diverged educationally in college.

Based on difficulty per unit of developed brain cells,

My opinion: 'A' levels slightly > 'O' levels >> PSLE > College
Her opinion: College > 'O' levels slightly > 'A' levels >> PSLE

(For the uninitiated ...
PSLE = 6th grade
'O' levels = about 15 years old
'A' levels = about 17 years old)

What's your equation?

*1075 - why latte love

By the way, the whole "latte love" thing was not very carefully pondered upon--back five, six (?!) years ago when I had to pick a name for this blog, I looked around me for inspiration and saw that my lip gloss (yes, back when it was still cool to have shiny and wet-looking lips) flavour was "latte love" and, behold, that became the name of my blog.

That was even before I really, really got into the whole coffee thing (it worked, though, because lattes were certainly my favourite back then and still are for the most part).

Too bad there is no better story than that ... truly unoriginal, really!!

*1074 - I have always had a thing for ducks.

Boston Commons, at the start of August.
A little walk after a delightful salmon eggs benedict.
Mmm.

*1073 - worlds

Have you ever had the fortune of meeting someone who was essentially the same person as you were, at the very core, and even though you grew up worlds apart which made you into two very different people on the outside, you still marvel at the amazingness that is a telepathic ability (okay, maybe the right phrase might be: wordless empathy and a complete understanding, not just because you understand, which you do, but more because you have also been there and felt those same emotions and thought those same thoughts) between the two of you?

I am happy to say that yes, I have.

*1072 - tau pok

Teaching D the concept of "tau pok" (because I made dinner that included the actual tau pok), that is, the verb and not the noun, might not have been the wisest idea ...

*1071 - the sun

Friends, EV's okay. God answers prayers :)

*1070 - the rain

God blessed me with Mummy and Daddy, who understand without me having to say it out loud, who want more than anything to help and for me to be happy, who always wish they could be here by my side,

and now I don't know if I am crying because of what happened or because I want so much, so so much, to just be home.

*1069 - 46 years old

Happy birthday, Singapore :)

*1068 - sieve

Bitterly disappointed and feeling very helpless. I want to go home.

*1067 - can you please have a baby already?!

Can someone please tell me if talking Gina will EVER have a baby giraffe?? I've been checking her every morning to see if I got a free lemonade or strawberry but I can never get her to 100% happiness, even with a good belly rub. If I don't succeed within the next week, I am deleting that silly app off my iPad forever. I only downloaded her because I couldn't believe that she was topping all the charts (I still don't believe it). UGH.