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so funny it hurts.

Wes

Learnt at few things:

- That the Eiffel Tower is only 15 minutes away on foot. Seems so silly we discovered this after more than 6 months in Paris. So once or twice a week we take a stroll to the Eiffel to walk off our dinner.

- That not only is a Tefal frying pan better than a house brand pan, the food tastes better too. I bought a Tefal pan yesterday after trying out cheap Monoprix pans for about 6 months. After Jo fried the fish on the new pan, I thought it tasted different and asked her. She said it wasn’t a psychological thing, the fish actually tasted better. Wow.

- That pancakes are called ‘blinis’ here. And they come in mini, medium and large blinis. The large are the size of MacDonald pancakes and the mini is the diameter of 2x S$1 coins.

- That Tabasco is a good substitute for chili sauce when I don’t want to travel halfway across the city to Chinatown. Better for the stomach too coz it doesn’t make my stomach go woozy like some other chili sauces.

- That mint leaves go well with fried rice and butter prawns.

- That Honey Nougat Magnum ice-cream is da bomb.

Siao liao. Jo and I are putting on weights.

Wes

Phantom Food

2 days ago at home, I was sitting down reading downloaded stuff from the internet cafe (nope, we still don't have a connection) when for no reason at all, I missed the taste of a laksa tao pok. More accurately, I miss that squirt of laksa on the first bite of the tao pok. Then I realized that memory was from eating my mom’s laksa… man, even the Katong laksas don’t have that piece of tao pok.

And just yesterday, when we were walking in the metro, I remembered the texture of mee hoon kueh. This was the mee hoon kueh from an industrial area in Marsiling Drive where I used to work as an IT guy in Woodland in ‘94. And this was the best mee hoon kueh I have ever tasted. Missed it a lot back in Spore when I left the job.

Anyways, good news! Temperature has dropped to 18 to 26°C after a huge thunderstorm about a week or 2 back. In fact it’s so cool now that it gets a bit chilly when the wind blows, like autumn’s just trying to hurry up. It’s a really huge difference from those 35-37°C days… was really scary for a while coz there were folks who died of heat related reasons.

And Jo’s doing good, she’s been busy chugging away at her powerbook with video work since our stuff arrived.

Wes

Our stuff's here finally!!

The delivery guy came early yesterday at 7am to deliver 13 boxes worth of stuff that was packed in early March when we left our Rose Garden apartment. And due to complications with French import/export companies we had it shipped out only in late June. And even so, it reached France 22Aug even though we expected it to hit our house on the week of the 17Aug. I counted it’s been nearly 4.5 months since the electronic stuff like the dvd player, external hard disks, etc have been switched on. Anyways, I fixed up the heat sink in the desktop and voila!

THE BENG PC LIVES!

(hmm-chi-hmm-chi-hmm-chi-hmm-chi-hmm-chi-hmm-chi)

I’m sooooo happy. :-)

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Jo felt great coz her cooking books, cutlery, books, tambourine stuff and clothes were here. I feel the same coz of the pc & accessories and dvds. It felt that a bit of our life in our old apartment had been restored… Honestly, it was extremely comforting. But at the same time I couldn’t help but feel that in getting all of our stuff, this was the final cutoff from Spore.

Wes