Two more days to Hong Kong trip with parents! And I haven’t even start packing my luggage yet, damn.
Having my dinner at Percolate now, chilling to the relaxed atmosphere while watching the rain pouring outside… It’s kinda therapeutic, to be honest.
Haven’t been updating this blog for awhile… But then again there’s nothing much to write about anyway. Nowadays I’m just meeting up with Bruno every now and then, for dinner after work, and on some Saturdays. It’s always nice hanging out with him – no pressure, no expectations, no nothing. Just two relaxed souls, with not much problems going anywhere and everywhere. We kinda share the same preference for food too (except that he loves lamb and I don’t), we hate hot weather, we love to walk (though he needs to rest pretty often), and we have somewhat similar interests. We talked about everything and anything… There’s really no taboo topics between us. Lol.
I just helped him celebrated his birthday yesterday. We finally tried the salted egg lava croissant at Antoinette, and after that I brought him to S.E.A. Aquarium at RWS. We both hadn’t been there before, so we kinda enjoyed ourselves there. But we both got so exhausted at the end of the day lol. Though I guess that’s a good thing? :3 I’m not the best person to hang out with, but I hope he truly did enjoy himself! :P
I’m just hoping this relatively new friendship will last for a long long time to come, no matter what may happen in between. :)
Met up with Bruno today to go Cirque du Soleil – Totem, their second last show of their leg in Singapore. Initially when Bruno was asking if I’m interested to go to this show, I was like “nooo I don’t like musical :3 “. Then he was like “WTF this isn’t musical.” He then showed me a few videos… and I realised okay, this is something like acrobatics. But since I wasn’t like too familiar with him yet (I think we haven’t even met up when he was telling me about Cirque), I told him maybe not… He sounded really disappointed though, coz he couldn’t find anyone else to go with him. And he would really love to attend it…
A couple of weeks later (after we met up for the first time), he mentioned about it again and I relented and say OK, I’ll go if he really can’t find anyone to go with him. Well, he really couldn’t get anyone, so yup, we went today, on their last day of performance, the second last show.
The show was totally spectacular. Every segment has their breathtaking moments, and some are hilarious. Bruno and I found out that our favourite segment is actually the same one, so that’s pretty cool. This is just our third time meeting, but we were kinda like old friends already. Silent moments were totally not awkward at all too. And he’s such a persuasive person, lol. I hated Vietnam coffee, and he could managed to convince me to try his favourite Vietnamese coffee – Trung Nguyen’s Legendee. It has a similar taste to civet cat’s poo coffee, and it’s priced at an alarming price – SGD16.50 for a small cup! He still treated me to it though… as he said I should try it at least once. OK fine…. It’s very sweet actually. Strong and sweet. To be honest, I preferred the one that he ordered for himself – Passion (if I didn’t remember the name wrongly).
The Legendee on left, and Passion on right.
We lingered in the cafe for a good while, because he needed to charge his tablet and there’s free wifi in there too. Then while we were thinking of where to go for dinner, he suddenly suggested Vietnamese food. Well I’m really not a fan of Vietnamese food, but somehow he again managed to convince me to go try one restaurant that he feels has really good Vietnamese food, and so we went.
It was this small restaurant at Grandlink Square called Little Vietnam, and to be honest, it’s really not a place where I would even take a second glance if I pass by it. But okay, we were seated indoors, and we looked over the menu to decide what we could order. He decided to order the braised duck because he said it was really good (he did know that I should be avoiding duck and chicken though), and we also added a dish of stir fry kangkong which he specifically asked for no chilli (thanks, Bruno). So when the dishes came, I tried the duck and boy, the meat was bursting with flavour with every bite. It was spicy, but for some reason only my lips were tingly, and my throat felt fine. There’s totally no need to drink water at all because I don’t feel the spiciness in my mouth! That was a pretty surprising experience.
The kang kong that came along was good too. Usually if I asked for the non-spicy version, either it’s super salty or it’s just totally tasteless. The chef though, managed to get it done just right. Heavy on taste, yet not overly salty. I don’t need to reach for the water even after eating half of that dish of kang kong. The beef slices were flavourful and tender too. Very nice!
Braised duck in claypot and vietnamese coffee
Stir fry kang kong with beef slices
Oh yeah, he ordered Vietnamese coffee again, before remembering that he would get migraines if he drank too much coffee. In the end he only drank about half of it, and I helped him finished the other half, haha!
So yup, that kinda summed up what happened today… a bit tiring for the both of us because we both really kinda disliked going out on Sundays (he made an exception for Cirque du Soleil), but interesting for me because there’s so many “firsts” today! And really, big thanks to Bruno for managing to convince me to go for the Totem show. That was an awesome, eye-opening and hilarious experience. ^_^
