2 tallgirls, a hamster and a bunny

I met up with Peiyi, Ling and Brandon after not seeing them for ages! (well, theoretically ling does not count since I only met her last week at curry favour) Anyway, Peiyi and Ling are my tallest female friends (Peiyi's at 5 ft 10", and Ling's 5ft 11") and Brandon looks like a bunny with his cute front tooth, and apparently i am the hamster...Haha, funny how names given since we were in junior college at the tender age of 17 can stick with us for so long. Anyway, in between our usual conversation of growing old(er) and feeling more and more lethargic as we get old(er) we all managed to have a great time catching up by updating each other of what's been happening for the past 5 months since we've last seen each other.

We met at this shopping mall in Orchard call Wisma Atria and there's this really good food court call Food Republic that has a lovely 60's old Singapore interior with great street eats (though now they are all in an air conditioned food court and the street stalls are actually food stalls, basically the whole nostalgic feel is to capture the older generation and lure the younger folks, and i must admit, the food are really good as they are all screened by this food critic and only the best stalls with proven history of survival are 'invited' to set up operations here). I ordered Chicken Rice, and as the Dim Sum push cart was pushed besides me, I decided to get 3 baskets of dim sums to compliment my chicken rice (i guess you all know by now that I really love these Chinese tapas huh?!)






Peiyi had Ngo Hiong (meaning 5 spices, which consists of many different types of snacks one can choose to mix and match but the famous 5 spices actually refer to this long sausage like thing with pork marinated in 5 spices, then wrapped in a ultra thin bean curd skin and deep fried), and




Brandon ordered Fried Hokkien Mee (hokkien is one dialect of Chinese and mee actually refers to noodles, essentially hokkien mee is friend noodles simmered in a broth from prawns and taste very good)




Ling had OT today so she came late but luckily, I was still relatively hungry despite having finished my Chicken Rice, dim sum, and some of Peiyi's Ngo Hiong, so I decided to go buy 10 sticks of Chicken Satay (which are of Malay origins and is actually marinated meat pieced on a stick and BBQ over charcoal, after that you dip those sticks of meat into this crushed peanut sauce which can really make or break this dish) and Ling had Hong Kong noodles with Wantons (wantons are something hong kong-ish that are actually dumplings with minced pork and shrimps that are cooked in a soup broth with a plate of noodles on the side)







After feeling full, we decided to make full use of the time even though we are starting to exhibit Spanish dinner habits as dinner started at 9+ and ended at 10.30pm, we hop over a short distance in the sweltering humid outdoor along Orchard and headed toward Somerset area for more gossip talk and coffee and desserts (only for ling and i) at Coffee Club (this branch is purely outdoor and so, for the next 3 hours+ we were gossiping and sweating). I downed a iced mocha vanilla and an iced latte (crazy to drink hot drinks in an outdoor setting here!) and ling and i shared a muddy mud pie.




Sometimes, it stills amazes me that despite being 23 and turning 24 soon, the harsh reality of the years have luckily, not left any lines on our faces...yet. Haha...

Ling and Peiyi


Brandon and me (a.k.a Bunny and Hammie)


Ling was feeling so guilty about eating the mud pie! Though she's actually loving every single bite!


Love such nights where we just sit and talk; simple pleasures where we rarely get due to hectic schedules we all have. Comfort and company of friends...that's so important...