Today was a rather dramatic day.
Firstly, thank you Uncle William for inviting us to eat 盆菜 at JB.
I woke up at 7.10am, probably the earliest day in a long time. Was downed with slight fever, flu, blocked nose, sore throat whatever, hence I went to the earliest clinic near my place at bedok. And I don't know whether to complain about private clinic or not. The opening hours stated 8am, however the doctor came at 8.30pm. Therefore many patients were waiting impatiently, looking sick and on the verge of dying including me. Lol.
I was no.4 and the first patient spent about 1/2 hr inside, me was thinking if it was so serious that requires so much attention from doctor, probably he should visit the hospital instead. Bad me... Then a pair of aunties were chit chatting beside me, the content was about one of the aunty went to polyclinic early morning and guess what? She took a queue number of 100! Then immediately I felt bad about secretly cursing the doctor for being 30 mins late. You pay more to get faster service!
That's all my medicine(cough syrup place in plate with water to prevent ants)
After seeing the doctor, I went to walk around in Bedok to buy some necessities. At about 11am I called J, asking her whether to eat lunch. She answered in a very 冷淡 manner "不用, 我叫佣人买饭了". Then I asked her again how early should we enter JB because the initial plan was to go in earlier to buy oil, grocery, DVDs etc. Again, she answered in that same manner "我不要太早进去". Ok then I said I will have my own lunch and will go to her house later to go together.
I reached her house at 2pm, planning to leave at 3.30pm since we are meeting the rest 4pm at the first Shell petrol station. After opening the door for me, she head straight to her room watching drama without turning her back. I was in the living room feeling lousy, watching tv all by myself for almost 1.5hrs until she came out and true enough she asked "can I don't go?" "can you jio who who who to go?". I replied that it is not very nice to reject last minute because they had booked the table for 8 people. She reluctantly went to bathe and put on her make-up. Actually I am feeling unwell and was thinking to give it a miss too but still decided to go.
From the beginning, she has been portraying her "buay song" face and we didn't speak a single word throughout the journey to custom. There were so much awkwardness in the compact area, I really don't know whatthehell is going on.
We reached Shell station at 4.15pm, went to buy my cornetto as usual. Waited and waited, still not arrive yet. Called William and the reason for being late was because they "tiao zenk" and Diana need to go back home at woodland to take something. At about 5pm, we were sitting on a bench, then I jokingly said to J if 5 minutes still not here then we should pump petrol and just leave.(maybe that's not the right time to joke)
Then we went inside the car to wait because it was so hot outside and the guys there were ogling at us. Inside the car, she looked at my car clock(20mins faster then usual) showing 5.29pm and says by if 5.30pm still not here, leave. I quickly call William, he was very apologetic and says already at Malaysia custom. As usual, my friend flared and said "你要等, 自己慢慢等, 我先走", opened the car door took her things and left. Wow, 有性格! I said "多等五分钟不可以吗?" she just left without saying a single word. I sat still inside my car, honestly at that moment I was thinking, whatever! Leave all you want! I am not going to chase after you like a fool though I looked like one for the entire day. After about 3 mins, I came out of the car trying to search for her, nowhere to be found! She've got lightning speed in walking I must say. And she wont answer my call.
Then next thing I saw William came walking towards me with his hands on his head saying sorry sorry sorry. I told him a even more sorry story that our friend has decided to walk back to custom. He was in disbelief, and I quickly asked him to call her, she answered and blah blah blah...
William asked me to talk to her, I rejected. I know her too well, by speaking to me will only agitate her further and she will not U-turn to join us. 对她而言, 那太没面子了. She took a cab and went home in the end.
I know probably she wouldnt have reacted this way if not for her accumulated anger towards me. Let's just say we still care about each other, just that we couldn't agree/stand on certain behavior of us and is definitely getting worse. No quarrel is the worst quarrel and probably will never resolve because we refuse to point it out at the very moment when we feel things are not right. We chose to express it through body languages and facial expression. However, I think her 不满 against me is more than me towards her. Maybe I am really a bad friend? I don't know...
Anyway due to some reason, Mr Lim and francsis cannot make it. So it left only me, Diana, William, Tay and Ang. I asked William to sit my car because I am kinda scare driving alone especially following tay's car. I scared if I get lost and stuck alone.
It was quite a long drive(about 20 mins) because of the slight jam. I followed closely and reached safely however if you ask me to drive again now, I don't think I'll remember. Lol.
It was quite a posh restaurant where you have to make reservation not only with the amount of people as well as the dishes so that they can pre-cook and serve as soon as guests arrive.
The 盆菜 was such a big portion I've wish more people were there to finish it. They also ordered half peking duck and raw oysters for themselves(I can never imagine swallowing one!). Ang is considering to hold his 60th banquet there, and we were jokingly asking when is his bday so we could save a dollar a day till it arrives! He immediately said December! Lol, so funny... Throughout the dinner was quite enjoyable, listening to old men yabbering about their hall of fame and shame... Lol Luckily there is Diana accompanying me or else I can't imagine all of them trying to talk to me at the same time, I will go bonkers! Haha..
Then Diana suggested for dessert!(poor her, one lose all in mj earlier one) While all of us couldn't decide what 甜品 to eat, Lok just said "好啦, 我请大家吃燕窝!" One portion for RMB29.90, 我马上说五碗! 谢谢!(incase he 反悔! Lol)
After dinner, we went to walk around at the shopping center beside the restaurant. There is a Carrefour and Diana bought quite a lot of groceries. I bought some DVDs as well.
It was about 9pm when we left the shopping mall. Lok then suggest we go KTV, I said no because not feeling so well and Diana also say she can't stay out too late. In the end after some debates, we went to a pub near to custom with live band singing and Thai girls singing and dancing =p but it is a clean pub lah except there are some local women walking around and trying to hook up guys to buy them drinks. I guess that's their source of income. Anyway Lok was being targeted the moment he stepped in, he bought her a jug of guiness stout and chit chatting with the lady for the entire time. Lol. Ang and tay was drinking their beer and Diana were chatting with me all time. I was drinking fruit punch only because drive don't drink! Law abided citizen leh! Hehehe...
Oh! And today 我生平第一次吊花 to a male singer! He was so 可怜 can, sang a few songs but only the ladies got the flowers! One flower for RMB10, not expensive compare to sg one which was S$50. Anyway is Lok buy de flower and ask me 吊. =p
Btw, his singing really 不怎么样. I've heard better ones... =)
We only sat for slightly more than an hour, left the place at about 11pm. Then poor tay got to send them all back while I slowly make my way home listening to songs I just bought! God bless I stay east =p
Below is a picture of the 盆菜(that's all I took)
Medicine kicking in le, 晚安...
P.s: I am using my iPhone to blog therefore the placement of the pictures, paragraph, wordings are probably all koyak! =p
-iLuv
