Work was alright on Monday. I was asked to go to Queensway Shopping Centre to do do some colour photocopy for next day's meeting. So was told to go off at 5pm. Booked a cab to get there. Well... the prices for taxi is so high now. Before I started off my journey, there's already a surcharge of 6 bucks! $4 for current booking and $2 for peak period. Really don't understand why we need to pay for peak period. Peak period is the time when a lot of people would require cab. They shouldn't have trouble picking up passengers.
Anyway, reached there with a fee of $11 plus. Went up to 3rd level to do the photocopying.... Had a shock of my life. It'll cost me more than $300 bucks to do photocopying! Cuz most of the documents are in A3 size. The kind auntie told me its $2 a piece for A3. So I told her to give discount since I doing so many pieces. Another auntie came along, and gave me the price of $1.70. Then I tried asking for $1.50. She finally settle with $1.60/piece and don't charge me the 5% GST. Such a kind lady and managed to get me my photocopying done pretty soon.
Well, after I got my stuffs, my friend came and picked me up. We headed off to have dinner. He made reservation with a restaurant. We both thought that it'll be French cuisine at the place, but turned out they changed their theme to hawker fare in conjunction with national day.
Nevertheless, we went ahead with the food. It was a buffet. The last time I had buffet was with him on 20th July, to celebrate my birthday at a Brazillian restaurant near the old Big Splash.
Today was the first time I tried fresh raw oyster. He added tobascco sauce for me, so I took out my courage and tried it. It didn't taste bad at all... It was delicious! Maybe the tobascco sauce covered any unpleasant taste or maybe the chef specially picked a few for him of the better grade, that's why its better.
I had a popiah. A lady came before me, and the chef told her it'd not be ready so soon. So she left. Then the chef quickly passed me a popiah he had done and told me to go before she sees me. Cuz she ordered a few, he didn't have enough to give her. So gave me the 1 first. LOL... It was nice.
One thing I missed out where durians. They have durian fruit and will open for you upon request. But you had to sit outside in the open area to eat them. I love durians, but too bad... I was too full to have it at all. Oh well, there'll be next time. 'Cause we still wan to try the French Cuisine.
Heehee...
After eating, we jus walked along the river. Don't know what's the name of the river, anyway, the place is near Riverview Hotel. Its was a good walk to help digesting.
Then he sent me home. I'm still pretty stuffed as I'm writing this blog. LOL... But the experience today was worth it. I guess I can skip my breakfast, lunch and even tea break tomorrow.
Goodnitezzzz........
