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Stay home today to do some house-keeping of my room. Since doing abit of spring-cleaning and also to clear up some mess at one corner of the room. Doing it at my own pace, I end up taking 3 hours just to clear my room and also my desk. Now very satisified, cos my room looks neater and also cleaner.

Had decide to throw away all the notes from my course, left with Marketing, HR and Legal Aspect of Business. The rest all will be going to the recycle bin for another new lease of life.

At the same time, also took the chance to take look through my photo album again since I decide to keep the 2 photos that were on my desk for like the longest years. Looking at the photos does bring back fond memories from my Sec School days all the way to the last few years working.

Now that I had cleared my room, will be done for the spring cleaning. So will be going to start looking for new clothes for the New Year.

Finally meet up with one of my ex-colleague after we had talked about meeting up since like last year. So today finally met her up for lunch at Bugis. I think she had left the company in the midst of me going back to head office. So didn’t really had the chance to work with her, though she can be considered to be half of my supervisor.

I think we last saw each other more than 1 year back, after our office conference. During that period, its usually the usual e-mail due to work related stuffs. So didn’t really have the chance to talk much. But today when we meet, I must say we really do lots of catching up. Somehow, since both of us are not in the company already, so its easier to talk about what had/is happening back in the company now. So during lunch is all about our ex-company matters (colleagues, management, policies, librarians…) to her interesting classmates in her school. I think we spent like almost 2 hours plus talking before taking a walk back at Bugis Junction. So after taking a walk, went over to tcc (The Coffee Connoisseur) for a drink. Over there we continue to talk and catch up till like almost 8pm before going home.

Its really amazing how both of us can really talk for almost the whole day. I guess its really a good catching up session, especially on our previous company, as it really offer a different perspective from her, since back then she was under a different supervisor from me. Although we are talking about the same issue, we do come up with different conclusion due to under different supervisor which somehow affect the way we view the issue.

Anyway it was a good meet up, especially the coffee session at tcc. I must say, that place is really cool and the ambiance is really very nice. The whole place is design to give it a very classy look, especially our seat  where it has this hanging chandelier. Furthermore by the evening, it dims the light and make the whole place even more classy and warm with the soft light from the chandelier. I would say, a damn good place to hang out with and do some catching up over drinks.

However for lunch, the place we went was a bit of a disappointment. Was reading a blog on good food here and this Hong Kong Style Cafe was mentioned Tong Shui. So was curious to try out their dishes there since it was kind of highly recommended. So went over to the outlet at Bugis. Order our food and drinks. Well I believe to try out Hong Kong food, the first will be their coffee milk tea. To my disappointment, the ice coffee milk tea I had was horrible. Can’t really taste the milk tea, its more like coffee and some funny tasting tea. But well, the food is not that bad to be frank. Had their Pork Chop with Egg noodle soup, and it was ok. We also tried their signature dessert, Thick Toast with Peanut Butter and Condensed Milk. That was nice, with generous spread of peanut butter, but can’t really taste the condensed milk. However the over-baked rice that my friend tried was kind of cheesy. Can really smell the cheesy aroma once it was served to our table, and upon stirring the rice, the cheesy aroma just fill the table, furthermore the table next to us also ordered one of the oven,-baked rice, and the cheesy aroma also diffused to our table. I don’t know if its not nice, cos my friend didn’t managed to finish her rice. So I assume it might not be that nice.

Anyway had drank better tasting coffee milk tea from other similar Hong Kong Style Cafe, and I must said so far most of them are really good, where you can really taste the coffee and tea. As for food, so can’t really comment much, since other than Tong Shui, I only eaten from another HK Style cafe in Katong area, which also serves nice food.

So there it goes, my whole day of catching up and experiencing with 2 different hang out place.

tcc @ Bugis