Joe Tuesday

woke up tuesday morning feeling really restless. drove to cold storage to buy some groceries that would make up some part of my meals for the rest of the week. then it occured to me that joe knows how to play squash and should be free at 12 noon. so msged him and next thing i knew i was winding my way around hougang(believe it or not its actually quite well developed) to pick him up and then back to my place for a squash matchup.

naturally i was schooled. no matter how hard i played there's no beating joe when he's in squash mode even though he keeps saying he hasn't played for eons and shit still he's good enough to whip me 4 straight sets though thankfully i didn't lose at kosong. but it didn't matter, i had fun and worked up a real sweat. then we went to swim. real nice to have the pool to ourselves in the sweltering heat. too bad the sauna and steambath were under renovation.

as joe said in his blog, this mynah bird came crashing into my house and shocked the bejesus outta both of us but flying straight into the glass door panel. thankfully nothing was broken. then it hopped around and joe and i went to try to shoo it out when it pooped on my living room floor(the cheek!) and then in fright flew straight into the glass door panel yet again even though this time it was open big big. that bird seriously wasn't too bright and this time it really looked concussed. thankfully it didn't die(it'll sucha bad omen to have a bird fly into my house and die). so i picked it up and put him/her/it on the ledge where it proceeded to take a dump while recuperating. after awhile noticing the paparazzi(me and my trusty handphone) that was upon him, he managed to take flight. and we never saw it again.

afterthat we drove out to hwi kiat and ronnie's shop in bishan. i've been to that area before to eat at the kopitiam. the shop is situated at a pretty secluded corner at the central market area. according to joe the layout of the shop has improved alot since the last time he's been there. didn't seem like a busy day though we got to witness a little girl scolding hwi kiat for scooping ice-cream slowly. haha. what the hey, we even got treated to a lunchbox meal from that dazzling duo. the chicken cutlet was quite tasty, fried by none other than hwi kiat himself and the soya bean drink was good. couldn't hang around long enough for his shop to close, it was only 6+ but maybe we'll go out again thursday.

finally winded around hougang(its really quite impressive, really) and dropped joe off at his place before i got myself lost and somehow ended up in upper paya lebar. but still with abit of quick-thinking managed to maneuver my way back home in less than an hour. haha. it was a fun day spent at least.