Gardens & Food

This past Saturday I finally met up with Huey. We'd actually planned to go camping but ended up eating dinner at Thaipan in Mandarin Garden instead. 

Huey's favourite butter prawns. 

Unfortunately, I was starting to get really sick on Saturday and didn't get to fully enjoy what I was eating. By the time I'd gotten home, my throat was completely swollen and I started to get a terrible headache too. And as midnight swung around, I was lying in bed with a fever. Thankfully, my mom had some fever pills in the cabinet. 

To be honest, prayer had a lot to do with me getting well. I really didn't think I'd be able to get up in the morning and go to church, but I prayed that I would be able to.  

Sunday morning, I woke up feeling kinda woozy, but at least the fever was gone. 

I made it to church kinda early, so I went to the garden in the back to rest for a bit. 

This place holds so many memories for me... 

It was actually really nice to just sit there and be quiet for a while. I haven't been able to sit still like that for so long. Probably almost a year now; and the only reason I was able to sit still that morning without moving around, making noise or playing with my phone was because I was feeling sick. 

I sat so still that the garden's resident chameleon decided it was safe to come out and play.

I couldn't help but think that this was probably the descendant of the same chameleon I had picked up in this very same garden 12 years ago. 

By Monday, my fever was completely gone but the sore throat remained. 

I'd actually planned a fun dinner meetup at Morton's, but we switched the venue to House of Rice Rolls & Porridge instead since I was sick (awww!!!) 

My abalone and chicken porridge was pretty good! Though I really prefer my abalone cold and undisturbed by other foods. 

Tuesday evening Shirley and I went to Green View in Far East Plaza for dinner. 

I had Indonesian prawn noodles, which really tastes a lot like Singaporean prawn noodles. The difference I guess lies in the amount of vegetables, as well as the addition of lime juice. 

Shirley had stir fried cut noodles. 

Hiding from the camera as usual!!

We went on a two hour hunt for shoes I could wear to a few weddings coming up. Thanks Shirley for being so patient! I always feel bad when someone else has to shop with me for my stuff... But I seriously needed help in deciding what was nice! It's been SO LONG since I've gone shopping for this kind of stuff that I completely completely forgot and lost touch with what's "fashionable" and what's not. 

Everything I seem to pick out now is just old-looking, but very comfortable. 

You know the kind, like stuff your mom would wear basically. 

How ever did I become like that? 

LOL!