*dimsumdolly* - the different morsels of the life of a foodie

10 Happenings

It's terrible--I haven't had the time to write a half-decent entry in the past month. It's been difficult trying to squeeze time out to write with all the deadlines looming at work. Anyway, here's a quick summary of what's been happening with the dimsumdolly.

1) The weekend of 1-2 July, there was the dragonboat race at Bedok Reservoir. Our team was a very small one this time as several members were at an outrigger canoe at Hamilton Island, Australia, while others were abroad. In any case, we didn't do well in this race. The loss was a deserved one and it only shows that we really have to train much harder in order to be a threat to the rest of the competition.

2) The club's taking a one-month break from training to let everyone recharge and come back refreshed and ready to go for more competitions in the months ahead! But the problem is, I don't know what to do with myself now. And it seems like my teammates are all having the same problem. Our coach said after the competition, "Now you can all go get a life for one month!" And I'm thinking, "But this IS our life!"

3) I had my first lesson in rigging an outrigger canoe this morning at Tanjong Beach. I've never been good at all this knotting and tying stuff, but still I feel it's something one needs to learn to become a more complete paddler. Rigging an outrigger canoe is hard work. It requires sssooooo much pulling of the string in order to keep the tension. Our fingers were all numb and palms all red after that. Anyways, I need to start getting back into the outrigger canoe. Been away from it for too long. Miss it. Hopefully I'll get to for an outrigger canoe race this year, if not next. And speaking of the club's outrigger canoe that's stored at Tanjong Beach, we discovered today that members of the public have been damaging our canoes and the canoe rack. It's annoying!!!! These people ought to be shot.

4) I got my first lesson in jewellery making from my cousin last weekend. I made two pairs of beaded earrings for myself. Hope to make more soon!

5) I ate at The Ship a steakhouse on the 4th floor of Shaw Centre. It's an old establishment and has definitely seen better days. It's like it's stuck in a early 80s timewarp. I had steak set dinner. The food was OK. Edible, but not fantastic.

6) I ate at Spring Court. Had a set dinner at Spring Court, a Cantonese restaurant at Chinatown's Upper Cross Street. Food was not too bad...but it was the usual Chinese set dinner fare--cold dish, sharks' fin soup, steamed prawns, steamed fish, salt-baked chicken, spinach & mushrooms, Ee-fu noodles etc. Boring.

7) I had tea at PS Cafe with Tim, a friend visiting from Sydney. We were at the Harding Road outlet. It felt like I was sitting in a greenhouse with all that lush greenery you can see through the glass windows. I had the strawberry scone with a cup of old ginger tea. The scone was rather dry and was a bit disappoting. But it was a giant of a scone!

8) I ate at Desire, the restaurant at the Scarlet hotel. Tim was staying there for a night, and he wanted to have dinner at the restaurnat downstarirs. I only had dessert as I had already eaten dinner before meeting Tim there. I had the banana fritters with walnut ice cream. The caramelized banana fritters were lovely and so was the ice cream. Service is also good.

9) Dimsumdolly hasn't been exercising and she is getting fatter by the day.

10) Dimsumdolly can't possibly go for a navel piercing as one of her readers suggested. Firstly, she has no washboard abs which would justify having one. Her abs (or lack of it) are more like bouncing pads. Secondly, she's too terrified by needles. However, she (crazily) contemplated going for a tattoo (she wants a tribal dragon on her lower back), but knows that she will never do it as she'd be scared shitless by the needles and pain.

Posted by DSD at July 9, 2006 5:04 PM