1) Had dinner at PS Cafe at the Paragon branch. Ate the beef brisket tagliatelle which I found a little too sweet for my liking. I mean, I thought the beef was actually pretty tender and I liked the vegetables that came with it, but the sauce was just a tad too sweet.
2) Then went for drinks at Free Banana, the cafe along Orchard Road just outside Wisma Atria. The drinks there are awful. My ice calamansi, my friends' ice coffee and hot chocolate were all too sweet. Definitely not going there again.
3) I finally got back onto the outrigger canoe on Saturday morning. The paddle at Sentosa was a good one focusing on mastering proper technique. The stroke for outrigger canoeing is so different from dragonboating that I'm having to learn to paddle all over again. It's tough. Very tough - especially when people are pinpointing mistakes all the time and your brain has to channel that message to the rest of the body to somehow move correctly. So I got my weekly dosage of sun. It's like I run on solar power. I need to recharge my batteries by getting out and feeling the warmth of the sun on my skin.
4) Watched Pirates of the Carribean 2: Dead Man's Chest. Didn't enjoy this as much as the first installment. I think the plot really lost it at around the 2-hour mark. The show became one big circus with all the running around and fighting that was going onscreen for what must have been an eternity. At first it was exciting with all that action. Then after all you're just thinking "Get on with it already!" But anyway, I love Johnny Depp. I don't think anyone can play Captain Jack Sparrow like he does. Orlando Bloom is, as usual, bland as Will Turner. Keira Knightley's plays Elizabeth Swan (Lizzy) well. Funny how she always plays characters with the name Lizzy (Pride & Prejudice) and they all seem to have the same personality--feisty and a woman way ahead of her time.
5) The Singapore Paddle Club's annual general meeting was held yesterday and I will serve another term as the club's Secretary (not that anyone contested any of the positions anyway). So there were some changes in the Executive Committee due to people relocating. It's sad to see people go away but that's life. People move on and life goes on.
Anyway, it's the start of another week. Let's hope it'll be a smooth-sailing one.
Posted by DSD at July 24, 2006 8:47 AM