the past two days have been really fun!

today mark took me to his fave jap restaurant for ala carte buffet. it's like this little place tucked away in a quiet street in novena, but for all its quaintness the food is seriously amazing! i don't come close to rivalling mark's ability to eat, but i think between the two of us we did quite a good job today. we had like [a few plates of] sashimi, fried mackerel, salmon, tempura, unagi handroll, jellyfish and ohoh some orgasmic oysters. i pretty much liked everything, except that it was too bad i had the oysters right at the end when there was almost absolutely no further space in my stomach because i could definitely have done well with a few more :( after i had eaten my fill of sashimi i sat back and watched as mark put away plate after plate and was quite speechless. by then i was almost dying and needing to massage my tummy, so i have no idea how he managed to keep going while the waitresses shot him death looks; maybe boys have like an extra stomach cavity or something.

after struggling to move to the mrt and get to bishan, we managed to catch lake house. i think the plot is really complex and abit confusing and absurd at times, but the cinematography is quite gorgeous. although what i didn't like was how sandra bullock was a middle-aged struggling doctor working overtime in hospitals, and hence desperate and deprived of a lovelife. this certainly is not a good sign, especially not less than a week before i sign the bond which will resign me to the same fate. i'm screwed :( anyway, i felt that the story only fell into place better at the end, where there was a slight you've-got-mail moment for keanu and sandra. i still think meg ryan and tom hanks are the best screen couple and i still love you've got mail, but mark thinks that lake house is a very artfully done movie. so i guess for a guy to approve a romantic movie, it can't be all that bad ;)

oh and yesterday we had class reunion at this cool new place called new york new york at citylink, where everything is yummy, including the menu. i was kinda shocked at how some of us have changed, like francine who made us go like w-o-w with her skimpy little thing and debs who looks really really spunky now. luckily there were also those who haven't changed all that much, like me and maybe carol and nick and perhaps phuing though i didn't get much of a chance to talk to them so we can't be sure. also, we discovered that those of us doing uni locally are in the minority, so me mandy aud and mitch had a bit of an inferiority complex moment there and for a few minutes we sat around and felt sorry for ourselves. this was particularly when we realised that unlike the rest of our classmates, we would be having next to NO EYECANDY throughout the most important years of our lives, which is the part that really sucks. then, mandy ordered this ham and mushroom pasta thing, but when it came she only found one squashed little mushroom in it, and made them change it twice till there were more mushrooms. it was quite amusing, haha. oh and jinin popped up out of nowhere which was unexpected cos no one really knew she was back in singapore!

i really wanted to stay longer at dinner but i was quite tired cos i'd been out since the morning and was feeling all gross and needingtogohome. my parents made me see this cardiologist because my fingernails turn purplish at the bottom and they were afraid that it might mean that i have a hole in my heart or some other ailment which would make me die suddenly. luckily, my heart is perfectly functional and my only problem is that i have low blood pressure. i suppose knowing that i'm not going to drop dead so soon comes as quite a relief to me, especially since we all know what a hypochondriac i am. i live in constant fear that i might die of a heart attack or stroke or worse, become paralysed or mentally retarded. i am such a horrible person, i know. anyway my low blood pressure explains how i manage to channel such zen-ness in the face of immense irritation or duress. all i need to do now is drink more water and eat more salt, which i perceive shouldn't be a problem at all. the other thing i learnt is that paranoia is definitely an inheritable trait, so it's not my fault that i am the OCD freak that i am today.

so, on the whole it's all good :)