entertaining weekend

had an outstanding and entertaining weekend..
saturday saw me with a couple of internationalities, a couple of chinese, a vietnamese and a french..
it was a rendez-vous that was long due and finally took place, sadly son couldn't attend..
as usual the first half an hour was used to wait for late comers, luckily i was the first to arrive there, which was quite seldom.. apart from the usual gunn, lijun and dd, there were others whom i met for the first time, and of course cyrelle from france, who is here for industrial attachment..
my chance to use french finally, which started out rather bad because it had been months since i used it.. if not for gunn who sometimes do the translation for us, we would have died trying to figure out each other..
headed for takashimaya for dinner, dd suggested fei chui restaurant but it was too full, so i bought them instead to a vegetarian restaurant, much to gunn's dismay.. but oh well, they rather enjoyed it, forcefully even.. especially cyrelle who didn't think much of the shitake mushrooms due to its dark color..
but by the end of the evening, my french was much more fluent but still in bits and pieces, but much much better.. headed to another place for some drinks and chilli crabs.. but in the end only 2 ordered them..
lessons learnt: always book a restaurant during the weekends if you don't want to end up in a vegetarian restaurant, but even so the vegetarian restaurant was almost full too; always practise your french, you will never know when you would use it..

sunday: table-tennis at richie's place..
he's got a new table-tennis table, no puns intended, and we all gathered there for a thrashing, by him of course..
never knew he played it during his primary school days, and the rest too!! damn, jonathan and ryan are so good at it that i almost felt out of place, out of league!!
jonathan played it during his primary and secondary school days, and ryan was in school team before.. me?? i only knew how to hit it.. that's all.. haha
but it was a good workout, as i slowly but surely pick up the pace again.. and the loser had to do the gardening for richie too..
he just had some water features installed in the small garden with some water plants along with some guppies.. but alas some of them died even before the end of the day.. think it was due to not getting used to the water with the plants.. so sad.. they were living so peacefully at the shop until we brought them there..
we graced the vegetarian stall of a friend of richie for dinner, he's got good culinary skills and very hardworking, but lacks the luck to be spotted for his talent.. so we decided that we would frequent and support his stall more often from now on..
oh yes, i forgot to declare the official commencement of tohyi entertainment club beginning sunday.. to more table-tennis sessions, barbeques, slacking sessions to come, cheers..

so enjoyable and tiring weekend..
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