Unemployment phase: end

It's the last day of my unemployment phase. Penny is in ORD mode, so she skips work and we decide to spend some time with Velouria. We started our day with our favourite retro coffeeshop in Lengkok Bahru to have our favourite fishball noodles.

We topped that with kaya toast on bun bread (which Velouria finished almost half of it) and washed everything down with kopi-o and teh-c. The place is hot, cramp and smelly (right next to a rubbish dump, no less), but we still love it.

Our only hope is that it stays this way and is spared the 'transformation' into a swanky foodcourt that plagues the HDB heartlands nowadays. They are just too clean and bright and somehow the pristine condition of such foodcourts seem to affect the flavour of the food.

The next stop we planned was Qianhu, but we were diverted by a phone call to Orchard where Mike and Ellis are currently putting up. So we popped by, chit chat for a while, although most of my time was spent lending my expertise to Ian to help him solve his Need For Speed: Most Wanted on his PSP. We had lunch despite having eaten earlier and, being the pigs that we are, topped that with fish crackers, potato chips, butter cake and a donut.

We headed off to Qianhu after that with Ian in tow. We grabbed some fish (small ones) from the tanks with Velouria just terrorising them mostly with all that swishing of her net in the water. Finally, happy with our catch, we proceeded to the koi pond and bought some feed for the kids. They had fun watching the greedy fish respond to every little manouvere they executed.

We picked Justin and Natalie on the way home for them to all chill out at our place. I left them with my PS2 and proceeded to take a nap before my tuition. After I returned home, they were still at it! By then they were cracking themselves up watching Homer run around in his briefs and running pedestrians over in The Simpsons' Hit and Run. Amazing stamina, these kids. Vel fell from the bed and hit the floor with a loud thud which I could hear even from the living room with the bedroom door closed. It obviously left her with a huge buah duku on her forehead. A hard lesson for her to learn after ignoring all my 'no jumping on the bed' warnings.

Mike came to pick Ian up, Justin and Natalie made their way home too. Zapped of all our energy after so much activity, we just crashed into our beds. What a day.