driving & shopping experience

well, ytd (17th Oct), i was able to use my dad's car.. cuz my parents went overseas on fri(16th Oct), and will be coming back on tue.

Talking about fri, i was the one who drove the car and sent my parents to Changi Airport on friday morning..got drive there once before, so i knew the way there. no problems.. long journey and abit tiring for leg..haha..

on sat, i got the car and got to go out with sophie! yeah!... we met in JP, at around 1pm. she had tuition in the morning...we had Thai Express for lunch..i ate the curry soft shell crab with rice.. just as nice..my dear ate beef kway teow(not tat nice, can get the same standard or even better at outside tze char stall) and ordered a chendol ( tooooo sweet cuz of the coconut, though she likes it..)

after lunch, walked around to find laptop case for me.. but can't get any nice-looking one... sainz... so we headed to our next destination - marina square.

I missed out the marina car park the first time.. i didn't realised there was another entrance on the left... i only saw a car park entrance on the right side, which needed me to cut 4 lanes, which i felt it was crazy...nevertheless, we reached there just in time for our movie - Cloudy with a chance of meatballs (3D)... it was both my dear & I first time watching a 3D movie in GV... well, the experience was not too bad... not to mention there was an movie trailer that was in 3D too.. the movie was quite funny at times - like the monkey who got a fetish for moustache and loves gummy bears..however, the plot was veri simple...

after the movie, which ended at around 6pm... my plan was to head to marina barrage to watch sunset.. but i got lost, i didn't know how to get to ECP as there was a number of exits out of the carpark in Marina Square... so like spent an hour circling around kallang, suntect city, nicoll highway area... Oops!hahah...

When we FINALLY reached marina barrage.. it was already at night -730pm.. no more sun set.. but we still just stroll along the circular thingy( i have no idea how to describe that).. just spent some time enjoying the breeze..it may sound bad, but i have to comment that there were many "blanga" workers there..haha..

after that, we headed back the to west... ate our quick dinner at a popular tze char stall behind holland village, which sold XO fish head bee hoon... but i was disappointed that the standard of the XO bee hoon really dropped le.. become lousy le.. i DON'T reccommend to eat there... it's a no-no...

we ate a quick dinner as we wanted to rush to our next destination - ice cream shop at Serene Centre... it closes at 10pm... i think we finished our dinner at around 930pm.. so we had to rush there.. haha... and thankfully the stall, which is called Island Creamery, was still open when we reached.. and i suggested buying two tubs of ice cream back.. for sophie and her family to try.. one tub is 500ml...

This stall i really recommend.. the ice cream is great - no preservatives, no egg, no China product(it was written there, i swear), no artifical flavouring or colouring.... not to mention they have various unique flavours like - Teh Terih, Bulut Hitam, Burnt Caramel, and many more... you can type "Island Creamery" in yahoo/google - you should be able to get reviews of that stall... anyone interested.. the address is :
10 Jalan Serene
Serene Centre #01-01
Telephone: 6468-8859

Well, overall for ytd, the driving experience was not too bad.. learn to recgonise more roads and places.. a bad thing was i got lost for quite a while, resulting in not being able to see the sun set at marina barrage...next time lo..haha..


Let's talk about today -Sunday (18 Oct 09)... i drove over to sophie's house for lunch, with her sisters and mum... after lunch, sophie asked us to derive a general equation for a "O" level maths question.. so that she can teach her tutee using that general formula...so wasting our brain cells and time lo..hahaha.. well, after tat, I drove sophie and her family to JP... our purpose - Shopping!! cuz my dear's elder sister got member discount for G2000... 50% off for up to $500.. at first we thought it was $500 before discount.. but the cashier later told us we can spend up to $500 AFTER discount!!! means we could spend up to $1k on retail price and enjoy 50% discount.. wow!!! so good!!hahah...

so everyone went in and out of the fiting room numerous times to try out this and that..hahah.and in the end, we paid around $350... meaning it was around $700 in retail price.. wow... a "historic moment".. haha.. for me, i spent $90 for 2 long pants(the casual type) - 1 dark blue, 1 black plus a patterened short sleeve shirt (small black circles).. i was really happy.. got to have new and good clothes.. i all along feel that G2000 clothes generally are quite good quality de.. that can be said for clothes that are formal or semi-formal... for those "everyday wear" kinda of clothes.. sometimes i feel the clothes are not veri good quality de... have to see.,.

Had dinner together with sophie and her family... her dad came along after his work.. ate dinner at the kopi-tiam @ the new wing.. after tat.. ate desserts at "Ji De Chi" .. ate a durian dessert with pamelo.. the durian filling was veri rich... can only eat once in a while...hahah

Well, tat was how my weekends ended.. didn't study at all.. which is quite bad.. as i still have quite alot to catch up, esp for my java.. have to cheong le...haha..

P.S. sorry no pics for you all to see.. as sophie used her camera to take photos... so its not with me...