I spent my 4th day in Singapore, Christmas Day lazing about in Rob’s apartment. I think I needed it after the previous night’s drinking. I ate, I read, I drank and I blogged. The hours flew by before it was dinner time!

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We took a short taxi ride to the nearby ABC Hawker Centre (they ran out of names?). For our dinner we had grilled sambal stingray, chilli clams, fried radish cake, stir-fried choy sum and big ass glasses of sugarcane juice. We were quite stuffed by the end of it. All for less than SGD 50!

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After dinner, we walked to the Ikea store nearby to work off the calories and also for some eye-candy. Hahah! Err yeah.

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On Boxing Day, June and her fiance JZ took me to Beach Road for Singaporean Prawn Mee. It’s similar to the way it’s served in Penang, except they also come in a dry version. I had that because I’ve never tried it before. Yum.

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Over lunch, shopping, and coffee after, we caught up with each other’s lives (they will marry in March) and how it has changed since the Perth days when we lived together in the same house. We are still the same people but in vastly changed circumstances now. Time may have flown by in a flash (we stayed together in 2001-2002) but I’m glad that we are still the same people to each other.

Night time came and my cousin Yvonne and I meet up with Nadia (a.k.a nadnut) at Raffles Place MRT to have dinner nearby. Nadia said that we were going to a cafe where a reader of mine works, and the reader turned to be rationalneurotic.

After dinner, we sojourned to Harry’s at Boat Quay for drinks. It was a very nice spot.

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I’ve exchanged emails with Nadia before and I’ve seen how she looks and heard how she sounds on her blog, so there were no hidden surprises there. She was exactly how I imagined her.

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RN on the other hand was a mystery even though we had exchanged emails previously. But a pleasant mystery it was! She reveled me with stories of her relationships, and as the night wore on, seedy sexual hypotheticals. Hahah! Yeah it’s a “you have to be there” kinda thing.

Thanks for showing me and my cousin a good night out, Nadia/RN! :)

See Nadia’s thoughts of this night, along with some funny pictures. Really.

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