burp!! :D (lingering smell of seafood and home-made chai masala drifts across living room where mum and sis are enjoying "A Kindred Spirit"...)

just finished stuffing face at home with steamboat-style reunion dinner with papa, mama, korkor and chiechie (truly a rare event 'cos someone - usually me :p - is always not around eating dinner with everyone else :) Mum prepared sumptuous spread of fresh steamboat ingredients - we had really fresh sliced pomfret, giant prawns, copious amounts of my favourite dried fish maw, chicken and pork liver, sliced lean pork, fresh and chewy fish balls, expensive abalone (which apparently hails from the Cal-mex (California-Mexico ?) Sea - only one giant slab in a can - sliced and blanced), chinese lettuce, golden needle mushrooms, and rice vermicilli. Ate and ate and ate and then realised I was exploding at the seams.. hahaha.. seams!!!??

now relaxing over a cup of Kho-Cha Masala Chai I bought from Mumbai last December. Had a good laugh cos I boiled over a mixture of milk and water while blogging. Taste is not bad though I still prefer the one at Borders... must try again - quite amazed at the amount of ingredients that actually go into making a cup of Masala Chai - glad for the ready-mix I have...

so i have a real rest day tomorrow - technically the only public holiday in the whole year that I celebrate at the same time as the rest of Singapore.. we are closed for two days!! And then it will be v-day (panic panic for those unprepared!! - incredible crowd today at shop wiped out most of our supplies of red paints of all sorts - for glass painting, stone painting, silk painting, porcelain painting, t-shirt painting.. hahaha.. :p