What an unexpectedly eventful day!
After doing whatever work was there to be done, which was very little, to be honest, thanks to 95% of the folks being out of office, and following it up with a quick jog, I decided to go out and do some grocery shopping. The first long weeked of the year end is coming up and I plan to cook!
So I got Jumilah along, and together we went to good old Mustafa. Now, shopping in Mustafa is rather eventful in itself and given that I had a long list of things to buy, it turned out to be more eventful than I would liked it to be. We basically ended up walking up and down that humungous building and its newly done extensions, a thousand times!
After that long but successful shopping, came the next challenge - finding a cab to get back. It was pouring cats and dogs and considering Singapore's downright pathetic taxi availability situation these days, it turned to be a true horror. But interestingly enough, I wasn't impatient or fidgety. I kinda enjoyed the rain, the panic of the people around that it induced, the fact that the wind blew the rains to even where I was standing which was initially considered a pretty well covered area, watching Jumilah use all her energy to flag any passing car etc.
Finally it was Jumilah, the superstar, who managed to successfully get a cab. After loading all the bags into the taxi, we had an interesting journey back home in the lashing rain, catching a glimpse of the floods that seem to plague Singapore these days and having a great conversation with the cabbie who was really one of the nicest cabbies ever!
At home Jumilah and I made ourselves some hot tea and spicy pakoras!
Later at night, it was time for Sherlock Holmes with the hubby but not before a dinner at Nandos. The movie was fun and it was even more nice that after the movie, getting a cab was not an issue at all! After the cab hunting extravaganza this evening, that was more than a welcome change!
But the night was not to end there. The hubby and I decided to go through our music playlists and play all the wonderful songs that we enjoy, and that too over some good white wine! Thus we sat up listening to songs, one after the other, well into the night!
It was an evertful, perfect day!
236 more to go.
No comments:
Post a Comment