April Firsts

This month started off with shisha at Arab Street and ended with a free stay at the Gallery Hotel. Awesome, isn't it?

Except from the vodka vs milk tea moral and digestive dilemma, April went smoothly as expected. For the first time, I tried steamboat in SG! I had two steamboat dinners this month: first one was with Lorena, Melai and Tim and the second one with Thedd. Lots of last minute pigging out around Civic District with (again) Lorena, Melai, Tim and Polo: satisfying our Aston's steak cravings in Suntec and raiding Makansutra at 12 midnight -- complete with walkathon from our house to Esplanade and back.

Career-wise, work is getting better as I am already a confeeeermed regular employee!

Another first: cross-country train ride. I have finally reached Johor Bahru and though they say there are lots of cheaper goods in Malaysia, our sole aim was to have dinner there. We went to Nando's in City Square Mall, because the cheapo in us think that Nando's in SG is overpriced.

Our kiteflying plans pushed through, with KS calling me a diva. That's a first, too. Nobody calls me a diva before. Ever. Alan, Joann, Xanth, Emily, Percy, KS and I went all the way to Buangkok to fly kites at 10am on April 22, but due to waiting time and breakfast, we started kiteflying at 11am. Our kites weren't stable until around 12pm and the weather was too hot for me. So I borrowed Joann's umbrella and stood in the middle of the field holding it while all of them struggled to let their kites fly. We quit after a while and had lunch at NEX Serangoon, with all the jokes about durian and What's next? This is NEX! conversations. We then played Kinect and it was so fun, even though we didn't manage to record any decent scores. After rounds of trying to dance along some unfamiliar beats, we decided to quit Kinect and had round 2 of kiteflying at Marina Barrage.

An addition to the Singapore Turista Experience: I have finally visited Jurong Bird Park. Thanks to Ate Hazel for the free tickets, the looong MRT ride to Jurong East was worth it.

This month also saw me buying less books and more dresses, more outdoors, less Chinese lessons, more green tea and more Han's blueberry crumble. I'm getting more brown from all those outdoorsy activities but I'm less concerned about my skin lately, which is bad.

April started with Apple-flavoured shisha after chicken murtabak in Arab Street and ended with $10 steak lunch at Hooters. Yes, April was foodiliciously awesome and I loved it.

On track for Awesome 2011!