Another delicious meal here. Amazing that they have maintained the quality. All the dishes I ordered were as good as the last time.
And the prices remain as affordable as well. 5 dishes and a very specially brewed cold tea came up to $68. And the place is as packed as well.
Good for them. Good food at very good prices.
Am now sitting in a plane waiting to take off to Chengdu.
I had made plans to go somewhere/anywhere because my mother was going to be in India with my sister during Deepavali and since my mother wouldn’t be here, I decided to travel on the same dates as her.
Unfortunately my sister couldn’t travel and so my mother will be in Singapore during Deepavali and I couldn’t now cancel my flight and hotel and so she will be alone here.
Sigh. Anyway after returning from Chengdu, I will travel with here to India in November.
No specific plans for Chengdu, just relax And eat.
Saturday was the 100th day celebrations for my colleague’s twins and so I was invited to their place yesterday.
Met up with both the happy father and mother and I managed to see the twins and their 2 years old daughter as well.
So happy for them that it all turned out well. Just wondering how she will cope when she needs to get back full steam to work at the start of the next year. Looking after 3 young children can be daunting especially of you want to give it your best at both.
Also never realized how expensive pre school can be. Apparently one of my colleague spends $3500 per month on his child. Wow!
I drove back from KL this morning. Left at 945 am and took the same route I did the last time via the MEX highway but strangely I took a wrong turn and had a make quite a detour to get off and get back onto the highway whilst driving through some town. Really strange….
Anyway I didn’t lose that much time as I still managed hit Tuas at about 145pm even after taking a 15 minutes charge break at Pagoh. I need to be more careful the next time. Strange how this happened.
Nobu KL celebrated it’s 10th anniversary tonight.
The moment I learnt that they were planning this celebration, I had made plans to come up to KL for this evening and I am glad I came.
For me, the highlight was talking to Nobusan himself and taking a picture with him.
It was a standing event with plenty of free flowing food of the highest quality but unfortunately there was a limit to how much I could eat. Also there was free flow of alcohol which I didn’t take.
The place was packed with well dressed people and the Sultan of Selangor was there as a guest.
They had a traditional Japanese drum performance, a violin performance, a laser show and a performance by Malaysian singer Siti Nurhasila. I was told they have been planning this event for one year!
Everyone left with a gift box and I am glad that I could be here for this.
Lunch yesterday was hosted by my friend U-Zyn. I have never been to this Italian restaurant at Keong Saik Road so I was looking forward to the food and company.
He was meeting his friend, who was passing by Singapore, and he kindly invited me to join them.
The food was good and U Zyn recommended their fried pizza, which was really very nice.
Conversation was interesting and it ranged over so many topics, like crypto, stable coins, block chain, Singapore and Malaysia. We didn’t all agree on everything but that’s ok.
And I realized I had quite a bit in common with his friend. We were both in university at the same time and we both knew the same many people.
And he described himself as a futurist. I thought that was a interesting word. How does one become a futurist? And can a futurist be proved wrong? Interesting.
Off to KL. Started off driving at 615 and am now at KLCC. Arrived 1045 with a 20 minutes coffee/charging break at Ayer Keroh.
No reason to fly to KL unless its the school holidays and there is traffic jams!
I just started reading this book on my Kindle although the book has been out for a couple of years now. This book is his version of his life.
He is my all time favorite musical theatre composer and he has written some incredible music and songs. I have seen all his earlier works and I love them. Like all composers I think the inspiration fades after a while and in his case after Sunset Boulevard. He has not had any hit musicals since then and that is not for want of trying. He has written quite a few musicals after that, none of which did well.
He gave up a place at Oxford to study history to instead focus on writing music and fortunately for him, it turned out to be the right decision.
He started writing songs in school for plays and musicals when he was about 14 and he met his most important collaborator Tim Rice when he was just 16.
I am just at the part when he and Tim have finished writing and putting Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat into small school productions and are now writing Jesus Christ Superstar. But what an enterprising young man he was. Making connections with the right people, taking risks and making good business calls. And of course, he was supremely talented.
Since I now go regularly to KL, when I saw this 2 full day class listed on the PA course calendar, I immediately signed up.
Apparently this is a very popular course and always fills up very fast. So I signed up for this some months back and today was the class.
Although the course required me to spend 2 full days on a weekend, I came here this morning all motivated to learn to speak Malay.
To my utter disappointment, this entire morning was spent talking about Malay culture, customs, festivals and food. And it looked like that would continue into the afternoon.
So I told the coordinator this is not what I signed up for and left before lunch. Better to have wasted half a day than to end up wasting another one and a half days.
Lunch was at this restaurant with a friend. Dempsey is always a good place for a meal because parking is relatively easy and free.
Important lesson learnt today is that this restaurant should not be chosen by anyone with a prawn allergy. Otherwise you might end up with only the beef dish as your one option for food.
The food was good but the conversation was really fun. The car-smashed air pod 2 made it memorable.
Also I may have discovered a place to host my next ACS dinner as this restaurant has a private dining room. We shall see.
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