Rain on the parade

 Thursday was rather uneventful, so much so I can’t even remember what I did. Friday was a fun day though. Guess what I did in the morning? If you said gym and pool you are only half right. Rain again dampened (no pun intended) my pool intentions. 

I stuck around the house for a while with the intention of helping Ning (the hired help) make chili sauce. You all know my love for spicy food, I wanted to learn how to make it for myself in the future. But after 2 hours of waiting I began to get stir crazy, so I went and found my favourite gluten free store, Brown Rice Paradise. While there I picked up some brown rice English muffins, and replenished my clif bar supply. On my way home I stopped by the local grocer and picked up my fruit, carrots and some eggs. I find it rather interesting, that in Singapore the eggs are not kept in the fridge like back home. That beckoned my to question which is better? I mean half the world does it one way and the other half opposite. After pondering for a bit, I gave up and hard boiled all 10 eggs (yes they come in packs of 10), then tossed em in the fridge. Done like dinner? Breakfast actually, I have started eating 2 eggs every morning for breakfast, helps keep me full and give a decent shot of protein to start the day.

Rounding 3^rd and heading home I stopped by a travel agent to check out the sweet last minute deals, or so I thought.  Krabi, Thailand was looking like where I wanted to go. Flights were 300 and then hotel another 900. For 4 days, no thanks. Christmas season shoots the prices up outrageously there. I think it would be best to keep an eye out for deals. Apparently you can get round trip flights for around 100 and 4 nights for about the same.

After getting home the BBQ that my land lords were having was about to get started. Despite rains most of the day, it lifted around 6 o’clock.  I met a ton of new people and tried lots of food. I think that this was the first time it was evident to me that I was a minority. Everyone was great and nice to me, but it took me a little while to feel comfortable. For dinner we all had small amounts of everything; stingray, beef, chicken, pork, mussels, sambal rice, bee hoon, you name it.