Saturday, March 21, 2009
I think this is the longest lapse in blogging for me thus far. Here's a 3-week post! (Don't worry, the two weeks of reservist will be condensed.)
Wed 25 Feb
It was a really long day today because the Infocomm Club had started its first training session. I hung around to check on the students, and only left after everything was taken care of.
Thu 26 Feb
It was just one long day in school. There were sudden things I had to take care of, so much so that I could only eat a rushed lunch in the school canteen.
Fri 27 Feb
Today was an exciting day! The car was ready a day early, so we decided to go pick it up this evening. I went out with a colleague to Old Airport Road for a sumptuous lunch, and on the way back, I told her to drop me off at Bedok Central, whereupon I went to settle a great many things, for instance, purchasing cash cards for parking and ERP, settling season's parking for the multistorey carpark at my place. My wife and I took a cab down to Honda showroom after her lessons ended, and we picked up our brand new Cerrulean Blue Honda Jazz. The first thing we did, of course, was to go pump petrol, buy a street directory and a new-driver plate for the car. Accessorizing can come later.
We went over to eat Botak Jones near my in-laws' place, and then popped by to spend time with Jadon. It was quite late by the time we got home, but even then, I had a phone call from Alvin to jio mahjong! My wife gave consent, so I headed over to Alvin's place, which was just across the road from my block anyway, and we had two rounds of mahjong from midnight till about 6+ in the morning. I won money in both rounds, and had some nice finishes. Shiok.
Sat 28 Feb
My wife found out that there was a motherhood fair at Expo, so we decided to drive there to take a look. That was one big mistake, because on this same weekend, there was the Natas fair. The roads leading to Expo and the carparks there were one crowded mess. Thank God we managed to find a parking lot after a while of circling. When we went to the fair, I recalled that we bought our pram there last year at a good discount. Looking around, I realized that the layout was identical to previous year's, and the whole place had too many slimming centre booths, insurance booths, and education centre booths. The booths that actually sold baby products were few and far between. To make our trip worth it, we decided to buy some clothes and baby food (purees and juices), but I think even the discount didn't cover the petrol and parking. I think this should be the last time I would venture to the fair.
We drove down to my in-laws' place to pick up my mother-in-law, Jadon and my wife's aunt, and headed down to Parkway Parade to walk around. My wife heard that there was some baby fair there, but in the end, it was a wild goose chase. We did, however, find a nice enough car seat though.
Sun 1 Mar
My wife and I went to service, and had cell group thereafter as usual. I wanted to bring my boys to eat at the former Sakura restaurant at Eastpoint, but even the restaurant that opened after it had closed down. We had no choice but to go to the Japanese food place, whose name I don't remember. The set meals went up in price! Resentfully, I ordered some ramen thing that tasted blah. Sigh.
Mon 2 Mar
For some reason, my colleague Jonathan felt like driving out to eat. So we headed out to the hawker centre just outside Bedok Camp to eat the zi char there. The food standard was not bad, but Jonathan insisted that it was not as good because it was prepared by the son. Apparently, the father is the better chef. I guess I would have to find out some other time if that were true.
Tue 3 Mar
It was my short day today. I went to visit Jadon as early as I could.
Wed 4 Mar
After school was over, my wife and I headed over to my in-laws' place to see Jadon. In the evening, Collin came by and met us at the MacDonalds there to discuss some insurance matters. We were seated right next to a TJC girl but I wasn't sure if she recognized either me or my wife. In any case, she was with her boyfriend dressed in home clothes, and I kept monitoring her. Good thing she didn't step out of line. Sigh. A teacher's moral responsibility transcends work hours.
Thu 5 Mar
I had applied online for my new Identification Card (I had finally hit the big-3 in front of my age), but I realized that if I did not collect today, I wouldn't be able to, because the deadline was right smack in the middle of my In-Camp Training. I originally thought I could make it by public transport down, since my wife finished lessons an hour later than me, but I just had this nagging feeling that I had remembered the closing time wrongly, and I did! I quickly went out and took a cab to rush down to Immigration and Checkpoints Authority building at Lavender, and just managed to reach there before the closing time, and gotten my brand new IC. My old one was cracked, chipped and blackened. It was due for replacement anyway.
After that, I rushed down by train to Bedok to get my hair cut. I only suddenly recalled that my hair was not sloped at the back and sides, which would fail the hair check during in-processing. For the students out there who thought only the discipline master checks your hair, you are dead wrong.
Fri 6 Mar
It was an exciting day today. Another tutor had to take over my lessons to free up my time because I was involved in preparing for Principal's talk during the 'A' Levels results release. It was a madhouse since the early morning once the results came in. The Data Processing Unit of the IT Committee had to churn out all the necessary data from the source files, and once the information came in, my colleague ZH and I were furiously putting together profiles of top scorers and organizing the information into powerpoint format for the afternoon when the students came back. This year's results were great, and so I was stuck in the board room for much longer than previous years because there were more names to include, and there were many more 7- and 8-distinction students in which we had to dig out their achievements from their student portfolios. In fact, I was only done about half an hour before the actual results release.
I was given the task of clicking the powerpoint, so I was on stage, looking upon all the students as I clicked away, seeing joy and disappointment on faces, hearing loud screams or squeals across the hall. After everything was over and done with, I went to search for my students at the back of the hall. Of course, I already knew how they did since the morning, but I wanted to do was to talk with them. There were overjoyed ones, grateful ones, disappointed ones. In any case, I was looking out for my students who needed consoling or advice. I spent quite some time chatting with a few of them, and some of them followed me back to the staff room to talk a while more.
I pray that all of them would have an exceedingly bright future ahead, no matter which path they choose.
Sat 7 Mar
I haven't had the time to properly prepare for the Basic Theory Test because I was too busy, so I just read up the night before, and went for it. Fortunately, a good part of it was plain common sense, so I managed to pass it. However, as it was a Saturday, the main office was closed, and I couldn't proceed to book for advanced theory. It still felt quite surreal to be on the journey of learning how to drive actually.
Sun 8 Mar
I went to service as usual, and this was the first time we drove and parked at Expo, and brought Jadon along. Frankly, although I understand the need to expose Jadon to church as early as possible, I found it totally unproductive to have him around. We had to sit at the back instead of the usual seats, and it was so noisy there, with many people walking around. It was utterly distracting.
After service, I headed to Challenger to buy a casing for my Ipod Nano, which I got in a lucky draw from Citibank, but they did not have the third-gen accessories anymore. My wife had a brief cell group, and after we met up, we headed over to my in-laws' place to settle Jadon in. For dinner, we went over to Hiang Suar restaurant at the corner of the adjacent block. I wanted to eat a 'last' good meal before going to reservist, so I ordered sharks' fin soup among other dishes. I had asked the waitress if the soup would be too much for us, and she said that it was ok, and that the soup was only about two bowls' worth.
It turned out to be about five bowls. Good thing I had a healthy appetite.
Mon 9 Mar - Thu 19 Mar
I think it is easier to talk about the whole In-Camp Training (ICT) in one shot. The first day was slack, because the first day of every ICT is always for settling logistics, taking over equipment and etc. This time round, my old Magic kakis decided to bring in some decks and cards, so we ended up playing Magic often whenever we had free time at night. The first week was physically draining. Not for everyone, but my section happened to be section 2, which is the breaching section of the platoon. This ICT is ATEC 1, which is a sort of army unit evaluation. Hence, the first week was intensive training for every test that you may potentially be called up for (the actual evaluation is a random selection of individuals/sections from each company). So while others in my platoon had just personal weapon drills and hand grenade throwing practice, my section had all those plus breaching training, which was tough.
The breaching drill is to send in a section to cut open enemy fortification in the form of concertina wire (silent breaching) or to blow it up using something called a bangalore torpedo. In order to attempt silent breaching, the section had to move in tactically and quietly. In other words, we had to leopard-crawl our way around, with all the equipment on us. I had a tougher time because I was with the section commander during breaching, and I had to leopard-crawl with the torpedo in my left hand, and the SAR21 rifle in my right. It was very hard to crawl because there was no room for me to use my elbows for support. If we were contacted by the enemy, then we had to move fast, and run around. I'm getting too old for this stuff seriously. We had three days of intensive practice, and by second day, my shoulders, arms and legs were aching, and I had bruises all over my elbows and kneecaps. We were exhausted everyday, but at night, we had time to relax and play Magic.
In fact, the trainers thought that we were doing very well in terms of attitude. One of them commented that the previous reservist unit doing ATEC1 didn't even bother to prone down or take cover, so they were quite impressed with us. The same goes for other drills. So we got ourselves a night's off on the Thursday of the first week, which I used to spend time with Jadon by rushing down to Bedok. From the ultra-ulu Sungei Gedong camp. Thank God for a platoon-mate who stays in Punggol who is also a family man, so he gave me a ride every time. The original ICT schedule lasted 3 weeks, but was eventually compressed to 2 weeks. The price of that though, was training on Saturday. I only managed to book out on Saturday night, and was back by Sunday night.
In stark contrast, week two was much lighter in load. Because by Monday, each company already knew who were selected for which station, everyone only went for targetting drill and practice. Interestingly, although during the mock evaluation (hmmm, for some reason, this whole thing feels like SPA, the School-based Practical Assessment), my section did not perform as well as the other section of my company, our officers still recommended us, and we went to do the breaching test. Traditionally, it is hard to score for the breaching, because many different scenarios could occur, which, in a way, made it more interesting than the other stations. However, to the assessor's surprise, of the 3 sections that came for the evaluation, two of us (including my section) got redcon 2A (second best grade), and the third got redcon 1, which was the best grade possible. In fact, the whole battalion did so well on the whole ATEC 1 that we got 94.3% out of 100! That makes us on par with the best battalion score so far in the whole history of army, including active units! The Commanding Officer (CO) of the battalion was so pleased with the result that he cancelled the last day of the ICT, and let us outprocess on Thursday! How cool is that?
The sad thing was that I failed my IPPT. I was doing alright originally, clearing all the static stations, and with 1 min 50 s to run the last lap of my 2.4 km station to pass. Then for some reason that I do not understand, during the last 200 m, my body acted up and I puked. I tried to sprint again, but I had to stop and squat down to quench the retching. Considering all the recent incidents of people dying from running, I though it unwise to push myself. So I'll just resign myself to go for RT (remedial training) next month.
Fri 20 Mar
Not bad at all. I actually got back one out of the five days of holidays that were lost to the army. My wife and I headed down to Ikea in the early afternoon, with a buy-list in mind. We happened to spot their baby chairs (for feeding) which were cheap but sturdy. We bought two sets for my house and my in-laws' place, amongst many other items needed for the house. Now that I have a car, going to Ikea is terrific. Not only is there free parking, but more importantly, I can buy bigger items without worrying about the extra delivery cost. I discovered something interesting, incidentally, about the Ikea cafe's meatballs. The normal adult set of meatballs (10 pc meatballs and 3 pc potato) costs $6.50. The kid's meal set of meatballs consists of 5 meatballs and 1 potato, and costs $2.90. In other words, if I order two kid's meals, I get exactly 10 meatballs and 2 potatos, and it costs $5.80! That means that I would have paid 70 cents for the one extra potato (which I often don't finish anyway) if I ordered the adult meal. I think I'd be ordering kid's meals from now on.
We headed down to Tampines to Spring Maternity to pick up a stroller we bought. There's a promotion there for a Maclaren stroller that usually costs $229 but is now going for $98! My wife bought it a few days ago, but was waiting for me to supply the man-power to transport it to the car. We headed back home, dropped off the things, and went over to Downtown East. I had a Hei Sushi voucher for my birthday that was just sent to me, so we went to spend it. After eating there, we headed over to E!Hub to have the kungfu milk tea and some peanut butter toast to top off the meal. We also discovered that it is a lot cheaper to park at the HDB carpark opposite and walk over.
After dinner, we headed down to my in-laws' place to pick Jadon up for home. My wife had gone to get the car, so I was carrying Jadon in one arm, and the pram with the other. When I was waiting for the lift, there was this Malay couple with a baby as well, and this young man with headphones on. When the lift door opened, I went in first, followed by the young man. Both my hands were occupied, so I couldn't press anything. The young man just pushed himself into a corner, and didn't even press the button to hold the door for the Malay couple, or to press first floor! I was quite pissed off at that point. The worse thing was that when we reached the ground floor, after the Malay couple left, the young man just went off, and I was trying to hurry out before the door closed on me and baby. Inconsiderate is an understatement.
Sat 21 Mar
I finally spent quality time with Jadon the whole day, although he was kinda cranky today. I think when we wanted to bring him out, he wanted to sleep, and when we were dead tired and wanted to rest, he wanted to play. Anyway, by evening time we brought him back to my in-laws' place, having decided that we wouldn't bring him to church for now.
For dinner we ate at the Aston's at Bedok. And this was after such a long time since their opening where I ate one steak and one fish and chips with soup for 80 c per item during the promotion. I wonder how many others came and ate only during the promotion. That was one heck of a good deal still.
Wed 25 Feb
It was a really long day today because the Infocomm Club had started its first training session. I hung around to check on the students, and only left after everything was taken care of.
Thu 26 Feb
It was just one long day in school. There were sudden things I had to take care of, so much so that I could only eat a rushed lunch in the school canteen.
Fri 27 Feb
Today was an exciting day! The car was ready a day early, so we decided to go pick it up this evening. I went out with a colleague to Old Airport Road for a sumptuous lunch, and on the way back, I told her to drop me off at Bedok Central, whereupon I went to settle a great many things, for instance, purchasing cash cards for parking and ERP, settling season's parking for the multistorey carpark at my place. My wife and I took a cab down to Honda showroom after her lessons ended, and we picked up our brand new Cerrulean Blue Honda Jazz. The first thing we did, of course, was to go pump petrol, buy a street directory and a new-driver plate for the car. Accessorizing can come later.
We went over to eat Botak Jones near my in-laws' place, and then popped by to spend time with Jadon. It was quite late by the time we got home, but even then, I had a phone call from Alvin to jio mahjong! My wife gave consent, so I headed over to Alvin's place, which was just across the road from my block anyway, and we had two rounds of mahjong from midnight till about 6+ in the morning. I won money in both rounds, and had some nice finishes. Shiok.
Sat 28 Feb
My wife found out that there was a motherhood fair at Expo, so we decided to drive there to take a look. That was one big mistake, because on this same weekend, there was the Natas fair. The roads leading to Expo and the carparks there were one crowded mess. Thank God we managed to find a parking lot after a while of circling. When we went to the fair, I recalled that we bought our pram there last year at a good discount. Looking around, I realized that the layout was identical to previous year's, and the whole place had too many slimming centre booths, insurance booths, and education centre booths. The booths that actually sold baby products were few and far between. To make our trip worth it, we decided to buy some clothes and baby food (purees and juices), but I think even the discount didn't cover the petrol and parking. I think this should be the last time I would venture to the fair.
We drove down to my in-laws' place to pick up my mother-in-law, Jadon and my wife's aunt, and headed down to Parkway Parade to walk around. My wife heard that there was some baby fair there, but in the end, it was a wild goose chase. We did, however, find a nice enough car seat though.
Sun 1 Mar
My wife and I went to service, and had cell group thereafter as usual. I wanted to bring my boys to eat at the former Sakura restaurant at Eastpoint, but even the restaurant that opened after it had closed down. We had no choice but to go to the Japanese food place, whose name I don't remember. The set meals went up in price! Resentfully, I ordered some ramen thing that tasted blah. Sigh.
Mon 2 Mar
For some reason, my colleague Jonathan felt like driving out to eat. So we headed out to the hawker centre just outside Bedok Camp to eat the zi char there. The food standard was not bad, but Jonathan insisted that it was not as good because it was prepared by the son. Apparently, the father is the better chef. I guess I would have to find out some other time if that were true.
Tue 3 Mar
It was my short day today. I went to visit Jadon as early as I could.
Wed 4 Mar
After school was over, my wife and I headed over to my in-laws' place to see Jadon. In the evening, Collin came by and met us at the MacDonalds there to discuss some insurance matters. We were seated right next to a TJC girl but I wasn't sure if she recognized either me or my wife. In any case, she was with her boyfriend dressed in home clothes, and I kept monitoring her. Good thing she didn't step out of line. Sigh. A teacher's moral responsibility transcends work hours.
Thu 5 Mar
I had applied online for my new Identification Card (I had finally hit the big-3 in front of my age), but I realized that if I did not collect today, I wouldn't be able to, because the deadline was right smack in the middle of my In-Camp Training. I originally thought I could make it by public transport down, since my wife finished lessons an hour later than me, but I just had this nagging feeling that I had remembered the closing time wrongly, and I did! I quickly went out and took a cab to rush down to Immigration and Checkpoints Authority building at Lavender, and just managed to reach there before the closing time, and gotten my brand new IC. My old one was cracked, chipped and blackened. It was due for replacement anyway.
After that, I rushed down by train to Bedok to get my hair cut. I only suddenly recalled that my hair was not sloped at the back and sides, which would fail the hair check during in-processing. For the students out there who thought only the discipline master checks your hair, you are dead wrong.
Fri 6 Mar
It was an exciting day today. Another tutor had to take over my lessons to free up my time because I was involved in preparing for Principal's talk during the 'A' Levels results release. It was a madhouse since the early morning once the results came in. The Data Processing Unit of the IT Committee had to churn out all the necessary data from the source files, and once the information came in, my colleague ZH and I were furiously putting together profiles of top scorers and organizing the information into powerpoint format for the afternoon when the students came back. This year's results were great, and so I was stuck in the board room for much longer than previous years because there were more names to include, and there were many more 7- and 8-distinction students in which we had to dig out their achievements from their student portfolios. In fact, I was only done about half an hour before the actual results release.
I was given the task of clicking the powerpoint, so I was on stage, looking upon all the students as I clicked away, seeing joy and disappointment on faces, hearing loud screams or squeals across the hall. After everything was over and done with, I went to search for my students at the back of the hall. Of course, I already knew how they did since the morning, but I wanted to do was to talk with them. There were overjoyed ones, grateful ones, disappointed ones. In any case, I was looking out for my students who needed consoling or advice. I spent quite some time chatting with a few of them, and some of them followed me back to the staff room to talk a while more.
I pray that all of them would have an exceedingly bright future ahead, no matter which path they choose.
Sat 7 Mar
I haven't had the time to properly prepare for the Basic Theory Test because I was too busy, so I just read up the night before, and went for it. Fortunately, a good part of it was plain common sense, so I managed to pass it. However, as it was a Saturday, the main office was closed, and I couldn't proceed to book for advanced theory. It still felt quite surreal to be on the journey of learning how to drive actually.
Sun 8 Mar
I went to service as usual, and this was the first time we drove and parked at Expo, and brought Jadon along. Frankly, although I understand the need to expose Jadon to church as early as possible, I found it totally unproductive to have him around. We had to sit at the back instead of the usual seats, and it was so noisy there, with many people walking around. It was utterly distracting.
After service, I headed to Challenger to buy a casing for my Ipod Nano, which I got in a lucky draw from Citibank, but they did not have the third-gen accessories anymore. My wife had a brief cell group, and after we met up, we headed over to my in-laws' place to settle Jadon in. For dinner, we went over to Hiang Suar restaurant at the corner of the adjacent block. I wanted to eat a 'last' good meal before going to reservist, so I ordered sharks' fin soup among other dishes. I had asked the waitress if the soup would be too much for us, and she said that it was ok, and that the soup was only about two bowls' worth.
It turned out to be about five bowls. Good thing I had a healthy appetite.
Mon 9 Mar - Thu 19 Mar
I think it is easier to talk about the whole In-Camp Training (ICT) in one shot. The first day was slack, because the first day of every ICT is always for settling logistics, taking over equipment and etc. This time round, my old Magic kakis decided to bring in some decks and cards, so we ended up playing Magic often whenever we had free time at night. The first week was physically draining. Not for everyone, but my section happened to be section 2, which is the breaching section of the platoon. This ICT is ATEC 1, which is a sort of army unit evaluation. Hence, the first week was intensive training for every test that you may potentially be called up for (the actual evaluation is a random selection of individuals/sections from each company). So while others in my platoon had just personal weapon drills and hand grenade throwing practice, my section had all those plus breaching training, which was tough.
The breaching drill is to send in a section to cut open enemy fortification in the form of concertina wire (silent breaching) or to blow it up using something called a bangalore torpedo. In order to attempt silent breaching, the section had to move in tactically and quietly. In other words, we had to leopard-crawl our way around, with all the equipment on us. I had a tougher time because I was with the section commander during breaching, and I had to leopard-crawl with the torpedo in my left hand, and the SAR21 rifle in my right. It was very hard to crawl because there was no room for me to use my elbows for support. If we were contacted by the enemy, then we had to move fast, and run around. I'm getting too old for this stuff seriously. We had three days of intensive practice, and by second day, my shoulders, arms and legs were aching, and I had bruises all over my elbows and kneecaps. We were exhausted everyday, but at night, we had time to relax and play Magic.
In fact, the trainers thought that we were doing very well in terms of attitude. One of them commented that the previous reservist unit doing ATEC1 didn't even bother to prone down or take cover, so they were quite impressed with us. The same goes for other drills. So we got ourselves a night's off on the Thursday of the first week, which I used to spend time with Jadon by rushing down to Bedok. From the ultra-ulu Sungei Gedong camp. Thank God for a platoon-mate who stays in Punggol who is also a family man, so he gave me a ride every time. The original ICT schedule lasted 3 weeks, but was eventually compressed to 2 weeks. The price of that though, was training on Saturday. I only managed to book out on Saturday night, and was back by Sunday night.
In stark contrast, week two was much lighter in load. Because by Monday, each company already knew who were selected for which station, everyone only went for targetting drill and practice. Interestingly, although during the mock evaluation (hmmm, for some reason, this whole thing feels like SPA, the School-based Practical Assessment), my section did not perform as well as the other section of my company, our officers still recommended us, and we went to do the breaching test. Traditionally, it is hard to score for the breaching, because many different scenarios could occur, which, in a way, made it more interesting than the other stations. However, to the assessor's surprise, of the 3 sections that came for the evaluation, two of us (including my section) got redcon 2A (second best grade), and the third got redcon 1, which was the best grade possible. In fact, the whole battalion did so well on the whole ATEC 1 that we got 94.3% out of 100! That makes us on par with the best battalion score so far in the whole history of army, including active units! The Commanding Officer (CO) of the battalion was so pleased with the result that he cancelled the last day of the ICT, and let us outprocess on Thursday! How cool is that?
The sad thing was that I failed my IPPT. I was doing alright originally, clearing all the static stations, and with 1 min 50 s to run the last lap of my 2.4 km station to pass. Then for some reason that I do not understand, during the last 200 m, my body acted up and I puked. I tried to sprint again, but I had to stop and squat down to quench the retching. Considering all the recent incidents of people dying from running, I though it unwise to push myself. So I'll just resign myself to go for RT (remedial training) next month.
Fri 20 Mar
Not bad at all. I actually got back one out of the five days of holidays that were lost to the army. My wife and I headed down to Ikea in the early afternoon, with a buy-list in mind. We happened to spot their baby chairs (for feeding) which were cheap but sturdy. We bought two sets for my house and my in-laws' place, amongst many other items needed for the house. Now that I have a car, going to Ikea is terrific. Not only is there free parking, but more importantly, I can buy bigger items without worrying about the extra delivery cost. I discovered something interesting, incidentally, about the Ikea cafe's meatballs. The normal adult set of meatballs (10 pc meatballs and 3 pc potato) costs $6.50. The kid's meal set of meatballs consists of 5 meatballs and 1 potato, and costs $2.90. In other words, if I order two kid's meals, I get exactly 10 meatballs and 2 potatos, and it costs $5.80! That means that I would have paid 70 cents for the one extra potato (which I often don't finish anyway) if I ordered the adult meal. I think I'd be ordering kid's meals from now on.
We headed down to Tampines to Spring Maternity to pick up a stroller we bought. There's a promotion there for a Maclaren stroller that usually costs $229 but is now going for $98! My wife bought it a few days ago, but was waiting for me to supply the man-power to transport it to the car. We headed back home, dropped off the things, and went over to Downtown East. I had a Hei Sushi voucher for my birthday that was just sent to me, so we went to spend it. After eating there, we headed over to E!Hub to have the kungfu milk tea and some peanut butter toast to top off the meal. We also discovered that it is a lot cheaper to park at the HDB carpark opposite and walk over.
After dinner, we headed down to my in-laws' place to pick Jadon up for home. My wife had gone to get the car, so I was carrying Jadon in one arm, and the pram with the other. When I was waiting for the lift, there was this Malay couple with a baby as well, and this young man with headphones on. When the lift door opened, I went in first, followed by the young man. Both my hands were occupied, so I couldn't press anything. The young man just pushed himself into a corner, and didn't even press the button to hold the door for the Malay couple, or to press first floor! I was quite pissed off at that point. The worse thing was that when we reached the ground floor, after the Malay couple left, the young man just went off, and I was trying to hurry out before the door closed on me and baby. Inconsiderate is an understatement.
Sat 21 Mar
I finally spent quality time with Jadon the whole day, although he was kinda cranky today. I think when we wanted to bring him out, he wanted to sleep, and when we were dead tired and wanted to rest, he wanted to play. Anyway, by evening time we brought him back to my in-laws' place, having decided that we wouldn't bring him to church for now.
For dinner we ate at the Aston's at Bedok. And this was after such a long time since their opening where I ate one steak and one fish and chips with soup for 80 c per item during the promotion. I wonder how many others came and ate only during the promotion. That was one heck of a good deal still.