zenn bites...

animal farm

just got back from a weekend in KL and my body is aching like nobody's business. but more on that later. first up, met up with belated-birthday boy mimi at robertson quay where he acquired a new best friend:


the cuddly dog belonged to a lady at the next table and just invited herself (the dog, not the lady) to dinner with us. she came round, climbed onto the bench on mimi's side, got on his lap for a few photos, then quietly sat by his side while we ate. friendliest bitch ever.

in new york last week and the trip kick-started my gastronomical adventure that i hope will end today coz i think i've gained ten pounds in the last seven days. ramen, pinkberry, korean bread, cheetos, a heavy dinner at sushi of gari with mun, after which he took me for an out-of-this-world dessert tasting at wd40; lunch on the second day at bouley - a fantastic seven course degustation menu that rendered me incapable of eating anything else for the rest of the day...


...plus brunch and pinkberry (again) on the last day. when i got back, gracie and i had an eat-until-cannot-walk teppanyaki dinner with belated-birthday girl tian, picked up stephen's dad and earned ourselves a couple of mangoes and rotiboys each, then had cheesecake dessert at cheesecake cafe.

on to KL. gracie and andong flew up while chern and i drove. because we started off late, we got to KL three and a half hours later past midnight. a pit stop at his aunt's place, then to the hotel. the other two didn't want to come out so we roamed heritage road and a very unhappening zouk before deciding to just have supper then go to bed.


one wake-up call later, we shuffled downstairs to meet adrian who drove us all to berjaya hills where we went horse riding! armed with tian's riding pants, i proceeded to spend the next few hours going updownupdown - it was very very tiring.


me on chester, gracie on fantasy, andong on penelope, chern on midnight, adrian on turner.


they set up a shady tent for us to stop for a picnic lunch and to let kylie the fourteen year old dog catch her breath.


the boys found a skinny snake where we washed our hands and prodded it several times before it finally moved.


i graduated to a gallop after lunch (and managed to keep all that rice from being thrown up)!

sore butt, achy back, tired legs but funfunfun!

back to the hotel and a shower later, the monkey and i went to klcc for a walkabout and some a&w! the curly fries tasted weird though and were quite a letdown =(


that night, he took me to have his favorite hokkien mee and stingray in some ulu kopi tiam and we polished everything up even though we just had dinner.

dinner. between a&w and hokkien mee, i stuffed myself with way too much pork at oversea restaurant. the char siew there is omfg amazing.


the rest of the night was spent doing a bit of lancing lancing in poppy (we went there the last time i was in KL!).

had a late start on our last day and, after checking out, we popped by chern's aunt's place one last time before grabbing lunch and driving away from the looming rain clouds to head back to singapore. the journey took more than four hours, i fell asleep for one, he missed the turning for tuas so we ended up squeezing with the scary masses at woodlands, we sang many songs and took monkey photos, and finished a crossword.


home sweet home and a smelly dinner at adam road (burbur hitam sold out boohoo) and that's my weekend. i need to detox and to go for a massage. oh rah my achy breaky back.