Oodles of noodles

My friend and I were whisked off to Hong Kong last weekend for four days of food and shopping. I love holidays with the girlfriends!

Of course, my first meal was wanton mee (prawn dumpling noodles) from Chee Kei. I love that shop! The noodles are chewy and (as the italians say) al dente, and the dumplings are bursting with the freshest prawns. Mmm just thinking about it makes me salivate!

Hong Kong will always have a special place in my heart as it is where my godmother and good friends from my exchange days stay.

How great is it to meet up with friends whom you have not met in years and still have that same sense of familiarity!

We also took time to head to Macau for a day trip and stumbled onto more great food. Unfortunately we decided to try our hands at the gambling table and lost! It was an eye opener though.

More about Hong Kong in another post as another busy weekend awaits me.

The Fantasy and Science Fiction course that I am taking on Coursera is coming to an end. I am going to miss it. On a happier note, I did really well for the essay that I wrote on Ray Bradbury and received great comments asking me to keep writing. It is great being good at what you enjoy!

Weekends should be this simple

I love quiet, restful weekends with a good read, some company and great food.

After sleeping most of Saturday away, we decided to make the most of Sunday - the last sacred day before the work week starts, again.

We walked off our hearty brunch through the atmospheric Tiong Bahru estate, trying to find a place to read, and settled in the aptly named 'The Reading Room' for some caffeine and reading time.

An halfway though 'The Martian Chronicles' and am eager to read more of Bradbury.

A quiet Sunday morning

Today, I'm enjoying a quiet Sunday morning to myself. It is really a rare moment because I'm usually sleeping till my stomach wakes me up for lunch.

I am now headed to the supermarket to get some things for a picnic in the late afternoon with my best friends.

Just finished "Herland", by the same writer of one of my favourite short stories "The Yellow Wallpaper", for my Coursera course. It is difficult to find time to read, think and write for the courses in between work but I'm enjoying the balance. I miss school. I miss Literature!

Anyway, "Herland" is great. The utopia that the female characters achieve is without the elements that I hate in the real world - war, destruction and the whole notion of the afterlife.