My 31st bday dinner with Ben @ Ichiban Boshi + Puri-Puri with Potato + my bday dinner with in-laws & earrings from Potato + Suparraki ramen + Tiramisu cake @ Lady M + my bday lunch with Jess @ Unagiya Ichinochi & dad’s belated bday zichar + Walking on Sunshine with uni ladies + Horseshoe hydro-dipping workshop + 봄밤

*rRandom tThought: PotaTOHs met about 10 IDs for our new house next year! Somewhat tiring process but it’s all in the best interest of our pockets haha.*

15/10/19 Tues: Stretching session~
16/10/19 Weds: Ben was very nice to treat me to Ichiban Boshi as I did back for his birthday in June. Food was meh-meh, but it’s always good to catch up with him on work and life. *We’re all going into different phases in life, but that doesn’t stop us from catching up.*

 19/10/19 Sat: PotatTOHs went for dinner at Puri-Puri after meet-up with two IDs. It’s a refreshing concept whereby we get to look at and purchase furniture and lightings while tucking into their fusion chirashi don. Good price and nice ambience, and yes I did take photos of a few lighting designs that I liked. 
20/10/19 Sun: Headed over to in-laws for family dinner after work. MIL got Potato to buy a matcha cake from Four Leaves to celebrate my 31st birthday in advance. Sweet but not bad! 
Regarding the birthday gift Potato got me, it’s hilarious how he had kept that “surprise” for about four months till he couldn’t keep it in anymore and revealed some details on Sunday night haha! Been making me guess what my birthday gift was, and so he bought this pair of beautiful earrings from Eunnamu in Bukchon, on the very last morning of our stay in Seoul back in June. He went there too early when the shop would only open at 10am, so he hung around for one hour plus while playing with the cat outside. When the owner came slightly earlier before opening time, she’d tell him to come back later as they were not ready (setting up I guess?), but he insisted he’d already know what he wanted to get and went straight for this. Yes, I’d saw the necklace of the same design a day or two before when we went shopping, but thought it was too expensive, and I “warned” him not to buy that.
But he told me he thought what I liked looks nice too, but since I don’t wear necklaces as often as earrings, he bought the latter of the same design instead.
I love it. But I didn’t take note of the name of the shop back then. It’s got to do with trees and nature... my love! Maybe fated? Lol.

21/10/19 Mon: PotaTOHs had EAT肉挫面for lunch at Jurong Point. *Poor dear was down with flu symptoms.* Then, we watched “Joker”.

Very dark movie. I felt rather uncomfortable at some point of time, especially when he shot the comedian host dead on a “live show”. Yet, it’s a show that allows for much reflection. Arthur Fleck (Joaquin Phoenix) is often bullied because he suffered from a disorder that causes him to laugh at inappropriate times. The aspiring comedian was looked down, and he retaliated as a mode of self-protect. He killed strangers that mocked at him, his ex-colleague, the neighbour, his mum and the famous host. But I’m sure not all exactly were murdered by him. Some did, in his mind.

这个社会乱杀无辜。精神病患甚是无辜，可社会就容不下他们的存在吗？其实，大家也不过是“猪八戒照镜子”而已，彼此彼此。我们就不要再互相残害了。

Rating: 3.75/5
22/10/19 Tues: Had a good time flipping in the air, laughing and “hanging in there”… literally haha.
26/10/19 Sat: Had Suparraki for dinner with Potato after a second meet-up with Jason from D5 Studio Image. The ramen was not bad… value-for-money. I was tempted by the seasonal Tiramisu cake that Lady M came out with recently, so we ate that after dinner hehe~ it was good! *Potato, 这段期间让你破费啦~*
27/10/19 Sun: Jess treated me to a belated birthday lunch at Suntec City’s Unagiya ichinochi. We wanted to give it a try as it’s specialty was unagi, which we both love haha. She had the Hitsumabushi (only unagi) while I ate the unagi with barachirashi don mix. The first waiter that attended to us was rather rude, but luckily, the second guy explained to us nicely on how to mix the side ingredients and dashi to the rice separately to try different ways of eating. *Granted it’s tastier than Man Man’s in our opinion, but if not for the second waiter, we might never go back again!*
Brought Jess shopping at Funan Mall since she’d never been to the revamped one yet. *Always a good catch-up with this one.* Headed home to bring the family out for usual煮炒as dad’s belated birthday dinner.
The dishes were not bad ($68 altogether), especially the assam curry fish head, but the lemonade chicken came only half an hour later (we’re all fast eaters by the way), and since we were close to finishing all the other food already, dad and mum insisted we cancelled the order for that. The young waitress looked bent on sending the dish over, but we rejected flat-out. 
28/10/19 Mon: Thanks to XY, and the “successful surprise”, SS, Michelle and I were shocked to see MT, her son Alwyn, LC and then YQ appeared over lunch at Walking on Sunshine! *The decoration is very dreamy~ what most girls will like!* It’s been some time since most of us gather for a meal. 
I had the salmon on toast and their "green cleanse juice" that consisted of spinach, pineapple and cucumber which was not bad, and they ordered the pancake souffle for us birthday girls too. Very sweet of them and Alwyn was “da bomb” la~ seeing MT “chase” after him and trying to pacify him reaffirms one more time that being a mummy isn’t easy!
29/10/19 Tues: Had lowered aerial yoga class tonight after a long time. Stretches on the ground felt even more difficult than usual. It was hard for me to get into “mermaid pose”~ only got it after like eight times of try! *My arms are tired and I was sweating quite a bit by then!* 
30/10/19 Weds: I volunteered to help out at STC’s “Lucky Horseshoe” booth on November 24, and hence had to attend the horseshoe hydro-dipping workshop to learn the ropes first before we sell them to the public at Artbox Singapore 2019. 
Teamed up with Janice, Alison and Jesslyn at one of the work tables and we started to design our own “horseshoe art”! We were told to shake the Easy Marble oil-based paint well before opening them up and putting them in order of which paint to pour first. Each combination contains four to five colours, and I wanted more of pastel than dark tones in my first horseshoe, and hence amongst the colours in “Liquid Sunrise”, I first put the lightest one (most number of drops to fill the base), and followed accordingly with other colours, decreasing the number of drops with each colour. Then, we use the wooden sticks to swirl for a bit, and before it hardens, we dip our horseshoe slowly in the water, and have another person sweep aside the remaining paints on the surface, and we can take out the horseshoe to dry. The last step was to spray varnish on both sides once it dries.
My first horseshoe ended up with a “unicorn dream-like” marbling effect! I for one thought it totally reminded me of my favourite Paddle Pop ice-cream when I was a kid. For the next two horseshoes, I tried blue and green colour tones respectively. 
Quite a fun hands-on session as I see other staff using handphone casing, shoes, water bottles and lanyards etc for hydro-dipping too. Will assume different roles during the flea market and hopefully, we sell as many as possible as all proceeds would go to Singapore Children’s Society.
Chinese version: http://cn.turfclub.com.sg/MediaCenter/RacingNews/Pages/LocalDetails.aspx?intNewsID=18989&spListName=Local News&Year=2019

 Finished watching “봄밤” (One Spring Night) starring한지민and정해인recently.
이정인 (한지민) is a librarian who was already facing relationship issues with her boyfriend권기석 (김준한), and she met pharmacist유지호 (정해인) by chance one day in the pharmacy after a hungover. It was love at first sight for them, and이정인wanted for them to be just friends at the start, but that was hard for유지호, a young single dad.

 The two finally got together after이정인fell out with her boyfriend, and the drama continued. There were struggles with how people would judge이정인as if she “cheated” on the ex-boyfriend, if she would accept유지호and his son altogether etc. I did feel the tension in their emotions sometimes.

 Though the drama shared the same director as “밥 잘 사주는 예쁜 누나”, the overall “tone” of the show was nowhere lovey-dovey and sweet, it’s slightly more serious and depressing. 정해인also looked all忧郁with fringed-hairstyle this time round. Yes I like his shows but hopefully he could take on other kinds of roles in future as opposed to only melo-drama, so as to further show his versatility as an actor!

Rating: 3.25/5

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