after that we were all invited to return to addy's for a lovely evening of porch-sitting and wine, except that it rapidly became a tapioca chips and milo party. we peel longans and at some point joel, kenneth sim and another friend of theirs show up, and we sat on till 2 in the morning. before we left choonping was able to secure the promise of most present to aid in his cooking the next day. to this peril i did not commit myself. so it was home for a comfortable night of elizabeth peters (more in a bit) and happy anticipation of the next day.
on friday choonping and i had got into a shouting match in the morning, but in the end all the dinner details worked out, and yen, su-lin, choonping and i went to dinner with addy at original sin to celebrate her birthday. everyone got rather lost, as i unwisely told people "holland village" so all of them ended up on the siem reap/coffeeclub end of holland v, but with a lot of ringing phones in due course we all made a pretty table. the restaurant was quite lovely, and we managed between us the: