Lisa Cow and the Nine Stories

Saturday

Worked in the morning. Was a real busy day at the office. In all it was a day when anything that could happen probably did.In the end we left the workplace at about 2 with some stuff yet to be done on Monday.

Rushed down to City Hall to pick up Lisa. She was a real sport to wait for the lumbering lion to turn up in his Sunny. From there the cow-lover and the lion drove to East Coast for a late lunch. It turns out that Lisa goes there every Sunday to roller blade(east coast park not the food centre!).I will join her one of these days that is for sure. After lunch we made our way to Expo for the Computer 2004 thingy. Lisa wanted to get a laptop for her boss.She already knew what she wanted to get and where to get it(the laptop lah), so we spent the rest of our time there walking around picking up brochures as I wanted to get information on digicams and videocams. After it was all said and done we went to the stall where Lisa was gonna buy her laptop(was it a Dell/HP/Compaq booth?). It turns out that hers was the last piece, and by some 'ironic twist of fate' it had some bug that did not allow one to access it without entering the administrative password. So we had the option to either come back the next day when new stock comes in....or come back in "30 to 45 minutes" whilst they reformat the hard drive. We opted,meaning Lisa opted for the latter.And...Lisa likes cows!

In the mean time we just visited the other halls.In one hall was the Metro Sale. We just walked around with little or no intention of buying anything.It ended up that we spent more time in the toy section than anything.Hmmm...a promising start...
We also had a round at the home decoration fair next door.It was kinda fun to imagine up 'our' dream home and plan for our 'wedding'.We could not help breaking up in fits of laughter.It is hard keeping up a straight face when we were approached by the salesmen from the various booths.Did I mention Lisa likes cows?

After much ado we got drinks from the outdoor food court and sat by the Jurassic Park blow-up thingy for kids sipping our drinks till the call came that the laptop was ready for collection (which it wasn't actually).

We ran the gauntlet of brochure givers into the computer hall to the booth.There..there a guy hard at work installing programs and de-buggers for all the worms that exists out there!Really appreciated all the 'extra' effort he was putting in and Lisa likes cows.

After Lisa settled her laptop stuff we drove to Labrador Park! I promised her a sunset like the ones in my pictures but alas it was not as good a day for sunsets as we had hoped.It was nice but nowhere near what I had in my picture collection.But beggars cannot be choosers(which when you think about it is not exactly true,as I have seen beggars actually make choices-i.e. who to beg from,where to sleep, where to wait, what to eat....).We snapped shots of the fading sun which some actually came out quite good.As the sun disappeared, we walked around into the forested part of Labrador Park (which is where the 'park' part of the name comes from...I think).I had been wanting to get up to the canopy platform for a while now but never quite knew how to do it and lacked an able and willing sidekick...till now.Another sign of promise from the bovine hugger...

Up there in the canopy was an even better view of the bay.It is not exactly breathtaking but it did bring to me a new found appreciation of the area around the park. Jurong Island and Pulau Bukom glistened like jewels in the distance. As the shadows got longer, the jetty took on an entire different look from our lofty perch.Digicam time!!

After just lazing around a bit up there and depriving the couple who were there some 'quality time' we made our way down hill the other way from which we had come up, the jungle route I might call it. We poked fun at some of the information signages along the way. Cruised pass the various world war 2 remnants that dot the hill. I am beginning to think Lisa is so cool in the way that she will try anything including walking through a dark deserted park with a creepy dude like me!! Bwaahaahaaa....kudos to the cow sympathiser...

Note: Lisa comes online and says 'hello' as I type this...creepy eh?

When we got to ground level, we made our way to the other side of Labrador Park near to Sentosa where the lighthouse is. After just admiring the view for a bit we sat down where we were standing. We stayed there and talked till it was past 1!! It was the most fun I had in a long time.Long live the cowgirl without a cowgirl hat.

We had supper at the food centre near Lyn's place.I was so very tempted to call Lyn and company down but decided otherwise because it was already nearly 2. We both had porridge.I then drove her home to Bukit Batok. Ordinarily I am quite good with roads, but Bukit Batok is like the Twilight Zone for me. It seems like everytime I go there I get lost or reach the designated spot late. Luckily Lisa (a.k.a. as Cowbell) was spot on with her directions so I got there with time to spare.

Said our goodbyes....then..er....I made my way home.....

I get the feeling this is the beginning of something beautiful...*awww..*