11 months and counting

On Thursday Agnes and I celebrated our 11th month together. This months celebration was a bit low key due to time and all, but next month we are gonna celebrate in a big way. By then we will have been together a year! So between now and then we will plan what to do to inaugurate our year together.

On Thursday we met up but did not do anything special as Agnes had to go school the next and was thus a bit too pre-occupied to celebrate properly in any event. So we decided to hold off the celebrations until friday.
On friday, I met Agnes at NUS. She did her stuff and then we headed to Jurong Hill. I been wanting to bring Agnes there for yonks but never quite got around to it. Jurong Hill has a nice garden with tree's planted by heads of state and foreign dignitaries which is worth a look for anyone into such things. But the main feature there is lookout tower at the top of the hill. From that vantage point you can look down upon the entire expanse of the Jurong Industrial estate, including Jurong Island. Quite a nice view at night or even in the day where you can see far and away on a clear day. The view used to be much better as I can imagine in the old days as tall trees have sprung up on one side which have effectively blocked off the view on that side so the only side that is clear is the side facing Jurong Island towards the east. The tower is like a spiral not unlike those ramps at car parks that go round and round. At the base of the tower and under ground level is a restaurant which serves great Indonesian, Japanese and Teppanyaki cuisine. So that is where we went to celebrate on friday. We had initially wanted to try the teppanyaki but it was crowded and we had to wait. So instead we ordered japanese. The wait was long and we were hungry. But that was not necessarily a bad thing in that it gave us an opportunity to chat during the interminable wait. Despite the 'ulu' location,the place was rather crowded. Probably people who work or from the camps in the Jurong area and such. When the food did come it was not bad at all. Best part was that there was a free flow of japanese tea(read:green tea). After dinner, settling the bill and finally finding out who the mystery lady was with Vincent Ng, we went a-walking up the tower to the top. There was a couple up there and we probably interrupted their ..umm...never mind. It was one of those cool and foggy nights which made the already good view even more surreal. Like one of those scenes from Hollywood Hills or those hills overlooking Hongkong city. After that we made our slow way down to Sunny, and headed off to our next destination.
I made the drive over to IMM at Jurong East, where Agnes wanted to but some tea. Instead we did lots of other shopping too. Got the tea and then went out looking for clothes,I bought a belt, Agnes bought a cardholder for her NUS Card. We also found time for tea,milo,apple pie and a choco sundae at McDonalds. After that it was time to head back home as I had work the next day. Bummer!
It was supposed to be a low key celebration but in the end we managed to do alot and have quite a good time inspite of the little time we had. I can hardly wait for next month...