This morning I finally hunted down a Japanese cafe cum bookstore that I've been wanting to visit ever since I saw it in CityScoops some 6 months ago. This Japanese cafe (see pic below) is strangely named Bon Gout (which I understand is French) and sells no-frills homestyle Japanese food. The food is not particularly tasty, but I like the atmosphere of the place. You can pick any Japanese book/mag/comic to read while or after having your meal... And it's right by the Singapore River (Robertson Quay), so one can easily take a stroll by the river after his/her meal. I shall return some time to sample other things on its menu.... or when my Japanese actually becomes good enough for me to browse the mags/books with ease haha. hmm... that one must wait long long.

I alighted at Chinatown station before walking over to Robertson Quay. The place was really re nao, even at 12pm on Sat... guess I shouldn't be surprised, since Chinese New Year is but 2 weeks' away. Saw this flower stall upon emerging from the station...

Liked how my zhu jues came along, one almost clad entirely in white (hair too!) and the other in black... provided some nice contrast to the sea of red, pink and orange flowers :)

went for a health screening yesterday morning and had my height measured. am supposedly 167cm tall now!!! erm, but perhaps it was a mismeasurement but I prefer to deceive myself hehe. I shall not take my height again till some other health screening :P hehe, of course weight is a sensitive issue which shall not be disclosed on this blog. not like anyone would be interested, anyways. am stressed by various tasks at work this week; and feel rather unproductive. when things keep coming (which in turn prevent you from concentrating on any one thing you need to do), I get rather flustered and end up being not so efficient. i esp dislike doing very routine things like preparing info folders whereby you have to go and dig up info from eons ago just to give it to someone for reference.... aside from work-- I have a mini Japanese test tmr evening, which i've done NOTHING so far to prepare for... hopefully I wun fail too miserably. also got an email from National Museum; since I signed up to volunteer there a couple of weeks ago.... hmm. prob have to reconsider given how busy I'm getting...!

My tiny collection of baby-doll high-waisted tops has quietly but steadily grown over the past few months, to the extent that a couple of more observant colleagues have started associating me with these good-for-concealing-fats-yet-cute tops :P so today one colleague came in with something like that, and came to me to say that it's a "Shi Min-inspired" top... hehe thought it was really cute of her. sigh, I certainly shop a lot more than I used to in the States... and the ready availability of relatively more affordable clothes doesn't really help. There are many ugly things around; but I somehow still manage to find a few nice things every month... Self-discipline, pls!