When I came home just now, mum was sitting at dinner table drawing monkey faces on sheets of yellow paper. She's doing PA duties for my sis again, I thought. Sure enough, she was sketching some monkey faces for a skit sis was putting up with her p-sch kids. I skimmed through her 'works' and among the monkey faces was an old-lady face, which wasn't drawn very well. I made an insensitive comment, which led mum to ask me to draw one for her instead :P In the end I also didn't manage to draw any decent old-lady face, but instead got distracted and started sketching/copying monkey faces from the cartoon book she was drawing inspiration from.

And all of a sudden, I realised I hadn't been drawing anything for the longest time. Luckily I'm still quite a decent copier... and I miss drawing random things. Maybe I should have gone ahead to do something arty for a career. When I left office around 740pm just now, I really couldn't get why some colleagues were still energetically discussing work at that hour. I suppose some ppl really get excited over work...

We caught La Vie En Rose at the Alliance Franciase on Tuesday - it's a biographical film about French street-singer turned singing sensation Edith Piaf. Though she wasn't a very happy person, her life was certainly very drama with so many twists and turns... in comparison my life feels so dull & unhappening. But perhaps I shld just treasure my blessings, that my life is dull but relatively good so far lah, though I've been moaning regularly about work :P

This weekend I went to church without the other half and tried mingling with the folks a little more. I think frequently ppl just treated me as D's gf and I also didn't really bother trying to make new friends etc. Then it becomes vicious cycle whereby the fewer ppl you really know, the less you feel inspired/ motivated to go for service on your own. With the new 345 session hopefully I really get to know a few ppl better. An unplanned mini outing after service also gave me the opportunity to interact more with a couple of ppl... which was actually nice - cos I felt like I was actually 'exposed' to ppl with many diff backgrounds & interests... unlike at work. When every other person is an over-achieving seconded scholar/ MA or equivalent.

I finally tried Ippudo at Mandarin Gallery just now - the hype has died down considerably, and we were able to get seats fairly quickly (after a 10 min wait or so) though it was dinner time... Tried the Shiromaru and Akamaru ramens again - I thought the Akamaru one was quite nice, but somehow the Kobe versions still tasted better. I suppose both the cold weather and company back then made the ramen yummier :) Heh, but in any case, Ippudo sure beats Santouka - despite colleagues' rave about Santouka's broth, found it so-so only...