I’m so damn tired today, I couldn’t be arsed to cook dinner.
I bought the Enjoy card recently. It’s RMB 299 / RM 150 for a card which gives you discounts when you dine at certain places, plus a thick book of dining and shopping vouchers, giving you free drinks or wine or more discounts when [...]
Entries from August 2008
A sucker for foodie cards and high tech delivery
August 31st, 2008 · 6 Comments
Tags: shanghai · shanghai food
The weather and the Human Race
August 31st, 2008 · 1 Comment
The past week has been pleasantly cool, peppered with intermittent rain.
Didn’t need to turn on the air con anymore. Not quite sure if summer is coming to and end, but the sun has been pretty shy of late. If the retail outlets are anything to go by, it’s definitely autumn. Tank tops and shorts have [...]
Tags: running · shanghai · shanghai food
R.I.P - Soso the Labradoodle
August 28th, 2008 · 3 Comments
Soso was the smaller brother.
Leon was the bigger goofy one.
When I must met them in 1996, they were a family of 4 dogs.
Mac, the Lab mix, Princess, the Mini Poodle and their shaggy, white boys.
Mac died of old age in 2000, and now almost a decade later, the rest have aged as well. Princess is [...]
Itchy to spend money
August 27th, 2008 · 7 Comments
CY and HF got this recently. It works with the Nike Plus sensor which tracks your pace, distance, calories burned and so on, without the need of an Ipod Nano. And when you’re not running, it’s a sleek sports watch. How cool is that?
HF could get me a voucher to buy that and a pair [...]
Tags: retail therapy · running · shanghai
Early morning
August 26th, 2008 · 3 Comments
Woke up at 6.15am.
Crawled out of bed, half hoping it’s raining so I have an excuse to stay under the covers.
Bright sunny morning, unlike yesterday’s rainstorm and floods (click for pictures). Damn.
So I gobbled a small tub of yogurt. Had a glass of water.
Brushed my teeth. Put on my running gear and I’m out into [...]
Tags: running · shanghai · shanghai food