today we celebrated being together for a year. i went over and we made breakfast - buttermilk pancakes, hashed browns and sausages (a slightly healthier and less processed version of the macdonalds breakfast we used to eat together before i left). and then we sat around and went out to purvis street so i could get some drawing done. had a nice chat with her while drawing and apparently the aunties at the chicken rice stall were watching me for quite a while before i noticed. it's nice how whenever i go drawing i meet the nice people who run the stalls (i usually sit at a kopitiam for hours and draw what's opposite it) and they don't really mind if all i order is a drink and even offer to give me more water. we ate a lot today, far too much. first breakfast, and then purvis street beef noodles and kaya toast. and then we went to Actually to get her a freitag bag because lianghui very nicely offered a super discount.

after all this we went to the national museum and i brought her to the food exhibit which i really really like. i saw these two blue-collared workers (presumably from china, because of their accent) enjoying the bak kut teh short film. both of them were reading aloud the chinese sayings at the start of the film and smiling in recognition to the herbs mentioned in the film. it was really quite heart-warming to see them enjoying it so much ... a reminder that art and knowledge should be made free and accessible to everyone.

we had a really nice dinner at Novus. our first 'poshy' kind of dinner where you get the waiters serving you the plates at the same time and introducing the dishes and things like that.. and then we sat around the museum for a bit before going home.

i don't usually list out everything i've done in a day but i wanted to note this down somewhere because i felt like i would be able to remember better. it was a good day, and i was really happy. i like how we don't really do anything at all, or we don't really talk about anything at all but those times we spend not really talking about anything or doing anything are the ones i remember best.

bon anniversaire!

(photos to come - mainly for you, carol, of the National Museum!)

+ posted by M @ 2:02 AM