After organizing and re-organizing our stuff yesterday, we realized we don't have enough stuff to fill our home. We have many shelves and drawers, and too many are empty. How do people fill complete houses?
Last night we went to Vivo City, which is - yup - another mall. We met up with Matt's boss for a movie and dinner. He has four kids and a wife who are in the states, so he's left in a quiet house here in Singapore. We went to see Knocked Up. First of all, let me share a bit about the movie experience in Singapore.
1) You have assigned seats. In Israel you get assigned seats too, but there no one sits in their seats. Here, you must sit in your seats.2) You can get first class movie tickets. You can then sit in more comfortable seats which recline, and you have waiters and waitresses who bring you food. There is much about having the right credit card, the fanciest car, the most expensive...and this fits right in.
3) It's freezing. I don't know if I've mentioned that it's hot here, but it is. When you go in the movie theater, though, you need a jumper, as they would say. It's really cold.
4) There were
about 25 minutes of commercials before the movie even started. They even have a commercial about how movie piracy is bad.Anyways - we loved the movie. Matt and I both thought it was hilarious. It's stupid funny, and it also raises a lot of great issues that we think about often. What makes a good relationship/marriage? What changes in your life when you have kids? Do all of your hopes and dreams really go out the window? Can you tell that Matt and I aren't ready to have kids?
After the movie we went to this hilarious restaurant. Mostly what we talked about is how easy it is to have kids in Singapore, and how it's a great time/place to do it, since there's nothing else to do.
Back to the restaurant. It's called Imperial Herbal, and apparently it's involved in a great debate/business split. It was in a hotel, and the hotel got renovated, and then apparently the restaurant split between the owner and the chef. We went to the owner one (who claim to also have the chef). We actually sat in this hilarious lounge (our table is the one right under the photographer). It's a place that has herbal remedies and weird food. I had soup that is good for my complexion, and we also had some egg whites with dried scallops in a potato basket thing, and we had some tofu and eggplant. It was a pretty funny experience. Matt's boss, Dave is super nice. We had a great time with him.
Bad news for Matt. We realized that you CAN play Settlers of Catan with two people, and it's still pretty fun. It's definitely more based on luck and if your numbers come up, but it scratches my itch to play. Unfortunately for him, I made him play before the movie as well as until two in the morning. We probably shouldn't have opened that door...
We went to the Bedok Wet Market this morning, which is the wet market by our house. It has tons of fruits and vegetables as well as seafood, meat, chicken, Eddie Bower clothes, hawker stalls and just
about everything else. We got a huge bag of rambutan for $2 (sing). We got lots of other fruits too.Then we saw Splinter!!! It was the first time I have seen her in a week and a half! I missed her. We played for a while.
My mom just got back from Mexico - visiting with our cousins there. She and all of her first cousins had a great time. I can't wait to hear about it.
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