We have had a really relaxing weekend. I went to shul on Friday night and met a wonderful woman who is from Singapore - third generation Singaporean, originally from Iraq. I have mentioned that I haven't found that community so welcoming, but this woman was so amazingly nice. That was good news.
Saturday we had someone clean our air cons (that's what they call a/c here), and we found out that we have a gas leak in one which has led to our living room and dining room air cons not working since we moved in here. It's not "light on fire" gas, so we're okay. He's going to come back in three weeks to fix it.
We also had someone come and replace our toilet pump. Unfortunately then the toilet started leaking, so he had to come back, but it's all good now, and now we can actually go to the bathroom in our bathroom in the bedroom. We haven't used it in about two months. We're so lazy that it doesn't bother us.
We also went grocery shopping, which is crucial.
Then, we met Matt's friend from grad school, Courtney, out for a drink. She was AWESOME. She's working for Catholic Relief Services in Aceh, and she was just a super woman, and I REALLY enjoyed talking to her (and just connecting with SOMEONE!). We were then going for dinner for Matt's friend, Boon Yian's 30th birthday. Turns out that we are American, so since they called it for 7:00, we showed up at 7:15. No one else showed up until after 8. So we drank. And then people got there, but no one was eating, so someone ordered finger food, so we didn't end up eating dinner, but we kept drinking. Boon's friends were excellent - particularly one guy who pays Asians to write op-eds that he sends to newspapers around the world. He had lots of opinions (which are sometimes hard to find out here), and he was super. Matt went with Christian for his bachelor party, and they went to some club with Thai women all over the place. Sounds really high class, I know - but Matt said it was. Whatever.
He left me to get drunk with Courtney (the friend from SAIS) and Boon's friends. Luckily we WERE drunk, because there was an air guitar contest there, and that wouldn't have been funny sober. It was hilarious, though. One person was dressed like Van Halen. He played the "guitar" with his teeth, behind his neck, and he was great. The winner actually won a guitar. A real one. Overall, it was a fun night...
Until I left my phone in the cab, and I didn't realize it, so Matt worried that something happened to me and came running home. I had to pay the driver $30 to bring the phone back. Matt was a disaster last night. I got to stay up to listen to Michigan pull it off against N'western - thank god.
We learned a valuable lesson - we are not 22. We have been HURTING all day. Really bad. Still feel sick, and it's 9:30 pm. There's just no excuse.
This is the most undeep blog posting yet. I hope you all still respect me (and Matt).
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