Dinner at Bugis

Met SY and AJ for dinner at Bugis Junction on Tuesday evening. We went to a Japanese restaurant (cannot remember the name liao) for dinner. To say the service was rather inefficient is an understatement... needed at least 2-3 calls for orders, another 2-3 calls before getting wasabi... is this worth the 10% service charge that was paid for?

Anyway back to our dinner, SY was commenting on the people and the working lifestyle here in Singapore. SY had worked in the US before coming here. He had some misgiving about working here initially as he had heard that the people here are unfriendly. At least this perception has changed after spending around half a year in this country. But one thing he could not stand was the long working hours, especially at ECQ. He could tolerate long working hours, but not working until 4am in the morning and coming back to work in the morning the next day (don't think I'd be able to stand that as well)...

Went Starbucks after dinner for a second round of chat. We talked about almost everything under the sun. But to be precise, I was more of a listener, only giving comments as and when it was appropriate...

SY will be leaving for Philippines on Sunday, so not sure when will we be able to meet up again... He'd like to meet up for rollerblading cos he has this habit of blading once a year (which i think is quite strange?!), and this year is almost coming to an end.