Janvier: a navy jacket?!
Psike: didnt know its as ccalled that
Janvier: it brings us to mind of one
Janvier: otherwise you'd call it a winter jacket?
Janvier: or just a coat
Psike: just coat
Psike: long coat mayve ...
Psike: coz its based on my leather jacket ...
Psike: which has almost the same dimensions
Janvier: anyways - find a chance to dress up in that for us to see
Janvier: dress up to office!
Psike: no im not dressing up for "casual" reasons
Psike: im not bringing it out recklessly ...
Janvier: come on!
Janvier: you dress up we dress up and shall go jap dinner
Janvier: egads the last time our coat saw use was in glasgow 2003
Janvier: what's the point of keeping such a coat if not to show off!
(And it goes on for a fair bit)
Psike: well there's that tea shop in Esplanade with $30 cookies
Janvier: something a bit longerlasting, thank you
Psike: the tin is recycleable ?
Janvier: show us, ok
Psike: i warn you ... $10 tea
Janvier: will we dress up?
Psike: i'll be from work
Janvier: bring coat along!
Psike: well the tea shop changed from Venetian -> English theme
Psike: so little less colourful
Psike: well its a quaint shop
Psike: shall i make reserve ?
So initially the idea was just to get Psike to dress up in his navy jacket (we'll have to check the term), but after a while we didn't entertain the idea much, due to not being too sure how our plans in Sporeland were gonna be. We would have called it off except that on the day before leaving to Sporeland we gets a text from Psike reminding us about coats.
Seems like he decided to take a nice photo in navy jacket to use for Facebook, and he's not starting an account until he has said nice photo. Not that he got the idea off us, because he hasn't seen our profile pic.
So we ended up at The Cookie Museum at Esplanade, having tea, sampling cookies and taking snapshots in lousy lighting.The whole affair was...laughably salah. More so for him, because he goes there now and then.
See, there we both were, in suits, posing and taking photos more than half the time we were there. 'Course this meant swapping seats and trying out his coat as well. Sounds fine right? Given that it's at the Esplanade, dressing up didn't seem over the top too.
Yet it took the store owner to make us realize that, while what we were doing isn't an everyday occurance, it was also mistaken for something else instead of just 'guys wanting to take photos all dressed up'. When Psike called the store owner over to get her to bring out the cookie samples for us, she tried to anticipate what he wanted before he could finish his sentences.Psike: Hi.
Store Owner: Hi, what can I do for you and your...? (hesitates)
Janvier: Friend.
Psike: Right. Can you-
Store Owner: Take a picture of the two of you?
Psike: Er.
Janvier: Maybe later.
Psike: See, he hasn't tried your cookies before-
Store Owner: And you want to him to buy some for you?
Psike: No! Well that is entirely up to him-
Janvier: He pretty much can get his own cookies.
Store Owner: Oh ok! I'll go get the trolley over.
Janvier: Right. Both our street creds are ruined much better here than spending an entire day in NUM.
Still, the cookies were good although a bit pricey at SGD30 a tin. As most of her range was out we only got to sample a few, and she even had slightly more adventurous cookies (and she called them 'savoury cookies'!) like the 'Nasi Lemak Cookie' and the 'Ikan Bilis Cookie'.
We got two in the end (no thanks to Psike who purposedly called for us to sample the cookies so we would end up spending money) - a tin for sis and one more for mum.
The Pretty In Pink, consisting of peaches and white chocolate. Even the name didn't help against the impression she had, we suppose.
Of course, we knew things would be more awkward for him than for us really.
Janvier: Now she's gonna think that we're your boyfriend from KL.
Psike: I'll bring girl colleagues here next time.
Janvier: It's too late. She'll think they're your faghags.
Psike: Well at least you're going back to KL.
And to think, just before this our sister was telling us about how she inadvertedly character-assasinated one of her colleagues. And we managed to do that all by ourselves. Whoops.
It's rare for the both of us to appear together.
10 comments:
Aw c'mon, having you taken as his 'friend' from KL probably boosted Psike's street cred, especially with that smart jacket and splurging SGD30 per tin on cookies (wakak! expensive one even by rock standards). But nasi lemak cookie - did you try? :D
OMG savoury cookies!!!! is it like paddington pancakes savouries? can get some for me???!!??
its the navy jacket, it gives everything away.
Merry Xmas!
You're in Singapore now? Should give us a tinkle so we can bring you out for lunch or something.
Merry Xmas. 2 days more and we are happily celebrating the joyous day. Going to Mass tomorrow?
By the way, Ru, I have never heard of nasi lemak cookie. Where on earth does this thing exist?
In Singapore apparently, david™ - so janvier just wrote in this post. :D
One thing confused me: did the store owner think Psike was the Sugar Daddy and you the Money Boy, or the other way around?
OMG Janvier and Soldat appearing together on the same picture! :O
Definitely shocking to see both Janvier and Soldat in the same picture. *faints*
Hrugaar: Yes, we did try the nasi lemak cookie. Tasted of sambal.
Aik Yong: Egads if you give us cash we'll get you some. Lovely innit, the navy jacket? :D
Renzze: It was a quick trip, if we had time we would had given you a call to say hi! :D
David The Man: We're not Catholic, so no Mass.
Will: Apparently the store owner must have thought us to be the rich one. :s Although we know psike to be richer. :P
Savante & Sam: Rare occasion! We were shocked ourselves!
Errr... then what denomination are you? True Jesus Church? I am a member of TJC, hence, TJC members don't celebrate Xmas, because it is related to pagan rituals of worshipping the Sun, which is very much against the Words in the Holy Bible. Sorry if I sound a little too religious about celebrating Xmas.
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