Restaurant City

Despite being busy, i still find time for restaurant city.. :)


I *heart* my restaurant!!

Almost Perfect II

One of Shane's birthday wish is to always have dinner every year with the two persons that matter most to him on the one important day of his life. He told me so last year. It didn't materialised then but this year, it did. Yes we had dinner with X-man that nite, on Shane's birthday nite.


X-sis (X-man's sis) called to speak to Shane while we were at the restaurant. When she knew we were having dinner with X-man, she was extremely delighted and i could hear it in her gleeful voice. She said, "This is like a happy family again". Yes, to the many strangers that we walked past that nite, to the lovely attentive staffs at The Tavern that nite, indeed, we looked like one. We chatted, laughed, teased Shane, made silly jokes, shared food. It was the perfect setting for a happy family portrait, except we were not what they thought us to be. We were anything but perfect. We were just almost perfect.


This time, Shane did not ask any embarassing question in the restaurant, instead while in the car, he asked us why we were able to talk to each other like friends now?


I did not answer. Nor did X-man. And Shane, being older and slightly wiser than before, did not ask again.

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Love of My Life
by Carly Simon

I love lilacs and avocados
Ukuleles and fireworks
And Mia Farrow and walking in the snow
But you've got to know

That you're the love of my life
You are the love of my life
You are the love of my life
You are the love of my life

From the moment I first saw you
The second that you were born
I knew that you were the love of my life
Quite simply the love of my life

I love Lucy and pumpernickel bread
The Statue Of Liberty and chocolate ice-cream
And falling into bed
But get it through your head

That you're the love of my life
You are the love of my life
You are the love of my life
You are the love of my life

From the moment I first saw you
The second that you were born
I knew that you were the love of my life
Quite simply the love of my life

You are the love
The great love of my
Of my life