Tuesday, July 17, 2007



dinner at all people chinese restaurant

joab's parents and brother are here in melbourne for a visit. his father lectures at smu and his mother works in a firm dealing in energy. they are returning to s'pore on the same day as i. his parents invited his friends out for dinner and i was included as a father of one of his many friends. ida also came along. there were twelve of us at the table. most of them were joab's housemates or members of his care group.

we had more than ten dishes on the table, some of which were repeat orders. winter and young people is a combination for more food consumption. you tend to eat more when the weather is cold. dinner was at 6.30 p.m. at the all people chinese restaurant located at the junction of burwood highway and middleborough road.

ivy's circle of friends are mostly singaporeans and malaysians. there are also some china nationals. ida's housemates include two china nationals - cissy and angeline. most of them attend the same church at waverley. they also go to frankston for a church service on saturdays, which means they attend two church services a week.

some things they do here are beyond me. for example, ida and her housemates attend the same church but they go there separately. cissy goes in swee's car. cassandra drives herself to church. i suppose, on the way, she picks up a few passengers. and ida has jonathan to come and drive her to the church at waverley. i think the same car also picks valerie and ivan.

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