My Weekend

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1. Friday: dinner at I Japanese Cafe - I had seafood hot pot - oyster, prawn, tofu, vermicelli, bok choy etc
2. Saturday:
   
   
   
   
   
   • Dinner at the Bank Bar and Restaurant - I had vegetables (egg plant, asparagus, pepper, salad etc). The meal was gluten free as well!
   • Movie: The Time Traveller's Wife - so sad! I cried. The adaptation was pretty good.
   • Singstar - we took tuns to belt out pop songs. 'Nuff said.
   • CBD and The Outback - shots then dance the night away
   
   
   
   
   
3. Sunday 12 Days of Christmas Concert at Clarence Street Theatre
   
   
   
   
   
   1. A partridge in a pear tree - Soloist singing
   2. Two turtle doves, - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle doves
   3. Three French hens, - three flute, accordion and harp pieces
   4. Four calling birds, - Four ladies performing in acapella
   5. Five golden rings, - fire dancer with hula hoop!
   6. Six geese a-laying, - pantomime by six geese
   7. Seven swans a-swimming, - what happend to swan lake by man in tutus? I think it was replaced by a whopping seven recorders.
   8. Eight maids a-milking, - Drury Lane dancers performing 'Survivor'
   9. Nine ladies dancing, - Russian traditional dance
   10. Ten lords a-leaping, - Gumboot stomp
   11. Eleven pipers piping, - Ringing Scottish and Caledonian bagpipe band
   12. Twelve drummers drumming, - Wai Taiko drummers
   
   

Singapore Dusk

This is Labrador Park Jetty by demarcus romero in Singapore.


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(Almost) Summer in All Its Glory

Flower in hot pink awesomeness!

This is the same flower under thick cloud a few second later due to the fickle weather.

I thought summer passed New Zealand by and we were straight into autumn in November. Now what?

Blueberries

Blueberries (Vaccinium genus) has anthocyanin, a blue pigment high in antioxidant.

There birds get first dibs at blueberries in front of my window.

Source

Blueberries NZ

The One Peach

The new peach tree also in my backyard has a single fruit this year.  I look out the window and see it swaying. Hold on, brave one!

Talk about James and the Giant Peach huh?

I lied. It is about as big as a golf ball in its organic wholesomeness.