Our licensing dept was on half day work last Friday... We gathered for buffet lunch @ Conrad Hotel, followed by a game of bowling at Marina Square.

On a personal note, buffet lunch is never an option i will consider for my meals as I never seem to eat the worth no matter how hard I try to stuff all the food i possibly could. To me, it seems more like a grab-and-stuff-all-you-can mission than an enjoyment. Somehow, it is more of a waste of $ than an indulgence, and especially so when i do not know how to appreciate raw food like Sashimi, smoked salmon, or even expensive seafood like oysters and mussels. The more expensive food i grabbed were crayfish and prawns, which apparently can be easily found in Chomp Chomp or Newton Circle.

Buffet lunch at Conrad was delicious though. I had an enjoyable time peeling the prawns for my colleagues and myself. As lame as this might sound, i felt a sense of achievement when ppl marvelled at how i managed to use the utensils instead of my hands to do the peeling. Then, they started to comment on how patient and feminine i am to be able to do this which obviously wasn't the truth. Haa. Anyway, i love the vanilla ice-cream wafer and raspberry ice-cream, though the latter tasted more like raspberry ice kachang but i like it as it's not too sweet. While i was away topping up my food, my manager came over to our table and told my colleagues abt the missing Sashimi on the Sushi. Apparently, someone took the Sashimi and left the rice "naked". Funny habit that some ppl have. The lunch lasted for 2 short hours afterwhich we proceed to our next programme..

As it was compulsory that everyone must participate in the bowling game, i was "forced" to play the game which i never have the slightest interest in. The game lasted for a long 3-hour. Nonetheless, i had my first try on the game, thinking that i might grow to like it. We played for 3 sets and pathetically, my ball kept swerving to the left, into the drain. The last set's score was the most pathetic, with only 4 pins hit. My sup and colleagues were all shouting hooray when i finally break the straight zero record. haha.. One of my colleagues commented that i should maintain the nice score @ 0 .. ahaha...

When the game finally ended, i was too ashamed of my scores by then and discreetly went to the toilet when the rest gathered for prize-giving presentation. Shortly after, my sup called me asking of my whereabouts and told me that i won a prize! Initially, i thought she was kidding me but ltr realised that it was true as i was awarded the Best-try award.. a pair of GV movie tickets as a consolation!. hahha!! At least my efforts didn't gone to waste... ;)

But one thing's for sure is i'll never go for bowling as i have concluded that it's not my type of game... & i'm grateful that JX doesn't bowl as well. :)

- NiE```

Posted at 2:44 PM.