{"id":497,"date":"2005-02-21T09:22:07","date_gmt":"2005-02-21T09:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.com\/?p=497"},"modified":"2005-02-21T09:22:07","modified_gmt":"2005-02-21T09:22:07","slug":"the_week_past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/?p=497","title":{"rendered":"The Week Past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A rather uneventful weekend. Well, actually last week wasn&#8217;t tttoooo bad. On Thursday night I went to watch a concert at the Victoria Concert Hall. It was a performance by the students at the Yong Siew Toh Music Conversatory. The highlight was a Hadyn cello concerto. Can&#8217;t remember which one it was now but the whole concert was pretty good. A friend had free tickets and knowing that I like the cello, very kindly asked me along.<br \/>\nFriday night, had dinner with an old friend. We were at Olio Dome at Wheelock Place. But after the meal there, we&#8217;ve since decided that we&#8217;ll only go there for sandwiches in future &#8216;cos the rest of the food has just gone down in standards. My friends spaghetti was not properly blanched and she had such a hard time chewing it. I convinced her to have it sent back to the kitchen. I&#8217;ve no faith in the kitchen there after seeing how most of the cooks are below the age of 20!<br \/>\nBut we were accorded a view of the Chingay floats (which were for the most part ugly) and performers as we sat by the window of the restaurant. That&#8217;s probably the only thing I like about Olio Dome at Wheelock&#8211;sitting by the window and watching the cars and people go by below. Nice to just sit down, have a sandwich and read.<br \/>\nAnd after that we watched <b>Million Dollar Baby <\/b> which was good, but sad. Powerful performances by Hilary Swank and Clint Eastwood.<br \/>\nOn Saturday I was like a sick cat. Because of an excessive amount of my collie&#8217;s fur in my room, I started having a sneezing fit which knocked me out for most part of the day. Thankfully I felt well enough by the evening to go to a friend&#8217;s housewarming party. She has just moved into an apartment with her boyfriend so the doors were opened for a booze-filled night. But I&#8217;m not a good drinker, so I only downed a bottle of Corona Beer.<br \/>\nSunday, as usual, was a lazy one. I usually like to chill out at home with my books, go for a swim\/jog\/play tennis. Yesterday, after not having done so in a long while, I took my book with me to MacRitchie Reservoir Park and just sat there and read. Lovely. I should do that more often. It&#8217;s just absolutely relaxing with the greenery around and the cool breeze blowing. That&#8217;s one of the things I love about where I live&#8211;being within walking distance to MacRitchie.<br \/>\nAnyway, time to leave the remaining weekend sentiments behind and start on another week!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A rather uneventful weekend. Well, actually last week wasn&#8217;t tttoooo bad. On Thursday night I went to watch a concert at the Victoria Concert Hall. It was a performance by the students at the Yong Siew Toh Music Conversatory. The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/?p=497\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-days-of-my-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}