how to lose your waistline in 48 hours

alias grace (friday nite) – check
mide 2007 (sat morning) – check
archidex 2007 (sat afternoon) – check
balik kampong (sat - sun evening) – check

was 5 minutes late for alias grace due to 20 mins jam to get on the blasted elevated highway, but mercifully they started late anyway, so didn’t miss as much as could have. moi first ever monologue and even better than expected.

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spent more than 3 hours at mide 2007, tried on countless masks numerous times (and breathless from the effort), and also *this* wetsuit from pinnacle. they unfortunately did not have my size, though will go visit their shop on wednesday and if it fits, push for that 20% discount still.

another 3 odd hours at archidex/lunch. was bigger than homedec but geared more towards the trade, and the ones that aroused interest were the same people seen at homedec anyway.

bone tired, therose and i finally left for kampong, had din by the river and opened up some durian me parents left for us, for dessert.

slept.

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an early sunday, we were all kitted up – hard hats, gloves, mosquito repellent, parang, stick, wheelbarrow, plastic brushes, manggis stick, basket - and in the kebun before 7.30 a.m.

after rounding up the durians, this was what we had to work with:

i don’t know whose idea it was to use the plastic hairbrushes but they work a darned sight better than other implements we have used before (btw on wheelbarrow is the gandalf-rod for mangis thingiemgie).

after our efforts, the durians look like this:

the durian at the right-hand bottom corner of the wheelbarrow … was the creamiest richest one i have had, quite possibly in living memory. there’s still more on the same tree …

in between we managed to squeeze in roti canai brekkie, trip to pekansari (but the pakcik with chopping board was nowhere to be seen), bought packed lunch (including some satay), had lunch (and more durians), napped for about two hours, went on second trip of our rounding up duty, cleaned up them durians (and ate some more), started packing, cleaned up the chalet, showered, had din outside and only managed to leave a little after 10 pm, and reached home at midnite.

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am dead tired.

and after the durian fest i may just be able to fill out the medium sized wetsuit after all.