My kind of day . . .

After clocking in crazy hours at the office this past few weeks, I declared today no work day - read: no checking and replying emails even though it was a public holiday!

The family had planned for an outing to visit Resorts World, not to visit the casino or universal studios. Just to check it out and see if it lived up to its hype. I started my day with a nice 7ish

km run. I had wanted to head to the beach to do a longer run but had to shelf those plans since the oil spill had polluted the air at the beach. Waited for the sleeping beauty of the family to get up at her own appointed hour before we headed out for some brunch at our good ole Tiong Bahru chiok.

While if the entrance signage was anything to go back, we certainly didn't have high hopes of the place being great. For some reason, the 'R' was missing in the 'Resorts' - shame! Typical as my family is, we had nothing but criticisms. My dad even loudly (and by that I mean *really* loudly) declared that he will never check into any of the hotels! He did it intentionally and

Sam and I really wanted to bury our faces in the ground! Nothing particularly memorable except that we went home with $40 worth of Garrett Popcorn (which sadly falls short of the real stuff in Chicago) and a really huge Reese's orange mug from the Hershey store!

Managed to stay away from the office laptop for the rest of the afte

rnoon, chilled in bed catching up on my mindless fashion magazines, pampered myself with a DIY manicure and watched the bio of Vera Wang on cable. More great stuff awaited our evening - chilli crabs @ Palm Beach and a trip to Abu Dhabi with 4 of my favourite ladies!! Woohooooo!!

Love the crabs, love more the movie! I remember 2 years ago around this time, I watched SATC by my lonely self when I was in LA on a work trip and how I made the then boyfriend watch it with me again when I got back. He knew how much I wanted to watch SATC 2 so he got the tickets the minute they were released and brought me on a treat with my favourite ladies! Still as entertaining, still ever so fashionista - even in Abu Dhabi. Makes me want to spend my weekend re-watching all 6 seasons of the series that I have on DVD!

Such days are precious these days with work driving both of us crazy. The hubs promised that we'll have some chill time out tomorrow too! I'm so looking forward already!