At The Auld Alliance

After an early dinner, it was a unanimous vote to spend a quiet evening at The Auld Alliance. It's a beautiful bar which always puts me in a mellow sort of mood. There're so few whisky bars in Singapore, and this is one that I like quite a fair bit.

We started light with the Bunnahabhain 18.y.o on the rocks. The food kinda needed to settle before I could sip the richer drams. Good to get the bit on work discussion out of the way before we ease into the business of chilling out for the evening.

At a later point, we moved on to the rich, leathery and creamy Tobermory 32 y.o for the rest of the evening. Beautiful distinct sherry nose and and an underlying almost cognac note to it. Lovely lovely dram. What a pity it's a limited expression and there aren't many opportunities to taste this bottle so freely! Tonight was indeed meant to be savored among good company. Oh, 3G connection isn't great in here. So stick to traditional text messages, or to be really safe, make that call.

When I finally retrieved the girlfriend's missed calls at 11.30pm, she left me with a cryptic math puzzle. ARRRGH. Use +/-* to get 24 from 7, 7, 3, 3. I was trying to figure it out when the friends asked me what I was so pre-occupied with. So I told them, and that was the end of loud laughter. The next couple of minutes was spent in silence punching calculators on the cell, and finally, grabbing memo pads to scribble. The brain-worm came at a really bad time when we were not in tip-top exam condition. It drove us crazy, and naturally, being very distracted at the bar led to us solving the puzzle only at the end of the hour. Table of auditors and lawyers, FAIL. Theoretically, it should only take us no more than 20 minutes to do this on a normal day WITHOUT this much alcohol in us. Heh.