An Afternoon with the BFF

Even though the bff has technically moved back to Singapore, she's not in town half the time. She's flying around loads more than I am, a combination of vacations and even crazier work trips. We gotta figure out a date to take a holiday together. Haven't done so this year! Even when we were in the same cities, we keeping missing each other by a day or two. Gaah.

Managed to grab her out for an afternoon for lunch at Open Door Policy. Took it slow and hung out late. Plenty to catch up on. Our mutual friends and all. She also had loads of gyokuro and kabusecha to pass to me. I had asked her for a favor to fulfil a shopping list when she was in Tokyo, and she obliged.

Then went book-shopping. That was the main task of the day. As much as we like e-readers, we still like hard copies and the pleasure of flipping through a couple of pages to decide whether to plough through the whole book. It's like, the Kindle follows us on trips, but we'll have one hard copy in the suitcase. Of course we found some titles to buy.