Yesterday was a pretty good fun and nice day by any standards.

I went into office, and found emails from HongKong and Malaysia, for tax planning, for visa applications, for moving......a whole lot of forms to fill and that was just the morning's excitement. Then came the tax and mover calls from Hong Kong. Amazingly fun, to be dealing with HK people. Haha. It is just me. Anyway, great to slowly gather more information about tax matters. And also to find out stuff like where will I stay, how much, who chooses, who moves my stuff and so on. It was pretty fun. It was like there were several assistants for me, and as soon as one called me to advise me on all my tax stuff, promising to come back with this and that, another one would call and brief me on how my stuff and/or furniture would be moved...good life. I plan to have many assistants in the future. One for my personal life, and of course several to plan my life, shop, advise, and so on. Haha. Perhaps the best part was the flurry of phone calls. And dealing with different people. Now that is something that I like.

Speaking about people, I also had a long postponed lunch with JengBear. Have not seen him since we sent him off at the airport to UK 2 years ago. He has been back for a year, but we just did not manage to meet up. Great thing was, JengBear is one of those low maintenance high yielding friends. As in, those you do not have to meet up that often, but when you do, everything is still just as comfortable and really promises to be one of those friendships that last ! Great. He will be going off to UK again to do his Masters at about the same time that I would be leaving, so it was a great catch up session.

Speaking about UK, CCYBear will be moving to London to work in August as well. Still within CSBank. But how great fun. There was a round of congratulations and counter congratulations. What a great coincidence that we are both moving, and at the same time, and within the same bank.

Speaking about coincidences, I later met YvBear at the opening night of Beauty and the Beast musical at KLCC. I had earlier e-mailed YvBear about my move, and what great fun it was to catch up with her as well.

Speaking about Beauty and the Beast, I was there with JeanBear and her parents. They had a spare ticket, and JeanBear very kindly invited me to come along. It was fun to watch a musical live again. I have not done that since The Producers in Melbourne and that has been 4 years ago. How time flies, as JeanBear's dad and I were saying. We were saying how we first met about 2 years ago, and time just flew by as well. So funny. There was a technical error leading to an instant replay, which was funny, but I guess I had some personal expectations going into the show which led to certain disappointments. Gaston was too scrawny, Belle a bit too plump. The Beast was not beastly nor big enough, and as JeanBear said, Lumiere was really too round for a candlestick. Chip had a distinctly private school Malaysian accent, and I think the presentation of the entire thing could have been better. Mayhap I still have a better affinity for people characters as I really enjoyed The Producers and Fame, but then again, Cats was alright, though I would have hated The Lion King, so perhaps it is just that I have seen the movie version ? So I would have certain expectations. All in all, a 3.5 point out of 5 experience.

Speaking about musical, our very own Oweek HappyFeet Award PatBear finally met us up for dinner at Delicious at BVII on Monday night. His hair is shorter than we are used to, but he is just as funny and delightful. IzyBear, JeanBear and KeeBear made up the dinner party. We had a lot of fun just joking and laughing and talking about our experiences and lives. I swear we laughed a lot and were very loud at the restaurant. But super fun. Super Duper Fun. People should do this more often. And I think they do, because I think very often you would find groups of friends at cafes or restaurants just catching up. Which is a very nice thing to do.

Speaking about catching up, on Sunday, IzyBear, JeanBear and KeeBear and myself caught up for Round 1, at Bubba Gump Shrimp at the Curve. Quite a smoky place, and the clothes smelt after a while. The shrimps themselves were alright though nothing to scream about. Portions pretty large though and service pretty good. Again, all the typical laughter that we have during one of those dinners. We also went in search of the mysterious bowling alley at Cineleisure which only IzyBear has visited but had no idea of its location. We finally found it, and it was not bad, and I look forward to bowling there one day. We ended up foosballing downstairs and it ended with a draw because mysteriously there were only 8 balls. Nevertheless, I believe that it is fair to say that JeanBear and I won, because we reached the score of 4 first. Plus, we scored the opening goal. Plus, we scored with the old black ball we found in the table before we put our token in. Hooray. Celebrate victory !

Phew.

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