Thursday, September 29, 2005
successful pasta! oh joy. although it was embarassingly foolproof. yvonne and i still managed to screw up initially, by failing to remove the price tag on the bottom of the new pan. so for the first horiifying 5 minutes of out first cookout, we smelt burn and never knew where it was coming from. joel's cooking is much better. does it really take 3 years to get to that level?FINALLY i got my bank account settled. the level of inefficiency is appalling. especially for a bank like HSBC. i mean, with an international standing like it has, i would really expect alot more than being ping-ponged about between an understaffed market hill branch to a completely clueless regent street branch, the fort being held up by an indian woman and a chinese woman who don't get along and know close to nothing between them, and a big ang moh jock who can't even operate his own photostating machine. its amazing. today i went through the harrowing experience of being told that my account had actually been open since last week, but that my cards and documents had been sent mistakenly to singapore. i was told that they would be reported lost or stolen. thereafter there appeared to be some security issue with my new account, and it was :inhibited". i waited for a couple of hours to see a senior banker, who, upon further prodding and questioning, managed to surface my cards and documents ("oops, must have slipped my eye") and realised that the supposed security issue was really non-existent. no wonder they're overworked. if not for all the shuttling around i've been having to do on that account, i might actually have found this whole thing rather funny.
yesteday we watched stomp at the theatre here. the theater is called the corn exchange. it brings back memories of the peacock theatre, the totally forgettable SDT dance, and that memorable escape with aaron and elaine to unforgetable jazz.
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