so, last sunday. went out to dinner at spaggi's at mill point road with a friend. original plan was to go to ciao italia cos she had a craving for the dessert there. but when we drove there, it was closed, so we went to the next closet italian restaurant, which was spaggi's.
so being the one-track-mind creature that she is, my friend ordered dessert for dinner. some custard and almond cake creation. i, being a more normal person, ordered some pasta dish. it was supposed to be a gnocchi dish, which i think is italian dumplings of sorts and i have never tried before, but the waiter later came over and told me the kitchen is out, so can they use penne? and i, being quite hungry, said, yesh, i couldn't care less and could they hurry it up?
sorry, no pics. pasta was good. dessert was a bit weird. tasted too much of...almonds? strange aftertaste. hmmm. not very good at all. jasmine commented that the individual components of the cake were good, but the combination was bad; too much of a good thing can be bad. i think she's right.
but we got a discount! the cashier, who happened to be the waiter who took our order, gave us a 50 cents discount cos he saw we were digging for coins! should have dug for dollar bills instead...
so we hit the gelare afterwards cos she wasn't satisfied with the dessert. must satisfy craving... yesh, waffles and ice cream hit the spot. bingo! although i was not a big fan of the chocolate overload ice cream - tasted like milo. ^^
so after all that food, decided to take a walk along the river front because a) she said she like to look at the lights and b) i was feeling a bit too full and c) she was the one driving so she calls the shots.
now, for those who don't know, the river front is totally unlighted. why? i don't know. itx so dark. almost as good as walking blind. perfect spot for perverts and robbers to hang out.
so there we were walking along the river front around 9-ish. and for some reason, she mentioned that a boat captain told her that he'd seen sharks along the river and that they come up to the river to clear their gills.
now. i have this thing about sharks. absolutely am scared shitless of them. i think itx because they don't blink. and they have bloody, gaping maws. great bloody jaws, gaping impossibly wide, bristling with rows of teeth to tear and miam. and they LOOK at you with such soul less eyes as they happily chew on your leg. i used to be afraid of using the restroom after watching jaws cos i was sure a shark would leap up out of the toilet bowl and rip my ass off.
so yeah, i don't like sharks.
so there we were walking, when we noticed this OBJECT swimming near the river edge, less than a meter away. it was dark, remember. can't see anything. so at first we thought it was a duck, cos lotx of ducks hang out around the area.
then, noticed the v-shaped wake of the OBJECT was TOO LARGE to be a duck. and it was swimming quite fast too.
squatted down to get a better look. looked closer now that the glare from reflected city lights were gone.
it was a fin. a large, silent fin gliding through the water, LESS THAN A METER AWAY.
less than 5 mins ago, we were talking about sharks and there's a dorsal fin now!
i didn't run away screaming like a girl, but i did step away from the edge. jamsine, that crazy girl, omg, what is she doing?! is she going towards the edge?!? WHAT????
then we heard a sound, a distinctive happy sound that brought out big, excited smiles on our faces. we heard the sound of air being ejected from a blow hole.
it was a dolphin.
rushed to the edge. it was a dolphin. caught a glimpse of itx body. not very clear, cos it was dark as i said. but definitely a dolphin. ^^
here is a pic.
yep, definitely a true likeness to the one i saw that night.
so after that incident, i realized i was slightly hungry again. i think itx the near-death experience that made me realize that how precious life is, and i should appreciate the good things in life more, hence the hunger. not because i am a greedy pig.
so went to hungry jack's and bought an aussie burger. delish.
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