This just in ---

New DVD player! Finally we can watch DVDs coded for all regions, not just the region 1 and 3 ones. And the remote control that comes with it is larger than the old one, so there's less chance of it vanishing down the side of the couch.

New dengue fever patient! Alas, a friend's down with it and trying to ride out the worst of its debilitating effects. They're taking good care of her at the hospital, but when a person's too blah to flip through Harper's Bazaar, Elle, Her World or even *gak* Seventeen, she's pretty darned sick. Maybe she should start with something really vacant like 8 Days...

New favourite cze char place! (Cze char places serve Chinese dishes, like in restaurants, only they're usually found in coffeeshops and even more basic than a no-frills restaurant: i.e. no airconditioning, no tablecloths or receipts, and definitely no "please wait to be seated" service.) We've known about Le Wan Tian forever, but it was only tonight that I discovered that they serve claypot fish head --- the non-curry, non-assam, merely vegetables-and-tofu-in-gravy kind --- otherwise known as "the fish head dish that I've been trying to hunt down since I moved back here almost eight years ago". The fish was tender, smooth and tasty; the vegetable and tofu servings generous and simmered to perfection. Lovely.

Tomorrow, there will be work. But tonight there is a sated stomach and a quietly feeding iPod. Life is good.