nice chats with friends

The first day of this week when I could sleep a bit longer as I wanted to! And it was so quiet this morning as flatmate wasn't home. I slept till 9 a.m. Then went to gym and bought some 'daily necessities'. I happened to walk past the new Jessops shop in Arndale Centre and paid a visit as the son of one of my ex-colleagues was working there. Had a nice chat with him, especially when we talked about how he struggled with Chinese customers who asked him for free gifts (hmm, Chinese culture!) or who spoke Mandarin that he couldn't understand! Got a call from an ex-colleague who's like my 'big sister' (since she was just 12 days older than me!). She dated me for a drink in the afternoon. We had a nice chat and updated each other. We were saying we started thinking about our 'future', when we are now getting older and older, and how difficult it was to find someone who you can live with for the rest of our life.

I got tummy pain again after lunch today! Same suspects as yesterday's lunch: roast chicken, egg noodles and red/green peppers. The pain was so severe that even I felt it in my back! :S What had gone wrong with the food? The suspects are gone now as they were finished today! Phew...

I cleared up and threw away some of my food in the fridge - the tofu I bought a week ago smelt badly; the pork pie I had bought from Morrisons also had to be given up; plus butter which had expired over a month (though I still think it looks ok! But sometimes something 'looking' & 'smelling' ok doesn't mean they're really ok in terms of food safety!).

Time to have new food stock for the fridge...

*****

The new Jessops shop in Arndale Centre

It's quite big indeed!

Lunch: Suspects that made me have tummy pain the whole day!

Tea: my favourite hot chocolate at Cafe Nero

(oh, its location is quite private!)

Dinner: Fish soup with tomatoes & potatoes

(initially planned to add tofu as well, but tofu has gone bad!)

Dinner: macaroni with meatballs in fish soup base