Annalakshmi

Went to this Annalakshmi Restaurant (#02-01) in Excelsior Hotel / tower which serves Indian vegetarian to catch up with my salsa friends on Saturday 13/8/05.

Interestingly you can pay any amount of money for the food that you eat there. And the staffs including the cooks are all voluntarily. The money received from the grace of the patrons of the restaurant goes directly to a cultural fund/trust that is used to sustain and promote various Indian cultural arts, music, prayer etc etc. According to a waitress, this restaurant had been around since 1987 and there are branches around places like Perth, Malaysia and some other countries. The surrounding units and levels in the Excelsior towers consist mainly of studios that promotes Indian arts / music and are funded by the proceeds from this restaurant. Cool. Looks legitimate enough. Cool.

The food is all right although limited. The service is good. My glass of water keeps getting refilled frequently. The staffs are friendly too. Gave $5 although I was thinking of $7. The mix of customers are varied, from the base clients to local Chinese, foreigners and tourist.

Went to my salsa handout later. But not much friends around. Stood around for a while before retreat back home. But luck upon luck, I met my friend K on my way out. Apparently she was at a BBQ and would be meeting her brother who will be picking her up to go back to her home. Realisd my dancing is going haywire as I had not been practicing this past month or so… Jialat leh.

Sadly missed the last train but got my brother to fetch me back as he was rotting at home. Don’t think it is worthwhile to spend $15 on a cab. The last schedule for the west-bound train is at 2349hrs for all days.

Anyway K’s brother got to her around 0128hrs. Glad to have seen her again after a long while. Think she has gotten prettier. The problem with old infatuation is that sometimes it will quietly jump back at you when you least expected it. Hopefully time will dilute it to plain water soon.

Food for thought :

“The best way to love someone who really will never love you back is not to love them ? ”