Lunch for Today (II) + Small Four-Wind Blessing

Lunch for today: Blk 681 Hougang Avenue 8, Western food stall called Lava Rock at a small coffeeshop. Went on a friend's recommendation. It takes the concept of Botak Jones without much success, I think, because the food isn't fantastic. For $6.50 you can get a standard meal with 2 side dishes.

Herbed garlic fish.


Honey mustard chicken.

Lamb and pork, of some variety. Water droplet on the lens there reminiscent of this afternoon's slight downpour.

Peaceful walk after lunch along uncongested roads, nice feel of the cool after-rain wind and the knowledge people are at work on a Monday while you are strolling with no deadline nor pressing issue in mind. I should have taken photos of the tranquil avenues, but I decided my attention should be held fully and uncompromisingly by the cool wind and the blue sky and the near-empty sidewalks and nothing much else.

I almost pulled off a Small Four-Wind Blessing combination in mahjong last night. If it were successful, it would be my second. What's nice about mahjong, I think, is the beauty of creating nice patterns, the beauty of receiving a very nice hand, and the tension involved in waiting for that last tile to complete that pattern you strived for. The time I successfully did the Small Four-Wind Blessing, I had such a neat opening hand I regret not taking a photo of it. Unfortunately, I alerted my partners this time round by referring to a mahjong manual someone once hand-wrote for me. It made them suspicious of what I was trying to do, so I had to abandon the plan. I guess this means I can't take a photo of a nice hand next time, because that would make people suspicious too. Heheh.