Pancake night

Since my schedule lately does seem to be a little too full of Barry Barry sweetness, I took a break to go out with some of my colleagues last night for a few episodes of Desperate Housewives. Obviously with the enthusiastic ( and holidaying ) schoolkids flooding the cinemas, we haven't been able to get through that damned wardrobe to the magical world of Narnia yet.

Let's face it, cute guys may come and go but good friends do actually last forever - if you don't start the occasional nasty hair-pulling, claw-scratching catfights over the cute guys of course. Since most of my colleagues here are heterosexual - on assumption, I haven't had the opportunity to have a drag-down mud-slinging brawl yet.

Handy-in-the-kitchen Preity Posh marvelled us with her delicious pancakes ( and some store bought popcorn ) while Shameless Shalom regaled us with some of her tamer exploits. Handsome Hui provided the prerequisite alcohol and Silent Sally of alien Borg fame ( well, she's not so silent anymore obviously! ) added the necessary touch of sobriety.

Sure, most of our friendships aren't as cosy and intimate as those embodied by Carrie Bradshaw and her Cosmopolitan drinking bosom bows. Still we paid homage to them with our pancake night. There were the neverending litany of gripes about work as usual and the prerequisite complaints about being single this close to our 30s - but we tempered it all with pancakes and a veritable sea of maple syrup.

I wanted so much to whine about my hopelessly sad crush on a pair of bulging biceps but I decided to keep it mum till I had more to say. However when the singlehood complaints started up, Handsome Hui couldn't resist teasing me about my alleged indiscretions and whispered sotto voce in my ear. Since I still haven't seen a Tiffany diamond on my ring finger ( and Big Bicep Barry might still turn out to be desperately straight *albeit confused* man with a nubile Vietnamese child bride stashed in the closet somewhere ) I disregarded Hui and tossed buttered popcorn at his leering face.

Pancakes and Bailey's. That's us.

P.S. In other news, you can also vote for my blog at Best Gay Blogs. It's great enough to be nominated amongst the other great international blogs. :)