Went for coffee with Mr Tham and Lydia today...It was great seeing them again.

I really miss the days when we were still relatively close to each other and spent more time together. I guess I'm really lucky to be able to have great people to share my life with...

We had a great time talking about the events in our life, the people we have met and the places we have been to recently...Of course, I had a great time discussing the books I read with Mr Tham...He reads so widely...He's really remarkable...I must really check out some books he is reading...

Haha... I had the chance to try the legendary Blue Mountain Coffee...It's a Premium blend of gourmet coffee from the Blue Mountain Range of Jamaica...I found it to be an intense and aromatic blend...It has a rather spicy bouquet and is not as sharp as Kenyan AA...but it has a very distinctive "roasted" flavour...According to a coffee connoiseurs' guide, it allegedly exudes "sandalwood and ivory" aromas...both of which my nose failed to detect...I enjoyed the full-bodied nature of the brew...and the piquant after-taste simply lingers on your palate for hours at end...I'd liken it to a mature Bordeaux...in the sense that both are strong and robust...with a very pronounced finish.

After coffee, we went to a bookshop were one of Mr Tham's friends was working. He introduced us to Rachel, who has an encyclopediac knowledge of books. Lydia and I were simply blown away by her...She has this uncanny knack of profiling people according to their tastes in books...Incidentally, Rachel and I share the same literature teacher...I think Miss Lim would be so, so proud...haha

It was a great afternoon and I was sad to part with them...but I am eagerly looking forward to seeing them again!

5 books I have to read:

1) Martin Luther King's Memoirs

2)Haruki Murakami's "Kafka On The Shore"

3)Dostoyevsky's "The Idiot"

4)The Motorcycle Diaries (will start after "Brothers K.")

5) Yoshimoto's "Lizard"