Today’s lunch was near Amoy with Wang and Chiam. So funny those two, especially Chiam who was eating at the curry fish head coffee shop for the first time. We always get the usual, Wang and me. Our standard being: curry fish (for Wang, I make her eat the entire fish so I can eat the curry only), sliced tomato sauce potato, honey chicken and sotong. I like how we have our standard, like eating at Sakae for a million times.

Then on the way back as the rain ceased, (it does seem that everytime we go to that coffee shop, it rains), I popped by into this bookshop on the second floor of one of the shophouses, I think it’s called ABCDEFG because I wanted to get this kid’s book called This is London. But they only had This is San Francisco.

I got drawn to the Moleskine notebooks as I usually am magnetically attracted to any stationery. I picked up a blank Moleskine but Wang pushed a Moleskine City Notebook London into my hand telling me I should get it and I did get it. It is said that Ernest Hemingway used one of these and if it is good for good ol’ Ernest, it is good enough for me.

Inside the notebook is a map of the underground tube and another map of London. There are blank pages and tabs which I can label with the stickers provided. There is even a pocket to put any loose papers that I may want to keep. This notebook has put me in the mood for London.

The bookshop is a wonderfuly magical place. Full of books I will never really read and children’s books and books that may be bought in other bookstores but published by different publishers. A row of typewriters which actually work is displayed in a row against a wall. There is a mobile hanging from the ceiling and the last time I was there, they played Belle and Sebastian. The owners (shopkeepers) were working on Macs like mine. I am so envious of them. I would love to have a shop like that or to work in one.