tuesday evening began with dinner at eng seng with choir people and yj's guest dan from AZ in the good old us of a. eng seng turned out to be one of those places like the infamous chinatown chicken rice stall - where you stand an even chance of getting a tongue-lashing from the owner, a chance you take only because the food is absolutely worth it. so: hor fun, salad you tiao, and 2 each of the pepper and chili crabs which we demolished within a half hour.

after the meal, cp, jiahao and i ended up with dan (long story) which was awkward until it turned out that he was kind of cool. he wanted to see the town, we were tempted by sneaks for the monkey show, so we scrambled for tickets and got seats for an 11 o'clock. our consensus adjective for the movie: fat. a little too much of peter jackson's style poking through where it really shouldn't have, but it did keep to the spirit of the original, and i definitely can't say that i hated it (although cp and i ended up riffing about half the movie: the brother would be pleased).