Grace Park.
Bhutan has a Gross Happiness Index.
Here’s the Loh Happiness Index:
Happiness is:
- looking at Grace Park.
- spending time with Grace Park in a ryokan for a week.
- pork lard bits in char kway teow.
- my Sony VPCZ129GG, which I plonked over 5k for, just before Chinese New Year. (Yes, yet another new toy!)
- fat, juicy, fresh and bloody cockles in satay bee hoon.
- seeing those overpaid, under-worked bosses shitting bricks because they didn’t meet the numbers.
- seeing my kids happy.
- Ayam Betutu.
- giant prawns at Jemadi.
- making out in front of the fireplace.
- hairy crab roe.
- hairy crab roe spoon-fed to me by a pretty 17-year old virgin sitting naked in my lap. (Never happened, and unlikely to ever happen.)
- when Rosalie is in town.
- snacking on braised goose heads from that stall at Tekka market.
- drinking a 1870 Château Lafite and telling the sommelier it sucks.
- eating at Rockpool.
- steaks at Peter Luger’s.
- breakfast at Junior’s, New York City.
- braised pork head skin.
- being pampered by Thomas Keller.
- dinner at El Bulli.
- pissing Justin Quek off by asking him about his jail term.
- a bonus of six months’ salary (never happened).
- farts that are silent.
- silent farts that stink.
- when no one knows it was you who farted.
- a pedicure by my wife Yin.
- the milt in Rabbit fish.
- truffles on scrambled eggs.
- a good massage – preferably by one of my sweethearts.
- fragrance from Yin’s Sunsilk.
- diced duck with light soy sauce and ginger – cooked by mom.
- Sakura chicken with sesame oil and ginger.
- oysters at Sydney Cove oyster bar.
- steamed fish.
- gulai kikil.
- the views from The Quay and Quay West apartments, Sydney.
- Kopi Luwak.
- Yin’s Ciara.
- meals with Pearly.
- coffee and conversations with Pearly.
- golden sterlet caviar.
- opening a parcel containing 20 tins of Nightcap.
- when your soul mate stops taking swipes at your loved ones.
- flying first class.
- meeting little Amedeo for the first time.
- brunch at Greenhouse, Ritz-Carlton.
- not being on the receiving end of someone’s culinary experiments.
- briyani at Geylang Serai.
- wearing 500-buck shirts.
- evenings with Brenda.
- spending one day just listening to classical music.
- when wives stop asking me where their husbands have gone to.