Happy Harvest Festival

This is the time of the year where Sabahans get two days off as holidays for Harvest Festival.

So for the next two days I am on holidays. One of my aussie friends Adam Barclay is here and staying in my house.

I went to fetch him at Terminal 2 around 8.30p.m. Then we went to the beach and he had a coconut drink. He did not have a pleasant flight so he decided not to eat anything.

From the beach, I drove to the city to show him some new buildings being built after his last visit here in 2005. Then I used the coastal highway and drove to 1 Borneo. Tonight was the first time I drove to this stretch at night. Before this the furthest I went was to Sabah Foundation building.

There were quite a lot of cars parked outside 1 Borneo. Free movies tickets were given out to view the six or seven movies being shown tonight. Two of my colleagues were going there to watch. I had to miss out since I had to fetch Adam.

On the way back from 1 Borneo, a car on my right was coming to my left lane suddenly and we nearly had a car accident. But thank God he did not bang on me.

Rodent is Back

This morning I was awaken up at 440a.m. by a noise. I was hoping the sound was not the sound of coypu or agouti (ie. mouse/rat). Ten seconds later the sound disappeared and I went back to sleep.

Tonight when I went downstairs for dinner, mum told me she just saw a mouse/rat coming into the lounge and now probably still hiding behind the television stand. Yucks! I really hate those kind of creatures.

Mum already put out some poison and hopefully it would perform some magic overnight when my mouse/rat comes lurking around.

It would not be nice to find the darn thing still alive when we have six guests coming for the long weekend.

What I am Thankful for This Day

I had seven hours of sleep last night.

I am still alive when I woke up this morning.

I had hot water to take my shower this morning and tonight.

I had breakfast to bring to work as soon as I went downstairs.

I did not need to take the bus to go to work. I could drive to work.

There was no traffic congestion to and fro work.

I have a job to go to.

I was able to find the extremely urgent (pronto) information I needed from The Sabah Government departments’ website.

I had two assistants to help me.

The office boy helped me to takeaway lunch.

I had twenty minutes of nap after lunch.

My Mandarin is improving until I could hold a conversation with a client.

I had the strength to work ten hours.

My boss being nice to me and accompanied me until I finished my work at 6.30p.m.

I was able to finish the deadline due tomorrow today.

Eventhough I left work at 6.30p.m. and locked up the office, I can be home by 6.40p.m.

I have a home and family to go back to.

I can have my dinner as soon as I arrived home from work.

There are electricity, phone line, water, air-conditioner and internet connection at home.

I can go to sleep on a nice comfortable bed.

Cool, Calm & Collected

Today my colleague LK who is a Resident Engieer based at one of our project sites spoke directly to the office boy TI and instructed him to collect some urgent documents from a developer’s office.

At 4.45p.m. when LK was on the phone with me asking about the documents, TI happened to have just arrived back from his errands. When I asked TI where were the important documents, he said he totally forgot about them.

Normally I would have blown my top off but today I had remained cool, calm and collected (maybe last week’s episode with Dr. Tan had helped me to see things in a new perspective). I am not sure I like this ‘new’ me because if I am not as strict as before with TI, I am 100% sure he will slack off more than ever. I also wonder how long this ‘new’ attitude of mine would last.

Today’s Happenings

I had more than eight hours sleep last night and woke up this morning exactly when there was a blackout at 8.12a.m. Once again the phone line also went dead. Since there was no electricity, I had to have a cold shower. Water was not cold so that was ok.

Today at Canaanland Celebration, we had a musicianary (combination of the words musician and missionary) from Canada name Rob Berg ministering to us in songs and in the Word. His message was a simple one but can still make an impact. The most important thing God looks for is our heart ie. our being and not our doing. Once again re-confirming what the Lord has been telling me the past few days.

On the way home from church, the traffic lights at Mile 5.5 Tuaran Road were still out of order but at least there was a traffic police to direct traffics to avoid havoc like what was occuring this morning.

The blackout was still on when I arrived home. Weather was not that hot so I managed to sleep for two and a half hours until when the electricity came back on at 4.12p.m. So the blackout was for a total of eight hours today!

Tonight I attended Jerry & Doreen Ho’s second daughter’s Janelle full moon dinner at New Emperor Restaurant. I arrived at 6.45p.m. and therefore had a VIP car park just right in front of the restaurant. I went over LTS Supermarket for a walk and bought some grapes and a can of Yeo’s Chicken Curry.

Some people had already arrived when I went up to the First Floor of New Emperor Restaurant at 7p.m. Altogether were about ten tables of guests.

Baby Janelle looks just like her elder brother Jayden. She also has dark feature like her dad and brother.

The buffet dinner started at 7.50p.m. after prayer in Mandarin by Sharon Lai (she was being called a pastor by Jerry).

The dishes served were as follows.

1. Fried Rice
2. Fried Meehoon
3. Fried Cuttlefish
4. Fried Fish
5. Fried Crispy Skin Chicken
6. Pork Spareribs
7. Veges
8. Fruits
9. Chicken in Rice Vinegar
10. Eggs

By the time I went for second helping, most of the food were gone except the fried rice, crispy skin chicken and veges.

Conversations were flowing around the table and I got to know a few people better.

Lunch at Four Seasons Steamboat Restaurant

Liew Su Li


Spinxie


Interior of Restaurant


Interior of Restaurant

Lunch at Four Seasons Steamboat Restaurant

After work today, I drove to the city to have lunch with a good friend Liew Su Li. We knew each other since I started work in this present company. But we did not go out together to have lunch together on Saturday after work until a few years ago. She resigned from her job and is now working with her husband in his outbound tour business. We had not seen each other for a year already.

Su Li recommended that we should try Four Seasons Steamboat Restaurant which is located at the corner Ground Floor facing Wisma Budaya/upcoming hotel side of Star City. Su Li’s company is located directly above this restaurant.
The name of this restaurant can be misleading somehow because it does not serve steamboat for breakfast or lunch. Dimsum is being served for both of these meals.

Su Li told me the owner of the restaurant had changed hands at least twice already. When the restaurant first started its operation, the dim sum were great and priced reasonably. A lot of people were patronising the restaurant. But the owner hoped to earn fast cash decided to increase the price to RM5 per steamer basket. As a result, business went downhill from then.

When the second owner took over, the dim sum promotion was RM12++ per person of seven steamer basket of dim sum in a mixture of meat ie. ‘siu mai’, ‘har kau’, chicken feet, etc and vegetables such as mushroom, etc. At one time Su Li and her husband went with five other people. Just imagine seven people with a total of 49 steamer basket to gorge down. I think that would definitely be too much considering there were only two men and five ladies present. Of course they did not manage to finish all the food.

When the current owner took over, there is this Teo Chew rice congee/rice porridge promotion going on whereby you can have unlimited amount of plain porridge and you choose different dishes to accompany it.



These dishes can range from RM1 for anchovies to RM4 for pork spareribs, etc. We ordered a plate of canned fish with black beans, a plate of pork spareribs and a plate of I do not even know what it was but tasted fantastic. The captain told me the name in Mandarin but I did not bother to ask Su Li what it was. She also could not make out what it was after tasting it.



Besides having the porridge which was very watery at first but the waitress added more rice when Su Li requested for that with the three side dishes, we also ordered a steamer basket of ‘har kau’ and ‘siu mai’. Both were delicious but I have preference towards the ‘har kau’ which was served with two prawns. There was one prawn in the ‘siu mai’ with minced pork.







We arrived there before 2 p.m. and did not leave until 4p.m. There was so much to catch up on and I think we could have stayed even longer if not that she had to go home to her husband and two children.

Thank you Su Li for your friendship, fellowship, listening ears and advice.

I should be extremely tired after I arrived home. Afterall I only had six hours of sleep last night but I am not sleepy or tired. Thank you Lord for the strength.

Breakfast

I had these for breakfast this morning.


‘Sui Kau’

‘Destiny Altering Decisions’

Last night I had a life altering encounter that helped me to determine the choices I made this day and I think for the rest of my life.

This morning I had these for breakfast.


‘Har Kau’

Today I chose to call Dr. Tan at 8.10a.m. to tell him the documents were ready for collection. I chose to have a different attitude towards him as compared to yesterday. I chose not to have resentment towards him when he came to collect the documents.

Tonight for the first time in so many years I chose to go to cell group instead of staying at home eventhough I was having a slight migraine.

Tonight we watched ‘Destiny Altering Decisions’ VCD. The speaker was Joyce Meyer. I felt that she was speaking directly to me. I felt very encouraged by the VCD and cell group members; and was able to encourage them as well.

Before we all departed from Mr. & Mrs. Chew Chong Bin’s house, we had these for supper.


‘Jin Dui’


Swiss Roll



‘Tong Sui’

I only had the last one.

Cop Enough Flaks to Last a Lifetime

Being the boss's PA for these nine and a half years, I have copped enough flaks from the bosses, colleagues, clients, other consultants, developers, contractors, etc. to last a lifetime.

Today was one of those days. This client whom I shall called him Dr. N came to the office while the boss was out attending meetings. Yeah! Two meetings held at the same time.

Dr. N went straight to the loo without saying a word so I thought that he was like some people who really just dropped by the office to answer their nature call. When he came out holding an envelope, only then that I realised he wanted to pass something to me.

In his hand was the letter of recommendation by the Fire & Rescue Department for his project. With that we could help his company to apply for occupation certificate (oc).

He enquired whether he could collect the covering letter from me along with other necessary documents for the oc application. I told him the covering letter was not ready yet. That was when he blew his top and maliciously accused me for taking so long to get it ready. I had to explain to him that I had to quote the letter of recommendation by the Fire & Rescue Department in our covering letter.

I also told him the Fire & Rescue Department did not call us to go to collect the document (which the department usually do). That was when he blew his top the second time. He said if I just sat there the piece of paper would definitely not drop in front of me. I had to go out to get it. I wanted to tell him off but I refrained myself. Afterall, he is my boss’s friend and I just give him face. I just want to save my saliva and did not see the need to explain myself. Moreover, it is not my scope of work to go out and collect those kind of papers. I also explained to him that the office boy went to the Fire & Rescue Department to check out that last week but the officer said it was not ready yet and that they would call when it is ready. Dr. N did not seem to believe what I said.

And in order to save my own butt, I had to tell him the boss had to sign the covering letter. You see, I needed to buy some time and defend myself. Alas he got nothing to say and blurted out by saying that maybe he can sign the letter on behalf of the boss. I told him it was up to him since he was acting like one desperado and being so unreasonable. I went inside the filing room to get a file and he waited outside for a while. He also called the boss and asked him when he would be back to the office.

Dr. N had to resort to come back in the afternoon and before he left, he told my colleague NE that I cannot take a joke.

When my competency was being questioned at first and then he tried to smooth it by saying that he would sign the covering letter on behalf of the boss, I did not find that to be anything particularly funny. In fact, I called that sarcasm.

After the boss came back, he signed the covering letter. I did not bother to tell him the episode with Dr. N and I also did not bother to call Dr. N to come and collect the documents. Moreover, the time was already 4p.m. It would be too late to submit the oc application to Tuaran Council. Plus I did not fancy seeing Dr. N twice today.

Another Records Breaking Day

To say that I had a busy day at work would be the understatement of the year.

1) I did not have my lunch until 1.20p.m. With an assistant helping me, I was still that busy so just imagine if I do not have one.

2) Some clients came when the boss was attending a meeting outside. So I had to be nice and made small talks with them while rushing to get their documents ready to be signed by the time the boss came back. The clients then left and I did not know they were going to come back so soon. They went for lunch nearby and when the boss came back, they followed suit. At least one of the clients thanked me for rushing the documents for him and asked whether I had lunch. When I told him not yet, he said he should have takeaway something for me. Well, it’s the thought that counts. Moreover, the office boss already helped me to takeaway from the Jawa shop. Within two hours of invoicing the client, the bill was paid.

3) I did not manage to drink a lot of water and if I remember correctly, I did not go to the loo until 3.45p.m. since I left home at 7.05a.m.

4) This morning I washed my hair before I went to work. I also applied mousse, serum and curl magician onto my hair. Today so many people commented on my ‘wet look’. They thought that my hair was still wet but in fact the opposite was true. And it seems like people like my new hair do more than me. I am still trying hard to accept it.

5) My bosses left the office at 5.45p.m. The boss said ‘thank you’ to me just as he was about to open the office door to leave. Usually I can only hear that word from my lady boss. So he can see that I had worked extremely hard today in order to beat deadlines.

6) I had my first piece of sandwiches (of total three) at 10.45a.m. after the boss left for his meeting. I had the second piece at 5.50p.m. after bosses left the office to go home. And I had the third piece as soon as I arrived home at 6.25p.m. (Well, can’t blame me cos I do not like to waste food)

I did not have much appetite today because the weather is extremely hot. Right now the time is almost 10p.m. and my room is still 30 degrees Celcius.

Two Blouses

Bosses came back from their long weekend away in the Philiipines last night.

They were in the office after 8a.m. this morning. Boss bought us a large bottle of peanuts with fried garlic. Tasted absolutely yummy.

Lady boss also bought me two blouses. Yeah more clothes for me to wear.

My production rate today had not been that fantastic. I was still having holiday mood.

And therefore I better retired early tonight and get more beauty sleep in order to go full on tomorrow.

Prayer Answered

Two days ago I prayed and asked the Lord to delay something to happen in my body system (go figure) so that I could enjoy the buffet dim sum yesterday.

I believe God is interested in even small details in our life if only we commit them into His Hands.

He was faithful in answering my prayer. He was not too late nor too early. Just on time. He is still the same yesterday, today and tomorrow. Hallelujah.

And the one day delay in my body system soon came after I snapped this wonderful sunset before coming home after having my haircut yesterday. God is so good!

Hair Cut

After driving Sophia Tsen home (I hope she did not get a heart attack when she arrived home), I went for my haircut at Hair Image Saloon, Karamunsing Complex (Second Floor).

I did not touch foot inside this saloon for four months and Maggie my hairdresser had renovated her shop for a fresher look. I like it.







I do not like my haircut though. It is way too radical for me. Maybe I am still too old fashioned. But surprisingly, mum and Chloe like it.


Before Look


After Look

Buffet Dim Sum at Shang Palace, Wesak Day 2008 (Photo)

‘Wesak’ Day 2008

Today is a public holiday here in Malaysia. ‘Wesak’ Day is supposed to commerate the birthday of Buddha.

Sophia Tsen and I went to Shang Palace, Shangrila Tanjung Aru Resort for buffet dim sum. We had not had this for a couple of years.

We arrived at 10a.m. after I filled in the fuel tank before fetching Sophia at her house.

In total there were less than twenty people having the buffet dim sum today, which was good news for us. J/k There were plenty of food, only our stomach had shrunk tremendously as compared to how we can chow down buffet previously.

Everything we had was great as you can see from the slides above except Sophia said the porridge was too watery so I did not even bother to try.

We were the first ones to arrive and second last ones to leave around 2.15p.m.

Grocery Shopping

Last night mum told me there are still a few packets of candies (nougats and chocolates) left but only one packet of biscuits left.

So today after Canaanland Celebration, I drove to Tong Hing Supermarket, Damai and bought the following items.

1. Two packets of Arnott’s Tim Tam Double Coat Biscuits. I love Tim Tam since my time in Down Under and I was so happy when I found out a few years ago that this supermarket sells the biscuits. I think Merdeka Supermarkets also sell them. The expiry date for these two packets will be in July 2008 and therefore the price was RM2 less.


2. One box of Arnott’s Shapes Cheese and Bacon flavour.


3. Two packets of Belgium Cooked Ham. I have been having sandwiches instead of fried noodles for breakfast for a long time now. The ham may be expensive but if I eat noodles everyday, it would work out to be even more expensive. Besides, mum and Chloe can have the ham as well.


Then I drove to Giant Likas Kosan. There was a blackout in the supermarket when I arrived.

I bought the following items at the bakery.

1. One croissant.
2. One hot dog.
3. One curry puff.
4. One egg tart.

When I proceeded inside the supermarket, I was stopped by one of workers for bringing in the plastic bag with bakery stuff inside and was told to put it at the counter outside. I was glad I was in a good mood. I mean who in the right mind would go out again from the bakery and put stuff at the counter outside? Plus I had brought in the plastic bag into the supermarket numerous times previously and no one complained. Or has it got to do with the blackout? The worker was afraid I would steal stuff?

I bought the following items from the supermarket.

1. Three packets of Tong Garden snacks – peanuts, almonds and cashew nuts.
2. Two each of lime, durian & red bean flavours ice-cream sticks.


3. One carton of Marigold Peel Fresh OJ.


That’s me. When I do not shop, I do not buy anything. But when I shop, I go on a roll.

Canaanland Celebration 18 May 2008

Christopher Pang, Beatrice Pang and Mary Chu from the back. Beatrice is very cute and she was holding both her parent’s hand. At one time there were walking around in circles.


This is the Ha family (Louisa, Ian, Mr. Ha and Louis) from the back. I am so glad the whole family turned up at Canaanland Celebration today.


Isaac Tai learning to walk with his mummy Rebecca Poong holding him on one hand


Isaac Tai


Isaac Tai

Tree Opposite House

This is how the tree opposite my house looks like after the fallen ones were cleared.

Red Daisy Flower vs. Yeo’s

Last night I slept at midnight and woke up at 8.30a.m. Wow! That was a full 8.5 hours. No wonder I felt so good this morning. What a big contrast with the previous days before where I had only 6 hours.

Since the maid is not working today, I hung out the clothes I had washed at the backyard. When I came back inside, this was what I found on my left hand, a big mosquito bite.



I always apply the Salvon anti-septic cream on the mosquito bite and the bite would disappear very quickly.

I opened a can of Red Daisy Flower Beef Curry with Potato and had it with two slices of bread for breakfast. I bought this can at Servay Likas Hypermarket a fortnight ago.




For convenience's sake, built-in opener is provided


A newly opened can of Red Daisy Flower Beef Curry with Potato


The beef curry after coming out from the microwave

How does this brand fare as compared with Yeo’s brand?

Well, if you do not like spicy food, then you will like Red Daisy Flower. It is definitely not spicy enough for me. The beef was very tender but there was only a piece of small potato. It is not as oily as Yeo’s though.

(I had Yeo’s Curry Chicken for breakfast last Sunday. Chef Wan is endorsing the product now. And therefore I felt the taste is even spicier than before. If you cannot take spicy food, do not even think about having it. Otherwise I am pretty sure you will complain that it is too spicy for you, unless you are up for a challenge.)

Sleepy Day

One of my colleagues did not turn up for work this morning. That meant only three of us left in the whole office.

Since the office renovation is progressing at snail pace, I had to stay back in the afternoon to lock up at the end of the day. I did not fancy coming home at 1p.m. and driving out again at 5p.m. I reckoned I might fall asleep and would be too lazy to wake up just to drive out again.

I ordered chicken rice for lunch. By 2p.m. I was yawning so many times that I lost count. I was glad today is not a weekday. Otherwise I would be in big trouble, ie. with so many people around and I was yawning like nobody’s business.

I managed to get some urgent work done eventhough it is not due until 28 May. It is urgent because my lady boss would be away in Singapore for about ten days from next week onwards. Therefore, I need her to sign the documents before she leaves. At least this work is out of the way. Yeah!

The workers doing the office renovation left at 5p.m. I was gathering all the documents I needed to bring back home to work on during this long weekend and did not leave work until 5.30p.m. I am being overly ambitious, for I have brought a lot of work home to do.


The Brickwall Hacked and Now a New Access to the Office Next Door


New Wall Tiles in the Toilet Next Door

Worked Half a Day, Felt Like a Whole Day

I started work as soon as I arrived in the office at 7.15a.m. this morning. Lady boss was already in the office.

As my bosses were going away for the coming long weekend, I had to make sure I finished everything that was urgent before they left. As a result, by lunchtime I felt that almost all my energy had vanished because I had been working non-stop and my colleagues did not help by being uncooperative. I practically had to spoon feed them in order to get things done. *sigh*

But at least I heard good news that I hope would be happening soon. I will only blog about it when it truly happens. Meanwhile, I will keep my fingers crossed.

I have not been going out for lunch for quite a while. The office boy has been helping me to take-away from a nearby shop selling Jawa style kind of cooking. For two meats and a veg dish, the price is RM3.50 and the rice given is usually until the top of the Styrofoam container.

For instance, yesterday I had the following.

1. Mixed veges – cauliflower, green beans, mini corn cobs and carrots.
2. Beef rendang.
3. One soya sauce chicken wing.

The food offered in this shop is quite tasty but the soup that they use for ‘soto’ (Indonesian Beef soup) is filled with 'ajinomoto'.

Today I just wanted to eat something different from my normal lunch routine. I went out for lunch with my colleague NE to the nearby coffee shop where I used to order through the telephone and the worker would deliver the lunch to me. The lady boss was so glad to see us. I had fried rice with shrimps and one fried egg. I always like the way the chef cooks this simple dish.

With the cyclone hitting Myanmar and earthquake in PRC recently, there have been many unexpected and heavy downpours here. Many trees had fallen and cars damaged as a result. The global weather is truly turning everything upside down.

Today on the way home from work, there was a massive traffic congestion outside my housing estate near the roundabout.

Supper at Mr. & Mrs. Chew Chong Bin’s Residence

Tonight the Canaanland Celebration committee members had our committee meeting at Mr. & Mrs. Chew Chong Bin’s Residence in Likas, near Christ Church and All Saint’s Secondary School.

As the meeting was drawing to an end, Shelley Chew served us the following.

1. ‘Lo Hon Ko’ Herbal Drink.

2. ‘Jin Dui’ (sesame glutinous balls with peanuts filling).


3. Soya Bean Jelly with Longan.


4. ‘Char Siew Bao’.


Everything was so yummy. Shelley is such a great cook.

For once I had to forget about my no supper at night regime and broke my diet pattern. I had every single one of the above items.

Mother’s Day Blueberry CheeseCake

I bought mum one of the three blueberry cheesecakes baked by Shelley Chew on Sunday.

When Shelley brought four cakes she baked to church, there was not enough room in the refrigerator to store them. As a result, the cake I bought melted slightly. (Hence, you can see it in the photo some parts of cake do not like nice. It definitely did not look like that originally)

When I told mum the cake was a cheesecake, she quickly reminded me that she does not like cheesecake. I mean, please give me a break. She has not even eaten the cake yet to give it a chance to prove itself.

I was given the task to cut the cake as well as to put the remaining slices of the cake into different plastic containers.

After eating the cake, then mum said she liked it very much because it was very unlike the normal cheesecake. This was a sponge cake with minimal amount of cheese.

Phew! I was glad she liked it because I thought I would make her unhappy by getting her something she did not like on of all days, Mother’s Day.

I liked the cake as well eventhough I am not a dessert person.

P/S This was half a slice of the cake I had last night. As you can see, it does not look like the normal cheesecakes.

Was Here but Gone Now

The bosses hired a new draftsman H recently and H started work on 5 May 2008. H joined us on his first day at work at the company lunch at New Gaya Seafood Restaurant.

Yesterday H came late for work because he had problems with his car. The boss gave H some drawings to draft since last week but up until yesterday he has not printed out for the boss to have a look. The boss sort of scolded H and told him to print out everything he had done so far.

By 11a.m. today H still has not turned up for work. I told my colleague NE maybe H is angry with the boss for scolding him and therefore did not want to come to work. H also did not have the courtesy to inform me that he was not coming to work.

The boss took the initiative to call H and he told the boss he would not be coming to work anymore because he did not know what he was doing.

I think in the history of the company, this must be a record. This is the first time someone only lasted working for a week.

Blackout once again

Last night there was another heavy downpour. The blackout occured around 8p.m. Since I could not do anything, I decided to go to sleep. By 9p.m., I was still fully awake.

At least the weather was cool last night and therefore I could sleep without the fan on.

At 11p.m. I woke up and the electricity supply was back on. Yeah!

New Assistant

I was glad I did not listen to the boss to get almost 1000 sheets of A1 drawings for tender purpose printed out yesterday. I arranged them to be printed on last Saturday. They were due at 4p.m. yesterday and we only had fifteen minutes to spare. I had to supervise the whole thing being arranged correctly and I was glad I had the office boy to help me out. I started to have backache again after that because the drawings were so heavy. But thank God the backache did not last for long.

One of the boss’s friend brought over a second year university student to help out in our company. She is doing practical (eventhough she is not studying engineering) with us from yesterday until end of June 2008.

I am glad to have her to help out a bit because I have so much work to do and everything seems to be so urgent. I just hope that she will listen instead of disobey my instructions. I do not have time to waste to correct purposely done mistakes.

Mother’s Day Dinner at New Gaya Seafood Restaurant

One day before Mother’s Day I booked a table for eight people at New Gaya Seafood Restaurant.

On Mother’s Day itself I called the restaurant again to instruct them to add another person. The receiver kept telling me the restaurant was fully booked that night. I had to keep on telling him I had already booked a table for eight people.

When we arrived at the restaurant before 6.30p.m., there were quite a lot of people already. I saw my friend Peter (one of the captains) and he was happy. I told him I had been to the restaurant thrice in the span of less than a month. So he cannot complain that I have not been there for a long time.

Mum wanted to have yam basket but the captain told us it was not available on a busy night.

We ordered the following:-

1. Stir-fried deer meat with ginger and shallots. Very soft but pity there was not enough gravy for Alistair to put on his rice eventhough we told the captain to note that we wanted more gravy.
2. Poached prawns. Very fresh and medium sized which was what we wanted.
3. Shells. Quite big sized but very soft.
4. Stir-fried ‘choy sum’ veges with garlic and oyster sauce. Surprisingly this time the veges were very tasty and crunchy. Enough ‘wok hei’ as compared to the time the bosses treated us, which was very bland.
5. Stir-fried prawns with mixed veges. The prawns were not very fresh but the mixed veges of broccoli, mini corn cob and carrots were very crunchy as well.
6. Stir-fried fish fillets with ginger and shallots. The fish fillets were very fresh but I did not manage to eat more than two pieces.



There was no leftover as everyone was hungry on a Sunday night. The bill came to less than RM140 for 6 adults and 3 children.

As we were on the way from the restaurant in Inanam to Luyang Perdana housing estate (my first time entering this place) which is situated very near to the State Library, suddenly the violent wind accompanied by a heavy downpour descended.

When we arrived home, we found the tree at the playground opposite our house broke.



Just before 9p.m. there was a blackout. Thank God it only lasted for 40mins.