1st Day of Hari Raya 2008

Today is the first day of Hari Raya (Muslim New Year) and officially we have today and tomorrow off. All of my colleagues who are working five days week would be taking this Friday off as well, so they have a total of five days holidays at one stretch. For the four of us who have to work on Saturday as well ie. five and half days week would not be taking any leave.

One thing I do not like about public holidays of two days in a row is that normally I would have to finish a lot of deadlines before I can have the holidays. So by yesterday evening I was totally exhausted after working from 7a.m. – 6p.m. with only 45 mins lunch break.

Today I wanted to sleep in but I woke up at 6:30a.m. to put the laundry into the washing machine to wash. I went back to dreamland and woke up again at 8.30a.m.

I drove mum to Foh Sang and wanted to park in that area so that we can have brunch before she went to get a hair perm. After rounding the place four times, I still could not find a parking space. There were four other drivers in front or at the back of me with the same predicament. I drove off to Bornion and found a parking space.

We walked over to Foh Sang and had brunch at one of the coffee shops located on the same block as mum’s hairdresser. Some of the other coffee shops were closed. The shop was filled with so many people and all the tables were occupied except one large one which can occupy six people.

After we occupied the table, a couple came and joined us. Business was good and we had to wait for our noodles for quite a long time. The dry noodles with ‘char siew’ and ‘siew yuk’ was ok.

Mum went to her hairdresser while I went to get the car. There was traffic jam coming out from Bornion and the traffic lights turned red rather fast. I went over to Recipe House at Damai Plaza to buy two packets of seaweed before coming home.

The weather was so hot and humid. I was only out for about two hours but I was sweating profusely. I had to have another shower upon arriving home venthough I had one when I woke up.

I had a good nap in the afternoon and cooked lamb chops before going over to my brother’s house for dinner.

8 pieces of lamb chops from Giant Kolombong for RM20

Marinated lamb chops

Lamb Chops in the Griller

Lamb Chops

Gravox to make gravy for the lamb chops courtesy of Adam Barclay all the way from Down Under

The juices after the grilling exercise. I will use this minus the layer of fat and with the Gravox, make the gravy at another time. I did not have sufficient time to do it tonight.

Courtesy of Adam Barclay as well. It is not that we do not have this for sale here. I prefer the Down Under type - they are sturdier and it cost a fortune here