spinxie's babblings: 2nd Day of Hari Raya 2008

Thursday, October 2, 2008

2nd Day of Hari Raya 2008

Brought mum to Chinese doctor at Bandaran Berjaya for a check up. He gave her some medicine.

This doctor came from PRC to Kota Kinabalu long time ago. He does not have a license but a lot of people know of his healing ability using Chinese medicine. Mum got to know about him through one of her friends in our neighbourhood. At the time I could not get rid of the scar on my left leg due to an infection after a mosquito bite even after using Western medicine. When I went to see the doctor a few years ago, he gave me some tablets and external medicine to apply on the scar. The scar disappeared after that.

This time I also let him checked me. He uses a peculiar instrument to touch the palm of the hand. He advised me to cut off eating crabs, prawns and beef, which are some of my favourite food. When I was small, I used to have itchy body after eating prawns. But after coming back from Down Under, my skin is not as sensitive as before. I would still be eating them but I will cut down the intake. He also advised me not to take too much Chinese herbal tea and because my blood is not that good, whatever that means, he gave me some medicine.

I had lunch with Sophia Tsen. Recently she received her bonus and wanted to treat me to lunch. We ended up at Emperor’s Delight.

The dumplings were nice. We liked the soup inside the dumplings and had a second order of this.

'Siew Loong Bau'

The soup was ok.

Sweet & Sour Schezuan Soup

There was nothing special about the noodles eventhough the chef kneaded them in front of us.

Seafood 'La Mien'

When Sophia was ordering the meatloaf, we did not know that it was ‘yuan tai’. When it arrived we were unsure whether we could finish it but we did as both of us do not normally eat this. It was not bad due to the fact that the layer of fat was not that much and we finished it.

Meatloaf

Improvement needed to be done on the air-conditioner eventhough the boss insisted that he had installed two new ones lately. We were sweating even before we started eating but as we stayed on and some customers had left, we could at least few a teeny weeny bit of the air-conditioner.

We adjourned to have a drink at Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf.

(Many years ago I forgot which friend who told me that she does not have many friends because she said friendship takes a lot of time and energy to build up)

But I see friends as treasure in life and an investment worth having. And therefore spending time with a close friend during a public holiday is a good way to catch up with each other. Thank you Sophia for the treat and your openness in sharing your heart out. I really treasure the friendship that we have.

We ended up chatting and staying there until 5p.m. as the rain was coming down heavily. But since I had a dinner appointment with my family, I had to go home first to shower and change. We had to walk and brave ourselves under the rain in order to get our car.

As I was driving back on the Tanjung Lipat Coastal Highway, some parts of the road were flooded. Thank God I was able to get home safely.

My family planned to finish watching Trimming Success on ntv7 before we went out for dinner at Wagamama Japanese Restaurant in Asia City. But at 6.15p.m., the electricity supply stopped and therefore we had to get ready to go out. When we went over to my brother’s house, he used the generator and therefore we could finish watching the Hong Kong series.

My sis-in-law invited her friend Rosalind and her husband Lee (who is Shirley Chew’s younger brother) to join us for dinner. Rosalind’s elder sister, younger brother and his girlfriend also joined us. So altogether there were eleven adults and four children. My sis-in-law's parents are also here from Sandakan.

Altogether we ate 43 plates of sushi. Most of them also ordered dinner from the a-la-carte menu. I paid for the sushi while Rosalind paid for the drinks and a-la-carte dinner. The sushi bill came to RM196. I used the RM100 sushi voucher and paid RM117.60 including 10% Service Charge. I also obtained another RM50 sushi voucher expiring on 23 October 2008.