Change in Plans

I wanted to go for grocery shopping after Canaanland Celebration today. Since the rain was still coming down (since Friday) when I left Kyrugma House, I decided to skip my usual place of Servay Hypermarket and opted for Giant Kolombong (all because it has an undercover carpark). I do not really like to do grocery shopping in Giant.

As I tried to turn into Kolombong Road from Tuaran Road, the road was blocked. Construction work is going on outside Giant Kolombong to make the drain wider.

I had no choice but to go to Servay Hypermarket. I thought that with the rain coming down, there would be less people. I was wrong. The amount of crowd was the same like on any other Sundays.

I used the basket to put the stuff I wanted to buy instead of using the trolley. I spent considerable amount of time in choosing the vegetables. After weighing all the carrots, cauliflower, cabbages and ‘choy sum’, I went to see whether there were any lamb chops for sale. For the last month or so, Servay has not been selling any lamb chops. (Twice recently I had to buy them from Giant Kolombong).

I chose a dozen of chicken wings and put half a dozen each into two plastic bags. I then proceeded to get two brown onions. After finishing both these tasks, I went to the nearest weighing station but the worker was out of sight. I forgot what was occupying my mind at the time and forgot to go to the other weighing station.

I only realised at the check-out counter when the cashier took out the three plastic bags with chicken wings and onions that I had not weighed those stuff yet. I paid for all the rest. I carried the two plastic bags and went outside to the counter to put the bags there while I went into the hypermarket again to weigh the stuff and bought some more things – toilet papers and a carton of milk.

After paying for them, I went to the counter outside to take my umbrella and told the workers I would come back to take the two bags after I put some stuff into the car. I found that grocery shopping with the rain coming down was really a pain in the rear. I can only use one hand to hold the plastic bags while the other hand was occupied with the umbrella.

After coming home and surfing the internet, I wanted to rest for a couple of hours before dinnertime. But I did not even have a chance to touch my body on the bed.

My brother and sis-in-law met our former neighbours from Sandakan at Damai while having afternoon tea. Mum and I went to meet them and escorted them back to our house for chit-chat while my brother and sis-in-law went elsewhere.

Tonight we went to a coffee shop near my office for dinner. Our neighbours said that they like to go there to eat. (The bosses like to go to this shop to eat the fish and fishcake as well. And sometimes when we had in-house lunch, the bossed also ordered from this shop)

The menu was as follows.

1. Asam Fish Head Curry.

2. Stir Fried Veges with Fishcake.

3. Stir Fried Capsicum with Ostrich Meat.

The food was a tad salty for all of us. The food also lacked ‘wok hei’.

I was not fast enough to pay for the bill which came to RM50 for 5 people.