Still Adding

I have not used Tagged for years but there is an Indian man from Ipoh (I think) who still keeps on adding me up until this day. When will he give up?

Dessert at Qing Bou Leong

While we were leaving Damai, I suggested to SC that we went for dessert. Yen Ai was close and we went back to Qing Bou Leong at Damai.

On the way home, I showed SC how to use the road from SMC to Lintas Road.

Dinner at Upperstar Pepper & Grill

Cabo, her hubby SC and their son Jordan came back from KL to KK to celebrate CNY since the eve of CNY. They will be going back this Saturday 4p.m. on MAS.

Last night before we confirmed the venue for dinner for tonight, I thought of bringing them to Upperstar in Damai. When I received the text message from Cabo saying that SC wanna try Upperstar Lintas, I managed to convince them to go to the one in Damai instead.

They came to fetch me and I was glad that they did cos I was totally bushed after work.

When we walked into Upperstar, SC’s relatives were sitting at the table near the door. At first I thought they planned before hand to go to the same restaurant, but I was wrong.

We took the table in the middle. After the waiter took our order, the customers who sat behind us on the table with the pc left. We moved there and SC was able to entertain himself using the internet. Jordan was busy playing games on Cabo’s mobile phone and pausing once a while to watch tv. Cabo and I had some time to catch up.

I ordered Lamb Shanks.

Cabo ordered Potato Salad and Grilled Salmon. SC ordered Grilled Salmon as well.

Before we finished eating our meal, SC’s relatives came over to say goodbye as well as to tell us that they had paid for our bill. It was very kind of them to do that.

SC brought Jordan to Tong Hing Supermarket to look for ice-cream and ended up buying an ice-cream cone with strawberry and vanilla flavours. While they were finishing the ice-cream, I decided to make a quick dash to Strawberry to buy bread. It was close. I stopped by Consfood to buy Turkey and Chicken Ham for sandwiches and then went to Multibake to buy a loaf of bread.

Compulsory Leave

Went back to work today, the fourth day of CNY.

Am grateful that we did not have to take compulsory leave like many employees from other companies had to all throughout this country from today onwards until the remaining of the week.

If that was imposed, then we had to take leave and rot at home.

CNY in General

These are some of the things that I like about CNY

1. Holidays, relaxing time.

2. Meeting up with friends.

3. Food and more food. I have been good. Though I like mandarin oranges, I did not take a single one cos my throat has been acting up a bit.

4. Smooth traffic though some drivers are on holiday mood so much until they are driving 25-30km/hr on internal road and 40km/hr on major road!

But there are also some things that particularly irk me during CNY

1. When cousins or their wives give me angpow, they would ask when it’s my turn to give their children. I mean if you wanna give, just give. And keep quiet. Otherwise don’t give at all. I would not blame them if they do not give any. That is why last year and this year, I chose not to attend their open house.

2. The hot weather.

3. Restaurants would charge exobirtant prices for their food. At least there are some that still maintain at the same prices.

4. The sound of the drum from lion dance or unicorn waking me up instead of the chooks or dogs.

5. The sound of firecrackers is so deafening until sometimes car alarms would go off.

CNY Day 3

I woke up feeling normal once again after complete rest yesterday. PTL!

Mum took away some ‘Roti Canais’ at one of the shops near the Inanam Bus Terminal when my SIL sent her parents there to take the coach to go back to SDK. We had that for brekky.

After midday Jeff drove mum, Aunty Alice and I to New WK Restaurant. Mum was mentioning we went so late, we may end up eating the tail end of the food. So I told her if there was no more dimsum available, we can order a plate of noodles to share among us.

When we arrived at the restaurant, we were told to go upstairs and there were plenty of tables unoccupied. So we did not have to wait. I guess if we had gone during the morning, we might have to queue up.

One of the waitresses brought the first five dimsums and plunked them on the table. The action was like the ‘take it or leave it’ mentality. We accepted everything of course.

Then the next two were once again plunked on the table. There were some ‘pau’ available as well but we did not have that.

Mum then asked the waitress for the Prawn 'Cheong Fun'.

We had another serving of 'Siew Mai'.

At the end mum predicted the bill would be less than RM100, taking into consideration today is still a holiday. But I did not even have to pay half of that amount. Aunty Alice said jokingly that we should have ordered more. Haha

(Jeff was telling us that eight of his friends went to Foo Phin Dim Sum yesterday and they ate around 30 servings of dimsum. The bill came to a whopping RM580!)

Scrabble

Recently I added Sophia’s junior from UPM ie. Allan in FB so that we can play Scrabble.

We started playing two games on 4 February 2010 and both games concluded two nights ago.

First Game

Allan started the game with the word ease 8 points

His 4th word was kazoo 37 points

His 7th word was platoon (bingo) 84 points (Pretty good for a first-timer)

My 7th word was yow 32 points

His 11th word was xi 40 points

My 11th word was hernias (bingo) 69 points

My 12th word was gaily 47 points

His 13th word was carps 35 points

In the end Allan scored 407 points, 24 points more than me.

Well done Allan.

Second Game

I started the game with the word wind 16 points

Allan’s 3rd word encave 33 points

His 4th word axe 39 points

My 6th word was gnow 30 points

His 6th word was syen 39 points

My 10th word was quads 37 points

His 11th word was matilda (bingo) 67 points

My 12th word was riz 32 points

My 13th word was gooly/ky 34 points

In the end I won by only 7 points.

Both games were extremely nailbiting at the end.

CNY Day 2

Woke up with fever and therefore all plans to go out for open houses had to come to a halt. :(

Mum, Aunty Alice and Jeff went to Menggatal Nyuk Pau in Nountun for ‘Ngau Chap’. I only had ‘Mi Goreng’ for brunch.

Rested almost the whole day. The weather has been super hot and humid.

That is why I never take annual leave to stay home.

Dinner at Home

Since I had heavy brunch and tit-bits at Sophia’s house, I decided not to have a full meal tonight.

Last night there were some leftovers meats ie. beef, pork ribs and lamb from the steamboat. I grilled them before they turn bad.

CNY Day 1

Sophia and I arrived at Silk Garden, Pan Pacific Sutera Hotel before 10a.m. Some people were already enjoying their food. The restaurant is open from 9.00a.m. to 2.30p.m. for buffet dimsum for today and tomorrow.

They serve less finger food as compared to Shang Palace, STAR but they have more hot dishes. The amount they charge per person is RM10 less than Shang Palace.

Sophia and I saw some friends there as well.

While enjoying the food, we chit-chatted and it was a relaxing buffet. We were the second last table to leave the restaurant.

After our buffet, we went back to Sophia’s house to chit-chat some more and enjoyed more tit-bits. Lily arrived to join us after that.

While we were chating, Deborah Tai, Andrew Tai and Rebecca Poong brought their kids to join us as well. The kids were so active and Isaac Tai had some Shandy. For a while we thought he might be drunk. Sewelyn Tai likes to grab anything he can lay his hands on. He played with the pomelo.

After Sophia’s place, all of us went to Jonathan and Julie Wong’s house at Masoinette Radiant. This was my first time entering this condo. I like the condo.