yipee, yipee..ai yeh...

labour day coming up! so looking forward to not having to wake up so early. After so many months since the last holiday, it would feel really nice to wake up late..

Now..I've got to really plan out nicely the program for that day.
1) wake up at about 11am
2) gorge myself silly for lunch at this little nice restaurant in PJ
3) then it's off to Low Yatt Plaza to look at the latest electronic gizmos money can buy
4) maybe spend the rest of the afternoon getting pampered at a spa
5) have dinner at some swanky outlet at The Curve
6) try to prolong the day by doing more extended shopping after dinner there
7) drive as slow as possible to reach home, to prolong the night before the next day comes again.

Sounds like a good program to me. Don't you agree?

we live in interesting times eh..?

or are we living in a time of turmoil? with so many fearful scenarios that could unfold themselves in the near future, what are we to make of all these? or are we actually seeing great opportunities coming our way instead. In the next few months, there's gonna be great dramatics and scenes unfolding before us, decisions and directions that will eventually make or break us...so exciting isn't it?..let's just hope there are no major casualties suffered along the way..

Maybe it's time to consider moving to back to that island in the sun, to partake of this new paradigm shift that we are experiencing, to savor in its fine gastronomic delights again, to feel the sea breeze on my face, and to arise with a new optimism for the future..how exciting..


Hawaii sounds like a good place to retire to..

alamak...free food again ah..

there she goes again walking down the street..
bringing yet another free lunch for me and my staff. Anyone would definitely have appreciated their mom's cooking but for some reason, it brings a little contortion to my facial expressions each time I am informed by my staff..."your mother just dropped off lunch.." as I proceed to then surreptitiously open the styrofoam food container to see what's inside. Some times when I am lucky, it brings a quirky smile to my face but most of the times, it's.."eerrr..fellas, that's ok, why don't you guys go ahead. I'm feeling quite full today".

Well, before any of you guys accuse me of being an ingrate for being unappreciative of such loving gestures from my mother, perhaps I should explain a little bit of my gastronomic history for better understanding. I never really grew up on her cooking. Period. As far as I can remember, I only spent like maybe 5 years of my life being exposed to her cooking. The meals were like alright I guess but I don't remember rushing home from school thinking excitedly about what's being set on the dinner table. I remember mostly eating from a plate, on my own, in front of the TV, and usually having combined a little bit of her dishes with a lot of what I managed to buy off the hawker stall nearby, with whatever pocket money left for that day. The rest of my life so far has been spent eating food prepared by other people, mostly restaurants, hawkers, and the occasional relative etc..

So..I wish I knew how to tell her not to go through the trouble of cooking for me and my staff and that she should really spend time doing things for herself (I thought I have already done that..hmm). It's not that I don't appreciate her efforts, but it's just so much easier to buy take-aways plus I get to choose what I want to eat, and she doesn't have to go grocery shopping, washing, preparing the foods and then cleaning up her kitchen. No need to go through so much trouble kwa..don't you agree?

I tell you ah..damn boh bin leh..

wah liao eh...so very pai-sei when you come across someone who's really kiasu, kiasi and add to that some more very kiam-kanna. Are they really as notoriously famous as what has been said about them or is it just so happens that I was unlucky enough to come across a rare one today? In my line of work, I have always ensured that whoever walks in my door is given the best of services and charges are standardized (quite low as it is, by market standards, I would say) irrespective of the person's nationality, ethnicity, age or gender. So, it came as quite a rude shock to me when someone who drives around in a relatively brand-new Mercedes that bears a foreign plate haggles over a rm10 payment. Wah liao eh..si beh pai-sei..for that person.

Wah seh..so unsettling these days..

If anyone of us has been following the news lately or to be more politically correct nowadays, the blogs, about the state of our current political scenario in the country, it can be a wee bit unsettling. So many write-ups about anything remotely connected to the government or the opposition or is it the other way around now, and so many view points espoused by various people, so many actions or inactions being taken, a lot of tit for tats being witnessed, it's getting quite comically unsettling actually. So many spins to a simple story or event. So many things said in the press and unsaid by the blogs, claiming to be said by someone who is said not to have said anything of that sort but which got said anyway.

Like..is he coming or is he going?..and everybody's talking all at the same time. Oh man, it can be really confusing for any layman who's main concern would be what he can put on the dinner table for his family day after day after day, and not who's gonna be the next "you know who" just because somebody says so based on that fella's "you know what" connection to the recommended "you know who"..but then they still don't know when..you know what I mean?

hmm...maybe it's time to pay attention to where I could find the nicest "you know what" in town..which sounds more exciting to me anyway..

So what did I do ah..?

I went to town yesterday lor..ate at a nice cafe in Cheras near the UCSI campus, watching the world go by as I sipped on my iced lemon tea and finished off a plate of rice with nonya curry chicken. There were quite a number of students out looking for dinner too, so it was kind of interesting to reminisce about the old days when I was a student myself. I remember the top most in my mind when I was a student was..hey, where are we going for lunch or dinner? That's what most of us would just think about then. Nothing but food, mostly..and inadvertently all dinner talks would turn to what special notes someone has, or what's the easiest, simplest book to get as compared to the huge voluminous recommended texts given out by the school. Of course, there were the usual, boyfriend-girlfriend issues, gossips or rumors that without which those meals would have been so much less enlightening or enriching, just like the must-have appetizer or dessert.

Hmm..if I had known that there was an organized "freeze" at the pavilion yesterday, I would have gone there instead. Would have been interesting and fun to be part of this global phenomenon..People, total strangers being still, as in not moving or stopped right in their tracks, all at the same time, in a public environment..watch the youtube below:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=-e4o4F0DvaI

Just says so much about our shared humanity as opposed to the constant disunity in our diversity that we are always led to believe.

Another sunday..

oh dear..so what's the program today? another round of shopping? another trip to nowhere? another day at the gym? hmmm..can't decide what I want to do today..
we'll see what I'm up to later...