Mum's Early Birthday Celebration
Mum's birthday is on the 5th of May. Since that is on a Wednesday, we had the choice of doing it on the weekend before or after the 5th. I advised my brother to come back on the Labour Day weekend since the following weekend is Mothers Day, so you can imagine the chaos at F&B outlets. I dunno about other mothers, but my mum is a difficult woman to shop for. Every year we have to crack our heads to think of the perfect gift. This year round, we got her a watch since her Maurice Lacroix is already quite old. With that determined, it's still a challenge to get the right watch. Knowing my mother, she has two requirements for watches:
1) Must be light
2) Must be bling
And so, we decided on a gold Skaagen steel mesh watch with crystal and mother of pearl from Tangs. I tested it with my own wrist, as mum and I have a similar construction and size. Haha. Squarish wrists. With that buy, we got 10% cash rebate and some vouchers. Disposed off the vouchers by buying a black umbrella with a long, slim handle. So dainty with its black lace trim and white stripes. Unfortunately it was defective. I had to go back to get it exchanged some days later. That's Malaysian quality for you.
At first, I planned dinner at Restoran Fook Hin in Serdang, but at the last minute, we went to Restoran HY Tian at Taman Equine due to the heavy rain. Luckily we arrived early, as by 7:00pm, customers were already lining up and eyeing us hungrily. The restaurant is made up of around 7 combined shoplots. The interior is super-oriental with Chinese character wallpaper and every sort of gaudy porcelain. At both ends are stages-- one with a giant painting of Chinese peonies and the other with two mandarin ducks on steroids. The food was quite good, but with all the extra charges, the price became not so attractive.
Dinner was braised beancurd with gourd, steamed scallops with garlic sauce, steamed ngan chong, stewed pork with pumpkin (interesting) and stir-fried lotus root with snow pods and macadamia nuts (love the mixed texture). Throughout dnner, the customer turnover was high with many people bringing in Secret Recipe cakes and liquor (even saw a bottle of Cordon Bleu!). If this is these are the early birds for Mothers Day, I cannot imagine how it will be on the actual day. :S.
Back home, we cut the special cake that SK had bought. Custom-made at a premium. I was shocked. Haha. But that's SK for you. Very generous and sincere. Really cute. It's shaped like a hat with purple ribbons and stars and it even has glitter on it. Marzipan over a SUPER butter cake. Too rich for me. Some camwhoring, gift-opening and it's a wrap! Happy Birthday Mum!
1) Must be light
2) Must be bling
And so, we decided on a gold Skaagen steel mesh watch with crystal and mother of pearl from Tangs. I tested it with my own wrist, as mum and I have a similar construction and size. Haha. Squarish wrists. With that buy, we got 10% cash rebate and some vouchers. Disposed off the vouchers by buying a black umbrella with a long, slim handle. So dainty with its black lace trim and white stripes. Unfortunately it was defective. I had to go back to get it exchanged some days later. That's Malaysian quality for you.
At first, I planned dinner at Restoran Fook Hin in Serdang, but at the last minute, we went to Restoran HY Tian at Taman Equine due to the heavy rain. Luckily we arrived early, as by 7:00pm, customers were already lining up and eyeing us hungrily. The restaurant is made up of around 7 combined shoplots. The interior is super-oriental with Chinese character wallpaper and every sort of gaudy porcelain. At both ends are stages-- one with a giant painting of Chinese peonies and the other with two mandarin ducks on steroids. The food was quite good, but with all the extra charges, the price became not so attractive.
Dinner was braised beancurd with gourd, steamed scallops with garlic sauce, steamed ngan chong, stewed pork with pumpkin (interesting) and stir-fried lotus root with snow pods and macadamia nuts (love the mixed texture). Throughout dnner, the customer turnover was high with many people bringing in Secret Recipe cakes and liquor (even saw a bottle of Cordon Bleu!). If this is these are the early birds for Mothers Day, I cannot imagine how it will be on the actual day. :S.
Back home, we cut the special cake that SK had bought. Custom-made at a premium. I was shocked. Haha. But that's SK for you. Very generous and sincere. Really cute. It's shaped like a hat with purple ribbons and stars and it even has glitter on it. Marzipan over a SUPER butter cake. Too rich for me. Some camwhoring, gift-opening and it's a wrap! Happy Birthday Mum!
Comments
[Jino] - A man's not a man unless he knows how to shoot
Such a coincidence!
@Happy:
It's a tradition for us. Surely celebrate.
@Cheryl:
Hahahahaha.
@PlainJoe:
TQ. It's really very LEMAK!
@Antinous:
Glad you like it too!
@Jino:
Her fave?
aren't you glad you have a gay son? :O
and the cake is super nomnom I'm sure!
p/s: next time I'll have a dictionary by my side when I play WWW. easier, no?
+Ant+
One wonders how far one has to run to burn it off.