Sunday with Little Monster (Cafe Celebrities: Sailor Shin)

- January 12, 2014

Goku Raku Ramen, swiped from williamnyk on Flickr.

My sister had to OT again on Sunday, so she offloaded Little Monster on mum and I. Thankfully, she took Big Monster along with her to work. Without his mum around, Little Monster tends to be mellower and less manja. He was quite well-behaved at church. Just the usual ass-can't-sit-on-the-pew syndrome. Brought him to Coffee Sprex after mass. When the barista saw me, she immediately signed an 'L' and I just nodded. The usual. Haha. Met the co-owner of the establishment. She explained to me that she ran a programme of eighteen months to train the deaf and mute to run the business. Her first project was at Damansara Perdana for Cafe Aloha. She took a liking to Little Monster and gave an accurate assessment of his age and character. Gave him a butter cookie, but he was too shy to eat it. To make life easier, lunch was at Paradigm Mall again. This time round we went straight up to the top-most floor for Goku Raku Ramen. Truth be told, their Tokyo Ultimate wasn't that good. Can't really smell the chicken broth. Can't beat Kyo-Ei at Pavillion. Shared a large bowl and added on a portion of ebi gyoza (came with a super salty dipping powder). We sat near the door, so Little Monster had a great time trying to peel off all the stickers from the glass wall. XD. The kid was quite gung-ho that day. Didn't even sleep a bit in church. Normally he would have a short nap at noon. At 3:00 pm, he was getting a bit cranky so I carried him. In my arms, the little tyke started collapsing to the side. Kenot tahan jor, fell asleep. Haha. Really took a toll on my arms, lugging that heavier than a 10 kg bag of rice around! By the time we reached home, the fella woke up.

Dinner was with KH. The initial plan was to join him for lunch and meet up with Moonlight Piggy who was in town for a day trip. Unfortunately I had to scrap that plan since my sister had to work. Felt like having Korean, so we went to Taman Desa. Mana tahu, Restoran Seoul Korea was not open! Ish. Walked over to Da Jang Geum, but the lack of customers scared us off. Finally decided on Ke Kho that supposedly serves authentic Szechuan dishes (if we walked some more, KH might have killed me because he was hobbling due to a swollen toe!). A whole bunch of China dolls from the nearby massage joints were in there, so I guess there's some truth to it. To be on the safe side, we ordered the signature dishes-- braised pork rib noodles (love the soup), Tu Dou Bing (a very nice potato pancake) and Ma Po Tofu. Poor KH was all exhausted from the day's activities and yet he wanted to meet me. Hehe. Bet he wanted to rest his head on my shoulder. Post-dinner, we walked over to Free Mori for a Sacher Torte. The bakery was quite dead with two secondary school boys in sailor uniforms manning the store. Definitely a premise for Japanese rape porn. LOL. By nine, I dropped KH back home to rest. Back home, made some paper ribbons for Christmas, following instructions from a FB video. The girl had fake smile and an even faker squeaky voice. Should get Legolas the Gift-Wrapping Elf on Crystal Meth to help me...