will i am's delayed diary

Recently ( in the context of this blog ), my maternal cousin tied the knot with a lass from Karak. Since mum us closest with this uncle of mine, we were invited to both wedding banquets. The bride's function was a week before the groom's and was held at Bentong, a twenty minute drive from Karak. In the morning, I went to tidy up my unruly hair and mum got her's washed and styled. By the time we finished lunching at Nam Heong and got home, we only had a short time to get ready and drive to Bentong. My stylist who is a Bentong boy warned me that wedding banquets there start on the dot. Our drive there took ninety minutes and lots of highway tolls. Arrived with fifteen minutes to spare, but sad to say, the dinner started ninety minutes late. Guess the KL virus got to them. The venue was Grand Court Restaurant and was obviously pretty new. It had it is own compound and the interior decoration was pretty posh. Interestingly, the groom was warded at the Bentong Hospital for d

Arranged to have dinner with Cutipie early in December to celebrate her belated birthday. She managed to get her hubby to look after the kids so she was free of 'encumbrances'. Pork was calling to her again so we had dinner at Morganfield's  for the second time in a row! But for some reason, their business is brisk compared to the rest. Perhaps they take their babi -ness more seriously. Even their paper napkin is printed with "Pork: It's the Meat of Kings". Hope they won't get in trouble with the law. Might be misconstrued as waging war against the YDPA. Our dinner was a meat overload really with a full rack of Hickory pork ribs and a chicken roulade. But paired with Asahi beers, it wasn't too bad. My darling KH kept piling her plate with meat earning him some brownie points. Not wanting to go home so early, we looked for a place to have coffee. Our wanderings brought us to dipndip , a coffee parlour that serves coffee as well. The place seems

Note: A bit of a rewind. I seem to have gotten all my posts mixed up. Ugh. The last quarter of 2015 was really the peak season for weddings. My paternal uncle's youngest son got married on the first week of November. He is the same age as me. The wedding banquet was on the 7th, so we postponed our All Soul's Day visit to that weekend. The whole family traveled north in my sister's Serena. Reached Teluk Intan around noon and checked into the home stay that I booked on AirBnB. A new house with loads of rooms and beds, but lacking in cable TV and WIFI. However, the kids were thrilled and wasted no time in sprinting upstairs to have dibs on the rooms. Had a quick lunch at Ah Chai Bak Kut Teh , a famous BKT shop in the area. The owner has a Nissan FairLady parked out front and a picture of him receiving a P.M.P. from the Sultan of Perak. Not exactly a common sight. Regardless how famous the shop is, I didn't like the BKT. The soup was not to my liking, but the other dish

On Sunday evening, I fetched mum to Bukit Jalil Golf Club to attend a wedding banquet. A perfect chance for me to spend quality time with KH on a rainy evening. Picked KH up and we had dinner together at Restoran Hong Cha , Taman OUG. Been quite some time since I ate their pork noodles. Found it to be a far cry from what I remembered. The soup wasn't even porky anymore. Noticed that Seapark Dessert  had opened next door, so we gave that a try. Restoran Ah Loy had given up one shoplot due to their diminished business. Tried a bowl of hot bubuchacha  and I wasn't impressed. The dried jelly wasn't cooked with the soup, but soup was poured over a type of powdered mochi . Seemed to be a very instant version of this classic dessert. Back home, KH gave me a more satisfying dessert. The salty type. It was an enjoyable session. Since we don't smoke, we went for post-coital coffee and cake at Doors Cafe , Taman OUG. Seemed that each time we ordered cake there, it was something

One week after my blood test, I collected the results from the clinic. The doctor was very surprised with the results. According to her, my response to the medication was much better than expected. Her target for me was just a 30% drop in bad cholesterol, but my results showed a more than 50% drop to healthy levels. She declared that it was good news and that I should continue whatever I was doing ( not exercising and eating like crazy? ). Could also consider halving my dosage since my cholesterol level was pretty low. Celebrated with a big plate of chicken rice + roast duck + roast pork at Taman United. Since the uncle was closing shop, he gave us a huge portion for just RM15.

It was the end of November, so I went to check out the Christmas decorations at One Utama after mass. Unfortunately, still WIP. Felt like having Japanese food for lunch, but truth be told, One Utama does not have a very good selection. Bored of Kura; Ichiro was too expensive, so I went to Senya Dining instead. At least mum had never ate there before. Mum's not very fond of red meat, so I ordered a variation of Senya's famous Hokkaido Pork Don-- the Pork & Salmon Don. Surprisingly, it was quite good. The slices of Salmon were just lightly seared which went wonderfully with the chili powder. Mum gave a thumbs up. We also shared a pot of yummy kimchi salmon head nabe. Shopped a bit after that. Christmas trimmings don't seem to be in high demand this year. Left just as was starting to pour. Later in the evening, had a typical mamak dinner of naan , Tandoori chicken and dhosai at Restoran Rishadh . Back at home, dug out my Christmas cards only to find that I don'

Every end of the year I have leave that must be cleared lest it be forfeited. Employees are only allowed to carry forward 20 days of annual leave to the following year. Yes, I have that much annual leave. Hehe. KH and I took a day off on Monday to spend the time together. Joining the rush hour crowd, we boarded the LRT to Hang Tuah station. Made our way to VCR Cafe  because of its early opening hours. At first I was a bit confused by the directions from Google Maps but I finally understood the convoluted route after experiencing it firsthand. Amazing that Google Maps can properly map pedestrian walkways and crossings. Just a short walk and we arrived at the cafe. At that hour, there were people already comfortably ensconced at their tables, sipping coffee. KH and I moved upstairs to share a big breakfast. For MYR34, one gets slice of bread with two eggs ( mine were poached to perfection ), two yummy sausages, tomatoes on the vine, sauteed mushrooms, stewed beans and beef bacon ( turk

Note: Been a way for a while cause I'm fighting a pesky viral flu... Weekends were starting to get jam-packed with activities as I got nearer to end of the year. Mum forwent her marketing session for her visit to the chiropractor after a bowl of steaming hot fishball noodles. We had Little Monster in tow because his mum was working over the weekend again. At the center, the kid was a bit restless but he entertained himself by singing a Mandarin song that was made weird to our eyes due to his less than accurate enunciation. He sang it phonetically where some of the words may have went missing or been altered. When mum went into the treatment room for spinal adjustment and muscle work, the kid stiffened up thinking that it might be his turn next. He watched warily from the corner, not taking his eyes off my mother. Later on he relaxed a bit and sang "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" and "Row Row Row Your Boat" for the therapist. Next up was KT's daughter&#

Tater was in town from Bangkok for work. Originally, we had scheduled for a dinner on Sunday but it got bumped up to lunch because his lousy counterpart was well... lousy. That last minute change caused us to scramble to salvage the situation. KH had a brilliant idea and actually picked him up from the airport and went to Kepong to meet me, where I was waiting for my mum to finish her massage appointment. Lex managed to join us but Apollo couldn't. We lunched at Nelson Tan Cafe . I ordered a huge ass pasta with pesto chicken while KH went for a Mexican baked pork thingy that came in a claypot. My poor hubby was sneezing the whole time. He blamed it on the intense sex session we had the day before. It was great meeting up Tater and Lex. Tater had a great opportunity to update Lex about his new adventure in Bangkok. And when it comes to things about Thailand, Lex's eyes would light up. The staff at the cafe were really attentive. When they saw that our drinks had run dry, they

Once in a while, SK joins mum and I for our morning marketing session. I also took the chance to retest my blood sugar and cholesterol level at a clinic in OUG. Afterwards, we had breakfast together at my favourite noodle stall with a side dish of roast duck. Totally awesome. Brought her to The Hub  for coffee too. Went home and rested for a bit before going out again to attend the pre-Parish Assembly at church. Don't you just hate meetings before the meeting? I left during the tea break and joined mum and SK at the chiropractor's office. Their sessions dragged till late afternoon. A church member's mother had been hospitalized, so we made a trip to Assunta Hospital to see how she was doing. We were told that she had lost all renal function. But looking at her bed chart, she had high blood pressure and diabetes too. The old lady was conscious but not very lucid. She kept complaining that her rosary had missing beads. Behind all that medical problems was also some fami