Brekky

Today is public holiday for Wesak Day.

I had some work that needed to be done and therefore had decided to go back to work.

But before that, Lily Tan and I had an appointment to have brekky at the following coffee shop at Sinsuran. I parked my car at this area and she walked over from her work place in Segama to meet me.

When we arrived, we saw some HK gentlemen having their brekky outside the shop, underneath the covered shed.

We chose to sit inside the shop, which was good so that I could take some photos.

This was the stall where we ordered our brekky from. 

Altogether we were served three prawns in our Tom Yam Rice Noodles. Three prawns but cut into half each to make six halves.

We thought there was too much full cream milk inside the soup. The prawns tasted fresh though.

 

The following stall is also situated inside this shop. The lady used to operate this stall at Giant Kolombong Food Court. Before she moved here, I used to buy the Chicken Rice from her.

But after she moved, I had to search for an alternative. That was when I discovered Ho Kee Hainanese Chicken Rice opposite Giant Kolombong carpark entrance/exit and this Chicken Rice has become my favourite.

Nightmare

Had a nightmare this morning before waking up. 

Was in a foreign country. I didn't have much cash with me and I had to get to the bank before going to another destination. 

Time was running out and I was glad to wake up.

Dinner

Mum went on a roll with her cooking for dinner tonight.

So many fried stuff - fries, wantons, capsicums, eggplants, chicken breasts & chicken meat. All so yummy.

Brekky

Went to the bank this morning to withdraw $ before going to work.

Had to takeaway my fav Nasi Lemak. Miss it a lot.

Stress to the Maximum

The boss would be going outstation soon. And so I had to prepare lots of documents for him to sign before his trip. That is one thing I never look forward to when he is going away.

I had to squeeze in three days of work into one and a half. I am pretty sure the white hairs are coming out by leap and bounds.

Dinner

Since today is a public holiday, I told mum not to cook and since Aunty Alice had just arrived back from JB last night, I decided we should go out for dinner.

At first I wanted to try Marasap, Philippine cuisine at Lintas Square but as I drove passed it at Lintas Highway, I saw that it was closed for the public holiday. I have to postpone another time then.

I decided to go to Bintulu Korean Restaurant instead.

I did not feel like having the bbq and therefore ordered the stewed pork, steamboat as well as pancake.

I forgot that the serving of the pancake is so large. We could not finish them. 

In fact we did not finish any of the dishes and had to takeaway all of them for dinner tomorrow night.

Mum said she does not mind coming back here eventhough she did not really like the service.

Chaotic Labour Day 2012

Last night I went to dreamland quite early so that I could recover from the sleepless hours due to the black out early this morning.

I also wanted to sleep in a bit since today is a public holiday. But unfortunately I woke up after 6a.m. I wanted to go back to dreamland again but to no avail.

I decided to wake up to have brekky. I should have told mum last night we would be going out for brekky/brunch cos by the time I went downstairs, mum was having her brekky already.

I cooked some noodles for brekky.

At about 10a.m., mum and I went to Servay Hypermarket, Plaza Juta for our monthly grocery shopping. We saw quite a number of policemen leading to the hypermarket. I was thinking there must be a fugitive who had escaped from the prison and the police are tracking him down.

I also saw some policemen using ropes to bar drivers from entering Jalan Saga.

There were a lot of people doing their shopping already.

After our shopping, as I left Plaza Juta to go to Tuaran Road and after to the roundabout outside Likas Plaza, I was redirected to go straight along Tuaran Road. I went a big round to SMC and used the road outside SMC to go to Lintas Highway. As I was about to do a U-turn at LIntas Highway to go to the BDC/Khidmat Road, cars were queuing up at the junction but none was moving to the other side. That was when I realised we had to wait for some vehicles to pass by before we could move.

And the cars at the BDC/Khidmat Road were at a stand still as well with policemen making sure none of the cars were moving.

 

 After waiting for about half an hour, policemen inside cars and motorbikes led the first batch of cyclists for the Tour de Borneo event passed by. 

Then some more police cars passed by followed by the second batch of cyclists. After that traffic was back to normal.

In my opinion, I think the Tour de Borneo had been poorly organised. There should be plenty of announcements/advertisements to alert the public of this event so that none would be inconvenient by it. I am pretty sure some people would have missed their or important appointments due to the standstill.

After being stuck in the standstill for more than half an hour, mum and I had lunch at Mee Sup Pipin behind Khidmat Supermarket. The first outlet started at a house in Penampang and that one is still operating. This new one started at the beginning of the month and their off day is on Monday.

There were so many people having their lunch when Mum and I arrived. We found a table inside the shop.

Mum had the following – the lot.

I was not gamed enough. I preferred to be on the conventional side. I had the pork balls mixed with squid and pork roll. The soup tasted very clear/light and it was quite refreshing to have a tasty lunch minus the heavy stuff.

I do not mind to go back to this shop to eat again.