Such an irony! It was all 18 degrees the entire period Mum was here and today is a clear blue sky at 26 degrees! Mummy must be pissed cos she was going on about how cold it was. Hahaha
Gor, Yi Ma and Mum left this morning at about 8:15am in a cab and I trundled back to bed until the part-time helper arrived at 10:30am and I’m happy now cos I have a spick and span flat. I was dying for that, especially after all the crowding in the tiny space for the past five days!
That said, I did really enjoy having them around. I was on my computer last night and Mum was in the kitchen fussing about (sometimes, I do wonder what Mums do in kitchens. They just look like they’re just fussing about.) and it was nice. I was just looking at the scene in my kitchen and it felt real nice. It felt like I’m really home again. :)
Haha, that’s Mummy rocking my accessories while we were waiting for our lunch at Spring Deer. Such a coincidence, actually bumped into Debbie (Cai) there! She was just sitting at the table across from mine. Meeting her for a dinner in the neighbourhood. I can’t decide where to bring her to yet!
The minimum order was one entire duck so we doggie packed the pieces we couldn’t finish and I’m happy cos I’m having them for lunch now. So good even though they’ve been kept overnight! Yum! Mummy also made duck and scallop porridge this morning before they left so I have good ol’ porridge for lunch too. Yums. :)
After lunch, we went to have a peek at Kowloon Park. It’s right there, practically on the doorsteps of my office and I never went over before! I always heard it’s a bit of an attraction but I didn’t know they actually have many types of ducks, flamingoes, swans and turtles in the pond.
Che, when’s your turn with Raymond and the kids huh?! We can go hang out Disneyland the whole day what!!!
En route to lunch, we saw a Chinese pharmacy named exactly the way Gor’s Chinese name is written so I made him posed under the signboard. Hur hur. And I also spotted the ‘Ip Man Wing Chun Association’ in Tsim Sha Tsui, opposite Chungking Mansion. I called Matt and told him and just like that, he sounded quite excited. O_o Boys.
While I was tolling away at work on Thursday and Friday, the family trooped to Lantau Island and Macau and aunties being aunties, Mummy and Yi Ma went shopaholic-crazy on herbs and preserved stuff like dried scallops, abalones and ginseng. And now, I’m left with a small container of sliced ginseng, under strict instructions from both aunties to consume them everyday. Wah lau. Sian. But I know my guilt wouldn’t let them go to waste so yes, I’ll have a slice every day…
While the great thing about having Mummy around is that I never have a sink filled with dishes to be washed, it also meant two of my cute Ikea bowls were broken. When I heard the noise early this morning, I got up, put my head out for a peep at my mum in the kitchen, she gave me a sheepish look and offered to pay for them. Hahahahaah, my mummy’s too cute. I was just waitingggg for my mum to break something in the kitchen cos as consummate as she is as an auntie, she’s always breaking our porcelain cutlery back home.
I told her not to be silly. I was waiting in anticipation for her to break something anyway (it’s like waiting in anticipation to christen the house like that…) and went back to bed.
I love Chinese medications' packaging!
I’ve been wearing hats almost every day since I bought my first hat in Seoul more than a week ago. It’s an irony cos I was just saying in an entry just a week earlier about head gears that I’m not a hat person. And I went on to get three hats in Seoul! I think I’m a convert now. Something new for me to start a collection of… Hehehe…
I haven’t had some personal lounging time to myself for a long time now (two weeks?) and I’m desperate for some. I know, I’m such a contradiction. When I’m all alone for too long, I bitch about it and when I’ve company 24/7, I complain too. Us human beings are a complicating lot. Ah well, it’s about striking a balance, no?
Ok, gotta go. Hello couch, empty flat and magazines!
