A Week of Meeting

It looked like the theme for this week had been meeting after meeting. Some of them at the hospital, I had one in Putrajaya yesterday, another hotel today, and it looked like it was going to be Hospital Ampang tomorrow if I finish my clinic soon enough.

If you thought that Sunday would be spared, think again. Anita got a lunch, and afternoon tea lined up with our friends and buddies, which meant that I would be the chauffeur. Well, I wouldn't mind since it would be her birthday week next week. I wouldn't want to tell how old she would be, but suffice to say, there was a reason why all our car plate numbers were 9972 ....

Time to take some time off tonight .... chill out and watch some TV because I don't think I would have much time for that this weekend .....

And next week would be another story as it would include a trip home to Penang ....

Catching Up

After the long weekend, the queue at the Day Care was extra long, and this morning I had three patients waiting there. Anita joined me for breakfast as she had some errands to do around Subang this morning. Even after we had a leisurely breakfast, some of the blood tests were still to be sorted out.

Time to wait at the lounge as my clinic was across in the other building.

So, what to do? Time to catch up with the latest transfer news on TV. Looked like ManYoo had been active in the last few hours of the transfer window. Interesting times.... ‎

Meet Lucy

After watching some trailers, I thought Lucy looked quite interesting. Not really a fan of Luc Besson, the subject matter seemed original enough. So, I convinced Anita to come along to watch the movie with me after we were done with furniture hunting.

It lived up to my expectations. And the guy behind the counter who sold us the tickets wasn't joking when he said that the movie was not suitable for children. He was spot on. The action were rather brutal. But the narrative was good. Illogical, but I was game for the ride.

After enjoying some trailers, there was an announcement for everyone to stand up for Negaraku. I read about this somewhere. Slowly Malaysia was turning into North Korea, but maybe the Menteri got their heads screwed on right and knew what they were doing. Personally I felt that this was a hollow gesture, but who am I to judge. I was here for a movie after a long weekend.

Would I recommend everybody to watch it? Well, I would definitely watch it again if it played on Astro, but I don't think that this movie would be everybody's cup of tea.

Quite a Day

Anita and I decided to pack up early and send the boys back to Gimbak before going out for the day. The mission, some furniture for the bedroom. We were still to buy a proper bed for the apartment bedroom.

So, we went to shop.

We managed to tick all the boxes except for a small side desk for my study. Delivery will be later in the week. Anita would have to take care of that part of the operation. I must say that I was quite happy with the bargain we got. All in the name of Merdeka apparently. Everything was on sale. Whether the savings were real or not, that would be anybody's guess.

Next was a quick hop to Wangsa Walk Mall for a movie. More on that later. ‎

New Collection

I have always been interested in books. No, I was not a bookworm, and I am used to the idea of having books around me. When I was a student, I had always wished that the books I had with me to read would be on subjects they won't be asking in exams.

Now that the demand on the kind of material I had to consume by reading had lessened - I tended to take in new journals on my iPad - I thought I would rekindle that interest.

I plan to start collecting books - of the coffee-table kind for the new apartment. I would also have a shelf housing all the books. These would be the kinds full of pictures and covers my passion and interest.

New York, San Francisco, Paris, skyscrapers and old Malay houses in kampungs had always fascinated me. And on top of this all would be the history of Kuala Lumpur, the city I have called my home and where I would be raising my children.

A lot of people always had this idea that Kuala Lumpur was just a concrete jungle. Well, that was true because the people living there let it to. There were plenty to discover about Kuala Lumpur, its rich history and how it had flourished over the years. Unfortunately, these rich history would be eroded with the foreign migrant coming into Malaysia, from which the large majority reside in this beautiful city.

To start off the collection, I bought a nice skyscraper book from KLCC yesterday, to add on a collection of New York photo essay I picked up last week. It's gonna get exciting!!!