Back to Kuala Lumpur now

Hey! What's so funny?We finally made our way back to Kuala Lumpur at around 11.30. Initially we wanted to wait for the laksa shops to open, but the boys were getting restless. They have to go to school tomorrow anyhow. Would be better of making an early start. We stopped for food in Tapah, had lunch there, and I as usually got a supply of pau and jambu batu. We reached Kuala Lumpur by 3.30, picked up the maids and returned to our house at Taman Cemerlang.

Idlan running down the hallwaySince it was kind of early, Anita wanted to go out to KLCC to get her eyeglasses fixed. The day before, Irfan accidentally stepped on them and it was kinda crooked. A quick visit to the shops and things were fixed. We then went on to have dinner at Chinoz. However I was disappointed with the dinner tonight. I ordered the wrong stuff.

My ultra-dry chicken pie!The salad was good as usual. For the mains, I asked for chicken pie. Little that I realised, there were no gravy or cream as when I imagined from my usual order.The boys enjoyed their pizza which was the main thing. I was starving when I went home, and ended up having some noodles! Note to self - ask the waitress to describe a new dish should you about to try one .... Tired now. Time for bed!

I also just uploaded the slide for the Kuala Kangsar trip here.

Menanam di pagi buta!

Woke up early and Puan Anita had already left for Pasar Tani. I took Idlan for a walk around kampong which he found fascinating. He noticed some houses lined up with plants and decided he wanted some as well. We got some lemongrass and terung belanda!

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Kuala Kangsar, Here I come!

It was a tiring journey straight from work to Kuala Kangsar last evening. In fact I slept most of the way, then straight to sleep again upon reaching here. Friday has always been busy for me, with the quick ward round before starting my clinic. The clinic usually run straight through lunch, when I sheepishly made my exit for the Jumaat Prayers. I also sometime needed to come back after prayers, or worst still had to create a fuss in order to go for prayers.

For yesterday, I had to something extra since Habibah had to leave early and Edmund still in Klang. I also had to give a tutorial to the Oncology Trainees after which I had to run back to perform some procedure in the ward. Luckily I did not have to do the driving. We had the family driver doing that.

Morning walkI had an early dinner on reaching home. We were stuck in the jam however getting into the PLUS toll plaza at Jalan Duta. Once that was done, we only did one toilet stop. By the time we reached Ipoh, both Idlan and Irfan were asleep. We finally reached Kuala Kangsar at 10.45. Unpacked, then I went straight to sleep, and only woke up during the Suboh athan this morning.

Breakfast timeFather-in-law and his morning newspaperPuan Anita had to do some business this mooring, so I was at the kampung home with my two boys and maid. Still planning what to do for the afternoon. I was keen to drive up to Penang but I was not sure if the boys can cope. We will see to that later. In the meantime, I had been reading the first few chapters of 'Superfreakonomics'. It was part economics, part satire, but very sharp observation on the things that happens in our life today and why certain things happened so. There was a part explaining that prostitutes are more likely to sleep with a policeman than to end up in jail, all pretty common sense stuff but interesting read none the less.

Time to chill with the bookIt's Superfreakonomics Time!Will keep everyone updated with our plans for later. Penang sounded a good idea ….

Heading to Kuala Kangsar for the Weekend

Since my father-in-law cannot make it for the recent doa selamat in Kuala Kangsar, he decided to spend the coming weekend over there. Personally speaking I was quite keen to go as well. Puan Anita was game with the idea but unfortunately Irfan was down with fever today with runny nose.

Anita sneakily took Irfan to see our family Doctor - who my boys refer to as Uncle Lim - to get him on antibiotics. After he was all drugged up, Irfan was running around. Now I am worried about Idlan, but fear not. Anita got the doses of antibiotics for Idlan as well on stand by! I am sure all doctors have their own opinion when it comes to antibiotics news. Some avoid them at all cost considering the potential harm they may cause. Me, I am never very keen. I tend to leave the fever on for at least 48 hours, or the colour of their sputum changes. Put it another way, I will let Anita ask me about antibiotics three times before I agree with her .... Yes! I am cruel at that!

So, we got ourselves all packed up tonight. I have a full day ahead tomorrow with the clinic in the morning, followed by a session with the Oncology Trainees right after Friday prayers. I might be too tired to drive alone tomorrow, therefore one of the driver will do it for us. I'll be tweeting all the way there.

Bakugan = bersepah!

Nowadays, I can't walk around my living room without stepping onto one of these. It's a craze that my children have been having for the last few months, collecting these little round things, called Bakugan.

Buying some more in the bag!They have a magnetic mechanism which releases the spring to make the round ball pop into the various characters when they land on metal surfaces. Quite neat trick. The original ones last a long time and have really robust mechanism. The problem is, they go for RM20 each! Not cheap! So far, they have not destroyed many and over the last 6 months, I think we accumulated more than 30 of these!