Happy New Year

Wishing all my friends, regardless if they are celebrating or not, a Happy Chinese New Year. Gong Xi Fa Chai. Hopefully the new year if the Monkey would bring happiness, wealth and health. Time for me too have a quick rest - although I was expecting an admission later tonight - as I will be on call tomorrow.

Wishing that tomorrow would not as much of a disappointment compared to when I discovered that there were no live telecast of the Superbowl in Malaysia this morning. Kinda spoilt my day although I was happy to YouTube the half time show and learning that Peyton Manning got himself another Superbowl ring.

Heading Towards Holidays

Chinese New Year holidays this year stretched the weekends to Tuesday - although I will be on call on the Tuesday. As for my boys, they will only go back to school on Thursday, with exams coming along the week after.

Irfan would also be turning 10 on Tuesday, but with the holidays and all we decided to only celebrate after his exams. Anita had been planning his party for the last couple of weeks, with the theme already set.

On standbyAs for me, it would be a couple of days of chilling out. A few of my friends had already started planning for a photography day out on the Chinese New Year Day. Should the timing be right, I might be joining them. So, time to chill out tonight.

Times Square Monkey

We went to Low Yat this afternoon to get Anita's iPhone screen fixed. It was OK, not as expensive as we thought and it was done within half an hour. Anita was happy, until iPhone 7 was out. The phone should be OK for the next few months at least.

After a quick lunch, we walked across to Berjaya Times Square for Anita to do a bit of shopping. Me on the other hand went to visit an exhibit at the Nikon Centre across from Low Yat.

At the main foyer, they had a huge monkey - since it would be the year of the Monkey next. But it came with a couple of antennae. To be honest, it started to look like an ant with its big eyes from certain angle.

Well, after the shopping was done I stopped over at Starbucks for a quick later before heading back to Low Yat where we parked out car. The road wasn't full but the parking lots were. I guess people do like to go out to shopping malls like me...

Them Oranges

You knew that Chinese New Year was coming from the oranges lying around in the wards. And I certs it got plenty of them already. Had to give most of them away from the clinic and wards since there were just too many of them to bring back. But the good ones would always be carried back home. And the box I got yesterday from one of my patients certainly fit that bill!

They were succulent and sweet. Better not finish them all in one go...

Lantern at KLCC

It was a Xmas tree barely a couple of weeks ago, and now the same spot was occupied by a tall column of lantern. I guess they saved a fair bit on the foundation and just switch the decor from one to another. But it worked.

After hearing about it from friends, I decided to have a look. And I got there just after Maghrib when the lights were about to be turned on with a hint of the blue hour still lingering.

It was actually rather nice. And there were plenty of people around there, surprisingly the majority being Arabs. There were throng of them there, all anticipating the fountains and their dancing water sprouts to be turned on.

The interior of Suria KLCC was rather more conventional with a big stage in the middle of the foyer with a few stalls littered around. No doubt there would be shows on the stage. There were nothing much going on there yesterday evening. Pretty average compared to other places I would've thought.