Barbey!!

Great barbecue. Juicy lamb ribs. Need I elaborate? But the revelation of the day was this Korean salad which one of my friend, Amin prepared. It was simple but hardly plain simple. Strip of beef with some marinated sauce taken on a leaf of lettuce. Not exactly my idea of a snack, but it worked.

The ready of the barbecue was excellent as usual. Syahril was in top form. The marinated lamb ribs was heavenly.

Hey! The cakes almost gone!

We had a good long chat afterwards. Catching up really. A nice break from my busy work schedule lately. It ended with a spot of football with the kids, but my boys were hardly interested. Wuss!

Now, I need to find a way to burn all those calories...

Bouncing in Valencia

For Saturday, we went to an open house at one of my work colleague. Initially Anita wasn't keen to go, until.she learned that it was in Valencia, Sungai Buloh. She had been eyeing the place for quite some time, but getting in was a problem since you have to know somebody living inside to be allowed in. Unless you went there to look for properties of course.

And Anita was not disappointed. The houses there were really nice. And really really expensive. The boys were really astounded by the place and wanted to move there.

My friend's house was located at one of the early phases of the area, and a lot greener and well developed. A really cosy place with a golf course running behind the house. A nice cool breeze with green surrounding, I could see myself retiring in this kind of locality. A far cry from the buzz of Bangsar.

The open house itself was fun with great food and good company. Idlan didn't have much sleep the night before, so he was on the grumpy side. But he soon lightened up, and coukdnt stop bouncing on the exercise ball at the back garden of the house.

On the way home, we took a detour around the place. The newer phases has a mote modern design, a bit more minimalist and since they were new, looked rather bare. But some of the designs were astounding. A quick look on the internet, the single storey bungalow was going for RM 4 mil as an asking price ..... Look elsewhere then .....

My excuse was the place was a bit far removed from the centre of town ..... But that did not convince Anita ...... Oh dear ....

All the best ....

Last night, the plan was to have a quiet dinner with one of Anita's friend from university who was due for her first child. She was due for admission today, and hopefully it all goes well, they would be expecting the firstborn on Saturday InsyaAllah. Unfortunately, Anita had to attend to some business, and I decided to head out there on my own after work. And I sure glad that I did.

We went to another friend's cafe. It appeared that the husband was more apprehensive about the delivery. Praying that everything goes well, I would like to wish the father and mother-to-be the best of luck. Welcome to the sleepless nights ……..

That was a Full Day

For the first time in weeks both Idlan and Irfan went to bed early without much prompting. It wasn't a surprise as they had really had such a busy day. It started out with an early rise. They had a small parry at one of their classmate's house in Setapak. A pool party it was. And they played all morning.

The party did not end there. Straight after lunch - well, I think they skipped lunch, they went straight to Great Eastern Mall to play at the indoor playground there. Spent more than a couple of hours there, until I showed up after work.

That didn't stop them from running around further. Next, we went to my parents house for tea. They then played with their cousin. Idlan had started grumbling by then.

We finally reached home by Maghrib. After shower, then they hit the Xbox. Finally, they gave up soon after asking for bed. I felt tired just describing what they were up to ......

And both of them were snoring away while I wait for the United game later tonight. Well, good luck to me to stay awake ......

Party Time

It came a day early, but I didn't think Puan Anita was complaining. Farha, and gang had sprung a surprise for her, a birthday cake on their Aidilfitri open house. She was not expecting that, especially my less than enthusiastic response to her request to pick her up from home. I asked her to get the driver out instead.

I had to endure a 45 minute ham from my clinic to get to Farha's even though it was on the other side of Subang Jaya. Unbelievable. And my friends manage to keep their mouth shut about the cake until I turned up!

She was surprised. The cake was gorgeous, but the highlight for me was the tiramisu prepared by Azida. Gleefully I took some home for afters!

We hung around for a bit, mainly embarrassing ourselves with tales of the old times in the UK. Surprised at the collection of photos that Farha had kept, it was rather strange to look at how different but the same we were. Great stuff!

Thanks again Farha, Azi, Yatt, Itul, Syahril and Debby plus the others for making it an afternoon for Puan Anita.