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We left KL early this morning as hubby had plans to meet up with a friend at 1pm. Made a quick stop at McDs to buy brekkie, and off we went. The weather was thankfully cloudy, and the two hour drive went by really quickly.

We reached Ipoh about 12+ and stopped by at Ipoh Swimming Club for lunch. I had shrimp cocktail…

…chicken sandwich (the old skool style where the sandwich is cut into triangles, and the chicken meat is still in strips with lots of margarine…pics later!) and orange juice.

And my favourite banana split…though it didn’t taste as good as before. Less nuts and chocolate sauce. Oh well.

After lunch, hubby dropped me at the house where I spent half an hour pottering around before finally going to bed. Yes, BED. I’ve been so tired the past few weeks that I declared this weekend is gonna be my stay-in-and-rest weekend. I slept the whole afternoon away, literally! By the time hubby got back at god-knows-what-time, I was still groggy and grumpy from sleep, and lazed around in bed till 6pm! By then, if I didn’t get up, hubby would’ve probably rolled me off the bed as we had dinner plans with friends at 7. Took a quick shower, changed, and off we went to pick up KK and his wife.

KK brought us to a new tai chow place for dinner. We had to wait quite some time for the food as the place was quite full. By the time the dishes arrived, I was really really hungry, and I eagerly dug in. We had kung po mantis prawns (I’ve really gotta Google this one day to find out exactly what they are!), fried vege, fish slices with ginger, fried egg with prawns and lotus root soup. I stuffed myself silly…the food was hot, tasty and abit shy la, but I was the last one to put down my fork and spoon…hehe… And guess what? Dinner only cost RM42! And no, I don’t mean per person…

After dinner, we went to Kinta City where we spent a good 15-20 minutes searching for a place to park…it’s like the whole of Ipoh descended upon the shopping mall! We finally found one right infront of the entrance, thanks to KK’s sharp eyes! The reason we came here was to buy mooncakes from Foh San (they’d set up a stall at the concourse area)…IMHO, they have the nicest red bean mooncake, ever!

Hubby also picked up a couple of boxes of my other favourite mooncake thingy…Heong far biscuits. It tastes like the mooncake skin without any filling…

…and it’s very nice for a teatime snack. This year, the biscuits were individually packed…how convenient!

While hubby mulled over what flavours he wanted, I headed over to the payment queue firstâ?¦it was freaking long, k?

After we’d paid for the mooncakes, we spotted some people eating soft-serve green tea ice-cream…and as we both absolutely love soft-serve green tea ice-cream, off we went on a miny treasure hunt to find the shop. Finally found it in front of Speedy Video and despite being so full, we both had one cone each!

Dropped KK and his wife off before heading back home…am now waiting for hubby to take his shower so we can continue our Grey’s Anatomy (Season 2!) marathon…

Oh, and did I mention I’m curi-ing someone’s broadband?

That’s the title of Mitch Albom’s new book…me wants!

…coz I took the LRT!

I figured since it’s puasa month, most people would’ve gone home by the time I left the office, so the LRT shouldn’t be so packed. And it wasn’t!

5 freaking minutes from the moment I stepped into the train! It took longer for hubby to leave the house to pick me from the station.

I feel like I found the solution to time-travel or something…*bighugevillaugh*

But during that 5 minutes, this china-pek standing in front of me kept looking at me…his eyes went up and down, up and down, up and down. The whole journey, I swear I wasn’t being perasan k? And my pants were zipped. And no funny marks on my face. Finally, I got so fedup that I just fixed him with my ‘look-at-me-somemore your-crown-jewels-will-shrivel-up-and-die’ look (which is the same as my ‘go F-off’ look). He looked away. So I looked away. But a few seconds later, I saw him doing his eye exercise again. I gave up.

But golly-molly…FIVE MINUTES!

Wheee…I now have Faraway as a ringtone, thanks to hubby.

And err…I just asked him to make Tokyo Drift into a ringtone for me as well…you should’ve seen the dirty look he gave me when I asked..

Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World’s Worst Dog

Rating: 5 out of 5
Author: John Grogan
Year: 2005
Publisher: William Morrow
Price: RM50.00

I’m not a person who can write good reviews. I can’t talk about the writing style or prose or how the…see…I can’t even think of the right words.

So I won’t.

Simply put, this is a heartwarming (true) story about Marley, a golden Labrador Retriever and his family, the Grogans. It’s written in a first person account by John Grogan, a columnist for the Philadelphia Inquirer, and owner of “the world’s worst dog” and details Marley’s life from a young exuberant puppy to a old (but still exuberant) ’senior citizen’. And as a person who has always yearned for a dog, I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book…it’s amazing how much your life can change with an addition of one not-so-little furball.

For those who’ve read the book (and know me well enough)…yes, I did cry buckets at the end.

Two thumbs up, definitely!