It's Aidil Fitri holidays in Malaysia and we were back since Friday 12th. Journey from Subang started at 4.45am, despite the early hours of the morning the traffic on the highway was heavy, but fortunately moving quite smoothly. At certain areas we were able to hit 135km/h but average was within the speedlimit. The rest stops along the way were all heavily congested, so for those who had to relieve themselves, better do it behind trees along the way.
After 2 hours of continuos drive, fatigue is already beginning to set in, and I failed to notice the camera man hard at work despite at 6.45am in the morning, down hill towards Taiping after Jelapang tunnel. I was probably doing 120km/h at that moment, limit there was 90km/h, shucks, I was told traffic offences are non negotiable these days, so it would be set me back RM300 poorer a few months down.
Sat 13th
Visited mom and dad in the morning and in the afternoon we visited newly opened Tesco near Taiping Gardens, apparently it's the biggest compared to Penang and Ipoh. It is big by Taiping standards and boast of the biggest intergrated parking space shopping centre. Mom and dad were lamenting it was too daunting to look for toothpaste at Tesco and ended purchasing it at Watson's within the same building.
Mike and Pat arrived in the evening and suggested we have dinner together. I suggested to have dinner at the new market intead of restaurant, so after long very long wait of 1 hour, yes yes, that place is slow, our food finally arrived, we had radish soup, kai lan with siew yok, tau cheung fish, bitter gourd chicken, and taufu with snake head fish. Mike graciuosly paid for dinner and his look on his face was very similar to that mastercard add:
"Cost of carpark and petrol RM3.00, wait 1 hour for food: bearable because he had his new Olympus SLR to keep him busy, ( Mike please post the shots ), Dinner Cost for 6 of us only RM32.00, the look on his face when he paid for dinner : Priceless! "
Sunday 14th
Attended mass with Pa and Ma in St Louis church. Happens to be Rev Fr Stanley's first mass after being recently ordained as priest. He is from Taiping and as such this Sunday's mass had a tea party to welcome him. Photos below taken at church's premises:
Monday 15th
Brendan and I went for bicycle ride to the lake gardens. It was a beautiful morning, cool and refreshing because it was raining cats and dogs literally everyday day in the afternoon. Brendan's still a beginner at cycling, little clumsy and wobbly but that din't stop him from enjoying the ride to the lake gardens:
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