9 Jan 2024 – Happy Bdays Judy & Lee
Sat: appreciations to 1stBorn for this pix of her flock to start off the first weekend for 2024.
A day to fast&rest so as to remain sane and have some energy for the rest of Jan with more overseas guests and before the CNY. Epiphany/Women’s Christmas in Ireland – traditionally a day off from housework&cooking – Nollaig na Mban shona Daoibh, tkx to Carmel for the reminder&share. Not so with me, it’s down with all the Christmas deco to be packed away, but then I am neither in Ireland nor am I Irish despite having lived there for over a decade – hahaha.
Sun: got up ~0330hrs to close the windows as it started raining and have been snoozing&watching movies on&off until ~1500hrs when I left for MtE/Novena to visit Ivy – still raining at 1800hrs when I returned. Delightfully refreshing to see 2kids enjoying the rains without a care in the world, bringing back innocent childhood moments. Would sometimes carry a big umbrella out and stood in the middle of the field@5TemenggongRd on heavy rainy days! Today seems like all the joints are aching in these cool wet weather days – time plays tricks on an aging body!
How beautiful is the rain!
After the dust and heat,
In the broad and fiery street,
In the narrow lane,
How beautiful is the rain!
How it clatters along the roofs,
Like the tramp of hoofs
How it gushes and struggles out
From the throat of the overflowing spout! – Wordsworth
Sad news of IreneW’s(Ivy’s KL-family)passing – was hoping that she will visit Ivy and was looking forward to catching up with her. Condolences to David&Judy+Cindy,Soakkoon and the family.
Mon: started the day@0630hrs from the EastSide slowly heading on foot to the dentist after getting off the bus@Chinatown. NDCS despite the incorrect day, mistake on my part(appt supposed to be tomorrow), but they still managed to slot me in. The not so good news is that there is a crack in one of my teeth inside the bridge! Ouch!! that means major costly job over a long period – oh well, one step at a time, part&parcel of life.
Otherwise, a productive day running errands@ParkwayP including getting a haircut and having one of my favourite ChickenRice@LeeHeng,84MarineParadeCentral#01-15 with this line starting after my takeaway purchase. Would have got something else if the line was such when I was buying.
Tue: Happy 60Bday niece Judy and Happy 50Bday nephew Lee. Really! nieces&nephews who are over half a century old and they are not even the oldest ones, seems like yesterday then they were babies!!
Tkx to Clement for lunch@DicksonNasiLemak where we discovered there is only standing room or take away. It was too spicy for my taste, but then seems like the tastebud has changed with age, and not a good choice with the RendangSet for my stomach. Dickson Nasi Lemak
Always something exciting&new on JooChiatRd when following your heart – hahaha.
Appreciations for helping with CDCvouchers-set-up on phone and also to sort out this Sunday’s lunch menu. Could not resist this cute LobsterTreasure@BreadTalk that turned out to have too little filling and too much bread.