Well, after dropping wife at her office in the Thean Teik Estate, I went next door to a coffee shop to ta-pow a packet of steamy hot char mee hun and kopi-oh with the intention to pray my late father at the nearby temple in Ayer Itam
After setting up the plate and burning of joss stick at the altar, I proceeded to the next block to burn some joss stick to my late in-laws which take but some minutes for the whole process.
Upon my return to my father's altar, I was taken back and shocked to discover that the packet of char mee hun had gone missing! with only the plate and the kopi-oh intact. Whew! this is daylight and strange things do not happened with the solar sun brightly shine on.
Not satisfied and out of curiosity, I look into the dustbin for the missing mee-hun...none and gone without a trace.....and there goes my breakfast too. After staying for a while for the joss stick to run its course and telepathic informed my late father that I shall be leaving, I then left the temple.
After praying, my initial plan was to run up the Kek Lok Si Temple (never been there since the eighties) after the light breakfast but now no more, change of plan. Instead I drove straight to Kwong Fat Lee coffee shop (junction to Melayu Street) just in time to enjoy my bowl of duck meat koay teow along the Carnarvan Street. This same stall would sell the koay chap after 11.00am. I was lucky enough and manage to ta-pow another packet of this duck meat koay teow for my the other half. (her favorite)
In the afternoon, I spent my time taking a stroll along the upper end of Penang Road, a five minutes walking distance from my hotel. First stop is Tatt Ming, the watch shop. You will be surprised at the merchandise in their inventory. A mixed blend of antique and modern time pieces, limited and special edition and a huge collections of mechanical operated of wall and table clocks. I was in market for a mechanical alarm clock and the only ones on display are made from China. No, I did not make any purchase, says thank you to the shop assistant, left and proceed to the camera shop next door.
Browse around the camera shop for a while, while eying the latest model from Olympus, a ultra slim type incorporated with 7.1 mega pixels comes with free 1 GB picture card. Checked out the price quote (wife is in market for a slim camera) but left without any purchased done. And thats is window shopping, my style.
For dinner, we went over to my sister-in-law (wife's sister) place which is very near to the Waterfall garden. Nephew (chef-to-be-in-training at a local 3 star hotel) is cooking something good for us to try on our taste buds. Before that, I went early to their place, parked my car and drop wife with them and proceed to jog all the way to the waterfall.
Reaching an hour before the waterfall garden closes its gate at 8.00pm. I did a quick detour, as usual joining the many joggers whose main itinerary is keep one blood pressure down and heart working good, all in the name of keeping fit to ones health.
Nephew cooked up something nice, Japanese style - complete with soup soba and fish fillet on terayaki sauce. Yummy. After a hearty meal, we sat around to chat and wind away time for a little while before waving goodbye
Before going back to hotel, we headed toward the Kimberly Street to check out the hawker wares. Yes, the soya bean stall is there, so is the char mee hun and many others that makes your mouth watery. You guess it right, we ta-pow both food stuff back to hotel. It is our supper...mah.
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