Recently just got back from my homecoming weekend vacation. It was not really a relaxing as I've been out most of the time instead of resting at home, but I still at least able to have meals with my family and have a funny chat with them..ya know..family talk.

Here's what I've been doing since last weekend.

Eve of Day 1 (20th September) - After work, went home, and finalized my items to wrap and pack before I called it a night. Prior to that, I went on MSN and check my mails before I wanted to go off. Initially I intend to go to KL Sentral around 9pm something to catch a train to KLIA and thereafter, spend a night+morning in the boarding hall until my flight departure at 7.10am.

Previously, a friend of mine promised to send me over to KLIA, that was 2 months ago. Unfortunately to say, this friend has gone MIA, and so does the friendship also goes MIA..and therefore, the promise also goes MIA.

While on MSN, one of my good friend msn-ed me and asked about my flight timing and I told him about it, and also on how I'm going over to KLIA. He was shocked to learned about my initial plan, of which he then volunteer to send me over to KLIA the next morning at 4am. So kind of him. After the chat, I then start to get oink-oink as tomorrow need to wake up earlier.

Day 1, 21 Sept - 4am, woke up with the help of my alarms. Was just in time that he arrived at my place, so put my baggage and together, we left for KLIA at the wee hours. Still damm sleepy.

Upon reaching there, we went to the parking lot, and then went straight to the check-in hall, followby a wee-breakfast at McD KLIA before we wave goodbye (for weekend) and have to go to the boarding hall, wait there and time to call in for flight departure.

Breakfast of the flight was either Nasi Lemak Ayam and Sotong Rendang or Omellete with Mashed Potato, however I mistaken hearing the Omellette as roti canai, so I took the not-so-delicious-Nasi Lemak Ayam and a rubberish-sotong.

Arrived at my destination at around 10am plus. Fetched by my elder brother and went home to settle down a while before I continue do my work before I begin to declare my days as HOLIDAY. (I have my internal intention that if my collegue were to call me during that time, I will not pick up their call, nor reply to their msg unless it's an urgent case. Fortunately, none of them distract my mood of holiday).

Afternoon, met up the DIVAS of the century for lunch (as promised). We met up at Equatorial Restaurant which situated at Tg Aru Plaza. The food was quite nice, especially it has fishes fillet..yummy..

DIVAS OF THE CENTURY

Then, me and DC went over to her office and to meet up my ex-collegues for a while (whille SF went home) and have a quick yamcha with FF, and we happen to bump into my former boss..so damm paiseh want to say hi to him. Anyway, I finally did say hi to him, and it's pretty weird to say hi to him and after that become speechless for don't know what else to say.

After yamcha session, send DC home, then back to my own home and rest a while, then me and my sis went over to Citymall, happen to find out that there's Y Fitness to be open in KK. Me and my sis had a tempting dessert at Yogur Berry, and I happen to know that there will be a branch in KL at the New Wing of the Sunway Pyramid.

Yummy!

Rushed home and we got stuck in the jam. Bummer!. Reached home, it was already 6.30pm and the sky was damm dark already. So not use to it (again!).

Mum and brother just got back home, and almost got scolded for not reaching home earlier. :P.. Anyway, all of us had quick shower before we all went over to SuperTanker Restaurant at Bundusan for our first night family dinner. Of course we do have our family moments where we have family talk.

What most important of all is that the night are a fillingful night with a great food to consume on that night.

yummy Yok Choi Kai (Chicken Herbal)   Pau Suk Sun (Sweet Corn Soup)   Veges   My biggest favourite : KU LAU NYUK (Sweet and Sour Pork)  
Chau Ha Gung (Fried Prawn)

After dinner, my next plan was to meet up my best friend Rach and Ong-Ong for yamcha, and we have it at Starbucks Warisan Square. Had a great time to crap lots of stuff. Oh yeah, drove her Grey Myvi from her place to Warisan Square (I parked my car at her place lor)

Blueberry Cheesecake

Hot Chocolate

Day 2, 22 Sept - Morning been sleeping like pig.

Yeah..I sleep like this...cute right? ~Oink Oink~

Lunch hour, went over to my former office for a while to pass an item to my ex-collegue before I start to do shopping. Then went over to Karamunsing Complex to meet up my mum for lunch at KFC, then a brief window shopping before sending her back home and then I made my way to Wawasan Plaza for another round of shopping. This time, the sales girls were asking me if I'm a Singaporean. My last visit, I was being mistaken as Korean.

Suppose to meet up another friend for yamcha during that time, however, due to unforeseen circumstances, we were unable to meet up, and then after I settle my own things, I then meet up Rach again for an outing at the beach at Tg Aru Beach. Had such a crazy moments, but it was a memorable one, as it has been a while I since step on a beach and play with the water.

sunset at the beach is always the best view to enjoy it's serenity

Went to Sutera Marina Club to fetch my sis and her friend from her study group session and we went over to Wisma Merdeka to do a bit shopping on my grooming stuff before we finally call it a day and I have to send the girls back home.

Reaching home, rest a while before took shower, watched Mind Your Language for a while before me and my siblings went to Lil Italy for our dinner as our parents were attending a wedding dinner. OOo..indeed, we had our great time to have our pastas for the night.

homemade Fresh Lemonade   Siciliano in Fusilini

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lasagna

My next activity for saturday night I have 2 sessions of yamcha, of which one of them is back to Starbucks again. Sien~

Day 3, 23 Sept - Morning had a short visit to see my grandma for a while, and then went over to Foo Phing for dim sum breakfast, then went over to attend church service. Many of them got surprised to see me coming back again for weekend, for them, it was unexpected :P

Afternoon, had Jappy lunch at Palm Square, then afternoon rest at home a while before go out again to meet up my x-classmate Cecilia for yamcha at San Francisco and we chatted for hours until sunset.

Evening, just about to take shower when Uncle Fong and Auntie Nelly with their lil prince Ayden just arrive. Shortly after that, lil prince's King and Queen came over. We then had dinner together, and I just got to found out that our dinner was 90% MEATS!!..We had Black Pepper Lamb, my favourite Lemon Chicken, steam chicken, 'Kiu Nyuk' a.k.a. some sort of 'babi'. and a plate of a sayur that I don't know how to call it. Anyway, we enjoyed the fellowship and meals.

Then we watched Mind Your Language on other episodes together in my room before I have to call it a night again, and me and my mum have to go online to make online booking for my CNY holiday trip. After making a comparison between MH and AK, we finally make the final decision to take the flight at the cost that we can bear, and we have to go thru with the trouble to fill in the informations just to get it done. And my next trip back to KK will be during CNY..(it will be a mystery).

Went to fetch Still a.k.a. TAMBI for yamcha at Coffee Bean starbucks, whereby I happen to see CBK (Chee-Bye-Kia) who was there with his own gangs, which I just don't give a damm of his existence. Anyway, me and tambi had a quick and a memorable chat, been talking about work future stuff.

Day 4, Sept 24 - Whole morning, again, sleep like pig. Once awake, time to do a quick-and-headache packing. Then went over to my mum's place to fetch her up for lunch with Fifi at Donggongon to have Ngiu Chap. After lunch, mum send me home and I did my final inspection of my packing before I get my dad to send me off to the airport. (Mum got me a new laptop bag as my current black laptop bag unable to use due to one of it's strap got torn off. Damm..)

My new compact version of laptop bag

Say hello to this 'nigger' 'NI-NI'

At the check in, I get the check-in staff to book me a seat at the back row by the window seat, after the wing. Guess what, I got a wonderful gift from him with the boarding pass that bears with my seating '7A'. Damm....that seat don't have window one lar...aiya..........kek sei ngo.

Since I was early, I went over to my ex-company for a while to meet up my ex-collegues. (That's right. Last time I used to worked at this company, and had gone thru with lots of shits with them, but I guess it was all about experience.). Had a good crazy chat with them when there was a sudden no-electricity. Yeah...no-electricy in the airport..pretty weird huh!? Apparently, KKIA is still in the midst of upgrading the building structure for future convenience.

And again..minutes of waiting before time of boarding, it was so damm stuffy hot like crazy. Dammit. Sweat it out. Bought myself 2 new cuties.

Meet Jiraf and Dofi

Time for boarding and getting my ass into the 7A (Da Seat With No Window). During the meal time, we were served either a rice with chicken meat with whatever sauce and another one is tomato rice with masala fish fillet. Apart of it, there's salty peanuts and bittersweet chocolate, of which a lady sitting next to me gave me the choc as she can't eat them. And since she munch on some salty peanuts, I wanted to give her my packet as I don't take peanuts (and one more tips...when inflight, don't take salty peanuts or otherwise, a passenger can suffer pain in their ear during the descend a.k.a landing).

After we finished the meals, we both chatted a while, and got to found out that she's a KL-ian, came over to KK for her family trip for 3D2N, so far only been to Pulau Manukan and also had Seafood restaurant most of their nights. She also in turn got to found out that I'm a Sabahan who are making my way to KL to get back to work.

Upon arriving, made my way straight to the domestic arrival hall, and then my friend, the one that send me to KLIA at the wee-hours, fetch me up from KLIA and send me back home. He was indeed very kind, that I bought him a souvenir as a token of his help and kindness.

Time past very fast, KK trip is already over. However, am looking forward again to go there by next year CNY. Meanwhile...time to get my ass and start working it out on my tummy coz I've been eating too much.

It is the day when we, as children, remember the greatest love that we ever had since we were born and if it wasn't because of them, we are nobody at all.

Normally during these occassion, the shopping malls around Malaysia are all bombarded with discounts and special offer in conjunction to this special day. No matter how much we are going to buy those special items for the special one on the special day, I do believe that there is only one thing that your special one will always hope for, always. Love from their own children towards a mother.

Anyway, some children will get to celebrate this special event with their mums at home, lunch or dinner, outings or shoppings. I somehow envy some people that they get to celebrate this together with their family, coz I'm all alone while my family are all in hometown. Some friends of mine had asked me if I'm going back to KK for Mother's Day. Well..I wished I could. Actually I could. Excuses is, I'll be going back to my hometown by end of this month due to my cousin's wedding (And I have yet to receive the music sheets from my sister..Big Bummer.....yeah...I'm becoming an honorary pianist for my cousin's wedding). I'm not in a budget to go back that frequent though, although last month AirAsia offer free seats.(Finally, I got myself a trip to Bangkok...Yipeee~~!)

Hhmmm....glance back at what we did during Mother's Day. Back in my hometown, as Mother's Day falls on the 2nd Sunday of May, we did handicraft, self handmade (and a bit help from our Sunday School teacher's help) and we are to present them to our mum to show our sincerity and love as children.

Last year 2004, I did something spectacular, as if I'm one of the biggest star on that particular Sunday (despite being a pianist for English service although I already played for Chinese service and it was all last minute preparation and practice before the service begin. During the performance, they have 3 people performing, and I'm one of them, representing the Youth (Suppose to sing with Yap zai, but I end up becoming one-man-show).

I performed Josh Groban's You Raised Me Up in the church with me singing solo while playing piano in Elton John's style. A lot of members actually complimented me, but I think I'm really glad that I manage to touched a person's heart that time. My mum. She almost cried when I played and sang that song in the church.

In the year 2005 was the year when I leave my hometown for good, and that was the first time I got separate from having any occassions like this. It was the same day when Malaysian Idol 2nd season audition were held at Times Square. On that day I attended the audition and had sang Josh Groban's 'You Raised Me Up' and Unknown Artist's 'I Got The Music In Me'. While waited outside, the media had asked us to say something as a special message to mum. And I did, and I sang that song, short version though. Not sure whether it was up on screen at that time or not.

As of today, although I'll be back at the end of the month, I'll like to dedicate this blog to my mama, and also my grandma (she's a mother what).

'Your arms were always open when I needed a hug. Your heart understood when I needed a friend. Your gentle eyes were stern when I needed a lesson. Your strength and love has guided me and gave me wings to fly.

HAPPY MAMA's DAY, Mum. Love you always.

Your son,

Aaron