I have an hour this thursday evening, and it is indeed a rare commodity since the last 2 weeks. Unfortunately, I have been extremely flustered and am not pleased with such. The hour I have as I sit comfortably on my wing chair at the entrance of where I live, right foot over left resting on this so called foot rest. The sound of the ceiling fan is ever so evident and to an extent it dominates my thoughts. On my left, the barrage of things I need to send to Salvation Army or Bulk Movers starts to pile up once again.........I sigh as I look at the things my sister drops on my lap to clear. The home gecko just sounded in agreement with my thoughts.
My hands will start getting busy within the hour as dough for my next batch of mooncakes await me. Why did I allow myself to be flustered I question myself.......Consciously, I told myself I will not allow the same to happen this week. The good news is I am not flustered but I have indeed got my hands full still. Perhaps I should have a diary to enable me to reflect and check where the time stealers are.
I shall aspire not to sweat the small stuff as I share what went on with this empty nester's life this week. I went on an EAT VENTURE. I pause and think, perhaps the more politically right word might be EAT A THON........similar to marathon!My story begins.........4 senior citizens, with yours truly being the kid in the brood took a leisurely drive up north.
What started as a simple question from one of my colleagues if I liked to go for car rides materialised an EAT A THON venture. Fortunate or not, I only managed to garner the few of us in one car for this trip.......Boy what a start of a day, and if not managed well, it could have ended as a flurry of activities once again. This Tuesday just so happened to be a day off for our regular volunteer work day, thus us scurrying off yonder.
My tuesday morning started at 6am as I quickly baked a cake and await pick up to our meeting place at 10. I was told if I needed a ride, I needed to be picked up at 8am as there was a Members Jusco Sale!!! What I exclaimed within myself, a man wanting to go to a sale at that hour? I bit my lips and just agreed with the pick up time. I was aghast at the sea of people in the supermarket. Gosh.......I could not believe my eyes at 8.15am and the people could have been there as early at 7am. We left at 9am proceeding to yet another task of mine. We went to get my new mirror ordered and some other replacement.
To start off the EAT THON, I had to live to eat and filled my tummy with coffee and a bun.......gobbled a few cookies down and was ready to roll. Our first stop and laugh was at Sungkai. My good friend, ignorant at inflation takes out a RM5 bill to pay at Sungkai toll exit. I laughed so hard and asked him if he remembers we drove more than 100 km! We had a good laugh as the toll came up to RM15.60 or something there. Our first stop was the TRAP hot springs and it was really a pretty picture to behold at the entrance. We strolled and googled at the family spa private rooms, and I was like a kid seeing a section of the hot springs where we could boil our own eggs!!! Yes, to top it, the managment even has a sign board on how long one should leave their eggs in the springs if half cooked or fully boiled etc. Lunch was at Sungkai as we imagined ourselves as treaure hunters looking for something we were depending on our friend Maureen could recall.
Oh, I could go on, but my hour is almost up.......I pause and my feet are now on the floor, and my mind tells me the fingers are itching to go elsewhere. I press the pause button as I prepare myself to go dig in the dough.
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