I have been going to Ipoh for work quite a lot. Just meetings with dad and generated some ideas for expansions for the business over there. And I spent a fair amount of time in Teluk Intan to rest and eat some local foods. I had some Bak Kut Teh, a lot of seafoods and some other local delights. Mangosteens and durians are in season too, and since one mangosteen costs me $2 AUD in Perth, I certainly felt more happy to eat more here.
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I had a lot of salty egg yolk crabs too ! They were awesome and I can't get enough of them :). Due to the level of cholesterol in it, it's not something I would prefer on a very regular basis. Soya had some of them too and her's looked really nice.
Last week, I went to Hat Yai with baby for a 3 days two nights trip. It was awesome, lots of seafood, big oyster (really huge) and baby did some shopping. The last day of the trip, my called me and asked both baby and me to go for a dinner. Our accountant was there with us and two of my sister's friends from KL were down in town too.
Again, a lot of local foods during the past 1 week.
Thinking about it, I have barely 2 weeks left before semester 2 starts. Sister is going back to school tomorrow. So we did some shopping in KL today. We went to Pavillion for a bit of walk and then walked over LV which is inside the J.W Marriot Hotel building at the opposite. Star Hill, was it? Initially, we went there to get mom two handbags and one for sister only but we ended up buying 5 of them.
Actually I didn't want one because I simply think I don't need it but my dad persuaded me so I ended up buying one for myself. I thought of getting one for baby also when she is down in KL with me next time.
3 for the girls. They even printed their own names on these bags ! How lucky ! I couldn't do so on mine. My mom and sis are not obsessed about handbags but most girls do. I don't know why, just handbags !
I could not afford all these on a regular basis for now....
One each for brother and me. Thanks pa !
Have to work hard to make up the hole in my wallet from now on....
One more highlight is I lost my less than a month old iPhone 16GB in Sunway Pyramid Car Park !! yesterday. This is how it happened. Mom was driving and we were looking for a parking space and not too long, we spotted this couple walking towards their car. I asked my mom to follow them for their parking space. So we waited, the couple reversed their car out and we were ready to go.
Too bad, mom said she is not good at doing reverse parking so I said I will do it. That was the beginning of the problem. I got down from the front passenger seat, and that was when I dropped my iPhone ! I did not realised it becuase it was in a leather case and I only realised I lost the phone after I parked the car.
We started calling my phone to see if I dropped it somewhere inside the car but I was quite certain someone took it away already. There were a few people washing car right in front of the place I parked my car and I think they took away my phone.
I was really upset and we tried to call and ask him to return the phone to me. The phone is password protected so it makes it harder for the bastard to use the phone. Since that was the case, we thought offering the bastard RM1,500 for him to return me the phone was a bargain. He turned off the phone. By the way, it was a guy who took away my phone. Baby called him, and he was too scared to talk further after the initial first "hello" he off the call and at last turned off the phone.
It's over and I don't think I should think about it anymore.
My dad gave me his iPhone even though I insisted it is not necessary. That's life I guess. You make a lot of money and at some point, some things will come along and some money will be wasted unnecessarily and involuntarily. No matter how rich you are, you still feel the pain in the heart.
However, 5 LVs today make up some of the pain :). Shopping costs money but brings happiness.
I am going to Bali soon with baby then come back and fly back to Perth after.
There are a lot of things I am looking forward for but there are also a lot of things I do not dare to imagine at all.
I think that's life. You can't have all the good things all the time.
I'll take life as it is.
