Sizzling Taiping

Am home!!!

I left KL at 11.30am and pulled into Taiping (Changkat Jering exit) at round 2.30pm and got lost for about 10 mins and finally pulled into my dad's drive way at 3.00pm.

On that day itself I showered three times, on Tuesday five times, yesterday three times, today twice...so far.

My dad is still his same old self, still talks way too loud on the phone and nags at me and my brother. He's got some new interests though -- he's been nursing this sick pup at his work place (a factory) with my mom's medicated tea...some colleague of his brought a few pups to the factory and that guy died two months later...and the other colleagues (and dad) have been caring for whatever's left there...bascially just this pup, Ah Wong. He would take time off from home to visit the pup once a day at the factory. Also, according to my mom, he leaves clumps of rice on the kitchen top for the `resident' lizards to eat too....

What I found in the drawers of my old writing desk:

- Some old Yuki Nishimura cassettes, she was my high school days idol

- Operafest Children's Choir brochure

- An old newspaper cutting (my mom's work) from The Star, it was a show review of Deanna Yusof's show at the RP Club (Hyatt) where I sang as one of her back-up (with lovely Nadia Aljafri) singers. There is a picture of three of us singing in the review and my mom `censored' my cleavage with a black marker pen so that it looks like I was wearing a black top underneath the blue low neckline blouse....

- other stuff I haven't gone through

I haven't had time to drive round town in my car on my own yet....been dying to do that since I got the car. Been quite stoned just staying home, sleep after eat, shower, sleep, eat, mindless TV watching of the same Chinese movies they screen every year, wash dishes, watch my mom cook, shower, eat...

I realised CNY is the only time I spend getting to know my parents again, for the past few years I only been home during CNY. I doubt I would have an easy time with schedules this year for `home-coming' although the fear of losing my parents to old age and death looms in my head.

...enough of that fo now....gotta get home and have dinner with parents.

see ya folks in KL.