Thursday, May 31, 2012

A good Cook, I'll be....SOON!


 

 
Okonomiyaki - Japanese Pizza


The cooking of okonomiyaki demonstration organized by the Yoga group on 20th May, Sun at the Sea Front Cafe, Penang Swimming Club.



Food, food and more food!

Will I be able to achieve my goal?? My pact with Noraini, Turkey tour mate, when we parted on May 1, to each shed 4 kg by end August from our 58.5 kg looks bleak!

Last week had been a whole week of food indulgence!

Bing Bing Taiwanese, Straits Quay

Xuan Xin, Gurney Plaza

CRC

May Garden




Kaffa Kafe, Straits Quay






Friday, May 18, 2012

MAY THE BEST BE FOR YOU AND THE ODDS EVER BE IN YOUR FAVOR!!



Alicia, the sweetest and youngest in our Turkey tour group of 19 persons!
Hi, Alicia, this page is specially for you for finding my blog so entertaining that you finished reading all the posts within a day what I took umpteenth days/months? to accomplish!

Though fully aware of my good ahem writing skills and need not be assured of that oh dear, how to deal with this inflated ego of mine?? your responsive comments at the Facebook was nevertheless overwhelming! Thank you!

A good tummy rub....

Instead of the regular concentration on my neck, shoulder, back and limps, I was massaged well into my belly!

Xxxxx, who was there with me mooted the idea of having her stomach massaged since her legs were sore.

Her bloated tummy was full of flatulence and I could see she was trying hard to suppress releasing gas as the masseur pressed her belly!

An encouragement from me to let all out, to fart sounds crude, ya? if she had to, sent her burping and belching through the session!

What I would have frowned upon under normal circumstances, was a sense of relief I felt for her with each belch she released!

   

Thursday, May 17, 2012

A competent guide, he is!

Abdul is his name! Big and burly, he appears quite formidable as a tourist guide! His matured looks belies his tender age of 31!

I find myself taken to him probably because I had not expected well spoken English from a Turkish guide! His 2 years in USA explains his fluency! 

No doubt the guides assigned at the other countries I've visited were just as informative, Abdul however, went an extra mile to the extent of elaborating his narration with printing materials complete with pictures and all, for our easier comprehension!

Ever so patient, never giving up, raising his voice every now and then to combat the non-English speaking miniority who were busy rattling as he narrated! 

History which had always been a dull subject during student days was somehow interesting shared by him!




Bidding him farewell with my bearish hug, I find missing him more than I missed Turkey!

As Noor, my tour mate remarked, it has always been the people that we missed, rarely the countries that we visited!

Thanks Abdul, for a job well done!