The narrow path to the beach
Saturday, August 20, 2005
Friday, August 19, 2005
The Essence of Time
Time. More time, less time. Many of us lament that we do not have enough time. We have no time for this and that. But time goes on and on. It waits for no one. If you miss it you miss it, period. You miss the seconds you can miss the minutes, then the hours, then the days, the weeks, and the months...... So time is what you make of it. Face it. Make the time.
It has been more than a month since I last posted onto this blog. Many of my contacts, who often visit this blog, have wondered and some even called me and/or eMailed me wondering if anything had happened to me. To all I wish to say thank you for the concern and my apologies if I had caused anxieties in any way. For those who called we have spoken and for those who eMailed I will reply in due course.
No excuses. I had just let time slip by. Busy? partly yes. I had quite a lot of things to do in the last nine weeks or so that I just neglected this blog. Procrastination? Yes that was part of it too. Sometime I just sit at the front patio and looked at the goings on outside of my house, or with my thoughts wandering to the past or wondering on the present and the future.
I had traveled as well part of the period, mostly within the country, to visit mum in the South or granddaughter Najla in the North-east. I was in also Bali for nine days in early August. I will write on it soon.
Therefore time did pass on and on and left me wondering and wandering….. I must always keep on top of time, make the best of it, and not let it overwhelm me….
MKI Ramblings Unlimited
Petaling Jaya
It has been more than a month since I last posted onto this blog. Many of my contacts, who often visit this blog, have wondered and some even called me and/or eMailed me wondering if anything had happened to me. To all I wish to say thank you for the concern and my apologies if I had caused anxieties in any way. For those who called we have spoken and for those who eMailed I will reply in due course.
No excuses. I had just let time slip by. Busy? partly yes. I had quite a lot of things to do in the last nine weeks or so that I just neglected this blog. Procrastination? Yes that was part of it too. Sometime I just sit at the front patio and looked at the goings on outside of my house, or with my thoughts wandering to the past or wondering on the present and the future.
I had traveled as well part of the period, mostly within the country, to visit mum in the South or granddaughter Najla in the North-east. I was in also Bali for nine days in early August. I will write on it soon.
Therefore time did pass on and on and left me wondering and wandering….. I must always keep on top of time, make the best of it, and not let it overwhelm me….
MKI Ramblings Unlimited
Petaling Jaya
Friday, July 01, 2005
Lunch Outing With The Kids
“Buffet Lunch Promotion”, the advertising banner says. Over 70 different types of food available to choose from, at only RM15.00. 30% discount for children and free for 3 years old and below. This is at the Park City Everly Hotel, Bintulu. A four star rated hotel, the only one ‘classy’ hotel in town. This hotel was the Park City Beverly Hotel when it started operations about eight years ago, but sometime over the years they dropped the B in Beverly. Why I wonder. I remember seeing raised eyebrows or that cynical smile on people when the name Beverly Hotel was mentioned. Perhaps that is one reason the name was changed or maybe there has been a change in management.
We went for the buffet lunch at the hotel with the kids. The restaurant was quite full and there were children running around. We had reservations, so there was no problem getting seats. The two kids were given fancy balloons each by a dressed up clown at the entrance to the restaurant. They kept playing and clowning around with the balloons. We were seated at the centre region of the restaurant, quite close to where the food spreads were and the hot drink dispenser was the closest. Haziq or Dedek seemed to like playing and running around close to the hot drink dispensing table. Mini had to keep reminding him not to go too close to the table saying that the drinks there were hot. Each time he will move away and said “sorry mummy”. When he kept going back there Mini finally said, “Haziq! Do not go there. Its hot. Afterwards you knock into it and it will catch fire.” He spontaneously replied,”Oooooh! Fireeeee, fire. Call the fire truck to wash the fire mummy” while running away from the table. My my my, children, you just cannot get angry with them.
As the ad says, there was a very wide selection of food, but the usual types you get in a buffet, and nothing extraordinary. However, I found that the choice provided and their preparations were good and most of them complement each other. A wide selection of salads, a variety of main dishes, and a selection of rice, noodles and breads, and tasty too. I tried not to forget to take only a little each of what I fancied amongst the spread, lest I overindulge, which was so easy to do under the circumstances. It is very easy to overeat at buffet meals. One tends to want to try every dish offered. After all, buffets are meant to be ‘eat as much as you like’ or is it ‘eat as much as you can??’. And you can always see people, gluttons rather, heaping up foods on their plates. It is ok if they are all eaten up, but when they are left uneaten in the plates and thrown away ……. that cannot be excused. It is a sin …………
MKI Ramblings Unlimited
Bintulu
We went for the buffet lunch at the hotel with the kids. The restaurant was quite full and there were children running around. We had reservations, so there was no problem getting seats. The two kids were given fancy balloons each by a dressed up clown at the entrance to the restaurant. They kept playing and clowning around with the balloons. We were seated at the centre region of the restaurant, quite close to where the food spreads were and the hot drink dispenser was the closest. Haziq or Dedek seemed to like playing and running around close to the hot drink dispensing table. Mini had to keep reminding him not to go too close to the table saying that the drinks there were hot. Each time he will move away and said “sorry mummy”. When he kept going back there Mini finally said, “Haziq! Do not go there. Its hot. Afterwards you knock into it and it will catch fire.” He spontaneously replied,”Oooooh! Fireeeee, fire. Call the fire truck to wash the fire mummy” while running away from the table. My my my, children, you just cannot get angry with them.
As the ad says, there was a very wide selection of food, but the usual types you get in a buffet, and nothing extraordinary. However, I found that the choice provided and their preparations were good and most of them complement each other. A wide selection of salads, a variety of main dishes, and a selection of rice, noodles and breads, and tasty too. I tried not to forget to take only a little each of what I fancied amongst the spread, lest I overindulge, which was so easy to do under the circumstances. It is very easy to overeat at buffet meals. One tends to want to try every dish offered. After all, buffets are meant to be ‘eat as much as you like’ or is it ‘eat as much as you can??’. And you can always see people, gluttons rather, heaping up foods on their plates. It is ok if they are all eaten up, but when they are left uneaten in the plates and thrown away ……. that cannot be excused. It is a sin …………
MKI Ramblings Unlimited
Bintulu
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