Questa è Enida

I just did 3.89km on the treadmill, and that was just like to the Flamingo Hotel from home and back! Burned 230 calories, and that was just the two bhindis from the Kari Ikan, plus Ulam Raja and Sambal Terasi with dua suap nasik I had at lunch today! Okay, maybe plus the fortune cookies as well lah, cincai kasik lu. Yat yee sam sei mm look chat pat and I lost count oleady. Hmmm if only there were a machine to flash with a blasting alarm to show my calorie intake as I sumbat my mouth….

Be left last Thursday, north-east bound this time through Hong Kong and Vancouver, back to Calgary…for Blaire’s surgery. Right after dropping him off at the airport (yes, dropping him off, and not sending him off), I tapau some Nasik Lemak for Ka Cher & Pan Yau – breakfast in Bangi. Ka Cher berhangkut over to our Chong Khoon Lin villa and just took it easy in the afternoon. Came 5pm we were getting restless. So off we went to KDE for a splash! Pan Yau joined us later for a dip and a Dipidee Dog. The Claypot yee mee was so yummy that I just watched my diet went terkelepot down the pool!

Friday, after a 4-hour class at KTSN, Ka Cher called with a proposal:

“Want to check in at Marriot or Palm Garden IOI Puchong? Your pick. The pool at Marriot is better, tapi.”

Pack, pack, pack…off we were to Marriot, checked in at 4.30pm and was already having a splashingly smashing time at the pool by 5pm! Kitreena and Edrick were the two happiest kermits on earth, I tell you. Ka Cher, Pan Yau and I were just happy to have the pool ALL to ourselves. We paid for two rooms and we got one whole pool on a non-sharing basis all inclusive? Hoii, who can beat that? No, who can GET that?

Kitreena tripped and fell on the way back to the room. There wasn’t any trace of blood though she scraped her right knee…for the first 10 seconds. When she saw the redness, tiba-tiba je she started limping! And then, the whole world fell apart lah kan, needless to say. We had a hot shower in the room and Kitreena was ecstatically overjoyed, “Momy! Mommy! My oui is melting! My oui is melting!” [babytalk: oui = ouchy = sakit] And so it was.

It was a Mee Rebus night for me, after craving for it since the last time I had it at The Pan Pacific KLIA August 2000! Berdebus-debus calories for just one night. You should have seen the bowl it was served in. Not only that it was the size of a serving bowl [read: mangkuk tambah], the content was enough to feed the whole Muar! I did not and could not clean it up, even if I had wanted to. I didn’t want to. I would hate myself if I did even want to finish it. Whatever lah mangkuk!

Had breakfast in the room the next morning. The Smoked Salmon Hash was not what I expected it to be. It was very similar to the Eggs Benedict, though. But the salmon bits were baked in the muffin, or in less silly words…the poached eggs were served on a ‘Salmon Muffin’. Hollandais sauce on the side.

The Kermits, Bibik and I checked out on Saturday and moved our stuff to Ka Cher’s room. Had another dunk from 2 to 5pm. Well, not quite a dunk lah kan if it was three hours. Could not pass up the opportunity to have the pool all to ourselves yeah again! Had a hot shower at Ka Cher’s room before we left Marriot Putrajaya. I arrived at Marriot a plum, and I left…a prune.

On the way out, I had a vision of my past, a reminiscence…the last time I was in the viccinity, I was at the Palm Garden Hotel restaurant having a drink with an axe. I was looking over to the construction area where the Marriot is today and said, “Whatever that will be!”

Sunday was a totally different story.