And that's it. Back to normal days.

Past 2 days, we had been going out from brekkie in the morning till sleep time at night. Truly busy and missing my home and all our toys. Yes, we do have our toys too, both my banker and myself.

On the Saturday, after making the fried mihun for the family, I went to attend our residents' council meeting. How I ended up in it as a council member, I really have to thank my banker really really well. With all the powderful members in there, lawyers, IT experts, accountants, building developers, I seem to be the ikan bilis there. I guess they need some ikan bilis to make up the numbers some of the time.

Our dear friend and her family reached KL soon, from Kampar to depart back to their normal days in HK now that CNY is drawing to an end soon. We went over to our crazy ideas infected close friend from our USM days for lunch, and then back to their new home to have lou-sang. Guess at our age, we certainly have tone down a bit in our insanity and maybe acting more conscious as role models for our children now. Then again, it's always great to meet up with close good friends, especially when we hold so much sweet memories together before.

Time was too short to do anything else, as they had a plane to catch and so, we went home to take a dip at the pool to cool it down. The sun is attempting to skin us alive, I think. Then we had dinner outside nearby, came home and shoo the kids to bed, so that we can watch a movie again. Heard of "Smart People"? I thought it would be good with stars I know like Sarah Jessica Parker and Dennis Quaid. Jeez, don't bother for the review, I stopped watching halfway, it was dead boring.

The next day, it was a beautiful Sunday. We went out for yumcha with his brother and wife, and then I took the younger 2 to meet up 2 bloggers for lunch. It was my first time "exposing" my identity to some people I know online, but these 2 women are really quite nice people (Forced to say so cos they sometimes come and hang in around here and leave some notti comments!) hehe.. just kidding, they are really nice people, they are, they are. I'm so glad they didn't make me piss in my pants that afternoon. So kancheong actually. You know la, can't mess around with bloggers, nanti they hammer you kaukau at their blogs and the damage would be forever done. I hope I had left some good first impressions. *grin*

Stuffed myself full with the delicious nasi lemak (mm-hou-yi-see to ask for tapau ler) and a tour around her beautiful home ( I self invited to stay at her home anytime I want), we rushed back to another party (party hopping, it's the "in" thing now, huh?). It's banker's boss's home and a gambling den was already in progress. Played a funny game called "Cow" the first time. Heard of it before? We lost some 70-100 bucks that day, really the choy-san-yeh. Jeez! No fattchoy luck this year.

We stayed on to have dinner, tapau from outside and watched some fireworks display. They had a hot air lantern as well, and it was really nice to see it floating up into the air. Made me recall the Phuket trip. Then again, after awhile, we can see it coming down. Shucks! That was not a good sign, wasn't it? Aiyah.. never mind, bad thing, won't happen one, convincing ourselves. Just tell ourselves we didn't see it happening.

And that was another day over. But not before shooing the kids to bed again and watching a movie. On this night, we watched "Money No Enough 2" and it was bad. Really bad. Not very touching actually. The problem highlighted was very real indeed but to make a movie with an ending that says winning the lottery is the solution, it's sending all the wrong signals. Unrecommended - my verdict.

We had another day off on Monday, it's a long weekend. Went off to brekkie nearby, then visit a relative. It was something I told myself I wanted to do, and it felt nice to have fulfill that. And there was another thing I had wanted to do too, which we fulfilled again after that visit. That was taking the kids to visit a children's home. I told korkor that they have many angpows, and it's good to share some of their "earnings" to these underprivileged. Coincidentally, there were some good samaritans, who brought KFC and goodies bag for the 21 children there. I am trying to make this an annual tradition, so the kids will appreciate what they have right now too, but could be different homes each year.

We then came home to change into sportswear for a 2 hour badminton session with his brother and family members. I was actually dead tired by that time, but looking at the boys play for the first time, I think it is really quite a good activity to pass time for the whole family. I hope we would have the diligence to do this more often. We went for dinner straight after that, as I was starving already and came home. The sky is rumbling outside, ooh, tonight it would be a great slumber. Have to shoo them to bed now and put in another DVD to watch. What to watch tonight leh?? x-rated will be good. Hmm... G'nite! And have a nice day tomorrow liao, yoohoo! long weekend's over.