Have a Good One

I’m now blogging from Banting, Selangor. Drove all the way from Penang with my sis (in her new Viva) and came here on Thursday.
On the way coming down south, I was glad I was NOT on my way north-bound as roadworks on the highway caused a massive jam after Tapah.
Anyway, the drive was long and uneventful. It was very warm as we had started our journey around 10 am and the sun was shining away.
However when we reached Lembah Beringin, the sky turned dark and rain came down in bucketloads! Luckily we stopped at the Sungai Buloh rest stop to have our lunch and soon the rain subsided and we were able to go back to usual speed.
Since I’ve been back, my main intention is to eat the foods I’ve missed such as Banting’s scrumptious bak kut teh, Banting’s Pak Musa nasi lemak and of course, Banting satay! I have yet to eat any of them – but I did go to Carey Island and have some seafood.
I’m off to the Watsons Warehouse Sale later today – that’s the beauty of being in Selangor. Tonnes of warehouse sales and stuff which means lots of nice shopping to be done with the excuse that it’s Christmas and the season for giving.
Today’s also the Winter Solstice Festival and I have had my 34 glutinous rice balls already! Yes, that shows I am that old. This is the first time I made ‘tang yuen’ with my mom and sis – we made them last night at 1am. All through the years, I’ve been in Penang this time of the year and usually eat tang yuen that my grandma makes. (We must eat the tang yuen according to how old we are. So we did roll a lot of tang yuen – in yellow, red, white and green – and we are supposed to finish them all!)
I hope to put up some photos but am a bit too lazy to download them since my sister’s Maxis Broadband here is slow and irksome. I might drive myself nuts when I upload the photos here so I best not do that on this excruciatingly slow internet line. Apparently she says the internet connectivity is affected by rain! Like Astro, it seems.
We managed to put up a Christmas tree and some twinkling lights once we arrived home. My nephew and niece are excited at the amount of presents underneath the tree. 😉
Hope you are having a good break this Xmas season! Merry Christmas!