Afternoon tea at Carcosa Seri Negara

This morning I woke up about 8.30. Around 10, I heard a knock on the back door. The contractors were here to fix the holes in the ceiling... an hour early. So I showed them what they needed to fix and they got busy. I made myself some breakfast and sat around watching TV and doing a few chores. There wasn't too much else I could do with the workmen in the house.

By about 12.30, the maintenance guy from Stonor Park, Mark, finally showed up. They were still working on fixing the holes and none of them had been completed yet. Around 2, they were still working and I knew that I had to leave soon. Our landlord's niece was supposed to have been here all day with them so that I didn't have to sit there but of course she didn't show up. When the workers said that they would be there until 5, I called her and asked her to come so that I could go out. Ross was also on his way back from Vietnam so he would be there around 3.30.

Kelly hadn't arrived before I had to leave but I left anyway about 2.30 to pick up Sonja so we could go to Carcosa Seri Negara for afternoon tea. Carcosa Seri Negara is the old Governor of Kuala Lumpur's house back in the day of British rule. I had been there once before with the netball girls and it was beautiful. It is being shut down on the 26th of December for "renovation" and no-one is quite sure what is going to happen to it so we thought we would make the most of our last opportunity to go.

We went to the building where I had had afternoon tea last time - it was deserted. So we tried the other building which I hadn't been to and sure enough that is where we were. We sat on the verandah with our tea and sandwiches and cakes chatting for a couple of hours. I did try and get us a gin and tonic but although I asked twice and the staff said yes, it seemed we were not destined to get a drink.

We left just before 5 and got stuck in traffic and completely lost but somehow we got home by 5.30. Ross was home but on his way out again when we arrived. We had a gin and tonic together with Sonja before she left to check on the apartment with Brian. Ross headed out for Christmas drinks with his work mates and I settled in for another boring night by myself.

I went to bed about 9 because there was nothing else to do. I kept reading my book until 12.30 and then finally I couldn't keep my eyes open any more. Ross must have got home some time after that.

Making old things new again

Well, this morning I skipped netball in favour of a sleep in. However, I woke up about 8 so it wasn't really much of a sleep in. I got up and caught up on some emails. Dad had asked about our old laptop and if he could have it for scouts. We hadn't used it for years so I thought I would try to start it up and have a look if it was still OK.

I spent pretty much the rest of the day reformatting the laptop, loading new software and making sure that Windows was up to date. It took ages! I was going to take it to Low Yat for them to do it but I thought I didn't really have much to lose so I found the recovery disk and reformatted the hard disk myself.

About 3, Ross text to say that he was free for coffee so we made plans to meet up at Delicious for afternoon tea. I walked down to Delicious about 3.30 and ordered while waiting for Ross. The afternoon tea is so nice there but I was a bit disappointed that they had finished the carrot cake! We settled for chocolate banana cake instead (basically a chocolate mud cake with whole bananas through it). We managed to finish everything except for the cake which we took home with us.

We walked home in time to watch the AFL game between the Saints and the Bulldogs - what a game! Although the Saintes deserved to win, it was heartbreaking for the Bulldogs who absolutely busted themselves for the entire game to lose by 7 points.

We didn't eat dinner as the afternoon tea defiitely filled us up. A great deal for 68 Ringgit!

Getting ready for Singapore

I spent the morning getting organized for our trip to Singapore. I also did a few chores around the house before going to pick Ross up for lunch. We drove to KLCC and had lunch at Sakae Sushi. It was super busy but the food is always good.

I dropped Ross off about 1.30 and went home for half an hour before walking downstairs to meet Sonja to walk to Delicious for afternoon tea (see photo). We shared a chocolate pavlova (amazing!) and drank tea and before I knew it, it was 5pm! Time flies!

We walked back home and Ross was already there when I arrived. We got busy making a huge amount of lasagna sauce and made three lasagnas - one big and two small. We shared half of the big one and I froze the rest. There was also left over sauce which will be good over pasta.

After dinner, we finished packing, spent some time with the cats and started watching Charlie's Angels which was on TV. Ross fell asleep not long into the movie and I didn't take long to follow!

Golf lesson 2

This morning I woke up really late - 9.45am! But just in time to shower and walk over to KLCC to go to the medical center to have the thing on my foot looked at. Yep, exciting stuff! I had been to the GP before and he told me it was as corn but the dermatologist told me that it was a Verruca (wart) - gross! He froze it but I need to go back next week to freeze it again.

After the doctor, I went to Dome for breakfast and to catch up on my blog from the time in Singapore. This took me a couple of hours and before I knew it, it was 1pm. I walked home, did a few chores and then drove out to Ampang for my second golf lesson.

I met Sonja on the driving range and my coach Eric let us warm up by ourselves. Today, I didn't feel as good as I did last week. I was hitting them but not well. He videoed my swing and I could see that it looked all 'floppy' compared to what I was doing last week. He took me through my backswing again and after that I was away. I spent the rest of the hour trying to consistently hit the ball. I think by the end I was sending the balls in the same place about 80% of the time. It's amazing, when you feel it, it becomes easier to replicate it time and again.

After our lesson, Sonja and I went to Delicious for afternoon tea. It was fantastic! Sandwiches, biscuits, scones, strawberries with chocolate dipping sauce and your choice of any cake from the display (we had lemon meringue pie) with a pot of tea. We caught up on the last few days for a couple of hours before heading home.

Ross was home when I got there and headed down to the gym. We didn't do too much in the evening.