Written by lainie at 08:26 PM on August 11, 2005 in Family, Rants, Daily Life.

"SORRY DOESN'T CUT IT!"

Cibai Indonesia. Filling up our country with that ridiculous haze because the damn cheaps want the most cost-friendly illegal logging way. Then our country here gets filled with chronic pollution, and we get a lil "Sorry!", but with the silent "like we actually give a real fuck what you think when we can save money" behind it.

They bloody do this every year!

I say we start a donation drive in KL where the haze is so bad visibility goes to about 200m. RM1 per person, we collect the money so we can take Indonesia to International Court of Justice (or whatever).

Cause my dear neighbour fuckers, as far as I'm concerned ANYONE who's ever held a matchstick over there to contribute to the fire deserve to have their lungs ripped out and impaled on a stick, lined up all around the borders of Malaysia.

Just be glad I'm not Indonesian. I have the fricking sea between me and that big fire and I'm pissed off enough. If I was on the same piece of land, I'd be blogging through my bleary eyes day after day about what moronic assholes live in my country. Not that I'm short of people to complain about here.

Oh look: Haze Haters in KL

Sigh. My daer KL-ers, it might not be as bad here, but that doesn't mean we like the haze.

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Just had dinner at home with my mom. Home cooked dinners are lovely, but unfortunately for us, our maid isn't a live-in one so we usually wash up the dishes after, instead of piling it up in the sink overnight.

Lainie: How's your frozen shoulder?
Mom: Getting better. Aunty Susan had it before and she showed me some weight exercises.
Lainie: Aren't you glad you have friends old and creaky like you so they can give you tips?

[ Score! Lainie: 1, Mom: 0 ]

Mom: Oh yes, I'm old and creaky.
Lainie: Uhhh...yes?
Mom: In that case, you can put your young non-creaky bones to good use and wash up after dinner.
Lainie: .........*looks in dismay at huge pile of bowls, cutlery, pans and plates*

[ Score- Lainie: 1, Mom: 23 ]

Do not mess with people more than twice your age.

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About the Nessa belly dancing / ballet thing, acceptable mistake because Nessa DID use to take ballet classes with Daph. Come to think of it, Rish, Rach, Daph, Nessa and I have all had ballet lessons before. Ipoh's a boring place, your kids will have nothing to do but learn stuff that won't hold much relevance to them in the future.

But it's nice to be in Ipoh, even though it's slow. I've made Rach take me to the porridge place two days in a row. It's some stalls under a big tree, with cement all around it, and a drinks stall that sells custard too.

The stalls are all doing quite well, the place is about as clean as you can get for its location. The most popular stall is not the porridge one though, but the one that sells yong tau foo stuff. Basically, many different forms of braised / deep fried food.

It only really opens up at 3pm, which isn't ANYWHERE near lunch or dinner time, but you can see even more people crowding around the stall ordering, then there are sitting down.

Then we went back to Rach's house, where we lay on the floor in the TV room, with the lovely ceiling fan whirring above us. The floor's really cool, we had nice comfy pillows, we zonked out a fair two hours.

I was awaken from my nap by young Leonardo, who patted my face a lil, then started bumping against me - I decided to get up before he humped the diaper into my face. Cute lil boy. Fed him lum fa sang (soft peanuts: I think they're steamd in the shell) which is lovely stuff. Broke it into lil pieces and fed him. Tiger, the puppy, loves them too, and while I was sleeping used my stomach as a launching platform to get it off the low tea table - he only got shells though, serves him right.

After that Leonardo was with his mom, Logan, and Tiger, running around the pool, so I joined them, blowing bubbles so he and Tiger could chase the shiny floating balls. After that, I came home for dinner where mom and I dissed all the Chinese / Korean celebrities. You see, my grasp of Mandarin is near nil because the TV show hosts speak too fast for me, but I grew up watching stuff like Golden Girls and late Anita Mui (the Asian Madonna)...and damn, the old Chinese veterans had style.

The new Chinese celebrities have..............................I'm not sure what most of their appeal is, really.

Now we're dissing Jamie Oliver and Nigella Lawson. One's so "regular lad", the other one's so posh, but jesus I'm surprised these two don't just waddle or roll everywhere they go. The food looks yummy, sure, but it's HORRIFYING to watch them cook, the amount of oil and deep frying that goes on. And to top it off, the extra drizzle of olive oil and knob of butter they like to use.

My mom went for my late grandma's 49th day of passing's rites recently, and all the relatives had a big bitch out about chefs on tv. It is unanimous in my family that these two cooks are basically....crazy.

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I may be going out later to play some mah-jong with Rach and Logan. Then maybe head on down to Penang tomorrow for Josie's graduation. I've yet to meet up with Rano and Shu, so gotta do that too, and somehow go for haircut and movie with mom.

I love being on holiday.

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