Christmas High Tea Buffet with Sir Richard Lai and The Hos...

On Christmas eve, hubby and daughter was working, so we decided to have a Christmas Day brunch-buffet cum high tea.

We chose Armada Hotel, Petaling Jaya for our Christmas Buffet to make it easier for Uncle Richard....

at the Utara Coffee House on the ground floor..

We had planned a family Christmas buffet and thought it would be nice to have Uncle Richard join us...he brought along his daughter Pauline and her husband Dr Anbarasu.....

Since Ivan Ho stayed at our house over the Christmas period, we brought him along. Ken wanted Irene and Brandon to come too....but funny thing is that Ken was too hung over after Christmas eve festivities to join the brunch!

Uncle Richard has been knighted by the late pope so he carries the title "Sir"!!

Pauline just got her Phd and that earned her the title "Dr"

so now we have a large and cosy crowd for Christmas

one tiny turkey for the entire buffet!

our intimate line-up...uncle insisted on a group photo

There you have it, christmas 09 with the Tays, Lais, Hos and Anbu..........(Btw, no picture of food, except for the turkey,because I have complaints that my blog is full of food pics).

What I did on Christmas Eve...

On Christmas eve, I drove to school, and got stuck with many cars going in and out of the driveway.  It is PMR results day and parents brought their kids to get the results. So I went to disturb the form teachers and read some of the students result slips: Nicholas Joel Thomson 7As, Kevyn Dexter 7As, Gordon Tay 7As...nearly all the drama, debate and public speaking boys had straight As, some missed because of Chinese,  so I got fed up of reading, all "A"s....hmmph!.....then I saw Mr. Wong, he was beaming happily: Then he gave me work: "Mrs Tay, I want the minutes of the BOG immediately, put it on the server or the school portal!"......doesn't he know it's Christmas.........? (Anyway, I had it ready, but not published yet, in my own server)! BTW Mbs has 77 straight As and  more than a 100 As and Bs.

Picture taken from my windscreen...for once parents are allowed to drive in

I had to give way!

my aim in going to school was to run errand: pay the signboard license money for my husband, at DBKL which I need to take the LRT from the school.

This is the Horley Link.....I can count the no. of times I use it....! Not many! I always use my car....but this Horley Link is SOOOOO Convenient! I had tried to drive to Sogo, but I got hopelessly lost, so today I took the LRT.  Costs me RM2.50 two and fro, just imagine the petrol that I used going round in circles, getting stuck in jams, and ending up in Bukit Bintang, Bukit Nanas and Sentul.

When I got off at Stesen Bandaraya, right in front was Sogo, then I walked to DBKL to pay the signboard license. After that I went to Sogo for lunch.

I had printed this voucher, so I am going to redeem it for lunch at a Japanese restaurant called "SOGO" It is worth RM12.00

nice or not?  Window display only!

so yummy, what to choose?

glazed, but look so real

the interior of the restaurant

this is what I ordered: the salmon set....takeaway....free....

with fruits

amd miso soup

he he, my complete meal, that I ate in my room in front of the TV, my free lunch!

Coming back from the LRT, the first sight that greeted me was my bamboo grove...

the bamboo trees have grown, forming an arch, one tree has died, (which isn't so bad....my other trees especially the weeping willows have ALL died, except one, near the bell tower) and the path is botak from all the students' feet that traversed here everyday...

nice or not?

At the end of the tunnel was my car!! How convenient that is!!! I will now use the LRT more often! Reduce my carbon footprints! Save petrol! Reduce stress of driving through traffic jams!!

Why did Koi fishes die?

One day, as soon as I reached school, the gardeners called me..."Pn Tay, Pn Tay, ikan dah mati!".....oh dear! what a sight greeted me!

Fishes, big and small, all floating belly up....

All!  Not one was spared!  the baby fishes on top of the big fishes....

If you feed them everyday and they recognise you by coming to you when you are feeding them, they become like your babies, so it is rather heartbreaking.

see all the little ones....died alongside their big comrades, like being felled in one swoop in some massacre

I was told some of them are pregnant (can I say that? doesn't sound right!) are carrying eggs....about to lay...

Mati terkorban! Poisoned? Sabotaged?

Do you know what survived? The DBKL fish! (The black sucker fish that acts like a vacuum cleaner, cleaning out the bottom of the pond.  It is still there, black and foreboding, like a harbinger or more bad news to come).

By the way, Mr Thong, our resident physicist, tested the akilinity of the water and it was ph 5, it should be ph7, so ACID RAIN killed all the fishes.

Uncle Sam. the canteen man who helped me to buy the fishes (btw, I just submitted my claim forms for keceriaan, so no more fishes for this year end, account is closed) will be buying turtles or terrapins next....so watch out for them babies soon.