boon's log 3409.05: Ab's School Concert, Rasa Sayang Promo, conjunctivitis

[3209.06] Ab's school had their Warna-Warna Malaysia concert 2 weekends back - her first concert and (almost) everyone was excited about it. Yes... the adults were more excited about it than the kid. ;)

The children, aged from 3 to 7 donned traditional costumes, led the packed crowd of parents and grandparents, aunts and uncles, through a series of fashion shows and Malaysian traditional dances. No kidding with catwalks and the whole shebang. It's like Malaysia's Next Top mini-Model. Really cute. They were all so adorable.

We were so afraid that Ab would just freeze on stage and did not know what to do. Worse is if she saw any of us and then starts crying on stage. But she surprised us all. She did so well on stage, remembering her catwalk steps, when to turn (at the end of the catwalk), when to bow and return back to backstage, and then later her dance steps... she really wow'd us all. What a night... we totally enjoyed ourselves and I am sure Ab enjoyed it too - the kids were having a fun time backstage too, with candies and all.

Here are some pictures.


East-Malaysian traditional dance...


Ab, doing her catwalk in her Chinese Traditional Cheongsam


The closing number - Rasa Sayang Hey!

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[3309.03] we went back to Rasa Sayang Resort for their International Buffet, at their Spice Market Cafe. The "Buy one, Free one" Promotion was extended for another month - i.e. till the end of August - it comes up to be about RM60 per person (nett). This time, it was our uncle's treat. We cannot turn a good dinner offer down, can we now? ;) So off we went, with Ab asking her, "Are we at the hotel yet?" questions along the way... It's quite a bang-for-the-buck with the promotion and my-my was the restaurant packed with people. We had to make our reservations 2 weeks ahead and even then we were given a spot outside of the air-conditioned area. Good thing it was a cooling night and there weren't that many mosquitoes... (yeah, mosquitoes are really a threat these days...). So anyway, IL and I were complaining about how packed the place was and that's the "price" you'd have to pay in return for the 50% disc..

I remembered the last time we were there with GP and KY - every table, EVERY TABLE, folks were armed with cameras, big and small, taking pictures - and they were really overdoing it... like taking pictures with the bamboo stick decor? taking pictures of the prawns and mussels and baby lobsters and hogging the queue while they were at it. Kinda frustrating, really. But I have to give it to the kitchen and hotel staffs for keeping up with the guests and replenishing the food timely.

I managed to snap some sunset photos before we started out dinner...


Ferringhian Sunset at the Rasa Sayang Resort, Penang


Sunset at Ferringhi. No, it's not a fisherman keeping his fishing net, it is actually the guy who runs the beach recreational store, keeping the para-gliding parachute.

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[3309.05] Conjunctivitis - damn! Yeah, it all started with the left eye, and then after visiting the eye specialist, the right one got it too. My first time, so it was kind of scary - you wake up in the morning to find that your eyelids are stuck together with yellowish discharge and you cannot open your eye. Was out of work for a few days. And kept pumping my eyes with Tobradex - more than what the doc suggested, after reading directions/suggested dosage on the enclosed insert, of course. Anyways, 'twas one heck of a way to spend the weekend, I tell you - mostly in bed, quarantined from the rest of the family and the rest of civilisation for a good 5-6 days. Worst thing was I had to miss my grandmother's 90th birthday dinner! With gifts and plans laid out for the weekend and all..... crashed because of the bacterial visitation. But thank God, I'm healed! Even the doctor was surprised that I recovered so quickly - must be the extra dosage at the initial stage of the infection... ;)

no pics for this one, although my sister-in-law insisted to take a picture of my MeeKoo (steamed "tortoise" buns) eyes (as what Ab calls it) because of the swelling. ;|



boon out...