Wednesday, June 22, 2005

....of pancakes and waffles.

there was one weekend when i followed my mom and her fellow S'pore Malay Chamber of Commerce and Industry friends to this big ASEAN business convention/exhibition at Putra World Trade Centre in KL.and,we all stayed at Legend Hotel opposite the convention venue.hotel 5 bintang,you.room like tahi bintang but breakfast like 5 bintang.(anyway,what IS tahi bintang.shooting star?ok,i'm being irrelevant again.)

afternoon:
-chucked our bags in my mom's friends' double bed hotel room at Legend Hotel and rushed to the Opening Ceremony across the road. the hall was filled with dudes in coats and ties and sexy Assistants in overly-tight sarong kebayas.Pak Lah(m'sian PM) was there & he sure is down-to-earth and witty.cracked a joke abt tongkat ali & all d men in big coats laughed with their big voices.excited nye cakap pasal tongkat ali..

-walked around the exhibition and my mom told me to pretend that i was her Personal Assistant.she obviously wanted me to learn early.so i watched my mom walk her walk and talk her talk while she went around exchanging contacts with the other traders in the exhibition while i had to tell them her hp no.(cos until today,mak belum hafal her own hp no.sigh.) anyway, the business world is pretty exciting that it makes my toes tingle.the anxiety and the adrenalin.i likes networking cos i likes talking.

evening:
-we were spontaneously invited to a formal dinner as S'porean business delegates.dinner was in conjunction with M'sia-Indon traders blabla at the Pan Pacific Hotel opp ours.yipee..my mom told me to put on some makeup so tt i'd look older and so i over-did it by applying globs of blush on my cheeks.i think i looked like a doll,only in a bad way.haha.
formal dinner @ Pan Pac hotel:
-the only nice thing about the dinner was the food o'course.yummy tummy gourmet fried buttered prawns was the highlight of the night.and the emcee of the dinner was ALSO one of the models for the batik fashion show, AND ALSO the singer for the day.kesian,low budget. she sang too many songs,HORRIBLY.at her fifth or sixth karaoke song,the guests started to cringe and they got up and left.i'm not kidding.her first song was actually "Goyang Inul". "semuanya,goyang ahhhh," she squealed horribly. it was a business dinner for the love of God. and then she also sang another Inul song called "kocak kocak" which caused the women at our table to laugh violently and turn red in the face. i couldn't laugh, i seriously wanted to cry,really,cos she was really horrible and i felt really sorry for her cos a lot of people were laughing at her and there she was,trying too hard to entertain us,but failing miserably. later however, all of us walked back to our hotel, laughing.

Day 1 at Legend Hotel
-hotel breakfast!ahhh...cornflakes,muesli,more than 5 diff kinds of bread,chicken roll,peppered chicken franks,breakfast beef,scrambled eggs,salad,yogurt of several flavours,tiny muffins,fruit juices,nasi lemak,& blablabla... but what captured my heart was...cute-looking palm-sized pancakes with whipped cream and blueberry jam.ouh yum.

fast-fwd to Day 2 at Legend Hotel
-ahhh...breakfast AGAIN.hahas...this time there was chicken in pasta sauce, and instead of palm-sized pancakes,they had breakfast waffles instead.ouh yum.
-me and my mom went back upstairs to catch up on our sleep.
-went for a nice lunch with my mom at The Mall right beside our hotel.had bubble tea.went to the exhibition again aft that to buy my dad madu lebah asli. They actually even brought several sarang lebah.w/o the lebah,that is.

so that was some of the highlights.

i might have some news to share in my next update.but,Later.

i have to peel the film of hyroxyl face mask off my face now.



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