A Perfect Night

Tonight is a good night. 

Before the clock ticked 830pm, all was busy and busy. 

Frenzy working, cleaning up, trying all my might trying to stop myself from scratcing the tiny red bumps across my body, and making sure I did not burn the pumpkin porridge while I fit the sofa covers back. All were crazy before I stepped into the yoga room for a 15 minute peace. 

Right after the shower, sitting in the living room with the golden porridge and toasted salted fish slices made the earlier manic rush so insignificant. The doubled-vacuumed floor, knowing Brownie (aka Brown eyes) was fed, and of course the air con (:>), plus Jesse Cook and hubby. 

I have not enjoy such a peaceful Friday night for a while. 

Good night world!

Visitor

Lucy came visiting one of the days. 

She has gotten a lot more stronger, better built, but somehow still manages to "yoga" her way out of the openings in between the gate. So she needed to be leashed unfortunately. I do not think my arms can survive another of her escape; be it carrying her back to the house or walking her. I think she would be walking me... I made a mental note to get a longer leash chain for her next visit. If I can't walk her, it would be humane to at least allow her to stretch her legs in the car porch. 

Came night fall, Lucy had a visitor. 

A new friend. 

The guard dog in our estate. 

I called her Brown Eyes. She has this lovely pair of brown gentle eyes. Why the h*%^ is she a guard dog? 

She had a good time with Lucy that night, running around the estate. Totally high spirits. 

Perhaps that was why she came back the next day. For her friend. 

No Lucy, only me. Well, she did not seem to be too disappointed because she hung around for a while while I tended to the garden. 

Ears pulling back, and tail down. Totally submissive. I think she likes me :)

I opened the gate, and stroked her for a while. That was when I saw her rashes, and her slightly sore eyes. I tried to bring her in for a shower, but no success. 

Went back to the house, took out the can of tuna that I was preparing for my lunch. I scooped some out for myself, and fed her the rest of it. 

She just gave birth to a litter. Having something other than rubbish would be good for her. The next day, we brought back some of the bones and chicken wings from our meals for Brown Eyes. 

I don't think I mind feeding her whenever I am in KL; I would love to feed her. Just an additional bit of rice with some of our food. Just like how mom fed Jackie, and our kampong dogs. They grew well and strong. 

Hubby still fed her whenever she came by after I left for Singapore. It kind of make me feel good to know she could still find food at our door.

Publika / Ben's Independent Grocer

About two weeks ago, I wanted to check out some cafes around Hartamas, recommended on a friend's facebook. I also remembered there was an area that was really nice the last we visited; double-storey shophouses and very nicely done up cafes almost everywhere. Hubby brought me about a year plus or two years ago when he was there to meet a friend. When I asked hubby if the mentioned cafes were any where near to where we been too, he had no idea. When it comes to remembering things, I am thankful hubby remembers my birthday, handphone number and our anniversaries. 

As fate would have it, we ended up in Publika :)

Publika is nice but way too far for us to visit even once a month; it took us about 45 min without jam. Christmas was less than a month away and we saw Christmas stuff selling everywhere. We saw a cool but almost bare Christmas tree, haha! 

The highlight was this fabulous supermarket that we chanced upon when I was taking pictures of a florist shopfront. 

As I snapped away, hubby went ahead and went into the shop and beyond. When I was done, went in and saw this amazing supermarket. 

The supermarket is known as BIG - Ben's Independent Grocer. This is not just a supermarket; there are cafes within the compound. 

Check this out - you can buy and have the oyster right in the supermarket?! We weren't totally sure, but that was the impression that we got when we were loitering around the area. Now I kind of wonder why did we not stop and try out some oysters...

Probably, the price tag stopped us... 

I counted at least three cafes within the compound. It was pretty amazing, I would love to hang out in a supermarket-cafe! Imagine after a session with friends, I can just buy the grocery before heading home.

Just as we stepped out of the supermarket, we saw baby marigold for sale!

I like marigold as much as I love sunflowers; because they seem to be smiling all the time. But it was a losing battle trying to get hubby to buy them simply because they could dry up first before we see any bloom!

Time; precious commodity

I realised a habit of mine recently, and I am pretty sure this is not unique to me. While waiting for my trading charts to load, I would be surfing, reading articles from my list of bloggers, or checking out articles on tips on how to take better photographs etc. Or even drafting out my next blog. Hmm... time has became really precious recently and while I still refuse to let go of my daily eight hours beauty sleep, I find myself doing so many things at the same time on my Mac that I totally forgotten what I wanted to do!