Happy Mommy's Day

This day, being the dedicated day to all mums, is a very special one and a very happy one at best.

We kickstart the day by going to church. Theo was, together with the Sunday school kids, up on stage and performing the song "Mummy, you are my superhero" - better than Spiderman, better than Batman, better than Superman, anyhow, that we are better than all these other screen super heroes. But before he started singing, he went to the mic and shouted "lah lah lah" into it and caused much amusement. Then the Youths performed an impressive rendition of "You Raise Me Up", with 4 lead singers, 2 violinists and 1 pianist. It was, however, slightly marred by a sheer out-of-tune which was easily picked up by any ears. After that was the Mother's Day sermon with Ps V Soo starting with a joke on "Words Women Use" and on the life of Hannah. With the sermon ending, we then proceeded to a special lunch with a special menu "Yong Tau Foo with sweet bean sauce or curry sauce a la Malaysian style" or "Chicken, Mushroom, Chinese Sausage rice (Cantonese Zong Fan) plus entrees of deep fried spring rolls, samosas and dimsims with fruits and cakes for desserts. Finale was of course to cut a special Mothers' Day cake specially bought from David Jones.

Then it was off to our weekly IKEA fellowship in the afternoon. However, we ended up at Jamaica Blue for coffee within the same vicinity of the shopping compound. By this time, we met into the Alan, Sharon and their 2 sons and subsequently Leslie, his wife and daughter Zoe (who had just arrived from KL last night). And we got to know the Singaporean owner of the joint Monica who came here 2 years ago and took over and turnaround this franchise for over a year.

By late evening, the Ngus, Yuans, Tehs, Julia and Nabil and ourselves decided that our dinner will be at KAYU Nasi Kandar, the relatively new restaurant in Box Hill we have been wanting to try. So, there we were - 9 adults with 9 kids and 1 infant, what a strong continent we made our presence felt in the restaurant.

I tell ya, the food was so so good and the prices so reasonable, I vouch that I am going back very very soon again. We had nasi kandar with curry fish, roti telur (egg), fried chicken wings and you must try this- ROTI TISU!!! Yummilicious!!! We even got acquainted with Chef Sri from KL who, in my opinion, makes the most wonderful rotis. Whe he brought the gigantic and humungous ROTI TISU out, the patrons in the restaurant all gazed and stared and ooohed and aaahed at the sheer size of it. It was very crunchy, very oily (full of ghee/shortening/butter - i dunno which) and sweet with sugar and/or honey. It was in one word - heaven!!! so full of cholesterol, full of fat, full of sugar - so sinful yet so wonderful.

everybody enjoyed their dinner there and we thought maybe we should change our IKEA fellowship to this restaurant instead. Yah, we live just 5 minutes drive away from it. Whoo-hooh.