.....times of refreshing.....

What would you do if you are having a day off but cannot go anywhere far, for example, you have kids at school and your spouse is working ? You have to fetch them from school and work at a later time but you still have the day to yourself? I guess most of us will sleep late on the day before and wake up late on that off day, then turn on the tv or surf net , play candy crush or some other games to pass time, probably get some fast food for brunch ? This seems sounds good.

However, I guess the best is to wake up early, run or workout and have a great breakfast after that. After a nice shower, do something that we wanted to do all the while , or even catch up a movie which we have missed at the small or silver screen. Finished all our personal work that we have been neglecting like writing a post for a blog, budgeting, working on our part-time income (if we have any) , update our CV (maybe that may land us in a better job), house cleaning, read a book and etc.

Oh...you may wonder why I write this ? Cause I did the former over the last weekend and somehow I felt lazy especially waking up late as it can make us a little less sharper and grodgy. So I thought, let's wake up early and do something useful if I cannot go anywhere far. Agreed?

Oh.. I was back at Niniq Bistro in JB  and had something light.

A ice-blended coffee for a hot day

Ham and cheddar cheese sandwich

Have a good and fulfilled weekend!! :)

I was on leave last Monday to accompany my wifey back to her hometown for the 'sweeping graveyard' or Ching Ming festival at the Nilai Memorial Park. Thus, it was a long weekend for me but then, the weather was really hot and humid in the mainlands. Oh I mentioned mainlands here was because I stayed in SG and JB, which was not too affected by the humidity due to the proximity to sea where we can still enjoyed breezy days, most of the time. Anyway, we survived the heat wave though we had the event in the hot afternoon, in order to make it convenient for everyone.

My kid trying to be a professional photographer, and being manja by his cousin sis and flanked by his little sister on the left.

I drove back from Seremban the day after, and it's been a while since we had Fuzhou dishes in Yong Peng. Thus, we are back to our favourite restaurant in Yong Peng at Hock Swee Hin Restaurant.

My favourite ... is it called 'Cangkuk Manis' ? Need that Sibu food mayor to help ... muuahahaha... In Cantonese, it is called 'Shi Chai Choy'

Fuzhou Noodles ... put some vinegar onto it and it's delicious!

Chicken in red wine... another favourite food of mine! It's very fragrant!

And, the Fuzhou soup. Somehow, maybe I had better Fuzhou soup in JB where they put crab meat onto it and I felt this one is so-so only.

Hock Swee Hin restaurant is located at 1953, Jalan Besar, 83700 Yong Peng, Johor, Malaysia.

Somehow I find it strange. Whenever there's a running event approaching, I will feel kinda regret for signing up for it as that will means I cannot go back to JB for that weekend, and I cannot see my family. Whenever, I thought it, I felt a bit depressing as I can only see them once a week and it's kinda sad to see my little girl face waving bye-bye to me when they send me off on Sunday night. However, on the other hand, after I completed each event, I felt like signing up for another upcoming interesting race, like standard chartered or sundown marathon. LOL ... Well, I have signed up for two events just after the standard chartered marathon ended back in December. I am doing two Half-Marathons, the NTUC 350 run next weekend and the Sundown night run in May. Thus, since I also needed to accompany my wifey home for the Ching Ming Festival this weekend, I decided to take a day off on Monday, as I will be seeing them two weeks later after that.

My running tee ... I purposely shade off my bib no. for the meantime... LOL

Since it was a long weekend last week in Singapore, I didn't collect the race pack by myself but asked my colleague to collect for me. Thus, I missed out on the exhibition booths which usually there are a lot of sports stuffs on displayed and errr... for purchasing. OK la... I save some money here...hahaha...but I didn't save on a dinner with my family. We had some nice seafood at Manhattan Fish Mart in Tebrau City.

My mini seafood platter, consisted of squids, fish, prawns and fries.

A dory fish for my kid

And fish and chips for my little princess and wifey to share.

Have a great weekend! :)