A short holiday in Taiping and Penang before the birth of Angel!

Hubby and I went back to Taiping right after work on Friday. I remembered my last trip home was during Labour Day, May 1. It seem very very long time since I was back and I found there were lots of changes to my hometown.
Saturday morning was like a war day for me. Hubby is good enough to wake up on time and together, hubby, me and Mummy went to Restaurant Ka Ka to have my favourite bowl of kuey teow and lou shue fan. It was so yummy. Next, we went to the kitchenware shop and the shopping begins. We needed to buy a few things for our kitchen use and we successfully bought the following:-

• Stainless steel whistling kettle, 5 litres
  
• Wood chopping board, 12 inches
• Stainless steel chopsticks, 5 pairs
• Knife stand, plastic
• Stainless steel bowl, small, 15 pcs
• Stainless steel cake bowl, round, small and medium
• Stainless steel cake bowl, rectangle
• Egg tart moulds, small, medium and large, 10 pcs each
• Stainless steel pot (to soak Angel's milk bottles)
• Lesung
• Stainless steel turner
• Soup bags
• Steamer rack

The boss gave us good prices to the items we bought, since he knew Mummy very well. And we got good advices from him on the quality of each item. Somehow I felt secured buying things from Taiping, the people are far more friendly and honest than other places.
Next stop, we went over to the shop selling soya sauces, sesame oil and vinegar. I bought a bottle of soya sauce (recommended by Mummy), two large bottles of Ghee Hiang sesame oil and two bottles of Swallow black vinegar. I do not know if they are sufficient, if not we will get them in KL later.
At about 3pm, we went out again to exchange the broken lids for my Tupperware. And I bought a few new lids for Li Yin's tupperware too. So kind of the lady to exchange for us, courtesy of the good relationship with Mummy. Mummy cooked the vinegar pork for me to eat too.
At night, Ee Lin and her hubby drove from Juru to visit us. We went for makan makan in Prima restaurant. We had nice chat and I even encouraged her to be pregnant like me. Haha, getting more members to join my Mummies club!
The next day, we went to Penang. I wanted to go to Kek Lok Si Temple. Never been there for such a long time and I wanted to visit the Bronze Statute of Kuan Yin. Hubby was kinda excited and took alot of photos with our camera. Here are the photos he took:-


I personally like the few photos we had with our zodiacs. Mum's one is the nicest, the pig is simply fat and cute. And I represented the one for Angel too, as Angel will be born in the Year of Bull. The bronze statute of Kuan Yin is currently undergoing a renovation. They are building an octogonal pavillion for Kuan Yin and they are scheduled to complete by Dec09.
I am surprised that I could climb up all the steps to come up to the temple. Kuan Yin bless! After that, they had the Air Itam laksa. Hubby only allowed me three spoons. So I had my Si Ko Thng, something like Leng Chee Kang and the deep fried popiah.
Later, we went to Komtar and Queensbay to jalan jalan and had dinner at Papa's favourite bak kut teh restaurant in Jawi. Again, I was allowed to take only a few spoons of the soup. Hubby controlled my diet strictly.
Today morning was a rainy day. We had breakfast with Mummy and packed our stuff to go back KL. Thank you Papa for buying me fishes and vegetables plus my favourite guava. We reached KL around 2pm. And I vacuum the floor, Hubby mopped the floor, and I cooked dinner. And now, enjoying my few hours before midnite. Tomorrow, I have to face the reality, BACK TO WORK!
Overall, I consider this trip a short break for me and also a holiday just before we welcome our Angel!