Focusing on the current things

Things are slowly coming back to "normal", as the family start to pickup pace. Mom is trying to adapt to the new routine without my dad.

Having said adapt, she's currently very cranky. She can't help it but to fiddle with every thing she can reach. For a moment you see her here doing the dish, the next moment she is there moving the chair. Restless.

We understand that's how she is dealing with the loss of the love of her life, we as the children can't say much except accommodating and helping her to spend some time out of the house.

She asked for the shop, my dad used to visit every Sunday morning. Before I left the small town, I remember we go for curry noodles in the morning before going to church. Food standard remains old school. Delicious as in, they offered what the price tag supposed to offer, rather than the new school you need to pay a bomb for a curry noddle with everything expensive in them.Even the bun, is steamed and spread with kaya butter.

Couple with 2 half boiled eggs, it totally bring back feeling of the old days. I love my dad, I know he's gone for now, and I am keeping the good memories with me and visiting these food places we used to dine in together, in remembering him.

It was supposed to be a short visit, so my mom can see me and junior's face. Apparently mom told my siblings to go back so she can spend sometime with the two of us more thoroughly. With that, I had to make a decision to go to mass as Sunday will be traffic jam on my way back to Kuala Lumpur. Church is as nice the week before. No I'm not a Catholic, but I like this place and I found peace attending Catholic mass, which I am now looking forward to spend that 1.5 hours every weekend.

After mass, hungry junior told me he's not too hungry. We didn't have proper lunch since our brunch at the restaurant was a little late, by dinner he should be able to eat a house. We got him a full portion of breakfast set, and he left me with the sausage.

I got ourselves a bag of roasted ground nuts. I prepared it for the next day journey home. I like to chew when I'm driving long distance, that keep me awake. I also ordered a cucumber juice and a glass of Milo. The cucumber juice is very cooling and smells green but the refreshing way. I wish they can blend in some mint leaf with it.

I ordered a plate of G Cheong Fun, technically translated as pig intestine noodle. It's not pig, it's just how they roll the rice noodle into tube and chopped it into small rolls of fat noodles. Somehow that "named" this dish pig intestine noodle.

Don't remind me again, when I looked at my plate of "intestine" noodles and the pieces of Chinese sausages and stuffed tofu, the picture of pushing the papper pig into the meat grinder came to my mind and I was having a hard time finishing the yummy and tasty traditional food.