The key…

I got these postcards from Yoong…

…who’s actually living in Perth, Australia but she went to Sydney on a trip recently. Isn’t it so very sweet of her to think of me while on holiday?

Another friend of mine who is just as sweet is one-time blogger, Clare. She went to the Gold Coast, also in Australia, and she bought me this very nice key chain…

…and she also took the trouble to bring home the hotel key card so that she could give it to me. As a matter of fact, Clare has given me quite a number of hotel key cards from here, there and everywhere – it certainly is so very thoughtful of her to take the trouble every time she travels to do that.

Yes, I do collect key cards. I have a lot from those days when I used to go on working trips so very often – several times in a year, in fact but now that I’ve retired, I do not go around so much…so I no longer get to stay in hotels and add their key cards to my collection. Of course, some hotels would insist that you return the cards to them in which case I would do so obediently as I do not see any point keeping anything that people do not want you to have. Tsk! Tsk! So if any of you has been around and has any hotel key card to spare, do post them to me. I certainly would appreciate that…a lot! Thank you so very much in anticipation…

And last Saturday, my cousin in Kota Kinabalu sent me these beautiful mangoes…

…through a friend. He grows them himself at his house in Kuala Penyu.

So yesterday, I decided to make some mango-pulut (sticky/glutinous rice) dessert…

This, of course, is originally a Thai dish…and they also have something similar with durian as well. Oooo….that’s so heavenly, I tell you! We do have this in Sibu at a couple of places but I seldom go to those so I do not  get to eat it here. The first and last time I tried it at one of them, they did not have any coconut cream so it was such a disappointment.

Whenever I was in Penang, I would order this at the Thai food stall at The Red Garden, Penang Road to enjoy…but thanks to my cousin, I would not have to wait till the next time I go to Penang to eat this again. Yummmmmm!!!!

Thanks so much to everybody for  all the aforementioned. Cheers!