Only wanna give it to you…

My friend, Yoong, in Perth, Western Australia, was in Thailand recently and on the way back, she and her husband stopped by Penang and just because she wanted to give it to me, she went through all the trouble of bringing the stuff all the way to Thailand and to Penang with her and send it from there via poslaju.

There was this beautiful set of drink coasters…

…which she chose because she was turned on by the Volkswagen van in the picture – she called it the “shagging van”, obviously speaking from experience. Muahahahahahaha!!!!

Then there were these equally colourful table placemats…

…that I love just as much especially with their very cheerful vibrant colours.

Other than those, there was also this very cute kitchen towel…

…in the mail that she sent from this exclusive high-class hotel on the island where she and her hubby were staying…

You shouldn’t have gone through all that trouble, Yoong – thank you so much! I do appreciate your generous and thoughtful gesture.

However, despite the assurance that it would arrive the next day – “dijamin sampai hari esok“, it did not. It was held up on transit in KL for some reason. According to the guy at the office here, there was a delay in the flight – probably some big shot decided to visit Sibu around that same time and messed up all the airline schedules, I wouldn’t know.

I was at my parents’ place that Saturday morning for my daily chore of babysitting my mum and around lunchtime, I headed on home to bathe and change and go to the airport to wait for my friend, Mandy, who would be arriving around 2 something that afternoon. I texted my missus to tell her that I was on the way and asked her to get ready if she intended to go with me to meet Mandy…and when I got home, the notice was on the table – obviously the poslaju people came before my missus got home herself.

I rushed to the office only to be told that the van was still doing deliveries and had not come back and I asked for their location and rushed there to get the parcel from the people concerned – luckily, they were in the vicinity, not very far away. The office would be closed by the time we got back from the airport (it closes at 3 on Saturdays) and I did not want to wait till Monday or worse, Wednesday as Tuesday, the 1st of May, would be a public holiday (Labour Day).

And when Mandy arrived, she, of course, brought a whole lot of things with her for me…

…when in actual fact, I only asked her to buy 5 packets of the meatballs gravy from IKEA…and she bought me 7! I did not bother to ask her how much as I was very sure she would never accept any reimbursement from me, not ever.

It certainly did not stop there for when Yee Ling landed in Sibu that same night, she gave me some chrysanthemum tea and udang kering (dried prawns)…

…and there was some roast duck as well…

Yummmmmm!!!! It was so very nice, so tender and juicy and very flavourful. I could sense a bit of five-spice powder and dunno what else…and since my missus does not eat duck, guess who had all of that to himself. Muahahahahahaha!!!!

Blush! Blush! This is getting to be kinda embarrassing – people are always giving me things…but like what my mum’s Indon helper used to tell me when she was working for them, in between sobs and tears, “I have nothing to give you in return but God will repay you abundantly!!!” Sobssss!!!!! Thank you all…