All in a day…

It has been a week, more or less, now since my 62nd birthday…

…and I got a cake from the outlet of that franchise place in town. My girl knows my favourite – their white chocolate macadamia…

…so she and her mum went and ordered that for me but of course, in keeping with the Foochow tradition, we had to have the longevity noodles, our mee sua (thread/string noodles) served in the red wine chicken soup…

…first thing in the morning plus the eggs to go with it.

We had dinner at home – it was a simple and quiet affair, just the three of us. My missus cooked these baked cheese prawns…

…and these lokan (deep fried clam shells stuffed with the lokan meat plus pork, minced)…

…and this roast chicken thigh…

…and a dish of fried broccoli and mushroom…

My brother-in-law dropped by in the morning to pass us these presents…

…from my niece, working in Singapore, but I guess they’re for us for Christmas and not for my birthday…including that bottle of Bailey’s coffee liqueur in the stocking and the bottle of Davidoff’s Cool Water…

…but yes, I did get some birthday presents other than what came in the mail the other day from my cousin in Kuching. My girl knew that I had been having problems with my camera so she went and got me a new one. Sometimes, I had to knock it against the wall to get it to work and the battery pack did not seem to recharge very well lately. My missus thought it was high time I put aside my antique mobile phone and use something more presentable…and right now, I’m slowly getting used to both. I guess old folks need a longer time to learn new tricks? The ang pao came from my sis and my good friend, Lim, and his kids dropped by in the evening and gave me this…

– another flavour that I love from that franchise cake place – the durian cream! He also gave me this slice of cheese cake…

…and the chicken cornish…

Oh yes! We did go out for lunch, a very light one but I think I would just leave that to the next post.

In the meantime, I really must express my gratitude and appreciation to everyone for all the Happy Birthday wishes and blessings in their comments on my birthday post the other day and the hundreds on Facebook, thank you all so very very much.