Friends make the difference

    Chinese New Year just passed by without me noticing it in the usual way. I was preoccupied with finishing my working roster. A dear friend of mine, Tiong, called me up and reminded me " Better enjoy your food while you can" and I couldn't agree with him more. The usual CNY dinner with our our school friends was on the agenda and this time it was more than a dinner. It was a show of support, a real concern for my ailment and of course to keep the spirits up. It was Sat 4th Feb and we met up at the Greenlicious Organic Restaurant in Damansara.

     2 days prior to this my body started to feel the effects of radiation. Firstly I felt a little bit "heavy" in the head and really lacking in energy. Sleep would be the easiest thing to do. I could watch the Astro and in between the commercial fall asleep for 4-7 minutes and wake up again. The saliva started to get saturated and thick. Drinking water was the best thing to do. Nibbling on Mandarin orange and grapes helped a lot. Slowly the taste buds started acting strangely. Yep! the effects of radiation was slowly but surely creeping in. Check out the Effects of Radiation here. Well I did expect this and now I am living thro it.! Just got to manage it. Period.!

The soup was great

       The dinner went well. The biggest joke was my bitter taste to everything. The chicken rice tasted bitter. The mushroom satay tasted bitter. Even the tiramisu had a bitter after taste.The only thing I enjoyed was the mushroom soup. That was great !

        So someone suggested to Chris, why not cook me bitterr gourde from now on and I would not know the difference.

Mushroom Satay

The night went well past the normal working hours for the waiters and the owner. I guess giving Ang Pow to the workers did the trick and we stayed on till 11:00pm.

The night ended well with great encouraging parting words and levels of support.
So thank you guyz once again for making the  CYN dinner a great evening.

The euphoria died down on the way home with our 2 daughters in the back seat of the car, talking about Marisha's flight back to London the nest day. It had been a whirlwind visit by Marisha to see me, attend her friends wedding, re-apply her IC which she lost, her driving licence and banking stuff. Wow what a night! It was past midnight when I fell asleep dreaming............!!

40 years of friendship...The Old Frees Chai, Lawrence,Me, Huat, Tiong, Patrick, Beng, Sunny

The Gang : Photo taken by Marisha