Finally, downloaded the photos from our recent (July) trip back home. We’ve only taken about 3,000 photos, so it shouldn’t take yours truly too long to go thru them, …ummm, a year should be enough.
Anyway, here’re photos of the folks we met, the old folks in particular.
Siblings reunite – Dad, Tuapek (eldest uncle), Jiko (second aunt) and Jipek (second uncle) at the Evergreen Old Folk’s Home, Kg Simee Road, Ipoh – This is where Jipek stays. Tuapek and Ah Mm (elder uncle’s wife) stay in another old folk’s home called, Moonlight Care Centre. Jiko was on a short trip from KL, by special request from yours truly, ahem… (What to do? We didn’t have time to visit KL!) We also bumped into Tuako (eldest aunt) separately, in the Ipoh house, but she disappeared so quickly, we didn’t have time to catch up or click some photos
This was our Old Folk’s Home trip. We spent more than half of the time in Ipoh in old folk’s homes or visiting people. That was our main agenda in Ipoh anyway. On the way, we met cousins from Thailand and Singapore. So, you could call this a pretty fruitful trip!
From Bangkok, cousin Alan and girlfriend; from Singapore, cousin Emily and hubby, Martin (yeah, they’ve shifted from the UK to Singapore a couple of years back), Ah Mm and Ah Mm’s sister (right most) in GP Food Court, Ipoh Garden East, Ipoh
Here’s another take of the same scene, with additional actors (Tuapek, Anu and the kids)
And for breakfast, why not some dim sum? – Martin and Emily having some quality time with her dad – Ming Court Dim Sum, Leong Sin Nam Street, Ipoh
Dad, Hazel, Anu and the kids, Ming Court, Ipoh
JUSTIN!!! Stop putting that bush on your head! ….Oh, what the heck! – At a flower pot shop – Thowlee Pottery Shop, Kuala Kangsar Road, Ipoh
Glamorous aunt with bush for hat (thanks to the kids). No, the flowers aren’t real
With Tuapek in our old swing in front of the Canning Garden House, Ipoh
The House of Leaves – That’s Aunty Nancy, our neighbour in Canning Garden. Her house is completely covered with leafy plants
And this is the House of Dogs – That’s what dad calls my Ipoh Granny’s house. She has ummm… 5 or 6 dogs in her little house. Meet Pho-Pho, my 94 year old maternal granny. She’s as old as Mahathir, and she can still walk and talk like Mahathir. She just has trouble remembering who the hell we are…
We also met up with Jason in Penang – Lunch at Queensbay Mall, Penang
The kids with cousin Stacey – at a Japanese food festival outside Queensbay Mall, the organizers named ‘Bon Odori’ Festival. Just Wiki’d it, Bon Odori is the Japanese equivalent of the Chinese Hungry Ghost Festival which is celebrated widely in Penang, but it ain’t in July? That’s a month early! …Just a marketing gimmick I guess, but what the heck!
And finally, somebody I dunno, but my sister knows. He’s a Hong Kong actor, Philip Keung Ho-Man. We were in a seafood restaurant in Tanjung Bungah, Penang called Tsunami Village. (Yeah, that’s the real name. Who names a restaurant after a disaster? Imagine a restaurant in Africa named Ebola Village Restaurant). Hazel told Jayden that the uncle sitting two tables away from us was an actor, and Jayden went straight to the uncle holding his mommy’s phone and asked “Are you an actor?” “Can I take a photo with you?” And the uncle obliged, and one of the actor’s friends took the photo with Anu’s phone!! Piece of cake. How I wished I had his guts!
Anyway, here’re photos of the folks we met, the old folks in particular.
Siblings reunite – Dad, Tuapek (eldest uncle), Jiko (second aunt) and Jipek (second uncle) at the Evergreen Old Folk’s Home, Kg Simee Road, Ipoh – This is where Jipek stays. Tuapek and Ah Mm (elder uncle’s wife) stay in another old folk’s home called, Moonlight Care Centre. Jiko was on a short trip from KL, by special request from yours truly, ahem… (What to do? We didn’t have time to visit KL!) We also bumped into Tuako (eldest aunt) separately, in the Ipoh house, but she disappeared so quickly, we didn’t have time to catch up or click some photos
This was our Old Folk’s Home trip. We spent more than half of the time in Ipoh in old folk’s homes or visiting people. That was our main agenda in Ipoh anyway. On the way, we met cousins from Thailand and Singapore. So, you could call this a pretty fruitful trip!
From Bangkok, cousin Alan and girlfriend; from Singapore, cousin Emily and hubby, Martin (yeah, they’ve shifted from the UK to Singapore a couple of years back), Ah Mm and Ah Mm’s sister (right most) in GP Food Court, Ipoh Garden East, Ipoh
Here’s another take of the same scene, with additional actors (Tuapek, Anu and the kids)
And for breakfast, why not some dim sum? – Martin and Emily having some quality time with her dad – Ming Court Dim Sum, Leong Sin Nam Street, Ipoh
Dad, Hazel, Anu and the kids, Ming Court, Ipoh
JUSTIN!!! Stop putting that bush on your head! ….Oh, what the heck! – At a flower pot shop – Thowlee Pottery Shop, Kuala Kangsar Road, Ipoh
Glamorous aunt with bush for hat (thanks to the kids). No, the flowers aren’t real
With Tuapek in our old swing in front of the Canning Garden House, Ipoh
The House of Leaves – That’s Aunty Nancy, our neighbour in Canning Garden. Her house is completely covered with leafy plants
And this is the House of Dogs – That’s what dad calls my Ipoh Granny’s house. She has ummm… 5 or 6 dogs in her little house. Meet Pho-Pho, my 94 year old maternal granny. She’s as old as Mahathir, and she can still walk and talk like Mahathir. She just has trouble remembering who the hell we are…
We also met up with Jason in Penang – Lunch at Queensbay Mall, Penang
The kids with cousin Stacey – at a Japanese food festival outside Queensbay Mall, the organizers named ‘Bon Odori’ Festival. Just Wiki’d it, Bon Odori is the Japanese equivalent of the Chinese Hungry Ghost Festival which is celebrated widely in Penang, but it ain’t in July? That’s a month early! …Just a marketing gimmick I guess, but what the heck!
And finally, somebody I dunno, but my sister knows. He’s a Hong Kong actor, Philip Keung Ho-Man. We were in a seafood restaurant in Tanjung Bungah, Penang called Tsunami Village. (Yeah, that’s the real name. Who names a restaurant after a disaster? Imagine a restaurant in Africa named Ebola Village Restaurant). Hazel told Jayden that the uncle sitting two tables away from us was an actor, and Jayden went straight to the uncle holding his mommy’s phone and asked “Are you an actor?” “Can I take a photo with you?” And the uncle obliged, and one of the actor’s friends took the photo with Anu’s phone!! Piece of cake. How I wished I had his guts!
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