Becklee’s Blog

As you all know, my mom was hospitalised quite some time ago. Then the Thursday before Chinese New Year she was re-admitted for the same problem. She was anaemic and had two blood transfusions. She also had to do a colonoscopy a second time.  So, they did so many blood tests on her that the major part of her right hand became blue black in colour.

On CNY’s eve, Ah Loot and I had our dinner at the hospital with mom. She had her hospital food, while we brought our own food there. That was to keep her spirits up. Anyway, on CNY day, she was discharged and we took her home. She was feeling down but the whole family was there to cheer her up that night.  She suffered from severe diarrhoea because I think she had too much of that drink they gave her to wash out her stomach and bowels before the colonoscopy.  When the diarrhoea didn’t stop after three days, I took her to see a doctor at a nearby clinic and she was given some medication which stopped her diarrhoea. That was a big relief. Just as well because some friends had earlier planned to visit us. Richard and Josephine brought the pork dish to my house because we couldn’t join them at their home for dinner. It was delicious and we really enjoyed it. Thanks pals. Then Dixie and Juliana came to visit as well and we had a great time, made my mother happy too. Dixie stayed overnight as we had a lot of catching up to do.  It was like in the good old days.

On the 8th day of CNY, we had a belated reunion dinner. Melissa brought the “yee sang” from Dynasty Hotel which was delicious. The rest of the food are home-cooked by Ah Loot and yummy.

Those feet belong to Melissa.

This is my cat Tiger. He got his name because he has stripes on his body but he is anything like a tiger because he’s a timid sort of cat. He used to fight with my other cat, Max (who has since died). Now that he’s all alone, he would walk around quietly in the house. Every evening, he will greet me when I come home from work by brushing his neck against my car door. Then he will walk close to my legs weaving his way between my legs and sometimes almost tripping me over in the process. As soon as I’m in the house, he follows me all around until I feed him. After eating, he will jump up on the table when I’m using my computer, toppling my photo frames over and everything else that happens to be in his path when he lands on the table. One time, my watch fell off the table and the glass broke. Another time, an orange rolled off the table and landed in the waste paper basket.  And yet another time, a pair of earrings fell off and disappeared for good. I probably swept it away or someone stepped on it and threw it away.

When I want to take his picture, he gives me these weird looks.

Finally, Tiger says, “If you want to take my picture, take lah”.

Ah Loot and I went to Secret Recipe together with Richard and Josephine to have our coffee and cake at Secret Recipe.  There is an offer going on between 3 pm and 6 pm – buy a cake and get a free coffee or tea. So we had the chocolate walnut cake, the peach cake and the durian cake.

Chocolate walnut cake

Peach cake

Durian cake

Black coffee and coffee with milk