Last night, I dreamed my grandmother died. I woke up telling K about it, and ended up crying. Just called her and relieved she is fine.
We met up with Ah Ming and A today. Our plan was to drive to Palmerston North and visit the weekend Asian market for some fried you tiao and soya bean milk. Before that, we went apartment viewing again in the morning. We met another property agent Richard, a rich young chap who races in Porches and family is in the property development business. We saw 2 apartments, both of which were built by Richard's family business. But they too were not furnished. So we will have to pay extra to rent furniture. The second one we saw was lovely. 3 bedrooms, wooden floor panelling and huge. After viewing, we went to pump petrol and came across a row of serviced apartments that was advertising. We decided to go in and take a look. A guy named John took us into one of the units, and we fell in love with it and thought we will most probably get this one for the next month or so. The apartment was like the lodge we are at staying at now, except that it has 2 bedrooms and much cheaper at $35o per month. Where we are staying now was charging $500 for a 2 bedroom unit. The thing was, we had to pay one month's rent in advance, and they didn't really "service" the apartment. Towels and sheets will not be changed.. Strange why they call themselves "serviced apartments" though!
Anyway, we didn't decide there and then. Rather, we thought we would sit on it for a few more day and think it through. After all the viewing, we finally started our 2 hours to Palmerston North for some Fried You Tiao and Bean curd soup at the Asian weekend market.
But when we reached there, we went into a small Asian supermarket and asked the shop lady, who said there weren't any Asian markets on Sundays.
So anyway, we left the supermarket and proceeded for some delicious dim sum at this restaurant called "China Town". Initially we were still dubious as to whether the dim sum would be authentic / nice. But when we walked it and saw that the restaurant was almost full house, we took a table and sat. And never regretted it. The dim sum was 10 times better than the one we had at Sky City in Auckland. And the wait staff just keep coming out from the kitchen presenting trays after trays of delicious looking dim sum. Yummy.. I had my BBQ pork buns, chee cheong fun, porridge, BBQ pork pastry, pan fried carrot cake and deep fried calamari which was so good we bought another serving as take away to snack on. Here's a snapshot of what we had.
We met up with Ah Ming and A today. Our plan was to drive to Palmerston North and visit the weekend Asian market for some fried you tiao and soya bean milk. Before that, we went apartment viewing again in the morning. We met another property agent Richard, a rich young chap who races in Porches and family is in the property development business. We saw 2 apartments, both of which were built by Richard's family business. But they too were not furnished. So we will have to pay extra to rent furniture. The second one we saw was lovely. 3 bedrooms, wooden floor panelling and huge. After viewing, we went to pump petrol and came across a row of serviced apartments that was advertising. We decided to go in and take a look. A guy named John took us into one of the units, and we fell in love with it and thought we will most probably get this one for the next month or so. The apartment was like the lodge we are at staying at now, except that it has 2 bedrooms and much cheaper at $35o per month. Where we are staying now was charging $500 for a 2 bedroom unit. The thing was, we had to pay one month's rent in advance, and they didn't really "service" the apartment. Towels and sheets will not be changed.. Strange why they call themselves "serviced apartments" though!
Anyway, we didn't decide there and then. Rather, we thought we would sit on it for a few more day and think it through. After all the viewing, we finally started our 2 hours to Palmerston North for some Fried You Tiao and Bean curd soup at the Asian weekend market.
But when we reached there, we went into a small Asian supermarket and asked the shop lady, who said there weren't any Asian markets on Sundays.
So anyway, we left the supermarket and proceeded for some delicious dim sum at this restaurant called "China Town". Initially we were still dubious as to whether the dim sum would be authentic / nice. But when we walked it and saw that the restaurant was almost full house, we took a table and sat. And never regretted it. The dim sum was 10 times better than the one we had at Sky City in Auckland. And the wait staff just keep coming out from the kitchen presenting trays after trays of delicious looking dim sum. Yummy.. I had my BBQ pork buns, chee cheong fun, porridge, BBQ pork pastry, pan fried carrot cake and deep fried calamari which was so good we bought another serving as take away to snack on. Here's a snapshot of what we had.
Before we left the restaurant, we spoke to the lady boss, who also said she didn't know of any Asia weekend markets around. Looks like we have been given wrong information by Ah Ming's friends!After our delicious lunch, we drove around Palmerston North city center a bit, went to the information center to get some brochures, and then ended up in a shopping center. I bought a scarf, a singlet and 2 night gowns from Cotton on Body, which was having a sale. Then we walked around a bit more, and ended our shopping with some delicious Gelato ice cream. Ah Ming, being the overall mini golf winner, got his double scoop Gelato ice cream treat from us. = )
We headed too the bowling center after that, and booked ourselves 3 bowling games. I won the second game and got myself a dinner treat. Ming won the last game and got himself the next dinner treat. We did not bet on anything for the first game. Everyone kinda got bored after the first 2 games, so during the last game, we also played pool.
By the time we left the bowling center, it was close to 7pm. Because i was having the dinner treat, i got to choose the food so we ended up having Japanese at this Fujiyama restaurant, which looked dubious at first (cause it was not owned by a Japanese, prices were quite cheap, and there weren't many customers). But it turned out to be above average quality! = ) We ordered too much and had to pack some for take away. I had my salmon teriyaki, and this time the teriyaki sauce tasted normal without the sour plum taste. K had this set meal, which consisted of tempura, sushi, teriyaki chicken, potato salad, miso soup and chawamushi. Which i thought was totally delicious and a great deal at only $16.
We drove back to Hastings around 9pm after our dinner. By the time we reached home, it was 11pm already. Everyone was so tired that we fell asleep in the car, while poor K drove us home. K is already snoring in bed now, exhausted after the 4 hour drive today.. Poor baby..
Tomorrow is our 9th Anniversary. And K and I are going to visit the doctor's to confirm if i am pregnant. I am having mixed feelings inside me now, excited and worried at the same time.. A complete blur of emotions.. = )
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