How I Celebrated Mother's Day 2013

It's not often that I spend time with my mum.. with her being in hometown Malacca, and me here in KL.

While we do meet up every month or so, but still.. that never seems enough. Weekends are always short!!

So, when Mother's Day came.. I thought I'd spend some time with mum. The idea was simple - to just spend time :)

And so, I went back to hometown Malacca on the Saturday. This is quite something for me, as I was just back in Malacca the previous weekend for voting. And to go back again is quite unexpected for me!

But, well I (surprisingly) did :)

The first thing we did on Mother's Day was to go to the temple and we then went to buy some pineapple tarts. I know these has nothing much to do with Mother's Day, right...

We then headed for lunch at this newly discovered restaurant, Baboon.. which is located in Hereen Street (aka Jalan Tun Tan Cheng Lock). 

This to me, was the highlight.. as it was the "Mother's Day" lunch for us.. though it's just burgers. But well, good burgers at a very lovely restaurant it was!

After lunch, we went back home to rest (Malacca weather is as always - hot!). 

Then in the early evening, we went for a movie. I've already watched all the blockbusters currently showing.. except for Star Trek. So, we went to watched this movie. 

I've never been much of a Star Trek fan, and well.. this movie kinda confirms it - for it's always bout the ship! It wasn't bad but just not in my favourite list. Mum however seemed to enjoy it more, so that was good. 

Post movie, was time for dinner. We tried going to one of the Japanese restaurants mum wanted to go, but that was full. In fact, lots of restaurants were full on that day. Wonder if it was because it's Sunday, or because it's Mother's Day or many tourist just haven't left the city!

But anyway, we just headed to one of the other nearby restaurants.. and it happen to be this Taiwan inspired restaurant. Which btw has a logo of cute Polar Bears as its theme.

The food was pretty standard - "Taiwanese" style. I kinda enjoyed it but this time round, mum wasn't so into it though.

Then it was back to home. And before going to bed, we had mum's own cooking of white fungus (and more) dessert. It was a nice ending to Mother's Day.

This wasn't a big day with lots of events or something really fanciful, but I enjoyed this day.. having spent my time with mum. Maybe, I might just consider going back Malacca more often? :)

Yay To Mothers Day!

It is not that usual for me to make it a point to physically celebrate Mother's Day with my mum for the past many years. Being in a different city and work has always been some hindrance in some ways.. and I guess I've never emphasised the day much myself (bad huh).

But I guess in some ways, I'm 'growing up'.. looking back at how hard mum has worked till today, and of course her love for the family.

So, this year, I made an exception and 'balik kampung' to Melaka to celebrate the happy occasion.. oh yeah! :)

The first thing I was greeted when I got home, apart from the happy mum's smiles is her cooking. I guess many out there will always agree that (your) mum's cooking is always the best.. and I can't agree more (well next to grandma's lah hehe).

While mum's cooking was for lunch, but we had McD for dinner.. Guess what? Mum chose it huh. Hehe. Well she hardly eats fast food but one big reason we had this this time round is cos we were kinda rushing for the movie thereafter. So McD it was.

Btw it's nice to note that we are eating McD together again after all these years.

I still remember the times my mum brought me to eat McD when I was a kid.. and collected all the goodies & toys!

Kinda deja vu in some ways though no toy now, but err.. yeah, I got that mug. Haha.

I stayed back a few more days (till today) in Melaka.. and spent a lil more time with mum. Btw apart from the McD & movie, it was also fun getting mum to walk on the 'padang' on top of Dataran Pahlawan mall on the way to the McD (was evening sun) :)

The other days were pretty fun too - we also had durians, went jalan jalan at the Mahkota Mall, tried a new kopitiam at a place we hardly go (the mee hoon kueh was not bad!)..  and also had the super yummy Filipino food at one of our restaurant (okay maybe my favourite hehe).

Masarap dinner.. at Laguna Filipino Restaurant

In all, I'm glad to have taken some time off to be back for Mother's Day. It was fun, and in any case just nice spending time with non other than mum herself! :)