last friday she was in tanjong penaga due to a craving for hameediyah beriani. but it seemed hameediyah does not open on fridays. q ridzwan went to subaidah but it was already way past 3 pm and their beriani was sold out. hmm....
lily rose took her to paragon. after some retail therapy for lily rose (she did her masters dissertation in the morning), mother and daughter had hi tea at savarro (felda's). facing the grey-blue sea she had quite good nasi kerabu and green apple juice while lily rose had fried bihun.
but it was rather scary looking at how the spanking new mall incorporated the ancient uplands school building. she kept looking at the joint between the ridge of the old tiled roof with the huge new glass wall of the shopping mall by the sea. the proportion was weird. that was conservation at its worst, so blatantly hypocritical. the old building looked so forlorn, out of place and forced to submit. no more of its character, its sublime colonaded loveliness.
sometimes she wonder if the new breed of architects have enough willpower to defend their integrity in their material pursuit. i.m.pei's glass pyramid in front of the louvre is in its own class. well thought out in terms of proportion, function, effect to the environment, the local urban fabric.
this monstrosity in gurney drive makes a mockery of the very process of conservation.
and the high end foreign stores.... new age colonisation. subtle, unnoticed by most. its a matter of concepts. hmmm....globalisation.....
that nite while waiting for naj rose in a light drizzle, a cat came mewing by her feet. the cries had an urgent pang of hunger. she immediately gave a handful of maruku to the feline, all that was in her handbag. the cat ate them too quickly, proving that it was definitely very hungry!
she told bill ridzal to fetch some rice for the poor thing. then q ridzwan came with some chicken bones and bits. naj rose gave some fish bones. not much, but the cat ate everything. she felt so sad, the cat must have been hungry for quite some time. if only she had some fish too for the striped cat.
but it felt so good to be able to feed the cat.
all of them then went to b.p. it was already nearly midnite. she felt rather hungry. so they looked for some stalls to see if there were some packet nasi lemak. it was at simpang empat. all the stalls were closed. except one. it was a small warung manned by an arab. q ridzwan asked if there were any capatis. the man in white kopiah and jubah said no more capati but there was a plate of beriani rice left! she couldn't believe her ears! out of the deep black night,unexpected, incredible. beriani!
Subhanallah! Allahuakbar!
that night she had a really delicious chicken beriani with yummy acar/chutney, cooked by an arab!
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