This morning I did a few things around the house before meeting Rimma for our first Bodypump class at Pavillion. Neither of us knew what to expect. The instructor was really nice though and helped us get set up with our equipment. We needed an aerobics step, a barbell and some weights as well as a mat. Rimma was a bit nervous when she saw the weights - I don't think it was what she expected :-)Both Rimma and I started with light weights - thank god! Before we knew it we were doing barbell squats, over head lifts, dead lifts, bicep curls, tricep bends and numerous other moves. The worst were the squats - she absolutely killed us! My legs were like jelly! Everytime I looked at Rimma we would grimace and then burst out laughing.
After the class, Rimma and I both agreed that this was much harder than Bodycombat but it definitely was a good class. Rimma headed home and I showered and got ready to meet Dad and Ann at Dome for breakfast. While we waited for our food to arrive, Dad headed over to one of the stalls set up for Chinese New Year and had his face carved in miniature in dough - sounds weird but was actually quite good. It took him about 45 minutes to have it done and by the time he came back to us, we had just finished our food. We sat and had another coffee with Dad before heading off again.
I dropped Dad's dough head off at my locker in the gym and then we walked to Bukit Bintang monorail station. We took the monorail to Medan Tuanka and then walked down Jalan Abdul Rahman Tuanku into Little India. We spent the afternoon wandering around the hundreds of shops. Ann bought a top while Dad bought a traditional Malay outfit - baja Melayu with songket. At Harrisons the fabric department store, Dad bought some more fabric for another songket and some other fabrics to cover the canvases he has on the walls in his hallway. We also stopped in at the craft store and I picked up some beads.
We continued walking along the road and discovered this amazing store - 5 floors of interior decoration stuff. The first floor was full of decorations for Chinese New Year. As we worked our way up the levels, we discovered more and more stuff. Ann bought Ross and I a star-shaped candle lantern - it was beautiful. Dad bought some black square cut-out shapes to put up in a grid on his lounge room wall. We were amazed by this place, they had so much stuff and it was reasonably cheap too.
By this time we had been walking for over 3 hours so we decided to find a train station and head home. We ended up at Masjid Jamek train station and caught the train to KLCC (well, actually we missed the stop because we were all chatting so we had to go back one stop). We dropped in to Santinis for a beer and waited for Ross to meet us. While we were waiting, Dad got changed into his baju Melayu (see photo) to surprise Ross. By the time Ross arrived, Dad had all the staff at Santini's trying to show him how to tie the Songket!
After a beer, we drove to Changkat Bukit Bintang and had dinner at the Social - it was really nice. From there we walked around the corner to the Thai massage place and booked in for one hour foot massages each. It was just what the doctor ordered. At the end of an hour we all floated back out into the street and into the car. We drove home and watched one episode of the Tudors before heading to bed after a tiring but interesting day.
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