PHEW! Another LOOOONG weekend, with so much happening, so no time to update at all.

First of all we had to rush to KL for various reasons: to see my Dad, and also because a very dear cousin had had a mild stroke, so we went to see her. Fortunately, it was just a warning shot from her body to say, "BEWARE! YOU ARE PUSHING YOURSELF TOO HARD!" so she is very well, considering. However, she is still in hospital but should be out by tomorrow. TAKE CARE, CUZ.

The journey up and down was something else which I shall be ranting about another time, however, another reason for going was, because this dear cousin was unable to use them, she kindly offered us her tickets to see 80s pop group BONEY-M! HAH! If YOU know what (who) I'm talking about, then you're probably of my generation! They were apparently one of the most successful pop groups of that decade, with many hits still regularly played at parties: RASPUTIN, SUNNY, RIVERS OF BABYLON etc.

It was held at the massive ballroom of the Sunway Lagoon Resort: there must have been at least 100 tables if not more. As it was a charitable event too (the tickets cost an amazing RM380 EACH) all the Datuk Datuks and Datin Datins, not to mention the Datuk Seris and Tan Sris etc were there, so it was at least 9 before the food was served.

Which, I have to be honest, was not really worth the wait. I guess serving 100 tables is not easy; it's bad enough getting the food to the table hot let alone cooking it properly. As the speeches and fund raising activities (an auction of a RM25,000 pair of earrings which went for just RM13,000 - I actually had the audacity to put my hand up to bid when it was at RM8000 but luckily for my husband nobody saw it!) had been rather long, they then charged the food through course by course: before you'd finished one the next was being served. I didn't even have chance to photograph any - as soon as the platter hit the tab le 10 pairs of chopsticks were sticking into it. The soup, served individually, was the only thing I could take a pix of but that was rather gooey: pure starch with a bit of tang hoon in it I think. The one good thing was the codfish, steamed with almost pureed ginger which was quite edible.

The only original member left of the group is LIZ MITCHELL (one on left in old pix on top) the one whose voice did most of the vocals for their songs; her deep contralto is quite distinctive. Unfortunately time had taken its toll and although still very attractive (in fact, more so than when she was young I feel), the sylph-like figure has become rather erh, shall we say ... matronly, although she was still able to belt out all the hits of yesteryear and boogie with the best of them. Sad to say, the muscular young man from the old group had been replaced, albeit with yet another of similar physique!

It was quite a good show, esp as she involved many from the "top tables" who were only too happy to get up and bop with her. It was quite sad to see everyone slithering their way there to pose with her for a picture for their "moment of fame". Our table was quite a way away so we could only see her through the huge screens which had been set up.

She put on all the old songs including some covers of other well-known ones like "Let It Be" and some Bob Marley hits. Strangely enough she didn't include "Mary's Boy Child" seeing as we are so near Christmas.

After that it was another battle to get the ticket machine to read our parking ticket - that took half an hour what with one thing and another - then the long trek back home before I could lay my head down for some z-z-z!