Yet more Pals & Barbies

Alice had organised a meeting with Becky for morning tennis at the hotel; although this is an old picture taken in Singapore when she visited us, since my pains last night had made my usual snap-happy finger fail. So I left the playing to them and afterwards we lunched in the Zipangu, where they did that female thing of both talking at high speed and yet picking up what was being told. The only disappointment for me was missing Don, Becky's husband. But we were running out of free time to organise that; never mind, we will certainly be back in KL sometime.

I then took a rest while the family visited the mall with the rides like a sort of mini Alton Towers. This was apparently a great success for Alistair and a little less so for Alice, who is not a fan of being turned upsidedown at speed.

And then time to head off for another barbie with Kirby and Lulu. Here I very quickly put my foot in it by asking how her nose job had turned out. With my collapsing body I tend to forget that some people have operations for reasons other than need; of course Lulu does not, as you can see, require beauty treatment. However some time ago Lulu had her sinuses done, something that I have been contemplating in view of my daily need to spray my nose. However my fears of further ops, even relatively minor, have been putting me off the idea. Once we had got this straight I got good advice but am still dubious about letting anyone carve further bits of me around.

Although this photo had insufficient flash and in order to see it at all I have had to "blah" the colour saturation, you can see Kirby above on the left followed by an old pal, Cesar, then Bernie's brother, whose name escapes me temporarily, and the usual fat lump on the right.

It was a great time for me since it is ages since I saw Kirby last and he is not only a really pleasant guy but also just converted from an employee to become an international consultant. There is something nice about hearing firsthand of nice things happening to one's friends, although since he is not the type to boast and this was obviously a result of his hard work he was reluctant to expand too much. What a pleasure to sit and chat comfortably (with a drink in my hand) with old friends. Of course with a high Filipino percentage the karaoke could be expected but tonight we were so far better off, here you can see a musical director getting the team organised, a close look will show that Kirby is playing the guitar and desperately trying to get sight of the music book.

Then, far too early the stomach complained and we found we had left my painkillers at the hotel. In spite of them searching the house and giving me what they found we were still heading back quite early; I am not pleased at regularly having to leave fun and friends but of course I am lucky still to be alive so shouldn't complain. And in spite of it being cut short we had a great time.