Tak sayang body

I always get the morning appointment in Tanglin Klinik ( Kelinik Kerajaan Jalan Cenderasari KL ), I have to be there before 9 in the morning. I always arrive half an hour earlier so I can have my breakfast. There is the canteen across the road that sells all kind of breakfast from nasi lemak to breakfast kopitiam style consist of kopi, telur separuh masak and roti bakar.

What intrigue me is the nasi lemak stall sells the very lemak version of nasi lemak with various choice of very rich lauk pauk like sambal sotong, rendang daging/ hati/ limpa, telur goring, rendang ayam and so on. The queue is very long as the office people around the area come to have their breakfast ( from top gun to small fry, judging by the vehicles parked in the parking lot in front of the canteen ). Then in the afternoon the menu change to lunch and the same people will come for lunch followed by tea soon after.

We used to joke among friends, the govt is very smart, every govt office there's a canteen selling very rich food for breakfast,lunch and tea . People will eat the food and go back to the desk work in aircond office. After they pension off about one or two years they get heart problem! ( as if that's the govt fault! ).

The same thing happened to us last week in Paka. A few friends were invited by the owner of a villa resort ---RUMBIA, we stayed there for three nights. The last night we were treated with barbequed lamb,lobsters,cuttlefish and the food were in abundance ( the owner is a very generous man ). Since all of us are above fifty, of course our topic of conversations not far from the food that is in front of us. Thus the words like cholestrol,high blood pressure, headache and sakit urat and even imbalance dominate the conversation... like, I got to take double dose of cholestrol pills tonight, don't worry the lobsters in Paka don't contain cholestrol, or if you take three pieces of lamb it's okay but if you take four pieces, you'll get headache. or ..do you bring koyok, my shoulder already stiff after eating sotong bakar.

Not knowing one of the guests ( wife of one of the house guest who is a netball coach and well verse in physio exercises ) ,she couldn't help chipping in our conversations. She could't stand our pathetic words,scared of every food we eat. Thus she taught us how to breath and exercise properly ( starting from head to toe and if done properly it can last us about 30 minutes ) so we can be more fit and don't depend on those pills so much.

Her good intentions made some of us feel that we are not thaaat pathetic,we are only joking with the cholestrol thing but some of us took her tips with open heart. Yes, why not take it positively. Well, I have practiced the exercise this morning and I felt great.

Note: Rumbia consists of 100 three-room bungalows situated 1 or 2 miles after bandar Paka and its about 45 minutes drive to Kuala Trengganu ( we can go shopping in KT ). We can ask for boat rides and snorkeling to Pulau Tenggol which take less than one hour to reach there. The package to Pulau Tenggol includes food for the day.