of fish spa and middle eastern food?

venue: Pavillion
date : 7 June 2008

we had sent my mom to the bus station and had initially planned to spend a lazy day at home. i had felt like shopping instead and so, after sending my mom off, he suggested we go to another shopping complex - the Pavillion.

now, i have been there though we stayed only on the floor where they served food. it was still not fully operational then and we wanted to check it out then. this time, it was just the two of us. hand in hand, we found a relatively good parking spot, and whisked our hides away to the movie.

we agreed to watch "Indiana Jones -(something something Crystal skull?!?) Harrison ford is truly getting too old for this kind of movies but i must admit that it brought back memories. anyway, after getting the tickets, we realised that we had some time to kill. he mentioned this place where fishies eat away your dry skins. now, a new experience so soon after tioman? i was game. we paid after walking around watching others... and plucked up courage, paid and then we went...to wash our legs.

put plenty of whatever was in the bottle and rubbed our legs. rinsed off and to the fish place we went. we chose a relatively quiet spot and sat down. now, the fishies were eagerly bobbling up and down with their mouths open wide. i couldn't bring myself to put my legs in and took a while before i actually did. he did first and started laughing. i knew that it would be ticklish and indeed it was. after a while, one of the workers came to us and told us that the bigger the fish, the more ticklish it could be. we could try another spot where the fishies were smaller. got up, wiped our legs and off we went to another spot. same thing happened here except that it was less ticklish. by far, we had the most fish stuck to our legs. (a lot of dry skin i guess) and i think i won hands down ( i mean , legs down).

another group of people came and one of the girls was too squeamish to even dip the edge of her heels in. we kinda made friends and eventually did not think too much about the fish...only occasionally i would wriggle my feet to push them away. they never went far... they just swam back. a few times, i lifted my legs from the water and some of the fish never let go. it didn't hurt but it gave a funny kind of feeling.

all the soon, time was up. RM 35 for half an hour - expensive but worth the experience. i have only watched this on TV before and now i get to experience it. true, my feet and the 'darkies' around my heels were gone. once again we had smooth skin. i washed my feet, dried them with the towels provided and once again put on my socks and shoes. off we went and watched Indiana Jones - another experience altogether.

before the show, we also managed to try a Taiwanese snack, and we bought j & co. i still prefer big apple though :P i also sampled some jasmine tea in honey. very refreshing. after the show, we decided to walk around - apparently some call it shopping. i only ended buying s swimming cap. still yet to use it though.

the walk took us to this middle east restaurant. it's inside the supermarket and i love the ambience. plush sofas with lots of cushions. we chose a quiet spot - next to huge windows and it was turning twilight and so it felt romantic. i plonked myself, and dug into the platter we ordered. portions were small but it was pricey. i loved the tahini and some other paste which is made of aubergines. taste delicious with their bread. however, the lamb and prawns were just so-so. it was a different experience of course.

all in all, i had my foot free of dead cells, shopped a little, watched an old idol in action again (for the last time though i hope) and ate a little of different food stuff. it was a good day. sigh...sighing with a smile...