Baba Kaps Doxology

I am going to begin this Post with ..

A FAVORITE photo taken in Kowloon back in September of 2011.

NOW A FAVORITE photo taken this trip!  ’THEY’ wanted to ‘shoot’ us below .. so to be a good-sport I agreed to ‘sit’ for a photo.

SO I ‘SHOT’ THEM right back!  When I get-it-going!  I GET-IT-GOING!

The above two photos were taken in my MOST FAVORITE RESTAURANT IN KOWLOON .. so TOO was the below photo!

In the above photo notice the number 4 on the left showing it is at table number 4 .. a different table from the below photo.

Then ‘I caught’ a lady shooting a photo. Actually I caught a lady beginning to shoot a photo with her cell-phone!  First .. I STOPPED HER!  Then I pointed out to her the above .. and the below signs!

THEN I pulled out my camera and SHOWED THE LADY MY TWO ABOVE PHOTOS of the ‘NO PHOTO’ signs.

THEN I SHOWED THE POOR LADY MY PHOTO OF SINGAPORE-RICE-NOODLES BELOW.

AND THEN SHE BEGAN TO GIGGLE !

She got-it .. me with all of my photos of the ‘NO PHOTOS’ signs and many others ..

So I shot a photo of her and showed it to her!

THEN THE OWNER APPEARED! And THE OWNER SAID .. “See the sign.” .. (see the number 2 on the right .. it’s a sign NO PHOTOS at table number 2).

SO I ‘SHOT’ THE OWNER! And he began to giggle!

And I ‘shot’ him again ..

And I ‘shot’ him (a ‘candid’) again ..

And I ‘shot’ him (another ‘candid’) yet again !

And YES!  Again I ‘shot’ THE MAN .. I HAD-IT-GOING AND I WAS GOING ALL-THE-WAY TO THE END-OF-THE-LINE!  You are looking back towards the entrance. The kitchen is to the right.

THEN I ‘SHOT’ THE COOK !

THEN I ‘SHOT’ THE LADY CASHIER !

THEN I ‘SHOT’ MY TWO WAITERS !

THEN I ‘SHOT-UP-THE-PLACE’ !

More Singapore-Rice-Noodles!

NO NO NO PHOTOS AT TABLE 7 EITHER ..

Moving-Right-Along!

NO NO NO PHOTOS AT TABLE 8 EITHER!

In the back straight ahead of you is a small ‘temple’ in the corner.

Below you see a closer view of the small ‘temple’ in the corner ..

From the street you see the below ..

As you walk into the restaurant .. this is your view. Way back at the far end of the restaurant you again see the small ‘temple’ I have mentioned above.

As you enter .. to your left you have the kitchen where THE ACTION IS!

WELL THERE YOU HAVE IT !

I ‘SHOT-THE-DICKENS’ OUT OF MY MOST 

FAVORITE RESTAURANT IN KOWLOON!

SMILES !  Cap ..

THANKS MIKE 99654 for your phone call this Wednesday afternoon! It was nice to visit and to get you to check out my other web site ..  the one I call .. Blogspot.  You can see on Blogspot that there are a LOT of photos on my other web site.

Some ‘Itches Scratched’.

SLEEPING WITH PATTI!

(I knew Patti would chortle at reading this! BUT it is true!) 

As you all would imagine .. living outside of the country for almost four months one ‘misses’ certain other things.

RED MEAT!

I do NOT eat much RED MEAT even when I am home BUT .. after four months without so much as a ‘taste’ of RED MEAT .. I get ‘hungry’ for it.

Yesterday .. as I have already written several times .. without stopping anywhere after I landed in Anchorage and picked up my baggage and was met by Patti .. Patti and I went directly to one of our favorite ‘steak houses’ .. ‘The Cattle Company’.  We two ‘split’ a small .. 8 ounce steak.

Today .. Patti and I went to a restaurant named ‘Pipers’.. out by Anchorage International Airport .. and .. I ate an 8 ounce patty of top grade ground beef.

Both of these RED MEAT meals tasted very good to me!  Both were VERY GOOD.

CAESAR SALADS!

Yesterday .. at ‘The Cattle Company’ and today at ‘Pipers’ .. we also ate CAESAR SALADS.  We ate two (2) Caesar Salads each day.

POPCORN!

Today I enjoyed-my-way through a large bowl of Orville Redenbacher’s Gourmet Popcorn.

TUNA FISH SALAD!

Canned tuna fish mixed with Costco’s Four Bean Salad and Sauerkraut are a staple of my eating plan here in the U.S. and one I SORELY missed during the past four months.

COSTCO KIRKLAND BRAND Chocolate Weight Loss Shakes.  I mix one 11 oz can of this with two quarts of water and gulp down a lot of LIQUID.  When home I drink quantum quantities of liquid. I also drink Gatorade mixed with water.

A QUALITY BED!

You have seen over the past four months the many times that I ‘doubled up’ the thin mattresses they tend to have in India. OH YES I did have some good mattresses overseas .. but in general .. they are not the nice thick high quality mattresses we have here in the U.S.

A CLOTHES WASHER / DRYER!

What a luxury these simple two things are!

MY WATERPIK DENTAL IRRIGATOR!

Oh how I missed being able to rinse between-my-teeth with a jet of pressurized water.

TELEVISION SPORTS PLAYOFF GAMES!

Ice Hockey and Pro Basketball (The NBA) games.

TWO HOUR PHONE CALLS with Grosser Behr and Kleiner Behr.  Some of you know Grosser Behr as our-man ‘Zilla!

50 F (10 C) TEMPERATURES!

Jeevan Lal told me it is 48 C (118 F) in Agra Cantt now. I live in Alaska because I can DRESS for the cold and NOT for heat.

AH YES.  I just ‘made-something out of nothing.’

SMILES .. Cap

How about the below ‘scenery’ ..

 Just being home in Alaska ‘scratches an itch’!

WHEW!

I just published a post below titled .. PUT THIS ON YOUR ‘BUCKET LIST’ .. PART IV .. and said ..

I SERIOUSLY DOUBT

that I will ever again fly a long-haul (over 10+ hours) international flight in economy class because in addition to the Business Class Lounges and having a bed to sleep-in you get special boarding and exiting privileges and the in-flight-perks in terms of food and service are awesome.

WHICH IS TO SAY that I had a great flight from Hong Kong to Chicago. I actually stayed awake for about five (5) hours before I laid down and slept soundly for a few hours. It helped that the flight left at noon-time and not in the middle of the night.

In Chicago I was through immigration and customs very quickly IN PART because the Business Class passengers exit first ahead of the economy class passengers so arrive at immigration / customs first.  I got a taxi to Motel ’6′ in Schiller Park near Chicago O’Hare and was IN MY ROOM within one hour (59 minutes) after ‘touching-down’ at O’Hare!  This was as-quick-as-it-gets I think.

This morning I was up and out of Motel ’6′ and I arrived at O’Hare 2-1/2 Hours early.  Security was a 47-minute affair! Quite-the-line and early in the morning at 7AM.  I ate very well at Starbucks and McDonalds (a McFlurry was $3.54 .. is this a ‘normal price’ I ask you?) and was absolutely the first-to-board the Alaska Airlines flight from Chicago North to Anchorage.

The 6 Hour flight was in economy .. last seat in the back of the plane and it did NOT recline because it was against the restroom’s wall.  A nap-or-two or three later we were landing in Anchorage.

Patti and I went out for Steak and Caesar salads at The Cattle Company and DID THEY EVER TASTE GOOD!

It is sunny and 50 F in Anchorage .. very nice.

At 6PM here in Alaska I am feeling the ‘fatigue’ of the past two days creeping-upon me.  After all .. I was up-all-night in terms of Hong Kong time.

So for now I will sign-off!

YES ..

I AM HAPPY TO BE HOME! .. Smiles .. Cap

Scroll down to see my earlier post .. PUT THIS ON YOUR ‘BUCKET LIST’ .. PART IV ..