Last night Lexi and I had our first experience of sensory feeding when we went to Dining In The Dark in Kuala Lumpur, as part of a colleague's birthday celebrations. Dining time was set for 9.00pm, with pre-dining beers arranged for 8.30. Baby-sitter in place we left home at 7.45pm and got stuck in traffic. Almost the entire motoring population of KL seemed to be on the road and driving towards the centre. Made worse by badly timed traffic lights, badly timed and executed lane changes by bad drivers, and road closures we arrived at the restaurant at 9.30, but were not the latest arrivers.
And so it was on to dinner. Normally eating multi course meals in Malaysian restaurants is a bit of a challenge, the main challenge being predicting which dish will arrive first and whether the dishes that do arrive arrive in the expected order. Now add complete darkness into that mix and chaos should have occurred. Surprisingly it did not and although the service was slow the courses did arrive in order and our party of 30 diners all appeared to eat at roughly the same time. Apparently we were served by blind waiters, but as I couldn't see it could have been warm, soft handed robots for all I knew. The various courses were good and I didn't spill too much of it down my shirt or trousers. Lexi, on the other hand, following our leader to our table managed to get dragged along too swiftly and end spilling most of her complimentary cocktail down her front.
Overall it was a curious experience.
The charity beard continues growing well and enormous thanks have to go the marvellous contributors at school who have, so far, put over RM275 into an envelope that I have waved under their various noses. The money collected by all the great unshaven will be donated to various cancer research organisations in Malaysia.
In other school based news I was delighted to learn that one of last year's iGCSE Drama students at my school got the highest overall marks in Drama. That student worked very hard and thoroughly deserves their accolade.