Food~ Glorious Food~

Everytime I think about food, Ice Age 2's OST comes to mind. I'm still not sure if I should be happy about that or worried.

Anyway, last week, I've been visiting Dad everyday. Weekends have been reserved for visitors so I've decided not to tire Dad out.

Also, last week had been pretty eventful. I found out I had high cholesterol and that I have low blood pressure (from an event I organized, but I'll blog about that in another post). Instead of worrying about it, I pretty much started food-hunting! In this post, I'll show you the food places I've been to just last week.

Yogur Berry @ Sunway Pyramid
First of all, here are some photos of the place itself. Yogur Berry is found in the lowest floor in Sunway Pyramid 2. They've offered a 30% discount to students in Monash Sunway who picked up this certain free MYC magazine so, my friends and I have taken a magazine each and we're all set for good yoghurt until June. Heh. (I'm including pictures from two occassions since I've been there twice thus far.)


They had a nice heart made of roses hanging on one wall. Mirrors were well employed to make the place seem bigger. The shop's theme was pretty much red, pink, white, and... sparkles o.o


A little table for kids.


Yogur Berry balloons.


Yvonne, Mei Lin, and Pui Ming. It's very rare for Mei Lin to join us so it's worth remarking her presence. =P


The food itself. They have two types of yoghurt base: snowy and frozen. The snowy yoghurt base is smoother. You get to choose 56 different toppings and a selection of syrups to place over your yoghurt. Fruit toppings taste better with the yoghurt, I might add. They have nice cakes with red bean pastes as well.


Pumpkin cake. Didn't dare taste it but Mei Lin ordered it on both occassions, so it should be good.


Pui Ming had hers with loads of fruits. Red bean seems to be a good choice too.


This is why I have high cholesterol. There wasn't a single fruit in my yoghurt. =X


More yoghurts. I was smarter this second round. My choccie yoghurt did not taste good at all! Fruits definitely tasted better with the yoghurt.


An attraction of yogur berry. They offer games of all sorts to play. This was us playing Jenga while waiting for our order. Mei Lin was pointing to the spoon saying that's her face in the pic. (Everyone else was hiding!)


For every RM10 extra you spend, you get a chance to shoot at that board and get free food!


They only serve a handful of cakes and two types of coffee: Kacip Fatimah and Tongkat Ali coffee. Hmm. The chocolate cake wasn't too appetizing. I was quite sick of it by the last bite.


My chocolate cake and coffee.


Yi Mei and Yi Peng were also with us on both trips. They're twins =P


Uno.


The Anpan that took so long to appear but did not have any red bean in them! They made another one for us immediately and gave us a complementary yoghurt.


Playing memory, for the lack of games to think of.

Yong Tau Foo / Cheong Fan @ SS17, PJ
I'm still craving for more!


Pui Ming waiting for our order.


Testing the sweet sauce.


Cheong Fan.


I just thought this picture was cool so I added it here.

Wendy's @ Sunway Pyramid
It was okay. I don't know much about the food her but it's pretty much like a fast food store with a great variety of burgers.


My grilled chicken set.


The chicken was so juicy!

J-Co @ Sunway Pyramid
Myself did not have any doughnuts but Pui Ming and Yvonne shared half a dozen themselves. I had coffee.


The place.


My cappucino.

Chow Yang Market @ SS2, PJ
We came here after our yong tau fu at SS17. Walking around did good for digestion. I had to park so far too. The stalls were literally set up around the block.

Latest Recipe @ KL Hilton (Le Meridian)
Uncle came to visit from Aussie. We were therefore invited for a nice free buffet dinner at KL Hilton where he was staying. (Edit: you know... there were little stirrers on the table that said Le Meridian as well but I was super confused when I got to the lobby and saw KL Hilton... and now I came across the Le Meridian website and the address was right but it's still just Le Meridian. So, I may be wrong about where Latest Recipe was.)


I didn't get to take good photos since, I was too busy eating! I only remembered I wanted photos after my tastebuds were satisfied. Hah. This dish has a funny story. My brother followed me to the Jap stall, next to the teppanyaki, to get lovely sashimi. We took lots of salmon and tuna; and my brother got himself tako as well. Well, he got slightly confused when I walked straight back to my table with all those raw fish. His words: "Jie (older sis), aren't we going to cook the fish?" I just took one good look at him and ate my salmon whole. He promptly gave me his plate and walked off to get cooked food. (Score!)


Dessert.


More dessert! =D I love bread, cake, pastries... well, any type of dessert!


My brother getting fondue.


How can anyone resist fondue =X (The dark chocolate sucks by the way. Milk choccie and white tasted glorious though.)


Marshmellows and cakes for the fondue.

Such a long post. Lol. Maybe I should've split them up... nah...

Not in the mood...

Recent Anime:
+ Katekyou Hitman Reborn +
+ Vampire Knight +
+ Kyou Kara Maoh +
+ Bus Gamers +
+ Shugo Chara +
+ Soukou no Strain +

Is there any newly completed anime around? I want to watch something without having to stop and wait for the ending. For some reason I feel like just wasting time away by watching anime without doing anything. Sigh, no mood to read a book either.

Just finished six asssignments two weeks in a row. A few more coming up. More club meetings and more event plannings too. I think I would like to retire from clubs next sem. I don't regret spending so much time on clubs this sem since, it made me face reality and made me realize that I'm really and seriously the studying type. Activities and etc tire me out. Planning events were fine when I was a teenager but now, I think I've had enough of event planning.

Will update photos next. Haven't had time to sit down and look at photos and sort them out. Will do so in the next post.

On another note: I slept for twelve hours after handing in my last assignment. *Happy!*

Dad's Condition

April.23.2008:Wednesday
+ didn't get to see dad yesterday or today +
+ stupid brother didn't ask and just drives home +
+ guess it's my fault for being not alert and sleepy in the car +
+ dad had fever last night... wanted to see him to know if he's okay +
+ apparently &#*$&*# nurses didn't change the tube and got dad sick! +
+ can't do anything but pray nothing else will happen +

April.18.2008:Friday
+ dad got his new needle to last by weeks instead of days +
+ he's eating more now +
+ hoping he'll be able to finish a whole meal soon +
+ uncle visited from australia +
+ had dinner buffet at KL hilton's Latest Recipe +
+ will show dad pictures tomorrow +

April.17.2008:Thursday
+ dad seems better +
+ dad's pulse rate finally dropped +
+ doctor confirms bacterial endocarditis caused by streptococci +
+ moved to normal ward +
+ realized the big difference in treatment from nurses +
+ now dad has TV to watch again +
+ still trying to get dad to eat +

April.16.2008:Wednesday
+ dad's condition is still the same +
+ heart still beating super fast +
+ doctor suspects bacterial endocarditis at the aortic valve +
+ some symptoms are still unaccounted for +
+ treatment has started +
+ will be hospitalized for a month +

Not Knowing

It's been that way for the past two days. Waiting in the hospital room with nothing but a TV, some newspapers, the Bible, and perhaps an elderly neighbour. Feeling dizzy and nauseous for almost three weeks, food does not seem appetizing at all. My dad hasn't eaten solid food since Friday afternoon. In fact, he was admitted on Monday afternoon into the hospital, as recommended by our GP, once they suspected something was amiss from his blood test.

Two days of testing and being in the hospital resulted in nothing more than getting negative test results or otherwise "normal" results. They took an MRI, an X-ray, at least 2 blood tests. No indicative results have returned. Nothing definite. Only hints of an infection, probably heart or liver problems but nothing definite.

It's disheartening.

Tonight, they moved my dad to the critical care unit only to monitor him closely. Sure, his blood pressure is high, pulse rate too high, and what else? The doctor said he was not happy and was worried if my dad's heart might tire itself out and cause daddy to collapse. I'm worried. At least the doctor has finally decided to do the blood culture to look for infections. (They should've done that last week!)

I can only hope they are able to tell what's wrong.

I want my dad to be okay. To be home with us. To be okay.

Tagged (by su lyn)

Okay, so I've finally decided to put this up. Lol. I'm not exactly bored but I'm most definitely unwilling to start/finish my reports due on Monday. I've already lost Thursday's night sleep and going through monthly pains isn't helping. So why am I here again? Internet connection isn't working fast enough for me to get a dose of manga/anime ;_____; So not cool!

 

Instructions: Remove one question from below, add in one of your own(personal), to make a total of 20. Tag 10 people in your list in the end of this post. Notify them.

1. At what age do you wish to be married? Married by 28 at least. I believe a certain sense of maturity is required if you're going to be married and commit to a lifelong relationship. Of course, if my darling proposes and I accept... that might be a different thing altogether xD

2. If you were to be stranded on a deserted island, who are the 3 blog buddies you'd take and why? Probably... joo, kenny, and chian. Why arr... Coz they're good friends and they seem to be the type who'd think of how to get out of the island and actually get all of us out? XD

3. Where is the place that you want to go the most? Japan!

4. If you can have 1 dream to come true, what would it be? To be able to travel around the world and live in places I've dreamed of as a kid.

5. Do you believe you can survive without money? I wish there was a way I don't have to be bound by money .____.;;; So, unfortunately, the answer is no. I would still need it to survive.

6. What are you afraid to lose the most? People I care about.

7. If you win $ 1 Million, what would you do? Build my dream computer... then my dream home... then my dream laboratory... then my dream library... bwahaha! (This is probably the reason why I would never win $$$!)

8. If you meet someone that you love, would you confess to him/her? Yes... but I'm a girlish at heart. I'd love it if he confesses first.

9. List out 3 good points of the person who tagged you. She's fun, quiet, and smart. Why are they good points? Because, it's why I admire her. XD

10. What requirement you wish from your other half? Wish from arr... If got nothing to wish for then how leh? I love him the way he is already... =X

11. What kind of person you hate the most? Inconsiderate ones...

12. If you are given the chance to go back to the past and make a difference, will you? Nope. I believe that everything you are today is because of what happened to you in your past. If you change something, you might not be who you are today. It'll be as though you've lost your identity.

13. What is your most embarrasing moment in your entire life? I don't want to share this... there's too many to consider... >.< lot ="(">

14. What do you think is the most important thing in your life? God.

15. If there's ever a war(or things that are similar) happening in your place, are you going to move to a safer place, or fight? Move. I'm all for peace and peaceful surroundings. If there's war, I'll run.

16. If you have the chance, which part of your character you would like to change? Sometimes I think I'm too self-absorbed to the point where I don't think about anyone but me. I'm trying very hard to change this aspect!

17. Who is the person that you can share all your problems with? Jesus.

18. What's your weakest point? Inability to express myself properly. I get misunderstood a lot. And I don't know how to explain that what they're thinking wasn't what I intended to say. Sigh...

19. If you can choose to be talented in one field, what would it be? Playing the piano. Well, I can play the piano just... I don't think I'm very good at it. I'd like to be able to play it and be able to perform.

20. If you were given a chance to live in your own Utopia (ideal world), would you take it? Probably not. My ideal world's kinda boring. xD

 

There. Finally. Lol.

I tag: chianli, chris, elisha, eugene, kenny, kyu, ming choi, xinn.

Random Blogs I've Visited Recently

Recently, after joining the innit community at nuffnang, I've been blog hopping a lot. I found out a lot about Malaysian bloggers in that they are certainly a very interesting bunch of people. Most of them made me think of how society respond to many things and how secluded I've been in my own world. However, there are many too that gave me valuable insights and made me glad I was blog hopping.

One of the blogs I found was Joie de Vivre. It's a christian blog by a born again christian that challenges christians and their faith. By challenge, I mean that reading the blog made me realize how imporant it is for Christians to step up and not only defend our faith but step out of our comfort zone and obey the command to make disciples of all nations. You should give it a read! It's definitely worthwhile.

April.07.2008:Monday
+ should have added this blog as well +
+ not sure if it's true +
+ but what if it turns out to be true? +
+ better help and be fooled than not help and be scorned +
+ The Journey of the Homeless: click for an interesting read +

 

Random thoughts

Reading other local bloggers made me really think that the reason why there are many who do not know that christianity is not a religion but a relationship is because there are so few of us making this clear to them. Many times we are just stating "religious" comments like "Christians should do this" and "Christians should do that" but we never ever say "Jesus said this" or "Jesus said that". Is our faith truly just knowing we'll go to heaven and that's it? Doing good work is just the first level of faith and if we do not know how to move on, honestly, why are we Christians? What truly makes us different? That we carry the message of love? NO!

I believe in eternal life and I believe that there is only one true God. I believe that believing in Jesus is the only way to heaven and that I am a sinner from birth. I believe that hell is real and I believe that Jesus died so that my sins are washed away and I'm saved from eternal damnation. I want to live a life worthy of Jesus in that I want to live every day knowing God's word and knowing that saving souls is more important than the next assignment due. I've been stumbling for too long in the dark not knowing if my sins are forgiven but today, I know that they are and I know that as long as I stand for Christ he will strengthen me.

Being a Christian is easy. It's true! I became a Christian at the age of 3 by just asking to be one. But the life I've lived since I was a Christian has been filled with such challenges that I've never truly wanted to share with anyone because of how personal it is and how difficult it was. Carrying the cross every day is real. The hardest part about being a Christian for me is accepting that all we can do is plant the seed and gather the harvest. As to whether the seed grows into a mature plant or if any seed grows at all, is up to God.