A gift!

 I got a thank you present from my group of year three students together with a card.

I look forward to having the apartment smelling nice soon. Just waiting to clean the mess up first.

Early to bed

This is my attempt to read something academic. If you look carefully enough, you'll see there isn't anything remotely intellectual within the picture frame. What you will see is my favourite magazine "Easy Living" which gives me lovely ideas for presents and sites to go for window shopping.  I've been sleeping at 10:30pm the last few days.

Wondermilk!

The tray was interesting

 We finally made it to Wondermilk Cafe at Publika. So let me just bring you through our experience. Seating arrangement looks better from the outside. When you're actually inside, the seats to the right look cosy but in actual fact are anything but. If you're lucky enough to get the corner seat facing the i store then that's a good view for people watching. Just to deviate a little, the folks who were there on Tuesday were the usual crowd but one lady stood out with bright orange ali baba-like pants with billowing wides made obviously to cater for those tree-trunk thighs out there. Teamed with heels and clipperty-cloppin away the outfit was ugly.

Vanilla milk for me

Okay, back to wondermilk. I had vanilla milk. It was delish. Only problem was the weeny sized paper mug I had. not good.

Bite-size portion. Good for dieting but poor value for money

 WNN had this. When it arrived I hooted with laughter. Thought it was a joke. It was smaller than my palm. And let me just say I have small hands. So it wasn't a joke. This is apparently what you SHOULD expect at wondermilk if you order this exact thing.

The counter where we were served

The folks serving us were lovely. Chirpy and smiley despite it being after 7pm. And they even loaned us a pen for me to doodle. I will probably return to try some other stuff. But not when I'm famished.
Overall experience 5.5/10

Farewell!

The card 

 As of this next month, we will be one less in the department. Another lost to the private sector. Whilst I mourn the lost of not just a colleague but a friend, I 'm acute aware that this cycle of events will be repeated over the next few months.

The food

 And true to the Malaysian style of celebrating just about anything, we had a feast. Here are the condiments. Spolit for choice. Nonsense, you're meant to pop every single thing on your plate and mix it up with the rice.

The blue cyanosed rice

Here's our rice. Nice and blue...which is how most of us felt today. Byebye WM we shall feel your lost acutely in the department. We wish you well in your new place of work.

Birkenstock anyone?

Right..I got myself a pair. This must be one of the new versions which will now withstand water. Not that I have any intention of wading in any pool of water anytime soon. But tis the rainy season ( again?) and it'll be handy to wear this en route to violin class.

Egg-ohs

Chocolate egg-oh

 I found this lovely sweet shop and bought quite a bit of sweets and chocolates. Here is just one of the eg-g-ohs. Isn't it lovely?

Somebody sat on THIS egg-oh

This is what happens when you sit on one of them. Not intentionally of course. That would be bizarre!

Taiwanese food

Here's my latest obsession....Taiwanese food. I found this at the Food republic at Pavillion. And the subsequent day I had taiwanese noodles at a restaurant at Sg Wang Plaza. Anyone else know where else can I go to sample Taiwanese food in KL??

This is a surprise

This looks suspiciously like a macaroon!!!! Found at Starbucks Plaza Damas. Anyone care to explain?

A dented kettle?

The usual way to serve hot green tea

 If you have never tried eating at Pasta Zanmai, you should. It's on of the few places where the food has remain consistently tasty and yummy. And more importantly, the portions have also remained the same. We headed there for dinner yesterday evening. Having never been there during Saturday night before, we found the place 98% full.

How my hot green tea was served yesterday evening:)

I'm guessing they ran out of their usual utensils and had to fall back on an OLD dented kettle to serve me my hot green tea:) Hahaha

Taipei 101

The arrows are clear which direction we're meant to be heading to

I love the people of Taiwan.  I also love the cold weather. Here are our pictures en route to Taipei 101. We stayed at the Hyatt which is linked to the tower. The walk there was lovely.

Things not to chew..include BETEL nut ( hee hee)

 We didn't go up the tower. Financial constraints + long line of people + cloudy skies. It was eventually the correct choice. We did have dinner there sponsored by the drug company and we couldn't see anything from the window.

I dare you not to go " Aaaah so cute"

 I saw this adorable little girl posing in such a animated manner I just HAD to take a picture. I also posed like so but I won't be posting THAT picture:)

Taipei 101 from the bottom

Brr rrr brr it was cold that evening. Temp dropped to 12 degrees. And there was a bit of wind. I had a truly lovely time in Taipei. What touched me most was the politeness of the folks on the street.

Someone explain....

I saw this served for breakfast last week. Did I have it? Nope! Having just recovered from an eye-opening dehydrating diarrhoea on my birthday I am now more conservative in my eating habits. So I challenge readers of this blog ( go on you KNOW you want to comment) to explain this to me. Tried googling black bread and I got a site linked to black Russian-speakers:)

Just realised it's after midnight..so I should rename this post BLACK monday:) Hope its quiet and I get to go through the day in a good mood!!

A spot of lung disease updates!

COPD and ASTHMA updates by world experts

I spent the weekend in Taipei which was absolutely lovely. Google was wrong, the temperature dipped to a chilly 12 degrees on arrival. I nearly had to dress like Heidi ( Not Klum but Spyri's Heidi) The speakers were very good. And they walked us through the new GOLD guidelines for COPD and the rational behind changing it. That was useful.

Held at this lovely hotel

 The hotel was nice. My only complain was the lack of free internet service leaving my fashion outfits expiring within the first few hours in Taipei. En route to the hotel, I spotted a Starbucks, so when the concierge said no free internet, I immediately thought of coffee at Starbucks. Sadly...you must pay for wifi there as well. Aargh! So no facebook-ing during the weekend. Which wasn't at all bad because we roamed the streets late in the evening only returning past midnight with tired bodies and emptier pockets

A spot of photography during the Q+A session

This is a picture I took with the zoom of the G11. My favourite in the set of pictures taken indoors for the moment. I shall upload more pictures in the next few days.