Some greenery indoors

Found!! Green stuff indoors....at Midvalley Megamall. Try taking a picture without a single human being in it. Quite a challenge. It's Sunday night...and the usual mad rush to finish up stuff in preparation for Monday is in full swing. This includes the usual dipping of mood when faced with the dreaded Monday Clinic!!! Boohoohoo

A pleasant surprise

 I bought some stuff...and had to use the credit card. The pleasant young man who served me told me I was to collect my token one floor above. And there I went.

 Here are my tokens...with peter rabbit designs on it

And I got ONE of these plates free:) Certainly a pleasant and welcome surprise. You know how sometimes you buy more stuff just so you're entitled to a free gift. I am proud to announce that this was not the case this morning:) All purchases were needed!!!

No no No

Sometimes we make bad choices. This morning after mass, I chose to have breakfast here.It was daylight robbery, RM12:99 for two small pieces of toast, eggs with salmon ( no sign of salmon but you can just about make out the taste if you chew slowly) and tepid water-ed down coffee which tasted so yucky I left half of it behind. Things to eat whilst at Austen Chase would include some of the cakes...but I'ld stay away from the breakfast deals. It's just not worth the trouble.

Am home sipping homemade nescafe Gold with milk.

A review of Min International Salon!

Min international is near celli Cakes....Finnegans, Burger King and RHB bank. There! I've named all the main places of interest near by in that one sentence. After intense internet researching over two Saturdays ( I kid you not)....I decided that Min Internationl would be just the place for my next hair cut. When I entered the shop the smell of ammonia hits you gently....and it slowly envelopes you. I had a slight wheeze in the first 5 minutes of adjustment. After which time, I felt well enough to look around. I called for an appointment. Lucky that I did. The place was full. Most girls were having their hair coloured/permed. So its true what the net says, Korean hair Salons do different perms. I was served within 10 minutes. The lady who washed my hair was pleasant and chatty. The stylist who did my hair make a face when I indicated I wanted it shorter but smiled when I said not too short. ( I suspect he didn't want to make my face look any rounder than it was entering the shop..clever man). He appeared to know what I wanted. But I was nervous just the same. As I sat there waiting to have my hair trimmed, I had this strong urge to walk away and live with the mop.

I'm very glad I stayed. the hair cut was done very nicely. And he layered and layered and layered it. Apparently I have a lot of hair. I think my round head makes a bob hair-do the most appropriate style for now. Until I lose the double chin and then maybe we'll think about getting a slightly different look.

Love the hair today:) I'll recommend Min International for a good hair cut. RM60!

Banana bread

I found a picture!! Of the banana bread WNN baked for us. Here it is on my desk.....:)

Please try this!!

Now let me tell you why this is a great scrub. It's gentle. The sugar bits dissolve giving you a rather warm feeling. ( nice nice) And the smell is DIVINE! Puts me in an excellent mood each and every time. So please get yourself one. You won't regret it.

Bread for dinner!

We had bread for dinner today. With a dollop ( a very small one) of potato renamed potato salad by the owner of the shop. Some nerve! It was tasty so I'm giving it a 7/10. The sweet mustard dressing dripped like a small leaky cauldron.

Some delicious Olio and banana bread

I have friends who cook:) YOu may appreciate how this is a lovely thing if you realise that I do not cook. I did cook once in the dark ages. Thankfully the ghastly memories have morphed into something nicer. So now, when I recall cooking, I choose only to remember the successful concoctions I did. AJ cooked olio and we had a sample of it. WNN baked banana bread and I had it two consecutive mornings for breakfast. You may wonder where the picture of the banana bread is....I forgot to take a picture. When I did remember, there was only 1.34 parts of the bread left.

I want...but I don't need!

Pssssst.....wouldn't you also want to be a proud owner of this little-wee-palm-size gadget?

Naughty cat

Naughty cat, originally uploaded by Jo Ban.

My dinner was an interrupted one due to a certain kitty who insisted on rubbing his/her body against my calves. It didn't help that the tail whisk intermittent on my calves too. Most unpleasant experience. I will say this; cats are great hypocrites. I glared at the kitty and told it in no uncertain terms to BUZZ off. The annoying kitty purred even more and sat beside my calves making sure the darn tail came in in contact every few seconds.

I'm more of a dog person. Gimme a puppy anyday. ( Could I ask for a puppy just like the one in the Andrex advert please? thanks)

Art for Asthma 2009 Winner

Art for Asthma 2009 Winner, originally uploaded by Baylor Health Care System.

I'm fessing up now. I am asthmatic and have been having morning dips in the last 3 months. Still resistant to the idea of in inhaler. Don't ask me why even I can't answer it. What I have done is...hoovered yesterday night ...not missing any nook and cranny. And so no more wheezing. Which means those bloody mast cells haven't been releasing all those nasty nasty histamines,

A hoovering session a day keeps the wheezing at bay!

have a nice short haircut...

have a nice short haircut..., originally uploaded by sashafatcat.

It's time for a haircut. The ends are curling out and the top is flat. Picture this right now and you'll understand why I feel buck ugly most mornings.

Ward rounds

Noone wants to be sick here, originally uploaded by suikris.

Some days you feel like your working environment couldn't be worse...and then you see just such a picture and think...we don't have it too bad currently:) Silver lining!!! It's mid-week ...

Tidying up things before the christmas break

apple tree, originally uploaded by joanneliuyunn.

I shall be off for a week and a bit. Suddenly things start popping up and there appears (as always) the unexpected and the expected and the neglected to be seen to in the last week of work for 2011.

its raining!

its raining!, originally uploaded by joanneliuyunn.

It rained at 3pm. The Boom Boom sound of thunder was a bit scary.( And I was indoors at the time). When I eventually decided to leave for home ( about 1 hour after big downpour) so did everyone else. Which mean I took 1.55 hours to get home. What a waste of time honestly!

I left my phone ( accidentally) at home today. Frantically called a few folks to inform this. *beam* And I only had 3 missed calls and 3 text messages to deal with when I got home.

Here's an odd thing, 1.55 hours of jam...and I weirdly feel energetic. So I've hoovered and am doing some of the laundry today. Sometimes...you cannot explain some things:)

My presents...are all wrapped!

Almost as good as the window display at Lo'ocittane???  So here's my Christmas presents nicely wrapped and labeled. I got self some mini stickers which worked well to add to the aesthetics of the presents.

Interesting sight at the Curve

This may look nice on my shelf. Now all I need is to try and be more organize. Oh yes and practice some self control when it comes to buying chic lit books. There is seriously no more space on the shelf. The books are are piled in three no make that 4 piles in my study. It looks like a mini storeroom. And I have only myself to blame for this. Hoarder...that's what I yam.

Ma'Cik Biryani ( review yes more food)

 We had dinner here last night. A deviation from the normal. And certainly a deviation from what I wanted which was scallops from Vivo. The parents caved in to my suggestion. Psychologically a trump card for them. I then proceeded to feel bad. And we decided to not eat at the place of my choice after all. So allow me to write a brief review of the experience. We'll start with the decor. I'm giving it a 8/10 for cleanliness and I like the set-up. It was near the toilet. Which turned out to be handy.

 The mother had fried kuey teow. And here it is in the picture above. The kuew teow was smooth and texture was lovely. Really!. It tasted clean and maybe just slightly less salty than what we are normally used to. But no complains. I'm giving this 7/10. I've docked off marks for the lack of chilli-padi. We got it after asking.

 I had the sup tulang and white rice. The portion of the white rice was baby-size. Just as well I was under the weather and the appetitie wasn't the best. Tasted nice. But perhaps I would have liked it thicker. The meat bits were nice. It literally fell off the bone. So I'm giving it 7.8/10.

My father had the briyani. Yes if you come to a shop called Ma'Cik Biryani and you do not it any biryani it'll be plain ole silly. Nice and hot. And yes certainly something we may consider having again maybe early next year.  Overall experience was nice. The waiters were friendly and service was pretty quick.

I'm having scallops sometime this week tho....still feel cheated out of them;)

Spotted....a very tired longchamp

We had dinner at grandmama's at Pavillion. The food featured were similar to Madame Kwan and the concept looks similar. But I think Madame Kwan's food is tastier. Much! We saw beside a push pram. No baby inside. the baby was lolling about on someone's lap. But never fear, the push pram was put to good use as a work horse. Here it is saddled with many many bags of various shapes and sizes. Can you spot the longchamp in bilberry?

Red velvet comes in powder form apparently

I would like to know those of us out there who've tasted this and can vouch that it's nice. Saw this at Coffee Bean. Now isn't this an interesting gift set? I had hot chocolate peppermint. ( Maybe it's actually peppermint hot chocolate). Too sweet!! They could lay off the sugar a bit then maybe it'll be just nice.

Would you drink this?

Empty space....a nice feeling

Solaris Dutamas is finally coming alive. Despite vowing never to return ( after the car-towing incident by over-zealous DBKL folks...may their toes rot) I spent Sunday noon browsing the shops and enjoying the feeling of discovering new places.

I wonder what it tastes like

 The Big Independent Grocers was a treasure trove of interesting stuff to browse. I must have exerted self...because when I finally got home..I slept like a baby

FOUND it....vanilla pods!

WNN promised me some profiteroles .... my job was to find real vanilla pods. I nearly had a black-out when I found them and saw the price. A whopping RM44 something for a test tube of pods. That vanilla taste better be out of this world, or I want my money back. An interesting place what I like best about it was the great open space with few people. Hate josling elbows with folks and walking into push prams.
And so here are some of the shops I spied in my short visit there.
1. MPH bookstore with a good selection of books for children. They had seats which was nice.
2. I store  whoppee...I can pop over any time and get my ipod nano.
3. San francisco Coffee. Seriously BETTER coffee than either coffee bean or starbucks
4. Bens ( yuck I don't like their service)
5. Hallmark/tiny thots/some eyebrow threading place/ at least 3 hair saloons
6. British India homes
7. Just B
8. Caring pharmacy
9. Just Juice/I love U, Sushi trolley place I forget the name now.....and others.

Currently reading this

I enjoyed the first few chapters of this book very much. So much that I brought it along for dinner on Sunday with the parents. Today however, the dark side of the book has revealed itself. I'm not too keen on reading dark evil stories of mental torture so I must confess to skimming through those bits. Which leaves me feeling rather cheated out of the experience.  Erica James writes very well. Too well that those dark episodes which have dragged on for a few chapters has taken its toll on me. Am feeling rather gloomy. I shouldn't really. It's Monday evening, it's nearly 8pm and I'm in my jimjams reading stuff before I unwind for an early night.

Happy Week Ahead folks!