Rombongan Cik Kiah arrived at 11.30am from kajang/bangi in 2 odysseys consist of mummy, my dad, 3 sisters n 3 broinlaws, 2 nieces, 2 nephews plus 1 maid!! Sarat ngan muatan. Already arrived in ipoh from Kepala batas and taiping are hubby’s sister and bro with their spouses, with 5 kids running around. 

Nway, we started at 12pm. I ordered mi rebus, bihun goreng, roti jala, popia, kuih koci (yumm..best betul, i ate 4 of these!!), choc cake & curry puffs. Byk betul mknan! Best sgt!! Semua org dah kenyang sgt and i tapau some for them.

Nway, Luqman lah yg untungnya sbb dpt byk bday gift. Mostly are toys. De one I’m excited about is Thomas & friends train set. Bukan Luqman yg main tp makbapak dia…haha!!

And yg bestnya, Kak Su ada belikan bday gift for bday gal…Confessions of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella and one other motivational book (am I demotivated?)

Maid baru pulak smpai on Saturday. Mmg langkah kanan utk kemas rumah, mop and all for de occasion. She’s 39 and I hope this one will stay. Letih ok asek tukar maid jek..

Last week I went  on an all-expenses-paid trip to Melaka and Johor. It’s a 3 days 2 nites trip, mostly to check out latest development in both states on biotech and learn what we can.

Nway, 1st nite we went for seafood in umbai. But I dun know whether it’s my headache but I find the food not appetising. Sorryla to umbai seafood lovers. But the 2nd nite, we had dinner in Danga Bay’s Singgah Selalu restaurant. I’m not being biased just bcos I’m from JB, tapi mmg best sgt food kat situ. Yumm…

The Zon by the sea is a cool place to stay if u’re a clubbing kinda person. I’m SO not. So, I find the place quite loud and surrounded by pubs/clubs. The good thing is that it’s beside the zon shopping complex and I heard the occupants get 10% discount, but I was too tired to go shopping.

The more I travel alone, the more I was missing hubby’s company. It was no fun travelling without him. It’d be more enjoyable to go shopping and buffet breakfast with him. I’m sure I’ll eat e’thing on the buffet spread.

By the 2nd day, I was sick wth missing adik and abang so much. No more outstation pls…

i think Muslims in Malaysia think most food that we eat is halal. my sis who used to stay in japan, REALLY study the ingredients b4 buying a certain product there. but when she comes back to Malaysia, she becomes like us, taking it for granted. maybe u don’t, but i really do!! as long as there is a Halal logo…walla! it’s safe to be consumed!

that was the case, until last nite!

i watched a program in tv1 after work y’day – Dari J@kim. nway, in the program they showed how we can check food product b4 buying it, via sms. 

Just type out:

HALAL (barcode number) and send to 32728

 (not a real food barcode!!)

eg: HALAL 125002741350

and send it to 32728. then u’ll get a reply telling u whether the product ada sijil sah, atau tiada sijil sah, atau sijil luput. it will also state the product name, in case there is a product using something else’s product code.

so, my findings:

a malaysian ice cream WITH a halal sign has NO sijil sah. g@rdenia bread are ok. the canned c@mpbell mushroom soup is also ok.

tonite, we’re going thru our fridge and food cabinet.

next time we go shopping for grocery, i think is gonna take a longer time. plus an increase in the phone bills. but it’s surely worth it, than sending smses to vote for some reality program, don’t u think so??

did i get it rite? well, whatever..having a doctor hubby doesnt make me know all the medical term. in simple term, it is GASTRIC! and it is attacking me so badly.

i’ve been having terrible gastric pain since a few years back but none as bad as this one. i do think before i put anything into my mouth…but most of the time, i do surrender to the craving. imagine…no spicy food, no caffeinated drinks which means no coffee, sambal, tomyam, teh tarik, laksa, cili api and a lot more of my fave food!! and when i do, all the wind starts generating from me and struggling to come out. if it doesnt, then i’ll be having chest pain, pening and so on..

when i thot it was the worst, now is even more terrible. i can’t eat anything anymore. since a few weeks back i’ve been having stomache pain, but only when i eat certain kinda food. but since last week, the pain keeps coming no matter what i eat. and last weekend, the pain just doesnt go away at all!!

so, hubby puts me on a diet of plain porridge with kicap only. and occasionally, plain bread. and i’ve chewed on more magnesium trisilicate and gulped in more MMT (the liquid version) than i can imagine. since i’m expecting, there are other stronger type of medicine that he cant give me, cos there are no tests conducted on pregnant women yet. those that i’ve been taking is the A type, which is okay. but y’day he gave me another B type that he said should be okay. tawakkal to Allah. i pray that nothing would affect my baby… he has to cos he can’t stand seeing me in pain (plus of cos can’t stand my whining..hehehe). well, i also can’t stand the pain.

my parents, kak ja and family stayed over in my place y’day. and i was unable to be a good hostess cos of this terrible pain. i couldnt stand, couldnt eat, and it made them worried. and most of all, i couldnt smile.

 so i’ll continue the porridge diet in my path to recovery. i dont know how long but it’d better not be more than a week cos i have another wedding to attend next weekend and i wanna indulge in the nasik minyak and rendang and ayam masak merah…yumm!!

2.40 pm

this pain is so bad. i’d have gone home if not for an important meeting at 4pm.

hubby came during lunch to gimme some medicine…so sweeeett….

7.00 am 

today, my diet would be plain water and fruits to wash off all the toxic oily, cholesterol-rich food consumed for the past 3 days.

9.00 am

puan, ada jamuan raya di bhgn M pukul 10 pagi. jom pegi.

11.00 am

soto ayam, sate ayam + daging, rendang, lemang, teh tarik and kopi went down my oesophagus.

12.00 pm

tomorrow, my diet would be plain water and fruits to wash off all the toxic oily, cholesterol-rich food consumed for the past 4 days.

 du du du….