Happy New Year!

May year 2009 be a wonderful year for all. Joy, Happiness, Good Health and Wealth.


I have been neglecting my blog recently. Hee.. so sorry to all..

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

Tomorrow is Christmas eve.. then soon New Year's eve.. and we will be stepping into Year 2009.
This year has been really hectic especially towards the end.. I have been rushing for so many things in the past few weeks that I have neglected a lot of other things and blogging is definitely one of them.

Here, I wish you all Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and may Year2009 fulfills your dreams and wishes (all the good ones).

Cancer

I have previously blog once that my mother in law has a relapse for her breast cancer. Fortunately, the cells are those suitable for this new cancer drug which has marker targeted to "cure" them. This is called Herceptin. However, not all breast cancer cells are curable with this. Well, she is on her last chemo next week and then, if everything goes according to plan. She will be pronounced free from cancer (for now). It has been difficult as family members to support her emotionally. Although you tend to act normally but it is not easy. You will be more careful on the selection of topics you discussed or raise with her.

These days, cancer seems to be a very common thing. Is it because our generation (and those following) have worse cells and genes? Or it is because medical sector is coming up with more and more advance technologies to detect these? Has our living environment deteriorate so significantly to caused cancer? Has our eating habits and lifestyle caused this???? I have no answer.

Recently my own aunt (youngest) is also suspected to have cervical cancer. Apparently when you go for a Pep smear and if the report shows that there are detection of "CIN" it can be an indication of cervical cancer. There are three stages: CIN1 to CIN3, if it is CIN3 then it is definitely cancer. In addition, to confirm this, a tissue sample will be taken for biopsy. If this is the case, then the whole uterus will have to be removed. I cannot even begin to imagine how she must be feeling, the waiting and not knowing the results. To hope for good news but at the same time to prepare yourself to face the worse. Worrying everyday that it could be true. She sent me an SMS saying that she is really worried.. and honestly I do not know what to say. So all I can do is to stay positive when she can't. To have faith and give her faith when she doesn't have it. And most importantly, to be there whenever she needs.

I hope ... I wish... I pray... this is just a false alarm.

sigh....

Little Fat Goat - Mongolian Hotpot (non-Halal)

Hubby found this website:

http://sugarsugarbeanbean.blogspot.com/2008/03/xiao-fei-yang-little-fat-lamb.html

and was attracted to this restaurant. Since we had something similar at London before, we thought of trying this again to relive some memories and also to make a comparison. Of course we also like to try new things. So feeling adventurous, we set off to this restaurant last Friday for dinner. It wasn't difficult to find but it is quite hidden in the sense that it feels like it is not really safe since it was situated towards the end of the street and the street wasn't very well lit. Nonetheless, we have decided to try this out, hence we parked our car at an empty area next to the restaurant (beware of the street rats and it wasn't very clean!). Ok.. with all these bad review, hee.. actually the restaurant was surprisingly well lit inside and nice decor (very chinese theme). The waiters and waitresses are all very polite and you feel that they are genuinely happy to serve (we just had Nandos at Mines Shopping Mall the same day for lunch and the service was horrible! WILL NEVER EVER GO BACK THERE UNLESS THERE IS NO OTHER CHOICES!!!!!!!!!). Anyway... the prices of things are still the same as reported in SugarBean's blog. The hotpot (soup) for 2 type (spicy and clear broth) is RM22, regardless of number of people. The clear broth is loaded with chinese herb and very fragrant! I like the spicy one too, the spice is not too heavily loaded that it numbs your tongue within seconds (unlike the one we tried in London). The meat was sliced to nearly paper thin and hence it takes only seconds to cook them and soaked with the broth.. i can only describe it with the word.."YUMMMMM". There are many other choices of food too... too many to list out here.

Anyway, if you have the chance, I highly recommend this.
For now....enjoy the pics!

The descriptions of the benefits of the soup.

The dual broth

Paper thin mutton

The address.. if you can't see this clearly, please visit SugarBean's website. More info there.

Two starter (from bottom): Salted roasted peanuts and some sort of marinated beancurd and carrot.

The three dipping sauces (from top right clockwise): Garlic sauce, chili oil and sesame paste.

Starter and dessert menu

A long list of choices for the hot pot. Prices ranges from RM3 to RM30 per plate. All sliced meat (pork, chicken, beef and mutton) are RM10 each.

Our selection.. way too much for 2 people, we were really hungry and greedy!

Plus dumpling!!!!

Finish off with noodles cooked in the broth. YUM....

Complementary dessert. Agree with SugarBean about having fruits at the end... but couldn't eat.. too full....