Month: May 2015

Additional Anesthesia Classes

Updating your anesthesia courses is easy to do when you take classes online. All you need is internet access in order to get the credits that you need that will transfer to your certification. Courses that you take are of a high quality so that you are getting the best education possible. Some employers will pay for you to take the courses so that you don’t have to spend any money out of your own pocket.

After you take the courses, you will be up to date on the latest technologies that are used in anesthesia. This could mean more job opportunities and more money. You will often set the pace as to how soon you want to complete your coursework. If you only want to do the work once or twice a week, then that’s your option as long as you complete the courses before the designated time. You can receieve documents and books in the mail so that you can study in a manner that is not computer based. There is a pre-test given after the course is complete so that you can see if there is anything you need to study further before taking your final exam.

 

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May Jinx And 6th Anniversary of Cassandra’s Surgeries

I think 5th May will always be an inauspicious day for me.  In fact, the month of May has never been kind to me.  Last year at around this time, I went through a harrowing experience when the dentist extracted my tooth (positioned abnormally in my gums). That was the most frightening experience for me as it was a very difficult extraction due to the positioning of the tooth.  Several numbing jabs were shot all over my gums. Two nurses had to hold back my head and shoulders whilst the dentist tried with all  his might to yank off that tooth!  I suffered for 2 months after that extraction.

Today – 5 May 2015, everything seems to have gone wrong and dreadful!  This blog that you are reading now, sigh… I am not sure how long more it can be alive before it dies again. My existing website host has quoted me a price of over RM8k to have the plan upgraded to one with a bigger memory and CPU. Yes you read it right. It is eight thousand bucks and subsequently, over RM2k per year to maintain the blog. That’s daylight robbery!!    I am in the midst of finding another host to have a transfer. Wish me luck in finding a good website host and for a smooth transition.

You would have also noticed that the header picture of this blog (with my 3 daughters) is no longer there. I have removed it to squeeze out some space so that this blog can continue to exist. Without memory, this blog is dead and will not be accessible anymore by anyone, unless I fork out RM8k to prolonged its life. I have also removed over 400 posts from this blog and my Health Is Wealth blog to get back some space 🙁

Next, I found out that my Pos Laju account has been blocked and I was unable to call the postman to pick up my customers’ parcels today, shit! Moments later, I realized that the Excel spreadsheet that holds data of all the online advertorials that I have been writing has been inadvertently overwritten by another document! And my back-up file has only been updated until early December 2014 (I should bang my head on the wall for not diligently doing a back-up!!). I have lost all my data from mid December 2014 through now, bummer!  And that’s not the end yet.  An hour later, when I tried to retrieve a very important Excel document on my online store customers’ orders, the Excel file vanished!  Just like that!  I searched for it at every nook and corner in my computer and finally found it in the Recycle Bin!!   You see the creepiness? How do you explain this phenomenon? All the bad things accumulated and poured out on 5 May 2015!!

Exactly 6 years ago today on 5 May 2009, Cass was operated on for a Uretheral Reimplantation surgery at GMC Penang.  Unfortunately two weeks later, she was operated on again as there was a complication.  Even a CT scan, Fluoroscopy scan and multiple X-rays carried out for 3 consecutive days were unable to detect what was wrong internally. See, I told you I don’t trust machines! And my poor baby had been exposed to radiation unnecessarily.  And now you see why I had to grit my teeth and spent over RM5k on Izumio hydrogen water for Cass? She seriously needs a full detox from her body, to get rid of all the radiation and heavy metals from her daily intake of medication (antibiotics) when she was a baby.

Long story cut short, when her surgeon told me that he did not want to wait any further for fear that Cass’ abdomen would just rupture (it ballooned up!), he did an emergency surgery on Cass and found a small kink at the end of her guts.  That kink was fixed and so was her appendix – it was removed as a precautionary measure.

This is Cass after her 2nd operation in May 2009…

After being cooped up in the hospital for 3 weeks, I could finally see Baby C smile!!  And the surgeon gave us the green light to be discharged on my 9th wedding anniversary!  That was the happiest day for me in 2009.

I remember praying fervently and hoping for Cass to fart and poop for the 3 weeks I spent in the hospital. If she could do that after the 2nd surgery, that would mean that she was well enough to be discharged. So folks, do not ever take for granted the simple acts of being able to fart and poop.

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Cass on her 7th birthday last month…

Dear Lord, please let the May Jinx come to an end right now. And may you bless Cass with good health always and help me to salvage my blogs without having to fork out RM8k!  Amen.

 

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Limapulo – Baba Can Cook @ Asian Heritage Row, KL

On our Labour Day holiday, hubs brought us to Limapulo to indulge in some good and authentic Nyonya food.

Nyonya specialities steal the spotlight at Limapulo on Asian Heritage Row, KL.

Limapulo is co-owned by hubs’ buddy, also named Alan. If you have been following my blogs long enough, you would have read that Alan co-owns several restaurants, of which I have previously blogged about his other eateries.  He is a former model, celebrity and now entrepreneur.  Very humble and down-to-earth, we have known Alan for decades, since he was a school boy!

Me, the girls and Alan kor kor — that’s what the girls call him.  As you can see here, Cass was in a foul mood at that time.

The first dish that arrived was the award-winning Nyonya Laksa Lemak.
”Simply irresistable: The Nyonya Laksa Lemak at Limapulo.  Baba Can Cook contains only fresh ingredients, making its preparation a tedious process. ” – The Star Newspaper

Living up to its recent Star People’s Food Awards, the Nyonya Laksa Lemak at Limapulo is indeed superb!  The spiciness level is mild. Initially, we ordered only a bowl, thinking that the girls would not be able to stomach the spiciness but we had to order another bowl when they could not stop slurping on the meehoon and gulping down the addictive curry broth, leaving none for hubs and me!

At only RM9.90 a bowl, the Nyonya Laksa is a hearty bowl of creamy goodness, composing of a generous serving of meehoon with fishballs, fishcakes, shredded chicken, fried tofu puffs and tofu skin, julienned cucumber and half an egg. The sambal that accompanies the noodles is superb as well and gentle on our sensitive tummies. Even young kids can tolerate the spiciness. The paste used in the laksa comprises no less than eight core ingredients such as shallots, galangal, turmeric, candlenuts, dried chillies and lemongrass, but the preparation takes a lot of work.

 

 

Hearty platter of Cucur Udang with fried tempeh, fried tofu, cucumbers and hard-boiled eggs, perfect for those on a low-carb diet.

Ayam Berempah rice set.

Pai Tee (Top Hat) @ RM2.50 each – hot from the fryer with delish filling and a fried prawn on each hat.

Nasi lemak

Refreshing cool Cendol and Ice Kacang with my favorite gula Melaka.

With so much food placed on the table, total bill was less than RM100, which is a steal, considering that the restaurant is located at a prime area in KL.  Most of the items on the menu are very reasonably priced.

It looks like I have found an eatery that cooks up delish spicy food at such reasonable prices. The girls and I love spicy food and we can’t wait to go to Limapulo again to tuck into their authentic Nyonya food.

The owners have also opened another outlet in Intermark called Limabelas. It is located at LG Floor (near Jaya Grocer).

Limapulo
26 Jalan Doraisamy
53000 Kuala Lumpur. (near Sheraton Imperial KL/Heritage House)
Tel: 03-2698 3268

From Limapulo, we segued into Butter & Beans @ The Row (also owned by hubs’ friend), located just next door, so that hubs could complete his meal with a cuppa gourmet coffee and cakes!

 

 

After a heavy lunch, we proceeded to Quill City Mall.  Hubs brought the girls for a movie – The Avengers : Age of Ultron and I did some retail therapy!  We had a very blissful and satisfying Labour Day holiday.  And for me, I couldn’t be happier knowing that we will have 3 more days of public holiday running consecutively, woohoooo!! 😀

 

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