Its common knowledge among my friends that i have an abnormal fear of needles. be it for blood tests or vaccination of any kind. which explains why i have not been vaccinated for hepatitis b or any other vaccines and that it is no surprise that when the company offered free H1N1 vaccines for staff, i declined. of course i dont want to be infected but i also do not wan to be injected. no sireee!!! no thank u!!
bt yesterday, two ladies from sum lab came over for a health talk. the exact topic was cancer. now this is a rather touchy subject for me as my grandmother passed away two years ago from cancer and i have a rather complicated relationship with my ovaries. so this topic really interested me. they educated us about the our food intake n bla bla bla n that we should exercise (weird that i froze my gym yet again just the night before eh?).
Then they told us that we shud check our husbands blood type before giving birth coz if u have a positive blood type n ur husbands is negative, then thrs a chance ur baby will be abnormal. and we also hv to check for thalessemia. coz if both u n ur husband are thalessemia minor then ur kid will be a thalessemia major, and thalessemia major babies dont live long. so heartbreaking... thalessemia is a condition whr u dont have enuf blood cells.
nyway! at the end of it they offered to steal all our blood n drink it coz they're actually vampires and distant cousins of edward! ok no they offered us a package whr they take our blood and check it for irregularities and 60 different things like cholestrol level, sugar level, tumor markers, iodine and so on n so forth. it would normally cost RM 400 but we were getting a corporate rate at RM 295.
there was only 6 of us thr out off like 600 ppl in dis huge building n only 6 decided to turn up. such ignorant fools these ppl are. offer them free food n all wuud turn up. haiya msians.. so since all the other 5 people sed they were gonna do it, i too dcided to let them rob me of my blood .10 ml's ok?? dats like 10 big mineral water bottles!! or u know.. close..
so of course we went thru the mandatory drama prior to them poking my veins, starring moi. turns out it didnt hurt much. ok im kidding of course it hurt!! not like giving birth painful bt it hurt alright!
so now we are to wait 10 days, maybe more coz of xmas n all for our results. im not counting on much for my cholesterol level coz i eat like a truck driver... and the rest.. i'll just wait n see.. bit nerve wrecking.. kindda like waiting for ur spm results... cept its worse...
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Thursday, December 9, 2010
My 1st Foie Gras
so a couple of nights ago jj n i went to pressroom in bsc whr my sister works. she wanted to treat us to dinner for organizing my nieces bday party.
i was really xcited coz i was gonna taste foie gras for the 1st time! im a avid food lover so to not have tasted foie gras before is really an embarrasment.
on the said day, i had too much time on my hands while waiting for jj to wake up from his nap n come pick me up so i went a lil overboard with the eye make up.
i hardly dress up to go out in public nowadays, so for me to put on full make up was really sumtin.
kak in suggested a few dishes she thought we might like but i had my heart set on the foie gras with seared apple for my appetiser, she suggested i get the fish for my main n i obliged.
jj had the king prawns (of which i eventually had half of) for starters n fettucini with shredded duck and mushrooms.
wen my foie gras came my face was glowing with xcitement! n den the camera broke down on us. a few slaps and throws later (kidding :p) it was ok agn bt i had wasted too many precious mins letting it go cold i had to dive in (hence the poor quality photos)!
and my face scrunched up wen i did. like eeew? ok im a pretty adventerous eater. in fact id eat pretty much anything u throw in front of me bt this just made me nauseous.
the texture was that of pure fat, u know the white kind u find on beef? and the taste was, well it tasted exactly like wat it was, fatty duck liver but it tasted so gamey. it didnt have that rich livery taste which i love! it was fatty liver.. literally..
i love fat! i eat spoonfulls of butter while watching tv (i kid u not)! i rarely trim my meat and i really like fatty greasy chicken skin.
but this was a whole new league of eeww.
it spoiled my appetite for the rest of the night. which was a shame coz the fish was quite good tho i prefered his pasta over it n dessert was awesome-
but we forgot to take pictures cos we were so full we requested for only 1 dessert to share, and ended up fighting over it. seriously sharing food w jj is a nightmare, he's like a hungry lion all d time its scary.
i love my sister very much and she's a wonderful chef, but kak in, nx time we go la bodega ok? she handles both restaurants and i tink la bodega is much much kinder to the palate, not to mention the wallet.
i was really xcited coz i was gonna taste foie gras for the 1st time! im a avid food lover so to not have tasted foie gras before is really an embarrasment.
on the said day, i had too much time on my hands while waiting for jj to wake up from his nap n come pick me up so i went a lil overboard with the eye make up.
i hardly dress up to go out in public nowadays, so for me to put on full make up was really sumtin.
kak in suggested a few dishes she thought we might like but i had my heart set on the foie gras with seared apple for my appetiser, she suggested i get the fish for my main n i obliged.
jj had the king prawns (of which i eventually had half of) for starters n fettucini with shredded duck and mushrooms.
wen my foie gras came my face was glowing with xcitement! n den the camera broke down on us. a few slaps and throws later (kidding :p) it was ok agn bt i had wasted too many precious mins letting it go cold i had to dive in (hence the poor quality photos)!
and my face scrunched up wen i did. like eeew? ok im a pretty adventerous eater. in fact id eat pretty much anything u throw in front of me bt this just made me nauseous.
the texture was that of pure fat, u know the white kind u find on beef? and the taste was, well it tasted exactly like wat it was, fatty duck liver but it tasted so gamey. it didnt have that rich livery taste which i love! it was fatty liver.. literally..
i love fat! i eat spoonfulls of butter while watching tv (i kid u not)! i rarely trim my meat and i really like fatty greasy chicken skin.
but this was a whole new league of eeww.
it spoiled my appetite for the rest of the night. which was a shame coz the fish was quite good tho i prefered his pasta over it n dessert was awesome-
but we forgot to take pictures cos we were so full we requested for only 1 dessert to share, and ended up fighting over it. seriously sharing food w jj is a nightmare, he's like a hungry lion all d time its scary.
i love my sister very much and she's a wonderful chef, but kak in, nx time we go la bodega ok? she handles both restaurants and i tink la bodega is much much kinder to the palate, not to mention the wallet.
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| Good butter = happy Janna |
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| sceptical him.. he hates pretentious fancy meals. pftttt |
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| my new nemesis |
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| Moment of truth... |
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| ehem ehem bluekk |
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eewww.... |
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| Barramundi fillet with bisque sauce and fresh asparagus |
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