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One fine day in 2003, I decided to start a food blog to tease my sister and my mother who were both living in the USA. Somehow, along the way, I ended up feeding a lot of people just via the food pictures that I put up everyday. In 2005, I decided to take a break from blogging and just take it easy. So there were sporadic posts from my travels in the US as well as Germany and England. Now in 2009, I'm trying to pick it up again and start chronicaling my journey towards a better lifestyle that is more healthy than what it currently is right now.
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: : Heart stuff : :

Hi all. Sorry for the silence. I’ve been busy the past week helping my Sina’ look after dear old Dad. He went for a bypass surgery and is now recuperating at my uncle’s home. Operation on Monday last week and discharge on Saturday last week too. He can walk but slowly.

One thing I did learn though is not to make him laugh too much.

Anyway, putting up the link to the Cardiac Unit at the Sarawak General Hospital : http://www.cardiacsgh.health.gov.my/ . It doesn’t appear easily on Google so here’s hoping that when the Google bot crawls here, it gets Cached.

And as always, Wena is having a good laugh with all the comments from people nearby. Here are some of them from the nurses :

Uncle, we comb your hair a bit ah. Make you very handsome!
Singing is good you know. I be the next Malaysian idol! (after hearing the nurse singing softly behind the counter)

Well, Dad is alright. The Cardiacthorasic Unit at the Sarawak General Hospital is one of the best in the South East Asia region. Better facilities than in IJN (National Heart Institute), KL. And guess what? Dad did not need to have arteries or veins from his arm or legs. The surgeon took it from his chest and it was enough for 3 bypasses.

Anyway, time to wrap things up at work and rush to get Dad some Ribena juice.

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: : Updates : :

Ok ok ok. I’m sort of back. This was too good a story to past up so posting it now.

Been away for abit. Why? Because Blogger.com was lagging like mad a few months ago. It’s better today so phew!

Now to try and get back into the swing of things. My camera has been sitting in my cupboard for the past 2-3 months.

Just have to get over this bad allergy and I’m fine.

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: : Food Hunt! : :

Jan 15, 2005

Email from my sis :

Think you can find the coffee shop with the abandoned steam roller in this article?

Hubby says he wants to go there to eat laksa 😛

http://www.saudiaramcoworld.com/issue/200305/the.nonya.cuisine.of.malaysia-fragrant.feasts.where.the.trade.winds.meet.htm

Jas and Donnie were making their way back to Malaysia for a short visit here.

Scratching my head on where is a food stall that has a steam roller in Kuching near the wharf. Open air market good laksa meh? Granted that I’ve not grown up in Kuching but lived here for a few years.

Between Jan and Jul 2005

Asking various folks around who grew up in Kuching :

Dad : Hmm…no steam roller in Kuching Open-Air Market lah.

Min Yen : Nothing in Indian Streat. You sure about the steam roller bit?

Cousin Jack : No steam roller near Waterfront Front.

Uncle Cyril : Sure it’s not the famous laksa cafe near Maybank?

Starting to panic a bit. Strange that no one remembers this place.

July 12, 2005

Dad : Finally found out where it is. It’s the small coffee shop next to Grand Continental and the Indian Temple.

Oohhh! That one.

It’s Choon Hui cafe. The backstreet is a huge dual carriageway!! A very popular breakfast place and famous for it’s laksa and roti kahwin @ wedding bread.

The picture taken today. Jas and Donnie had a bowl of laksa here just before flying off to Kuala Lumpur. There’re there now.