13/10/08...a usual..tiring day... getting loads of lectures...seminars... palpitations if dato would ever appear and slice us..and coincidentally...its my 23rd bday!!!

was getting ready to go back until suddenly...the lights dimmed...and Shang and Sab appeared with EGGTARTS and candles on it!! how unusual!!

It was also post Hanis bday on 10/10...so we blew the candles together....too bad..the tarts were not Halal!! poor Hanis had to watch while everyone else munched the eggtarts and spilled crumbs all over.

luckily for me...the celebrations wasnt over! it was followed shortly by a simple and delicious dinner prepared by Ching Mun alone!!..at this point..Tek Jee was oledi thinking...'this lucky bas***d!!' (he actually said it out..so u can imagine how rare an occasion like this is )

from the first day i walked into the gynaecology ward....i knew it was far different from obstetrics..
no congrats for a new born....but many condolences for a life ended, coupled with the sorrows of infertility, cancer diagnosis, chronic aches and pains.....and u get the grim picture...

an aunty with stage IV cervical cancer was the first patient i clerked there... she cant move her legs, cant control her bowels, and was in pain all the time... took me 2 hours just to get a full history out of her... and subsequently... everytime i pass her...she wants me to sit down for as long as i can...talking to her...and moving her legs around...and the cycle continues the next day..
eventually, she learned to call out for me whenever she needs something... and i learned to try to avoid her visual field

this morning... Tek Jee and Feng took their patient, who has also stage 4 cancer, out for a stroll on the wheelchair...despite missing a colposcopy session

this afternoon...she developed some complications...situation became critical...we performed the last cycle of CPR on her...and she passed on around 5pm.

and wat my housemate did this morning... was probably the best and the most valuable thing anyone could ever do

as for me..i believe theres a better day after the sunset... and my faith in God gives me meaning in life and in everything i do

i went back to my aunty...inspired to give her my attention whenever i can..

i finally harvested my Kai Lan plot...just nice for 4 persons...but i gotta admit..although i planted it..its so fibrous its like chewing tree bark.. and although i didn use any weedicide, insecticide..its totally organic..but it still tasted bitter...EBM tat the bitterness is not from the watever chemicals...the 70+ year old Ah Mah staying beside my aunty in Muar, however, has this in her Kai Lan plot! if ur still wondering wat is it...yeah...its a MegaKailan!!! each leaf bigger than my hand.. and its ONE Kai Lan plant!! the Ah Mah also has tea leaf, sweet potato, etc etc...ensuring tat she never need to go pasar ever again. She just had phacoemulsification for her cataract, wakes up for tai chi every morning, rares 2 rabbits...and still looks tough like a tank!

i came back with renewed motivation to plant some other stuff in my little plot...stay tuned...

Legend has it tat a Sultan wanted to marry a princess.... he want to give gold..she says..beh sai! i want gold bridge..want to give silver..she say beh sai!! want silver bridge...then somemore want to drink 7 jars of virgin tears, 7 bowls of betel but juice..wanna eat 7 trays of mosquito heart.... kao peh kao bu complaint....then the sultan said....sama ho lu la..eh sai boh?? then she say...one more...one bowl of ur son's BLOOD!!! sultan tat time dunno one bowl wont die wan....anyway...He said 'siao cha bo##$%*() die la.!!!) ....and she lived there happily ever after..

the trip took us 40 minutes from Muar.. and some ambitious ppl wanted to climb it!! unfortunately, the sign there spells out the reason y we cant..


just a 30 minute walk up the mountain and ull come to a nice waterfall...since its drizzling tat time...the pressure of the stream was more powerful than usual...and its cooolllld!! a few dips and im shivering oledi...but the cold dun seem to affect Ching Mun though...haha





the old horse riding track tat my aunty mentioned has now became an ATV ground!! just for the heck of it since we havent tried b4, me and tek jee hopped on. me being crazy again, tried to rush up the slop, and me and the vehicle ended up in separate places. Tek jee was a bit more careful. just ended up ramming into a tree!!

and since Tek Jee brought 2 fishing rods, we tot we just give it a shot at Tanjung.. as it turns out...NO ONE was fishing there!!! it took some guts to climb down the railing hop around on the slippery rocks on the mud.. Ching Mun...ahem....wasnt too lucky as he dipped her legs into mud a few times....

so...as she went back up to find place to wash...it is up to Tek Jee alone to get a fish... in a low tide, polluted river. with onli one weight, which is thrown back by the waves everytime u cast out, and a china made fishing rod....with ppl all around watching...wondering how come theres a guy fishing here...waiting to see if he can even get an old boot...


and voila!!!! fish!!! against all odds... although just a small one...but still..a small miracle given the situation tat time.. bravo tek jee!!! tanjung hero!!

later on we were told tat the fish cant be eaten....so..too bad we didn get to savour the catch...but wat a happy day it has been....

and thank God for good weather, great company, my wonderful aunty and a trip i wont forget..

its been 3 years since i last step foot in Muar... everytime i talk like i know Muar a lot...but actually... i hardly know the roads there...so..this Raya...Im back!!! with Tek Jee and Ching Mun to have some fun and eat all we want!!

heres the real Muar otak-otak...compared to the KL wans which always claim to be from Muar..this wan has a lighter tone...not so spicy... and always much more deeelicious.

and thanks to Jen Ern for some directions... and for someone who grows up in Muar...this is only the 2nd time he has sat down and eat in the famous 'sah beh loh'!!!!.. hes the ultimate at-home-guy!!!!
and at nite... dinner @ Long Poh with my aunty...who just cant stop asking whether we are full and just churning out story after story bout me when i was young (she took care of me when i was 3-18 months old)... and probably still thinks im tat age!!!

and this is the scene at home when my aunty starts to tell stories...and she just goes on and on and on..........from 30 years ago till now...
super high LDL/TG fried oyester egg @ Bentayan....Hey Woon Lee...still no chance to eat this wan? yummy...
Dim Sum @ Bakri...very full (both the restaurant and my stomach)....and its so impossibly cheap tat we realised tat they calculated wrongly!! haha...another small town antic...

rojak and red bean ice @ Tanjung... luckily this time..all the food i mentioned is still prepared by the same old uncle/aunties... means the taste is still authentic Muar!!! keep it up ppl!!!!

and if u think were all gluttons...actually..still got somemore...i lazy to put up oledi... need to weigh myself now...see got any improvements a not...:)

Muar food...give it to me!!!!!