Glad To Be Here

I’ve actually got an MC this morning from the doctor. I’m still feeling heavy head and bones with slight fever.

This morning was my doctor’s appointment in QE for the ENT department to check on my nose. The specialist has told me lots of things, some of which I don’t get what she meant, too many jargon. Anyway, all I know is that I need to have regular exercise, have my medicine, nostril pump and “nose wash”! She specifically reminded me not to use cold water to wash my face early in the morning and it is better to have some exercise in the morning before brushing my teeth. Mom has been telling me not to use cold water, this stubborn daughter just don’t listen! So now I’ve learnt my lesson.

I absolutely hate it when she inserted a long wire which contain a tiny camera into my nostril! Yaik! It hurts and feel really uncomfortable.

The ENT (probably stand for eye, ear and throut) is situated on the 2nd floor of the new block of Queen Elizabeth Hospital, connected right at the end of the overhead bridge from the car park. They have just moved over there a month ago. Everything seems so new, the air-con is cold, the floor is slippery, the toilet is squeky clean and there are still some renovation going on. They use peach as their color scheme which I though it is better than just the normal green or blue which normally used for hospital door panel.

There wasn’t a lot of people, infact quite few and I don’t need to wait long for my que, about half an hour. However the pharmacy is still situated at the old block at the back of the blood bank. But they do have a good system now that there wasn’t a long que for it and they all seems friendly and professional. I’m actually impressed!

After visiting the hospital, it makes me realised just how important to have a healthy body. I saw one middle age man, probably in his late 50, took one big bag of medicine supply for 2 months! It contains almost everything for diabetic, high blood pressure, cholesterol, vitamins, pain killers! Lucky me that I only need to take a 2 months supply and will need to go back there for review in two months time.

At the moment, let’s make it a habit to wash my face with warm water and do regular exercise.

Didn’t know that I had “sexy hair” before until this morning a total stranger told me that, probably she is in the salon business. So now what am I? Goodie hair style or maybe boring hairstyle to her *grin*. So maybe next time I’ll change back to curly hair again, when I’m bored with straight hair.

This morning, my staff are happy with their Kuih Lapis from Sarawak, a treat to them on my birthday but none of them realise that it is my birthday *grin* Shss.. just want to keep it that way. A few close friends of mine knew so we are going to have our curry fish head over lunch, yumm… even the one who has moved to other department remember that, so he is also invited *grin*. Going to have a lot of catching up to do.

This slow network haven’t help at all. The above suppose to be out this morning and yet it is still here in the draft folder. So now am back from our Krisna’s Curry Fish Head, definitely a must try for locals here.

Let me start this post with this:

Sun set view from the window of Hilton Hotel. The sun set later compare to Sabah as Kuching is a bit further to the left of the globe. It also gave us a feelings that the day is still bright even when it is already 7pm.

On the 2nd day, we went out to look for our relaxation time from body massage. We were welcomed by a double rainbow! Not so clear from the photo though.

Then came across this which already got some people waiting in line to take photo.

We started off our body massage with the compliment ear candling..it is not painful at all, just showing my silly face.

After that, didn’t take anymore photos.

Then the following night we took water taxi to get across the Sarawak river for our Mee Golok. It took us less than 5 minutes to get across, by the time I was ready with my camera to take more picture from the boat, we have already arrived. It cost us RM0.40 for one trip per person.

View from across the river with all the nice lighting.

My Mee Golok. I still prefer our local Ngiu Chup. The black source is actually extra soup for the noodle.

Next thing we did was to get some Kuih Lapis or Layer cake which is the local delicaci that one must try when visiting Kuching. Seen here is shelves full of different kind of Kuih Lapis.

This is really the end of Kuching trip’s photos.

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Goodnite, it is pretty late now, little Mer already sleeping on the couch here in my in-law’s place, I better make a move.

This is going to be full with photos, I’ll try to put in those relevant and beautiful one (I hope). Before that let me share something first. I had really bad headache when the plane was landing, really terrible one. It happens twice on both ways. Probably due to my block nose but it never happened before, not this bad. What came into my mind is that what if I just explode on plane, blood vessel broke? I would have just die there? Anyway, am totally safe now and hope my next trip to China will not have this experience again. I don’t think I’ve bought any travel insurance for this trip, not like when we went to Australia years ago. Probably an extra medicare insurance would help.

Enough of that worry, let’s start the photos from the first day of visit.

View from the hotel, overlooking the Parliment House which is still under construction. At night it looks like one of the tower in “Lord of the Ring”, those Gothic style house.

View of Sarawak River from Waterfront. It has a very nice shaded walk-way.

The look of the street full with old structures and with Chinese look.

Then we walked all the way to India Street which the taxi stand is right at the end of the street. That’s where we got our taxi to UNIMAS on the first day.

This is how it looks like from the taxi stand. I like the direction plate.

End of photos sharing..

Yup, am in the Hilton Hotel Cino Restaurant using their free 15 minutes access , need to make this super fast.

Our plan later is to take the water taxi over to the other side of the river, get our Mee Galak and enjoy the night view from the other side of Kuching. A friend of ours from UNIMAS will be bringing us around, then will meet up with Anton’s brother-in-law there. Hope to have a great night and am sure to buy more Kuih Lapis to bring home. Colleagues at home will get to enjoy it for sure.

This PC that is being set with a timer will automatically disconnect me when 15 minutes is up. I don’t have a laptop, if only there is laptop for rent and maybe with a cheap laptop rentals comes with wireless internet connection, that would be good. But, oh well, dream on for me here, especially in this part of Malaysia but then it could be very expensive. Okay, time is almost up. Will write again if possible.

This is to continue from the previous blog post and yet still no photos *sigh* So I’ll just keep this short.

We started the 2nd day with a rush, woke up at 6 something, got ready and went to have compliment buffet breakfast in the hotel, lots of choices but limited time and small stomach to enjoy them all. Then we were the last two getting on the University’s bus to UNIMAS resource center.

Started the course in a cold room for I forgot to bring my jacket along in this trip! Fortunately our friend is kind enough to borrow his G2000 jacket to me. But i only get to enjoyed the warm for a few hours as later he himself felt cold and was wearing it all through. However I was still fortunate to get another blazer for the afternoon session from a kind librarian here.

With the coldness like that, I think I need those body fat as protection layer to keep me warm and won’t be needing any of the nuphedrine (diet pill) to get rid of them.

After the course, we went back to Hilton with a 48 seater bus! Yup, no longer with a mini van. We straight headed to enjoy our body massage which come with free ear candling! That was a relief and pampering time for us, however, after that my neck is still stiff.

The following things we did was to have dinner in Barong Tinuk which according to our friend, this is where the West Malaysian will come to dine. Anton ordered Nasi Goreng Dabai (pronouced as “dabao”). Well, I don’t quite like the taste of it, but the Tom Yam soup is yummy! RM5 with two prawn and lots of crab sticks.

After that was to have a stroll in the northern part of Kuching where we get to see our hotel from the other side of the river. Too bad I didn’t take any photo.