Since i start my working life, and since i met a guy who loved cooking, we start to make our own dinners at home sometimes, usually during weekend.
This was our yesterday's dinner
[Clockwise from top left] Corn syrups, red wine a.k.a Ribena, Organic potato crackers from Sydney (Inside the container), main course (consists of Italian creamy pasta with hams, potato salads, mini steak, cheesy mussels and own made wedges)
Tonight's dinner: Our last night's can't-finish pasta (microwaved again still can eat - Don't waste food mah) and own made thin pancakes with honey.
Just a sharing, and is good to cook at home, coz this really can save alot for us. Shall share more with you all in next post.
My project is already very lag behind. Suppose should have some data comes out by this July or august and submit abstract for one important presentation next year, as in my planner. Now it is end of May, and i still in the process of enrolling patients into my study. To get a minimal data for an abstract seem nearly impossible. I should be more patient, claiming this unfavourable things will happen especially it is just beginning of my project. Somehow, i don't feel ok when i see others (my collegues/friends) who do researches have some progress in their project already (yet they started later than me), while i still struggling to count how many more patients i need over the time, to have enough samples for me to run a test. The worst it is and the most i worry is, i maybe won't get new funding for this project if no promising data comes out. And now, i left no single cent for this project. One of my ELISA kits is going to expire on this September, sienz, how i able to get all my patients within these short periods?
Our DG has confirm this afternoon, that first H1N1 flu case in Malaysia, which is a 21-yr old student who had just returned from US recently. The patient is now admitted in Sg. Buloh hospital. And, it is very likely that Malaysia will have more confirmed cases come out. So dear friends, stay healthy and drink more water. Don't get yourself fall sick.
One more suspected case admitted to Sarawak General Hospital this morning, now they reset the H1N1 alert where most places are blocked to access again.
This is not a good news for me because: 1) Higher chance for Malaysia to get a confirmed H1N1 case (Since Thailand has two now), and then i maybe will be quarantined because i will be very blur enter one of the infected areas in hospital, then maybe my family, colleagues, friends... it will be severe far beyond my imagination now
2) Lower chance for me to enroll patient for my project, patients rather go to private hospitals which don't have any H1N1 case. Sigh...
It's Mother's day today, and everywhere was packed with people. At first i offered to cook for my mom at home, but they prefered to have pizza. We went to Bella Italia for our dinner tonight, which 4 main course cost us about RM 140!
This time i didn't buy anything for my mom, because bo lui after the KL trip last month. So i joined a writing contest for Mother's day last week, and unexpectedly, i became one of the three winners. (Yea!)
There you goes, the prizes consisits of: One free 1 kg cake, One free 1hr
foot reflexoroy, One free bouquet of Carnation and One free make up course worth RM188.. Total value is about RM 300 plus.
The Carnations
Tiramiasu, which worth RM 59
So i brought these for my mom, though she said she prefer something more "realistic" (handbag, perfumes or cash, perhaps.) ==" Anyway, thanks to Ivoq concept for giving me this chance of winning again. Again, i wish everyone Happy Mother's day before it clocks 12 am. lol. Have a nice working day tomorrow.
I think i am just too free while waiting for patient samples (7 weeks - 0 patient enrolled!!). End up, has become so addicted to this game. Very soon i will be murdered if supervisors find out i shake legs and do nothing! In that case, maybe i should open a real restaurant as my new career instead of doing research.
Few weeks ago, I was in KL to attend workshop and one scientific meeting.
Attending workshop and conference just like learning new things again.
And also means eat.. eat.. eat..
At Sheraton Imperial Hotel
Vegetable pie and Raspberry fruit cake (during tea breaks)
Attractive, nice deco but not so sweet desserts
Fresh oysters
More sushi for us to choose, and I liked their California Roll
Sheraton hotel also offered us a free buffet lunch for first two days of workshop, and they do have western cuisine (got roasted sirloin!), malay (nice satay I ever tasted), and Chinese (can choose asam laksa, Cantonese soup, chicken soup for noodle, and add whatever side dish you like) in each small section for us to choose. Hmm, this was the best buffet I ever had. Blame the short lunch break that caused me can’t try all the food there.
At Hilton Hotel
I have another scientific meeting at Hilton Hotel after that workshop, and because more than 1,000 participants attend, the hotel offered lunch box for us during lunch hour. They do offer Chinese, Indian vegetarian, Japanese, Western, Thai menu for us to choose during 2 and half days conference. And the lunch box is just like an airplane meal.. This was their Chinese menu lunch box
Well, it can’t beat the grand buffet offered by Sheraton Imperial Hotel as you can see.But is very filling.