Here's My Story

Test results as compared to 3 months ago : Yes, it's worse than previous but not as bad as I had expected. During the preceding 2 weeks or more, I had cakes more often than usual (shared with my mum who was here for a while) and might have exercised a little less than usual (no access to treadmill or swimming pool during the 2-night trip to Seremban). Total cholesterol is uncomfortably above the personalised score of 6 but still not alarming. LDL is only slightly above and so that's ok. The good news is triglycerides level fell a lot while HDL improved tremendously. Hence, overall I'm not worried and need not start taking medication. Hopefully my reasons for the deterioration are correct and so it should get better in 3 months time. Meanwhile, I resolved to have a bit more unsweetened soy milk. Incidentally, I fasted about 12 hours for this test and so the vast improvement 3 months ago was probably not due to fasting for 11 hours. That remains a mystery :D 

As with previous year , we went to Kinpachi and Huang Soy.   At Kinpachi, they had always served a mini appetiser before our main order was served. This time, it was eggplant. I normally don't like eggplant but this was quite delicious. Once again, I had the Daimyou Maki. It was good and filling. I like that it had a variety of filling (seven) that gave different taste and texture. First time Ban tried their Hiyashi Tanuki Soba, which he liked. He seems to favour cold over hot soba. Naturally, this was insufficient for him and so after perusing their menu, he ordered something from their seasonal menu:   Buta Shiokoji Misoyaki. It wasn't bad but it was nothing special: the flavour was too mild and it was harder than expected. He got the remaining 5 slices packed.   We then went to Huang Soy where Ban had their Homemade Chrysanthenum Tea, which tasted...normal :D, and I had Pandan Pudding, which had shaved ice underneath. Think there wasn't enough gula melaka for the shave...

This was at Jaya Grocer outlet at Starling Mall:   Up till even recently, it was still decorated similarly this way. It looks appealing but I can't help thinking that those vegetables are wasted. 

During my birthday month, I was informed by FOS that I have birthday voucher that offered me discount. Oh great: I wanted to purchase a pair of long pants then. Went to the outlet at Paradigm Mall but strangely, they couldn't find the voucher in their system. I called the outlet at One Utama, explained the situation and asked them to check whether they could find my voucher in their system or not. Yes, they could! Yay. So I made plan to follow Ban to One Utama on the day when he exercised at the gym there.  I brought a change of clothings so that I could also exercise at the mall by using the stairs. After exercising, I changed back to my casual clothings and went to FOS to shop for the pants. Got one and paid at a discounted price with the voucher :) It is a good fit for me, after getting it shortened (I'm short). I then went to Lung Ngen Claypot Coffee to have their claypot coffee for the first time. I loved it! Unique and aromatic. Then met up with Ban after his workout and ...

Last year, I opened a joint account with my sister at Maybank . Couple of months ago, I received a mail informing me that my account was "inactive" and was given 30 days from the date of the mail to go to any branch to reactivate it. Failure to do so would incur a administration charge of RM 10 per year 😐 Well, it was already past the 30-day grace period by the time I read the mail. My sister told me that her children's accounts weren't charged anything despite reactivating their accounts past the deadline. Oh, that's great. So I went to the nearest branch the next day. Fortunately, there was hardly any customer and so I was quickly attended to by the office at the front counter. After he did something with my ATM/debit card, I was asked to withdraw money at the the ATM machine to "show" activity. I tried a few machines but didn't work: the machine refused to proceed to next step after taking in the card and spat it out. He then directed me to his c...

Saw these at Bagan Ajam Kopitiam: