A Christmas feast

Yeshhh, this is a Christmas post. My Santa Clause brought me some ice-cream. Hohoho!

My family never celebrate Christmas. Most of my closest friends are Christians so they will be celebrating with their families.

How do i spent my Christmas eve? Spent it at home with my lecture notes :( Why does study week always have to fall during this festive season. We'll be counting down for finals rather than new year.

My attention always deviates when i am studying though. Woke up at 6:00am and finished my story book. At night, helped cousin sister to bake a Christmas log cake.

Dad asked me again, why didn't i go out with friends tonight. I answered, "Because i am waiting for you to date me out ma."

Reading novel about marriage life rather than puppy love now.

The cake :)

On Christmas day itself, bf planned and prepared a Christmas dinner for me and his siblings. Since his parents are away at Dubai, he has to take care of his siblings also, so cooking at home is more appropriate than having it outside i guess. He came up with a complete Western dinner including appetizer, entree and dessert. 

He was supposed to prepare everything and i was supposed to rest and nap while he was cooking. Of course you wouldn't feel good if you do nothing right. Ended up helping him. Chopping cabbage for coleslaw and so on. Skipped carrot cause we were too lazy.

Most of the foods ended up on the dogs' plates. Nevertheless, a great experience. Our very first time cooking together :) Thank you for the night :)

Chef at work.

Mashed potato, too salty!

Appetizer, mushroom soup.

Prepared for five.

Entree: grilled dory fish fillet with butter lemon sauce (too sour!!!), creamy cheese prawns (the prawns were not fresh, bought frozen ones cause fresh ones were out of stock), mashed potato with curry gravy (supposed to distract our tastebuds from the saltiness), coleslaw, grilled corn (or steamed?)

Had sparkling juice :D

I think he planned this for me. Heehee. Banana boat was what i used to have when i was little.

Last but not least, my Christmas gifts. Thank you!

Snowman necklace & :)

And my gifts for him, bought him a shirt and made a simple card for him cause this sem was pretty busy. A carved Christmas tree on the cover and did some colouring of Christmas ornaments inside.

Finally, i tried all of their ice-creams! This strawberry Dream was very nice too :D

Special and fascinating

All dietetics third year students paid a visit to the Pusat Pemulihan Dalam Komuniti last Monday. A visit allocated in our timetable. Since we learnt a topic on Nutritional Intervention for Children with Special Health Needs, we were supposed to go and pick a child at the PDK as our subject. Assessments were done based on anthropometry, clinical, demography, development and feeding skills, behaviour related to feeding and so on. 

My group chose a Down Syndrome girl. She is just lovely. It's interesting to just observe and get to know more about her. Everything about her fascinates me. 

Yes, it's one of our many assignments. It was fun playing around with the kids though. They were so energetic that they left me feeling exhausted at the end of our visit. Lol.

The front gate.

The child that we chose, Nur Dzafirah bt. Ahmad.

Look at her hand on my shoulder! So lovely.

Loves it when her picture is being taken.

Loves taking picture of others too. She knows where to press!

Getting excited.

She loves expanding her arms to hug us :D

She is able to self-feed pretty well. And she loves to keep her things tidy. 

One of the characteristics of Down Syndrome. There is a large gap between the second toe and the large toe.

Other children at the center; the one on the right experiences growth retardation with mild autism i guess and hyperactive. He is actually 16 already. The one on the left has tendency to be violent. He hit, smack, kick you HARD when you're not looking. That is why he is constantly being guarded and put behind the wooden thing in the picture.

This kid is hyperactive and mild autism. So cute and handsome but likes to throw tantrums. I got hit for no reason -.-

A cerebral palsy child. Pity :(

Last Saturday, i went to Big Bad Wolf book fair for the second time. This time with bf and his siblings. Still, i couldn't get the books i wanted. Grrr. Geram. Everyone is saying i bought enough to last them for more than a year already. But..:(

That Men's Health is not mine.

Also, last weekend, cousie brought home two Golden Retriever puppies. Ahhh so cute~ One named Happy and another named Healthy. I played with them, fed them, bathed and dried them. Hope grandma will allow us to at least keep one.

Lovely~

Bought dental sticks for them too! :D

Sleeping like a boss!

Mum loves them too. Well, she loves Happy more cause she said Healthy is so naughty and always bullies Happy.

Prosperity is so small now! I still remember how it used to be. BIGGGG. See now, bf had to add on another cheese burger. Miss Tai Lei Loi Kei's pork chop polo bun. Lol, don't know if i spelt the name correctly or not.

Serenity

I just love being with him on the journey home.
Sitting in the front passenger seat while he's driving.
My head on his left shoulder occasionally, for comfort.
It feels so serene, with him driving at a speed like an old man would.
I often wish for an endless road if it wasn't for my grumbling stomach.
How do i describe this feeling.
Joy comes from the simplest thing in life.
The best things in life aren't things.

Last lab

Last PDT lab before final. So nervous for finals cause we are going to cook and present our cases individually. *fingers crossed*

My patient was an elderly who is admitted to hospital due to chronic ulcer, with past history of UTI with superimposed delirium. Past surgery of hip replacement due to hip fracture resulting from fall and remains chairbound since, under medication for hypertension and gastritis. 

Cooked porridge again cause she can only tolerate minced food. Minced chicken porridge with diced potato and egg. Yummy only with natural flavourings. Heehee. Made honeydew pudding for snack and lecturer's comment was, "You pernah pergi mandi laut? Rasanya macam ubur-ubur kat laut." Ahhhh. Damnnn. Hahahaha. Luckily the porridge and spinach were nice!

Only yellow and green. So not appealing.

But they do look like jellyfish :O

Topped with shredded chicken breast for us!

Roti telur using leftover french bread.

Kak Fiza, the lab assistant made us red velvet cake for us cause it was our last lab with her :')

PLEASE DO NOT SAY THAT I DON'T KNOW HOW TO COOK ANYMORE.

I didn't realise it's 6th of December.

Attended a class with the occupational therapist this morning. Made me think of just how lucky i am to be able to pick up things with my fingers. A simple action of moving your fingers can be as tough as climbing the Mount of Everest for some people. The picture above shows an adaptive equipment known as a handler opener. I thought it was a food masher initially. Haha.

Just another random picture of a yummy bread :D