AC hotel trip

And on to our next holiday.  The 2n hotel stay was courtesy of my brother who wanted some points to round off his hotel membership ranking.  With a king bed and a sofa bed, sleeping arrangements were a bit tight as hubby decided to come along at the last minute.  He tried to look for another room but apparently they were full.  Anyway, nice also to spend time together even though at closer quarters haha.

Day1:  Arrival and chilling.  Dinner at Hokkaido Seafood across the road.

Day2:  AC hotel is right by the Titiwangsa LRT station so off we went.

We are travellers!

*Thrilled

The LRT was still down between Bandaraya and Masjid Jamek stations so we had to hop onto the free bus.  Luckily a kind passenger guided us where to go.  

*Even more thrilled

The bus took us one station to Masjid Jamek where we continued onto the Pasar Seni station.

We are here!

Took the girls to Central Market since they'd never been here.  Hmm it's nice - airconditioned with shops selling interesting things - but prices are really at tourist levels.

 

Look only

We went to try out Mixue...

Take photo first

Then onto the Sin Sze Si Ya temple and museum which chronicles the temple's history.  We didn't find it that interesting.  Yap Ah Loy features in the story.

JE taking a break (not a dump)

Then we walked over to Petaling street.

Walk walk

Tried out Bubblebee cafe for 'waffles' (actually what I would call eggettes).  Not bad.

Waffles with banana and lots of stuff

Day 3:  The hotel had a buy1free1 promotion on buffet brunch.  Which we happily took advantage of.

Me at the buffet with the Moomins

We had a good time. Thanks bro!  I'm now thinking staycations are actually a very good idea. :) 

Genting part2

 We did find some of the Xmas deco we were after. 

Merry Xmas!

Dashing through the snow...

What JE was looking forward to, were the arcades and theme park.  Which were precisely the reasons I DON'T like going to Genting as it is so tiring following them around.  Oh well, if it makes the kiddos happy.

Waiting

This ride goes up like so, and spins.  Pay me also I won't ride hehe.

Wheeee!!!

It was very crowded this trip - the queues were long at every ride.  The girls had a day pass but due to the queues, they didn't get enough rides in to make the pass worth it.  Would have been cheaper to just pay per ride of RM10 each.

Luckily they managed to squeeze in this last ride just before the park closed.  It was JE's favourite but the queue had been horrendously long earlier.

Woo hoo, we're in!

Ended the night with dessert at this cafe under the escalator.

This, is a 'matcha pupu'

Weird name, cafe wasn't too bad.  

Genting 2023

We like to go somewhere during the school holidays.  It was Genting this round, continuing on with our trend to hunt for Xmas deco.  We had lunch halfway up then proceeded to Genting Premium Outlets.  I couldn't help recalling it had been exactly 5 years since our initial trip there, when I'd just joined my present company and my boss had called me the moment we reached GPO to ask if I could cancel my leave and go help out at a client.  Heh.  

The deco wasn't fancy, only the usual Xmas trees and this giant bear.

Giant bear

Spotted big wall paintings.  SE was game to pose, JE wasn't.

What you looking at?

Aww ok I will give you a belly rub

There were queues at Coach and some other stores but we left empty-handed... not really our kind of place.  At least the kids had a new place to walk around.

Arrived at Genting to a slight hiccup.  We had adjoining rooms but the existing guests in one room apparently wanted to extend and refused to check out.  Hmm rather a nuisance and it took quite some time to sort out.  It's our first stay at Resort Hotel - overall good, next time can stay again.

Entrance to our room

Dinner was at C-Chuan - I declared this as my favourite eatery in Genting!  Food was fast, reasonably- priced and I have a soft spot for this type of cooking.  Sour potato strips will be repeated, chicken with chillies were ok too.

Peace!

Career day

SE's school had a 'career day', where students were to dress up for the career they would like to have.  She was thinking of going as a teacher.  Finally she settled on being an artist.  That's an apron, a paint palette.  Not bad at all, I'd not have thought of this!

Posing for a photo before going off to school...

This is me being an artist

Nice?

The teacher sent photos at the end of the day.  So there was another artist too.  :)

Two artists in the class

 

Beach Xmas at 1U

Better get on with these posts before December is over!  SE was keen to check out Xmas deco at the malls.  Deco didn't seem to be up very early this year - think there wasn't any yet a month before.  Anyway we checked out 1 Utama first as they are usually creative on the theme.

It was apparently 'A Beach Xmas' this time i.e. an Australian one.  We didn't like this that much.

Beach huts

More beach huts

The new wing area was better.  Then again, I always like plants.  There was an area with pampas grass...

Pampas grass behind us

Deco on the Xmas trees was a bit unique - I recognise banksia.  I don't know what the others are but I guess they are other native Australian plants.  

Mummy says this is an Aussie Xmas tree

I guess this theme is lost on many Malaysians.
 

Specialist #1

2 October 2023

After considering various doctors together with their working hours, I selected one at UMSC.  This doctor has Saturday clinic hours which I thought would be good to avoid missing work/school.  UMSC is also the hospital hubby had his surgery back in 2021 and has been returning for check-ups.  Hubby wasn't keen after checking her credentials.  Anyway decided to go for it.

Waiting

When we got in, doc asked what the problem was.  She then asked various questions about our lifestyle.  She requested me to leave the room and asked SE about her school, any problems she was facing.  SE replied that everything was fine.  I went into the room again and doc said for a first session, she wouldn't go further.  We finished in under an hour and doc said to see her again in a month.

Hmmm.  Nothing much achieved.  No urgency either if next visit was only in a month's time. 

I thought SE put it quite well:  This visit is the most useless.

 

Panic

This is a painful topic which I'd been hoping will go away by itself, but it's obvious now that it will not.  I will delay the posts to blunt the sensitivity.

23 September 2023

Back in June 2023, I took SE to a doctor to check why her weight was so low.  She was given an all-clear.  However since then, and despite our efforts to push it up, her weight gradually meandered downwards from 28kg in June to 25kg in September.  In a panic at a sudden half-kg drop one weekend (weighing takes place on weekends as the scales are at home and not our apartment), I took her to our neighbourhood paediatrician.

Blood being taken from a skinny arm

This doctor is a caring one whom we'd taken the girls to as babies and toddlers.  I only didn't go to her this round as hers is a stand-alone clinic and I'd preferred a medical centre with access to more facilities.

Her prognosis:  No good.  Doc took time to check SE and concluded she was suffering from anorexia.  She had the symptoms of malnutrition, was emaciated (this one is obvious to the eye), lacked energy, had 'lanugo hair' on her abdomen which is apparently a sign of an eating disorder.

Doc took the trouble to call me that night when the blood test results were out.  It was past 11pm and I was about to go to sleep with the girls.  We spoke for over 20 minutes.  Doc advised to see a specialist urgently and ended by saying that she will be thinking of us.

My poor, poor girl.  Anorexia is an adult-sized problem and she is just a kid.

In case she reads this:  This journey will be a tough one, you have to walk it yourself, but Mummy will be beside you every step of the way.