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Posted by Ling on January 23, 2012
Happy Chinese New Year! It’s the year of the Dragon! I’ve had the craziest start to the Dragon year involving my toilet…and I somehow managed to vlog it… Check out what happened…
P.S. Why do these crazy things happen to me??!!! Bahahahahahaha!!! Gotta laugh about these things, right?
Posted by Ling on January 17, 2012
As a blogger, sometimes you’ll get the nicest comments ever and sometimes you’ll get the not-so-nice comments. Most of time, I’ll ignore the not-so-nice comments but if you catch me on a day like today, it means that I feel like replying, so here I go…
Happy New Year! Why are you obsessed with posting about this defect. I know people who have it and had a healthy baby but just got on with things. Harping on about the fact you could have a dead baby is really insensitive as that has happened to some people. - BloggerOz1986 from the previous post
Dear BloggerOz1986,
Happy New Year!
Happy New Year! Thank you for taking your time to leave me a comment.
Why are you obsessed with posting about this defect.
I have a few things to nit-pick about this sentence :
1. The punctation princess inside of me is highly tempted to change the . to a ?
2. Yay! It seems that you are a regular reader of my blog since you claim that I am “obsessed with posting about this defect”.
3. The medical nut inside me wants to say that I don’t consider alpha thalassaemia minor as a defect per se. It’s just my genetics…like the colour of my skin is different from my sister, for example.
4. Okay, so if you read the title of the post, “2011 is The Year That Was…” and it’s a recap of 2011 and obviously, one of the major things that happened in 2011 was the discovery of this blood condition. It wouldn’t have been a recap if I didn’t mention it.
5. If you scroll through recent posts, there is no mention of this anywhere at all…so that’s hardly obsessive, in my humble opinion.
6. So this is where I get ultra-defensive and say, “I don’t need to justify me and my blog, but I will. It’s MY blog so I can blog about whatever I want. If you have a problem with MY personal blog, stop reading! I am NOT forcing you to read my shizz!! And I can be obsessed with whatever I want. I read a blog about a woman who deals with everyday life as a single mum. Her husband committed suicide over a year ago and she writes about it a lot. Would you leave her a comment like this too??”
I know people who have it and had a healthy baby but just got on with things.
That’s great! Do you think they would like to share their experience? I would be really interested in talking to people who have undergone a similar situation. And that’s crazy! It’s so rare to have couples who both have the same genetic blood conditions! Are you sure it’s both of them who have the exact same problem as us ? We have “alpha thalassemia minor trait” which affects the same genes. There are a few types of thalassaemia and a few sets of genes involved.
So far, I have heard from a couple with the same problems who chose not to take the risk of conceiving. I have also heard about a couple who had a “dead baby”. I haven’t heard a success story as yet. But it’s great to know that there are some out there who have had a “healthy baby and got on with things”. Obviously, if I had a healthy baby, I would get on with things too…but I don’t see a healthy baby right here, right now – so I will not get on with things till I do.
Harping on about the fact you could have a dead baby is really insensitive as that has happened to some people.
Wow! That’s pretty harsh! And how do you know for sure that I haven’t had a dead baby already? How do you know what is going on inside my body right now? What if I am pregnant but I don’t know whether I am going to have a healthy baby or dead baby? Oh, I’m really insensitive???? Am I??? Hmm….pot kettle black!
Have a nice day BloggerOz1986 because I am having my first sh*t day in 2012 thanks to you and your comment.
Note : Comments have been disabled for this post because I really cannot deal with any more sh*t from anyone today! However, if you still want to say something, use the Contact Me form and I may or may not reply. Peace out!
Posted by Ling on December 31, 2011
Wowee! 2011 is coming to an end and for me, 2011 is the year that was a rollercoaster ride!
Highlights of 2011 include : my Scottish family and friends came to visit me | getting into beauty blogging and making videos | launching another beauty blog – Lip Stalker | birth of my new niece | going to Hong Kong – which is where I will be when 2012 comes along in a few hours
Lowlights of 2011 include : chronic back pain | not being able to find a suitable job which means being poor | the biggest lowlight of all was discovering that the Mr and I both have alpha thalassaemia minor which means that we have a 1 in 4 chance of having a dead baby…!!!
Anyway, I’m looking forward to bigger and better and more beautiful things in 2012! I will be MIA for 2 weeks until my return…but you may catch my occasional tweet so follow me!! I cannot wait to show you the food I ate in Hong Kong. Till then, take care and…
Posted by Ling on December 21, 2011
I only get to eat lobsters at weddings. Chinese weddings, may I add. I recently attended a good friend’s wedding which had a lunch reception. The food was good but the lobster stole the show!!! And boy oh boy oh boy, my eyes enlarged into saucers when I realised that we would all be getting half a lobster each!!!
The lobster was deep fried in a light flour coating so I even chowed down some of its crispy lobster-licious shell. It was cooked in a traditional ginger and spring onion sauce with the most delightful flavours. Yes, the first bite was a foodgasm (AKA food orgasm). My taste buds were doing a VERY happy dance!!!!
The noodles had that lovely bite and soaked up all the fragrant lobster and ginger sauce. I DIE!!!
And wait for this… My Husband is allergic to crustaceans so I got to pack his share into a wee box and I ate it that night for dinner AND it still tasted just as good after zapping it in the microwave!
Any Chinese readers getting married in Melbourne sometime soon? Please invite me to your wedding so I can savour the lobster. Ahem!
What’s a recent food which has given you a foodgasm?
Posted by Ling on December 19, 2011
It’s a baby girl!!!
And no…it’s not my baby! It’s my niece!!!
Say hello to her foot! Dry and wrinkly and oh-so-cute!!!
Posted by Ling on December 6, 2011
On Saturday, the Mr and I went on an epic journey to get to the infamous Laksa King in Flemington, VIC. For the uninitiated, laksa is a spicy noodle soup with elements from Singapore and Malaysia. There are 2 types of laksa – assam (not that keen on this) and curry (yes, get in ma belly!!!).
The restaurant was busy being a Saturday at 6pm, but we got seated no problem…although a bit too close to our neighbours (who stole, yes STOLE, the Husband’s serviette!) The menu was quite extensive which surprised me because I thought it was just laksa…but they even had Peking Duck wraps and lots of Asian delights.
We ordered Roti Chicken Rolls (6 for $12) and a Combination Curry Laksa ($9.20) for me and a Beef Curry Laksa ($9.20) for him. Service was pretty quick because I went to wash my hands immediately after ordering and upon return, my bowl of laksa and the roti rolls greeted me. Secretly I would have preferred my entree first because I didn’t know where to start first – Dig into laksa or eat the roll…? In the end, I did a bit of both!
Roti Chicken Rolls
The Roti Chicken Rolls were flavoursome! Each bite was packed with a chunk of chicken breast in this sweet nutty satay sauce with crunchiness provided by cucumber slices and raw red onion. My tummy is rumbling as I write this!! The roti itself was a bit of a letdown as it wasn’t light and fluffy enough. Nevertheless, I would love to eat this again.
Combination Curry Laksa
Every time I eat curry laksa, I test it first by drinking a spoon of the laksa soup. A fantastic laksa has to be hot in temperature (I hate lukewarm foods!) and it has to be fragrant from the coconut milk and curry spices. Unfortunately, I was left a bit disappointed with Laksa King’s offering…it just didn’t have that special fragrance I was hoping for. But saying that, I did enjoy it.
There were 4-5 plump prawns in my laksa along with slices of fishcake and fried tofu pieces. And the best bit – a chunk of fried eggplant (that’s an Aussie word! I like to call it ‘aubergine’, the true Scottish way!) It was gooey from being deep-fried but so yummy!
I would have liked that extra bit of depth with more coriander (or cilantro) and more coconut milk and more spicy heat.
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Hello, my name is Ling and I'm from Scotland but I now live in Melbourne after meeting the love of my life on Manly Beach in Sydney. We married 180 days after our initial meeting! This blog has evolved from my single days into documenting our life together - food, marriage, babies, rants and everything in between.
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