Your Opinion Does Not Matter
I was reading the newspapers after dinner tonight when I heard some singing on the television set. I honestly thought my children were watching some school karaoke contest.
I have never heard anything worse than this in the past AF series…from AF2 through AF4. None of the worst singers of the past series sounded as bad as the best singer of this series.
Holy sh**!
It all started with Gerakan’s refusal to even consider merging with PPP to form a bigger party. Now, M Kayveas is on the warfront attacking Gerakan and its President, Lim Keng Yaik. Before this, PPP demanded the Parliamentary seat for Taiping. He was probably snubbed. Then his attacks became personal in nature, digging up Lim Keng Yaik’s past.
For these two, especially Kayveas, shut the f*** up. You are both the rakyat’s coolie, so do your job for the rakyat. Not bicker about who’s right or wrong. Imagine the number of manhours spent on researching someone’s background, and the energy spent on penting up hate. All this could have been put to better use for the rakyat.
Johari Baharom’s under investigation by the ACA after a website alledged the former’s receipt of some RM5.5 million for the release of three detainees. Johari’s been on the defensive, and is now dragging the Royal Malaysian Police along, and has begun to finger-point at others as well. The Prime Minister has rightly told him to answer to all the allegations first before finger-pointing others.
Pak Jo, shut the f*** up. If it was someone else questioning the police, you would have been among the first to jump in and tell them off for not allowing the authorities to conduct the investigation without fear nor favour.
I know what you were thinking. You were thinking of someone who’s done a great sin in Bangkok (Dosa is Malay for sin), but this is not so. Dosa is what in Malaysia we call Tosai.
It’s a nice cosy little restaurant near the corner of Sukhumvit soi 19 in Krungthep (Bangkok)…or shall I say, was. Dosa King is now being relocated elsewhere as its lease of the current premise has run out. That is sad though. I quite like that little corner, not too far away from Robinson’s.
Whether I was staying at the Emporium Suites at soi 24, or somewhere closer to Nana, Dosa King would be my favourite eatery when I’m alone. Yes, it sounds absurd that I would go for Thai food when I’m in Malaysia, but have North/South Indian vegetarian food when I’m in Krungthep. But that was the routine. I first came across this restaurant some 4 years ago during a deployment exercise, and it immediately became my “must visit” place everytime I was in Krungthep.
I’d start off with Papad Masala or Masala Papad…a very spicy papadum and usually with some Vegetable Samosas. Absolutely love them. These would be followed by Rava Dosa Masala (mixture of semolina and rice flour with onion & potato filling, sambar and chutney), Saffron rice, Alloo Mattar (potatoes cooked with green peas in hot curry) and the Malai Kofta (vegetable dumplings cooked in onion and tomato gravy with spices & cream), and of course, Sweet or Salty Lassi to complement the food.
It was a nice experience sitting in that place…that at times you forget you are just some 10 meters away from the hustle and bustle of Thanon Sukhumvit. A newspaper in hand would make you disappear totally while you enjoy the delicious food. I just hope they don’t relocate too far away. It should still be a short hop away from a BTS station. And if I ever get the chance to go back to Krungthep, I’d go back to Dosa King.
I went for my follow-up check up yesterday morning, so more blood test; after 45 days on Vytorin 10/40, Niacin and Pristin Fish Oil. My younger brother had had his angiogram done. The cardiologist is not too happy with what he saw as my brother’s Left Descending Anterior Artery is 20% blocked/damaged at its stem as opposed to being further downstream where it would be somewhat easier to remedy.
This is the typical young smokers’ disease. My brother smokes around 26 sticks a day. He exercises regularly, even more than I do, but eats very little of fish and other white meat. What he had forgotten is that my paternal grandfather died of a heart attack at the age of 41 (when my father was 13 years old), why my father had his first attack at the age of 37. My father was a chain smoker too, then, and gave it up immediately; went for his first coronary bypass at the age of 42, an angioplasty at the age of 57, then his second coronary bypass at the age of 61.
Me..everyone expected me to have a bad medical test result. Very little exercise and so on. My first lipid profile back on January 15th is as follows:
Total Cholesterol: 6.4mmol/L (desirable <5.2)
Triglycerides: 1.97mmol/L (desirable <2.28)
HDL Cholesterol: 0.96mmol/L (desirable >1.42)
LDL Cholesterol: 4.6mmol/L (desirable <3.4)
% HDL-Cholesterol Ratio: 15% (desirable >25)
Everything was undesirable except for my Triglycerides’ level.
With Vytorin 10/40 and the increase in my number of dives, the new results are as follows:
Total Cholesterol: 4.1mmol/L (desirable <5.2)
Triglycerides: 1.17mmol/L (desirable <2.28)
HDL Cholesterol: 1.36mmol/L (desirable >1.42)
LDL Cholesterol: 2.2mmol/L (desirable <3.4)
% HDL-Cholesterol Ratio: 33% (desirable >25)
No wonder they call Vytorin the miracle drug. It’s not cheap too. A box of Vytorin 10/40 for 30 days costs more than RM300.
My dosage’s gone down to 10/20 now.
It’s also time for me to watch what I eat. My kids still need me.
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