Are you a healthy human?

Today is my company's health campaign day 2. Day 1 was all good and with a bunch of free health check and assessment. So since it's free, for I'm a economical person (a.k.a. poor sial fella), I went for all the free tests lol. Got BMI test, blood pressure test, and step test (a type of fitness test apparently, need to step up and down for 3 mins non stop). The eye test doctor went off earlier due to some assignments call, so we all missed it loh hahaha. All these tests results are captured in a same form, to reflect our overall health level and fitness status. So, me and colleagues, with batted breath (so drama like waiting for lottery result like tat hahaa), we watch the health consultant pen down our ratings and squint over the overall results before crossing on the 'Health status: Excellent, Above Average, Average, Below Average, Poor, Very Poor' columns.

When it's my turn to get FREE consultations from the health consultant, she crossed on the column 'Excellent'. Yay I'm actually still ok even though I have left college for a few years already. Since I left college, I have not been exercising well and no longer swim frequently. So the health consultant (apparently a Caucasian lady) asked me in a very Brit tone

"So do you exercise?"

"Ermm, yeah but not so really frequent, some simple exercises and sometimes swimming..."

"Oh..." (look at my 'assessment' form again) "So when you go for swimming, do you swim long?"

"Ermmm (wah how can she tell I swim long when I go to swimming pool) About an hour if I go for swim..."

"Ohh, alright, then maybe you should consider adjusting your exercise pattern, instead of swim for one hour per session, make it half an hour, but to replace with more frequent sessions, let's say 2 times per week."

"Ouhhhhhh, hmm, I see I see, I will try to practice that."

"That's good. Oh great, you are the number 1 for the day by the way, as the healthiest person, but you don't get a prize for that, hahahahaha"

*sweat* but ok lah good some positive compliments from a health consultant hahaha... Really not bad woh, really some assessments and consultations for FREE lol

who don't like free stuffs hahahaha =)

Porky Treats @ Riblees (non halal post)

(note: overdue post lol)

One fine weekday, the KJ house kakis and ex-kakis decided to meet up for a quick dinner catch up. We drove all the way to Riblees @ Desa Sri Hartamas. I totally have not heard of that place before, but was highly recommended by my bro, hence we decided to drive up downtown to check it out.

Riblees is located in one of the shop lots, upstairs of Al-Rajhi bank. The interior design and environment was ala western casual dining style, with jazzy background music, and also balcony dining settings available (smoking areas though). Sorry no pictures of the layout of the restaurant, as we were too hungry and was occupied with food ordering and feasting lol.

The food there was quite authentic, especially in pork dishes. That night we order all pork main courses. As noted by Zhenyi, their pork dishes are must tries ^^

The starter dish, Escargots. This is really good I tell you, and it looks so not like Escargot (note: it's a foreign cuisine, using snails as main protein). I have never tried Escargot before, but this one here is really nice. The dish does not taste foreign at all, as in what I expect in eating snails will be quite chewy and the texture of the dish will be something alien. This Escargot was cooked with garlics and cheese, to be served with toast breads. Such combination was really impressive, especially for those who enjoy cheese and garlicky dish.

First main course, US Baby Back Ribs. This one is quite similar to the Chinese style 'Pai Guat', but of course, it is totally different in terms of taste. The US Baby Back Ribs is marinated with several foreign spices and herbs, and as I flipped through the menu for the detailed description, the ingredients are really foreign language to me, but it was all well compensated to each other. To put it simple, it's totally different to the normal Chinese style taste, and it is kinda exotic and exciting to savour. The sauce for dipping is also really yummy, as it just goes well with the heavily flavour dish ^^

Crispy Pork Belly. This is a similar type of dish to the Chinese style 'Siu Yok' lol. Really loh, when we was served by the waiter for this dish, we all looked and spouted the same thing, 'ehh? Siu Yok ah?' =P This is another well marinated dish, tasty and totally different than the first main course. I'm not good at describing food tasting, but to put it simple, the pork belly is different dimension of fine pork cuisine ala Western style. The mint sauce and the potato mashes go hand in hand with the richly marinated pork belly, with the right amount of fats and crispy skin to make the whole meal sumptuous lol.

Third main course, I-already-forgot-what's-the-name-of-this-pork-dish lol. This is similar to the Chinese style 'Char Siew'. Char Siew is simply every Chinese's favourites, when it comes to Chicken rice dining. Even though the first 2 dishes were heavily flavoured and comes in big portion, our marginal utilities still remain high when we helped ourselves with the 3rd main dish. It is another to-be-unveiled surprises of the day, as the juicy texture of this dish is totally different than the previous 2 main courses. It's just wonderful haahahaa. That's all I can described it lol.

All in all, the short catch up was good, as it goes well with good food as well as randomness that we all used to have before the gals moved out. Riblees is definitely highly recommended for pork enthusiast =)