Nuffnang Charity Project - Baby Ammar

Updates: Good news. Baby Ammar already has sufficient funding for the surgery. Thank you all that has contributed whether monetary or something else. Read the full details here.

Baby Ammar needs your help. He has a heart condition and need to perform a surgery and there's need of fund for this surgery.

Snippets from Nuffnang.."2-year-old Ammar Danish has suffered from Patent Ductus Arteriosus (PDA) since birth. He has a hole in his heart which results in oxygenated blood and non-oxygenated blood mixing together, which in turn puts a lot of strain on his heart and lung arteries. In some cases, the hole eventually seals itself up after some time, but during a routine checkup on 11 January 2010, it was clear that that wasn’t the case with Baby Ammar and doctors pronounced surgery as being necessary to prevent the situation from growing worse."

You can read more about his condition in his's mother's blog.

I'm helping by making this message known by more people so that they know how they can help too.

If you blog and is run Nuffnang Ads on your blog:

Enable ‘Show Charity Ads’ in your Blog Manager preferences for the duration of this fundraiser. You will not be paid for displaying the ads, but the ads will greatly help to promote this cause to more people who might be willing to do something for Baby Ammar.

If you are a blogger:

Blog about Baby Ammar’s condition, and include a link to this Nuffnang blog post so that your readers will know where to go for more information. Again, this will also do a great service to Baby Ammar by spreading the word about his condition.

Anyone can do this, even RM 1 can help:

Make a donation to Azmaniza Mohamad Kamal – 514093114912 (Maybank). Every little bit helps, so please do contribute any amount you can.

Baby Ammar’s surgery is scheduled for 22 February 2010, and the fund-raising effort will end on midnight at 17 February 2010. It is indeed a short period of time, but let us all rise to the occasion and prove to everyone the strength of a blogging community like ours. We’ll update in this post from time to time on the amount of donations raised.

You can get more information from the Nuffnang Charity Project - Baby Ammar blog post from Nuffnang site. I'm doing my part to help, are you?

Tooth Fairy

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It's been a while I didn't watch any movie. I got the screening ticket for Tooth Fairy from Nuffnang. The second movie I watched for the month of January I think lol. Starring Dwayne Johnson (The Rock), this is yet another comedy role taken up by him. Previously he starred in The Game Plan.

Derek aka Tooth Fairy is a former NHL hockey player which he's now playing in a smaller league. He got the nickname Tooth Fairy because when he played defend, he crushed his opponents so hard that some of their teeth fell off.

Not your normal tooth fairy.

Derek is quite pessimistic and doesn't have a motivation to try his best anymore in the hockey arena. In short, he's not a dreamer or a believer. One night, he told his girl friend (Ashley Judd), Carly's daughter that there's no such thing as tooth fairy in the world. Later that night, he got summon to the Tooth Fairyland and has to serve a sentence of being a tooth fairy for two weeks by the Fairy Godmother Lily (Julie Andrews).

Derek with his wingless charger Tracy.

It's funny to see The Rock in tights. Also the way he interacted with his charger Tracy (Stephen Merchant) which happens to be male fairy without wings. I'll have to give two thumbs up for Billy Crystal for his very funny gadget fairy role. I laughed until there's tears in my eyes in a scene where Billy Crystal is showing the amnesia powder to Derek.

Derek with his girlfriend Carly.

In the end of the day, Derek have to believe in dreaming again and also not to diminished the power of imagination of children. It's another feel good movie that will give you a boost of hope in life when you're feeling down. Oh, also one of the pun-niest movie I ever watch lol.

Although not too many scene but Julie Andrews portrayed the Supreme Fairy Godmother very well.

Rating: 3.5/5

Pappa Rich, The Gardens, Mid Valley City

Good news for you boys and girls that is working in Mid Valley City. Pappa Rich is now open for business in The Gardens. Another choice of a more affordable food in Mid Valley if you are sick of the food in food court. I was there last Thursday for their soft launching. Honestly, I am not a fan of Pappa Rich after I tried the outlet in Sunway Pyramid a 2 years ago. The food there just wasn't up to the standard. But there's been improvement on the menu and more variety so I gave it a shot.

I ordered Iced Hainam Cham (RM 4.50) for my drink. I found the version here is a bit lighter than what I had in Oriental Cravings. I prefer a stronger taste for this kind of drink. Maybe next time I'll order Iced Milo Dinosaur (RM 5.80) instead lol.

Iced Hainam Cham

As for my main, I had Dried Koay Teow with Foo Chok (RM 9.90). I found that the gravy for the rice flat noodle is a bit bland but if it's eaten with the dried bean curd (foo chok) then the taste is just right. Next time I'll try the curry version which will give me a richer taste.

Rating: 3/5

Dried Koay Teow with Foo Chok

I also ordered Steamed Otak-otak as a side. It's very nice the otak-otak here. Creamy and tasty. I forgot to take down the price for this :p

Rating: 3.5/5

I was a bit greedy when I ordered dessert. My weakness for avocado hit on me when I saw there's Steamed Avocado Bun (RM 4.80), that is after I ordered Pappa ABC Special with Homemade Durian Ice-cream (RM 9.80).

I don't fancy ice kacang much but when I saw that there's homemade durian ice-cream, I couldn't help but ask for it. Turn out it's very good. It's a surprise that dessert is so good in Pappa Rich.

Rating: 4/5

The Steamed Avocado Bun on the other hand is a welcoming alternative to the normal steamed kaya bun or steamed lotus bun.

So tempting right the greenish creamy avocado in the steamed bun.

I was served with egg tart too. I heard that it's complimentary during some special hours. It's not too bad. It's almost comparable to Tong Kee's.

There's now dim sum in the menu. The first time when I ate Pappa Rich when it was still known as Pappa Kopitiam there's no dim sum yet.

Steamed Foo Chok

The dim sum here of course uses fish or chicken because Pappa Rich is a certified Halal restaurant. So my Muslim friends can eat here too.

Steamed Siew Mai

A friend of mine ordered their popular Lychee Cincau with extra lychee. Normally you'll only get two lychee. Looks very tempting, next time I'll try this too.

Lychee Cincau

Pappa Rich practiced the open kitchen concept just like our normal coffee shop.

Honestly, I seldom patron local coffee shop when I am in shopping mall but when I do, I think Pappa Rich will be my preferred choice if compared with other similar establishment. One is for the quality and high standard set by the master franchise and another reason is for so many variety of choices of local delicacy. The bread they use is also the old school Hainam bread that's very good to eat steamed or toast.

Address:

T237 A & B, Third Floor, The Gardens Mall, MidValley City
(It's at the Isetan side, just next to Yuzu Japanese restaurant previously the shop is taken by Ocha-Ocha)