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Yes... you read that right. I've got orange-y colored oil coming out of my butt... and I thought I was dying before I found out the cause just few days ago.

I silently went through the thoughts of dying because of this weird oil thingy and I dare not tell anyone until I gathered enough courage to Google this condition. I mean, would you go around telling people you are leaking orange oil from your butt?

So you have no idea how I relieved I was that it's not just me (who's dying) with this condition... in fact, one post I read has close to 400 comments where most of the people who feedback said they too have experienced the exact same thing! (and also thought they were dying!)

I have thought about whether I should write this post as you can see, the title itself is already gross enough. TMI (too much info) right?

But then, I thought people need to know the cause of this. And I think by writing this post, hopefully I'm cutting short the time you might waste worrying yourself to death thinking you are so going to die because of this orange-y oil coming out of your arse!

Now, let me tell you what happened...

One fine day, I was just doing my own stuff and I farted, few times (snort all you want, everyone farts, at least I dare to admit it!). I did not think much about it other than my body's natural function to expel gasses that are byproducts of my body's digestion process.

Few hours later, I went to the toilet and that's when I saw my pantyliner streaked with orange-y oil stains. Firstly, I am too busy with my SAHM life to be looking at what comes out of my privates all the time, so forgive me when I say I only noticed this few hours later. Secondly, yes again, gross it may be, but I think it's not just me who do look at what comes out of our body? Right?

So anyway, I freaked out of course. How can a human being excrete OIL from her body? And orange-y colored oil too! And don't get me started on the yucky smell... Bleurghhh...

As I sat there on the toilet seat, I remembered back having experienced this over a decade ago. Exactly the same orange-y colored oil coming out of my butt. But it went off and I forgot about it... until now...

What went on my mind at that time? It goes from:

'Oh crap, my digestion system is going bonkers... I can't even digest fat and oil from my body that they all decide to flow out by itself!'

to

'What next? Blood?!'

Anyway, I kept this 'discovery' to myself, telling myself I seriously need to Google this out when I've got the time to do so later. And that's when I stumbled upon the article and finally unlocking the mystery.

Apparently, this condition is called "Keriorrhea". According to Wikipedia, "Keriorrhea (oily diarrhea, oily orange diarrhea, anal leakage, orange oily leakage) is greasy, orange-colored stools which results from the consumption of indigestible wax esters found in oil fish and escolar." Am I grossing you out already?

Now the next thing is figuring out what I had that causes that... it took me a while but i finally remembered i had this on last Friday (2 days before the oil discovery).

This my friends, is "Smoothies-Fruities Fish" or pan-fried butter fish infused with passion berries fruit and sun-dried tomato. This dish is one of the many dishes on Fullhouse Lifestyle Store and Cafe menu, one of the hip restaurants here in Malaysia.

Butter fish.

A type of fish species called escolar. You can read more about it's effect and even being banned in Italy and Japan in the Wikipedia article.

So back to my purpose of writing this post despite publicly embarrassing myself by letting the world know that I farted, admitted it, look at what came out of my butt and then blogged about it. Please note that I am not condemning the restaurant or blacklisting it. I blogged about it because I care enough not to see this happens to any of you.

I'm still having the orange-y oil leak on and off.... Now if I were you, after reading this post, please stay clear of Escolar type of fish. You really don't want to be excreting orange-y oil from your arse. It's not a fun thing to experience and it's downright gross and yucky.

You read that right! Your awesome mummy blogger here is hosting yet another awesome giveaway just for you bunch of awesome people!

If you have been following my blog closely, you would have realised I have just recently reviewed this awesome Skyline Pac-Man Fever 80s Retro Bag! Upon my completion of the review, Ark Clothes, the sponsor generously offered to sponsor a bag as a giveaway on my blog, so yes, you people, read on what's coming up!

I am so excited to be able to hold this giveaway for my lucky blog followers and readers! ONE of you lucky people are going to win a a bag of your own choice (as long as the stock is available!) for your guy!

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I remembered those good old days where I stayed up late at night to play Pac-Man on my video arcade game console. Those were the good old days...! If you have never heard of Pac-Man, then you will not understand why I'm excited over this retro bag that I get to review recently. And if you know what is Pac-Man, you'll wish you have this bag too! Here goes my review for the "Skyline Pac-Man Fever 80s Retro Bag":

Description from the product page:
"What's that blip-blip sound? It's the Pac-Man zipping along chewing up dots, ghosts, Blinky, Inky, Pinky and Clyde. No, our Pac-Man Fever 1980s Classic Retro Reporter Bag Doesn't actually come with the sounds, but you could probably make them yourself while traveling with this reporter bag. With Pac-Man and the ghost images layered onto a tough retro vinyl exterior, heavy nylon lining and pocket space, all your gaming supplies, iPods and iPads, and Pacman goodies stay safe and dry in this awesome tribute to the greatest game ever made.

Pac-Man is one of the only three games that are featured in the Smithsonian Institute. This is the PacMan Fever 80s Retro Bag - Skyline Men's and Women's, in Black and Brown colors. It rocks, get one and join us.Rocking, munching dots, dodging Ghosts! This is a seriously funky bag, you'll love it."

The moment I took out the bag from the package wrapper, my boy immediately pointed at Pac-Man and its 4 enemies (Blinky, Pinky, Inky and Clyde) and he says "Mummy look, monsters chasing!". Now back to my review, I love the bag, I really do!

The leathery feel of the vinyl bag, though a bit heavy for me was soon forgotten when I inspect the bag further. I love the long adjustable strap (not easy to find one) which are secured tightly to the sides of the bag. I immediately adjusted the length to suit my requirements, which is to wear it as a sling bag because that's how I roll, oh yeah!

I like the 2 cute zippers on the bag (I get annoyed when there's only one zip on a bag), I mean, 2 zips are cool as I can open it from either sides! Upon further inspection in the insides of the bag, I discovered a zip compartment and a open layered compartment (can easily slip in my iPad, yeah!)

Then I get down to transferring the stuff in my diaper bag to the Pac-Man bag. Obviously my old diaper bag is much smaller than the new one but I like it as the new bag now looks slim and fit (unlike the diaper bag which is out of proportion and getting worn out) In the pictures above, you can see my 3 year old immediately tried to carry my new bag (he can't hahaha..) and he too, can't resist but got down to search through the contents in my new bag!

I immediately brought the bag along at the very first opportunity for a family outing and bugged my hubby to take a picture of me with the new bag, because I need to show to you guys how excited I am to be the owner of this retro bag! I feel so proud to be able to relive some childhood memories of playing Pac-Man and that this bag will be tagging along with us from now on when we go out for our family outings.

All I can say is I love this bag! I'm so happy I get to review this bag!

You can get this funky bag at: http://www.arkclothes.com/pac-man-fever-80s-retro-bag/

I received no monetary compensation for this review, I was provided with the product by Ark Clothes in order to facilitate my review. All opinions expressed in this post are my own. Please do your own research when purchasing products, as your opinions may differ from mine.