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My oh my! I am so blessed to be given this opportunity to review yet another yummylicious FOOD! And this time, it was sent all the way over from UK! Ladies and gentlemen, let me present to you my 2nd food review: 

CRUNCHY MUNCHY CHOCOLATE PIZZA!

About the product:

"Isn't it time you satisfied those chocolate and carb carvings in one perfect mouthful? Well now you can with the indulgent and truly scrumptious chocolate pizza! Let the senses be indulged and your tongue tantalised by this high quality belgian chocolate. The end result really is mouth watering! I can assure you ladies and gents that you'll most definitely be wanting more, more, more! So if you're looking for something a little different and really want to impress this is definitely a strong contender. Delivered in an actual takeaway box, this little gem is available in 7" and 10" versions. Just like a traditional pizza it comes in 8 slices - slice of chocolate pizza anyone?

 This truly scrumptious pizza is available in a range of yummy variations suitable for Christmas, birthday or simply for anyone who loves chocolate: Crunchy Munchy
* Pizza Base: Belgian milk chocolate
* Pizza Toppings: Vanilla fudge, white and milk chocolate coated honeycomb balls finished off with milk chocolate curls

 This pizza has a shelf life of 6 months and is suitable for vegetarians. A great alternative to a traditional birthday cake or as a birthday gift. Whatever the occassion the Chocolate Pizza makes an ideal gift for anybody with a sweet tooth! "

How often you get to see a pizza box like this? For me, ermmm... this is the first time and it felt oh-so-luxurious to hold that box of gourmet chocolate pizza, as I tried hard to fend off my 3 year old boy who wants a piece of it like RIGHT NOW!

I had to quickly opened up the box because it's really annoying listening to my 3 year old chanting "I want to eat, I want to eat, I want to eat" repeatedly right to my face.

Just look at his face! Top left picture of my boy trying hard to peel off the packaging and the few other pictures shows the close-up shots of a slice of the heavenly chocolate pizza! Oh my... look at those chocolate toppings! Drool!!!

As the chocolate pizza was flown all the way from UK to Malaysia, I do understand that there might be some imperfections in the presentation of the pizza. In my case, one of the pizza slices got crushed and was misaligned with the rest of the slices. But hey, not complaining at all as I know the packaging must have been thrown around during the delivery stage.

Let's see what my guinea pigs gotta say after they tried out this chocolate pizza:

ME	"Mmmm... nice! The chocolates my oh my... mmmmm... I can eat this all night long!"
BEN	"Mmmmm!! I want!! I WANT!!" (you can see the pictures of him trying to open the packaging!)
HUBBY	"Mmmm very nice!"
MY MIL	"Wow, you mean this is flown all the way from UK? I love overseas chocolate, their ingredients is so much better than our local ones!"

To sum up my food review, all I can say is:

YUMMYLICIOUS AND I DON'T MIND ANOTHER ROUND!

*hint!*hint!*

The Crunchy Munchy Chocolate Pizza is one of the many 'Gifts for Dad' items featured under the Father's Day event on the website.

Go check out their website to see a whole lot more awesome products being sold by them!

I received no monetary compensation for this review, I was provided with a box of Crunchy Munchy Chocolate Pizza by Prezzybox 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.

I have received numerous questions with regards to Putrajaya Hospital since I gave birth to Benjamin over 3 years ago, I decided it's high time I write a post about it so I can just direct the people who asked me those questions to this post. Brilliant eh? (Too bad, 3 years late hahahah..)

My post here is to tell you what I experienced personally so that you sort of have a 'virtual' tour of being a patient there hehehe... I'll break down my explanation in categories for your easier reference:

WHY PUTRAJAYA HOSPITAL?

1) Full Paying Patient (FPP) Scheme

Now firstly, you can read all the nitty gritty details about their Full Paying Patient (FPP) scheme from the hospital's website. They are one of the few hospitals around that has the FPP scheme (the other one is Selayang Hospital). Meaning, you still have to pay for your consultations (of course!) but the rates are wayyyy lower than what you normally pay at private hospitals.

With my 1st child (Benjamin) and wanting the best advice and care, I paid about RM100-RM200 for each consultation at a private gynae (with his own clinic but he was attached with a private hospital) Then we switched to Putrajaya Hospital when I was about 8 months pregnant and I paid about RM60 for each consultation. The charges will be slightly more when I have to take blood tests and extra stuff.

With my 2nd child (Alyson), we did not go to the private gynae clinic but instead went to the private hospital (Sime Darby) and paid about RM130-RM180 for each consultation and we switched to Putrajaya Hospital when I was about 4 months pregnant. The charges of RM60 for each consultation remains the same even after 2 years.

In summary, you pay cheaper compared to private hospital but you don't have to queue up for ages compared to public hospital. Yes, there are times when I can jump queue during my check-ups.

2) They are natural childbirth friendly and totally for breastfeeding methods

You can see posters about breastfeeding benefits, how to guides, brochures and all. There's even signs banning formulas, pacifiers and bottles plastered all over the hospital. Love love love it!

3) Facilities & Environment

Pictures shown below were taken by my hubby 3 years ago when I was admitted to the hospital, waiting for my contractions to reach 10cm. FYI, I requested for the VIP Executive suite, meaning I want the whole room to myself. I seriously don't want to hear moanings and crying and whining of mums-to-be in labor feeling their contractions coming and going and I really wanted the room to myself for the peace and calm and all, so yeah, I got myself this room and it came with own TV, a fridge, a bathroom (with water heater), 2 sofas for guests.

If not mistaken, there are about 20+ Executive rooms on this floor so there's more privacy and quieter compared to the other packages offered for FPP patients (such as 4 bedded room and so on)

4) Treatment & Services by Staff and Doctors

During the consultation time, you will go for the standard weigh, blood pressure and urine test. Then your specialist gynae will attend to you. I find that both my gynaes (for Ben and Alyson) are very friendly, explain things in detail, patience and never rush our check-ups and they are very professional as well.

As for post delivery services, pictures shown below are taken by myself a day after I gave birth to Alyson in September 2011. You will be given the menu plan the day before so that you can choose what to eat the next day. I whacked the first meal brought to me (really really hungry!) and the pharmacist came up to my room to deliver my medicines supply and 2 nurses came in to give Alyson her required jab as well.

Basically, I feel their service is good, they responded as soon as I buzzed them hehehe... in fact, what I love about their nurses is they came in to check whether your breastfeeding techniques are correct or not. With Ben, I remembered one nurse standing next to me, watching quietly, guiding as well and only left the room when I managed to latch him on correctly.

Also, during Ben's birth 3 years ago, my hubby actually tagged along with one of the nurses when they took Ben for his morning bath. I found hubby standing next to the nurse, teaching him how to bath Ben step by step, how to swaddle him as well. Nice!

I would also like to add the incident where I was scolded by the nurses on duty while I was frantically searching for my lost hubby and newborn baby (before I found them in the bathing room). Just want to highlight the nurses meant well as I was walking REALLY fast (it's actually my normal walking speed) and they are really worried I might tear down there (I had an episiotomy with my 1st delivery) So good for them to be so strict hahahah...

THINGS TO TAKE NOTE

1) The specialist doctors are only available on weekdays 8am to 5pm (no problem for me since I'm a SAHM now but with my 1st child, I had to take MC or leave to go for the check-ups)

2) There are some specialists there who are open to C-sect but generally, this hospital is a very pro natural birth and very pro breastfeeding hospital.

3) There are 4 specialists gynaes when I had Alyson last year. Two female gynaes, two male gynaes. If you signed up under FPP, you can choose one of them as your gynae (you will be under his/her care until you delivered) But please take note that if the gynae is not available when you deliver, the hospital will get the next specialist available. With my 2nd child, I delivered during the Hari Raya time and all the specialists are away (my gynae was due to return to work the day after I delivered Alyson) so I was attended by a normal gynae (not the 4 specialists). But nevertheless, the gynae who delivered my baby is very good!

4) You might have to move around the consultation rooms as they are sharing the scanning machines and some doctors are sharing the consultation rooms as well.

There you go... I hope I covered all the things that needed to be covered about Putrajaya Hospital.

Feel free to ask more questions if you have any!

** Updates 20th March 2013: Please feel free to check out my latest post on check-up routines for FPP patients at Putrajaya Hospital now.

I blogged about starting Ben back on his potty training in February after months of delaying it (Alyson came along in September and I had to pause Ben's potty training since then) and even listed down some short, medium and long terms goals that I looked forward to accomplishing with Ben.

Then I also blogged about the precious sight I get to see - Ben finally pooping in his potty! (instead of diapers which he always insisted on)

And then I revisited those goals I set in February against the progress in early May this year and checking off the ones we achieved so far (progress in about 3 weeks):

Goals Set in Feb, Previous and Current Updates:

So there you go, looks like we are getting almost all of the goals soon!

Thank God for this and for my dear boy to be so good in following through his potty training!

We are all so proud of you, Benjamin!