Crockpot Lid Unveiled

This is what was stewing in the crockpot - abalones. These are not canned abalones but dried abalones and are supposed to cost way more than canned ones. How did my mil cook the abalones? First, she soaked the abalones for a few days in the fridge. Then, she put the abalones into the crockpot and cook them overnight on slow heat for more than 24 hours. When the abalones were tender enough, she removed them from the crockpot and sliced them. She had wanted to cook a sauce for the abalones but since she was busy, we just ate them plain - with no salt or seasoning and they tasted good. But I am not a great fan of abalones, my hubby is.

Save Someone's Life Today

Being a parent, one of my greatest fears and worries about my 2 girls is that when they grow up, they will mix with the wrong company and get involved with social ills. I’ve seen some of my friends as well as children of my mum’s friends being involved with alcohol and drugs and how the child’s life had been totally wrecked by these addictions, not to mention how heartbroken and hopeless the parents were. If you know of anyone who is suffering from drug or alcohol addiction, please advise and coax them to go for proper drug rehab. It works. Addicts get healed, a family is reunited and lives are saved. There is hope when addicts seek professional help.

Alycia 1st Day of School

Yesterday was Alycia's first day of school after resting for more than 6 months. As expected, she puked after her milk in the morning. This time, I knew instantly that she was actually nervous going to school. When she first woke up in the morning, she pretended to cough. After her milk, she told me that she had tummy ache and acted as if she wanted to puke. Minutes later, she puked in the sink.

My mil and I walked her to school with Sherilyn tagging along as my hubby had to send his car for service. When she was at the school compound, the teachers were surprised to see her back at school. As it was a Monday, the school kids had to sing Negaraku and the school song. When we were about to leave, she was almost in tears as her mah mah was there and she wanted to 'manja' her mah mah.
Fast forward to yesterday evening. I told Alycia that she had to do her homework but she gave me a host of excuses like hand pain, very tired, pencil is too big, she needs a plaster for her thumb (which was perfectly fine), etc. I gave her a good lecture and she began to put in some effort and concentration.

Hopefully, Alycia will get used to going to school and having to do homework and I certainly hope that she can pick up from where she left behind. Most of her classmates are way ahead of her. Most importantly, I hope Alycia's immune system has strengthened and will not fall sick so easily.

Sherilyn, my little social butterfly on the other hand was so excited being at the school. She was happily mingling with the teachers and as we walked her back home, she kept saying she wanted to go to school. Up until today, she kept saying that she wants to go to school. This morning, when she saw daddy bringing Alycia to school, she wept for a good 1 hour as she wanted to follow too. To stop her from wailing, I had to bring her for a short stroll to the sundry shop to buy some eggs. When she came home, Sherilyn was in a bad mood the whole morning and kept asking where Alycia is.


Alycia in her school uniform and bag.

Blogger Problem or My Computer Problem?

Remember I wrote a post about me encountering some problems with my blog? I have deleted some files from my C drive, as advised by Cherry and also performed a disk defragmentation. However, the problem still persisted. Each time I clicked on my blog to perform a task, eg. clicked on a link to another website, clicked on the perma link, clicked to edit post, clicked to create new post, etc., it would take at least 3 minutes for my computer to process the task. In addition, a message which states "Stack overflow at line : 63" or "Out of memory in line : 56" would apprear. Most times, my blog will just 'hang' and I would have to close it a few times and log into Blogger again. However, if I perform a task or even a few tasks within half a minute of logging in to my blog, my computer will have no problems processing the tasks. Once the half minute is up, my blog will hang and the error message would appear. I have no problems logging in to other websites. This is really driving me nuts. So much time is wasted everyday.

I'm not going to write to Blogger Help Desk for support coz it's useless. I'd in the past written to them a couple of times but never got a reply.

Can someone please help me solve my problem, pretty please?

Turn Your Business Around

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The highly trained experts from Discount Click will analyze your website, analyze competitor sites, help you build strategies and produce effective results at a cost that is affordable to you. With Discount Click, you will not be committed to long term contracts. If you’re dissatisfied with the services at any time, you can cancel the service and you will no longer be billed for the optimization service.

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Turn Your Business Around

If you have a business which is not progressing any further, you should first create a website for your company if you have not done so. Once you’ve created a website for your company, you should consider marketing your products and services online, promote your business in search engines and list your business online for better search engine optimization. If you’re looking for a company that can provide you with such services and even more, look no further than at DiscountClick.com, a company that provides search engine marketing and promotion services.

The highly trained experts from Discount Click will analyze your website, analyze competitor sites, help you build strategies and produce effective results at a cost that is affordable to you. With Discount Click, you will not be committed to long term contracts. If you’re dissatisfied with the services at any time, you can cancel the service and you will no longer be billed for the optimization service.

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Watching TV

Each night before I have a quick scrub in the bathroom attached to our room, I'll put on a DVD for the gals to watch. Watching tv is the only time my gals will sit still or lie still. I know the box is not a good thing for kids but with my gals, it's only when the tv is switched on that they will not jump, run, hop, climb and touch forbidden items. I used to lock Sherilyn up in her cot but now, she can climb out from her cot. So I let her stay on my bed with Alycia. It's only when the gals watch tv that I can take my bath in peace, else I would hear screams and fights, bangs and thuds and my heart will palpitate as I bathe in fear.

Tag : Some Interesting Facts About Me

Got tagged by this real hip and cool belly-dancing mommy to 2 beautiful kids.

Where is your cell phone? Next to my computer

Relationship? Married to a man whom I've known for 22 years.

Your hair? Long and fine.

Work? SAHM who's also earning some money writing sponsored reviews.

Your sisters? Nil

Your favorite thing? Computer

Your dream last night? Something aweful and it kinda came true today but I'm not telling what it is.

Your favorite drink? Lime / lemon juice.

Your dream car? Nissan Murano / Lexus

The room you’re in? Living room

Your shoes? Nike jogging shoes and fake Crocs slippers :)

Your fears? Loosing my loved ones.

What do you want to be in 10 years? A happy and contented SAHM.

Who did you hang out with this weekend? My family.

What are you not good at? Singing

Muffin? Banana

One of your wish list items? RM1million in my bank account.

Where you grew up? Lovely hilly and limestones city of Ipoh .

Last thing you did? A 15-minute power nap

What are you wearing? Shorts and a red Esprit t-shirt

What aren’t you wearing? Make-up

Your pet? Used to have a Beagle but now only some nemos.

Your computer? Dell

Your life? Happy but can be better.

Your mood? Happy

Missing? Good Ipoh food.

What are you thinking about right now? Alycia's homework - she still hasn't done it yet.

Your car? I prefer to walk :)

Your kitchen? Simple

Your summer? I prefer winter.

Your favorite color? Pink

Last time you laughed? Just a moment ago when Sherilyn made me laughed.

Last time you cried? Can't recall.

School? MGS Ipoh, Rima Secretarial Finishing College, Malaysian Institute of Personnel Management (Professional course in Human Resource Management)

Tag : Some Interesting Facts About Me

Got tagged by this real hip and cool belly-dancing mommy to 2 beautiful kids.

Where is your cell phone? Next to my computer

Relationship? Married to a man whom I've known for 22 years.

Your hair? Long and fine.

Work? SAHM who's also earning some money writing sponsored reviews.

Your sisters? Nil

Your favorite thing? Computer

Your dream last night? Something aweful and it kinda came true today but I'm not telling what it is.

Your favorite drink? Lime / lemon juice.

Your dream car? Nissan Murano / Lexus

The room you’re in? Living room

Your shoes? Nike jogging shoes and fake Crocs slippers :)

Your fears? Loosing my loved ones.

What do you want to be in 10 years? A happy and contented SAHM.

Who did you hang out with this weekend? My family.

What are you not good at? Singing

Muffin? Banana

One of your wish list items? RM1million in my bank account.

Where you grew up? Lovely hilly and limestones city of Ipoh .

Last thing you did? A 15-minute power nap

What are you wearing? Shorts and a red Esprit t-shirt

What aren’t you wearing? Make-up

Your pet? Used to have a Beagle but now only some nemos.

Your computer? Dell

Your life? Happy but can be better.

Your mood? Happy

Missing? Good Ipoh food.

What are you thinking about right now? Alycia's homework - she still hasn't done it yet.

Your car? I prefer to walk :)

Your kitchen? Simple

Your summer? I prefer winter.

Your favorite color? Pink

Last time you laughed? Just a moment ago when Sherilyn made me laughed.

Last time you cried? Can't recall.

School? MGS Ipoh, Rima Secretarial Finishing College, Malaysian Institute of Personnel Management (Professional course in Human Resource Management)

Washable Magic Color

These are the washable ELC magic color chunkie pens that my sil bought the gals from Hong Kong recently. The ink comes off super easily when wiped with wet wipes and does not leave any stains behind. Yesterday, the gals were drawing with these magic color pens and they stained their hands and table. I used wet wipes to remove the stains from their hands and table and I was so glad that the stains could come off very easily. No scrubbing was needed.

The magic color stains on the table.

Just use a piece of wet wipes to wipe off the stains.

The stains came out easily when wiped with wet wipes. Notice how clean and shiny the table is after I'd wiped it with the wet wipes.

What's Stewing Inside The Crockpot?

Would anyone like to guess what's stewing inside this crockpot? Hint - they're something rare from the deep ocean, they are very costly and can only be eaten in certain restaurants. Some people like them cooked with soup while some people like them stewed and eaten like a piece of steak. If you still have no clue what they are, scroll up and read on.

Alycia Going Back To Pre-School

After a 6-month break for Alycia, I have decided to send her back to pre-school tomorrow. She has not fallen sick for more than 1 month now and praying hard that her immune system is stronger now, I hope she will love going to school again and will not fall sick so easily. Going back to school will mean going to bed early, no more playing till almost midnight, waking up at 7:45am, doing homework, having to attend extra Mandarin classes twice a week and more work for me. I will have less computer time in the morning as I have to prepare Alycia's lunch-box and get her ready for school. I also have to coach her in her homework in the afternoon. I just hope everything will fall neatly and smoothly into place tomorrow and that Alycia will not puke in the morning after her milk. For the first few days when Alycia started pre-school, she puked each morning after her milk. Maybe she wasn't used to waking up early and maybe she felt a little stressed up having to go to school but I hope that now, Alycia would have outgrown this and will have no problem waking up early and getting ready for school.

Placating A Whining Child

This afternoon just before nap time, Alycia was acting up and was whining away. I tried to placate her by reading a story book to her but that did not stop her from whining. Suddenly, I choked on my own saliva and kept coughing. As Alycia was still whining away in my ear, I pretended to 'choke myself to death' and after coughing for a moment, I 'lay motionless' on the mattress. Alycia was shocked to see mummy 'lying motionless' on the mattress and she stopped whining. As she called out "mummy, mummy, mummy...." and on the verge of tears, she took her bolster and hit my face, as if trying to wake me up. She then slapped my face gently and tried to force open my eyes. When I couldn't hold it anymore, I burst out laughing and gave her a big hug. Alycia too began to laugh and soon, she had forgotten all about what she was whining about and gladly went to nap.

Shanghainese Mooncakes

There are the Shanghainese mooncakes that hubby's aunty made. They are by far one of the tastiest mooncakes I have eaten as they are not too sweet and she blends and cooks the lotus seeds herself to make as fillings for the mooncakes. The crust is a little crunchy and fragrant too. Though I fancy them but I dare not indulge in them too much as they are a high carbo food, thus really good in pushing my weight up.

Wigs You'll Love

Wigs are very commonly used these days, by people of all ages and by both gender. Not only are they for the vain and the fashionista, they are a life savior for those suffering from receding hair problem, cancer and other problems. Whenever I hear the word wig, I’d think of fake stiff synthetic hair with standard styles that look so stiff and obvious on the wearer. But that’s until I went to WigSalon.com, a website that sells a WIDE range of wigs from the world’s top wig designers like Revlon Wigs, Hair U Wear, Rene of Paris & Noriko Wigs and much more. At the website, anyone who looks at the models wearing the wigs would not have the slightest inkling that those are wigs as they look like REAL hair and yes, some of the wigs are indeed made from real human hair! That’s why they look so natural and real.



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Trucks, Cars, and SUVs in One Place

With so many cars out there, sometimes it's hard to know which one is the best, or even which Kansas Car Dealer will work hardest to help you. The answer for every question always seems to be Conklin. They have hundreds of cars from nearly a dozen manufacturers, and the service and experience that will have you coming back for years to come. I know you don't like buying a new car, and I know you're stressing out about it, but that's why I think you'll like Conklin. They are the leading Newton, Kansas Used Cars dealer not only because of the vehicles they offer, but because of their commitment to excellence. I'm sure you'll be impressed. Wichita new and used cars can also be found at the Conklin Cars website.

Packet Unveiled

Looks like only Hui Sia half guessed it right what was inside the packet. This is what I ate for breakfast a couple of days ago - fried vegetarian meehoon with santan-free chicken breast curry. I've not eaten this sort of food for breakfast for ages and it certainly felt good eating them after such a long time. And this packet of delicious food only cost RM1.80. What a nice change for breakfast instead of eating fruits, milk and egg for breakfast every single day.

I Should Replace My Bedside Table Lamp

My 2 mischievous girls love to touch forbidden items, especially electrical items and switches. They are especially drawn to the table lamp on the bedside table in our room. Each night, they will press the on-off button and meddle with the lamp. I have told my hubby that for the girls’ safety, we should remove the table lamp and replace it with a nice bulb on a classy wall sconce on both sides of the bed. I’m sure the wall sconces will also add a touch of sophistication to our dull bedroom wall while we can have warm soft lighting throughout the night.

Plasma Cutting

I was watching Discovery Channel on Astro the other day when there was a documentary on plasma cutting. It is so amazing to see how the Plasma Cutting System cuts steel, other metals and other electrically conductive material. Now I know how steel logos, metal plates and ornaments with intricate designs made of metal are cut. I was gob-smacked to learn that it only takes minutes to cut out a beautiful steel logo with a plasma cutter. This system is truly a breakthrough in technology.

I Need A New Luggage

The other day when we were having our short holiday at Hilton Sentral, one of the wheels of my trolley luggage came off. I also can’t push the handle all the way down as it has jammed up. That’s the price I have to pay for getting a cheap trolley luggage. It’s so true that cheap things aren’t meant to last. My mom told me to get a new Samsonite luggage as her Samsonite suit cases have lasted her for more than 10 years and they still look new and sturdy though she had traveled to many countries with them.