Tag : View From My Desktop

Got tagged by this lovely mummy. I must really thank Shirley for passing this tag to me coz I've learnt something new, i.e. making a screenshot and posting it in my blog. I've always wanted to learn how to do it but didn't have the time to and didn't know who to ask. Thanks Shirley for teaching me something new.

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My Desktop Free View Instruction:
A. Upon receiving this tag, immediately perform a screen capture of your desktop.It is best that no icons be deleted before the screen capture so as to add to the element of fun. You can do a screen capture by:

[1] Going to your desktop and pressing the Print Scrn key (located on the right side of the F12 key).

[2] Open a graphics program (like Picture Manager, Paint, or Photoshop) and do a Paste (CTRL + V).

[3] If you wish, you can “edit” the image, before saving it.

B. Post the picture in your blog. You can also give a short explanation on the look of your desktop just below it if you want. You can explain why you preferred such look or why is it full of icons. Things like that.

C. Tag five of your friends and ask them to give you a Free View of their desktop as well.

D. Add your name to this list of Free Viewers with a link pointing directly to your Desktop Free
View post to promote it to succeeding participants

People who have already pimped their desktop:

iRonnie - I Set No Corner Thess - Thesserie Rebecca - Skippy Heart Knoizki - A Dialogue With K, Beng - Kauderwelch, Vanidosa Marie, , Vanidosa at blogspot , MyGoodFinds with KK, Dom Lawrence, Rebecca, BluePanjeet, ROSE , KNOIZKI, SARDONICNELL, Girlie the hipncoolmomma, Happy Family with Jacelyn, LovelyMummy with her family,
Healthfreakmommy - picture of her 2 girls


I'd love to see the following bloggers' desktop view too :

1) Anggie's Journal
2) Sasha
3) Mummy to Chumsy.... now you can learn how to do a screenshot. I can give u tutorial now :D
4) Mamajo

Pre-School Fun and Junk Food

One of the things that motivates Alycia to go to school is that she gets to bring her lunchbox filled with her favorite snacks to school every morning. When her classmates celebrate their birthdays, she gets to eat cakes, junk food and bring home birthday packs. Last week, Alycia got this birthday pack when her classmate celebrated her birthday. The birthday pack was filled with MSG, sugar and coloring laden addictives junk food. Sometimes I wonder how some parents think - encouraging their young kids to eat such unhealthy junk food. When she reached home, she was so happy and showed me the birthday pack. I told her she couldn't eat most of the snacks in there as they are not very healthy but she wouldn't listen. She was willing to part with a packet of spicy keropok and some biscuits but she wouldn't want to part with the sweets and jellies. When she was asleep, I quickly hid them.




The other thing that Alycia loves about attending pre-school is that she gets to make crafts. This is what the teacher helped her make last week, a bunny paper lantern.

Fruitful Day

This morning has been a rather fruitful morning. I woke up at 6am hoping to grab some peluang but no luck. However at 7am, I received an SMS from one of my 'CNN network' members alerting me on peluang from 2 advertisers and I managed to grab a few. Thanks Hui Sia!

Tag : 5 Posts Links to Keywords

I was taken by surprise when I received this tag from Judy. I've never visited her blog before and I can't recall her visiting my blog too. Thanks Judy for visiting my blog and for this tag. I do hope you'll make your presence more at my blog!

So this is what I'm supposed to do :


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1. Post 5 links to 5 of your previously written posts. The posts have to relate to the 5 key words given below.

2. Tag 5 other friends to do this meme. Try to tag at least 2 new acquaintances (if not, your current blog buddies will do) so that you get to know them each a little bit better.

3. Don’t forget to read the archived post and leave comments.

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Link ONE must be about family
Lovely Sunday

Link TWO must be about friends
Nice People

Link THREE must be about yourself:
Sweet Memories Part 2

Link FOUR must be about your love
Sweet Memories

Link FIVE can be anything you like
Before Alycia and Sherilyn Came Along


Here I need to tag 5 people
1) Scibbles For My Angels... hope you are feeling well enough to do this tag :)
2) Karen Yiau
3) Mamapumpkin
4) Janice
5) Mariuca


and 2 new acquaintances
1) Misha
2) Hijack Queen

P.S. : I took more than an hour to complete this tag - interruptions by the 2 rascals in between, looking for new acquaintances, then jumped from one blog to another to another to another....... and left comments in their blogs......coz all the blogs seem so interesting.... until I really forgot what my mission was.... LOL!

Village Grocer

After our satisfying meal at Marco's Pizzas and New Zealand Ice-cream, we went shopping for groceries at Village Grocer yesterday. I love shopping at this supermarket as they carry an extensive choice of products and brands that we can't get from most supermarkets. I love their organic stuff and their fresh fruits and meat. There are goosenberries, raspberries, blueberries and all sorts of exotic fruits on sale. I also love their range of meat - beef, mutton, chicken, fish, etc. Got some Happy Cow cheese wedges for the gals, a pack of organic low-fat cereal for myself, a pack of caffeine-free tea with 5 fantastic flavours for myself, a pack of minced beef patties (which I will fry them tonight), a bottle of organic pomegranate juice with goji berries, acar berries, blueberries, cherries and a few types of organic berries all in one bottle, more cheese crackers for myself and the girls (very unhealthy i know but I love them - they sell a wide range of imported biscuits too), 10 small 'kam quat' or tiny mandarin oranges (which cost RM8!) and some fruits and vege.

Before I left, I got a chicken pie and tomato strudel from Hiestand Swiss Gourmet for dinner. Did they taste good? Not that fantastic to me. I prefer the pies from Dome Cafe.

Too Much of New Zealand Ice-Cream

After our lunch at Marco's Pizzas at Bangsar Village yesterday, hubby proceeded to New Zealand Ice-Cream. He loves to pamper the girls with ice-creams coz he himself is crazy over ice-cream. As for me, I don't fancy sweet stuff. I used to love ice-cream but lately, the sight of sweet stuff, esp cakes and ice-cream makes me feel jelat. Anyway, I still ordered a cup of passion fruit sorbet ice-cream and shared it with Sherilyn. Alycia had a scoop of macademia nut on a cone and hubby had rum & raisin in a cup. It was only when hubby paid for the ice-cream and got a 30% rebate on our ice-creams that we found out that yesterday being the 30th of the month, all ice-creams, whether eat-in or take-away were entitled to a 30% discount. So hubby bought a pint of macademia and cream ice-cream to take-away and for all the ice-creams that we had eaten and taken away, hubby paid less than RM30. That cost less than the 5 scoops of ice-cream that we had eaten last Thursday when we were at Bangsar Village. So if you're a fan of ice-cream too, do check out New Zealand ice-cream - their ice-creams are all imported from New Zealand, made of natural ingredients and taste delicious. Try to buy them on the 30th of each month, you'll save a lot.

Of yes, Alycia ate so much ice-creams (for 2 days) that she now has a slight runny nose :(

How We Spent Our Sunday

After church today, we went to Bangsar Village. We had gone there on Friday to have lunch at Delicious (one of our favorite restaurants) and just when we were about to leave, we passed by a newly opened Italian restaurant called Marco's Pizza (can't remember the exact name), located opposite Grocers Village. Hubby browsed their menu and the food looked good, so he promised to bring us here on Sunday (today). Well, the food is good. I love the pasta, especially the Pesto pasta and the pasta with pine nuts, avocado and prawns cooked in tomato paste. The cod fish pasta was also good. Their pizzas are all baked in wood stove fire. This is what we had for lunch today :

The wood stove to bake pizzas.

The restaurant is very spacious (with split level), very clean and there is also a kids' play area. It is a very kids' friendly restaurant and suitable for gatherings (we can hold a bloggers' gathering there too!). Will definitely dine in this restaurant again.

The kids' play area - very clean.

You Like This?

CLICK ON THE PICTURE TO SEE IT MOVE!

If you visit this young and pretty mummy's blog, you will notice that her blog is full of animation. The pix are moving and the words are jumping around. It's a very interesting, funny and lively blog written by a very creative and cheery mum with a cute son. I'd earlier commented in her blog that I'm impressed with the moving pix and the next day, I got a surprise email from her. I got 2 animation pix of Sherilyn - moving. She had copied the pix from my blog and did a GIF with it. What a pleasant surprise. Thanks Sasha for the little GIF!

Want An Increase Traffic To Your Blog?

This is NOT a sponsored post! Notice the new BlogRush widget on my sidebar? I've just joined BlogRush, a FREE service that helps bloggers get what they want - traffic to their blogs and hopefully, an increase in page rank too.

Here's an excerpt from the BlogRush website on what BlogRush is all about :

By adding the BlogRush Widget to a blog, a blogger can get instant distribution for their latest blog post titles across a network of related blogs. BlogRush users earn "syndication credits" (the right to have their blog post titles shown inside a widget on another related blog) based on their own traffic (loads of the widget) as well as the traffic of other users they refer to BlogRush.

Users can automatically refer others to BlogRush via special links on the widget, as well as through the promotion of a special referral URL they are given.BlogRush is a "Cooperative Syndication Network" that rewards its users for their contributions to the network -- from the impressions they provide of the BlogRush Widget to the referral of other users through 10 'generations' of activity and the impressions of the widget that they provide.

BlogRush was designed to be incredibly viral and to provide its users with tremendous distribution leverage to receive exposure for their blog content (onto related content blogs) that they could never achieve on their own; at least without a massive advertising budget.

If you too want an increase traffic to your blog, quick hop on to BlogRush, fill out some simple forms, copy and paste the widget codes to your blog and you're done.

My Friend Is Going To Las Vegas

My best friend’s hubby is going to the United States for a business trip again and this time, he’s going to Las Vegas and my friend is tagging along again. She had just sent me a text message on my mobile phone telling me how excited she is to be able to visit Las Vegas, one of the most happening places in the world with non-stop entertainment and fun. Her hubby’s company has paid for their accommodation at the Tropicana Las Vegas Resort and she was telling me that her hubby has even bought show tickets for her to the popular Xtreme Magic show starring Dirk Arthur and Folies Bergere show. Her hubby got free tickets to the shows for their stay at the resort, how nice! I did warn my friend not to have too much fun with her hubby at the resort’s 24-hour casino as they are both games lovers. It’s fun to play with them once in a while but I told her that she should always remember her limit though. I wonder when I will ever have the chance to visit Las Vegas.

New Blog Coming Up Soon...

I finally signed up for my own domain yesterday and today, I have been busy setting up my new blog. I must really thank this wonderful mummy for offering her help to me. Already busy with 2 kids (and one arriving anytime), she has time and again offered to help me and kept reminding me about my new blog coz when her baby pops out, she will not be able to help me.

As I've got no experience with WordPress, everything about WP looks so alien to me. It doesn't help that I'm an IT retard and today being a Saturday, I have 2 hyperactive kids at home, tugging at me and wanting my attention all the time.

The most difficult thing about setting up own domain is the FTP file thingy. It is so complicated (well, at least to me coz I'm IT challenged) but Elaine has been so patient with me and helpful to me. I gave up half way through with the FTP file thing and Elaine offered to help me with it as well as to put up all the affiliate codes and what nots on my blog's sidebar. Later, she'll teach me step by step how to update my blog. Isn't she wonderful?

I'll be busy with my new blog for the next few days and I don't think I'll have time to accept offers from advertisers. If I've not dropped by your blog yet, I hope you'll understand.

Till then... I'll be unveiling my new blog to everyone very soon. Finally, I have my very own blog, a dot com blog and no longer a free subdomain blog, yay!

The Many Faces of Sherilyn

Sherilyn my little rascal is full of expression and has a 'colorful' personality. Here are the many faces of Sherilyn :

Playful


Mischievous pout


Sweet smile


Cheeky grin


Greedy stare


Wailing out loud

The Age That I Wish To Go Back To

Hui Sia would like to know at which age I'd wish to go back to if given a chance. Well, if there's really a time tunnel or time machine, just like the serial movie 'The Time Tunnel' that was popularly shown in the 1980's (which was my favorite), I would choose age 14-15. It was a year where I had so much fun with my classmates. First we went on our very first trip to KL on a bus. Back then, it was such a big deal to be able to go to KL for some ulu Ipoh mali school girls like us. We visited the zoo, the airport, went to The Mall (which was the newest and trendiest mall in KL back then), Batu Caves and many more. Then, we went on our first camping trip to Pangkor Island. It was such a fun-filled year and I just miss those care-free, stress-free, worry-free, child-free days.

Now, I'd like to know yours too :

Barbara.... good interim post for you :)
Anggie .... first tag for you :)
Shannon .... don't mind doing this tag?

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Instructions:

Title: The Age That I Wish To Go Back To

Requirement: Write about the one age that you wish to go back to and why?

Tag Mode: 5 blogger
1st - You list down their blog name and blog url and add to the list below.

2nd - Let the blogger you want to tag know they have been tagged by commenting in their blog or etc.

Have fun with this tag!

The age that they wish to go back to:
Amidrin wish to go back to age 22 to correct back some mistakes in life.
Lemonjude wish to go back to age 6 to enjoy kid's life.
Hui Sia wish to go back to age 16 to meet her first lover again.
Shireen wishes to bo back to age 14 to relive her fun-filled childhood days.

Chubby Alycia

Everyone is commenting that Alycia has put on a lot of weight lately. I don't really notice it as I see her everyday. So today I went through my picture folder to go through her pix and omg, it's true, she really gained some weight, especially on her cheeks and belly. Notice how chubby her cheeks are here?

Even our paed commented that Aly's weight has shot up quite a bit. Her weight shot up from 15kg to 18kg in 4 months! I think it must be because she didn't need to go to school for almost half a year, had enough sleep, slackened a bit in her exercise (we use to jog everyday when we were staying in Shah Alam) and she's been eating quite a bit lately. I'd better make her exercise more in the evenings, else she'll grow into a fatty bom bom in no time, LOL!

Breakfast Ritual

Alycia and Sherilyn can hardly sit still during meal times, especially during breakfast when their energy levels are at the highest in the morning. To keep them still on their chairs, I have to provide them with some activities like drawing, scribbling, reading or coloring whilst my maid and I feed them. My mom and I had bought them a huge collection of activity books from letter tracing to number tracing, coloring and joining numbered dots and letters. Each morning, the gals choose the activity that they like and they can spend almost an hour all wrapped up in that activity. I find that their concentration levels are also at the highest in the mornings, so I normally read to them in the morning to capture the most of their attention.

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Crawling and Creeping For Your Child's Brain Development

Crawling (like commando crawl) and creeping (on all fours, i.e. on hands and knees) are highly advocated and encouraged by Glenn Doman (GD) for the development of a baby's brains. I used to be a pro-GD and practised the GD inspired programs with Sherilyn since she was a newborn. When I first had Alycia, I hadn't discovered GD yet. It was only when Alycia was around 6-7 months that I had discovered GD and I then started to make homemade flash cards to teach Alycia reading. Sadly, she didn't show much interest as I had started her a little too late. With Sherilyn, I started flashing words and math dots cards to her when she was 2 months old and I encouraged lots of tummy time even when she was a newborn. Tummy time will lead to early crawling which will in turn lead to creeping. Sherilyn turned out to be more advanced than Alycia in many areas. Till today, I still encourage Alycia and Sherilyn to creep on gym mats on the floor whenever I have the time. To encourage the gals to creep, I too have to creep along with them. It is proven that crawling and creeping as well as walking and running (all in great amounts) have helped improved speech development in toddlers. If you visit the GD website and the Childbrain forum, you will be amazed with how the GD programs have had success with so many kids worldwide. So if you're lost with activity ideas with your kids, go get some gym mats and play crawling and creeping games with them!

Hey, this is not a sponsored post, ok!

Pissed Off With Streamyx

I woke up at 6am today hoping to grab some offers and to complete my outstanding assignments. But my computer wouldn't cooperate. It took me ages to download the advertisers' websites. Some websites were fine but I had problems with most sites. I thought my computer was acting up again and restarted it but after it was rebooted, the situation was the same. I had already wasted an hour trying to refresh each screen and to reboot the computer. I then decided to call Streamyx and it was then that I found out that certain areas in the Klang Valley are experiencing Streamyx disruption. Oh what the fun, if only I had known earlier, I could have just continued with my beauty sleep instead of dragging myself up for nothing. So I didn't manage to do anything this morning until around 10am. What a bummer!

Sweet Corn Fritters

Here's another dish that both toddlers and adults will enjoy - sweet corn fritters. My gals are crazy over this dish. It contains protein, iron, carbo and fibre - a wholesome meal.

Ingredients :

1) 2 cob of corns - remove corn kernels from the cob (choose young corns)

2) Chopped spring onions or you can use 'choy sum' (would be good to conceal some finely chopped vege inside if your little ones don't like vege)

3) 2 eggs

4) 2 teaspoons of high protein flour or wholemeal flour or corn flour

5) Dash of salt

6) Would be tastier if you add in some chopped red chillies (if your little ones can tolerate them)

Method :

1) Mix all the ingredients together in a large bowl and mix well.

2) Scoop out the batter in spoonfulls and pan fry them in a non-stick pan.

Happy Mid Autumn Festival

To everyone celebrating this festival, here's wishing you a very happy Mid Autumn Festival. We are not celebrating this festival as we're not Buddhist. So today is just a regular day for us but I'll be making some chicken nuggets coated with Nestum for the gals. It's my first try using Nestum as the coat and I hope the nuggets will turn out crispy. There's also going to be a steamed Cod fish, a stir-fried vege and a 'Wong Keong Kai' or Yellow Ginger Chicken dish that I had cooked yesterday. I shall make a post on this dish soon.