Tag : My Travel Fantasy

This mummy would like to know my travel fantasy. Well, if I have enough money, I would really love to visit Japan and eat the freshest raw fish, scallops and sea urchins, have a skiing trip in Switzerland, bring the kids to Disneyland in Orlando (so much have been written on this place LOL!) or Disneyland in Hong Kong not forgetting an Alaskan cruise.

Not tagging anyone this time.

Amniocentesis Experience

Had my Amnio done today. It wasn't as painful as I had imagined but the fear and worry were definietly greater than anything else. The preparation before the Amnio took about 15-20 minutes. There were just so many sterile equipment used and I was covered by a sterile green cloth. I felt as if I was in the OT and it was also freezing cold in the room. I was trembling away, both in cold and in fear.

My gyane cleaned my belly with many layers of antiseptic wash. The needle used to poke my belly was as fine as a strand of hair and it was long too. When my gynae poked it in, I felt a sudden tingling and mild cramp inside my tummy, near the womb area. What was only about 3-5 minutes felt like an hour when he was aspirating the amniotic fluid from the sac. I saw my baby on the screen, moving about and I was terribly worried that it might get poked by the needle. I was really worried and felt really tensed. 2 syringes of yellow colored fluid was aspirated out. Throughout the procedure, my gynae kept asking his assistant to pour saline and sterile water on my belly.

After the Amnio, I had to lie on the bed for an hour. My gynae has advised me to lie down for the next 2 days to reduce the risk of a miscarriage. So, I have to put blogging on hold and take a good rest for the next 2 days. Sorry if I've not been visiting your blog.

That's How Sherilyn Eats Her Medicine

One spoonfull of ice cream followed by one sip of medicine, that's how Sherilyn eats her medicine. As long as she eats her medicine and does not put up a fuss or puke, I'll let her have any treats from cakes to crackers, but her all-time favorite is still ice cream. Now, the gals love falling ill coz that's the time mummy would let them indulge in all these sweet treats.

Our Sunday

It's a day of non-stop eating for us today. We had Dim Sum at Imbi Palace for lunch. When we got home, my parents from Ipoh arrived. They will be flying off to China tomorrow. My dad bought some famous Ipoh hawkers' food for us and we all ate again. Tonight, we'll be having dinner at the Japanese restaurant at Shangri La Hotel since sil will return to Hong Kong tomorrow.

I didn't do much blogging today. I spent all the time that I have checking all my unapproved posts by 3P and other networks to ensure that the posts are still in my blog. I had asked the host for my own blog to check if they have the lost posts backed up in their system but the hopeless host asked me to check them myself from my Cpanel. It is impossible for a person who is not IT savant to comprehend those IT jargons, codes and language. I get really pissed off with them. Every single request to them has always been tai chied back to me. I just have a feeling I will not be able to recover all my lost posts. My only hope now is that after the computer guy re-installs the IE old version into my PC, my posts will re-appear again.

I still have a few outstanding paid posts and I doubt I will have the time to complete them by tomorrow (the due date) as I'll be going for my Amnio test tomorrow. Moreover, I feel so down and just don't have the mood to write. The ideas just don't seem to flow. Guess I will have to let the tasks expire.

Big Pee Mess

Alycia made a huge mess yesterday when she accidentally peed on the mattress during her afternoon nap. She can normally hold her bladder for at least 2 - 2.5 hours during her afternoon nap but yesterday, I guess she must have been too exhausted since we were out for lunch. Her bolster, pillows, bedsheet and the new mattress were soaked with her pee. I even had to discard a new pillow as it was drippling with her pee. Though there was a layer of plastic mat beneath her and another layer of plastic sheet beneath the bedsheet, everything still got drenched. Her output must be a heavy one! I think plastic sheets and mats are not good enough. I should revert to disposable water-proof papers from Pureen as they absorb water which plastic sheets don't. My maid has to do do a major laundry session today!

Delicious Prawn Noodles

This is the prawn noodles that I ate at Banquet @ Bangsar Village yesterday afternoon. It tasted really good and the thick rich broth was piping hot and spicy too. It came with 2 big prawns, half a hard boiled egg, chicken meat, spinach and fried shallots. As I was slurping the noodles, I accidentally choked on the spicy broth. Ouch, that really hurt and my throat was burning and tingling for a good 1 hour. So if you order this dish at Banquet next time, be careful not to slurp the noodles hastily.

The prawn noodles don't really look appetitizing here coz it was half eaten. I had forgotten to snap a pic of it when it arrived. I was famished!

Lost Posts = Lost Payment

I have just received an email from an advertising network. The post that I had published in my blog 25 days ago could not be found and as such, they are unable to make payment to me though they had earlier approved my post. All my posts labeled under this advertising network have vanished from both my blogs, as well as all the posts from another advertising network! I have a few unpaid tasks from these 2 advertising networks. Oh gosh, why is this happening? I'm going to loose a lot of money if my posts cannot be retrieved. I've asked the computer guy to check my PC next week and to reinstall the old IE version back. It could be my blog does not support the new version of IE. Does it sound logical OR does being invaded by malicious virus or being hacked sound more logical? Can someone please help me retrieve my lost posts please, pretty pretty please?

Pork Chop For Dinner

I've marinated some pork chop and my maid is now pan frying them. The aroma of the pork chop from the kitchen has wafted through the air in the house and my tummy is rumbling now. I made pork chop too several days ago but they turned out tough coz I had forgotten to add some corn flour. I hope my pork chops will turn out tender and tasty today. As for my gals who have just recovered from mouth ulcer, I will be cooking some pumpkin vermicelli for them with watercress soup. Have also asked my maid to steam a cod fish for them. Since today's a Saturday, are you dining out or cooking up a storm at home?

Chocolates

I am not a chocolate lover but I still indulge in them once in a blue moon if they are imported chocolates. There's this chocolate called Almond Gold by Whittaker's that's really tasty. This chocolate is made up of a generous amount of roasted almonds and covered in milky chocolate. I love it as the almonds are more than the chocolate and it's not too sweet. Not sure if you can get this chocolate here coz my sil normally gets them for us from New Zealand.

Fetal Movements

I was rather worried that at 16 weeks, I'm still not feeling my baby's movements. When I was carrying Alycia, I could feel the fetal movements as early as 12 weeks, with Sherilyn it was a little later, at around 14-15 weeks and with this baby, I've only felt it flutter intermittently for the last 2 days at 16 weeks. How soon did you feel your baby's fluttering movements when you were pregnant? Would love to hear and compare.

Lost Posts

I discovered that some of the posts from both my blogs have disappeared out of the blue a few days ago. I realized they had vanished when the number of posts in my blogspot blog showed only 900+ when it should be around 1,050. When I checked the posts, they have indeed vanished from my blog. Has anyone experience this before? Could this be my computer has been invaded by some malicious virus? Gosh, this is scary. I really want to recover my lost posts, over 100 of them. Can someone tell me what's wrong?

What A Waste

I had recently opened a box of Pecan cereals to eat and then used a plastic clipper to seal the packet of cereals before placing it on a kitchen shelf. A few days later, when I had wanted to eat the cereal, I was disgusted to see that the bag of cereal was filled with tiny ants, the entire packet of it! Eeuuu.... it was so geli that without second thoughts, I threw the packet of cereal away. What a waste as the box of cereal cost more than RM10. Now I know that this cereal is loaded with sugar coz I have another packet of organic cereal with reduced sugar kept in the same shelf and the smart ants didn't creep into that box. So lesson learnt, do not buy this brand of cereal again and always keep my cereals in an airtight container or in the fridge.

Reject or Crack Your Head?

What do you do when you've accepted an offer to write a review on a topic that you have no idea what to write about or the subject is totally alien to you? Do you reject it or spend an hour cracking your head and praying for a brainwave? Well, if I have the time, I will do some google search on the product, then write about it. But most times, I'll rather be lying on the couch watching TV than crack my poor head. In times like this, I'll wait till the eleventh hour for the offer to expire and if I still have no brainwave, I'll reject the offer.

Birds' Nest

These are the raw birds' nest that sil got me from Hong Kong. Really lazy to soak them and remove the dirt but since I've got so much of them now, I better cook them before they turn mouldy. Just hope this baby will turn out fair, healthy and beautiful since it's got so much good stuff from mummy.

Balloon Craze

Alycia and Sherilyn are crazy over balloons. They love balloons of all types and shapes, especially the long sculpturing balloons. Last week, daddy bought the gals a big packet of sculpturing balloons. They've been asking kakak to pump the balloons for them everyday and sculpture them into all sorts of shapes too. Now, our house is filled with balloons!

Ice-Cream To The Rescue

Daddy bought a tub of Haegan Daz ice cream for the gals to soothe their aching throats resulting from the ulcers. Now, the gals look forward to eating their medicine coz they know they can have a very nice and sweet treat to go with their medicine. As for me, it's a breeze feeding them medicine - no more fuss and no more puking!

Hubby Needs To Detoxify His Body

I am a health freak but sadly my healthy regimen does not seem to rub off on hubby who does not seem to care much about his health. He eats whatever he fancies though some of the food are really unhealthy and he doesn’t drink enough plain water. That’s why he falls sick easily, always feels bloated and has joint pains on his legs. I think he has lots of toxins accumulated in his body and what he really needs is a good colon cleanse to detoxify his body. Knowing that he will not take the trouble to find out about colon cleansing, I have done some reading for him and I’ll be buying a colon cleansing kit for him too.

Hairy Crabs From Hong Kong

The special scissors and chopsticks for eating crabs.


When my sil from HK came a couple of days ago, she brought along some live hairy crabs (tai chak hai). Though I'd seen them when we went to Hong Kong 2 years ago, but we didn't get a chance to eat them. I'd badly wanted to sample them but again, I can't try them as I'm preggers now. It was indeed very hard to resist my temptation seeing everyone eating piping hot steamed fresh hairy crabs with special black vinegar sauce and ginger that my sil had prepared. They looked so good, especially the creamy yellow crab roe oozing out from the crabs. Torture!

A Very Nice Lady

Before I met Barbara, we were merely communicating via emails and telephone but I could already feel the warmth and sincerity of her friendship. It was really great to be able to meet her for the first time on Sunday last week at the bloggers' meet. This very nice lady even took the trouble to get all the kids who came a 'first time meet' gift. How nice of her. Since I had told her that I wanted to get the dried fruit snacks that she had bought for Ashley, she bought 2 packets of them and a packet of animal-shaped cookies for the gals. How very thoughtful of her.

Nice Ladies Golf Apparel

Whilst window shopping at the sports section of a shopping mall several months ago, I came across some very nice women’s golf apparel. I don’t play golf and I’ve never bought myself any golf apparel but a pink skorts (a.k.a. skirt cum shorts) caught my attention. I decided to try it on and to my surprise, I looked really good in it. Without hesitation, I bought the skorts. Ever since, I’ve been looking around for golf skorts and recently, I saw some very nice golf apparel ladies at WomensGolfProShop.com. See the 2 skorts here? After discount, the orange one costs only $29.88 and the floral one costs $49.88. I’m really tempted to buy them but since I’m pregnant now, I guess I’ll have to wait until I’ve delivered.