Homemade Fried Rice

We had 'multi-ingredients fried rice' today, my creation of course. Let me tell you what ingredients were used to fry the rice :

1. Fresh sweet corns
2. Chopped choy sum
3. 2 eggs
4. Diced chicken meat
5. Diced sausages
6. Vegetarian 'chak thai' (made of bean curd sheet with chillies)
7. Garlic
8. Shallots
9. Sesame seed oil
10. Pepper
11. Lea & Perrin sauce
12. Soy sauce

There were 2 batches of fried rice - one is with the spicy vegetarian bean curd sheet and one without for the kids. The gals loved the fried rice and licked the platter clean!

I'm Having A New Computer!

After encountering endless problems with my old junk desktop PC, I've finally decided to buy a new one from the money that I'd earned from my paid posts. I'd sought hubby's help to get me a new one and today, he got one costing RM2,000. I've just finished backing up all the documents from my D Drive and desktop to My Documents and hubby's friend who's a computer specialist will come to our house at 12:30am to help me transfer all the data from my old computer to the new one. I'm praying that the transfer of data and the setting up of the new computer will go smoothly without any problems. I just can't afford any downtime as I have more than 10 tasks due for submission within the next 2 days.

Oh No Alycia, You Peed In Your Pants Again!

She just did, while taking her afternoon nap. I had asked her twice during her nap if she'd like to wee wee but she just shoke her head. All of a sudden, she told me "mummy, i want to wee wee". I told her to quick hurry to the toilet but she told me "i already wee wee here". Oh no, Alycia, you peed in your pants again but luckily, she realized it fast enough and managed to hold the remaning pee. I quickly brought her to the toilet to let her finish off emptying her bladder. Luckily this time the pee was not heavy enough to soak the mattress, pillows and bolster and the plastic mat beneath her prevented the pee from wetting the bedsheet. Phew... else there will be another round of major laundry session for my maid tomorrow.

Do You Get Pissed Off With The Ads?

I've been writing a lot of ads in my blog lately. Frankly, do you get pissed off with them? I really hope having these paid posts in my blog will not stop you from coming to my blog again. I'm trying my best to balance the number of personal posts in my blog too.

To all my loyal readers who never fail to take the time and trouble to put in your valued comments in my blog, I'd like to say a very big thank you for your support. It's really great to see from my blog statistics that I still have between 300-400+ visitors to both my blogs daily. I know there are many stalkers and lurkers out there who read my blog frequently but never leave any comments. I want to thank you too for coming to my blog time and again. If it's not for all of you, I would not have scored quite a good Alexa ranking and Technorati score.

What's For Dinner Tonight

Hubby bought a pack of shitake mushrooms yesterday. I'm going to ask my maid to stir fry them with some minced chicken meat and prawns with Miso paste. Not sure how it will taste but I think it should taste good. Didn't plan to add the prawns in but I suddenly remembered we still have a bag of medium-sized prawns in the freezer for more than a month. Will also be cooking fried fish with blended tomato and bombay onions, a steamed tofu and a stir-fried chinese cabbage. Also have my favorite soup, Watercress and loh hon koa for added 'yun'. Thank God I have a maid to help me out in cooking!

Deepavali Cheer

On the eve of Deepavali last week, my Sikh neighbor gave me a pleasant surprise when she presented me with a basket of food. I was hoping that there were her delicious curry and tosei inside the basket but instead, there were 3 jars of Muruku, bee hives and London Almond cookies together with some peaches and fragrant pears. Anyway, this time I managed to subtly tell her that I love the smell of her curries and hinted to get some of her homecooked curries soon. She was so proud to hear that compliment and said she will definitely give me some the next time she cooks them. See how greedy and desperate I am, even had the cheek to tell somebody to give me her curry!

Lightning Bummer

One advertising network was releasing offers one by one at snail's pace when suddenly there were lighting, thunder and a heavy downpour. I had already grabbed a few offers when the lightning became more intense. I couldn't make a decision whether to continue refreshing my screen and wait for more offers to pour in or switch off my modem. Suddenly a strong lightning struck followed by a roaring thunder which caused my screen to vibrate momentarily and my streamyx connection was cut off. My heart was pounding with fear and I quickly switched off my modem, disconnect the wire and took a short power nap. When I switched on my modem again (praying hard that it wasn't struck by lightning), thank God it was still working. Phew, what a heart attack it gave me!

New Clothes For Alycia

Alycia's wish for a new pair of jeans came true when koo mah bought her a pair of Zara Kids hipster 3/4 jeans from Hong Kong recently. She also got Alycia a Disney Zara Kids Minnie Mouse t-shirt to go with the jeans. Alycia always gets new clothes from all her koo mahs and koo koo whilst Sherilyn always gets all the hand-me-downs. Poor thing but it's not that bad either coz most of the clothes that Alycia had worn still look new as she had only worn them less than 10 times. Kids outgrow their clothes really fast.

Pregnancy at 17 Weeks

As my belly is growing bigger, I am feeling really bloated and don't have much appetite. This has always been the case during each of my pregnancy and the moment I reached the 20th week, my appetite would decrease substantially and I would not be able to eat much during each meal. Also, during both my pregnancies, I had a very sensitive uterus. After each meal my stomach would hardened and I would start to have 'contractions'. I could actually feel my uterus contracting whenever my guts are full or when my bladder is full or when I need to do my poopie business. My gynae told me I have a very sensitive uterus and I was also at risk for pre-term labor. When I was carrying Alycia, I even had to spread out my dinner into 3 courses so that my uterus would not contract - first I drank the soup, half an hour later I ate the vegetables and lastly the meat. I could not even sit for long during a car ride, else my uterus would contract again. I hope all would go well this time.

Grapeseed Oil

What's the healthiest choice of cooking oil? Is it pure coconut oil, extra virgin olive oil, soya bean oil, canola oil or grapeseed oil? We were shopping at Village Grocer last week and sil got us a bottle of pure grapeseed oil. Whilst the nutritional benefits of olive oil will be destroyed in high heat, grapeseed oil can withstand high heat and the health benefits will be retained. This is my first time trying out grapeseed oil for cooking. The price of grapeseed oil is also slightly cheaper than olive oil.

Tag : What Do You Wish For This Year End?

This mummy would like to know what my wish is for this year end? Well, I have many wishes. I wish that hubby and I can earn more moolah so that we can go for a vacation overseas, I wish that Alycia and Sherilyn will be more obedient, well-behaved and throw less tantrum, I wish that I can buy a car for myself soon and I wish that my blog PR will go even higher! But if I only have one wish to make, I'd wish for all my loved ones including my unborn little one to be healthy and happy always.

A very simple and straightforward tag. Not tagging anyone this time.

New Toy From Koo Mah

When koo mah was here last week, she brought Alycia and Sherilyn to Toys R Us and asked the girls to choose their own toys. Of course, kids being kids, they chosed the largest toy they could set their eyes on and got this. It's a writing desk with a clock, a magnetic board, magnetic alphabet and numbers, marker pens, eraser, a battery operated desk lamp and a drawing ruler.

When they reached home, they were so excited that they did not even take their afternoon nap and pestered my maid to assemble the toy for them. For 2 days, there was a tug of war on the stool and on who gets to sit at the desk. After a few days and as expected, the desk is now lying at the corner of our living room and they don't fight over it anymore.

Cheese Crackers Again

We were shopping for groceries at Village Grocer last week and I saw this fish shaped cheese crackers on sale. Though we still have a few boxes of unopened cheese crackers at home, but I couldn't resist buying something that's on sale. Wanted to grab 2 packs but since I've not tried it yet, just took 1. This pack of fish shaped cheese crackers is still not opened yet and Alycia has been bugging me to open it. I hope the gals won't get throat ulcer again after eating crackers.

New Disney Tumbler

During her last trip back to KL, my sil from HK had bought only one Disney Minnie Mouse water tumbler and since Sherilyn saw it first, she managed to grab the tumbler. During the most recent trip back, my sil bought another Disney water tumbler and this time it's a Mickey Mouse for Alycia. The gals are really lucky to have aunties in HK and other countries. They get the most gifts when their aunties visit them.

Find Your Cartridges Online

Picture this. You are running a tight deadline and need to print 10 sets of proposal in 2 days. You suddenly realized that the ink cartridges of the printers in your office are running low on ink. You check your stationery cupboard and there is no extra stock of ink cartridges. You call your cartridge suppliers only to be told they ran out of stock. What do you do? Well, if you’re always caught in this situation, then bookmark CartridgeFinder.com.

Cartridge Finder will help you find the right cartridges for your printer, copier or fax machine. Just hop on to Cartridge Finder, select your cartridge and you will be able to see the prices of your cartridge offered by different online merchants. Next, just choose where you would like to purchase your cartridge from and the cartridge will be delivered to you. Simple as that!

New Pajamas For Sherilyn

I got 2 sets of new pajamas for the gals a couple of weeks back. One has a picture of a cat on it and the other has a picture of a girl on it. I gave the cat pajamas to Sherilyn and the girl pajamas to Alycia. However after they had put on the new pajamas, Alycia insisted that she wants the cat pajamas too. A tug of war over the cat pajamas ensued and Alycia ended up crying for a good 1 hour until she fell asleep. After that tug of war episode, I hid the 2 sets of pajamas and promised Alycia that she will have the 2 new sets of pajamas since they are a little oversized for Sherilyn. I also promised Sherilyn that I will buy her another set of pajamas. I finally managed to get Sherilyn her new Barney pajamas from Toys R Us last week. Now, the gals are happy wearing their new pajamas. Kids' clothes are really expensive these days. This Barney pajamas cost RM36 and definitely way more expensive than my own Jusco and pasar malam nighties!

I Don't Want To Wear Diapers

For the past few days, Sherilyn refused to wear her diapers during her afternoon nap. She would struggle and protest when I tried to put the diaper on her. I think she's ready to wean herself off diapers. But lazy mummy me isn't ready, especially during the night time as I just don't have the energy and enthusiasm to pull her up a few times in a night to pee in a potty. I think I'll give myself till the first quarter of next year to train both the gals to go totally diaperless.

Finally Recovered All My Lost Posts

Yes, I did and I must thank this brilliant lady who is my lucky shining star! How can I not think of recovering my posts from my own Google Reader or some other bloggers' Google Reader? Not only did this wonderful lady help me recover my post and emailed them to me, she even helped me to re-submit the URLs of the rejected posts (that were initially missing) to 3P as I could not log in to 3P the whole of today.

I've now added my own Feed to my Google Reader and from there, I could see all my lost posts. I now have to copy and paste these posts back to my blog and email the advertisers informing them of my problem, together with the new URL of the posts.

The past 1 week was really terrible for me. I've been cracking my head trying to recover my lost posts and had spent so much time in front of the PC till my head now hurts badly and I feel so exhausted.

Now, I have a phobia of loosing my posts. I've created many layers of back-ups and hey, if you hacker want to hack my blog and posts again, you better watch out. There's no way you can bring me down. I've got someone up there watching over me and sending me guardians to help me all the time.

Once again, I want to thank Hui Sia for her help in solving my problem and to Mamabok in offering her kind help to re-write my lost paid posts.

Bad Headache

I'm having a bad headache now. Must be caused by the stress of thinking about all my lost posts from my own domain blog. I just can't believe that this lousy incompetent host, E, did not have a back up of those lost posts. I just feel like giving up on those lost posts and let the advertisers reject my posts and just forget about the money. One nice blogger has offered her help to re-write the posts for me. Maybe I should accept her offer and find a way to repay her kindness rather than get all stressed up thinking about those lost posts.

Text Link Ads and Banner Ads

The Google Ads on my side bar have been there for more than 6 months and it's a real pathetic that the amount has not even reached USD100. Same goes for my Auction Ads, I think I don't even see a dollar in my account. I think they are more like ornaments in my blog rather than money-making avenues. Since most of these ads on my side bar are not generating much revenue to me, I'm really considering removing them from my blog.

Tell me, how much have you earned from these side bar ads?