New Gizmo

Alycia and Sherilyn are still very much in love with their new gizmo, i.e. their new battery-operated toothbrush and they have never been so enthusiastic and happy with brushing their teeth than now. Even Sherilyn who never liked her teeth being brushed with a toothbrush is keen to brush her teeth herself with this cool vibrating gadget. I'm happy that I've finally found something that can motivate them to brush their teeth without any hassle, fuss, bribes or threats. As for me, I still prefer my good old conventional toothbrush as I feel it can do a better job than a high-tech gizmo! Call me archaic or out-of-date!

I Need A Mailbox With Special Lock

When my internet connection was cut off unceremoniously last week, I was furious and called Streamyx to enquire, only to be told that our Streamyx bill had not been paid for over a month. I thought I’d been prompt in my payment but their record showed otherwise. I then checked my file and yes, it’s true, we had missed payment for a month. Why was the bill from Streamyx not received by us? I then checked my mailbox and discovered that the padlock from the mailbox was missing and part of the opening of the mailbox had been prised open. I then realized that someone must have vandalized my mailbox. Now, I have to look for better and sturdier mailboxes with special locking insert to prevent those bugger vandalizers from stealing our mail and I've seen some of these special mailboxes at seattleluxe.com. I better get one of these mailboxes quick before my letters go missing again.

Time To Shop For A New Watch

My 2 brats who were playing with my watch several days ago dropped the watch on the floor and the watch broke into pieces. The glass was shattered and the hands of the watch were dismantled. I really need to get a new watch fast coz I feel really uneasy going out without a watch. I’ve seen some very nice and elegant Ebel watches, Longines watches and Corum watches for ladies at thetimezone.com. I wonder if our local watch shops carry some of the models that I’ve seen at this website. Time to go shopping for a new watch this week, yay!

My 2 Angels

My 2 angels are the most precious and priceless gifts to me from God. Very soon, I will be having another angel which would make 3 angels. One would ask am I not disappointed that I don't have any son? Not at all, I think He's being very kind to me by giving me 3 angels, my very own Charlie's Angels!


Aren't my angels adorable?

Weight-Loss Program

My friend who is on a weight-loss journey and had enrolled herself in a gym half a year ago has lost 8kg todate. She has 10 more kg to loose before she reaches her ideal weight. Her personal trainer has advised her to go on a low carbohydrate-high protein diet on top of her 5 times weekly work-out sessions at the gym. She has been limiting her carbohydrate intake to less than 100g a day and she even went cold turkey on her favorite rice, pastas, noodles, cakes, bread, crackers and white flour products. In addition, she is now taking nutritional supplements, fat burners and protein replacement meals. I’m really amazed with her progress and I think after I deliver my 3rd child next year, I too have to join her in the gym and follow her regimen!

I Need A Notebook Computer

On most nights, I will be stuck in the bedroom putting the kids to sleep as the kids do not want daddy or anyone else to put them to sleep but me. By the time the kids are asleep, I will be too sleepy and tired to go downstairs to where my desktop computer is to continue working. If only I have a notebook computer in my bedroom, I can continue working while I watch my kids doze off. As I’ve just bought myself a new desktop computer, I now have to save again to get myself the notebook computer. In the meantime, I can do some survey at Buy.com on which notebook computer to buy.

A Tourmaline Necklace For My 8th Wedding Anniversary

Time really flies when you’re having fun. It’s true, I just can’t believe I’m going to be married to my man for 8 years next year. Yay, that means, we will be passing the 7-year itch mark and that warrants a celebration. I’m so going to ask my man to get me an 8th wedding anniversary gift. I was browsing the website of Astley Clarke and found a long list of Anniversary Gemstone and for an 8th anniversary, the gemstone is Tourmaline. I think I will look splendid in this pink Tourmaline necklace in 14ct gold. It will really stand out when I wear this necklace with my new white A-line spaghetti strap dress.



There are also plenty of beautiful designer jewellery, gold jewellery, silver jewellery, wedding jewellery, stunning diamonds, birthstones and much more at Astley Clarke. The longer I stay in front of my PC staring at those Astley Clarke jewellery, the more items I am tempted to buy. I am so besotted by those aesthetically designed elegant jewellery by Astley Clarke that I think I might even dream of them tonight!

Oodles Of Soba

Yesterday, I cooked organic soba noodles with chicken balls and vegetables in watercress chicken soup for the gals. It's another very simple lunch dish. All you have to do is to mince some chicken meat, marinate them with a dash of sesame seed oil, pepper, salt and corn flour (corn flour makes the meat smooth and not rough).



In a pot of boiling water, cook the soba noodles and blanch the vege. Strain and leave aside. Then, form the minced chicken meat into balls and drop them one by one into the pot of hot water. Strain and scoop up. Pour some soup into the noodles and serve. You can also cook some anchovies soup to go with the noodles. For added protein, you can even break an egg into the boiling soup.


Just another wholesome and healthy meal for your toddlers brought to you by Health Freak Mommy!

I Am Feeling So Weak!

Had a bout of bad diarrhea this morning after breakfast and purged 4 times. I don't know if it's caused by the fried vegetarian meehoon that I had eaten with some vegetarian tofu and beancurd skin or the pandan layer cake that I had eaten last night. My 2 gals and maid also ate the cake but they are fine this morning. As I was wincing in pain in the loo, I was feeling really cold, sleepy, naucea and weak. I was so sleepy that I had even dozed off whilst sitting on my royal throne. After the 3rd gut attack, I even had to lie on my bed waiting for the next attack so that I can rush to the loo. Thank God, after the 4th attack, I'm feeling much better now as my guts are already cleared of all the impurities. I felt so weak that I took a 20 minute nap on my couch. I think I should make myself some toast with strawberry jam and sugar-free peanut butter to eat now to get back some energy.

Checking Accounts With Multiple Benefits and Freebies

I have always been looking for checking accounts from a bank that can offer me great benefits and free services, especially getting free checks but have not found a bank that offers me such benefits. I have now found a bank that offers a checking account called WaMu Free Checking Account that comes with a host of benefits such as free checks for life plus other free services from free ATM cash withdrawals to free Gold Debit MasterCard® with Rewards at WaMu. WaMu's other checking account, the WaMu’s Platinum Checking account holder even gets to earn interest and enjoy many other freebies if they maintain a high checking balance. Now, isn’t that good news? I wish we had a WaMu here too.

Sherilyn Loves Books

Yes she does and when I'm busy, she will choose her favorite books and 'reads' them to herself. Not that she can recognize the words but she can memorize the pages quite well. Sherilyn has longer and better attention span than Alycia and her interest in books and writing are also stronger than Alycia.

I Love Butter and Seaweed Sandwich

Sherilyn loves butter and she loves them in chunks on her sandwich or on her hard-boiled egg. This morning, she had chunky butter sandwich with crispy seaweed and a hard-boiled egg. Everyone has been saying that Sherilyn has lost a lot of her cute baby fat on her cheeks and arms. I'm trying to make her gain some weight by feeding her butter, more milk, cheese and an egg everyday. She's been a very picky eater of late and has been refusing to eat any meat. My maid and I have to spend almost 1.5 hours to feed her lunch or dinner. She's really testing our patience when all she does is just store the food in her mouth!

J.Co Doughnuts

The gals and I had a real sweet surprise from daddy just a moment ago when he brought home a big box of J.Co doughnuts. Daddy had a function at Pavillion today and since he was there, he took the opportunity to buy a dozen of the supposedly best tasting doughnuts in the world which have been causing a ridiculously long queue at the J.Co Doughnuts store in Pavillion since its opening recently.

So how do we like it? Since I'm not much of a doughnut lover and don't really fancy sweet stuff, I find them too sweet and jelak. Most of the doughnuts have sweet cream and icing on top and some come with coffee filling and cream filling. Nevertheless, the texture of the dough is very soft. Of the 12 flavors that daddy had bought, I like the plain one best but it is still too sweet for my liking. As for the gals, it's their first time sinking their teeth into doughnuts and naturally they loved them to bits. They were eating those doughnuts like some ravenous wolves devouring on some tasty meat!


Within 20 minutes, the doughnuts were all gobbled up by all of us including our maid. Sherilyn even licked her knuckles clean!

Sherilyn Is Going To School Next Year

Daddy has always wanted to let Sherilyn attend pre-school but I'm the one who's not so keen. First, I am worried that she might fall sick just as frequently as Alycia. Secondly, I can teach her at home and since she's very much a social butterfly, she doesn't need as much exposure to people as Alycia. Thirdly, it's costly, i.e. at around RM300 per month on average. But since she loves school so much and has been following daddy to bring Alycia to school every single morning, daddy feels that his second princess should be given equal opportunity as the first princess to attend school.

Today, I was really taken by surprise when he told the principal that he is registering Sherilyn for school in January next year. He even asked the principal to let Sherilyn try on the school uniform. So I guess next year, both my gals will be attending school. Sherilyn was grinning from cheek to cheek trying on the uniform and she was hopping and skipping in the school with joy and calling out to the teachers.

Alycia's Progress In School

Met up with Alycia's class teacher today. On the overall, Alycia has improved, especially in her social interaction skills. When she first joined the class, she was very reserved and quiet and hardly spoke a word. Though she's still on the quiet side and seldom participates in group activities, she has nevertheless learnt to mingle around with her classmates and asked her teachers questions too.

Academically, she is still lagging behind her peers as she has only attended class less than 3 months this year. Most of her peers started preschool at age 2 and Alycia is the youngest in the class being a December child. We pulled her out from school in February when she kept falling sick. She only resumed school in early September and did not consistently go to school as she also fell ill within these 2.5 months. She still cannot write the letters of the alphabet and numbers on her own without the help of dotted lines and she still can't read a book independently. Nevertheless, she can recognize almost all the letters of the alphabet (capital and small letters) and numbers from 1 through 10. She really needs some catching up.

Alycia's Progress In School

Met up with Alycia's class teacher today. On the overall, Alycia has improved, especially in her social interaction skills. When she first joined the class, she was very reserved and quiet and hardly spoke a word. Though she's still on the quiet side and seldom participates in group activities, she has nevertheless learnt to mingle around with her classmates and asked her teachers questions too.

Academically, she is still lagging behind her peers as she has only attended class less than 3 months this year. Most of her peers started preschool at age 2 and Alycia is the youngest in the class being a December child. We pulled her out from school in February when she kept falling sick. She only resumed school in early September and did not consistently go to school as she also fell ill within these 2.5 months. She still cannot write the letters of the alphabet and numbers on her own without the help of dotted lines and she still can't read a book independently. Nevertheless, she can recognize almost all the letters of the alphabet (capital and small letters) and numbers from 1 through 10. She really needs some catching up.

Parents-Teachers Day

Today is Alycia's pre-school parents-teachers day and I'm about to bring Alycia to school to meet her teachers. I wonder what they have to say about Alycia. Tomorrow there will be a children's day party at her school. Will be going to the bakery to get some chiffon cakes later.

I Wish There Were More Such Days

On days when Sherilyn is in a mood to draw and write, she can sit at her writing desk for a good half an hour without tugging at me and bothering me with her whims. She will draw, squiggle and do letter or number tracing. She can really be independent at times. I wish there were more days like this so that I can concentrate in my work on the computer and accomplish more in the mornings before Alycia gets home from school.

Food Review - Gu Yue Tien Chinese Cuisine

Deep Fried 'Lai Sar Tong Yuen' with black sesame paste as filling.

Almond milk with 'Suet Kap' (frogs' intestines)

These are the desserts that we had after dinner at Gu Yue Tien Chinese Cuisine Restaurant @ Chulan Square last week. The food at this restaurant were really good and I really enjoyed the almond milk suet kap as it wasn't too sweet and the almond milk was rich and creamy.

The double-boiled pigs' stomach soup, black bean chicken soup as well as the dishes from the main course were very tasty too. Check out my other blog to read the food review of this restaurant.

Her Eyes Are Bigger Than Her Tummy

My Spitty Spat hates meat and bland food but when it comes to bread, biscuits, crackers, cakes, keropok and ice-cream, she can eat them all without any fuss in a flash. Here, she's eating a butter bun. She loves it so much that she wants the container of buns to be right in front of her and she's even pointing to them, telling me that she wants more. If only she could eat her proper meals just like this.