The Jealousy Streak In Sher Is Starting To Show

Today, all of a sudden, Sherilyn is starting to display the jealousy streak in her over her little baby sister. These are some of the things she said today :

1) Mummy, baby cannot sleep in my playpen.
2) Mummy, baby cannot wear my pants ok?
3) Baby, cannot sit on my high chair ok?
4) Mummy, is this shoes for baby? (when I said yes, she said 'NO'! Then her lips gradually turned downward into a crescent and her eyes started to be teary).

Nevertheless, she is still hugging my belly all the time and would always remind me to pray for baby.... so sweet of her.

Ham and Cheese Bread

Yesterday, I asked hubby to buy me a loaf of black sesame wholemeal bread and a green tea chiffon cake from the bakery. Since he had been really busy yesterday, he only managed to go to the bakery late in the evening and those items that I had wanted were all sold out.


Instead, he bought a loaf of ham and cheese bread with cuttlefish flakes.... and it was really tasty. Even the sick cat Alycia who had no appetite for anything else loved the bread.

and a honey cake which is plain, not too sweet and tasted just right.

Simply Irresistable

Ever since I was preggers, I have to try really hard to resist my temptation whenever I see hubby gorging on fresh sashimi and sushi. Writing this post and looking at the picture of the sushi have already made me salivate. I just can't wait to sink my teeth into some freshly cut raw salmon and butter fish and dip them into dollops of wasabi in Japanese soy sauce.


Hubby ordered this plate of sushi at Iciban Doshi @ Pavillion on New Year's eve.

Alycia's Cough - Day 6

Last night, I applied Vicks on Alycia' chest, back, neck and on the soles of her feet and put on socks for her. She didn't cough until about 4am. I gave her some water and she went back to sleep without coughing much. The gals also slept without the air-conditioner turned on.

This morning she puked again when I fed her medicine. The phlegm kept irritating her throat and induced the vomit sensation. I let her rest for a while before feeding her the medicine all over again. Really don't comprehend why Alycia is so weak despite her eating healthily. It really could be due to all the outside food and heaty food that she ate during our short holiday that lowered her immune system. Sherilyn who didn't eat those food is still well, though she did show some symptoms of cough and a runny nose several days ago.

Art of Eating

Alycia and Sherilyn have mastered using the knife and fork and they would insist to use them whenever we eat Western food. When we eat Chinese food, they would also insist on using the chopsticks but they still have to fine-tune their chopsticks skills before they can eat at a faster pace.

But Sherilyn still causes quite a mess when it comes to feeding herself. She tends to have butter fingers. Blame it on mummy too coz she treats her too much like a baby.


Alycia does not even need mummy or kakak to feed her now. She can independently eat on her own now.

I Think I Will Fall Sick Next

With Alycia coughing, sneezing, puking and spitting at me the whole day, I think I'll be the next to fall sick. I'm already feeling hot inside my body and feeling really heaty. I'm trying to get more sleep and have been eating more fruits for the past few days. I really can't afford to fall sick myself - my maid will be leaving on Sunday and there will be no reliable person at home to help me with the kids. Hopefully my mum from Ipoh can come to help me for a week.

One More Week To Go Before She Leaves

Starting from today, I have asked my maid to cook batches of food for me to deep-freeze them so that when she's gone on Sunday, I can heat up those food to eat. Today, I asked her to make homemade burgers. Tomorrow, I'll be asking her to cook minced chicken meat in blended tomato paste. On Wednesday, I'll be asking her to cook yellow ginger chicken, then the next day, maybe I'll ask her to cook chicken braised with mushrooms, etc. etc. These can last us for about 1 week. Hopefully the temp. maid knows how to cook too.

Braised Fish

I hate the fishy taste of certain fish. One way of cooking these fish so that they do not taste fishy is to braise the fish with miso paste or fermented soya beans (tau cheong).

Ingredients :
1) Miso paste or fermented soya beans (tau cheong)
2) Chopped garlic
3) Sliced ginger
4) Tofu pok OR tofu sheets (foo choke)
5) Spring onions
6) Chinese cooking wine

Method :
1) Pan fry fish and set aside.
2) Fry the chopped garlic and sliced ginger until fragrant.
3) Add in some miso paste or tau cheong. Fry for another 5 minutes.
4) Put in the tofu pok or tofu sheets.
5) Put the fish into the wok and add some broth or water. Add a dash of Chinese cooking wine.
6) Cover wok for 5 minutes.
7) Dish out and sprinkle some spring onions or chinese parsley over the fish.

Fish head would go very well if cooked in this method. Hubby has bought a huge fish head costing RM39 from the pasar malam last Friday and I shall braise the fish head tomorrow. I would have stopped him had I known that it is so expensive. Men always don't know how to bargain when it comes to shopping !

Hi-5

My kids love watching the Hi-5 series more than Barney or any other cartoons.... and they are not the only ones who enjoy watching them, even I love watching them. They have learnt so much from these Australian educational VCDs. Whilst most educational VCDs are a tad boring and dry, Hi-5 is very entertaining and most kids I know of love them. Some of the things that Alycia and Sherilyn have learnt through these VCDs are phonics, body parts (not simple body parts but parts with scientific names that I don't even know!), cause and effect, musical instruments, colors, shapes, sounds that animals make, types of dance and much more. Of course, Alycia and Sherilyn's grammar and vocab have also improved.... and sometimes they even speak in Aussie slang. Sometimes, the three of us would dance together to the catchy music.

Scrumptious Waffles

I bet this scrumptious looking waffle is making your tummy rumble now eh? I had 4 varieties of toppings on the waffle and it tasted really good. Whilst most restaurants would only serve regular honey or maple syrup, this Cofee House at Sheraton Imperial was so generous with their wide selection of Manuka honey and honey fresh from the bee hives! Hop on to my other blog to read more about it and to view more pictures.

Alycia's Not Getting Any Better

Alycia's cough is not getting any better. The phlegm has increased and keeps irritating her throat till she keeps puking. Daddy brought her to see the paed again today and the dr. prescribed her with more medicine! She is finishing her antibiotics today but because she's not getting any better, the dr. gave her another bottle of antibiotics and she has to eat it for another 2 days. She was also given a new cough syrup and a new syrup for the phlegm.

One of my readers informed me today that Alycia's constant illness could be caused by moulds in the house. She recently found out that her kids' constant illness and her constant cough were caused by allergies - moulds on the mattress, pillows, bolsters and walls. There could be some truth to it as the paed had told me before that Alycia has sensitive throat and nose and is also allergic to 'something in the environment'. Hubby is thinking of buying the latest Sharp air purifier cum air humidifier but it's freaking expensive at RM1,600! I've just checked the pillows that the gals normally sleep on downstairs and have discarded two pillows that have yellow dots (could be mould) on them. Will be going upstairs to check their pillows and bolsters later to have another round of investigation!

Organic Tomato Noodles

I've found a brand of noodles that taste just as good as instant noodles - organic tomato noodles by Vitame. I never feed Alycia and Sherilyn with instant noodles but each time my maid eats instant noodles, they would stand next to her and watch her eat the noodles whilst they salivate. A couple of times, they looked so pathetic that kakak secretly fed them with the instant noodles without my knowledge.... and they loved it.... and of course I found out when they came announcing to me proudly that they ate 'maggie mee'. Each time kakak eats instant noodles, they will beg kakak to let them have a spoonful of the 'maggie mee' (that's what they call instant noodles).


This brand of noodles comes in a few flavors - tomato, spirulina, seaweed and spinach at only RM4.90 per pack and are available at Cold Storage @ Gardens.

Organic tomato noodles with stir-fried minced chicken meat and Marmite and organic bok choy.

Here's another healthy meal for your toddlers from Health Freak Mommy!

We Love Bread

That's our favorite black sesame wholemeal bread fresh from the oven at the bakery. Since I've not been making my own bread lately, we've been buying fresh nice bread from this bakery. They sell black sesame wholemeal bread, walnut wholemeal bread, sunflower seeds bread, cheese and ham bread, dragon fruit bread, red bean bread, yam bread, pandan bread, fuji bread and much more. Anyone who steps into this bakery will surely be tempted to get a loaf of their unique bread.

Some other of my favorites at this bakery are their plain chiffon cake, green tea and red bean chiffon cake, moist and soft cheese cake and banana pie. Very tasty and fresh. Can't wait to go to this bakery later to get myself a banana pie. Fattening but damn shiok!

The bakery even slices the loaf of bread for you after you have picked your choice of bread.

Dull Sunday

Today has been a pretty dull Sunday for us. Alycia is still having cough and phlegm (though her fever has subsided) and her medicine is making her feeling sleepy and listless. We did not go to church today and stayed home the entire day. Sherilyn has also caught the virus from daddy and Alycia and has started to cough since yesterday. Her voice has also changed and she sounds like she's got a lot of phlegm. Yesterday when she cried, she threw up a lot of phlegm. I'm just hoping she won't have fever and a full fledge flu. Sher's still very active and has been running around the house and talking to herself as her playmate is sleeping almost the whole day. Just hope the gals will get better by tomorrow. I won't be sending Alycia to school tomorrow as she's still under medication. Planning to send her back to school on Tuesday next week.

My Maid Is Leaving Soon

My maid will be leaving us on Sunday next week. She seems very happy and appears to start missing Sherilyn. She's carrying Sherilyn quite a bit lately and runs to check on her whenever she cries. I think a close bond has grown between my maid and Sherilyn as she's been taking care of Sher since she was 10 months old. Moreover, Sher sure knows how to melt people's hearts with her cute antics. My maid is also getting very forgetful and dreamy lately. All that's in her mind now is to go back to Indon to meet her daughter and family. I think she has also stopped seeing her Nepalese boyfriend after hubby lashed out on her last month over her boyfriend.

Now my problem is getting a temporary maid while waiting for my new maid to arrive. Really giving me a big headache.

Advertlets Widget Acting Up

Today I encountered a strange thing with my blog and I must thank Barb for highlighting it to me. Each time I tried to access both my blogs, after the homepage is downloaded, the page will be directed to the Advertlets website by default. I immediately removed the Advertlets widget from my blog and voila, the problem was solved. I have emailed Advertlets to inform them of this problem but I had received a failed delivery return message in my email. I think there must be a serious system error at Advertlets. For those of you with the Advertlets widget in your blog, did you encounter this problem too today?

Mice Attack

Yesterday I wanted to print the revised flight itinerary for my maid’s flight back to Indonesia but my printer wasn’t working. When hubby came home to check, he discovered that the cable connecting the printer to the computer was chewed off, most probably by a mouse as I’ve seen a number of mice in my house lately and a baby mouse gave me a real scare recently when it ran over my feet, yikes! Now, we have to get a new fiber cable from blackbox.com. I better call the pest control company to service our house again before the mice chew off other cables or give me another scare.

Fairytale Wedding

I can’t help but keep talking about my friend who is getting married to a Tan Sri’s son as her fairytale like wedding is such an elaborate and grand one. Her close friends including me are so excited planning the wedding for her. She has already ordered a custom-made engagement ring with a huge blinking stone on it and she’s now shopping for the wedding rings and wedding jewelry. She doesn’t need to worry about the budget the slightest bit as everything is being paid for by her FIL, how awesome can that be! Next we will shop for the wedding flowers. Stay tuned for more.....

So Many Things To Buy

I have three more months to go before my baby pops out. I’ve not bought anything for the baby yet but I’ve already started to shop for the clothes that I’ll be wearing during my confinement. I’ve got myself a few sets of pajamas with front opening buttons for ease of breast feeding at night and some Nike golf socks at only $9.95 for a pack of 3 pairs. I still need to get myself some long pants, blouses with front opening buttons, breast pads and the shopping list seems to get longer each day. Thank goodness I don’t have to buy much baby stuff as this baby can wear hand-me-downs from Alycia and Sherilyn.

Food Exchanging

My neighbors and I love exchanging food with each other. Since we had 5 types of cakes in December alone, I gave some of these cakes to my Sikh neighbor. Yesterday, I gave her a quarter of the huge watermelon that hubby bought. In return, she gave us more Muruku (yummy, I love this) and some very tasty chocolate rice cookies made by her daughter-in-law. I am still waiting to taste her homemade curry and I wonder when lar she will ever give me some.