Sherilyn Is Finally Eating Meat!

I can't believe that Sherilyn is starting to like to eat meat. Last week I bought a Terriyaki roast chicken for dinner from Jaya Jusco @ Mid Valley. I did not intend to let Sherilyn try the chicken as she has never liked chicken meat. While we were all eating the roast chicken with rice for dinner, Sherilyn who was eating sandwiches asked to try the chicken since she saw her cheh cheh enjoying the chicken. Sherilyn has a tendency to follow her cheh cheh Alycia in everything that she says and does, most of the time. So I gave her a small piece of chicken, but nope, Sherilyn wanted a bigger piece.... and I gave in. I was surprised that she loved the chicken and kept asking for more and more! I found out that Sherilyn actually loves to eat meat that is very well marinated, i.e. salty and sweet and not too tough for her to swallow. Since that day, I have been introducing meat to her every now and then and so far, she's been accepting the meat, provided they are coated with lots of sauce.

Alycia and Sherilyn attacking and savouring the Terriyaki roast chicken.

Alycia Can Button Up

Alycia has finally learnt to button up and unbutton her clothes. She has been trying hard for days and finally, managed to wear her pre-school uniform herself 2 weeks ago.


Look how intent she is here trying her best to put the button through the tiny button hole, with furrowed eyebrows and scrunched up lips.

And how happy she is with her achievement.

That's How They Sleep Now

After many incidences of Sherilyn puking on the mattress in the middle of the night, I have now taken measures to make future cleaning up of mess as easy as possible. I have put a king size plastic sheet beneath the bedsheet, which will prevent the vomit from seeping into the mattress.


Huge piece of plastic sheet beneath the bedsheet to prevent vomit and pee from seeping into the mattress.




There is another plastic mat on top of the bedsheet, where Sherilyn will sleep on top.




and another plastic mat next to Sherilyn with a bucket next to her on the mattress. Every night before putting the gals to sleep, I will say a prayer together with the gals for God's protection and to ask God to prevent Sherilyn from puking. I will then remind Sherilyn many times that if she wants to puke, she has to puke into the bucket. Sherilyn has not puked for almost 2 weeks and I am keeping my fingers crossed that she will very soon get over this puking phase.

Have You Gotten Your PR Back?

Many blogs got back their PR over the past few days. Most of these blogs have paid posts in them, including 3P posts. I was really upset that despite me removing the 3P badges and links from my dot com blog, the PR is still 0... for both my blogs. I doubt it will ever go up to PR4 again but I am not expecting a PR4, I'll be happy if I can get a PR3 or at worst a PR2. The traffic to both my blogs is still considered good, in fact traffic has increased for both my blogs lately. I really don't know how Google ranks a blog. Have you gotten back a good PR for your blog? This Google PR thingy is really depressing.

Palm Sunday

We celebrated Palm Sunday in church on Sunday last week. All the kids at Sunday School received a palm leave or two each. They were also taught to make a donkey out of paper plate and some present papers. Why donkey? Well, Palm Sunday marks the celebration to welcome Jesus as he rode into the town of Jerusalem on a donkey over two thousand years ago. I hope I got the facts right as I've not been reading the bible for quite some time already *guilty*

Alycia and Sherilyn had a great time making the donkey at Sunday School and goofing around with their favorite teacher.

The donkey made out of paper plate and present papers.

Dato' Ng Yen Yen, the new Deputy Finance Minister was also at our church on Sunday and it was the first time I saw her in person.

We All Love Cream Puffs

Beard Papa's cream puff or J.Co / Big Apple doughnuts? Which one do we like more? I'll give a resounding vote to Beard Papa's cream puffs. I can't tell you how delicious those cream puffs are - they are not 'jelak' as the cream is fresh and made from fragrant imported vanilla beans and the pastry is oh so puffy and crispy. Though I am so conscious of my weight, I tend to have a weakness for cream puffs and I can even chomp down 2-3 of them at one go. These cream puffs must be eaten on the day you buy them. If you put them in the fridge overnight, the puffs will turn squidgy the following day. The cream will also lose its vanilla fragrance. Hubby normally buys half a dozen and we would normally finish them all in a day.


Luckily Alycia and Sherilyn love the cream puffs too, so I am 'forced' to share the sins with them and don't have to gobble them down all by myself.

Even my fussy Miss Spity Spat loves the cream puffs to bits and as she eats them, she would go "hmmmmm....... very nice......". Mummy would be too busy eating her own cream puffs that she will let Miss Spity Spat eat the cream puff on her own and mess up everywhere - her hair, her face, her clothes, the dining table.....

Computer Class

Today is the first day of school for the second term for all school kids. Today is also the first day of Alycia's computer enrichment class. For this optional subject, parents are charged RM60 per month, which makes Alycia's pre-school fees close to RM400 per month (extra Mandarin and Computer classes). Kids and pre-schools are really competitive these days. Most pre-schools are now having computer classes for their 4-year olds. Some pre-schools even have additional music, cooking and drama & speech classes too. If parents were to send their child to all the additional classes, school fees per month will be really costly. Imagine parents with more than 2 kids..... they would have to fork out close to RM2k or even more per month just on their pre-schoolers' school fees, enrichment classes and other extra curricular activities outside of school. That is going to cause both the parents and the kids lots of stress.... and this seems to be the norm these days.

It Ain't Easy To Own A Nice Home

We will be renovating our new condo as soon as the loan agreement is ready and loan disbursed. We would need to do some refurbishments to the kitchen, bathrooms and bedrooms as well as purchase such home furnishing items as kitchen cabinets, tiles, room wardrobes and some furniture. All these will cost us quite a bit. If only there was a directbuy branch here, then we can buy all our home furnishing items and anything that we need for our home at wholesale prices direct from manufacturers, which will bring us huge savings. It's really not easy to own a nice home when everything is costly these days.

Sweet Cherry Jogger

I saw this jogger at Jaya Jusco, Mid Valley last week and wanted to purchase it immediately so that I can start my daily jogging regimen again after delivering my 3rd baby. The price is RM400+ and there is now a 20% discount. I now have 2 old strollers at home and I used to put Alycia and Sherilyn in the stroller to go jogging with me in the morning whenever they woke up early together with me. However, pushing a 15kg+ toddler (then) on a stroller while jogging is a big feat and completing 30 mins of running whilst pushing a toddler is considered no mean feat. Running uphill pushing a toddler in a stroller would send me huffing and panting. The next day, my hands would ache. A stroller is only for strolls and its wheels are not designed to be made running on the road, uphill and downhill.

I had wanted to get a good jogger (McLaren or Prego) but the price tag made my jaw dropped (between RM1k - RM6K). If I were having my 1st child, I can still consider getting a branded jogger. Since this baby will be my last child, I want to get something that's cheap.


Has anyone used the Sweet Cherry jogger before? Is it good? Can the wheels survive all the running on the rough tar road, uphill and downhill?

I Am Dreaming Of Owning A Home Gym

Hubby is a member of a gym in one of the shopping complexes here but lately he has not been going to the gym regularly due to a hectic work schedule. Though he has not been going to the gym, he still has to continue paying the monthly subscription fees. I find that it is such a waste of money to pay hundred over bucks every month for something that he is not making full use of. If only we had enough space in our house, I would have asked him to buy a treadmill and a weight equipment so that we can workout at home. It costs much cheaper, more convenient and more practical this way, to have a gym of our own at the comforts of our very own home.

Registration In Primary School

It was a tough decision for me - to send Aly to a Chinese school or to a kebangsaan school? I was all the while more gamed towards a kebangsaan school as I didn't want Aly to go through the stress of studying in a Chinese school. Moreover, I had wanted Aly to study in a school which is located just minutes away from our house which would be very convenient for us to bring her to school and pick her up. If Aly is accepted into this Chinese school that  hubby really wanted her to get into, she would have to wake up really early in future to get ready for school. The traffic jam on the one-way road leading to this school is horrendous and parents are now spending between 2-3 hours a day chauffering their kids to and from school.

Hubby has been very steadfast in his decision to send Aly and Sher to a Chinese school. He said he will do all the chauffering of the kids in future. So on Tuesday, he went to that Chinese school and registered Aly there. He didn't have to wait for long as it was the school holidays. The result of the registration will be out in July next year. I can't imagine my 3 kids going to a Chinese school in future - the heavy load of homework, the endless tuitions and me on the road almost the whole day chauffering them around and sitting down with them till midnight every night to ensure that they finish their homework. I shudder thinking of this life.

Loving Sisters

When Alycia and Sherilyn are in a good mood, they can be really loving towards each other. They will hug each other and call each other in the sweetest tone. They will feed one another during meal times and will help one each other dress up or put on the bib. But when sibling rivalry ensues, all hell break loose - there will be nasty name callings, mud slingings, hair pulling and hitting each other. Normally I have to step in to stop the fight. Most of the time, they are loving towards each other and it's really heartwarming to see them acting lovey dovey towards each other like this :

Alycia Can Write Her Name

Finally Alycia can spell and write her own name but she seems to write the letter 'c' and 'a' the other way round. She also writes the number 8 in a very funny way, i.e. first she draws a circle, then she draws a bigger circle right below the smaller circle. No matter how many times I have held her hand to guide her to write it the correct way, she would still revert back to her own way of writing it. However, yesterday she finally managed to write the number 8 correctly, in the correct order of stroke. Alycia has been practising her writing skills everyday, on her own without being told. I was overjoyed when she ran to me yesterday and said "mummy, I can write 8 already!" So practice indeed makes perfect!


Look at the letter 'c' and 'a' - they are written 'terbalik' and I have to hold her hand to write them in the correct way.

Lovely Gifts From Koo Mah

The gals received yet another big box of surprise from koo mah from Hong Kong 2 days ago. When the box was opened, they were tickled pink to see a box full of gifts from Hong Kong Disneyland and Japan Disneyland. One of the items that was really unique and caught their eyes was a pen for them each with the head of Minnie Mouse on the top. At the press of a knob behind the pen, Minnie Mouse's body would pop down. Check out my other blog to see what other goodies koo mah bought for the gals.

If She Continues To Be Good

If my new temp Indon maid continues to perform well, I am absorbing her as a permanent maid. I had spoken to the maid agent last night and he told me that it would not be much of a problem to make the switch. However, it's still too early to evaluate this maid sufficiently in every aspect as she's only with me for 1.5 weeks. Last night after my conversation with the maid agent, I asked my maid if she's happy working for us and she said yes. When I asked her if she would like to continue working with us, she smiled happily and said yes. Hopefully this maid will continue to perform well and continue to treat my kids well. These maids normally change their attitude (for the worse) and performance will also slacken over time and I just hope my maid won't. With 2 toddlers and 1 baby coming soon, I really need a good maid to help relieve my burden.

I Told You She's Really Destructive

Nope, it's not what you think. I didn't wallop Sherilyn till the cane broke. It's Sherilyn who broke the cane. Told you I wasn't exaggerating when I said she's destructive. She has broken many toys and ruined many of my things. When I wasn't looking last week, Sherilyn played with the cane till she broke it. I don't know if she broke it on purpose or by accident but she sure was glad when she told me that she broke the cane.

Sometimes when she misbehaves herself in public, I would threaten to cane her but she would tell me this "mummy, you didn't bring the cane out oso!" She can really outwit me sometimes.

Sherilyn And Her Terrorizing Threes

I remember that just before Alycia turned 3 yo, she mellowed down tremendously. She changed into a more likeable toddler who is more obedient and takes instructions well. Her temper tantrums and melt downs were also reduced tremendously. With Sherilyn, it's a completely different story. She has transformed from her Terrible Twos phase to a real Terrorizing and Torturous Threes phase. Apart from her frequent puking episodes, Sherilyn is very disobedient, turns deaf to my instructions most of the time or switches to selective obedience mode, is extremely mischievous and active, is destructive, wants things done her way all the time which really gets on my nerve. I get so pissed off with her disobedience and stubbornness that I am yelling at her and threatening her most of the time. Distraction and sweet talks no longer work when she wants things done her way.

Her eating habit is still the same - she eats no meat and rice (but likes fried rice) but goes crazy over bread and noodles - plain noodles that is and won't touch any meat in the bowl, except for a few fishballs and a few strands of vege. It's a battle during meal times but if there's a bowl of noodles or a plate of sandwiches placed on the dining table, mealtime will be a breeze for us as she will eat them on her own without any fuss.

I wonder when Sherilyn will get over her Terrorizing Threes phase and learn to eat a proper meal without any fuss, like Alycia. When my third baby arrives, I will not have the time or patience to sit at the dining table for 1-2 hours every meal to coax her to eat.

No Spaghetti But Yummy Fishballs

I promised Alycia who has been bugging me for 2 days to cook spaghetti for her that I will indeed cook spaghetti tonight. But we got a surprise from the gals' sitter this afternoon. She had bought some fresh 'kau yue' (mackeral fish) from the wet market this morning and made some yong tau foo, fish balls, stuffed tofu pok and stuffed bitter gourd for us. That's my all-time favorite! So poor Alycia was a tad disappointed that she could not eat spaghetti tonight. Nevertheless, she can eat noodles with yummy homemade fishballs. I'll cook spaghetti tomorrow - promise you darling!

I Hate Sore Throat

I hate sore throat because I feel damn lousy, damn sick, I lose appetite, I can't eat what I like anymore, especially spicy food and fried food, I fall sick eventually if I don't get enough sleep, I will surely pass the virus to my kids and I have to eat bland and cooling stuff to heal my throat. Before the girls fell ill, I had sore throat. I was very careful that they did not eat my saliva and I took full measures to heal my sore throat. I only drank fresh milk for breakfast, followed by a few wedges of red dragon fruit and a bowl of organic tau foo far (bean curd) with red beans an hour later. I also gargled my throat with salt water throughout the day and night and gulped down thick Manuka honey. Drank lots of water, barley water and chrysanthemum tea and avoided fried food and heaty food. The sore throat went away after 2-3 days without the need to see a doctor. Several days ago, the sore throat made a come back as the ping pong effect of the virus from me to the girls and from the girls came back to me. Again I followed the same regimen. Today, I am free from sore throat! But my poor girls got my virus last week. Thank God they have also recovered now.

My Maid's A Weight Watcher

And she's just like me - on a low carbo diet. Initially, I was a tad suspicious as to why she's so vain. When I offered her jelly with santan (coconut milk), she turned down my offer. The next day, I offered her again, she smiled and told me that she's afraid of getting fat from the santan. She dared not even drink coconut water or eat the flesh of coconut... for fear of getting fat!

On many occasions, I noticed that she didn't eat any rice but only ate meat and vegetables, like me. I asked her why she didn't eat rice and she told me that she's afraid of gaining weight! Alamak! When I could not contain my curiosity any further on why my maid is so terrified of getting fat, I asked her if she had a boyfriend.... and she said yes. She is engaged to a guy who is currently working in a factory in Taiwan but they have not seen each other for many years. No wonder she's so watchful of her weight. I guess she wants to look slim in her wedding gown. I wonder if their relationship will last as both of them have not seen each other for years, though they have been engaged to be married for 7 years already.