Precious Wee Wee

I spent half the day collecting Baby C's urine today.... 2 bottles, which took me almost 4 hours! I am totally frazzled now.

Read the story here.

Pork Ribs Soup With Soya Beans

My mil cooked this simple soup for lunch the other day - pork ribs with soya beans.
She then blanched some vegetables and 'hor fun' or 'koay teow' and threw in some Hakka pork balls into the soup.

While my mil and the gals ate the hor fun with the soup, I just ate the pork ribs, pork balls, soya beans and lots of vegetables, minus the hor fun. It's a high protein, high fibre, high calcium and low carb meal, just perfect for dieters.

The smooth 'hor fun' bought all the way from Ipoh by hubby's aunt.

Disposable Toilet Seat Covers

My mil bought 2 packets of disposable toilet seat covers from Caring Pharmacy the other day... which is just the thing that I have been searching around for a long time. With this, I don't have to line the public toilet seat with heaps of toilet papers for Alycia and Sherilyn to sit on when we go out.

Your Baby Can Read Book

Baby C must have been really bored sleeping in her pink bouncinet the whole day, ever since she was a few days old. Lately, she can’t nap for long during the day and wants to be stimulated all the time. She loves to be talked to, sung to, she loves it when I dance with her, she will doze off really easily when I bring her for a walk in her stroller and she loves watching TV too. Nope, I did not let her watch the regular TV programs. Yesterday, I put on the starter VCD on “Teach Your Baby To Read” by Dr Robert Titzer for her to watch and oh my, her eyes were fixated at the TV. I bought the set of VCDs for Sherilyn when she was around 1 year old. I am thinking of getting the book on “Your Baby Can Read”, by Dr Robert Titzer too. Buy.com is offering 10% off 900,000 Amazon books now. Go check out buy.com now!

iPod For Me

Yesterday, I had a good half an hour workout on my trampoline. I had wanted to bring Baby C out jogging with me in the morning but it started to drizzle. So I did some running and jumping on my trampoline with Baby C facing me strapped in the stroller. Thank God she just sat there quietly and behaved herself without fussing and whining. But I find working out on my trampoline rather monotonous. I prefer to go out for a run and get a dose of Vitamin D from the sunlight too. Perhaps I should get myself an ipod so that I can listen to my favorite songs while I work out on the trampoline. I didn’t know that there are so many types of ipods until my group of teenage cousins showed me their ipods – which ranged from ipod Nano, ipod Touch, ipod Classic and much more. I’m really way behind when it comes to gizmos!

A Day Out At The Hospital

Yesterday, we spent over 5 hours at HUKM (Hospital Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia) as we were there to bring Cassandra to see the pediatric nephrologist. When we were at the hospital, Cassandra had me running around when she poo pooed big time 3 times.... till I ran out of diapers and daddy had to buy a pack of very expensive diapers from the sundry shop at the hospital. Of course, she also wanted my teat teats to suckle and I tell you, when it rains, it really pours. The lights in the nursing and baby changing room were out! So I had to change her diaper in the stroller, which was really messy and back-breaking. I also had to scout round the hospital to look for a corner to breastfeed my little wailing princess.


The second time she cried for milk, thank God the doctor allowed me to use the bed to nurse her. I drew the curtains and quickly let her suckle for 10 minutes as I sat on the bed, then changed her pooed diaper.

Horrified

When I went to the wet kitchen to supervise my maid cooking the other day, I was horrified to see that my expensive 1-year old non-stick pan was in such a bad state. The layer of non-stick coating was peeling and there were scratches everywhere on the pan. My maid must have used a rough scouring pad to wash the pan after use, despite me telling her repeatedly that she is only to use a soft sponge to wash non-stick pots and pans. Everyday she uses this non-stick pan to cook and I read from an article that the layer of non-stick coating is carcinogenic, if ingested. OMG, I better get a new non-stick pella pan to replace this worn out pan and I better discard it before my maid uses it again.

My Japanese Name Is Aririkishi Kukuto!

This fun tag comes from Slavemom.

For the instructions, add your name on the list and simply spell out your name using the given Japanese letter- translations below.

Tag six of your friends and inform them of the tag. Have fun.

TRANSLATION:1. OSWALD - moarimeikatate (sounds like america and states. har…. har… har…)2. CHLOE - Miritamoku — Um…think I still prefer my given name, ha ha3. GENG – Jikutoji — Actually, I think its cute sounding. Arigato gozaimasu!4. CONSTANCE - Mimoto arichi katomiku — WOW! Does it sound like an authentic Japanese cuisine? YIKES! I broke it up cos it was quite a mouthful!5. DORA - Temoshika – Sounds pretty good huh?! Does it mean beautiful woman?6. Sting - Arichi Kitoji - Sounds like a guy’s name but at least it rhymes! LOL!!7. Amidrin - Karinki Teshikito (I was deciding between Karinki Teshikito or Karinkites Hikito. LOL… still the english name sounds much better.)8. Lemonjude - Takurinmoto Zudoteku (very long name, sounds like guy name also, still prefer my nick in English)9. Jacelyn - Zukamikutafuto (aiyer...like a Malay guy's name..... my English name sounds so sweet ......rite?)10. Slavemom - Aritaka Rukurin Morin (What a mouthful! Sounds quite awful too! :p) 11. Shireen (Healthfreakmommy)- Aririkishi Kukuto.... oh my, sounds awful, especially the middle name - Kukuto!

Not tagging anyone.

Cream Puffs With Black Sesame Cream

Beard Papa has a new product. My favorite cream puffs now come in a new flavor - cream filling with a generous amount of black sesame in it. Black sesame paste is also my favorite. My mil went to Mid Valley for shopping the other day and bought half a dozen of cream puffs for us. Alycia, Sher and I are absolutely crazy over cream puffs and the 3 of us walloped all the 6 cream puffs in 2 days. And that's the reason why my belly is still not getting any flatter, thanks to all these fattening stuff!

Tag : Travel To 7 Continents

I got this tag from Juliana (the creator) and LZMommy. Here's what it says...

There are lots of bloggers in this world. I am wondering in which continent most of the bloggers live. So, I am challenging all the bloggers to do this tag. Let's see how far we can get with all of bloggers in those 7 continents.

Counting start begin...............

~Begin Copy~

Rules:

1. Start Copy from "Begin Copy" until "End Copy".
2. Put your blog's name and url write in which continent you live, add the country you live in. Example: My Imaginary Travels (Netherlands)
3. Leave your url post in here and I'll add you to the Master List.
4. Please help spread this tag by tagging your friends as much as you can.
5. Don't play unfair! If you have more than 1 blog, you can participate all your blogs for this tag. BUT you will have to post this tag to all your blogs as well. So, please. Don't cheat!
6. Please come back again to copy the update of the master list, often. This process will help new participants to get the same gains as the first participants.
7. Don't forget to use the banner at your post, you can save as or you can just copy the code in here.

Master List:A. Asia: 1. Moms... Check Nyo (Philippines) 2. Aeirin's Collections (Philippines) 3. Jenny and Belle(Philippines) 4. Hailey's Beats and Bits (Philippines) 5. Appleofmyeyes(Saudi Arabia) 6. Deranged Insanity (Philippines) 7. PROJECT HEAVY TRAFFIC (Singapore) 8. Rooms of My Heart (Indonesia) 9. Blessings and Beyond (Philippines) 10. lancerlord (Singapore) 11. allinkorea (Korea) 12. kimchiland (Korea) 13. korean food (Korea) 14. idealpinkrose (Korea) 15. Pinay Mommy Online (Philippines) 16. Momhood Moments (Philippines) 17. Business Mars (Philippines) 18. Maiylah’s Snippets (Philippines) 19. Picture Clusters (Philippines) 20. My Wanderings (Philippines) 21. Hit-or-Miss (Philippines) 22. Life Quest (Philippines) 23. FunFierceFabulous (Phils) 24. and Life Goes On for... (Philippines) 25. Moments of Colours (Philippines) 26. Making sense… (somehow) (Philippines) 27. Day To Day (Philippines) 28. My Happy Place 29. Me and Mine (Japan) 30. Little Peanut (Japan) 31. Creative In Me (Japan) 32. Pea in a Pod (Japan) 33. A Slice of Life (Phils) 34. Jenny Said So (Phils) 35. Live it Up... (Philippines) 36. A Sweet Taste Of Life (Philippines) 37. Through The Rain (Philippines) 38. Sugarmagnolias (Japan) 39. ParentZine育兒好好玩 (Singapore) 40. We are Family (PH) 41. Reference Notes (Hong Kong) 42. The Sweet Life 43. A Great Pleasure (Malaysia) 44. Petty Ramblings of a Petty Queen(Malaysia) 45. Choc Mint Girl (Malaysia) 46. LZMommy 47. Your turn

B. Australia: 1. Reflexes (Australia) 2. Emcee 3. Outback-Pinay 4. Collect and Connect (Australia) 5. your turn

C. Africa: 1. your turn

D. North America: 1. Simple Life, Simply Me (USA) 2. Pinaymama's Diary (USA) 3. 3 Garnets & 2 Sapphires (United States) 4. Traipsey Turvey (USA) 5. Dabawenyako (USA) 6. Icelog (USA) 6. The Misadventures of an Ordinary Housewife (USA) 7. It Is Nap Time (US) 8.A Mother's Journal (USA) 9. Journey And Journal [USA] 10. Life is good and beautiful (USA) 11. Tasteful Voyage (USA) 12. Jenny's Wandering Thoughts (USA) 13. Mom Knows Everything (Canada) 14. Filipino love stories (USA) 15. A Mom's Note (USA) 16. Life with the Two Crazy Dogs 17. BLOGSILOG (USA) 18. Juliana’s World (New York, USA) 19. My Daily Discourse (USA) 20. My Point Of View 21. your turn

E. South America: 1. your turn

F. Europe: 1. My Imaginary Travels (Netherlands) 2. Juliana's Site (Netherlands) 3. Picturing of Life (Netherlands) 4. SuperMae (Portugal) 5. The Callalily Space (The Netherlands) 6. Portia (UK) 7. Daily Grind (Germany) 8. Amel's Realm (Finland) 9. your turn

G. Antarctica

I would like to tag :

1) Barb

2) Chin Nee (do only when you have the time. I know your hands are tied with a pair of new twins)

Reading Time

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Simply Irresistibly Squeezable

Barbara commented the other day that she really wanted to squeeze Baby C's arms. Well, I feel the same too. Each time I see her exposed chubby arms and legs, I would squeeze them and oh boy, they feel so squeezable. Even Sherilyn can't resist her urge and quietly squeezed Baby C's legs the other day when I wasn't looking!



Look at those arms.... not only do I love squeezing them, I am so tempted to bite them too, LOL..... am I outa my mind?

It Sure Feels Good To Exercise Again

I resumed my first jogging session yesterday. I had only wanted to bring Baby C out for a morning walk to get some Vitamin D from the morning sun but after a while, my legs felt itchy and I started jogging.... only in my mil's Crocs slippers whilst pushing Baby C in the stroller. It was only for a short 15 minutes as I felt uncomfortable jogging in a pair of flip flops. Today I did it again, for a mere 15-20minute jog up and downhill which was really a breath-catching and onerous task. Plus, the scorching 9ish morning sun shining on me and Baby C made me cut short the session. When I came home, the gush of adrenalin flowing through my body made me feel so good. For exactly a year, I have not had my skin drenched in sweat and today, I felt so good having hot sweat dribbling down my head and body. But I really need to buy a better stroller, preferably a jogger or a stroller where I can place Baby C facing me. I saw one which I really liked the other day. It was a McLaren and has all the features that hubby and I are looking for BUT the price tag made our jaw drop - it costs a whopping RM2k! Well, if I can find a taker to buy the stroller at half price in 3 years' time, I would gladly buy it.

Food Glorious Food!

Are these making your tummy growl and rumble now? I was just looking at my Pictures folder and found these 2 pix taken when we had lunch at Delicious about a month back. Oh boy, they are making my tummy rumble now. The nasi kerabu is one of the best I've tasted. Though I don't eat rice and don't fancy rice at all (the thoughts of a bulging belly and an aunty's flabby underarms would always flash in my mind causing me guilt whenever I chomp down rice), I just can't help myself to a spoonful or two of this nasi kerabu. The rice goes very well with the delicious chicken curry.



And this was what Alycia and Sherilyn had - scrambled eggs with loads of butter on a slice of french toast and sausages. Aahhhh, this is the kinda food for an Atkin's dieter... minus the french toast. Simply yummy!

Delicious Bread Pudding

I am a bread lover. Though I am on a low carb, high protein diet, I still eat bread BUT only wholemeal bread with lots of grains, nuts and seeds. In fact, I eat bread almost everday... with peanut butter, almond butter, black sesame paste and cheese... all protein based spreads. I also love bread pudding and one of the best bread puddings I have eaten is from Delicious @ Bangsar Village. It comes with a topping of crystalized marmalade jam accompanied with vanilla sauce. That's one of my occasional sins... gorging on carbo-laden desserts!

Baby C Loves Tummy Time

The other day, I placed Baby C on her tummy on the mattress. The moment her tummy touched the mattress, she squealed in delight. We (Alycia, Sher and I) all cheered for her to lift her head up and to crawl (in Doman style, it's called crawling, as in commando crawl, though many people call it creeping). She tried to lift her head up but only managed to muster a 45 degrees angle hold and her face keeps getting buried on the mattress. She managed to crawl an inch or two and was so excited. 5 mins later, she got restless and cried and I put her back on her bouncinet again. I am just longing to see her start crawling now but when she starts crawling everywhere, I would have to watch her like a hawk and that's when I wish she were a baby again!

Boring Sunday

It's another boring Sunday for me. Hubby has brought Alycia and Sherilyn out shopping for lightings and toilet bowls for our new home. I'm cooped up at home again with Baby C.... and ate peanut butter sandwich and some roasted almonds for lunch, how unexciting can that be. I haven't eaten out for weeks and I am just raring to go out again. I wonder when I can be released from my 'home prison'. I'm going to ask the pediatrician nephrologist next week when we bring Baby C to see her for an assessment of her kidney reflux if it's ok to bring Baby C out.

Baby C has not recovered fully from her cold. I realize that her nose will get stuffy if she's in an air cond room or if she's put too near the fan. If I keep her warm, her nose will be fine but the both of us will feel stuffy and sweaty all over. The weather has not been too good lately - damn hot and humid. And when she's all sweaty, her eczema will flare up again. Sigh.... it's the devil or the deep blue sea!

Computer Memory Upgrade

There are thousands of photos of my 3 daughters saved in the hard drive of my computer. They are photos of them from birth up until now. There are also videos of them that I had taken with my digital camera and downloaded into my computer. At the rate I am saving the photos and videos, I will run out of space in my computer in no time. The guy who usually comes to my house to fix my computer has asked me to upgrade my computer ram but I ain’t going to upgrade it just yet. Well, not until I have done some research on what RAM is and find out what upgrade is compatible for my computer system.

Shopping For Our New Home

Hubby has gone out with the 2 older gals again, together with mil to shop for lightings and toilet bowls for our new home. He has been out shopping for household accessories almost everyday as our new condo is in the midst of a major renovation. As usual, I am in ‘home prison’ with Baby C. I am bored to the core being cooped up at home. Hopefully our pediatrician will give us the green light to bring Baby C out again. We still have many things to shop for our new home, from sofa set to new beds, a home theater carpet for the living room, dining table and chairs, TV console, curtains, water faucets and much more. It’s a pity I can’t follow hubby out shopping for our new home.

Fried Loh See Fun

My mil fried some loh see fun (rice flour noodles in the shape of rat's tail) the other day and Sherilyn was so hooked on it that she kept filling her bowl with the noodles. This fussy eater who eats no meat (but is now accepting a little meat) even ate the pork slices and prawns in the noodles.... and kept asking for more and more and more... till I have to keep the bowl out from her sight.


Fried loh see fun with prawns, pork, bean sprouts and sprinkled with toasted sesame seeds.

" I want some more mah mah...."