I Love This Huge Bed!

I placed Baby C on her cheh chehs' queen size mattress the other day and as she lay there alone, she stared at the moving fan on the ceiling, then she stared at the huge bed, then she stared at the colorful Princess bedsheet with eyes wide opened....

then she gave me a grin as she was happy to have the bed all to herself.....



then she stared at herself in the mirror and I sang "Who's that baby looking at the mirror" song to her..... and she gave me her heart-melting wide grin. She just loves looking at herself and at me at the mirror.

A Carb-Filled Breakfast

I had a real sinful breakfast heavily laden with carb today. I ate a slice of pandan layer cake, a slice of light and moist cheese cake, a large slice of green tea, wolfberries and sunflower seeds bread and a cranberry cream cheese bun! Hubby didn’t know that his mother had already bought buns and a cheese cake from our favorite bakery in the afternoon and he bought more buns and a pandan layer cake from this bakery when he picked Alycia up after ballet class yesterday evening. So how can I resist those tempting carbs sitting nicely on the dining table, you tell me? What’s the meaning of life if I can only drool on my favorite food and not eat them, right? It’s big time torturous if I were to force myself to eat cabbage and grapefruit all the time. I’d rather have a little indulgence and I can always get a pack of Slimquick if I need to get slim quickly. But right now, I am in no great hurry to get slim quickly.



My favorite cream cheese and cranberries bun


The bun filled with generous amount of cream cheese and cranberries.




Light and moist cheese cake.




Pandan layer cake.

The Mischievous One With A Mysterious Sleeping Position

That's Sherilyn my mischievous rascal sleeping in a wierd position. When the little mind is always up to mischief, I suppose the body also acts mischievously and mysteriously.... even during sleeping mode! This picture was taken when Alycia and Sherilyn were having their afternoon nap. I know I have to wean Sherilyn off wearing diapers too but aiyah, I am just too lazy. I gotta kick my butt to do it soon to save some money on disposable diapers.

Call Me Cheh Cheh, Aunty Not

I was jogging the other morning when I saw a toddler around 14 - 16 months. He was also jogging with his grand dad on the road. When the baby boy saw me, he called me "cheh cheh". Hahaha..... the baby called me "cheh cheh" wor, not "aun-tee" wor! Words that come out from a kid's mouth are often very genuine yer know. My head was sooooo heavy that I felt I was about to trip and fall LOL! Many people were often in disbelief when they found out that I have 3 kids, ahem! My former boss once told me that I can even pass off as a teenager! I must thank my parents' 'young look' genes for both my parents look very young for their age too.

Do kids call you cheh cheh or aun-tee?

What's For Dinner Tonight?

My mil is a good cook. In under an hour, she can turn these simple veggies and chicken:

into these dishes:

steamed chicken,


stir-fried yellow bell pepper with long beans and fresh mushrooms,


Stir-fried eggplants with minced chicken meat and fermented soy beans and organic bitter gourd omelette.

Whenever my mil is around, we can have dinner at 6:30pm but when she's away, we only get to eat dinner at 8pm!

TV's The Best Babysitter

Do you let the TV babysit your kids too?

The Toast @ Gardens, Mid Valley

We had breakfast at The Toast @ Gardens today. Hubby seems to like the food at this place. They have all the simple breakfast items from nasi lemak to kaya toasts, french toasts, chee cheong fun, curry mee, the basic Western breakfast, white coffee and much more. This hawker-style cafe is always fully packed with patrons and there was a long beeline at the cafe today.

The sunny-side-up eggs were a tad raw, so we had them re-fried.


I love the french toast. The toast is sandwiched with peanut butter and the outer layer is of course egg and glazed with kaya. Very delicious.... and fattening too! If only they had wholemeal bread, it wouldn't be that fattening.


The iced white coffee is very refreshing.


I find the sambal on the nasi lemak too spicy, so spicy that I choked on the first bite!

After breakfast, we went shopping.

Our Sunday

We had a typical Sunday today. As usual, if it involves going to the church, the morning would be a total madness rush. I woke up at 6am, went jogging, came back and had a quick shower, woke Aly and Sher up, fixed them milk, Baby C woke up, nursed her and changed her, fixed Aly and Sher breakfast, had to placate Sher who had a meltdown (she seems to be getting into meltdowns everyday lately) bathed Aly and Sher, hubby dressed them up and blew dry their hair 'salon style' :), then bathed Baby C and rushed off to the church. Hubby then brought mil to the market to shop for the week's supply of meat.

After church, we had Japanese buffet lunch at PJ Hilton.

How was your Merdeka Sunday?




Alycia and Sherilyn with their favorite Sunday School teachers, Jeff and Shir Lin. They had stopped teaching Sunday School when both hubby and wife went to Singapore to work. They were back for a holiday this weekend.




Baby C (wearing a onesie that Aunty Barb gave her) sat on her stroller and was very good - didn't cry, poo poo or kick up a big fuss, phew!

Awesome Mah Mah

Mah Mah went to Mid Valley Megamall with her friends 2 days ago. Whenever she goes shopping, she never fails to buy something back for us to eat. Here's what she bought us and we had these for lunch :

Red bean pau from Dragon-I Chinese Restaurant, in the shape of pig's head, LOL! One for Alycia and one for Sherilyn.


Stir-fried lai meen from Dragon-I.


KFC, my favorite!

She also bought cakes, buns and my favorite breads from my favorite bakery. Awesome right, this mah mah?

What Kind Of Mother Are You?

I just love observing how other parents handle their kids whenever I wait for my turn to see my doctor in the hospital. Today whilst I was waiting for our turn to see the pediatric nephrologist at SJMC, I observed many parents who came in with their kids.

One mother came in with her toddler who was about 9 months old to a year old and she had fever. The baby was very cute with big round eyes and she was really chubby and BIG! The baby's mother and the baby's grandmother were very BIG too. Though the baby had fever, her mother let her loose and she was crawling everywhere on the hospital floor. I just can't stand kids running around bare-footed or crawling on hospital floors and floors of public places. The carpets must be teeming with looming germs, not to mention dirt, dust mites and dust.

After crawling for a while, the baby's grandmother carried her whilst the baby's mother opened the wrapper of a bar of chocolate. I was curious to know if she would feed her baby the chocolate and yes, she did. She bit the chocolate, then spat it out and put the chocolate into her baby's mouth, many times .... and her baby was having fever. I was really amazed with this lady and some other parents. They seem so blase and 'cincai' when it comes to their baby's hygiene and with the choice of their baby's food. I am one health freak mommy who would never let my babies crawl on the floors of public places and would never feed my babies with chocolates when they are having fever. Would you?

What A Mum.... and Would You Do It?

This is a backdated post.

About 3 months ago when I was waiting outside our paed's clinic in the hospital, I saw a mother of 2 walking into the waiting area. She has a 2-3 year old toddler walking next to her and another probably 9 month old to a year old toddler in a stroller. When my eyes shifted to her baby in the stroller, I was horrified and aghast. Guess what she gave her baby to chew on? Just take a guess. I bet no one in their right frame of mind would give this to their baby in replacement of a teething ring. Guess guess guess....... what.....














I saw the baby chewing on a shoe.... yes, you read me right. The cute and beautiful baby with big round eyes was chewing on a bright colored plastic Crocs shoe. I was so disgusted and quickly fixated my eyes on the shoe, just to make sure that the shoe was clean, brand new and not a dirty shoe. Ok, it looked clean but but but... a shoe for your toddler to chew on? I took a closer look at the shoe to see if it's a teething ring in the shape of a shoe but nope, it was indeed a Crocs shoe! OMG, what was the mother thinking of? The paint or the plastic from the shoe could come off easily and if ingested it's toxic for Pete's sake. Minutes later, I saw the baby who was chewing on the shoe crawling everywhere on the hospital floor.... bare-footed and bare hands! Of all places, the mother let her baby crawl on the hospital floor! How clean can that be! And the mother doesn't look uneducated, she had an educated look, is pretty and has the 'rich lady' look too but the way she handled her baby makes me think she's someone from a kampung.

About an hour later when she left, her baby was still sucking the Crocs shoe! Goodness gracious! Aiyoh.... I can never forget this incident! Would you ever give your teething toddler a brand new shoe to bite even if it's disinfected? Come on, be frank with me.

I rather let my baby chew on some durians than on a shoe!

We Need A New Shower Faucet

The hand-held shower faucet in my bathroom is broken again and the water is straying in all directions each time I shower the gals. Guess who broke the faucet? My 2 rascals of course. I better get the broken faucet replaced with a new Hansgrohe shower faucet fast, otherwise I would be all wet each time I shower them. This time, I should get the shower faucet affixed to the wall so that it will be out of bounds from my 2 rascals.

What Happened To Baby C's Bloody Cheek?

Check out what happened to Baby C in Baby C's Bloody Cheek.

Zits On My Face

I have not been getting enough sleep lately. Firstly, I have been waking up at 2:30am everyday to bring Alycia to the toilet to pee. Alycia does not wear a diaper to bed at night anymore and she’s now 100% diaper-free. Secondly, I am awake at least twice a night to nurse Baby C. Thirdly, I’ve been gorging on durians lately. All these are causing some zits to pop up on my face. Thankfully my zits are not serious, otherwise I would have to seek acne treatment to get rid of them.

Fried Flat Rice Noodles

My 'char koay teow' which had more veggie, bean sprouts and chicken than the noodles.

I taught my maid to cook 'char koay teow' on Saturday. As I can never leave her alone to do the cooking, I had to carry Baby C to the wet kitchen and stand next to the stove to tell her step by step what to do. I even had to hold the spatula with one hand and carry Baby C with the other to show her what to do. The 'char koay teow' turned out very yummy. Aly and Sher like it so much that they ate it for both lunch and dinner and lunch again the following day!

A Very Stressful Day Collecting Baby C's Precious Pee

Whenever I need to collect Baby C's pee, every drop of pee is just so precious to me. Read my story on how I collected Baby's pee with much stress today.

What Supplements Do Your Kids Eat?

Every morning on a school-going weekday, after Alycia and Sherilyn have taken their milkie, they will do their poopie business, get washed up, brush their teeth, dress up to get ready for school and then pop their vitamins. First they drink a tablespoon of orange-flavored Scotts Emulsion cod liver oil, then gulp down a small glass of E. Excel cactus juice.

Twice a week, I will feed them Pharmaton's multi-vitamin. Lately, I've added Colustrum tabs to their diet and they take it 3-4 times a week. Looks like a lot of vitamins they are popping eh? They used to take only cod liver oil but Aly and Sher have been having throat infection (esp. Aly) too often and very easily too. That's when I added the E.Excel cactus juice and Pureen colustrum tabs into their diet. Hopefully these 2 supplements can strengthen their immune system. The hole in hubs' pocket is really BIG as he has been spending a lot of money on the gals' medical expenses eversince Alycia attended pre-school last year.

What supplements do you feed your kids?

E.Excel Cactus Juice

Alycia gulping down her glass of cactus juice before going to school.

Our Sunday

Hubby scooted off for work early in the morning. He's been really busy lately with work. I wanted to go jogging alone in the morning but Alycia woke up early too and I had no choice but to let her follow me. After about 5 minutes of jogging with me, she complained of leg pain and tummy ache. See how unfit she is. Anyway, she jogged for about 15 minutes before we headed home and I continued working out on the trampoline.

For lunch, I asked my maid to pan-fry a chunk of salmon that hubby bought yesterday. I told her three times that she is to pan-fry the salmon for I know she will surely forget. My maid tends to be very absent-minded when it comes to cooking and will surely screw up a dish 9 out of 10 times when I leave her to do the cooking. I then went upstairs to bathe Baby C. When I came down, I sensed something was wrong when I could not smell salmon. The house should be aromatic and smell of salmon if the salmon was being pan-fried but nope, no smell of fish..... something fishy is going on! I rushed to the kitchen and saw my maid in the wet kitchen, next to the cooking stove and the salmon was inside the wok --- being steamed! I was steaming mad as she had forgotten again what I had told her. I then told her to quickly remove the salmon from the wok and start frying it.

The half steamed, half pan-fried salmon. The ginger shouldn't be there but my maid put them in as she thought that all fish should be cooked with ginger. Almost disastrous but luckily still tasted good as the fish was very fresh. I squeezed some fresh lemon juice on the salmon to add some zest and flavor to the fish.


Alycia and Sherilyn's lunch - fried vermicelli with half steamed half pan fried salmon and organic Japanese cucumbers.


Alycia and Sherilyn can never get bored of eating noodles and don't even mind eating them everyday, if they have a choice.



Whilst we ate, Baby C dozed off on her highchair again. Oh, she doesn't suck the pacifier, I let her chew on it since she loves putting things into her mouth these days.

Aly and Sher spent much of their time today playing with their new lanterns that daddy bought them. Check out their modern-day lanterns too!

Alycia Can Read

Alycia reading the words that granny is flashing to her. Read the rest of the story here.

Fresh Dates

These are fresh kurma or dates. My mil bought these from The Gardens @ Mid Valley. She thought they would be sweet and tasty, just like the other type of fresh dates (the brown ones that are roundish) but nope. These dates are a tad sweet and bitter and if you eat the skin, it's even more bitter. The texture is crunchy but the aftertaste you get on your tongue is like you've just eaten a banana that's unripe and your tongue will be coated by a layer of sap. There's definitely no second time buying these and they are expensive too. A small punnet with 1 bunch cost over twenty ringgit! I wonder if I can let these dates dry at room temperature on their own so that they become dried dates, like the ones sold during the month of Ramadhan.