They Miss Each Other

Though Alycia and Sherilyn fight very often, they love each other very much nonetheless. Just a moment ago, when Alycia got up daddy's car to go for her ballet class :

Alycia : Bye bye mummy.... I miss you, I love you. Bye bye kakak..... bye bye Kay Yi (Sherilyn), I miss you....

Me : I miss you too, I love you too... enjoy your class....

Sherilyn shouting at the door : Bye bye cheh cheh.... I miss you. Come back early ok? Tonight we sleep together in mah mah's room ar? I miss you.... come back early....

I was moved and touched. I hope they will always love and miss each other.

Crazy Over Cheese

When I went grocery shopping at Grocer's Village @ Bangsar Village on Sunday, I bought some cheese for Alycia, Sher and myself. We all love cheese. I know it's not the healthiest of food as cheese contains a lot of sodium, preservative, flavoring and other food additives, but we still eat them almost everyday, in moderate amounts. Anyway, cheese is still good for your bones and teeth because of the calcium, right? Anything taken in moderation should be ok.


Bought this for Alycia and Sherilyn...

and got this Black Forest Lemnos cheese for myself. This small wedge of cheese cost RM15 and it tastes exactly like cheese cake as it has nuts, coconut, strawberries, cherries, raisins, among other ingredients. I so likey!

Sheela, I can't find the one with rum or brandy but this piece of cheese tastes just as good!

The instructions on the label says that the Lemnos cheese has to be consumed within 7 days of opening but I think I can chomp down this wedge of cheese in just one sitting... but of course I won't for it's darn fattening. I nibble on a small piece a day, during breakfast.

Hidden, Found And Thrown

We will be moving to our new home in a couple of weeks. My mil was packing some of our things from the kitchen cabinet last week and dug out some of Alycia and Sher's old toys... sharp and dangerous masak-masak utensils like knives, forks, etc which I had hidden inside the cabinet about 2 years ago! I hid them as they posed a danger coz Alycia and Sher loved putting these toys into their mouths and these were all made in China too. When I saw the packet of toys, I was contemplating whether to give them to Alycia and Sher or to throw them away. I think I made the right decision and they all went into the bin. Knowing my 2 rambunctious samsengs, I know they will surely put them into their mouths, fight with each other with the sharp toys or they may even cut Baby C's hands with the knife or poke each other's eyes!


The masak-masak utensils all in the bin.... without Alycia and Sher's knowledge, hehe...



Also found a stack of folic acid which I popped when I was carrying Baby C. I don't need them anymore. Any takers? You have to come and collect them ok :) Miche, if you need them, I can send them to you.

New Teething Rings For Baby C

These are the 2 new teething rings that I bought for Baby C last week. I chose the colorful rings coz each ring has different texture/pattern and I can also teach her colors with the rings. The rings can be linked to form a long chain, which can be clipped to her stroller, thus will not drop on the floor when she throws it. The second one is a sanitized water filled teething ring, which can be put in the fridge since she likes to chew on cold stuff.

Lifting Her Head Up High

We lowered Baby C's crib down to the middle notch 2 weeks ago. Now, Baby C is trying to pull herself up by pulling the cot bumper and railing. Very soon we will have to lower the crib to the lowest notch and I will have to break my back each time I place her in the crib and carry her up, ouch!!




Eversince the crib has been lowered, Baby C has to lift up her head whenever she watches TV in our room. Baby C seems to like the 'Your Baby Can Read' VCD and any musical VCDs that her sisters watch. She can lay on her tummy for at least 15-20 minutes and concentrate watching the VCD without fussing, provided she's well fed and has had her nap, else she would be whining too.



See how high she lifted her head here to watch the TV.

I'll Ditch My High Heeled Sandals And Get Some New Low Heeled Shoes

I came home with sore feet after a brief shopping trip at Grocers’ Village yesterday. My mistake as I wore a high heeled sandals which made me feel unstable when I walked, as if I would fall whenever I walked down the stairs when carrying Baby C. I think I’ll just give away some of my high heeled sandals to my maid and get myself some comfortable yet stylish low heeled or platform shoes from Clarks. I use to own a couple of elegant high heeled Clarks shoes when I was still employed in the corporate world but I had given them away when I quit work. Clarks shoes are comfortable and durable.

Our Sunday

We reached church on time today, which is an achievement for me. This time, I did not shower Alycia and Sher before we left the house and we managed to save 20 minutes. In church, Baby C did her poopie business and there isn't any baby changing room in our church. So I went to a kindy classroom, placed Baby C on a table and cleaned her up. And if you're wondering if I cleaned up the table too after I cleaned up Baby C, yes I did. I am not so inconsiderate :D

After church, we went to Bangsar Village and had lunch at Marco's Italian restaurant. I bumped into my good friend, Yi Yi, my childhood friend of 29 years at the restaurant! Yi Yi is this mummy's sil. We haven't met for quite some time and it was really good to have chanced upon her as we were just telling each other the other day that we should meet up soon.

Whilst hubby ordered the food, I quickly went to Grocers' Village to get some cheese, milk, nuts and fruits. Hubby ordered 3 varieties of spaghetti and 2 varieties of pizzas. I loved the spaghetti with Pesto sauce and pine nuts. Alycia and Sher didn't eat much as their eyes and mind were fixated at the play area.



Baby C in the church. My little samseng loves to rest her feet on the front barrier of the stroller. Coincidentally, Alycia and Sher loved to do this too when they were Baby C's age.



Alycia and Sherilyn playing with Leanne, Yi Yi's daughter who is 1.5 months older than Alycia.

Getting Rid Of Stench From The Microwave Oven

My mil and I had a rude surprise when she opened the microwave oven door this afternoon to reheat some noodles that she had bought from the market this morning. Inside the microwave oven were 3 plates of overnight dishes - a plate of tong kwai and wolfberries steamed chicken, some stir fried brinjals and another don't know what dish that looked mutilated, eeewwwwww.... and the stench was disgusting. The dishes also looked gross as they were covered with moulds, eeeuuuuu!! Those dishes were left inside to rot for at least 1 week! I immediately cut up a lemon into half, squeeze out some juice and poured some water into a small bowl and cooked it uncovered in the microwave for 2 minutes. The result was amazing. The microwave smelled fresh of lemon! I got this tip from a magazine that I read quite some time back.

Nokia N96 Smartphone

One of my blogging pals is a gadget fanatic. Just name any gadget and she can tell you a lot about the gadget, whether it is a smartphone, a digital camera, a laptop, an iPod or a playstation. Her 3G smartphone even has a built-in device which beeps each time there is an offer coming in through the advertiser’s RSS feed. That is why she always gets to grab whatever offers that appear in the advertiser’s website. This makes me want to change my mobile phone to a 3G smartphone too. If I have the money to splurge, I would love to get the Nokia N96 smartphone, the newest Nokia smartphone in the Nseries range of products.

The N96 was publicly announced at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona 2008 and started selling in September 2008. The Nokia N96 has instant upload to Flickr, Yahoo, Google and Vox. It has 16 GB of internal flash memory, with the memory expandable to up to 48 GB with 32 GB micro SD/micro SDHC cards. Thus, there is plenty of space for applications, music, videos and maps. This handset has a 5 megapixel camera with auto-focus and Carl Zeiss optics. The N96 is a TV and video focused mobile device. It has the familiar dual slide design from the N95 but the screen is marginally longer and wider than the N95, measuring at 2.8 inch.

The Nokia N96 has the usual FM radio and it comes with a RDS (Radio Data System) which is typically used to display the radio station’s name and the current song or program name. The N96 has almost everything anyone could want from WiFi to GPS, camera, video, radio, etc. It is the perfect mobile phone and gadget anyone can ask for.

I Didn't Spoil It, It's Lousy!

Sherilyn again, my brat with lots of cunning ideas and words to outwit you. She had inserted a toy cheese into the Doodle some time back, resulting in the slide-eraser getting stuck in the middle. The other day, she didn't want to nap (yes again, she avoided taking her afternoon nap) and she took the Doodle out to write and draw. When she wanted to erase her doodling, the eraser got jammed up half way through.

Sher : mummy look, it's spoilt....

Me : yeah, who spoilt it?

Sher : Don't know.....

Me : Who else, YOU!

Sher : No I didn't spoil it. Daddy bought a lousy toy, this is a lousy toy!




See this brat? She messed up the house by tearing up the styrofoam handbag that her teacher made for her and strew the pieces of styrofoam everywhere, threw her magnetic alphabet everywhere, threw my breastfeeding pillow on the floor and keeps telling me she's not sleepy. Sher is another Energizer bunny who doesn't seem to get sleepy.

The New Impressive Sony Ericsson 905 Camera Phone

My digital camera is driving me crazy. It does not have the ability to capture pictures instantaneously upon its button being pressed. Instead, it takes almost 3-4 seconds to react, which is really frustrating for me because most of the time, I am unable to capture the exact expression of my kids that I wanted. Instead of snapping a picture of Baby C giving me her cutest smile, I have the back of her head taken, all because of the delay in my camera functioning. It’s high time I get myself a new digital camera. My friend was telling me to get the latest Sony Ericsson C905 Cyber-shot camera phone since I intend to change my mobile phone too.

The new Sony C905 camera phone is taking the mobile phones market by storm with its recent launch. According to Sony Ericsson, the new and awesome Sony C905 is the first Cyber-shot slider phone which features an impressive 8.1 megapixel camera. Though the phone only weighs 136gms, it is powerful and has many awesome features. It has a large 2.5 inch TFT screen and is perfect for the user to watch videos, pictures, play games and surf the net. This awesome gadget is GSM enabled so it is possible for users to remain connected with internet anywhere in the world. This mobile phone is 2G and 3G facilitated so it is possible to access every new functions on this mobile phone. These are just amongst some of the many features of the Sony C905 camera phone. I wonder if this mobile phone is available in our country yet.

Doing Physical Stimulation Exercises With Baby C

Baby C loves all these physical stimulation exercises and would give me her cute giggles when she's being swung upside down or rolled like a log. However, she hates being thrown in the air and would cry! Guess she's like me, who have a slight phobia of heights, chicken me!

Rolling on the bolster...

teaching her the concept of heights....







swinging her like a pendulum, upside down....

roll her like a log...


and she seems to be afraid of heights...



and whined a little when I put her hands on the floor, with her legs and body still up the mattress...

but she enjoyed all the physical stimulation exercises, except being thrown in the air.

Another Samseng In The Making

What's it with this tunnel that most kids love eh? Daddy bought this tunnel for Aly and Sher last year. My kids love it but it takes up a lot of space in our living room, so I would keep it in the storeroom once the kids are done playing with it. I don't know where we are going to keep this tunnel when we move to our new condo at the end of this month. We may have to give away either this tunnel or one of the 2 tents (a school bus tent and a school tent) that Aly and Sher have. Hopefully there will be enough space to store Aly and Sher's toys in our new condo.


"Come, come, come baby....." Sher encouraging baby to crawl inside the tent... which she did...

and she landed on her side, but didn't cry.... tough nut!

Baby trying to crawl into the tunnel with Sherilyn cheh cheh...


Another samseng in the making, with training from the chief samseng, Sherilyn cheh cheh lol!
The experts say that a good physical program (creeping, crawling, rolling, swinging baby upside down like a pendulum, etc.) is very important in the development of a baby's brain, so I have a good teacher here for Baby C!

I Miss Watching TV

My aunties are crazy chasing after the latest Hong Kong drama series Moonlight Resonance on Astro. Many bloggers are crazy over this drama too. I know I would too had I got the time to watch TV. I hardly have the time to watch TV now. I can't even remember when the last time was that I watched TV, for more than an hour. I can’t wait for my kids to grow up so that I can have back some me time to watch TV. I can be really addicted to watching the TV you know, just like how some people can be addicted to the latest playstation 3. Before my 3 brats came along, I can just lie down on the couch from dawn till dusk watching TV on weekends. Oh how I miss those care-free days!

Four More Kilograms

We normally have cakes for desserts after our dinner on Wednesdays. That’s because Alycia has her ballet class on Wednesday evenings and after her class, daddy will bring her to our favorite bakery to buy cakes, buns and bread. Last night, daddy bought my favorite pandan layer cake. I was terribly tempted to sink my teeth into the moist and creamy cake but with strong determination, I managed to resist the temptation. Eating deseserts at night is surely going to thwart my weight lost plan. I still have 4kg of stubborn fat to shed to reach my pre-Baby C weight, mostly on my belly and even with exercise, the bulge ain’t going to budge. I hope I don’t have to get the
best fat burners to help me get rid of this bulge. I wonder why the last few kgs are always so difficult to shed.

Video Of Baby Crawling To Her Stroller

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Video of Baby Cassandra crawling to her stroller, taken this morning.

My Tuesday

I couldn't blog for almost the whole of today when my darn monitor konked off. Hubby then brought his spare monitor from his office for me. After fixing the spare monitor, the darn CPU acted strangely and keeps shutting down by itself every 15 minutes. I am speed thinking and typing here to beat the timeline coz very soon, it will auto shut-down again, aarggh.....!!

We made a trip to Baby Loft again today. I quickly fed Sherilyn lunch after she came back from pre-school. This brat has been very, very, very whiny and fussy lately.... drives me bonkers! She cries everyday over the slightest things! Anyway, Alycia came back later as she had Mandarin enrichment class today. So I prepared her lunch in a lunch box and she ate in the car, on our way to Baby Loft, which is quite a distance from where we stay.

This is what we bought from Baby Loft :


I swear by this tea.... it has helped me successfully breastfeed Baby C for 6 months+ and I plan to breastfeed her for as long as I can still produce milkie for my darling!


A bed railing for the gals' new bed in our new condo....

Also bought another Diva Mama breastfeeding spaghetti strap top and new teething rings for Baby C again.... stay tuned to see what I bought Baby C!

Ok, gotta publish this post before it is gone when my darn CPU shuts down again!!

Baby C And Her Tommy Tippee Cup

Find out what's it with Baby C and her Tommee Tippee cup here.

Clean Up, Clean Up...

Alycia and Sherilyn's preschool is closed today because of the school concert and students graduation held last Saturday. They have been driving me up the wall the whole morning with their incessant fights and "I don't friend you" quarrels, whims and fancies. I was scolding Alycia and Sherilyn a moment ago for tearing up the styrofoam handbag that Sher's teacher made for her on Friday. My 2 rascals tore up the styrofoam handbag into pieces and strew the pieces of styrofoam everywhere on the floor of the living room. I told them that when baby crawls on the floor later and sees the styrofoam pieces, she will definitely put them into her mouth. I then asked them to pick up every single piece of styrofoam from the floor.... which they did. As Sher was picking up the mess, she sang this song :

Clean up, clean up, everybody everyone...
Clean up, clean up everybody do their part....


over and over again, until she picked up every piece of styrofoam from the floor, went to the kitchen and threw them into the bin.

This is a song sang by Barney and its friends.... and they have been watching this series everyday for the past 1 week.

When I heard Sher singing this song, the anger inside me doused off.... like fire doused off by water.... and I was chuckling as she sang the 'Clean Up' song away.

Made In China Products

Hubby bought a packet of chinese chestnuts from a supermarket the other day. We all love to eat chinese chestnuts but when I checked the country of origin on the packaging, it read "Product of China". Since the melamine contamination scare, I am very wary of buying food stuff made in China. I told hubby about it but he seemed very blase about it and happily opened the packet of chestnuts and finished it! I ate 1 chestnut too but dared not eat further, though it tasted really good.

Would you dare to buy food stuff made in China or originate from China now? It's really very difficult to avoid China made products coz many food stuff that we eat everyday originate from China, eg. red dates, wolfberries, chinese herbs, foo yee and nam yee (fermented bean curd), Chinese cooking wine, mandarin oranges, lychees, longans, among others. Early this year, I had read from the newspapers that red dates from China were found to contain sulphur and some were found to be bleached with red dye. Even if we don't buy China food stuff, restaurants are still using these food items and if we eat in Chinese restaurants or 'tai chau' (hawkers), we are still consuming these food stuff that originate from China. I was told by a relative that yeast from China (imported by Malaysia) was also found to contain melamine or other toxic stuff. I also read from the newspapers that the Singapore government has also banned Cadbury Eclaire chocolate candies and other well-known brands of milk powder.