Getting A Car Cover For Our Car

My current maid is lucky that she doesn’t need to wash our car. Most maids are required to wash their employer’s cars but not ours as we think it takes up a lot of her time. The hubs sends his car to the car wash center or to those back alley small-time car wash service. I am thinking of getting a car cover for our car so that our car will not get dusty easily, thus we don’t need to send our car for a car wash that frequently.

Keeping Baby C Still During Meal Times And Meds Time

The only way I can keep Baby C still (though not 100% still, well, at least she won't squirm about) during meal times and meds time is to put her in front of the TV. And the only TV program that she really likes and can never get bored with is 'Your Baby Can Read', the educational VCD series by Prof Dr Titzer. It must be Aleka, the Prof's daughter whom she loves to see coz whenever she sees Aleka at the start of the show, she will smile. Aleka has a slight resemblance of her Alycia cheh cheh and she thinks Aleka is her cheh cheh. She also loves to see the kids in the show.

This is Baby C's dinner - steamed 'ma yau toong' fish, mashed up and 'wai san' soup with wolfberries, red dates and pork ribs. I have stopped feeding her with cereal as she keeps coughing whenever she eats cereal. I think the milk in the cereal or the ground rice in the cereal must have irritated her throat as she has a slight cough with phlegm.

Right in front of the TV, with me feeding her dinner. About an hour after dinner, we will be seated right in front of the TV again and the daily battle begins..... as it's antibiotics feeding session :(

Too Much Laundry?

My mum always comments that I have too much laundry to wash everyday. She always says that my house is like a laundrette! We have at least 3 loads of laundry to wash in the washing machine everyday - one load for the kids' clothes, one load for adults clothes and another load for floor mats and dirty cloths used to wipe tables, the kitchen and furniture. I also allow my maid to use the washing machine to wash her clothes and she uses the washing machine every other day. I'll bet no one allows their maid to use the washing machine to wash their clothes but me. But I think my maid has quite a lot of work to do and I think it's perfectly fine for her to use it.

I change the bedsheets every week, towels are washed once every 2-3 days, jammies washed everyday and of course daily wear are washed daily. My maid spends at least an hour folding the clothes and she does not even need to iron my mil and my hubs' clothes. My mil irons her own clothes and my hubs sends his clothes to the laundry to have them ironed. She only needs to iron the kids' clothes and my clothes which are not many, perhaps only 2-3 sets in a week. You think we have too much laundry for the maid to do, looking at the picture here? There is some more laundry (mostly floor mats and maid's clothes) hanging in the balcony in the kitchen.

Alcia Did It Again

She woke up 3 times last night to try to turn on the air cond again after my maid had turned it off. This brat is really spoilt! Our paed had told us time and again each time we bring her to his clinic that one of the culprits to a weakened immune system (in my gals' case, it's frequent colds) is the air cond. But Alycia does not want to listen to us. She thinks since she has her own room now, she can have the liberty to turn on the air cond 24 hours a day. When my maid chided Alycia and threatened her that she will tell mummy about it, Alycia ignored my maid, climbed on a stool and turned on the air cond herself at 5:30am. My maid just let it be as Alycia can be a super stubborn brat (just like her mummy!)and turned it off when Alycia went back to slumberland. I think I should hide the air cond remote control tonight!

The Girls' New Found Freedom

Now that Alycia and Sherilyn have their very own bedroom which is not adjoining to ours, they find it really fun to do everything in their room. Some of the things that they love doing are jumping up and down their bed with dirty feet, sleeping and playing on their bed when they have not taken their bath, putting all sorts of rubbish on their bed, locking themselves in the room and getting up to mischief and they even know how to climb up a stool to turn on the air cond or turn on the fan to full blast all the time! My maid now sleeps with the gals. The gals have their own beds and my maid sleeps on the floor. I have asked my maid to turn off the air cond at 1am everyday. My maid told me that last night, Alycia woke up at 1am to turn on the air cond after my maid had turned it off! I must find out if I can set a password to the air cond remote control to prevent my 2 gals from having a blast of their time enjoying the air cond in their room the whole day!

Anti-Bacterial Floor Cleaner That Can Repel Mozzies, Ants, Flies And Roaches

Check out my health blog to find out more about this floor cleaner that can repel mozzies, ants, flies, roaches and has anti-bacterial properties.

Simple Homecooked Dinner

That was our dinner 2 nights ago :



Pan-fried salmon fish tail,



Stir-fried mixed veggie consisting of cauliflower, green, red and yellow bell pepper, fresh shitake mushrooms, sweet peas, prawns and garlic. It was a huge pot as I didn't want to leave the veggie that my mil had bought earlier too long in the fridge. We ate this dish for 2 days.



Left over steamed egg with minced pork from the night before.

With my mil not around now, dishes have to be kept simple and easy to cook, something that even my maid can cook.

Dinner At Tony Roma

We had a sumptuous and not too heavy dinner at Tony Roma @ Mid Valley last night. This time, we skipped the famous ribs as hubby had a slight strep throat. I ate something light and healthy but hubby thwarted my diet plan when he ordered a dessert which was so darn delicious! Check out my other blog to continue the story.

Total Mess With Finger Paints

I thought I can have some peace of mind when I allowed by 2 older gals to do finger painting but I was so wrong. Read the rest of the story here.

I Used A Public Pay Phone Today

For the first time in almost a decade, I used a public pay phone today. The Hotlink for my handphone had expired and my ever-busy hubby hadn't reloaded it for me. After church today, we waited for over an hour for him to pick us up. My 2 older gals were jumping about and running everywhere in the church. They were complaining that they were hungry and each of them ate 2 packets of London Swiss roll cake that the Sunday School teachers gave them. Baby C was fussing as she was hungry and sleepy too. I sat on a pew at the back of the church, covered myself with my scarf and nursed her to sleep. Almost everyone had gone home. I was fuming mad with hubby for forgetting to pick us up. When there was still no sight of him and the church caretakers were locking up, I borrowed some coins from the kind caretaker to make a phone call to hubby using the pay-phone. He finally came... and I berated him. One of the things that I absolutely hate most is waiting, especially for my hubs who has a habit of making me wait for him from day one of our pak tor days. Haiz.... Mad day for me today. Mad with my careless maid, mad with my 2 older gals who didn't want to nap and kept screaming, slamming doors and jolting Baby C up from her nap and mad with my ever-busy hubby.... haiz, haiz..... I am going mad soon!

Stubborn Maid

My maid made me fuming mad this morning. As usual we were all rushing to go to church. After bathing Baby C, I put her in her crib and told my maid to watch over her whilst I had a quick shower. I told her not to do anything but to watch over Baby C as I would be done with my shower in a few minutes. When I came out of the bathroom, I saw Sherilyn on a stool, bending over with half her body inside the crib. My maid was bathing Alycia and left Baby C all alone in the crib and asked Sherilyn to 'jaga' (supervise) Baby C. I was irate. My maid has a irritating habit of not listening to what we say and doing things her own way. I was yelling at her coz she had disobeyed me again and she had asked a 3.5 year old toddler to look after Baby C! This is the second time today she asked my 2 older gals to jaga Baby C.

Early this morning, I was busy with something and asked my maid to watch over Baby C. Guess what? She put Baby C on Alycia's bed and asked Alycia to carry her whilst she went to fix the 2 gals milk! I only realized it when Sherilyn came to me and told me "mummy, baby is playing on cheh cheh's bed." I almost flipped when I saw Alycia carrying her on the bed! Maids... you can't live with them, yet can't live with one, sigh.....

Rusks And Baby Carrots For Baby C

The other day, I bought some baby carrots and Heinz teething rusks for Baby C to chew on. She loved them both but got pretty frustrated when she couldn't bite on the baby carrots. Though the Heinz teething rusks are almost tasteless, she still loved them. I used to buy them for Alycia and Sherilyn too when they were babies. They were really useful whenever I needed to eat my meals. All I needed to do was to give them a rusk to chew on and they would sit still for at least half an hour chewing on it, while I hurriedly gobble down my food.

What A Day

The only time I can blog is when my 3 monkeys are asleep. Now, Baby C is finally asleep after my maid and I spent almost an hour to feed her 2ml of antibiotics, only to have her puke them out, then I had to feed her the meds again. My mil has taken my 2 older gals out for dinner. Ah bliss.... I love this moment of silence and peace. So quiet and tranquil. I can rest my throat for a short while as I've been yelling at my 2 older gals the whole day and singing and pacifying Baby C. I am now having a headache... caused by stress.... stress because Alycia had a big time meltdown this morning and I almost slapped her (managed to whack her arms)... ah guilty. Headache because Baby C kept puking the antibiotics. I tried it and it's bitter and I felt like puking too. My poor baby. I feel so much heartache seeing what she has to go through.

For 2 nights straight, I had to call my paed to ask him what to do as Baby C kept puking the meds. I finally managed to force it down her throat with some yoghurt. I called my paed again just now and asked him if it's ok to feed antibiotics with yoghurt and he said ok. Ok meh? Yoghurt has life good bacteria and I thought antibiotics cannot go with milk? But my paed said it's ok. I am totally lost for ideas as I've tried everything from grape juice to peach juice, apple juice, pear juice, teething rusk, baby carrots, barley water and only yoghurt does the trick and that also Baby C puked after I had finished feeding her the meds. But at least she could still swallow the meds with yoghurt. Sigh.....

Moving Blues

Tomorrow will be the third week we’ve moved into our new home and things are still scattered here and there. There are still some things to unpack. Many of our things and cabinets from our old home are still stuck at hubby’s office and hubby is complaining that his office is so congested that he can’t even walk into his office! I think he will need a self storage to store these things until we find people to give away some of our things. We had anticipated this to happen as we have moved from a 2-storey house to a condo where space is limited.

Baby C Hates Having Her Hair Washed

Most babies love having their hair washed but not mine. Baby C hates, absolutely abhors having her hair washed, since birth. Read the rest of the story here.

I'm Going Berserk!

I am going berserk, really berserk and I have been yelling all day. Each time I yell, I think of the yelling mother of the sitcom Malcom In The Middle coz I am just like her. My 3 gals are driving me bonkers. Sherilyn is always disobedient and driving me nuts during meal times. Alycia has been super whiny during the school holidays. She keeps throwing tantrums for no reason and she will scream, scold everyone and bang doors to release her tension. And now, none of them wants to nap....even Baby C. Today, she only napped 1 hour in the morning and that's it. Now she wants to be carried. I want to run away from them d....

Baby C Is Down With Fever

Baby C is super duper fussy and crabby today. She wants to be carried all the time and as I am typing this post, she is asleep on my lap with her head on my chest. Oh gawd, I just hope the fever will ease by this evening. Talking about evening, I have to feed her antibiotics again and it's going to be another battle and struggle again for the 3 of us (Baby C, my maid and I). God help me and Baby C please! I really hope Baby C will swallow the antibiotics without puking.

Check out my health blog to find out why Baby C is down with fever.

Baby C Loves Bread Too

Last Friday, we brought Baby C to consult the pediatric nephrologist and spent almost the entire day at the hospital. After consulting the pediatric nephrologist, we had to consult the pediatric surgeon. As there was a long wait, we went to the cafe to have lunch.

Hubby and I ate chicken chop and fish and chips.



Baby C was fussing and whining as she was sleepy. So I gave her a pinch of the organic wholemeal chickpea buns that I had bought from the cafe. To my surprise, she loved the bun. I gave her another pinch, and then another until I told myself I had to stop as babies are not supposed to eat wholemeal bread. Babies' guts are still immatured and may not be able to digest the wholemeal. So I gave her a pinch of the white bun that came with our set menu. She loved it too. When I got back, I bought a loaf of Gardenia white bread and fed her with it.


Looks like I have another bread lover at home.... which means that I will have another person fighting to have my share of bread soon. But that's good. Serving my kids bread for lunch or dinner is the simplest way out whenever I am busy. They love bread (and so do I) and it's easy job for me!

A Good Workout Session At The Gym

It was drizzling early this morning. I was a tad disappointed but being the determined fitness freak that I am, I still took a brolly with me to jog. I am used to jogging with a brolly each time it rains and I've been doing this for 6 years.... eversince I found out I had PCOS and exercising has been the only way I could keep my weight in check. Anyway, when I came down from my unit and passed by the gym, I suddenly remembered that I can use the gym. Yes, the newly reburfished gym with a complete set of gym equipment, including the trampoline that we had brought from our old house. I then went to the Condo management office and asked the guard to open up the gym door for me.

I worked out for half an hour on the treadmill and managed to burn over 200 calories, jogged over 2.5km and had a real sweat out. My t-shirt was drenched with my sweat and I felt really worked out and a little nausea. I always feel a little nauseous each time I have a good workout. My tummy also shrunk a little or was it my imagination? Anyway, I will continue to workout in the gym tomorrow and try to achieve burning 300 calories.

A Very Expensive Layer Cake

This small piece of layer cake costs over RM100 and is one of the tastiest layer cakes I have ever eaten. Read the story here.