Cranberry Powder and Leptovox

Did you know that there’s such a thing as cranberry extract in tablet and capsule form? I found out from a mom in the U.S. whose baby has kidney reflux and she’s been feeding the cranberry powder to her baby. I’ve been asking several organic shops and pharmacies here but none of them sell this product. I will most likely order the cranberry capsules from online stores from the U.S.. I think it would be easier to feed Baby C cranberry powder than cranberry juice. Baby C just hates the sour cranberry juice and she'd fuss, struggle and cry each time I feed her with it.

When I was combing through the internet, I also found out about Leptovox, a weight-loss product that’s formulated based on the weight-loss research of Oprah Winfrey’s nutritionist. Leptovox contains 10 superfoods recommended by Oprah’s nutritionist, namely :

• Alfalfa
• Barley
• Brazilian Acai
• Buckwheat
• Cayenne Pepper Fruit
• Flaxseed
• Garlic
• Kefir
• Soybeans
• Wheatgrass

Sounds impressive eh? Well, I’m in no hurry to lose my last 3 stubborn kilos but if ever I have the desire to lose it fast, I may try Leptovox.

My 2 Lil' Ballerinas

With Sherilyn now learning ballet too, I will have 2 ballerinas girls soon. Read the rest of the story here.

Busy And Stressful Life

I've been really busy ever since school re-opened last week. The mere 3 hours that Alycia and Sherilyn are at pre-school from 8:30-11:45am is barely enough for me to do my own things. During the 3 hours they are away, I would be feeding Baby C her milkie, breakfast and bunch of health supplements, which normally takes around an hour. Then, it's her bath time and before I realize it, Alycia and Sherilyn are back home. Then, it's time for me to cook lunch and soon, Baby C would wake up from her nap and then it's time for me to feed her lunch. After everyone has taken their lunch, it's Alycia and Sherilyn's bath time. Getting Alycia to take her bath has been pretty stressful for me lately. She would always give me tons of excuses to avoid taking her bath. On most days, she will also bicker with my maid and throw tantrums before her bath which would make me EXPLODE!

Next battle is to get my 2 older gals to take their afternoon nap... which also takes a great amount of coaxing and threats on some days. When they are up from their nap, it's time for their homework. Whenever I coach Alycia in her homework, Sherilyn would keep interrupting by asking me loads of questions. She would also take out her school books and though she doesn't have much homework, she would scribble and doodle on her books. It's really difficult to control her when I am in the midst of coaching Alycia... with Baby C on my lap!

In between all these, I still have to nurse Baby C and try putting her to nap. These days, this Energizer Bunny doesn't nap for long. Can you believe that today she only napped for an hour? She doesn't even want to take her mid-morning nap and only napped an hour at 2pm today. Whenever she doesn't nap, it spells trouble for me as I won't be able to do anything, except entertain her and watch over her like a hawk if she's put on the floor to crawl. I even have to hold a spatula with one hand to cook and carry her with another hand on some days.

After all the morning and afternoon chaos ends, it's time for me to supervise my maid to cook dinner. I have to stand next to her each time she cooks. Though she has worked for us for 10 months, she still fails in her cooking.

Dinner time spells stress for me again. I can't even have a decent meal as I will be feeding Baby C her dinner and eating my dinner simultaneously. Baby C wouldn't sit still in her high chair and I need to distract her with a host of activities. Next, I have to keep reminding Sherilyn to chew and swallow her food, chase her round the house with a cane as she would be running about with her mouth full of food and dropping food everywhere on the floor.

After dinner time, it's bath time again for my 3 monkeys and the whole process as described above repeats. And after bath time, it's bed time. By the time my 3 monkeys are fast asleep, I am drop dead exhausted but I still pull myself up from bed to get some work done on the computer. After getting my work done on the computer for about an hour or lesser, I can't even have a good night's sleep as I will be waking up every 2 hours to change Baby C's diaper and sniff her soiled diaper to see if her pee smells foul or not. If it smells foul and looks yellowish, it spells trouble and stress for me again for it means she has gotten attacked by bacteria again. Sigh..... ain't my life stressful? No fun being a mother right? I just CAN'T WAIT for my 3 girls to GROW UP!

Baby C's Another 'Terrorizer'

It's barely a month after Christmas and Baby C's Christmas pressie from daddy is already broken... and she bit it to bits! Whenever I wasn't looking, her 2 cheh chehs would give the clip fan to her and of course this little terrorizer put it into her mouth to chew.... in fact she puts everything into her mouth these days, just like a puppy who loves chewing and tearing things!

Healthy Lunch Box

This is what I prepared for Alycia's lunch box yesterday:


Purple seedless grapes, sweet navel oranges, My Melody shaped and Pooh Bear shaped sandwiches with organic black sesame bread spread and kaya. Though the food was very little, Alycia my slow eater could only finish the sandwiches during her recess. She finished the fruits in the hospital. We had to bring Baby C to SJMC yesterday and Aly and Sher had to tag along.



Since Sherilyn was still having high fever, she skipped school again. I prepared some sandwiches for her too but the cute shaped sandwiches did not whet her appetite at all. These 3 cutie sandwiches went into my tummy.



What a waste if I were to throw the odds and ends and skin into the bin right? So I wiped off the plate of leftover bread. I don't normally eat white bread coz they are fattening but I'm the type who hates to see food go to waste. So you see, that's why I'm still carrying my jelly belly though Baby C is already 9 months, haiz....

Baby C With Leng Jai Kor Kor

Check out my other blog who this leng jai kor kor is, carrying my sweetie pie.

Asparagus Beans

I was at the organic veggie section of Jaya Grocers at Jaya 33, PJ the other day and a lady who was promoting organic veggie recommended me to buy a pack of asparagus beans, which I did. The next day, I stir-fried the beans with some minced pork and garlic. It tasted really good - very crunchy, sweet and fresh. The asparagus beans look very much like french beans, but they are fatter and the color is greener than french beans. I shall buy them again the next time I shop for organic veggies.

Getting Some Peace Of Mind Whilst I Eat

I normally feed Baby C her porridge first before I have my dinner. After feeding her, I will then have my own dinner. Sometimes I will place Baby C in the playpen whilst I have my dinner but she just hates to be placed in the playpen. She thinks it's a cage and mummy's way of dumping her there unattended to for a period of time. Sometimes she even whines when I pass by the playpen for she thinks that I will put her in the cage. See how smart babies are these days. She hates being confined, especially in a small compartment and she has gotten sick of most of the toys in her playpen. So to get some peace of mind whilst I have a quick dinner, I put her on her highchair and give her a teething rusk. That can keep her still and happy for at least 20 minutes, after which she will start to fuss again.





Nah, for you cheh cheh...



The other day, Baby C did something really cute. As she chewed on her teething rusk, she kept 'calling' Alycia cheh cheh by making "aaah... aaaah...." sounds and reaching out to her cheh cheh with the rusk. I guess she wanted to share her rusk with cheh cheh. Alycia who adores her baby sister to bits was head over heels when she saw her baby sister calling out to her... and she ran to baby and kissed her.... and baby 'shared' the rusk with her.

View From Our Condo

Ever since I moved to our condo, I have always wanted to snap pix of the KL Towers and KLCC at night, when the view is superb. We have a very good view of the 2 towers from the 5th floor of our unit. However, the pix never turned out well. It could be my camera that does not have a function to snap night views or maybe I don't know how to set it. Anyway, this is what I managed to snap :



View at sunset, at around 7pm.



View at around 8pm

I actually like photography and if I have the money to splurge, I'd definitely buy a more expensive camera with multiple functions and then pursue my hobby by snapping pix away!

Babies Just Love The Remote Control Thingy

While Alycia has an affinity with boys' toys and Sherilyn with princess, Baby C has an affinity with remote controls. Biasalah, babies are all the same. My 2 older gals used to like remote controls too when they were babies. In fact, babies would love just about anything that's not meant for them to play with or put into the mouth.

Whilst Alycia cheh cheh was busy playing with her new Ultraman, Baby C was busy pressing the TV and Astro remote control. She even managed to switch channel from Ceria to AXN!

Alycia's New Ultraman

My pretty daughter loves Ultraman. She has been bugging daddy to buy her an Ultraman for a few weeks and she finally got her wish yesterday. Her next target is yet another boyish stuff, i.e. a toy binoculars. Daddy said that if she could pronounce the word binoculars precisely and clearly, he will buy her one. I think daddy will buy her one soon. Check out the rest of the story here.

Homecooked Dishes And Salisbury Steak

Ever since my mil left for NZ, I've been preparing very simple and easy to cook dishes. Here's what I cooked yesterday:

Stir-fried baby bok choi with garlic, steam fish, pan-fried Salisbury steak burger and chicken chop (frozen and left over from New Year's Eve party, which I just reheated them in the microwave oven)

I ate half the piece of beef burger coz I was famished and couldn't wait haha....

BTW, this beef burger which tastes like steak is one of the best frozen off-the-shelf I've ever tasted. It's free from MSG, artificial coloring and artificial flavoring but tastes damn good. I am going to stock up my freezer with this beef burger!

My Girls' Lunch Boxes

With only less than 5 minutes to prepare Alycia and Sher's lunch boxes each morning, I can only afford to prepare them simple food like cut fruits, sandwiches, fried eggs and biscuits. Today, I gave them something light since it's still orientation and school dismissed at 10:30am. Here's what they had today:


Oranges and Kiwi fruit, sea creatures biscuits and fish muruku. The Minnie Mouse lunch box with oranges is Alycia's. Sher who is an extremely slow eater prefers kiwi fruits as it's easier for her to chew and swallow.


This fish muruku is actually my junk food. It's my all-time favorite junk food. It's made of Australian dhall powder and fish powder. It doesn't contain MSG and is not very high in carbo.... tastes very yummy too! My 2 wai sek mau saw me eating them and requested to try some. Now, they are hooked on them, just like their mummy!

This box of sea creatures biscuits are made in Japan. Daddy bought it for them from a Korean mart at our neighborhood.

How Time Flies

The school holidays have come and gone so quickly and now my 2 girls are back to pre-school. How time flies. We didn’t bring Alycia and Sherilyn to many places this school holidays, except for a 1-week holiday in Ipoh at my parents. The rest of the days when they had no where to go, they spent their time glued to the idiot box almost the whole day. I hope Alycia and Sherilyn wouldn’t need to wear eyeglasses as a result of watching too much TV. I feel really bad that I couldn’t spend much time with them as most of my time had been spent with Baby C.

Indulging In Fast Food

This is a backdated post.

Several weeks ago, I felt like eating KFC for lunch. So daddy brought us all to the Kuchai Lama KFC outlet. This KFC outlet is situated within walking distance next to a Pizza Hut. This is what we ate :

Deep fried potato wedges with very creamy and cheese sauce. I love the cheese on the potato wedges but daren't indulge in more than 3 wedges as they are darn fattening - they are laden with calories, oil, fat and carbo.

Alycia and Sherilyn had nuggets, burger, mashed potatoes and coleslaw. Alycia who has a sweet tooth loved the soft drink which I controlled her intake as soft drinks are laden with sugar and the acid can corrode the teeth enamel. Thankfully Sherilyn didn't like the fizzy drink and she 'tar lan chang' (shivered) when she drank a sip haha!

Daddy then walked over to Pizza Hut (which is adjacent to KFC) and bought some desserts - ice cream with loads of fattening whipped cream and a dunno what mango or passion fruit smoothie which wasn't smooth at all as the shaved ice was too rough.

How could daddy not buy any toy for his 2 princesses? He bought them 2 Nicklelodean cartoon digital watches, which Alycia and Sher were obsessed with for 1 week+ and now they are no where in sight.

Problem With Alycia And My Maid

One of the reasons why I get so stressed up with my kids lately is because of Alycia and my maid. About one month after my maid started to work for us, she began to change. Well, a new broom always sweeps clean but after a while, all her negative traits started to surface. My maid always acts as if she's me and tries to discipline my kids... all the time, though I have told her repeatedly that only I can discipline the kids. She even shouts at them and initially, she had even pinched and hit my kids when I wasn't looking. After reprimanding her many times, she has now stopped hitting my kids but she would still handle them very roughly, especially when she's trying to rush off her work. Sometimes she would push them away roughly when she's busy and the kids are being mischevious and she thought I wasn't looking.

Not a day goes by without Alycia arguing and quarelling with my maid. She would resist my maid when my maid raises her voice on her. Alycia would scream at my maid when my maid tells her what to do or stops her from doing anything. Alycia just hates it when my maid disciplines her. There was a point of time recently when Alycia kept asking me to send kakak back to Indon, that's how much she hates my maid. Each day when Alycia quarels with my maid, I get really stressed up, mad and upset. The deafening sound of them quareling or arguing can drive me out of the house, which I had done so before. My gastric juice and my headache would start to creep out each time I hear them squabbling. I have enough of problems and worries with Baby C's health issues and with them bickering constantly and Alycia rejecting my maid each time she tries to shower her, brush her teeth, comb her hair, dress her up, etc it's enough to drive me insane, really. I try to shower Alycia whenever I can but when Baby C sticks on to me like a leech, I will have no choice but enlist the help of my maid to handle my kids, which the kids hates.

I've talked to both my maid and Alycia many times telling them that they have to cooperate and be nice to each other but to no avail. My maid is quite a stubborn and childish person, so is Alycia. But oh well, she's only a 5 year old child. I really don't know how to deal with both of them. They are really driving me nuts.

First Day Of School

After resting at home for almost 2 long months, my 2 older gals are finally back to school today. I felt a sense of relief during breakfast today. I could also finally sit down to have breakfast for a short 10 minutes today as I didn't have to prepare breakfast for Aly and Sher. I also didn't have to yell at Sher for running up and down and dropping her food and spilling her drinks everywhere on the floor. I could concentrate fully on feeding Baby C her meds and health supplements and flash cards to her whilst feeding her. I thought I could have a breather until 12 noon but I heard their voices at 10:30am when I was in my room, preparing to bathe Baby C. Hubby told me that the school will dismiss the kids at 10:30am for 3 days because of the orientation. Sigh..... I thought I could have a longer respite. The minute my 2 older gals were back, I started to feel stressed up again. Whilst I was busy bathing Baby C, Alycia wrote her name all wrongly with marker pen on all her new school books! I was really mad as she didn't ask my permission first and now the new books look really awful. Now, I have to write her name again on the books.

Chicken Floss Swiss Roll

Chicken floss coated buns and chicken floss coated doughnuts are quite common these days but have you tried chicken floss coated swiss rolls? The other day hubby bought one to try from RT Pastry House, our favorite bakery. The verdict? I still prefer the good old pandan swiss roll with kaya. It tasted kinda funny to have salty chicken floss on something sweet. Definitely not to my liking but for chicken floss lovers, I think they will love this combination.

Our Saturday

We were out hanging with our friends almost the whole of today. First we went to Jaya 33, PJ to have lunch. We had dim sum at Oriental Pavillion Chinese Restaurant. After lunch, we went grocery shopping at Jaya Grocer. This supermarket has a wide array of imported food stuff and if you're into baking, Jaya Grocer is a good place to shop for your baking supplies as there's a good selection of imported baking ingredients. After shopping for groceries, we went to Starbucks at Damansara Uptown for coffee and another chit chat session. Poor Baby C had to be woken up twice from her nap. When we reached home, my 3 gals took their nap at around 5pm and only got up at 7pm. I made them green tea noodles with homemade fish paste, baby bak choi, shredded Japanese seaweed and winter melon soup with pork ribs.

I am still not feeling 100% well. After drinking some winter melon soup this evening, I felt like puking and am still feeling nauseous.... and my tummy felt and still feels like a balloon that's being deflated. I have been having a very gassy tummy lately and would get tummy ache whenever I am angry or get stressed up with my kids. I hope things get better when school reopens next week, otherwise, I may have to send both my older gals to the daycare center at their preschool. I hardly have time for them lately coz most of my time has been spent with Baby C. You know how much time is needed to care for a baby, what more a high-maintenance and high-demand baby. From morning till night, my day is spent feeding her and she clings on to me like a leech! Ok, nuf said. I better shut down my PC and go to bed now. Got to wake up early for church tomorrow.

Baby C Loves Shaking Her Head

...and it's so cute. Whenever we sing to her, say "no" to her, when she's happy, she will shake her head. She even shakes her head when she doesn't want to eat her meds or health supplements. She's such a cute baby.

The other day, Baby C was licking the railing of her cot away. When I shoke my head and told her "no, no, no, don't lick the cot baby", she also immitated me and shoke her head. Alycia and Sher also shoke their heads and Baby C shoke her head even more.... and all 3 of them giggled away.





My 3 angels shaking their heads away....