Sleeping Child

Here's yet another snapshot of Alycia dozing off. Ever since she started attending Primary 1, this girl has been very sleep deprieved. On school-going weekdays, she could just doze off anywhere - on the couch, on the floor and even whilst eating her lunch. Since baby, this girl of mine needs lots of sleep, unlike Sherilyn who is always bursting with energy and is seldom sleepy.


She dozed off while waiting for her slow-coach and dilly-dallying sister get ready for Mandarin tuition.

Homemade Chicken Chop

My kids and I, we love chicken chop. It's easy to prepare and I can cook a big batch and deep freeze them in smaller portions for future consumption.

This is the chicken chop with lots of big onions (my girls and I are onion lovers) that I whipped up, with no particular recipe.



I marinated the deboned chicken with soy sauce, sea salt, pepper, honey and Lea and Perrin sauce for about a couple of hours. Then shallow fry the chicken until they turn golden brown. Use the spatula and push the chicken aside. Then add in the big onions and fry them until they turn brown. Mix the chicken and big onions and serve hot. Cut some cool cucumbers to serve with the chicken. The cool cucumbers can expel some 'heatiness'. I cooked 8 pieces and thought of deep freezing half the batch but they were so tasty that my 3 girls walloped them all in a jiffy and licked the platter clean *satisfied grin*


Do hop over to my other blog to check out my homemade almond-cashew nuts bread spread!

Catered Food For Dinner

I started to cater food for dinner on Monday. I was promised that the food will be delivered to my doorstep by 6:30pm but on the first day, the caterer only reached our place at 8pm! Apparantly, her car broke down at Federal Highway during a heavy downpour. By the time she delivered the food, we were already almost done with eating our dinner - I dug out whatever frozen food I had in the freezer and reheated them as my kids were all complaining of a rumbling tummy. On the 2nd day, the food was delivered at 4:30pm! She said she had to send her konked out car to the workshop, thus she was early.

On the first day, we had these dishes:

Minced chicken with tofu...

Chicken chop with fried potato wedges. Tasty but I find that her food has too much 'wok loh' (burnt carbon from the wok).

Stir-fried long beans. My girls love the beans as they were sweet. I suspect she put sugar / oyster sauce.

On the 2nd day, we had fish curry, stir fried cabbage and foo yoong egg omelette.

On the 3rd day, we had these:

Fish bergedil (a Malay dish made out of mashed fish, potatoes, big onions, spices and chillies)...

Stir fried 'tai yee ma kar lui' (gourd with glass noodles, shredded carrots and fishballs) and the dish on the right is spam meat cooked with potatoes and curry leaves. This dish was SUPER SALTY and I didn't allow my girls to eat.

Overall, the caterer's food is quite satisfactory. Low in MSG and I don't feel thirsty after eating. But quite high in oyster sauce / sugar coz all the dishes are sweet! I'll see what she will serve us today.

Goodies from Singapore

My eldest brother and sil from Singapore were in KL last weekend to celebrate my dad's birthday. They had recently returned from the U.S. and had bought these goodies for us:


Original Polo Ralf Lauren shirts for everyone (not in picture)....


Chocolates, nuts and candies....





These cute cuppies are from Singapore. My sil's friend who had a baby shower party gave these to her...



Who can resist them eh? Even I ate them, minus the colorful icing and decor...






Cute Hello Kitty headbands for the 3 angels....



Even Alycia who has tomboyish taste in fashion liked the headband and she agreed to wear it!!


...and my mum even got an original COACH handbag, which was sold at a song from the COACH factory.

My Homecooked Dishes

Though super busy with my online store, I sill cook for my kids - twice a day and I find it very taxing and time consuming. Though I have a helper, she just cannot get it right whenever I leave it to her entirely to cook. She will surely screw up something like putting chopped tomatos and onions (meant for cooking spaghetti sauce) into our pot of herbal soup!

So I've decided that from tomorrow, I will cater food for dinner. I'll try out for one month and see how it goes. According to this caterer, all her dishes are free from MSG. I'll see....

Here are some of the dishes that I whipped up last week:

Fish coated with turmeric powder and pan-fried. My kids lurve this crispy fish!

Chicken cooked ala Hainanese style with big onions and canned peas, seasoned with pepper, salt and Lea & Perrin sauce.

Square fried tofu cooked with minced chicken breast and fresh shiitake mushrooms.

Things That Only Sherilyn Will Do!

One of the things that only rascal #2 will do is to eat with her hands and mind you, it's not the refined hand-eating method like some people do. She would place the rice on her palm, then squeeze the rice as if she were making sushi or preparing dough... and after playing with her rice + dishes, she will put the yucky looking food into her mouth. This fler is known to take hours to finish her food but with food-playing, she can finish her food in a jiffy and she enjoys it too! Are all hyper-active and inquisitive kids like this?

And she even eats her porridge with her hands! GAWD... I was shocked to see her do it and this, I reprimanded her!


Rascal #2 eating rice with turmeric chicken. Can you see how terribly messy it is? And the worst part is she will scratch her head with her oily hands and send me yelling at her.. That's why she needs to shampoo her hair twice a day.


Kek sei ngor mou you say??!

I Want To Go Inside

Baby loves books, if only I can afford the time to read to her everyday I think she would be a very good reader. Many times she gets too excited and absorbed and would tell me that she wants to get inside the book to be with the bears and animals in the story books muahahahahahaha!!!

I think she looked too cute when I saw her putting her leg on a colorful page of a Dr Seuss book the other day... and she told me "mummy, I want to go there!"

Self Entertainment

These days, Baby can entertain herself when I am too busy to entertain her. I'll just have to close one eye when she takes stuff from the kitchen to play with, like this:



Well, as long as she ain't playing with a fork, knife, scissors or anything breakable, anything is A-ok with me.... as long as she can give me 1/2 an hour of time to do some serious stuff on my computer, anything is A-ok with me haha!


And sometimes when I desperately need 15 minutes to draft an adv to submit to the advertiser before the deadline, I'd even close 2 eyes when she strews my papers everywhere on the floor....


But this fler is a sweet and thoughtful little girl... she would pick up all the papers... piece by piece when asked to clean up the mess after she's done with the excitement of strewing them everywhere!

Novel Way Of Eating Lunch

Baby and Sherilyn decided to do something new over lunch time. Instead of eating at the dining table, Sherilyn brought her food to the kitchen, pulled a chair there and sat there to eat. Baby the copy cat followed suit and both of them kwai kwai finished their food in the kitchen!



But they created a mess - food was dropped everywhere on the floor and I made #2 clean up the mess haha!

Check out the cute Minnie Mouse swimming cap Baby is wearing here. Sometimes I put the cap on her head so that she will not dirty her hair with her oily hands muahahahahahaha!

New Temp Store Assistant

She's my new temporary store assistant and the best ever... but she's only going to help me out for the next 1 week and then she'll return to her hometown :(

Yesterday was a super duper hectic day for me. My stock from 5 suppliers arrived on the same day, coincidentally. Thank God my mum is here and she helped me check the clothes, else I would have to work round the clock to check, sort and pack the clothes into Pos Laju bags. Order for the past few days have also been high. I have been working 15 hours non-stop for 2 days. I am really burnt out and jaded. I need a breakie today!

Check out those beautiful kawaii hats. I LOVE them all!! I have bought 2 hats for my girls and now I am tempted to buy more!!


Pic taken this morning.... pos laju bags waiting to be picked up by the postman later.

Do check out my online store http://oldandnewstuff4sale.blogspot.com/ to shop for cute kids clothes, hats, swim wear, costumes, kids accessories and chic ladies wear at very affordable prices.

Charmed?

I read with disgust from the newspapers that a 38-year old man had married a 108-year old woman recently. The woman is old enough to be his great grandmother. I wonder if he has been charmed by the woman that made him attracted to the old woman. This old woman has had many husbands previously. She uses ‘special massages’ to prevent his man from straying. I wonder if she would use spy gear to spy on him soon, when the charm ‘loses’ its effect haha!

Sherilyn Naps The Weirdest Ways

Sherilyn, this girl of mine is super hard-headed. During the day she would refuse to nap. Even when threatened by the cane, she just won't take her nap, citing that she is not sleepy at all. If she ever naps in the afternoon, I would need to check her temperature to see if she has a fever or ask her if she's not well.

By dinner time, her batteries would be almost flat. At 8:30pm every night on end, I will say the same thing to her "quickly finish your food and drink your soup!!" She will be the last to finish her food every night. On some nights, this is what happens:


Dozing off while drinking her soup....


and I think she has perfect balancing skill....

3rd Tooth Dropped

Alycia's 3rd tooth dropped early this week. It had been shaky for the past few weeks and she kept moving the tooth with her tongue and complained of pain. Finally it dropped and she was happy! I told her to wash the tooth, wrap it up in a tissue paper and put it under her pillow for the tooth fairy to give her a dollar BUT she dropped the tiny tooth... into the gap between the sofa seat and arm rest... deep down inside HAHAHAHAH!!





My helper had to use a back scratcher stick to dig it out....




Then used a spoon to scoop the tiny tooth out muahahahahaha.... I think we will all remember Alycia's 3rd tooth shedding for a long, long time :D

Potty Training Baby

I started to potty train Baby 3 days ago. The first day went quite smoothly, though she kept going to the potty every 5 minutes! The potty is placed conveniently in the living room for her to wee wee anytime she wants haha! The second and third day, she kept having small accidents. She would wet her panties throughout the day but as soon as she wet her panty, she would tell me "mummy I shee shee". I hope tomorrow onwards she will have a better control of her bladder and will have fewer accidents.

Alexis Bistro @ The Gardens

One of my favorite bistros for having cakes and coffee is Alexis Bistro. We have been a faithful patron of Alexis (there are several outlets in the Klang Valley) for almost a decade. I love their Tiramisu cake. After a not-so-satisfied lunch at TGIF @ Gardens, we headed to Alexis for dessert.

We had our favorite Tiramisu cake with strawberry sauce...


Walnut chocolate cake with a scoop of vanilla ice cream. The walnut bits were a tad rancid and this spoilt the entire taste and flavor of the cake, what a waste....


Warm chocolate brownie with a scoop of vanilla ice cream on top. This was delish!


My favorite is this slice of warm orange almond cake with vanilla ice cream. Every bite was full of ground almonds. iLike, yums!!


Alycia monkeying around with daddy....

Fitness Junkie Finally Popped

For the past few days, the spunky woman with a huge protruding belly is no longer seen running treadmills at the gym every morning. She had given birth to her fourth baby. She is the fittest mummy I have ever met. She normally runs along side me at the gym. She would work out for an hour while I have to leave after 30 minutes as I don’t have the luxury of loitering at the gym. I can’t wait to see this lady again in the gym and I’ll bet this fitness junkie will return just after her 1-month confinement.

Kids Nap The Weirdest Ways

Alycia and Sherilyn are tops when it comes to napping. They can nap anywhere, anytime and in any position.

As usual, Alycia was so jaded after coming back from school that she dozed off while doing her homework. Life for a Chinese-ed student is pretty tough eh?

Have You Seen White Egg Yolks?

I had boiled 2 hard-boiled eggs for breakfast the other day. When I shelled the eggs and halved them, I was in for a surprise.


See the difference? Both are kampung chicken eggs (free-range chicken). But one has whitish egg yolks. Quite bizzare eh? I guess the chicken must have been a malnourished hen :D

Versatile Blogger Award

I have not been tagged for aeons. I think the last time I did a tag was like a year ago!! This time, this mummy gave me this Versatile Blogger Award.

To accept this award you must:
1. List 7 random things about yourself
2. Share the award with up to 15 other bloggers
3. Link to each of the recipients and let them know they've won via comments on their blogs
4. Thank and bring the love back to the person you won the award from by linking back to them.

So, here are 7 random things about me:

1) I love all things pink. Baby is taking after me now.

2) I am super impatient.

3) Like Irene, my ambition was to be an air stewardess so that I could fly the world. I got the job in 1993 but turned the offer down becoz....

4) I got the Best Secretary award while in college. Was also the recipient of Dean's List for 3 semesters.

5) I was promoted 4 times over a span of 8 years when I worked in a bank. Was also a recipient of Merit Award and Merit Increment for several years.

6) Enough of gloating and self praise, now my weaknesses. I am very hot tempered and blow my top very easily.

7) I used to be a clean freak. I would check my helper's work every single day - every nook and corner! But after Baby came along and the birth of my online store, I have been so busy and burnt out that I 'no eye see' and could not be bothered whether my helper washes the toilet or not.

8) ... from no. 3... because of my hubs!

Not tagging anyone. Have been super busy with my online store these few days. Do drop by my online store to do some online shopping :)

I’ll Need A GPS For Sure

I have not driven a car for almost 3 years now. I wonder if I still know how to operate a car!! I know I will definitely not have the guts to handle my hubby’s 7-seater MPV as it’s too long and bulky. I will feel more at ease and less stressed with a smaller car like the good ol’ and cute Kancil. I will also need a GPS to help me move around. My sense of direction sucks BIG time. I am a real retard when it comes to directions. I just lack the compass in my head! GPS are quite affordable these days but I’ll need to read up on some gps reviews before deciding which one suits me. Most drivers have a GPS installed in their vehicle now. Do you have a GPS in your vehicle too?