Stinky Poop Everywhere!

Baby has been having constipation issue for the past 1 year, ever since she started to eat more solids, especially meat. From a veggie lover when she was a baby, she has now regressed and hates her greens. I have to give her Duphalac Lactulose everyday to help her to move her bowels. At times, even with Duphalac her stubborn bowles just won't budge a wee bit. That's when I have to give her full strength of Duphalac. With full strength Duphalac plus red dragon fruit (which is really good in moving her bowels), she would sometimes have watery poop. And this was just what happened the other day. This fler pooped in her diaper and then ran round the house, with the trails of watery stinky poop all over the house floor and bedroom floor. Eewwwww, I tell yer, that was horrid and gross! Rascal #2 who can never sit still was jumping round the house and stepping on the poop! My helper and I had to clean up the absolute mess and finished off with Disinfectant!

Pilot's Creoroll Mess-Free Crayons

My generous sil from Hong Kong sent another big box of goodies to us last week. In the box was what Alycia had been persuading me to buy for her - mess-free crayons encased in plastic holders that can be rolled up and down. I saw them at a stationery shop in Gardens Mid Valley but didn't buy it for her as it was way too expensive. Moreover the girls have too many crayons at home, so many that I can find them at every nook and corner and often, they were thrown away.

The awesome Pilot Creoroll Mess-Free crayons in 8 smashing colors...

The mess-free crayons are perfect for toddlers as their tiny hands will not get dirty. There is very little falling crayon dust as compared to conventional crayons...

Poor Eater

No prize for guessing who ate this slice of papaya. This rascal takes forever to eat her food and fruits. I gave this slice of papaya to her for breakfast on Saturday and after almost 2 hours, I got this back - teeth marks on the papaya and only 1-2 bites of the fruit eaten. Since daddy wanted to bring them out, she didn't finish the papaya. Sigh, this rascal #2 has been a very poor eater since young... and she puked a lot too. And she still take 1-2 hours to finish her dinner on most nights, sigh...

Bestest Jie Jie In The WWW

Alycia and Baby are really an item. They love each other very much and Alycia is very possessive of her baby sister. The other day, Baby fell off the chair at the dining table. She fell face down and hit her forehead on the cold hard floor. God must have sent a guardian angel to cushion off the fall. My helper was feeding her lunch and Baby was moving about... and I think my helper must have been careless and then I heard a thud. I had expected to see bruises or blood from the mouth or head but after putting ice compress on the forehead, no one would have even realized she fell from the dining table chair with a booster seat on top. I tell yer, my heart beat must have been flat-lined for a good 1 minute. I was so shocked I felt like puking.

After the fall, I told Baby not to be like a monkey and move so much when she's seated on the chair. I explained to the 3 girls that the head is very important as the brain is inside the head. I told them that our brain is like the CPU of the computer (I had just done revision with Alycia on the computer parts) and if it's hurt, then the entire body will be useless....and they will not recognize mummy or daddy or anything else anymore. At that point, Alycia quickly tested Baby and asked her "Cassandra, what is this?", while showing her things around us like my mobile phone, chairs, books, etc. She was happy that her baby sister was A OK. She's indeed the bestest jie jie in the whole wide world!

"Cassandra, what is this, tell cheh cheh..." and Baby was busy playing and licking the ice cubes that was meant to be put on her forehead.

Fuming Mad

2 days ago, I was really cheesed off by the soya bean milk man. I have been his loyal customer for so many years and yet he had the cheek to say such defensive things to wind me up. I had bought a 1.5L bottle of cold soya bean milk from him early this week. On that day, I saw him taking out a big bottle of soya bean milk from the ice box instead of pouring the soya bean milk out from the huge stainless steel dispenser. The bottle was 3/4 full. I then asked him why it was not full and he told me that sometimes he would get customers who would order a few big bottles. It would be faster that he fills up some bottles with soya bean milk up to 3/4 full whenever he has the time. If the customer wants syrup for the soya bean milk, he would fill the remaining 1/4 of the bottle with syrup. Fine, I was satisfied with his answer but still felt dubious. Back home, I immediately kept the bottle of soya bean milk in the fridge. Several hours later when I poured the soya bean milk out, it had coagulated, like bean curd. I knew instantly that the coagulation was partly caused by the man putting the bottle of soya bean milk in the ice box. I threw the bottle of soya bean milk away.

The next day when I asked the soya bean milk man casually why it had coagulated, gosh, this man was highly defensive. He started hurling defensive words that would irritate any customer.

Man - definitely your fridge is not cold enough, this will not happen if your fridge is cold enough...

Me - my fridge is cold, it's new!

Man - new fridge does not mean it's cold enough. I can guarantee your fridge is not cold enough. You people open and close the fridge door so many times, surely your fridge is not cold. Did you use a thermometer to check the temperature?? (and asked in a harsh tone)
(on hearing this, I could feel steam spewing out from my head. This man was trying to challenge me to prove me wrong)

I just shook my head in disbelief of what I heard, took my bottle of soya bean milk from him (yup I still bought a bottle from him) and paced off. That will be my last time buying soya bean milk from him. I did not expect him to pay me back RM4.80 for the bottle of soya bean milk. I was just hoping to get an apology from him. Even a 20sen discount would make me feel better. If I were him, I would have given my customer another bottle of soya bean milk for free to placate a dissatisfied customer. Sigh, some people just lack the business mind and attitude.

Guess What We Bought From Ikea?

We were at Ikea the whole morning on Sunday. Our loot was so bulky that my hubs' 7-seater MPV was stuffed to the brim. My hubs spent twenty minutes at the car park, trying to figure how to shove our loot into the car. My 2 older girls and helper had to sit on top of the boxes of furniture and lie down throughout the twenty minutes drive home, thank God we were not pulled over by the cops!

Matching colorful rainbow cups for my rainbow color kawaii hat .....

My man busy at work fixing up my little home office...

Hop over to my other blog to see what my man had fixed up for me....

Fong Lye Restaurant @ Plaza Prisma Ville, Desa Sri Hartamas, Kuala Lumpur

Fong Lye Taiwanese restaurant is one of our favorite Chinese restaurants. The food is tasty, unique and we love the ambience. The price is reasonable too. There are about 3 Fong Lye branches in the Klang Valley and we have been to all 3 and love them all. The other day, we went to the Fong Lye at Desa Hartamas. Here's what we had:

Stir fried chopped chives with minced meat, fermented soy beans and chillies. I love this dish and I can even whip up this dish that tastes just as nice ! In the background is a bowl of white porridge with sweet potatoes.

Sweet and sour prawns, which was a hit with the girls...

Stir fried french beans with minced pork...

Deep fried spare ribs aka 'phai kwat wong'...

Fried rice...

The famous 'sam pei jie' (chicken cooked with ginger, chinese cooking wine and chinese basil leaves) in claypot....

Braised fish maw with an assortment of veggie and tofu...

After lunch, we were served a very refreshing lime juice with honey, on the house by the restaurant. The juice was a hit with the girls too and they kept 'yam seng' (bottoms up) with each other and we had to ask the waiter to give us extra servings, which he gladly obliged.

Baby who doesn't like drinking plain water, gulped down about 2-3 glasses of the refreshing and sour lime juice.

Fong Lye Restaurant
Plaza Prisma Ville, Desa Sri Hartamas, Kuala Lumpur
9, Plaza Prismaville
Jalan 19/70A, Desa Sri Hartamas
51200 Kuala Lumpur
Tel: 03 6201 7998
Business Hours: Daily (11 am – 2:30 pm; 6pm – 9:30 pm)

Big Stones On My Diamond Ring

My hubs was searching for something one day recently when he stumbled upon our wedding rings. You see, we keep misplacing our wedding rings as both of us just don’t have the habit of wearing rings. Actually the rings were not our very first wedding rings. My hubs had lost his very first wedding ring and I was really upset about it. 2 years ago, he gave me another wedding ring for my birthday and he also got himself another matching wedding ring. I was deeply moved. Recently, I could not find our new wedding rings and then he found them again! I should ask him to keep the rings in the safe deposit box in the bank, lest we lose them again. I don’t think we will wear those gold rings anymore. We can show our love for each other in other ways, other than through wearing the rings. But I will still hint to him to get me a diamond ring! I would love to have those green diamonds or lab diamonds on the ring, the bigger the stone the better :D

Sleep Walk Or Going To School Anxiety?

Over dinner just now, our helper told us that Alycia got up from bed at around 4:30am this morning and crept out from the bedroom. She got down from bed quietly, opened the door quietly and then walked to the living room. My helper who sleeps in the girls' bedroom heard the door open and quietly followed Alycia from behind to see where Alycia went to. She told us that when Alycia was in the living room, she stared blankly and said this to herself "why no nobody here?" and then went back into bed. Alycia's eyes were opened. When I asked Alycia if she could recall what happened last night, she told me she couldn't remember a thing!

Could this be sleep-walking? Or mere anxiety of missing the van that brings her to school and being late for school? I used to sleep-walk quite a bit too when I was young.

Big Feet

Alycia is not only tall for her age, she has big feet too! The other day I bought her a pair sandals. My sil from Singapore who was in KL then saw the pair of sandals and commented that they were very pretty. She tried on the pair of sandals and to everyone's bewilderment, her feet fit the pair sandals just right... like Cinderalla who fit the pair of glass slippers hahahahahah!!! Imagine a 38 year old can fit into a 6.5yo girl's sandals! Alycia definitely has big size genes, thanks (or no thanks?) to her daddy :D

Mesothelioma

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Jelly Mooncakes

My hubs' friend gave him a box of jelly mooncakes last week. I think they look really attractive but taste wise, I would rate it 5/10.

Clockwise from top : yam paste filled jelly mooncake, red bean paste filled jelly mooncake, red bean paste and 'chendol' jelly mooncake and lychee jelly mooncake (this tastes the best of the 4)

Macro shot of the jelly mooncakes:

I still prefer the traditional mooncakes over modern ones with fanciful flavors like tiramisu, coffee, red dragon fruit, strawberry and all that jazz. I prefer those made with low sugar, minus the duck's egg yolk and especially like the 5 nuts mooncakes. What's your favorite mooncake?

Nando's Delivery

Last week the pipe-in gas supply to our condo was disconnected for a day for routine inspection and maintenance by Gas Malaysia. Just a few days ago, I received a flyer on Nando's home and office delivery and my girls were all excited when I told them that we will have Nando's for lunch instead of eating homecooked food.

With RM50+, we had these:

Half a Peri Peri lemon herbs chicken, an assortment of beans salad, BBQ sweet corn and a chicken strips set that came with herbs rice. Everyone enjoyed the chicken except for Alycia, who told me that she preferred the box of roasted chicken rice that daddy packed back from our favorite coffee shop. So I guess we will not have Nando's chicken for lunch again for a very long time. Even if we were to eat Nando's chicken again, we will eat it at the restaurant. Nothing beats having piping hot chicken served at the restaurant.

Homecooked Catered Food

After having homecooked catered food for a month, I finally stopped the service. I just can't stand the salty dishes and the 'wok loh' (burnt wok residue) covering the food most of the time. Most days, we get curry (chicken, fish or beef) and my kids can't really eat spicy food. If it's a stir fried or braised chicken dish, most of the time, the chicken meat will be covered in black sauce, making the chicken look as if it were burnt. Can't stand those sauces, sugar, oil and salt that this caterer uses. 80% of the food would go to our helper everyday and we are paying RM280 a month for the food! So starting from tomorrow, I shall take over the wok again!

Here are 3 dishes that we received yesterday:

Sweet and sour fish. This is pretty tasty but there were only like 6 pieces and definitely not enough for my 3 gals, my helper and me.

Curried sotong balls and stir-fried long beans. Everyday there will be 1 'fast food' like fish balls, sotong falls, fake crab stick meat, fried wanton, sui kau and other packaged food that we can easily buy from the supermarket.

Break-In

When I was jogging round the neighborhood yesterday, I bumped into my old neighbor. She told me that her house was broken into my thieves last week. I am surprised this had happened as our neighborhood is very tightly secured by patrolling guards and CCTVs at every junction. My neighbor said it could be because the lighting behind her house was spoilt and the thieves could have climbed into the house in the pitch black darkness at night. It’s time she replaced the spoilt lighting with a Sea Gull outdoor lighting and have the light turned on throughout the night to prevent future break-ins.

Term Life Insurance

We have just received the revised insurance policy for Baby several days ago. Hubby had changed our insurance agent and revised the insurance policy after the previous insurance agent failed to help us get a single cent incurred during Baby’s 3-week hospitalization stay last year. We hope this insurance agent will be more efficient, reliable and pro-active. But we hope we will never have to make any more insurance claims ever again. Have you taken up a term life insurance policy yet? If you haven’t gotten one yet, go and buy term life insurance from a trusted insurance agent or search for one online.

My Man The Handyman

My man is a real handyman at home and in his office. There is nothing he can’t do, most of the time. Whether it is the electrical items that need fixing, or the lightings, or the furniture or even the kids’ toys, he will surely know how to fix them, most of the time. Even when the door stopper of our main door was faulty, he knew how to fix it back without getting help. Just give him the right door hardware accessories and he will know how to fix the problem in a jiffy!

Do You Shut Down Your Computer When Not In Use?

My good blogger friend told me that she never shuts down her laptop. Her lappie is turned on with more than 15 websites opened... 24 hours a day, 365 days! I was amazed when she told me this. She even obtained an extended laptop warranty from the supplier of the laptop. My desktop computer will surely slow down and ‘hang’ if I let the computer run for 24 hours. It will run smoothly again after a reboot. Do you ever let your computer run for more than 24 hours?

Pool Water Turned Green

We wanted to bring the 2 older girls down for a dip in the pool but when we saw that the color of the water had changed from bluish to greenish, we freaked out. The pool pumps must have been spoilt. But a few residents were still seen swimming in the pool, unfazed by the scary condition of the water. After 2 days, the entire pool was cordoned off while repair works were being done.

Need To Get A New Mattress

One of the things that I must buy is a new back-supporting mattress. The mattress that we have been sleeping on for over a decade seriously needs to be replaced. The other morning, Baby’s diaper leaked and the pee soiled a big section of the mattress. Though I had sprayed anti-odor and anti-bacterial chemical on it and aired it for a day, the stinky pee odor is still there. It feels gross to be sleeping under a mattress that had been stained with pee, poop and vomit umpteen times!