Sherilyn's Achievement

She may not be as disciplined as her jie jie and I need loads and loads of threats, bribe and reminders to get her to memorize her weekly spelling, ejaan and ting xie. But at least, she has been scoring full marks for all her ting xie, ejaan and spelling every week and I am proud of her. Nonetheless, I am still very worried how my rascal will cope in Primary 1 in a Chinese school next year. Hopefully the tough environment and Chinese teachings will shape her into a better disciplined and obedient kid. And I am slowly but surely turning into Amy Chuah aka Tiger Mother, else this rascal will be a wayward child.

Our Friday

On Friday night, we had desserts at Food Foundry @ Happy Mansion PJ after a dinner with my parents, my brother and sil from Singapore and my mil. We had dinner at a nearby Chinese restaurant. It was a very rare occasion that I could have a meal with them altogether and I think it was very much like a CNY reunion dinner.

Nothing makes her happier than eating what she likes to eat!

The hubs is really fond of the chocolate cakes and Vanilla Mille crepe cake at Food Foundry. Whenever we are out for dinner, he will surely jump on the opportunity to drive us to this unassuming cafe to satiate his craving for these 2 cakes.

A view of KLCC (right) and KL Towers (left) from the 5th floor of our unit taken at 8pm. I heart my new Canon IXUS!

Can Never Get Enough Of Shopping At Pharmacies

I love stepping into the pharmacy. Pharmacies are mushrooming at my housing estate and they are competing with one another by offering discounts on their products all year through. I think this is healthy competition and we the consumers get to grab the best deals from different pharmacies. Each time I step into a pharmacy, I spend several hundreds of Ringgit on toiletries, supplements and cosmetics. I had just returned from a pharmacy that was having a Crazy Sales promotion and spent over two hundred Ringgit. There was discount on almost every item on the shelves from shampoos to cosmetics, dental care products , moisturizer, supplements for kids, creatine supplements, diapers and the list goes. Had I not been in a hurry to leave, I could have spent even more at the pharmacy.

Durian Season

The durian season is at its peak now and we are taking full advantage of it, at the expense of our wallet and health. For the past 1 week, I have been having durians for my breakfast, chilled yummy creamy Musang King species that is! Sherilyn ate so much durians when my dad got some from Tapah that she is now having a very hoarse voice, a symptom that her body is very heaty. But I am well prepared to counter the heatiness with jars of cooling herbal tea and refreshing coconut water. Hopefully I don’t need to use therapores with all the cooling drinks to douse the heat within my body.

Bulky TV Hazard

We recently gave away our bulky pre-LCD era TV (the kind with a big jutting butt!) that we used to put in our bedroom after we read from the newspapers that a little boy was killed when a TV fell on him. Since Alycia sleeps on the floor next to the chest of drawers that we placed the TV on, it is scary to imagine what would have happened to her if the bulky fell on her while she’s asleep. We may get a light weight and sleek TV, like those samsung led tvs for our bedroom soon.

Computer Crashed!

My desktop computer is seriously injured and may need admission. Someone turned off the main switch connecting to my desktop computer last night, thinking that it was the switch for the TV. When I restarted my PC, it was 'hang'. Thank God I have a laptop as back up BUT the BIG problem is that the data of my 800 over customers are saved inside the hard disk of my desktop PC. Now I have a huge pile of new clothes lying in the living room and I cannot send them out without the details of my customers. I am SO SO upset. The computer technician came to fix my PC this morning and it took over 6 hours for the restoring scan to complete BUT bugger, the problem is still not resolved. The computer technician has to come over to my house again to reinstall the Windows software and if this fails, he needs to remove the hard disk to have all the data stored inside transfered into an external hard disk or a thumb drive. And a reformatting of the PC would have to be performed. Sigh.... this is a costly lesson for me and if you have not done a back-up of your data too, do it now before your PC crashes.
Sorry there will be no pix from me for the next few days until my baby is up and about again.

Things She Says

Just want to record this conversation between Baby and me today. Baby, when you read this a few years down the road, you will have a good laugh at yourself.

Me - Baby, tomorrow is mummy's birthday. What are you going to give me?

Baby - I have no money....

Me - I know. But you can give me something that does not need money to buy. What will you give me?

Baby - I will give you a pink goggles (and pointing to the pink goggles hanging in our bathroom).

Me - I don't want a goggles. I don't need one. Give me something else.

Baby - Errrrr, I will give you money from my piggy bank!

Me - How much money will you give?

Baby - MANY!!

Me - Can you give me ALL the money in your piggy bank?

Baby - NO!!! I will give you 2 (and showing me 2 fingers)





My Baby, she's getting more and more vocal each day and she's a willful cili padi too. Try to criticize her and she will put up a defiant and defensive front saying "Who says??? NO I am not. You only, not me!!"... and she will defend herself until the end. I am quite confident she won't get bullied in future.

Morning Routine

This is Baby's morning routine. She drinks 3/4 cup of fresh milk with a teaspooon of chocolate flavored Dutch Lady 123 milk powder for a tinge of chocolaty flavor to her milk. On some mornings, she sits in front of the TV while she eats her breakfast. Her breakfast is as heavy as mine. In fact she eats more than me! Here's what her breakfast normally consists of : fruits on an empty stomach, 3/4 cup of fresh milk half an hour later, a hard boiled egg, bread and biscuits. When my mil eats her breakfast later, Baby joins her and pecks on her food. This rascal can really eat and eat and I think she really has a stomach made of rubber!

Here she's watching her favorite Go Go's cartoon. Go Go's series of educational DVDs teaches toddlers and kids English and Baby loves Go Go's. She can memorize most of the songs and all the scenes in her GoGo's DVDs.

Noodles Crazed Girls

My #2 and #3 are noodles crazed, in particular over green tea noodles or buckwheat noodles. They can survive on nothing but these noodles and they like it with Soba Sauce and shredded seaweed. Alycia likes her green noodles with a dash of wasabi too! I normally prepare some onion omelette so that their daily intake of protein is met.

If I ever leave a plate of plain green tea noodles on the dining table and turn my back, I can be rest assured to see 2 greedy pups climbing up the table to pick the noodles with their fingers and stuffing the noodles into their mouths! When my mil is again away overseas soon, my girls can be certain that they will get to eat green tea noodles at least twice a week. It's easy job for me and they love it!

Dangers Of Working When You Are Sleepy

I am one who can never go to bed at peace if there is work left unfinished. Last night, I was seated in front of my PC but I was struggling to keep my eyes opened. I wanted to complete a review on discount avo cigars but my mind just could not function anymore. Knowing how dangerous it is to work on my PC when my brain is shutting down, I went straight to my bedroom and dozed off within seconds. In the past, I had made some mistakes with my customers’ orders when I worked with my eyes almost shut and a mind that was also half shut down.

Dislikes Milk

Alycia used to love drinking milk until she was weaned off the milk bottle when she was 5 years old. Since then, she has developed a dislike for milk, even if the milk is flavored with chocolate or strawberry. I told her that if she does not want to drink milk, I need to give her calcium supplement so that she will not have brittle bones or Osteoperosis in future.

If All Goes Well…

If all goes well with Baby’s urinary tract, we will no longer be required to make a trip to Penang to see the surgeon twice a year starting from next year. Her surgeon told us that after her condition stabilizes 2 years post surgery, we only need to bring her to see him once a year, until she turns 12 years old. With God’s grace, I pray that she does not require anymore expensive scans, medical treatments and surgery. With the money saved on her expensive medical treatments, we can start to plan for a long-deserved holiday and look for some Outer Banks vacation rental soon.

Praying For Good Health

My mum does not have any extensive medical insurance and Medicare part D plans in place. Having seen what some of our friends have been going through lately with the grave illnesses that they were stricken with, I have been reminding my mum to quickly get a medical insurance in place soonest possible. Diseases and misfortunes strike without warning. My greatest wish and prayer are for me, my kids and parents to be blessed with good health. That is the best gift the Lord can bestow us with.

Yummy Homemade Breads And Pesto Sauce

My mil spent her entire day in the kitchen to whip up something really good for us last week. She started work at around 4pm and the work ended at 11ish pm.

Here are the products of her labor of love and her passion in cooking and baking:


3 jars of pesto sauce to be used as bread spread and for pasta. She made extra and stored a jar in the freezer so that we can eat it when she's away again soon.

3 loaves of purple sweet potato bread and 3 loaves of walnut-figs rye bread.

Say Sorry To Me!

While I was showering Baby last night, some water splattered into her eyes and she was mad at me.

Baby - HEY!!! Why spray water in my eyes?

Me - Oh, I did it accidentally only.....

Baby - then say SORRY to me!!! (in a demanding tone that I owe her an immediate apology!)

Me - sorry Baby. But you can't shout at mummy ok?

And if I remembered correctly, she was still not satisfied with the apology and was mumbling away that I had accidentally splattered some water into her eyes! This rascal is a cili padi, small but mighty, I am very convinced she is.

Wine Ice Cream From USA

We sampled some wine ice creams from the wine specialty shop that hubs patronizes and hubs chose a tub of cherry ice cream made with Merlot wine.


A tub costs about RM24 and it's imported from the US. If you are crazy over wine, you'll love the tinge of wine taste in this ice-cream. I am not a huge fan of wine or alcohol and will only have a sip or two if occasions call for but I kind of like this ice cream. Nice!

Cherry Merlot Wine ice cream with generous amounts of cherries.

The Hilarious Fall Of Sherilyn's 2nd Tooth

Remember my earlier post on the hilarious fall of Sherilyn's first tooth? About 1.5 weeks later, her 2nd shaky bottom tooth dropped and I tell yer, it was equally hilarious.

That night, Sherilyn had fallen asleep on the couch. When I dragged her to the bathroom to shower her, she was whining and sulking away. When I brushed her teeth, she whined even more and was throwing a huge tantrum... which made my temper hit the roof. After brushing her teeth, she turned to me abruptly and said this "mummy, what happened to my tooth???"... and opened her mouth wide. When I looked at her mouth, I burst out laughing as the shaky tooth at the bottom was gone!!! I told her that her tooth had dropped and she exploded... bawling away like a baby. She blamed me for brushing her teeth too hard to the point of 'loosing' her tooth. I then searched everywhere on the bathroom floor for her tooth. Damn it that the color of her tooth and the bathroom floor was almost the same, making it hard for us to find her tooth. What more with all the suds on the floor, we could barely find the tooth. I asked her if she had swallowed the tooth and she said NO and bawled even louder... and blamed me to no end.

After a 5-minute search, I finally found her tooth at one corner of the bathroom LOL!! My cry baby was really angry and crabby as I had woken her up from her sleep and dragged her to the bathroom to shower and caused her tooth to drop. After she had calmed down, I told her that she should be happy that the tooth had finally dropped as she had been complaining that the loose tooth was hurting her gum. Now, there's no more pain and she can eat comfortably again.

Our Quiet Sunday

It was a pretty quiet Sunday for us. We were supposed to go to church but Sherilyn had fever on Saturday, which did not subside on Sunday. Hubby who is always paranoid whenever the gals have fever insisted to bring Sherilyn to the doctor but I said no. I always prefer to give their body a chance to heal naturally and not shoot straight to get antibiotics, which will only impair the body's immune system. True enough after just 1 dose of PCM, lots of barley water, coconut water, plain water, fruits, rest and sleep and showering her body each time the temperature shot up to above 38 degrees Celsius, the fever subsided last night.... without the need for antibiotics or costly doctor's fees.

While Sherilyn lay on the couch the whole day, I spent the whole day packing my customers' orders into courier bags for them to be posted out today.

Garment factory from home...

Kids clothes, kids accessories and ladies clothes for over 50 customers... you can check out my online store too :D

And Alycia spent the whole day with her koo poh who brought her along to her office and then for lunch, just the both of them. Later that night, my mil brought Alycia out for Thai food with my sil who just arrived from China.

How did you spend your Sunday?

Simple And Delish Homecooked Dishes

My mil is a great cook. She can mix and match and whip up a delish dish with whatever ingredients that she can find in the fridge. Every time there are leftover uncooked meat and veggie in the fridge, she can whip up something different that tastes good.

Here's a peek into what we normally have for dinner every night:

Fried fish or steamed fish. I can never go wrong with fried fish for that's my kids' favorite, mine too.

Pan fried Japanese tofu with fresh mushrooms...

Stir fried long beans with brinjal and preserved olives. The salty preserved olives are very flavorful and go well with veggie dishes and meat dishes.

My mil will leave us for a few months again very soon, this time to HK and NZ. Though I dread the thought of having to cook lunch and dinner everyday, there's no way I will get catered homecooked food again after our previous bad experience. My kids and I don't mind having fried eggs, omelette, fried fish and steam chicken in our menu every week. We rather have these simple dishes than having salty and oily catered food with burnt wok residue as toppings on the dishes everyday!

The Hilarious Fall Of Sherilyn's 1st Tooth

... and I think it will be an unforgettable one as it was really hilarious. It all started about a year ago when Sherilyn's right front tooth was knocked twice - once on her friend's knee and another time when she tried to walk through a glass door at Purple Cane restaurant and had her mouth smacked hard on the glass door OUCH!!! From then, the tooth became loose and about 2 months ago, it became really shaky and half the tooth was yanked out from the gums, making her look like a 'sau ngar por' LOL!! She looked really hilarious each time she talked or ate as the shaky tooth would dangle in and out of her mouth muahahahahah!!! I couldn't even stand looking at her mouth when she talked for I would be unable to control laughing out hard... which made her really mad... mad that her mummy was making fun of her. But I wasn't making fun of her, she just looked too too funny LOL!!

So back to the shaky tooth. After weeks and months of wanting to yank off the tooth herself (she chickened out each time we told her we wanted to bring her to the dentist to have the tooth extracted), one night it finally came off.... in a hilarious way. It started like this. I had asked Sherilyn to demonstrate to me some of the ballet movements that she had learned in class. While she was dancing, prancing and jumping, I saw her loose tooth dangling out of her mouth, to the point of almost dropping. I excitedly told her that the tooth was almost dropping and asked her to dance and jump harder... to which she did. She jumped and hopped as hard as she could and when she tried to pull it off, the shaky tooth was finally yanked off, without any pain! Everyone cheered for her and we were all very glad that her loose tooth which made her look terribly hilarious each time she talked and ate had finally descended. That night, the mummy tooth fairy put a dollar in an ang pow packet under her pillow. That's where her first tooth has been kept - in an ang pow packet, together with the dollar note and it will be for keeps for a long, long time... for her to see and maybe for her kids to see.