Our Sunday - 10 January 2016

This morning, I was greeted by a beautiful skyline of sunrise. The KL Tower was illuminated in blue (but turned out purplish in the photo). Such a beautiful scene on a Sunday morning.  I love the color tone of the sky.






We had lunch at Han Room @ Gardens Mall, simply because hubs had a RM80 birthday voucher from the Oriental Group and he had to utilize the voucher before it expires next month.





After tucking into a lovely spread of dim sum, I had my dose of retail therapy while hubs waited for us at Alexis Bistro. He's not someone who would follow me shopping. He has zero patience for that! After retail therapy, we joined him for cakes and tea at Alexis.

Our dinner was famous Ipoh 'kai see hor fun' (shredded chicken with flat noodles) from the world renowned Kong Heng restaurant, brought to us all the way from Ipoh, courtesy of our dear friend - celebrity Alan Yun who was in Ipoh today.





'Kai Si Hor Fun' from Kong Heng coffee shop, Ipoh - best in the world!

And err..... I've got a confession to make.  I whacked the entire bowl of carbs myself without sharing it with anyone :S

And I am corroded with guilt now!!

Never mind, I will have my 24 laps in the pool tomorrow morning to burn it all away! :D





After kai si hor fun, the girls loaded themselves with more carbs! They tempted me with Haagen Dazs but I quickly busied myself with chores and tried my best to steer clear from the tub of macadamia nuts Haagen Dazs!

Then I saw Cass eating her ice-cream from the ice-cream scoop.

Her reason?   "so that I don't have to wash any extra spoon!"

You've learnt well baby girl.  Today is maid-free day. So the girls had to think twice and thrice before they grab a cutlery or plate from the kitchen, coz they will have to wash it themselves!

Snake Meal In Hong Kong

On our 3rd night in Hong Kong, on 8 December 2015, we adults went to an eatery for a snake meal.  The eatery is an Association for members. I am not sure what association it is. Everything was written in Chinese. And every table had the same dishes in their course dinner.  The place was packed to the brim with fans of snake and I saw a lot of elderly people.  No children were present at the eatery.

While we indulged in the snake meal, my 2nd SIL brought all the kids to eat pizza.





The first dish that arrived was 'seh kang' or snake soup. This is similar to sharks fins but the snake meat in the soup had a strange taste. I added lots of vinegar to mask the snake taste.








Next was stir-fried snake meat.




This snake dish was particularly delish. The finely shredded kafir lime leaves sprinkled on the dish imparted a very refreshing and aromatic flavor to the snake meat.

Lamb in claypot...




Crispy roast chicken. Aha, my favorite dish of all! And everyone else's too.




Herbal soup with black chicken and the embryo of an animal (I can't recall). If you can read Chinese, scroll up to read the menu ;)




Braised mushrooms with fish stomach and dried oysters.





Every single dish was wiped clean.







It was my very first experience with snake meat and certainly an eye-opener for the hubby and me.

Izumio And Super Lutein - Testimonial On Psoriasis and Gout

If you or anyone you know of has Psoriasis and Gout, do share with them that they can have these conditions treated with hydrogen water.

With just  2 packets of Izumio hydrogen water a day (15 days), the patient's (picture below) head and face area became better.  The 2nd box improved his back, chest and stomach region.  The 3rd box improved his hands and legs region.

Unknowingly, it even helped his Gout condition. He does not feel pain in his legs even when he consumes red meat or beans-related food.







For January 2016, Naturally Plus is having a promotion.








Package price is RM5,330.
This is inclusive of your Registration Fees and you are automatically a member.
Being a member has no benefit except that you have the opportunity to earn back cash rebates so you can eventually eat for free, or help others to eat for free.

If you are interested in the business, you can attend free training held periodically at the Naturally Plus office.  I have a very dedicated and knowledgeable upline who gives me all the assistance I need.  My upline is earning a 5-figure income from this business. I am not aiming to be like her as my plate is already full.   I will be very happy if I can earn just half or a quarter of her income!  Imagine getting a few thousand Ringgit in your bank account every month and you don't have to do much apart from sharing the goodness of the products!   This is still the best 'job' you can ever find, which does not require you to work at fixed hours. You can choose to 'work' an hour a day or a few hours a week. It's flexible and there is no restriction.  

1 package is defined as 12 products.
1 product is defined as 1 box of Izumio (30 packets x 200ml) or 1 bottle of Super Lutein (100 capsules)


RM 5,330 can be paid by:-
1. CREDIT CARD (VISA or MASTERCARD only. No Amex or Diners, etc.

2. CREDIT CARD INSTALMENTS (either 6 months or 12 months) and card holder's IC copy must be produced together with credit card copy too - Alliance Bank, Citibank, Public Bank, RHB Bank, Hong Leong Bank, Standard Chartered Bank are the only options for paying with an instalment plan. MAYBANK can be used for instalments BUT the card holder MUST be present at the office for the card to be swiped. Too much hassle but if necessary, then no choice.

3. CHEQUE - cheques can be made payable to the office but they will only start processing your order AFTER your cheque clears.

4. ONLINE TRANSFER - you can do an online transfer to the office direct too but again they will only process your order after tracking and tracing your payment. Another option is to transfer online to   me or my upline. We will then use our own credit card to pay on your behalf assuming you do not have a credit card.

5. CASH - Yes, you can pay by cash if you are willing to carry RM5,330 to the office :D


If taking a full package is too costly for you, no worries. You can opt to take half package, consisting of  7 products.

For new member, it is RM2,726 for half package.

If half a package is still too costly for you, you can opt to try out a box or two or Izumio or a bottle of two of Super Lutein at retail price.


For more reading on Izumio and Super Lutein, please click on the following links:

Hydrogen (H2) as a potent antioxidant and exhibits anti-inflammatory and potentially anticancer-like activities (from US National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health)

Izumio Hydrogen Water and Super Lutein

Izumio and Incontinence

 Super Lutein

Day 18 On Izumio For Incontinence

Symptoms of A Body Detox

Day 20 On Izumio Hydrogen Water For Incontinence

IZUMIO – Antioxidant Hydrogen Water

Hydrogen Water Facts

Super Lutein Goodness

 Dangers of Eczema Steroid Creams

Super Lutein and Izumio Hydrogen Water For Glaucoma

Effects of Hydrogen Rich Water On Metabolic Syndrome (Diabetes and Obesity) - from US National Library of Medicine

Izumio and Super Lutein - Testimonials From High Blood Pressure and Diabetes Patients

Izumio and Super Lutein - Testimonial On Diabetes And High Cholestrol

Super Lutein For Osteoarthritis - Testimonial

Your Body On Anxiety

Hydrogen Water And Asthma  

Super Lutein and Izumio Hydrogen Water - Testimonial From Kidney Dialysis Patient

Izumio And Super Lutein - Testimonials From Diabetics Patients

Earning Passive Income

Izumio And Super Lutein - Testimonial On SLE (Systematic Lupus Erithematosus)


Izumio And Super Lutein - Asthma and overall immunity

You can buzz me at my email at shireenyong@gmail.com to find out more! 

Rare Gem Of A Teacher

On the first day of school, Sherilyn's class teacher gave this inexpensive but meaningful and utterly thoughtful gift to all the students in the class.





I suppose this personalized note with words of encouragement is the teacher's welcome gift.  It's printed on a piece of thick Disney paper.  I think it's printed with love from the heart, with a burning passion in teaching. If you were a teacher, would you care to print over 40 copies of such  notes and spend over RM40?

This is the first time I see a teacher giving a welcome gift to her students on the first day of school and I am very impressed.

In addition, I was told by Sherilyn that her teacher would encourage her  students to drink at least 1 liter of water in school. She would check the students' water tumblers each day. She also told the students to mark their lunch boxes and water tumblers with names. Such a caring teacher is indeed a rare gem, what more one from a military style stringent Chinese  school. Bless the teacher's heart indeed!

Our First Saturday In 2016 (2 January 2016)

The first Saturday in the year 2016 is also the last Saturday of the 6-week long school holidays.  On Monday, 4 January 2016, it's back to school for the girls. It's finally back to routine and reality for us. Time really flew past us SO SO fast, it's unbelievable that  6 weeks just ended at the blink of an eye.

I had initially planned to bring our 2 older girls to see the dentist to get their braces done, get myself an appointment to have my teeth checked for the year 2015 and fix an appointment for myself to do my bi-yearly medical check-up but know what, none of these were done.  You'll say that I have 6 weeks of holiday but you know what, I find that I am even busier during the school holidays.  We had something to do almost everyday and was away for a couple of weeks for our vacation.

Anyway, I am so excited that the girls will be back to school. I miss my early morning swim in the pool and the quiet morning ME TIME!

After breakfast on our Saturday yesterday, it's back to a little serious work for the girls at home.  I made them write and stamp their names on all their exercise books and work books.

School bags were cleaned much earlier, uniforms checked, school shoes checked, hair cut checked, calls to old and new transporters checked,  fees for transporters checked, cutting of finger nails  - to be done by today and most importantly, getting the girls to go to bed by latest 9:30pm tonight. Now this is the hardest!  For the past 6 weeks, we have all been night owls and have been going to bed way past 1am and sleeping in till 9-10am every morning.  I hope I don't get insomnia tonight. But darn, I forgot about the caffeine in the tea and drank several cups of green tea today! o_O








Dinner on our Saturday night was at our favorite bakery-restaurant, Red Kettle - a boiling-hot fairly new hangout at our neighborhood.  The food at Red Kettle is fantabulous. I love every single dish and dessert at Red Kettle. Every single item is so carefully and perfectly executed.

This time, we tried their Chicken Bakar And Rice, which is a very flavorful marinated chicken thigh roasted and bolstered by 2 different piquant taste homemade dips,





Below - Kettle Salad and Carbonara...






Below - Fregola Seafood Soup and Pork Burger.

It's the first time we tried the tangy and full of flavors Fregola Seafood Soup and I loved it very much.





Below : Porkie Rice Bowl.  Dark Chocolate Salted Caramel Cake and Gula Melaka Banana Walnut Cake

Red Kettle's Porkie Rice Bowl composed of char-grilled marinated pork shoulder and topped with an onsen egg that spurts luscious yolk better than your ordinary poached egg. The pork shoulder is marinated for 12 hours. Accompaniments such as sautéed mushrooms, buttered sweet peas, sesame seeds and spring onion add some savoury sweetness to this rice dish.






For the foodie hubs, each of his meal must have a sweet ending. This time, he ordered a slice of dark chocolate salted caramel cake and a slice of gula melaka banana walnut cake. The salted caramel is homemade and available for sale at RM16 a bottle.

What I love about Red Kettle is that their team makes almost everything from scratch. Even the slice of lightly toasted sour dough bread that comes with your soup tastes oh so yummy! You'll get hooked on Red Kettle's food once you have tried them!


Red Kettle
37, Jalan Bukit Desa 5,
Taman Bukit Desa,
58100 Kuala Lumpur
Tel: 03-7988 0801
Open Mon-Sat 12pm-10pm;
Sun closed

Our Last Day Of 2015 - 31 December 2015

The hubby and the big girl left the house at 8:30am to have the big girl's My Kad application done at JPN.  Yes, my precious baby has just turned 12!

By 11am, they were back. The hubby has loads to do at the shop and office, thus I brought the girls for breakfast at our Indian restaurant and sent my car for a good wash.






Crispy Tosai Rawa for me. This is a healthier alternative to roti canai and chapati.  I could only manage half the tosai. Cass helped to whack a few bites and the remaining was untouched. Yup, I eat that little.




Nasi Briyani for Alycia.  Mutton curry and spinach for everyone.





Nasi lemak for Sherilyn and Cass.





Tonight we will be having our yearly New Year's Eve dinner with our regular bunch of friends at a Chinese restaurant.

I'd like to wish all my dear readers a very happy new year and thank you very much for still reading my crap :D

Our 3rd Day Of Christmas 2015

Our 3rd day of Christmas spent with my parents, brothers, SIL and niece from Singapore was yet another day of feasting.  From morning through midnight.  Gawd, since the dinner on Christmas Eve, I have been feeling really bloated. Today is a day of dieting for me, where I steered clear of meat. I can't wait for school to reopen so that we will be back to reality --back to humble meals and back to my exercise regime.

If you are looking forward to read more on our girls, I apologize that lately, all my posts are on food and more food.  My blogs are morphing into a food blog!  It's the norm during the holidays :D  Bear with me for just 1 more week ok! ;)

Morning of 27 December 2015 - big brother Ray bought breakfast of pan meen.  Less than 2 hours later, we were on our way to Pik Wah (MABA House) Restaurant for lunch.

Below - the life 'Soon Hock' fish waiting to be slaughtered.  I felt really dreadful for the fish that was still swimming in the ice box, awaiting death.  I told everyone that one day, I will turn vegan or lacto-ovo vegetarian. That's for sure.





Poor Nemo...





Below - Divine char siew, roasted to perfection (juicy, soft and toothsome!) and steamed free-range chicken....




Below - Fried rice with crispy silver fish, braised pork belly with salted fish in claypot and a vegetarian dish composed of lily bulbs, macadamia nuts, black fungus, lotus root, sweet peas, celery, bamboo shoots, water chestnut and carrots.






Below - spinach in superior soup and century eggs.  Braised tofu, mushrooms, fish maw and siew pak choy.





Below - dessert of almond sweet soup and sweetened chilled longan and sea coconut.





After our delightful lunch, we went to the supermarket to shop for groceries and ingredients for the girls to make cup cakes for their daddy's early birthday celebration.

After shopping, the hubs suggested coffee and more desserts. Oh. My. Gawd!  I looked like a 3 months preggers woman in her dress already!!

Your eyes will pop out soon when you see pix of our next indulgence!

Remember the previous time I blogged about the awesome pawsome desserts from this dessert cafe at Faber Towers and I had forgotten to snap a picture of the name of the cafe?  Here you go...

We had a sweet time at SunConure Gateau after our heavy lunch...





These two sweet little girls will be the perfect ambassadors for the cafe!





SunConure's homemade walnut chocolate chip cookies are the bomb! They are really really addictive.  When we went there the first time a month ago, we asked the owners if they sell their cookies but they said no.  Now, they are for sale and my dad  treated the girls to a canister of cookies. Thank you papa!























Snap a picture with SunConure's "Pavlova Christmas Tree" and share the picture on your Facebook page. Then tag SunConure on Facebook to earn yourself a slice of their delectable cake.  Easy peasy right?  We shared our pix on the spot and got treated to 2 slices of cake and a plate of walnut chocolate chip cookies!


After our heavy lunch and desserts and hardly any time for our innards to do their job to digest the food, we stuffed ourselves to another heavy dinner that night, at Naughty Nuri's. That was another meat-heavy meal but thoroughly enjoyable with loved ones.  That will be in another post :)

Christmas Eve and Christmas Morning (24 & 25 December 2015)

Christmas Eve - 24 Dec 2015

We had a 3-in-1 joyous celebration at the hubby's uncle's house last night. It was to celebrate his uncle and aunt's wedding anniversary, the aunt's birthday and Christmas.

The hubby was in charged of the food and here's what he and his team dished out for the party...

Below - smoked salmon with salad.





Below - delectable chicken chop and mashed potato.




Below - BBQ succulent prawns and tomato in skewers.





Below - Roast whole lamb, steak, scallops and mussels.




Below - Juicy BBQ scallops and mussels





Below - fried rice, mixed vegetables with Portobello, quiche and pasta.





Below - assortment of fresh fruits and Nyonya kuih.



Below - Our girls with their 'aunt' Mel (hubby's cousin) and new friend, Michael from Christchurch.





Our girls started to warm up with their new friends from Christchurch during a game of cards. They will join us in our Christmas dinner tonight and the girls can't wait to continue their card game with them tonight.  Playing games is one of  the best ways to break the ice and loosen up to new found friends.






Our girls with their beautiful 'aunt' Mel and Michael from Christchurch.  Michael is a very bubbly, sociable and cute little guy from Christchurch. He's the same age as Cass and is the live wire at the party who can play the piano like a pro at just 7 years old.





In case you missed out on my earlier posts, the hubby runs a catering company. If you need a caterer for your company and private functions, do give him a tinkle at 019 266 4297 (Catermate / Alan) :)



Christmas morning - 25 December 2015

We followed the hubby's aunts, uncle and cousins to the church for the 9am service.  I thought we could not make it on time as we only went to bed at 1:30am this morning.  But I was jolted from my beauty sleep up at 6am coz I had a darn painful leg cramp! It's been a long long time since I last had a leg cramp.  Fish! But good thing, coz if it wasn't because of the leg cramp, I think I would have continued with my dream and slept in till 7ish am and wouldn't have made it on time for the 9am service.





There was a huge turnout at the church. After service, we queued up to get pau, courtesy from the church. As you can see from the pix below, the church compound was a sea of church-goers.





After church, we had breakfast at one of the coffee shops at Jln Imbi.

Tonight there will be another round of feasting. This time, there will be traditional Christmas dinner goodies, featuring stuffed turkey, stuffed ham, bacon, pumpkin soup, et al.

Here's wishing you a very merry blessed Christmas :)