Using Hand Sanitizer To Kill Ants

After trying a dozen of methods to kill ants by using gentle ingredients but with little success and feeling really frustrated with the infestation of tiny brown ants in my kitchen and surrounding Cass' desk (this brat eats at her desk!), I tried another method just out of curiosity to see if it worked.  I wiped our kitchen counter and floors with hand sanitizer and VOILA, I saw dead ants everywhere! 

All I did was pumped some hand sanitizer with sodium hydroxide and wiped the sides of the kitchen counter, the dining area floor and under Cass' desk and that's it. The ants just stopped coming and I see dead ones here and there. 

What prompted me to use hand sanitizer was our leftover stash of hand sanitizer which we spent much effort and money to hoard during the first wave of Covid-19 early last year. At that time, face masks and hand sanitizers were flying off the shelves of all the pharmacies around the Klang Valley. Whenever we saw any being replenished, we went berserk and grabbed bottles of hand sanitizers and face masks though some unscrupulous sellers jacked up the price.  Now that face masks and hand sanitizers are a glut everywhere and they are even given as free gifts, we now have too many bottles of hand sanitizers and some are nearing their expiration dates.  Thus, I use the hand sanitizer to do general cleaning around the house and experimented it with ants. And it worked!

So glad I found another accidental discovery! 😂😂😂

I am guessing that sodium hydroxide (also called lye) is the key ingredient that kills ants. 

If you have hand sanitizer that contains alcohol, this can also be used to kill ants.  However, this is quite an expensive method to try with. You could use your near expiration date hand sanitizers or simply use cheap alcohol and wipe it on the paths that ants move about to kill ants safely.

Good luck in trying and do let me know if any of the methods that I mentioned works!

Fun Things To Do With Your Children

 Our children, whether boys or girls, are God’s blessing to us.  No matter how busy we may be in our daily lives, we as parents should spend some quality time with our children everyday in order to bond with them and to let them know how much they are loved.  There are plenty of fun things to do with your children and while you’re at it, don’t forget to snap lots of photos and record videos for keepsakes. You and your children will have a great time looking at those photos and videos again years down the road. You will all have a nostalgic time reminiscing those great times that you spent together as a family.

Here are some fun activities that you can do with your children to create happy memories that will last a life time.

1  Get a pet

A new pet at home will cement the relationship of the children and parents and between siblings when everyone works together to care for the pet. There will surely be lots of rolling laughter and joy with a new pet running around at home with its antics. I can vouch on that after Haru our pet kitten came into our lives.

 

2 Wear matching outfits

One of the things that our family does every year during Chinese New Year is wear matching family outfits and take lots of photos.  This year is however an exception due to the pandemic and restrictions. We can’t wait to wear matching outfits again next Chinese New Year.

 

3  Escape everything and go on a camping trip

A camping trip in the forest is a great way to foster family bonding, enhances problem solving skills, get the kids to exercise out in the sun, appreciate nature and do everything as a family.

 

4  Devour everything at the morning market or night market

Be daring and adventurous and try all the new foods at the market.  It will be a cheat day and a fun one too. Strictly no calorie-counting is allowed!

 

5  Order a huge ice cream sundae

Which kid doesn’t like ice cream sundae?  The mood-lifting powers of the banana split or 10 scoops of all your children’s favorite flavors on a gigantic waffle for them to dig into while you snap away those precious photos for social media bragging rights. I love how Facebook reminds me of photos and memories that I posted on the anniversary every year.

 

6  Splurge on cheap and funky clothes

My daughters love it whenever I bring them to the mall to shop for cheap clothes during sales. Sadly, due to the pandemic and lockdown, we have not gone mall shopping for clothes for more than a year.  We now shop for cheap clothes online during massive sales. These days cheap kids clothes and adult clothes are plentiful at online clothing stores. I find it so convenient to shop for clothes online.

 

My girls can make me berserk at times with their unreasonable reasonings and behavior. But I know that I will somehow survive the rollercoaster teenage years and very soon I will miss those tumultuous years more than ever when they are adults and have their own lives.

Easy Way To Prevent Coffee Powder From Hardening In The Bottle

I discovered by chance that by placing a wooden stick or wooden spoon inside my jar of coffee powder, this will prevent the coffee powder from hardening.  It was a pure fluke discovery!

I have always hated scraping hardened coffee off the glass bottle each time the coffee powder reaches the bottom of the jar.  Recently, I noticed that each time I put a recycled ice-cream stick inside the coffee powder bottle, the coffee powder remains fresh and loose until the last granule. After finishing a few bottles, I realized that it must be the wooden stick absorbing moisture from the coffee powder. And that's the reason why my coffee powder stays fresh and loose.  I've tried placing a stainless steel spoon in the bottle and the coffee powder hardened even faster.  It must be the compounds in coffee that reacted oddly with the metal spoon.

Hardly any hardened coffee powder at the bottom of the bottle.  The coffee granules stayed fresh and loose till the last bit.  

If you've always struggled with scraping and hitting your bottle to get the dang hardened coffee powder out, try the wooden spoon/stick method and see if it works!

Tumblemats For Home Exercises During The Lockdown

The Enhanced Movement Control Order (EMCO) in most parts of the Klang Valley will commence today for a period of 2 weeks to bring down the infectivity rate of Covid19. In an EMCO, no one is allowed to get out of their house, except for one representative from each household, to get food and essential stuff. Areas under an EMCO will be fenced up with barbed wires with surveillance by army personnel. Thankfully our area is excluded from the list but we can’t rest on our laurels as our residential area was and is still a red zone; we may be placed under an EMCO if cases keep surging 😷.

I know it's going to be a tough 2 weeks in home quarantine. Many of you who are used to jogging, cycling and brisk walking outside your house will not be able to do so, even if it's within your own neighborhood.  But fret not!  You can still have a satisfying workout on a yoga mat, tumble mat or tumble track mat at home.  Since the first lockdown in March last year until now, our girls have perfected their floor exercises.  With guidance from hundreds of You Tube tutorials, our girls are now adept with Glute Bridge Sit-Ups, Tabletop Oblique Crunches, High Lunges, Superman Lifts, Diamond Push-Ups and much more.

For those of you with kids who are gymnasts, though practice at the training centre has to take a breather for a while, practice can still be done on a gymnastics mat tumble track at the comforts of your own home.  The tumble track is great for pilates and for the whole family to have some hilarious moments rolling and tumbling on it together. It's great for family bonding during the home quarantine.

These tumble mats can be purchased online and offline. But be careful to only get good quality tumble mats for safety purposes.  One tumble track mat company that produces good quality air tumble mat products is Tumblemat,  one of the world's largest suppliers of inflatable air tumble tracks and has 9 years of experience in producing air tumble track products to customers all around the world.

Exercise does not ever need to come to a grinding halt though you're stuck at home and battling one of the worst 'wars' in history with an invisible enemy. There are various ways that you can still have fun with your workout routine while you stay healthy mentally and physically at home. Stay safe everyone!

Melagel, My Miracle Gel At Home

I 've tried almost all the cracked heel creams and lotions in the market and none really worked. In my last ditch effort before I resigned to the fact that I shall have to live with unsightly cracked heels with dirt trapped in the crevices (yucks!!) for the rest of my life, I applied Melagel on my heels and VOILA, within just 1 night, I saw and felt the difference on my battered heels. They're so smooth now!  I'm now 1000% convinced that Melagel is my miracle gel for almost all my skin disorders and injuries, including chapped lips. I've been a Melaleuca user for 7 years and now even more convinced that I should not ditch my membership just yet.  

Melagel can be purchased from Melaleuca.  Some of the active ingredients in Melagel are melaleuca oil, wheat germ oil, cocoa butter, corn oil, Vitamin E and Vitamin A.

Sunday, 27 June 2021 ~ Extension of Full Lockdown

So my hunch was spot on. The full lockdown is extended, as announced by our PM today 😥.   The full lockdown can only be lifted on condition that the number of Covid cases dip to 4,000 and below and 10% of the population is fully vaccinated.  As of today, our country recorded 5,586 cases.  I am writing this down in my blog because I wish that a year from now, the world will be free from this dreadful pandemic; and when I read this post a year on, I will remember how my sentiments were at the height of the pandemic and cherish our post-Covid days even more.  

Everyday throughout the lockdown, I wake up hoping for a better day but the new day is no better than the previous one and sometimes the new day is worse than the previous few. There doesn't seem to be any improvement in the Covid situation in our country. Hubby's catering business has been hit hard and will continue to be affected until and unless social gatherings are allowed again. Will it ever be allowed? Yes the PM stated that all social and economic sectors will be reopened in the final phase of the recovery plan. This will only happen when the country records zero to single digit cases. That seems very far fetched now, with the emergence of new variants of viruses, anti-vaxxers and stubborn people who refuse to follow SOPs.  This war that we're in now has caused tremendous hardship to many people. More businesses will be shuttered in the days and weeks to come during this full lockdown. Many times, I feel like there's no light at the end of the tunnel. The past 1.5 years feels like a nightmare that wouldn't end.

I have a long list of things to ask from God everyday - good health for me and my loved ones, for hubby's catering business to be able to hang on and not shutter, for his business to be able to recover and rebound fully one day, for my daughters to study hard though it's hard for them to feel motivated after 1.5 years of online learning and for this pandemic to be brought under control so that our lives can return to at least 90% normal soon.

If you're feeling tired of having to cook 3 meals every single day, don't beat yourself up. Do give Catermate a try. They serve halal food (Malay, Indonesian, Western and Chinese) and deliver throughout the Klang Valley. 

I'm already feeling the brunt of having to clean up the kitchen 3x a day since the start of the MCO last year and it's worse now as Maria our part-time helper has stopped coming to our house temporarily until the Covid situation improves. We're ordering food at least three times a week and I just don't care anymore if the food is less than healthy. My sanity comes first 😐

Lamb shank curry from Catermate. I dunked sourdough bread and sourdough pancakes into the thick curry sauce and had it for dinner yesterday. 

Gyuniku/beef Curry and Tori Katsu that I ordered from a home-based seller in our Taman last week. The seller and I now support each other - I order her food and she orders from hubby's shop 😁

Wednesday, 23 June 2021 ~ Random Updates

The first half of 2021 is almost coming to an end and we've spent the last 6 months being stuck at home.  Cass and Sherilyn went back to school in April but school session was short-lived. Two weeks later schools were ordered closed again as the number of Covid cases spiked uncontrollably in almost all the schools. By this weekend, we will know whether the full lockdown will be extended or lifted.  Again, I just have the hunch that the full lockdown will be extended as the number of cases are still very high, hovering at above 5k today.  

I miss having my Sunday morning walk to the shops with Cass to buy food and stuff.  She keeps asking me when she can follow me to the shops again. She's really feeling the brunt of the home quarantine and is now experiencing zoom fatigue with over a year of online learning. She misses going to school to interact with friends and teachers. She tells me that she learns better in a classroom vs online.  It's too distractive and tempting to stray from the GC to other sites like You Tube and Discord.  I'm sure many parents can relate to this, eh? 😐

We're very thankful that Haru came into our lives. She's created such immense joy and laughter to the girls  and me amidst the depressing lockdown. 

From having Ailurophobia to now catsitting Haru, Alycia has come a long way in just 4 months.

We're still having Hainanese chicken chop and Western chicken chop from hubby's shop several times a week. But the girls have no complaints. As long as they don't have to wash so many dirty dishes and clean a greasy kitchen, we're all happy to be eating the same food 😁

We had Thai food delivered to us yesterday as I was craving for tomyam and green curry! We all enjoyed our dinner.

Simplest Way To Eat A Watermelon

Alycia loves watermelon; however she dislikes cutting up one. I used to be the one peeling and slicing watermelon, including cutting off the skin for everyone to savor this juicy fruit conveniently like kings and queens.  Ever since Maria stopped coming to help us in the evenings, I have lesser time on hand for doing such things. So I delegated the task of cutting melons (watermelon, rock melon, honeydew) to Alycia. She bemoans doing this tedious task most of the time. She bemoans each time she's asked to do any chore but she'll still do it. But which mother likes to hear complaints, eh? 😒 She's just not cut to be in the kitchen but I'm trying to train her to be adept in the kitchen to save herself in future.

Recently, Alycia discovered a really quick and mess-free way of serving watermelon to everyone. She uses an ice-cream scoop to scrape the melon flesh into balls. And after she's done with scooping up the melon balls (which actually don't look like balls but a Tupperware of red mess in odd shapes and sizes! 😖), she uses a stainless steel straw to savor the watermelon juice. 

This is Alycia's life's simplest pleasure. She's having a time of her life now doing nothing at home and she's got another 2.5 months to lollygag at home before she goes to college in early September.

Another simple pleasure for this girl - shopping at the biscuit and snacks shop with me. Like a little girl in a toy shop, she told me that the biscuit shop is her wonderland 😆 and I ended up spending over RM30 just on biscuits and snacks today.

Friday, 11 June 2021

I was at hubby's central kitchen to help him with the photography for the past two days. I was donning on my face mask and suffocating, with bullets of sweat dripping down my face while coughing in his kitchen. The culprit was this super duper huge commercial wok filled with dried chilies boiling. And also a huge industrial oven in use at the same time.  Can you imagine how suffocating and choking it is to inhale the hot and spicy smoke in the hot kitchen that feels like a sauna everyday? 

This is how much dried chilies are used to cook one batch of sambal and this is done several times a week. Everyone in the kitchen including hubs has to bear with the chilies, onions and spices bubbling in the wok, inhaling the tear-jerking yet aromatic smoke emitting from the wok, while donning on face masks.  I couldn't wait to run out of his kitchen and back into my car to remove my mask to breathe in some cool air from the air-cond 😅😷   

Sambal for Catermate's best seller Nasi Lemak is made from scratch.

The compensation for helping him with the photography is of course food.  I almost never leave his kitchen empty handed.  For the past two days, we had kuih (which is my ultimate kryptonite) which we will never get enough of and fried chicken, which is everyone's favorite!

We've been having Western chicken chop and Hainanese chicken chop from hubby's kitchen almost everyday the entire week last week till we want to take a break from chicken for a week now 😂

Random Updates ~ 7 June 2021

Alycia received her 2nd pay check last week. Though it's only a small amount as she worked for only  two weeks at the international pre-school last month, she was nonetheless still very thankful and happy.   Yesterday she treated her sisters and me to milk tea from Tealive, delivered to us via Grab.  After receiving her first pay check last month, Alycia gave me RM100 and bought cakes  to treat everyone at home.

With the pandemic at its peak now, Alycia will not be looking for another temporary job anytime soon. She has 3 more months before she goes to college and life for her now is really relaxed and stress-free.  Lights are only turned off way past 1am and she gets up some 10-12 hours later, after which she lollygags at home waiting for all her meals!!  Oh how I miss those carefree, stress-free easy life without any commitment. I wonder if I will ever get to live like this again? 😜

I am missing our pre-Covid19 days very very much. The weekly mall shopping, the monthly shopping for clothes or shoes, the weekly splurges at cafes and restaurants, the daily coffee shop and kopitiam brunch sessions with hubs, Sunday church, gatherings with friends, reunion with my family members and siblings in Ipoh, traveling and much more. Gawd, I'm missing Ipoh so much.  Again I'm wondering when we can ever do this again 😓 

This is our Sunday dinner yesterday -- Hainanese chicken chop from hubby's central kitchen, Catermate.  

Chicken chop and Nasi Lemak will likely be our lunch tomorrow as there's a bulk order for chicken chop and Nasi Lemak tomorrow for a customer's Zoom Meeting lunch with all her staff.  

Though we've all been eating the same kind of dishes from hubby's shop almost daily throughout the MCO for the last 1.5 years, I have no complaints. As long as we don't have to cook at home and clean up a greasy kitchen and floor, everyone is happy. The girl who's on dirty dishes duty will be the happiest too 😁. Win win for everyone.  

Lifting Your Assets - Your Butt!

Have you ever noticed that old folks have flat buttocks?  If you're in your late 50s,  you may start to notice that your butt is getting flabby and flat.  Losing your butt to shrinking butt muscles with age is a real thing.  As the muscles atrophy, their tendons end up getting frayed and torn. Thus,  older people have flat butts with more tendon tears in their gluteal muscles.

Worry not. There are several ways to prevent or delay those muscles from sagging and atrophying.  There are plenty of butt exercises that you can find from the internet to help you achieve super toned glute muscles. Some women take butt enhancing pills, go on a diet or resort to implants or surgery.  When it comes to giving your rear an instant lift, there's a solution that's effective that you don't have to worry about its side effects. It's something that's worth investing in -- butt lifter or bum bra!

Butt Lifters are specialized shapewear garments designed to raise and firm your buttocks. As our body ages we lose the natural elasticity in our skin and begin to lose important muscle tone. Butt Lifters help the butt keep its original form and helps the muscles and skin retain its strength.  Butt Lifters worn under your wardrobe leave your bottoms and dresses fitting you the way you want it to.  With a good butt lifter along with a booty boot camp (with some floor exercises targeting the gluteal muscles), a healthy diet and a neoprene waist trainer, achieving an  hourglass bod may be a reality for you. Try it to see if it works!

Butt lifters are a popular trend right now, especially amongst celebrities. That's the reason why you hardly ever see muffin tops, tummy pooches or back fat issues on celebrities at red carpet events. This is Hollywood's little sexy secret - shapewear!

1st Dose AstraZeneca Shot Side Effects

After the 1st dose of AstraZeneca shot on 2 June, the first side effect that I experienced within half an hour after getting the shot was a mild sore on the injection site.  Several hours later the sore on the arm intensified and my mouth tasted bitter the entire night.

The next morning I was still feeling alright except for the sore on the injection site.  My arm felt like I had lifted a 10kg dumb bell the previous day and felt raw when touched. At around 10-ish in the morning, the headache started to kick in.  I skipped jogging that day, as well as the next day.  As the hours passed, more side effects kicked in.  I felt aches on my neck and shoulder blades. I felt lethargic, sleepy and malaise but there was no fever and chills.  The feeling I felt was similar to how I'd feel whenever I don't get enough sleep or am about to get a flu. I continued with house chores and settled some customers' orders.  

When you're a WFHM, work continues whether you're sick, have a bad headache, didn't sleep well the previous night or recuperating from a surgery or fall.  Several years ago, I fell on the road while jogging and injured both my palms so badly that I could see raw flesh!  I had to bandage both my hands followed with cling wrapping them. Cass was still a toddler and I still had to wash her butt with a heavily bandaged hand.  

I took 3 naps that day and downed a packet of Izumio. By late evening, I felt slightly better.  The next morning (today), the side effects were all gone and I am right as rain again, thank God! 

As for the mil, she had zero side effects! Not even a sore arm. She's so lucky!

I'm not going to let my guard down yet.  The side effects may only kick in later but I'm praying that I'll be fine. It bothers me each time I read news of people who died of complications from the AZ shot.  The latest death is that of a 39-year old British model who died 13 days after receiving her AZ vaccine in Cyprus.   On the 8th day after receiving the vaccine, she woke up feeling fine and then within an hour she had full body shakes, all her joints seized and she was struggling to breathe and was cold to the bone with a persistent headache and dizziness!  RIP Stephanie.

Have you taken your Covid vaccine yet? If you have, did you experience any side effects? Would love to hear from you! 😊

Monday, 31 May 2021 ~ Random Updates

I've been busy at home again. Ever since the Covid cases kept surging uncontrollably for the past one month, we've decided to stop Maria our part-time helper from coming. My SILs from overseas have been very concerned as we do not know who Maria mingles with the moment she leaves our home and we have a highly vulnerable person at home.  So I had to bite the bullet and broke the unpleasant news to Maria again. Since the first lockdown on 18 March last year, Maria had to stop working for us temporarily several times (for several months during each lockdown).  Thankfully Maria has been very understanding. She's been a gem to us for the last 9 years and I pray that Maria will be able to step into our home again soon.

Without Maria helping us, post-meal times are my kill joy.   And it doesn't help that the two chefs in the house love baking and cooking. And I have to do most of the cleaning of their aftermath. Oh my poor hands!! 😓  

This chicken satay and peanut/satay sauce were made from scratch by Sherilyn.  They're delish but the kitchen post-cooking is my nightmare, every single day. Though she helps to clean up, it's pretty slipshod work and I still have to clean up after her.

Haru is trying to catch a light shone on the wall with a torchlight by Cass.  It's entertaining watching her catch shadows and lights everyday. She's a joy in our lives (except for someone who finds her a nuisance😑) for all the laughter that she brings.

Unsuccessful Attempt At AstraZeneca 3rd Opt-In Registration

I sat down in front of my computer at 11:50 a.m. today at the https://www.vaksincovid.gov.my/daftar/ website hopeful of getting a slot for our 18-year old daughter for the AstraZeneca 3rd batch opt-in vaccine. Her details were pre-keyed in by 11:50 a.m. and at the strike of 12 noon, I hit the SUBMIT key. As expected, nothing happened. The site was unresponsive. I hit SUBMIT again and a '504 Gateway Timeout' error message popped out.  The system evidently buckled under the frenzy of millions of people trying to get a slot.  We were also informed at 12:05 noon that the registration was only going to open at 12:15 noon instead of 12 noon. 

After what seemed like more than 100 tries with more weird codes popping up and the 'Daerah' section greyed, Alycia took over. She repeated what I'd been doing - reloading, hitting the back key and re-keyed in her IC number and mobile number but we were unable to get into the registration system.   The both of us tried in vain for 1.5 hours until registration closed.  

GREAT!

What's next? 

Wait for notification from her My Sejahtera app for the National Immunization Program or next batch of opt-in vaccines.

In the meantime, it's going to be weeks of home quarantine for the girls. Cass is bearing the brunt of the cabin fever and kept asking if she could follow me to the nearby supermarket and pet shop to get supplies.  I have to keep turning down a dejected girl. Thankfully she has Haru to keep her entertained and keep the laughter rolling throughout the day. Poor kitten has to bear with Cass' tempestuous affection till she sometimes jumps away from Cass' lap to escape the rough man-handling 😆

This is Haru's latest place of solace -- she sits on the table and gazes outside to observe every living and non-living thing with awe and perhaps wondering how's it like to be living outside.

Haru's Visit To The Vet

Cass and I brought Haru to the vet's today for her 3rd vaccination and dewormer tablet. As Haru already knew what to expect, she was very aggressive today, especially when the doctor trimmed her sharp nails. She hissed (of course, she hisses at every stranger), snarled and growled uncontrollably. A man who was at the clinic with his cat commented that Haru snarled like a serpent 😂

Scaredy cat waiting to pounce on the doctor's hands 😂

After this vaccination, Haru is ready to be spayed! I will coincide the procedure with Sherilyn and Cass' school holidays, which is in another week's time, so that they can help to care for Haru after the surgery.

Curiosity almost killed the cat. Someone almost saw Haru sniffing the fruits and all hell will break loose if she saw it.  By the way, Haru wasn't interested in the fruits but the strings on the two bunches of bananas. She has an obsession with strings and thinks that all strings are some kind of interesting objects that can flip and retaliate when flicked and swiped  😂

Chicken Paitan Ramen and Sous Vide Chicken

Wednesday, 12 May 2021 ~ Today's lunch is Chicken Paitan Ramen (original and spicy flavors) with Sous Vide chicken breast, by our in-house chef Sherilyn.

This is one tedious meal with many steps. She started off with boiling the chicken soup with dashi, kombu, chicken feet and chicken breast for hours yesterday.  The ramen eggs were also prepped yesterday and marinated overnight in the fridge.  The chicken breast + garlic + onions were blended in the TMX6 and then sieved and added back into the pot of broth.  

Multiple steps are involved to bring out a milky white soup that's umami (hence the name Paitan/white soup in Mandarin).

Every step involved is homemade -- from the broth to the ramen shoyu tare, ramen eggs, Sous Vide chicken breast, chili oil and even the ramen noodles.  The noodles dough was prepped from scratch and churned out using a noodle maker.

This is an inexpensive meal with chicken breast and feet, eggs and flour for the ramen noodles but chef Sherilyn makes it taste like one from a Michelin star restaurant 😋

Haru In Our Home

Cass is sitting for an online test here, with her beloved Haru on her lap 😆.  Boring online classes and tests are not so torturous anymore with her favorite pet on her lap keeping her company.

Cass is so smitten with this kitten😸

Haru hates wearing a collar. I bought her a pink collar with a bell on it but she gets berserk each time  the collar is put on her neck. We tried putting hair scrunchies on her neck and they don't stay long on her neck too.

Yesterday Cass put on a cat leash on Haru and it was hilarious! She refused to walk with the leash on and Cass had to drag Haru on the floor, like a mop 😆

Collar out, hair scrunchies out, leash out too...

Haru The Terrorizer

Haru can be a terrorizer at home.  She damaged our mozzie netting door in the kitchen with her sharp claws -- she loves clawing her way up to the top of the net like a monkey. Today the entire netting fell off from the door frame!  Someone is of course fuming mad!  

When her 'sakai' mode is turned on, she chases her favorite people and bites us on our ankles. I've got one painful inflamed wound on my leg now.

Two weeks ago while I was out with MIL, Cass left Haru out of the cage during her online class.  She didn't watch Haru who was roaming happily in the kitchen and on our dining table, sniffing our food and drinks.  Haru hopped onto our kitchen counter top and I think she must have hopped over the cups and knocked down her father's cup!! It was a big big mess with broken glass and water all over the kitchen floor. Cass couldn't leave her desk during the online class and left the mess there for me to clean up when I got home. I wanted to leave the mess for her but we couldn't even get into the kitchen with sharp bits of glasses scattered on the entire kitchen and dining area floors.

I. Was. Enraged. With both Haru and Cass 😡 

Cass had the cheek to send me a Whatsapp message telling me what Haru did but didn't clean up the mess!

Sometimes when the rascal wants to get out of the cage, she will scratch, dig and splash the litter sand all over as a sign to protest being locked up!

Despite the felony this goblin commits, we're still very forgiving parents and sisters. We still love her to bits.

Haru looking very much like the tiger from Maybank logo, don't ya think so? 😸