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!

Baby's drawer

Baby has recently dominated my drawer! It all started about a month back. We were all suspicious on why all my pens and papers were always missing. Alycia and Sherilyn also blamed each other whenever their things go missing. Then one day, I discovered that Baby had been stealing our things and putting them into my drawer, AHA! The thief was caught red handed when I saw her stuffing things into my drawer. No wonder I noticed that she had been running to my bedroom all the time and would spend a few minutes in there.

Some of the stuff in my drawer (which she now claims is hers) are Sherilyn's old flash cards from preschool, rubbish which I had thrown away - pos laju docket papers, used plastic bags, old coloring books which were all used, etc. The other day, she even stuffed Esberitox (meds for runny nose) into the drawer. She had apparantly climbed up the table, grabbed the box of Esberitox and stuffed it into her drawer. Oh yeah, she also hid some of our junk food (fish muruku and Cheezels) into her drawer LOL!!!!

Cool Girls With Cool Grandparents

Check out the girls with koong koong and granny! All in sunnies and cap and ready to go for their morning walk during the school holidays.

All Done Finally !

After spending half a day sitting in front of the PC, I finally completed all 15 online assignments and 2 non-paid posts! Gawd, it is indeed stressful having to purge out 15 ads in half a day. There were plenty of interruptions from the kids in between and I also had a whiny, fussy Baby who isn't feeling too well. She's having the sniffles and a slight fever. She's terribly crabby and wants me all the time. It's past midnight now and I could barely open my eyes. I am hitting the sack now.

A Truly Mischievous Rascal

When we went to the massage parlor last Sunday, our 3 girls were tagged along too. Both hubby and I needed a massage very badly, so we had no choice but to bring the whole jing gang along. When I was on the massage table, rascal #2 wanted to climb up the table to lie down with me. When hubs was on one of those massage tables with a hole for the face, that rascal went under the table to peep at her daddy! Gosh, this rascal is truly mischievous!

Get Assistance From AllsUp.com

Most insurance companies do not approve applications for medical insurance from those that are disabled. Similarly, those with congenital disorders will also not be covered by the insurance. In the U.S., allsup.com will help those with disabilities to obtain social security disability insurance and Medicare benefits when they receive a small service fees from the applicant. I would have hired such a company to help me get medical insurance coverage for Baby if there was such a company in our country. Hubs and I spent a big fortune on Baby’s surgical and hospitalization bill last year and we were unable to claim a single cent from our insurer as her condition is congenital.

No More Toys Or Tents

My girls used to have 2 lovely play tents but both the tents are spoilt now. One was in the shape of a yellow school bus and another in the shape of a school. When they play, they can be really rough and they would turn the tents upside down! Now they are bugging their yes man daddy to buy another tent. They saw some cute nemo tents at the toy store the other day but I told them no more toys or tents!

Bad Night

Baby is having the sniffles and today she is feeling a little feverish. No wonder she kept crying and telling me that her right leg hurt last night. She must be feeling achy all over because of the fever. The whole of last night, she kept tossing, turning and latched on to her comfort tools almost the entire night! I wanted to creep out from the bed to write a review on cheap auto insurance online which was about to expire but the moment I left the bed, she shrieked! It was a bad night for the both of us.

Address Labels

One of the tasks that I find being a chore is preparing the consignment notes for my customers before I courier the parcels to them. Everything is hand-written and sometimes I have to write over 50 consignment notes in an hour. If I buy those address labels and stick them onto the consignment notes, work will be so much easier for me. I am also considering getting a dot matrix printer so that I can print the details onto the consignment notes.

Science Jobs

When I was in school, my favorite subjects were Chemistry and Physics. I loved science subjects and did pretty well. But I did not end up working in the science field later in life. My 2 brothers did well in their Science subjects too and both of them majored in Science in Uni but they did not land themselves science jobs either after graduation. They are doing pretty well now.