Crazy Over Cheese Spreads

There was a promotion on Laughing Cow and Arla cheese spreads at Jusco about 2 weeks ago. Buy any 2 tubs of cheese spread from the Laughing Cow and Arla brands, a tub of Arla tomato and herbs cheese spread worth about RM15 will be given free. Since there are 4 cheese lovers at home, me inclusive, I bought 2 tubs. The cheese spread would go really well with plain crackers and bread.

At the sampling booth for the cheese spread on crackers, rascal #2 and #3 ate so much that I felt really bad, thus that's also one of the reasons that I had to buy the cheese spread hehe...

Kids Ask The Darnest Questions

Yesterday night, Sherilyn asked me this when she was in the bathroom:

S - mummy, has daddy seen your buttock?

Me - (shocked and thought she had seen us errrrm...hehe) why are you asking such a question??

S - hehehehe (giggled cheekily)...

Me - why are you asking such a question huh??

S - but Baby has seen daddy's buttock. That day when daddy was changing in the room, Baby wanted to see daddy's buttock. She was peeping and then saw daddy's buttock heheheh....

Me - I'm asking you why you asked me whether daddy has seen my buttock?

S - no lar, hehehehe (and giggled the question off cheekily).

Hmmm, I wonder why she asked me that question!!

Orthopedic Mattress

Due to time constraint, I have not been exercising on my fit ball for over a week. Consequently, the pain on my lower back is slowly rearing its ugly head again. One of these days, I have to buy an orthopedic mattress to support my back when I get my beauty sleep. The mattress is going to cost quite a bit but I think it will be a good choice of investment for my overall well-being.

Sherilyn's Quirks

Rascal #2 has this quirk where if I give A to her, she will will ask for B. And the next day if I give her B, she will ask for A, deliberately in defiance as if to rebel against mummy. On most mornings, I will nag and nag and nag this little rascal to hurry up to finish her milk, to wash up, to dress up and to go to school. It's a chore getting her to get ready for school. On some mornings, she will lie in bed, whine and bawl, refusing to go to school. Today is her last day of going to school for this year. There was a year-end party in the school this morning.

Just now after her shower, guess what this fella did? Instead of wearing a dress, she donned on her school uniform... and she's going to wear that to attend Mandarin tuition later. Can't believe she did this! And I wonder what her friends and teachers at the tuition centre are going to say, haha!

English For 5-Year Olds

I was doing revision with Sherilyn last week to prepare her for her exam and when I came to the Collective Nouns for animals, I was amazed to note that the 5-year olds in her pre school are taught these:

I am sure some of us don't even know the collective noun for goose, horse and whales eh? And I am amazed that my rascal could remember all the collective nouns here.

Yesterday I collected Sher's report card from pre-school. She scored 90% and above for all her papers. I am very proud of her. I hope she will continue to produce As for her papers next year, which will be her last year in kindy. But I'm worried how she will cope in a Chinese primary school given her dilly dally attitude. I hope she'll change.

Restoran Sari Ratu, Minangkabau Cuisine

After lunch at Coliseum Restaurant about 3 Sundays ago, we had desserts at Restoran Sari Ratu, a restaurant that specializes in authentic Nasi Padang and Minangkabau cuisine. The restaurant itself originated from Indonesia and has spread its wings to Malaysia. There are currently about 6 outlets in Malaysia. The one that we went to is at Jln Sultan Ismail. If you like Indonesian food and desserts, this is the place to go to. The food is pretty good.

Here's what we had ...



Deep fried chicken with fragrant deep fried turmeric and deep fried tapioca chips coated with chilli paste...

A variety of Minangkabau dishes behind the counter...

The dessert menu...





Cendol Mix Durian...

Forgot what this is called but it is a very unique combo of fresh avocado, colored sago, coconut flesh, santan and ice cream...

Tapai ice cream (tapai is fermented coconut water). I think that tapai with ice cream is a weird combination and I didn't like it at all.

Curry fish that we took away for dinner...

We also took away some beef rendang.


Restoran Sari Ratu
GF 42-2,
Jalan Sultan Ismail,
Bukit Bintang,
50450 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

603 2141 1811 (tel)

Business Hours
11:00am to 11:00pm

Lucky Girls

My mil bought this cute Disney Thumbelina pen for the girls in Hong Kong recently. Nice hor? How lucky are my girls. I rarely had these luxuries when I was a kid. My girls have been receiving so many cute, pretty and awesome gifts all the time from their aunts and grandparents ever since they were born. Lucky them and I hope that they will always be blessed with many people showering them with love and gifts always.

Busy Day

I can't believe I managed to purge out 16 paid posts this morning. I woke up at 5:30am today to prepare myself for a long and busy day ahead as my supplier told me that she will deliver my batch of stock today. But when I logged into my advertiser's website, I almost fell off my chair when I saw 12 opps waiting for me. Fifteen minutes later, 4 new opps appeared. Oh thank you Sheriff! I always think that I work better under stress. I gave the gym a miss this morning and sat in front of the PC from 6am until 10am and completed all the 16 paid posts and dished out another 2 personal posts. Phew, 18 posts in less than 4 hours ... I need a breakie now. Shower Baby, have a shower myself and then work starts again. I have a stack of consignment notes to write. I better prepare the Pos Laju bags now so that when my stock arrives this evening, I can concentrate on stock check and QA check. I hope my girls can help me out too.

Before My Wedding Day

I remember that before my wedding day more than a decade ago, I had some zits on my face. I freaked out and panicked and frantically google searched on how to get rid of acne fast on the internet. I bought several types of pimple creams and applied them on my face day and night. Thankfully the pimples cleared before my wedding. Those few weeks before my wedding were really stressful – mentally, physically and financially! I never want to go through that again. Of course, who wants to go through a wedding twice?

Have You Made Your Holiday Plans Yet?

Alycia and Sherilyn have been badgering me and their daddy to bring them to Genting Highlands to watch Doraemon live. I think it would be fun to bring the girls to Genting Highlands as they have never been there. As for me, the last time I went there was about a decade ago! I shall bug the hubs to bring us there during the school holidays, if only we could still get the tickets to watch Doraemon. A holiday in a highlands resort will definitely be kinder to our pockets than those Outer Banks vacation rentals. Have you made your holiday plans yet?

Botak Man In Hat

How often do you see men in hats? Not sports cap but Hats for Men, like cowboy hats. I hardly ever bump into a man wearing a cowboy hat or any other hat, other than caps. One time we bumped into a man wearing a cowboy hat and when he removed the hat, he was bald. My #2 who saw the shiny ‘botak’ head gladly and excitedly announced loudly “mummy, botak man”! At that point, I really hoped that there was door next to me so that I could open the door and run out of the restaurant as fast as I could!

Pimple Cream For My Chin

Whenever I see zits popping out on my flawless face, I know that it’s the time of the month again. Last night, while I was applying acne treatment cream on my face, Baby who was next to me watched with awe as I put the brown cream on my chin. It was the first time she caught me putting brown color stuff on my chin and I think she must be wondering why mummy is doing that. She looked really cute staring at me, with mouth wide opened and with such curiosity in her eyes haha!

I Rather Sacrifice My Sleep

The other day over dinner with my friends, I saw one of my friends popping some pills just before she ate her meal. I thought they were supplement pills but when I asked her, she told me that they were pills to stop the fat and carbo from making her fat! She said she could not find the time to exercise, thus have to resort to the most popular diet pills to help her stay slim. Up until today, I still don’t have the courage to pop diet pills. I rather sacrifice half an hour of sleep each morning to work out in the gym.

Busy Day

Today is going to be an extremely busy day for me. On top of 16 online assignments to complete, I am expecting a big batch of ladies clothes from my supplier. While I feel happy each time I get an order, I dread the sight of the stock in my living room. After this batch of stock is settled, my supplier will be bringing in some special occasion dresses for the year end holidays. So do check out my online store ya!

Rascal #2’s Terrible Fives

Rascal #2 has a terrible temper. She always tells me that she wants to be a princess like Cinderella but I always tell her that if she continues to scream, complain, whine and throw tantrums, she is just like Cinderella’s step sisters. The other day, in her fit of rage, she pulled the drawer out and the drawer was yanked out of the cupboard. There was a huge bang on the floor and she gave me yet another heart flat line. Thank God that the heavy drawer (about 5kg) did not land on her feet or Baby’s feet. And thank God that there was no damage to our floor, else we would need to look for discount laminate flooring to patch up the crack.

Holiday In Penang For The Next 10 Years

The long school term break will be here in just a week’s time. The girls have nothing much to look forward to, except for the usual trip back to Ipoh and then to Penang. A holiday in Penang twice a year is a sure thing for us for the next 10 years. Those of you who follow my blogs will know why. I can’t wait for the 10 years to be up so that we can have an Orlando vacation with the girls.

Air Purifier cum Dehumidifier and Ionizer

We have an air purifier which doubles up as an ionizer and dehumidifier in our bedroom. My lips used to get really dry every night in the air-conditioned bedroom but with the air purifier cum dehumidifier switched on, I don’t get dry lips and throat anymore. I think this gadget is really well spent and is a good investment. I may buy another unit for the girls’ bedroom too if the price of the air purifier cum dehumidifier goes down.

Greedy Baby

Baby is getting more and more greedy and hungry for junk food by the day, ever since she was weaned off my boops. Each time she sees food on the kitchen counter top, this rascal will climb up the counter top by stepping on the drawer handles. She freaks me out whenever she does this. If the drawer handle breaks and gets yanked off, she will fall and her chin will land on the counter top. I can imagine how bad the consequences would be if this happens. She really needs to be watched over like a hawk all the time

Testing our patience

Remember my earlier post on Baby who kept throwing stuff out of the window of our condo unit? Well, for a few days straight, she kept throwing stuff down, despite being reprimanded and whacked.

The next target were Sherilyn's hair ties and ribbons...

Funnily after this particular stuff-flinging session, she stopped. I guess her curiosity had been quelled. She saw the cause and effect and the consequences to her actions. And she learned some lessons too..

Hoping For Gloomy Skies And Rainy Days

I have this idiosyncrasy in me where my mood is determined by the weather. Yup the daily weather. When I see dark skies with a looming thunderstorm, my mood is instantly lifted up and I feel really happy LOL!! When the big bright yellow sun is out and the skies are bright, I actually feel down. Weird eh? I guess that's because I cannot stand hot weather. I think I will be happy if I lived overseas in a cold country. Today the skies are dark and cloudy... I can anticipate rain coming, woohooo.... I am happy hehehe!!

Canton-I Restaurant @ Gardens, Mid Valley

We had lunch at Canton-I Restaurant at Gardens, Mid Valley yesterday. Canton-I serves very good dim sum and Hong Kong cuisine. The food is supposedly MSG-free, pork is free from beta-agonist, only low cholesterol eggs are used and rice bran oil is used. Well, this is what was written in their menu.

We ordered our favorite 'lau chup pau' (once broken, hot duck's eggs custard will ooze out from the purple pau) and this Hong Kong style layer cake.

Sei kwai tau (Four-Season beans), iLike this dish. Deep fried crispy anchovies are stir-fried with the french beans.

Roast meat with salted peanuts...




Roast goose drumstick (siew ngor pei), wanton mein and yau char kwai. The yau char kwai was very crispy and went well with the abalone-prawn-chicken porridge. I love the porridge as the consistency is super smooth. I think the porridge was blended to get such smooth consistency.

Siew Mai...

and there were also a plate of seafood fried rice, HK style chee cheong fun, a big bowl of seafood porridge and a plate of stir-fried lobak koa (stir fried radish). Food was so much that we could not finish and had to take away the left over, which we ate for dinner.


Canton-I's business philosophy on food freshness and quality...

Canton-I is located near Din Tai Foong, which is also our other favorite Hong Kong style restaurant.

I would rate the food at Canton-I 9/10. Be sure to go there early, otherwise be assured to join in the long queue outside the restaurant.

Do You Keep Your Cards?

I hardly ever keep greeting cards and postcards that I receive. Oh well, maybe I will keep those exceptionally nice ones like those postcards with photos of my friends or photos of their babies printed on them. Some of my friends are willing to spend their money on postcard printing so that their friends and relatives can keep those cards or frame them up. My hubs always complains that we don’t have enough storage space in our condo, so we are forced to throw away and give away many things. Do you keep greeting cards and postcards?

A Crazy Week

The past 1 week has been a crazy week for me. My 3 girls have been down with purging and fever the whole of last week and that's every mum's nightmare when all their kids fall sick together. After Alycia's exam had ended, next in turn was Sherilyn's. Her exam is still on-going and will only end tomorrow. As fate has it, my stock from my suppliers always arrive at a time when I am the busiest. And offers from advertisers also always come together when I am the busiest with my online store. I can't believe the impeccable timing and coincidence of things and events that have been happening to me all these while. Gawd, I am so terribly burnt out! While I had to spend time to do revision with Sherilyn, I could not just let the pile of stock sit in the living room. One, it is such an eye sore to have a mountain of stock in the middle of the living room. Two, my customers' will be chasing me and inundating me with "when can I receive my things?"

Last night, I only had 3-4 hours of sleep. You can read the story in my health blog, Health Is Wealth.

No Way To Stay Slim This Way

There are still chunks of cheese, tubs of sour cream and a packet of digestive biscuits in the fridge. I think my mil will bake a cheese cake one of these days. Oh I can’t wait for her to bake again as I love cheese cakes. I have also put in my request for almond cookies. My mil’s almond cookies are awesome too. Gosh, if I continue gorging on carbs like this, I will have to start reading lipofuze reviews since I don’t have the time to put in extra minutes to work out everyday.

A House Of Temptation

My mil made some blueberry tarts yesterday. They were the most sinfully delicious tarts ever. Simply lip-smacking and I can polish off 2 at one go. She had spent the whole afternoon in the kitchen to produce about 10 tarts and all were gone in just a day. I could see that the process and method of making the tarts were really very tedious and complicated and only a person who loves baking would be patient enough to sweat it out in the kitchen to produce such lovely pastries. Today she made banana walnut muffins again. If she continues to whip up such sinful treats so frequently, I may have to rely on the best fat burners to help me stay slim.

Opposites Attract

My hubs and I have polar opposite characters. I am a very disciplined person while he is a very relaxed person. I am a chronic worrier while he is carefree. I am a health freak and religiously pop my vitamins everyday while he will only pop his vitamins, including his chondroitin glucosamine msm if I feed them to him every morning. If I forget about his vitamins, so will he! Well, they say opposites attract! The only thing that we have in common is probably the fact that we both love to eat good food.

Panda Eyed Me

My mum commented once that she thought I had applied grayish eye shadow on my eye lids and under my eyes when she saw my pictures on Facebook. That’s because I hardly apply eye shadow ever since I left the corporate world. I then told her that the gray color ain’t eye shadow but dark circles! That’s how sleep deprived I am. I look like a mama panda all the time. I seriously need to google search on remove dark circles under eyes to get the best solution to rid those dark circles.

Panda Eyed Me

My mum commented once that she thought I had applied grayish eye shadow on my eye lids and under my eyes when she saw my pictures on Facebook. That’s because I hardly apply eye shadow ever since I left the corporate world. I then told her that the gray color ain’t eye shadow but dark circles! That’s how sleep deprived I am. I look like a mama panda all the time. I seriously need to google search on remove dark circles under eyes to get the best solution to rid those dark circles.

My Daily Dose Of Apple Cider Vinegar With Psyllium Husk

An unhealthy physical appearance may reflect unhealthy guts. If you have acne and a protruding belly, suffer from constipation and are gaining weight, chances are that there is toxic buildup in your body system. But help is at hand with colon cleansers like colovexus. For me, I gulp down a glass of apple cider vinegar with psyllium husk every morning and I think that’s the best colon cleanser for me. It tastes awful but oh well, I am still ok with it as long as it can help me feel and look good.

Men’s Clothing Next

Several customers suggested to me that I should also carry a collection of men's clothing in my online store. I had actually wanted to bring in some men’s clothing at the beginning of the year as my relative is a men’s clothing wholesaler but have to shelve my plans. As it is now, I cannot cope with the sales volume and I have no help at all. I am running a one-man show here. If I hire a part-time helper, I will definitely consider bringing in men’s clothing, bags and accessories.

Homecooked Dishes

My mil cooked these for dinner several nights ago:


Fried fish with tomato sauce and big onions....

Blanched broccoli with egg sauce (eggs and fresh golden needle mushrooms)...

Japanese cucumbers with Japanese salad sauce (sesame & Yuzu citrus dressing). This Japanese salad sauce goes very well with all type of greens ...

Vegetarian fragrant fried rice. This flavorful fried rice is made up of all the fragrant plants - chopped lemon grass, chopped 'fhat foong kum yeep' (fragrant lime leaves), 'keong fah' (chopped ginger flower), maize, diced carrots and shallots. Very nice!

And there was a pot of good soup boiled using pig's big bone marrow, lotus root and lotus root seeds...

The meat from the bone marrow is very very tender and flavorful and my girls love sucking on the bone!

Coliseum Cafe, KL

Last Sunday, hubby was in the mood to bring us to the most jam-packed place in KL - Jalan Tuanku Abdul Rahman (TAR). I cringed when he announced that he wanted to revisit Coliseum to have steak and Chinese style chicken chop and fried noodles. I never like going to that place. I rather stay home and eat bread than to go to Jalan TAR on a hot sunny day. Talk about Jalan TAR and memories of my days on the pink Mini Bus no. 10 that ply the roads of the perpetually jammed Jalan TAR will come flooding. Those were my college days and my room mate (Cheng Cheng) and I would be on one of these sardine-packed pink mini buses on our way to college, while listening to the blaring 'Joy Ride' music played on the mini bus every morning.

Anyway back to our trip to Coliseum. This restaurant is by far the oldest restaurants in KL. The restaurant is over 90 years old and I tell yer, the workers there are as old as this restaurant. The waiter who served us was over 70 years old but still looking strong and alert. The rest of the staff were all over 45 years old. This restaurant is not a place where everyone would love to go to but yet, it is always packed.

Here's what we had:

Ox tail soup...

Chinese style white bread with chunks of butter...

Fish and chips...

Chinese style chicken chop...

Hokkien style fried vermicelli, which iLike...

Frice rice, also yummy...

T-bone steak...

Inchi kabin chicken... I find the chicken a tad tough and really nothing to shout about...

We also ordered lamb chop.

Overall, I would rate the food 5/10. After lunch, we headed to Lot 10 and then to Restoran Sari Ratu (an Indonesian restaurant) along Jalan Sultan Ismail for Indon desserts. After a day's pigging out, all 3 girls were down with purging and high fever, one after another....

Darn Tired

I have been feeling really really exhausted, lethargic and burnt out for the past few weeks. While I am happy that business at my eStore is good, I am nevertheless sacrificing my sleep and time with my 3 kiddos. I should have done more revision with Alycia and Sherilyn to prepare them for their exams but I just can't squeeze out the time in a day. What's with the 3 kiddos down with purging and high fever for the past 5 days, I am really jaded now. For the past 5 days, the girls have been pooping almost every hour of the day (and night!) I have been washing their pooped out bottoms every hour of the day, checking their temperature, feeding #2 meds, spoon feeding Baby (she now screams on top of her voice in defiance whenever our helper tries to feed her) and all that jazz that a full-time mom has to do.

At 11pm when all the kiddos are asleep, I will creep out of my bedroom to have some really quiet time to do stuff related to my online store and to complete my online assignments. But my eyes would droop as my fingers tap on the keyboard. It's really really dangerous to work when your mind, body and soul are shutting down. Once, I wrote a customer's address wrongly and suffice to say, the consequences was costly. Another time, I sent out a customer's order before all her stock arrived. Again, it was a costly consequence as I had to send the remaining stock to her later. Once bitten, twice shy... I will never repeat these mistakes again. Sigh... well having said all these, I think this arrangement is still better than me being a working mum. Not really regretting but just need to rant out all the frustrations in me.

Testing Our Patience

Baby has been testing our patience with her mischief. For the past 2 weeks, she has been throwing stuff out of her sisters' bedroom window. First she threw down some books, papers, Alycia's watch and toys. We reprimanded her and she looked repentant. The next day, yet again she threw 2 Dr Seuss books off the window, which landed on the ledge. Several days later, she threw out some hair ties. Though we had reprimanded her and hit her hand (very lightly though... didn't have the heart to hit her till she cries), this fler is still testing our patience with her monkey business. Now, we have to lock the windows to prevent this rascal from throwing more stuff down! Can't wait for this rascal's Terrible Twos phase to past. Hopefully it will not accelerate to Terrible Threes and Fours and Fives... just like rascal #2!!!

The 2 Dr Seuss books resting on the ledge.

Jade Pot Steamboat And Dim Sum Restaurant

2 Sundays ago, we had lunch at Jade Pot Steamboat and Dim Sum Restaurant. We had a little dim sum and ordered steamboat too. The food was good, restaurant is new, cozy and clean. Price is quite reasonable too.

Here's what we had:

An assortment of Dim Sum...

Love the Hong Kong style cee cheong fun (flat rice noodles with prawns)... very smooth, tastefully and uniquely served.

... and steamboat

Rascal #2 enjoying the Udon from the steamboat.. Yup, totally no table manners. Have chided her many times but this fler just won't listen wan, sigh....

I would rate the food 8/10 and would definitely return there again. There will be a 10% discount if you lunch in during weekdays.

Jade Pot Steamboat Restaurant:
Location:
DSH branch : No.5, Grd Flr, Plaza Prismaville, Jalan 19/70A, Desa Sri Hartamas.
OKR branch : No. 413, Batu 5, Jalan Kelang Lama, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Phone: DSH : 03-6201 1918 / OKR : 03-7987 9918

Mon - Sun:
11:00 am - 3:00 pm
6:00 pm - 11:00 pm

Jade Pot even has a Facebook fan page and I noticed that some of my FB friends are fans of this restaurant!

Check out their FB page here:
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/pages/Kuala-Lumpur-Malaysia/Jade-Pot-Steamboat-Restaurant/85092482613

Alycia's Final Exam Finally Over, Phew!

Ever since Alycia's final exam was over yesterday, I can feel a big bag of burden off my shoulders. I feel more stressed up and tensed than her. Alycia is super cool and has no sense of urgency or discipline when it comes to doing revision for her exam. During last minute revision with her, the second I leave the table to do something else, this fler will zoom to the TV and get hooked on it. Can't really blame her too as there's too much distraction from her 2 younger sisters. You will say why don't you keep the TV off limits during exam time but if I don't allow the 2 younger brats to watch TV, there is no way I can have a one-to-one revision with Alycia. Baby would be all over me and targeting my boops and Sherilyn would be inundating me with loads of questions.

Today Alycia got back almost all her test papers. I really thought that she would fare very badly as I hadn't done enough revision with her and have in the past did not do much regular revisions with her. But she made me really proud of her. She scored 90 marks and above for all her test papers. If it weren't because of her careless mistakes and failure to double check her work, she would have scored 100% in her papers. This girl of mine can be very very forgetful. I have been drumming into her head to DOUBLE CHECK YOUR WORK, DOUBLE CHECK YOUR WORK but she never checks her work, AAARGH!!

Little Thief

I have a little thief at home who would forage for forbidden food and junk food whenever she seizes an opportunity... like when I have just turned my back on her or when there is no one at the kitchen. That's when this smart little opportunist would hurriedly grab the Ikea stool or push the dining table chair to the kitchen, quickly climb on it, grab the forbidden food and shove it into her mouth at lighting speed and then she would smugly say "mummy, look..." with her mouth full of kuih, chips or crackers!

We have learned our lesson. Now, we can no longer freely put food that we have just bought on the counter top, dining table or anywhere that's within her reach. We have to hide it or hang it on the highest level of the kitchen cabinet door. Having said all these, I still think that she looks absolutely cute with her mouth stuffed with food (so stuffed that she could hardly move her mouth LOL!!) and both her cheeks protruding side ways, complete with the cheeky and smug look on her face!

What’s Your Choice Of Color?

When it comes to choice of color for clothes and bedding, I prefer colorful ones. I find that my mood lifts up when I don on bright colored clothes or sleep on a bed that has lively colors and designs. I never like dull or plain colors, as it would make me feel like I am in the hospital. I have a friend who would only buy white or cream colored Luxury bed inens. She finds colorful ones too gordy for her eyes! What’s your choice of color for bed linen and clothing?

Natural Growth Stimulator

When I was a teenager, one of my ambitions was to become an air stewardess. But I lack the height to be accepted into certain Airlines. I was obsessed with wanting to grow taller. My grandma would boil soup with peanut roots to help me grow taller. Well, that was the Chinese believe – that the roots of peanuts can stimulate growth and height in kids. I don’t know how effective this is but I was eventually successful and was accepted to be an Air Stewardess. This is the natural way of gaining height. Some people would resort to hgh releaser.

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....