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Dinner on a quiet Sunday

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M always hope there is more than 24hr on sat n sunday so I can do more. Home cooked meal is so important to the family. 

Lemon pound cake

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They love recipeon Pound Cake. The recipe is definitely a keeper. simple recipe. 150g cake flour 150g butter 150 sugar 2 lemon zest.  Figure out the method yourself. Ahahaha

Busy daddy

M1 service guy came to deliver n install n ONT. Daddy is busy configurations the home router. 

Happy feet

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After so many month of recuperating, I can put on nail color again. Everytime I go for pedicureI get the same comment to come every month instead of after so many months. I also give the same excuse, "busy, no time else Im free but no slot. I still like deep colot on my nails. Happy dancing feet now. 

Hello kitty craze

I'm not really a Hello Kitty fan neither is my daughter but the current series offer by Mcdonald is really cute. However I only started collecting after the 2nd kitty is out. Despite that I am not the hardcore so I only manage to get the red riding n frog prince series. The rest is a history cos the craze started to catch up n there is no way I cld beat the heat to q for the kitty late night. I intended to give up but Yihui found a site selling n she asked if I was interested so I tagged along and order with her. Have to get my cousin help to make the purchase n collection in Nov when I meet her then. Wei chin is giving him lion kitty to me since he only had one n see no point keeping. Thank u so much. I left ugly duckling now.

Spanish date

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Follow by movie date. 

Morning sun

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  This was the morning sun at 7am ++. It did not show out very well here but it was orange sun under the hazy sky. The sky doesnt look that good today seem like the hazy is creeping back.

补一补

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女人有时要补一补 现在身体暖暖的, 好舒服。

Pickle papaya

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Suddenly I have the interest to make pickle papaya. Sonething we all love to eat as snack.  However chosing the correct papaya need experience. The 1st papaya I got was too ripe and I couldnt continue with the pickling process.  The papaya looked green.  This look good to me cos I wanted some orangy fresh on my pickle papaya.  Oops, doesnt look good! The papaya is too ripe for pickle. I didnt want to give up so I went back to get another papaya.  This time I get a greener papaya but I didnt want to get a papaya that only has white flesh. Only a slight pinkish looked at the cross section, I can feel the flesh of the papaya when I sink my knife into the fruit. OK this going to be the right one. The newly bought papaya satisfy the criteria to make the pickle. It is crunchy n yet still have the orangy flesh.  The sugar vinegar is prepared, the sliced papaya is soaked in salt for 15 min.  Now ready to be marinated in the vinegar....

Coming of Term 3

Coming 2 term will be a busy term for Janelle. What have we achieve during the June holiday? I would say nothing much but just play and holidaying. That was bad right.... Haizzz As the kids hit holiday, my holiday mood kick in too and lazing around is the best thing to do during this month. That also mean I did not achieve anything in my work in June too. That as doubly bad! The haze making it worse, oh yes blaming the haze now. One thing we all realised is Julian Math is his stronger subject but generally he is a careless boy with many careless mistakes. Janelle language has a dipping effect which worries me so there is extra work to be done here and the approach will be more interactive and nothing too new to the learning concept. Some changes required to be done back home. We need to create a more condusive learning environment for the kids and more time need to be spent to monitor and guide their work which mean I have lesser time to relax. Law will be taking up more ...

Personal tutor

I have being pending this for a term and I need to take action soon else I will regret again. We have checked out with neighbours and friends who may have some good recommendation but none came back with any good new. Here I saw this advertisement email sending to me at least once a week. I think may be I give it a try, hoping we will get a good and patient tutor for Julian. The tution agency was fast in responding. I stated my requirement, my budget and they managed to find a tutor that is willing to take up my son. He told the agency based on Julian condition and the tutor think that it will be an "Interesting" assignment. Should I cry or laugh? Everything goes fast forward, the agency feedback my message to the tutor, he is ok to take up this assignment, the date I wanted, the price of the service and we have fixed to start this coming Wednesday. But I have not told Law anything about it yet. I believe he will be busy after 1 week away from work and hope the stress doe...

My new watch

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Just called back and MIL said my new watch has arrived after more than 1 month of waiting. My Omega watch can finally rest at home, it has being overwork recently after my adidas watch has gone RIP. The watch is smaller than I thot, look like a kiddy watch to me. Ok another excuse for another watch.

Day 5 - Fun all day

It was a clear day as we looked out of our hotel room. We were staying at Theme Park hotel this time, wanted to experience the difference between First World and Theme Park Hotel. Theme Park is a much smaller hotel and the room is bigger, newer and cleaner as compared to First World but inevitably First World is actually more convinence when come to food and fun. Today, we are going for 2 Theme parks - Indoor and Outdoor. After breakfast, the sky started to turn misty and the temperature dropped. The kids were all prepared and covered for the misty fun day. We 1st head for the newest ride in the Outdoor park - The Wave which actually a round n round wheel to me just that it moved with different gradients that looked like the wave. It turned forward and then backward after a while. Law didnt want to experience it as he will turned giddy after that, i didnt want actually but sister wanted to try and asked me along. I was siting with Julian and while waiting it to start, Julian st...

菊花果冻

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I was flipping my recipe books and saw this in one of the dim sum series. Instead of getting 桂花 to make, I just improvise and use 菊花. All you need is a mould, sugar, 菊花, 枸杞子,water and jelly powder. I used the rock honey sugar instead of white sugar. Simply follow the jelly making method, instead of plain water, just soaked boiled water with 菊花 for 10 min, sieved obtained the 菊花茶 mixed in the rock honey sugar and jelly powder and let it set in the fridge for dessert after meal. Cooling treat for the hazy weather now.

Day 4 - Starts the fun at Gentings

We set off around 9am on Tuesday for our Genting trip. 1st we went to the noodles stall near the Petronas station for our breakfast only to realise it was closed. So we drove to the noodles stall that we heard on 1st day and it was closed, then te noodles stall beside the market area and it was CLOSED.  It was Tuesday and why were all stalls closed? No choice, I quickly called my ah gu for help, asking him for direction for breakfast. Immediately, he asked us to wait for him at the market and within 5 min we saw his car, directing us to the next makan place for breakfast. After much turning around the village we ended up in a home made to noodles stall place for our breakfast. The owner did their noodles business just right infront of their house. We quickly ordered our breakfast and it was delicious and the stall was just a short distance away from the Petronas noodles stall we went at 1st. How could we have missed this stall? I will bring my mum and yee ma here the ...

Day 3 - Sitiawan continues...

Like I said, it had nevery being a relax trip back Sitiawan. We are always busy going around makan n shopping and buying goodies home. Goodies - 光饼,面线,火把,鱿鱼, 鱼漂。 Herbs - 枸杞子, 党参,何首乌,燕窝。 Yes, I got back bird nest this time. It is not my usual product to bring back but this time there was a great offer. 1kg of washed / treated bird nest for only RM2000 and I was influenced by my yee ma to get as well. I was not a bird nest person and I dun really know how to cook but the offer was so tempting that I shared 250g with my aunt while my sister got another 250g. As my ah gu self collect and examed so was very trusted and I was rm500 poorer after that. I spent Rm900 just on herbs. Then we will drive around The Store, Billion, Aeon again to look for children clothes. I didnt get any this time while my sister need to get some pj for her kids. It is all about shopping n eating and shopping and eating while we are Sitiawan. Of course, visiting to my noodles stall ah gu was always a must f...

Day 2 - at Sitiawan

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Sis's maid woke up as early as 6am to wash all our clothes and get it hang for the morning sun. I heard noises from next door, should be my youngest sister waking up getting ready to return to Singapore. They couldnt change the return date last mintues so have to return on schedule. Sad! I was trying to influence her to stay on giving that I treat her seafood as much as she wanted. My body automatically woke me up. The weather was hot and humid and I couldnt get back to sleep although we on the aircon and the fan. I waited for my sister to settle her wash up before I digged the kids up for breakfast. We still have a date with my ah gu to visit his plantation. After we settled our breakfast at a noodles stall, we headed back to grandma house. Special instruction from ah gu that we are not to drive our car into his plantation. Ah gu bought a 4 wheel drive carrier which he will drove into his plantation. I visited his plantation during the last visit and got the 1st experie...

Our way back "HOME"

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Guess how early we wake up today?? As we are trying to cut down taking too many leaves, we leave on the day of grandma bday dinner. Infact, all of us are so busy that we didnt really have time to plan this trip much. Hopefully the trip is going to turn up well. Yes we are going to drive all the way to Lawan Kuda, Gopeng. The place where grandma bday dinner will be held and we are predicting that it takes about 7 - 8 hours driving up taking in consideration that we need to stop for legs stretching breaks, toilet breaks and lunch break. I wonder if we still have the appetite to eat when we reached Lawan Kuda. We are supposed to meet my sister 6:30am at punggol but with some delay we only reached there 1 hr later. Initially we wanted to enter Msia by Woodland but after checking the causeway condition, there was a change of plan to enter via Tuas and that meant we made a big way to Tuas again. After all the de-tour, we finally cleared causeway by 8++ am. After the 1st toilet ...

Movie treats with the kids

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On the same week, we watched 2 movies. Epic - which the kids requested. Julian like the movie very much. Especially the snail and the slug that brought live to the movie. Then I thot After Earth may be suitable watching with kids but I was quite wrong about the kids reaction. Julian hugging my arms, making me cover his ear almost throughout the movie screening. Janelle covering her eyes at some of the sudden scene. Well, to me I think it is quite an OK show to watch. It is quite interesting to watch Will Smith acting together with his son.

A free day with kids

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Lunch n dinner at home.

Epilator for me

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  My epilator had spoilt for quite sometime, so happened to see the promotion at Best Denki and the package cost $105 so just get it. At least this is more handy than my old philip model.

For the family

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  Enzyme for the family especially for Julian who cannot really poo well even if I stuffed him with probiotic. This is not a cheap product, one satchet cost ard $1.50 however it is very very effective and cleanse our system super well. It is an essential for the family when we travel oversea.

Buddy Writing by Marshall Cavendish

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This year I managed to catch the Budding Writer program and get Janelle to go for it. She doesnt seem to enjoy sure workshop anymore, luckily Rayna is going and she has someone to look forward to. This year, the writing is focus on dialogue so from 9am - 4pm. It was a long workshop to me but the timing was quite good as I do not need to take leave that day. Must thanks Faith for helping me to fetch Janelle after the class.

Party time

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Fish for lunch

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