Back To Nature

My children love to play with water for whatever reason. They will be very delighted playing in the pool or river. I am glad in Penang, there are places for water play that is close to nature. We went to a little water fall in Botanical Garden. I must say that it is clean and beautiful. In fact my children love it there.

It is a good place to bring your children there and have a picnic by the greens. You can catch small fish, play sand and water. I bet your children can have hours of fun and best of all, it is free!

Isn’t the water fall beautiful? By the way, I had a wedding photo shot there too….

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Snacks

I love snacking especially at night. Yeap, I am a junk food person. Let’s hope my children don’t follow me. At a particular time of the month, I crave for potato chips. I can have the whole pack to myself. I know that it is not a very healthy diet. It can give acne problem too if I don’t drink enough water.

However, now with many great acne treatments out there, I won’t have to worry too much. Snack first and worry later.

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Chopsticks For Children

One of my forum members posted a couple of cute chopsticks sold in her online store. It is the Edison Trainer Chopstick from Korea. I was in a dilemma whether to get for my children or not. I was tempted to get. On the hand, I didn’t use those and I grew up learning to use chopsticks.

I ended up getting 2 pairs because they can use it when they are eating noodles. Noodles somehow taste nicer when it is taken with chopsticks, don’t you agree? They had fun with it. Imagine the first few meals, they fed themselves. I hope they keep that going.

With those chopsticks, they can pick up noodles, fish balls and other food except rice. They were pretty good at it too. Now they can join me and my hubby in eating noodles on their own.
It cost RM19 per pair for this design. There are other designs with cheaper price.

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Home Theater

It has been a long time since my hubby and I go to a movie theater and watch a non-children movie. I am sure a lot of parents are in the same shoe as we are. We are so neglected of watching certain movies of our choice together.

Now you can build your very own home theater and it is affordable. You can choose many different home theater seating, home theater system and sound system. You can even get your very own popcorn machine.

With your very own home theater system, you watch any movie of your choice in your very own home after your children is sound asleep.

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Treasure Your Health

One of my relatives was admitted to the hospital because of high blood pressure. Her health problem may be caused by her weight. She was having a little difficulty in losing weight not to mention she loves food. Believed me she tried exercise, diet pills, diet plans, eating less or no eating. She managed to lose a little weight but still have more work to go.

I really prayed that she will get better and her pressure will come down. I guess no matter what we do, we must ensure we treasure our health. Someone once said, “When we are young, we spend our health on getting wealth. When we old, we spend our wealth on getting health.”

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Rain Drop Keep Falling On My Head

The rainy season just started in Penang. It started raining at 2am yesterday and was still raining in the afternoon. Oh by the way, every time we have heavy rain in Penang, there will be flood water everywhere on the road. My children like to see the flood water splashing when car drive through it. They called it “milo” water.

Anyway, I didn’t expect this, raining in my bedroom. Yesterday I was snoozing and suddenly felt water dripping on my feet. I thought I was dreaming or the water was from my air cond. I got up and switched on the dimmer light. I found a small hole up my ceiling. I quickly went to the bathroom to get a pail to hold the water.

My hubby was in deep sleep and so are my children. It is funny because occasionally the water will dripped on the fan blade and practically sprinkled everyone. Imagine none of them felt anything. Look how slumber they can be. If I didn’t wake up, my room will be flooded.

My ceiling is plastered and the top layer is wood. I don’t understand how the hole got there. Anyway, I will need to call the roof repair man to fix my roof too. My house has not reached 10 years yet, it started to have this small problem. Sigh.

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Making A Non-Sew Tutu

I was asked by many bloggers on how to make a tutu without sewing. I decided to take pictures to show you how simple it can be, since I have to make 20 of them. I will be repeating this process many times. Remember to donate to my paypal if you like it, donate icon on the right.

First you need to get the netting material for Kamdar. Kamdar is much cheaper than craft shops. Next you need to measure your child. You need to measure her waist and her waist to knee. Emily waist is 47cm and waist to knee is 35cm.

You need to place the netting material onto a table for cutting.

You need to double the waist measurement that will be 70 cm for my case. You measure 70 cm and cut.

Next you need to roll it like what I have in the picture. Remember to roll it the right way to get 70cm strips. You need to measure 6 inches width to cut.

Now for the waist, you cut 3 x waist measurement in length ribbon, for me is 47×3 = 141cm. Tie a knot at the waist length marker so you know where to start and where to end. Tie the ribbon to a pillow or a chair before doing the following.

Here is how you tie it and it should take 20 minutes while watching TV. If you are doing a fairy tutu, you can mix the color. One white strip, one colored strip, one white strip, one colored strip…..etc

Hey here is the angel wing. I finally found a nice cloth to do the wing. Like it?

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Self Made TuTu

My church will do a mini Christmas production year end. I volunteered to take charge of the props. I have to make back drop with help, shepherd costume, sheep, angel costume and wise men. Yeah it is the manger scene where Jesus was born. I just found out that the Bible didn’t mentioned that angel have wings. Anyway I still have to do the wings for the children sake.

First up, I had to get the material. It is not easy because in Penang, there aren’t many craft shops. This production is with no budget at all. Therefore everything I get has to be low cost. I am glad Penang has Kamdar that sells variety of cloth.

For angel costume, I need to make a tutu. First I google for patterns and I found quite helpful instructions with beautiful tutu. The angel tutu will be all white but this one I made for Emily is a fairy tutu. It is not part of the Christmas production. Just for fun for Emily. Believe me it is very easy to make. Let me know if you want to make one, it cost less RM10 to do this and no sewing skills required.

Here is the picture…

Next up is the wings, hey any of you know where I can get cheap white stockings or pantyhose?

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Drug Review

With the China milk powder case that causes many thousands of children to be sick and even death, it is a reminder to us to be caution about food and drug. We need to check thoroughly what we are consuming into our body.

The ConsumerPriceWatch.net provides review on diet drugs like alli, Orovo, Nuphedragen, Noxycut and many more. You need to read the reviews and testimonies of other who is taking the same drug. Most important is to check with your doctor to see whether the drug is suitable for your body. Do take care of yourself.

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How Obvious You Needs To Be?

Once I was travelling on the LRT with my family. Unfortunately it was really packed and no place to sit. There were some seats meant for handicapped, pregnant woman and family with children. It was occupied with a bunch of youth. They just ignored us or look the other way. However a kind gentleman free up his seat for us.

Later a pregnant lady came on board. She was standing in front of those youth. However one of them pretend to sleep and the other just ignore her presence. I just shook my head. I think I should give the pregnant lady one of these funny t-shirts that says “baby inside”.

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Yeah Yeah

My FIL can be very funny at times and I must record this incident down. One morning he came to our home to help us to fetch the children to school. Sometimes it takes a while for Emily to fully wake up in the morning. I will turn on the TV for her to watch cartoon while she takes her milk. However the TV volume was very low.

My FIL picked up our cordless phone on top of the TV and ask Emily to increase the volume.

Too bad Emily was half awake to notice that. She would have laugh at yeah yeah if she saw the cordless phone.

Yeah Yeah does the darnest thing. At least he cheered my morning up with his little humor.

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Moving Services

Do you know one of bloggers is moving to US, to follow her husband on a temporary job assignment? I am excited for her as she will love it there. She is doing a lot of packing and I believed she had engaged moving services to transport her things over to US.

If you are moving home, remember to find a reliable mover. You want your belongings to be safely transported to your new home. ABF U-Pack Moving delivers an empty trailer to your home, give you time to pack and load. They charged by the space you occupied and not by weight. It will save you a bundle. It has package to meet your budget. Call them at Toll Free: 1-800-355-1696.

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Something About Friday

It must happen on Friday, I am not sure why. Of all days, my children get sick on Friday most of the time, must be something about Friday. Friday is not a good day to be sick because none of my family pediatrician is available. There is no evening clinic and my children’s pediatric is off on Friday.

4pm: Friday afternoon, Emily threw up her lunch and vomited a few times. It must be a tummy virus. She even threw up while I took her to the hospital. Fortunately I brought a plastic bag with me. The doctor on duty confirmed that it is a tummy virus. He asked us to let her go on liquid diet, no oily and fried food. One interesting thing he said was, it will help her if she passes motion. That will get rid of whatever toxin in her.

I asked for a bottle of Probiotic to get some good bacteria for her tummy. I asked him about V or Y drinks, can I give her and get overdose of good bacteria. He said there is no harm because whatever overdose, the body will get rid. On top of that, those drinks may not have live bacteria in it too. Interesting isn’t it? Total cost me of the doc visit was RM138.00 and most of it was the medicine cost. Thanks goodness I can claim that back.

When we reached home, I gave her some medicine but she vomited everything out. Nothing can get in to her little tummy. I just gave her diluted Ribena, at least there is glucose for energy in a zippy cup. She zip whenever she wants to drink. She watched some cartoon and I sent her off to bed with no milk.

10pm: Later in the night, she had high fever and I gave her panadol. She threw up after panadol. Fortunately she threw up at the door of the toilet. I suppose she didn’t get to the toilet in time to throw up. Anyway, I cannot give her panadol again because I don’t know how much went in. I sponge her a bit and daddy put “cool fever” on her forehead.

After 2am: She slept and I monitored her throughout the night. Funny me, I was dreaming that she got up and wanted to vomit. I woke up and gave her the bucket, I placed bucket beside me in case she wants to throw up. I opened my eyes and she was sleeping soundly. However her body is still warm, I had to sponge her again. She drank water occasionally. I had the zippy cup next to her.

10 am: Saturday morning, she was feeling better. Fever is gone. I gave her 4oz of milk and she could drink. I asked her to sit on her potty to watch cartoon. She did and passed motion. Good for her. I gave her porridge with some tasty seed weed on it. She like it and ate some. She also had that for dinner. No vomiting. I didn’t give her any medicine but only 1 capsule of Probiotic. Doc said it is good to give 1 capsule every day. The rest of the medicine will be history.

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MAC World

Having a MAC is great as always. My family never regretted buying the MAC with a great display and all the free tools out there. I believed it is more secure than PC as the OS is robust. My hubby just upgraded the Mac memory with a great deal. Now it is running faster.

My children love watching DVD on the MAC screen and its resolution is superb. By the way, everything, the CPU, hard disk and disk drive are in the display. Isn’t that a great design, it does save a lot of space.

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The Right Way

I was browsing my hubby’s iPhone and found some interesting pictures. Let my children show you the right way to eat and drink.

The most comfortable position of eating


Eat with 2 spoons


Or drink with 2 straws – Orange & Coke Cooktail. Who needs a shaker??!!

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