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Upgrade Work
2009-09-21 05:12:00 We are in the midst of upgrading our porch. We will be taking over SIL’s fish pond and place it at the porch once she moves oversea and also build a shed for the bicycles. Hub has decided to get more bicycles for everyone. (Currently we only have one). With all ... More About: Work
Kids Talk
2009-09-15 13:53:00 Was showing the kids including my neighbor’s (a 10 yrs old boy and 7 yrs old girl) on how to play one of my childhood game (skipping rope – used to be made of rubber bands and how we buy packs of rubber band from the stall outside school and make it into long rope) ... More About: Kids , Talk
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2009-09-15 05:49:00 Can’t find a more appropriate English title for this post. What I feel now is that I have failed to pay enough attention to my kids. Received a call out of the blue from one of JS’s classmate’s mum (how she got my number , I didn’t know, we never spoken before, but just nod and ...
Couple Time
2009-09-13 02:51:00 I can’t remember when was the last couple time I had with hub. When JS was a baby, we still made an afford to go dating and left JS in the care of the aunt and grannies, now with 3 kids, we only have family time and no more couple time. With the two elder ... More About: Time , Couple
20th Week Prenatal Check
2009-09-08 08:46:00 I am already in my 20th week of pregnancy. I have not paid much attention to this pregnancy nor take care of my diet. I am guilty that I have not eat healthily and nutritious to ensure baby optimal growth. I was reading the child development book and came across a section that mention ... More About: Pregnancy , Check , Week , Prenatal
Gender Biased
2009-09-08 05:35:00 I must confessed that I am someone that is gender biased. I have 2 girls and a boy, no doubt I love them equally, but I can’t deny that deep in me I am one who is gender biased. Way before I am even a mother, I can only visualize myself having daughters and how ... More About: Motherhood , Gender
Best Diet Pills
2009-09-08 04:55:00 After I delivered JL, my friend introduced me some best diet pills which is safe for breastfeeding. I started the slim watch program when JL was 6 months old and within 3 months had gained my ideal weight and body shape. My friend even told me that no to worry about putting too much weight ... More About: Diet , Pills
Badly Needing A Spa
2009-09-08 04:37:00 My shoulders hurt again!! I have just gone for a prenatal massage two weeks ago but now my shoulders, neck and shoulder blade ache again. I wish to go for a spa session, where I can relax, soak in the jacuzzi tub, had long hour massage, but time do not permit me to do so. ...
Back To School
2009-09-02 05:34:00 Since middle of last week, JS started mentioning she miss school and her friends. (So happened our neighbor was away for the past 1 week and JS had go no friend to talk to) She was excited and happy to be back to school yesterday. School starts at 12.45p.m , but as early as 11.00a.m, she ... More About: Back , Back to School
Post Weaning
2009-09-02 05:23:00 It has been almost a month since I weaned JL off boobies. The first week was so uneventful and I was laughing at my own luck on how easy to wean her off without major struggle. Boy…I was wrong. It has been getting tougher and tougher as the week goes by. From 100% weaning off on ... More About: Post , Breastfeeding
Bento#6
2008-06-10 10:43:00 I’m pretty slow in my “Bento -ing” . Since I have started, this is only my #6 Bento. With the school holiday here, there is even no reason for me to prepare bento. This was today’s bento for the kids. Just a simple snack for tea break and I’ve stolen this idea from Christene. Preparation wise, it’s sweat/stress ...
Word Building Blocks
2008-06-09 16:51:00 I find this to be one of the best educational toy I have invested it. Learning do not have to solely come from sitting still, doing a lot of writing and reading the books. Learning can be fun, learning can be obtained through play. This set of blocks expose the child to different Chinese radicals as ... More About: Building , Word , Materials , Blocks
Changes
2008-06-09 13:10:00 They will be major changes here soon. Changes for the better, we are very excited and looking forward to it, but it also means busy months ahead. This change is much anticipated and it comes sooner than we expected. A lot of planning , arrangement to be done. Now we are just waiting for the ... More About: Et Cetera
Science Project At Home - Volcano Eruption
2008-06-09 12:09:00 This is one simplest and easiest science experiment we done at home during the school holiday. Because I’m so lazy had so little time to spare, I didn’t make up a nice volcano with plasticine/dough or paper mache. What I did was just use newspaper. It didn’t look nice at all , as it’s ... More About: Science , Homeschooling , Home , Project , Volcano
Earning Extra Moolah Through SocialSpark
2008-06-09 05:08:00 I’ve signed up for a SocialSpark account since it’s still in a Beta stage, however I have never get the hang of how to use it. Neither do I have the time to explore how the system works. I got a little frustrated when after submitted two posts both were rejected for no obvious reason ... More About: Extra , Moolah , Earning
Happy Duan Wu
2008-06-07 18:39:00 Every 5th day of the 5th Lunar month is Duan Wu Jie , or what it’s commonly known as Dumpling Festival. This year Duan Wu Jie falls on Sunday 8/6/2008. Duan Wu Jie is a day to commemorate the Chinese patriot and poet, Qu Yuan (ÇüÔ). Falling on the fifth day of the fifth lunar ... More About: Celebrations , Happy
Baby Joins The Fun
2008-06-06 11:00:00 What does baby do when I’m busy with korkor and jiejie? Well, she’s also close by to watch us and even participate. If she’s not asking for nennen or sleepy, she would usually sits together with the brother and sister and join in the fun. She can sits better now and I let her sit ... More About: Family , Baby
First Step Towards Self Feeding
2008-06-06 10:36:00 Giving baby some finger food and train her to be sufficient in self feeding later. Chewing on the carrot stick Banana in the Munchkin feeder. Drinking from a cup. I made mistake in offering both my older children the milk bottle , no choice with JS as she was bottle fed when I was ... More About: Baby , Step , Feeding
TRA
2008-06-06 10:18:00 I know I’m a little overweight after I delivered JL. Each pregnancy I piled up 20kg and usually after delivery I would have to put in extra effort to shed the kg/pounds I’ve put on. With the earlier 2 pregnancies, I manage to lost them fast, but never able to get back to my premarital ...
Slimming
2008-06-06 10:01:00 Entering my 3rd month of lose weight project. This will be the final month, but if I am not happy with the result, I can continue and extend the project. Will see how it goes after the 3rd month to decide. So far, after 2 months, I have lost a total of 6.5kg. From 58.2kg ...
School Holiday Almost Ended
2008-06-06 09:36:00 With just the weekend left, the 2 weeks school break is nearing an end. I have been very busy with the children during this past 2 weeks. I haven’t been updating much on this blog. In fact its the first time since I’ve started blogging that I manage to let go about blogging and take ... More About: Family , Holiday , School
UP UP Up
2008-06-06 01:57:00 This is the 2nd day of petrol hike and later electricity charge also going to increase. Even hub feels the pinch now, as a full tank for Naza Ria now will be close to RM200 and that can only last for a week. Petrol price will be RM800 per month just for one of our ...
Elimination Communication
2008-05-30 11:18:00 It has been 4 weeks since I started putting JL on the potty for her big business. I must say that 80% of the time I manage to get her to sit on the potty to do her big business, the other 20% of the time is usually during weekend when we were out. She ... More About: Parenting , Communication , Elimination
Sandpaper Pinyin & Sandpaper Radicals
2008-05-29 10:33:00 Too lazy to make my own, hence I bought this not too long ago. I’m glad to have found this ready made one. In fact I was 1/2 through making the sandpaper radicals, but it’s too much work and I gave up. Purpose of these is like the sandpaper letters and numerals. To help the child ... More About: Montessori
Tooth Sixth Out
2008-05-29 10:31:00 She’s loosing her milk teeth faster than her peers. Another milk tooth gave way yesterday and that makes 6 milk teeth out by now. The last visit to the dentist to extract the shaky milk tooth was a month ago and at that time the lower right lateral incisor was already started to get loose too. ...
Miss Vain Got Her Ears Pierced
2008-05-29 07:31:00 JS had mention before she wanted to get her ears pierced, but I didn’t take it seriously and told her that she shall wait till she’s 7. What I’m afraid is that she can’t stand the pain as well as she would go scratch and touch her earlobe, I’m not sure if she’s ready. However ... More About: Miss , Ears , Vain
Bento Tools & Kits
2008-05-28 13:27:00 I’m now crazy over bento kit and tools. I’m still eying on the items at Ebay and want to expand my “collection” but force to slow down because blog rezeki a little slow down lately. I’m so kiasu, there’s still so many things I want to have. I look at the kits as something I ... More About: Tools , Kits , Bento
Where To Get Petite Miam?
2008-05-28 08:25:00 Anyone know which supermarket in town has got Petite Miam or Baby Yoplait? For a longest time I have not seen them available at our local supermarket. I don’t know which other brand of yogurt is suitable for baby as they are either too sweet or it’s low fat. So far I only trusted Petite ... More About: Recipes
Bento Frenzy
2008-05-28 08:13:00 Bento-ing must have been the latest trend/craze. The other day I was browsing at the bookshop and I found a locally published book about kids bento. Looks like more and more mummies are into bento fun. This is the book I got from MPH. It’s in bilingual and very cheap, less than RM20 only. Loads of ... More About: Bento , Frenzy
Shopping List
More articles from this author:2008-05-28 01:59:00 It’s time to draw up our shopping list and budget on the spending of our new house. There’s just so much to get and do for the house and we get pretty excited about it and can get really go overboard if you do not draft out the list now. Just afraid that what we ... More About: Shopping , List 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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