Saturday, August 23rd, 2008

Photo Hunters : Wrinkled

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Taking the greatest gut in me to reveal the ugliest part of me. That’s my wrinkled feet and toes. The skin lines is so obvious and rough. Whenever I barefoot, I extremely shy and embrassed putting my feet out. Thats the reason why I refuse to go for a pedicure. I also try not to wear sandals or shoes which can show larger part of my feet. It can be dry after a long walk and under dry weather.

You must be asking why not apply lotion. I have used heaps brands of lotion before but none of that works good on me. I’m so hate of this, I wish too to have a flawless feet skin, but I’m born like that. My brother also having the wrinkled skin on feet.

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008

Craving on King of Fruits

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There was a few days I passed by my neighbor doorstep, I got to sniff a strong durian smell..I was thinking it must be the durian season now. The smell really so tempting and thats makes me so craving on it. I told my mum if happen to see anywhere selling kampung durian, pls buy back. Well, it is not that easy to find, unless we really go into some rural kampung area and have it there. All those selling in town are the “D” branded.

It is quite cheap now. RM10 for 5 small one. Sunday, mum brought back the durian together with mangosteen. What a great fruit to accompany with it. King of fruits with Queen of fruits.


Forget to take pic, left the only last piece of durian.

Just before I have my last bite of durian, I was thinking how mangosteen taste like already?..too long never eat. When I open up the first one, it was really nice..sweet and frangrant, finally I found back the great taste. That was my lunch of the day, since Big Man no favour to it, me and mum wallop all up.

Mangosteen is a very good fruit. A few days ago, came across an article from newspaper saying mangosteen juice is recovering a patient who suffer from blood block in heart. Mangosteen is an anti-oxidants fruit which is good in fighting cancer too (related article here).

Sunday, July 20th, 2008

Invaluable tips

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Bed Sheets
After drying sheets, put both sheets and one pillowcase in the other pillow case. Fold neatly in a square. Next time you change sheets, you just take the one pillow case and all the sheets and pillow case are inside. No need to look for matches.

Reheat Pizza
Heat up leftover pizza in a non-stick skillet on top of the stove, set heat to med-low and heat till warm. This keeps the crust crispy. No soggy micro pizza. I saw this on the cooking channel and it really works.

Reheating refrigerated bread
To warm biscuits, pancakes, or muffins that were refrigerated, place them in a microwave with a cup of water. The increased moisture will keep the food moist and help it reheat faster.

Broken Glass
Use a dry cotton ball to pick up little broken pieces of glass - the fibers catch ones you can’t see!

Easier thank you’s
When you throw a bridal/baby shower, buy a pack of thank you cards for the guest of honor. During the party, pass out the envelopes and have everyone put their address on one. When the bride/new mother sends the thank you’s, they’re all addressed!

Name tag
If you purchase a new bike for your child, place their picture inside the handle bar before placing the grips on. If the bike is stolen and later recovered, remove the grip and there is your proof who owns the bike.

Flexible vacuum
To get something out of a heat register or under the fridge add an empty paper towel roll or empty gift wrap roll to your vacuum. It can be bent or flattened to get in narrow openings.

Reducing Static Cling
Pin a small safety pin to the seam of your slip and you will not have a clingy skirt or dress. Same thing works with slacks that cling when wearing panty hose. Place pin in seam of slacks and — voila — static is gone.

Measuring Cups
Before you pour sticky substances into a measuring cup, fill it with hot water. Dump out the hot water, but don’t dry the cup. Next, add your ingredient, such as peanut butter, and watch how easily it comes right out.

Foggy Windshield?
Hate foggy windshields? Buy a chalkboard eraser and keep it in the glove box of your car. When the windows fog, rub with the eraser! Works better than a cloth!

Reopening envelope
If you seal an envelope and then realize you forgot to include something inside, just place your sealed envelope in the freezer for an hour or two. Voila! It unseals easily.

Conditioner
Use your hair conditioner to shave your legs. It’s a lot cheaper than shaving cream and leaves your legs really smooth. It’s also a great way to use up the conditioner you bought but didn’t like when you tried it in your hair…

Good-bye Fruit Flies
To get rid of pesky fruit flies, take a small glass fill it 1/2 with Apple Cider Vinegar and 2 drops of dishwashing liquid, mix well. You will find those flies drawn to the cup and gone forever!

Get Rid of Ants
Put small piles of cornmeal where you see ants. They eat it, take it ‘home,’ & can’t digest it so it kills them. It may take a week or so, esp. if it rains, but it works & you don’t have the worry about pets or small children being harmed!

Take baby powder to the beach
Keep a small bottle of baby powder in your beach bag. When you’re ready to leave the beach sprinkle yourself and kids with the powder and the sand will slide right off your skin.

Have you learnt something today? ;)

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008

Japanese Buffet at Shogun, 1 Utama

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Last Saturday Agong’s birthday, finally big man got a holiday break. We decided to treat ourself good on this day. Hubby brought us to Shogun Japanese Buffet restaurant at 1 Utama, New Wing. We were there to have lunch buffet. So, you may guess the recent petrol hike may hinder ppl from shopping and eat out for awhile. Guess it is not, the car park is still very very full since early the morning and Shogun is full house man! Luckily we did an early booking and we just walk in without need to wait at the long queue.

We brought along our little rascal. He was sick since last week (fever, cough and flu). Guess he won’t have appetite for outside food, so I brought along porridge and medicine too not forget. Boy slept on the way to 1U. We reach there on time. Lunch starts 12noon - 3pm.

The ambience

I just can’t be left out of his sight, while I’m away hunting the food, he kept crying for me. Even daddy also can’t comfort him. So, I got to quick each round and sneak away when daddy plays with him. He only have 5 spoons of porridge and thought he wants to try on some nice looking sushi, it is not too. He not ate much when we were there. Just play with daddy and a little girl next to our table, walk around and want to be carried. For good, he only sat on the high chair for the first half an hour. I also can’t have a peaceful mind to look for more food and eat more.

We had 2 cheese baked oysters which is not on the buffet menu (entitle 1 for each customer). I didn’t have it as I sniff there is a strong fishy smell when hubby eating it. Here are part of the food,


Other than this, there are more varieties on Japanese, Chinese and Korean cuisine, soups, hot plates and dessert. Green tea ice-cream is taste good! We take turn to wallop it fast and look after the little monkey. We take a move at 2.30pm. I can say overall the food is ok and acceptable, just wish to have longer hour and eat slowly on all, as you know with a kid along you can’t have that privilege.

On the way back, the boy looks extremely tired after med. Just to cheer him for a while, daddy put him on the kid’s ride. He just don’t want to be carried away when force to go. Of cause he cried all the way which have draws many eyes looking on me like thought I tortured him. I almost can’t grab him tight when he struggle hard. Finally, he totally ran out of energy and exhausted, he slept all the way home.

Some info about Shogun,
Buffet Lunch
RM45++ per person (Monday to Friday),
RM48++ per person (Sat, Sun and Public Holiday)

Kid below 4 is FREE.

Shogun Japanese Buffet Restaurant
Lot S 335A, 2nd Floor
1-Utama Shopping Centre (New Wing)

For booking pls call: 03 - 7726 5770

Friday, June 6th, 2008

Dumpling Festival

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This coming Sunday is the chinese lunar calendar month 5th day 5th. It is our chinese traditional Dumpling Festival also called Dragon Boat Festival. As usually, family all will gather for a meal and yak some chinese dumpling (zongzi).

I like varies type of dumpling fillings like red beans, those with meat, mushroom, beans, dried shrimps, chesnuts, salted duck eggs, nyonya and etc. Can’t eat much at a time, the most 2 will make you feel very full. For many years, due to busy at work, my mum not making any dumpling for us. This year she have some extra time and I’m so happy that she will making some to eat and distribute. She even surprise us that she will put dry scallops as one of the filling ingredient. 

The skill of wrapping this triangle shape of glutinous rice is not really easy. During those day when I got chance help out in the making, I tried before, really it need lots of skill to wrap it tight and in shape. This morning went to market to do my weekly purchases, walk across lots of stalls selling dumpling.

I bought 2 (one for big man) to eat as breakfast also at the same time to check price. Since many things are increasing lately, it cost RM4.50 per piece. That only for a normal filling with meat, mushroom and beans only. Those with extra ingredient I believe it is above RM5. Duh, expensive betul…

Anyway life still goes on and yeah it is more hard now with the recent whopping increase of petrol price and soon on electricity and believe with petrol increase everything will increase very soon. All the best to all of us to continue to survive under the situation of salary-no-increase-yet.

Wishes you,

HAPPY DUMPLING FESTIVAL ~ 端午节快乐! ~

Belanja you a bite of my RM4.50 zong

Friday, May 30th, 2008

Beef Vegeroni

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I was thinking to do this when I want to introduce macaroni to my boy the other day. I bought 2 type of pasta - spirals vegeroni and macaroni. Too bad, my boy doesn’t like the cheese macaroni, he still much prefer to have rice or porridge.

This spirals vegeroni with minced beef is very easy to prepare. Here are the ingredients and steps.

(For 1-2 serving)

Ingredients:
100g+ top side Beef, minced it
 pack of San Remo Spirals Vegeroni
1 hand punch full of Anchovies
¼ Cheese single slice
Few stalks of spinach leave, chop fine
Prego fresh mushroom pasta sauce

Cook the Vegeroni

  1. Boil anchovies soup. Slightly fried the anchovies with garlic till it starts to turn golden, then add in water and salt to taste. Boil for 25 minutes.
  2. Wash the vegeroni in running water and put it into the anchovies soup to boil.
  3. Add in spinash, half way before the soup fully absorb/ dries up.
  4. Add in cheese slice and stir well.

Cook the minced meat

  1. Heat the wok with oil, add in garlic and fried the meat till it frangrant.
  2. Add in salt and pasta sauce to taste.

Thursday, May 22nd, 2008

My first on BIG APPLE

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It was since so long ago I wanted to try on this new and famous donuts in town, Big Apple and J Co. Monday was holiday, I have been with my family to visit my aunt and cousins. During the second half of the day I was shopping at Mid Valley.

With cousin sis

That day I was really so happy, cause finally I got to taste the donuts that I’m craving for so long. As usual, this donut store always need to queue up. I need to queue for like 10 -12 peoples before my turn, it took around 20 minutes till I check out.

There was not having the full stock of all flavours that they have. So I just pick whatever they have from the tray and here are my choice.


Pink Panther, Kimochi, Whitnut, Say Cheese and Carlifornian Almond , 6 for RM9.50 pack with contest form.

It was Big Apple 1st Golden Year Anniversary. Prizes include Berjaya Hotel and Resorts stay for 3D/2N and passes for FREE donuts. With this purchase, I got a postcard contest form. Just answer 3 questions without any slogan.

Comment on these donuts - it is fluffy, but all flavours topping are too sweet. Next I will try on J Co.

Thursday, May 15th, 2008

Loots from eBay

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Since the USD currency rate in very weak lately, I’m not making any cash out from Paypal. Instead I use the money to shop from eBay and other online fashion store. I shop quite a few items from eBay and one of it I really like it very much - the Baby GAP Madras set (US$17).

This is a 2T size, latest 2008 Spring collection of logo shirt and pant. The size overall is looks big on him. But it is ok to be big than small; the pant waist is adjustable and the length I altered it to 1.5 inches shorter. I think the size he able to wear till age 3+.

I’m very satisfied with this seller from US. She is selling lots of GAP kids clothing, giving me a fast delivery (exactly 7 days include weekend) and charging a reasonable shipping fee. I’m not really went into our GAP outlet here to shop before, but I’m sure if this madras set is available, I think I won’t get to buy it with the price I got from eBay.

On Mother’s day, I put this on him for the first time. I would say he really looks so special and smart fitting on him. At church many praised that he looks handsome and stroke his face and head..haha… *blush*.

Here is the seller’s store - Top Shelf Resale.

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008

Need a bigger bed

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It has been long my boy like to fall asleep with us on the big bed. May be he feels more comfortable sleeping on the memory foam mattress. Every night I got to stay alert to sleep beside him to make sure I’m not step on him. It is actually quite tight for 3 of us sleeping on the queen size bed. When he sleep soundly, I need to carry him back to his bed, but sometimes just too tired and lazy to transfer him, so we three just sleep together all night long.

Soon or later, I don’t think we can continue to sleep that way. One for safety purpose and somehow my boy needs his own kid’s bed soon. I was thinking that, why not our adult bed change to a bigger one; as we can get more space when sleep in 3. May be now is not the time to separate room and bed with my boy, so change a bigger bed for current use and for future is still the better solution.

With that in mind, bedroom renovation is needed to open up the space. I was thinking, wow, the floor space must be bigger than the living hall and my boy even can run in the room. So, fix in the platform bed also should not be a problem now. May be I should also consider to get some extra bedroom accessories like bedside table and dressers to match with it.

Tuesday, May 13th, 2008

Your name in Japanese

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This is an interesting tag comes from my good friend. I had never find out what is my name sounds like using Japanese alphabets.

Jap

For the instructions, add your name on the list and simply spell out your name using the given Japanese letter- translations below. Tag six of your friends and inform them of the tag. Have fun.

TRANSLATION:

A - ka

G - ji

M - rin

S - ari

Y - fu

B - tu

H - ri

N - to

T - chi

Z - zi

C - mi

I - ki

O - mo

U do

 

D - te

J - zu

P - no

V - ru

 

E - ku

K - me

Q - ke

W - mei

 

F - lu

L - ta

R - shi

X - na

 

1. OSWALD - moarimeikatate (sounds like america and states. har…. har… har…)
2. CHLOE - Miritamoku — Um…think I still prefer my given name, ha ha
3. GENG – Jikutoji — Actually, I think its cute sounding. Arigato gozaimasu!
4. CONSTANCE - Mimoto arichi katomiku — WOW! Does it sound like an authentic Japanese cuisine? YIKES! I broke it up cos it was quite a mouthful!
5. DORA - Temoshika – Sounds pretty good huh?! Does it mean beautiful woman?
6. Sting - Arichi Kitoji - Sounds like a guy’s name but at least it rhymes! LOL!!
7. Amidrin - Karinki Teshikito (I was deciding between Karinki Teshikito or Karinkites Hikito. LOL… still the english name sounds much better.)
8. Lemonjude - Takurinmoto Zudoteku (very long name, sounds like guy name also, still prefer my nick in English)

Pass this to Beelibaala, Lovely Mummy and Mummy-in-Vain.

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