Look who's cooking!

Tah - Dah!!!!

As mentioned, I've been doing some cooking since I met Jan. It was her who gave me the motivation to start to learn how to cook.

Yesterday, we had steamed tofu topped with minced meat and mushroom...
This is the Before look....And this is the after look...The photo doesnt do any justice to how nice the tofu and minced meat combination is. This is one of my favourite dish. Yum yum.And we had Omelette with cheese and mushroom. I had this combi at the Amara Sanctuary and was craving for it. It was very nice, especially with the melted cheese...Hb gave thumbs up too!

And today, we had home made otah with egg tofu and egg.

And I tried brocolli omelette also. Nice. At least reyes is not a fussy eater, he eats everything, except for bananas....I dont know why. hee hee.

So worried sick..

For the 2nd time in my entire life, I got so worried sick and my heart stopped a beat for that 10 mins.

I lost rie again. This time at United square for close to 10mins I think. It was short, but it was the longest period of time in my life.

She was just there at the build a bear section, fiddling with the items. Hubby was looking at some medela exchange your bottle stuffs and I just walked over to take a peak and the moment I was there reading the notice, hb asked me " where's rie."

OMG. I thought she was just nearby or whatever, looked and searched and no sight of her!! We both got damn worried and I started to ask those parents who were around where rie was if they saw her or not. Everyone said no. Hubby started shouting for her, and I shouted her name aloud and looked everywhere. Still no sight of her. I saw hb's worried face and I got worried sick too.

I started running around, shouting and praying hard that she will appear right infront of me, but nothing! I ran towards Bakerzin, she couldnt have ran so far off. I was worried if someone bad would just kidnap her or not. What if I really lost her for good??? How how how!!!

Then, this gentleman, asked me if I was looking for a little girl, and that he saw 2 ladies bringing a little girl towards the customer service counter. I rushed there, and at the corner of the pillar, I saw a little girl wearing pink with a lady. It was just like a second before that littl girl disappeared behind the pillar. I shouted for her, the lady miraculously turned back and there she was!!! My little girl!!!

I rushed to hug her and asked her where she went. She seem to be in a daze and I thanked the ladies profusely. She said they saw her at the corner and was about to bring her to the customer service counter. I was soooo closed to tears, I beared.

I carried her to find hb and once hb saw her, he raised his palms, scolded her and questioned her where she went. I know deep down, he was worried sick too. All of us were. Everyone looked at us, but at that moment, only my girl matters most to me.

As we walked off, I kept asking her and asking and asking why did she just walk off without telling us. This uncle who also helped us look for rie was across and spotted us. Hb waved a thank you to him. He smiled and waved back.

This was the worst of all lor. 2nd time, twice in a year. I would have hated myself for the rest of my life if anything happened to her. Hb dashed out of the building to look for her, he told me he was so worried if she ran out of the building.

I was thinking, she must have walked off to somewhere that interest her, but it never occured to me she would walk so far away. Normally, she would shout for us, but not this time. I must never trust her.

If she could have easily followed that 2 ladies away, I think she would easily follow any bad people with evil motives. How vulnerable a little girl of her age can be. Hb went on and on and on chiding me over and over again. I was already so sad deep down, full of regrets....

I was just reading an acquaintance of mine, who blogged abt losing her son too. He dashed into the lift and the doors closed before they could get in. She ran up to duno which floor like mad, and when she arrived, the lift was empty. She dashed down again to the first floor, and it was empty. She opened up this door and was worried it would lead to the main road. And luckily, there her son stood, right infront of a crowd.

How could such lousy parents like me exist????? I dont deserve to be called a good mummy. Sob sob. Pls dont do this again to me baby.

Lousy Stick it pad..

PLS, I repeat, Pls dont get the lousy stick it pad. I'm not refering to the 3m type of stick it pad.

But if you do a search in certain car forum or motherhood forum, you'l know what I'm refering to.

I hesistated for very long before I decide to get it. Thought it can solve my problem of having so many things on my bed. (have no bedside drawer lah).

Wanted to order 2 nia, but greedy me got 3 instead.
When it arrived, I was so excited about it and started to use it in the room.
Stuck it on the wall and then stuck my aircon remote on it and my handphone. Darn, handphone dropped in less than 3 mins.

Remote remained, but dropped off in less than 15mins!! KNS. And when I remove that stupid pad, it removed my wall paint too!!!

WTH.

Tried it in the study room, stuck my IB device and a marker. It kept falling dwn too. Fed up man. Wrote in to the seller to feedback my dissatisfaction and I wasnt pleased with the reply either.

Hi XXX, so sorry to hear about yr experience... Here r some troubleshooting pointers:
-as mentioned in the thread, The key factor for yr items to stick is surface area contact of your items n the pad. Is your aircon remote smooth n flat like the bank token? Mine is and it sticks well on my pad, if yours is a curved or uneven surface, chances are that it wil not hold well. The weight is another factor.
What u can do is wash the pad n pat dry. Stick the patterned side to the wall n the smooth side facing out. Provides a better grip.
Pls try it and find other uses for the pad like sticking it on the fridge as a memo pad to stick paper etc.. I'm sorry we can't give a refund for the pad unless it is damaged or torn when u received it...
Thanks n have a good long weekend ahead! :)

See the wordings in bold??? What is this lor. The last time I had a huge hoo haa was when I ordered some cheap $9.90 stick and click light online. It arrived in terrible condition, scratch marks, not working despite hw many times u click and click until your fingers go numb, the plastic so lan, it cracked too. Wrote online, took photos, and splashed all over the forum. But, the seller was responsible. She asked me to send back the item and refunded me as I requested! And many others followed suit too.

Eventually, I bought the stick n click light from DIY store, $9.80 with much better quality and function.

But this...sigh, I merely asked for a refund of 1 pad. O-N-E pad, since i bought 3. And she say cannot. So there goes, here's my big complain on my blog.

Anyway, I tried her method. Washing the pad, pat dry and stuck it onto the laminated poster with the patterned side. Guess what, the pad fell off not long! And now I stuck it onto my window, it stays there strong. so conclusion, it works well only on glossy surface. Not your wall pls..My wall now have patches of white paint, all because of YOUR stupid stick it pad.

What a Christmas pressie..

Merry Christmas everyone..Ho Ho HO

So, the time now is 2:21 and I'm all up and feeling so awake. What happened?
I'm feeling kinda of happy that today's Christmas day.

But.....riesia just threw up all over the bed, the pillow, the bolster, my NEW tempur support pillow(KNS KNS), the comforter, everywhere and stunk the whole room. Oh man oh man lor. I hate this. Reyes was still sleeping, but with all the crying and talking, he woke up crying too..sigh..

We had to clean up the mess and I spent a good 30mins in the bathroom, rinsing all the mess. Threw 2 pillows away too. What a day. I was so worried it was the gastric flu again. She told me her tummy was pain, but nothing came out. So while I showered her, hb had to entertain crying reyes lor. Then after rie was done, he had to entertain both, while I continue the laundry. Sigh...

So we shifted to the 2nd bedroom to spend the night. I doubt I can sleep well..yawn....

Christmas eve is a quiet day. Mum declined going over to bro's place for celebration. Bro also didnt sms me to go over. Wanted to go over mum's place, but dad was down with flu. So nowhere to go, we stayed at home lor.

This afternoon, I rushed down to Robinsons to meet hb. It was still as crowded as people were doing last minute shopping. I returned the babysafe pillow, hb exchanged his shirt and got himself a Jockey boxer. cheap leh, 20% + 20%, end up is only $8.90 nia.

It certainly helps clearing up the mood between me and hb, as after the car incident, he wasnt in a good mood lor. And surprisingly, he didnt rush us home. I was expecting him to ask us hurry home. But he asked if I wanted to walk around 313. Wee wee...so we went in, and I got all excited when I saw Santa! We took a FOC photograph with him too!!! Will try to take a pix soon.

Then walked around. I love 313 leh. Why? It looks so cosy, and plus the floors are carpeted leh. How many departmental stores have carpeted flooring along the walkway? I dont seem to know any. The carpet just makes the place looks much poshier leh. Then we went to Uniqlo. I didnt know what the fuss is all about this brand.

They had the banner all over 313, so overcrowded in Uniqlo too. Actually hb was the one who initiated walking in. Normally, I would be the one walking infront and he behing. But today, think good mood lah, he was walking infront and he just walked in the store to the kids department to look see. Wah, the kids clothings quite cute, but few selection.

We bought a skirt with leggings for rie. SOOOO cute lor. And the material is superb soft. I love it! No wonder everyone is crowding the place...

You should pop by too if you have yet to. I saw Forever 21 too....yet to find time to step in to look see. There's this italian restaurant that looks very cool too! They furnished it to look like those street type. I wanna head there someday.

---Oh boy, my tummy is turning round and round and I also have the feeling of throwing up too..I sure hope it's not gastric flu!!!---

Hw small can this world be?/

It has happen to me so many many countless times when I discover fren of fren's of fren happens to be my fren too!

And tonight's is the night yet again. One of the TPY mum's son happens to be in the same class as my ex-gf's son. (the one that I was blogging abt de-friending one due to some misunderstanding).

what a $^%&*^(

Sigh..thought tonight would be a great night for us all at Robinsons shopping again. It was to be, but alas...had a huge arguement with hb before we stepped out and well, all I can say is because of the kids again.

Anyway, spent a huge huge bomb!$300. What did we buy?
2 Safety First cupboard clip _ this is the xth number of time we have bought to replace our current ones. The kids are very strong in damaging the clips man.

masacara for myself
A shirt for hb himself
A thomas train bottle for reyes - his current one cracked...Moshi moshi would know yeah.
A baby safe kids pillow for reyes. This one huge regrets man and I'm gonna write in to them.
They had actually redeveloped the pillows to a much softer version and I feel so cheated paying $63 (comes with a babysafe blanket that is really huge). Usual price is $82.60.

The one that rie sleeps on now, is so much thicker, heavier. The weight is the thing when you mention "babysafe" to anyone. The baby cot mattress is really very thick and heavy and so does the pillow.

But the one that I bought today, it's so much lighter in weight and doesnt seem to provide much neck support I feel. (I prefer stifter type to support the neck). Sigh...regrets..Should have return for a refund, but I opened it up already.

And with all that, I bought the tempur original pillow at $159. It's such a grab and if any of you are looking for a good support pillow, go grab it before 24th Dec. All you need to do is spend $50 to purchase these purchase with purchase.

And being woman, I bought the WMF pot at $25. Usual is $79.

In all, I happily walked to the customer service center, hoping to get my hands on the calender and umbrella. No Q leh, good. Then I saw : Calenders and umbrellas have been fully redeemed. WTH! The guy infront of me was holding onto the brolly and I asked him if he has just redeemed it.

He said he redeemed it few days back and I was so upset lor...But well, the way the lady at the customer service cheered me up " But well, you have many chances to win a car!" hahaha...

So I spent that $300 for nothing in a way. sigh. Fed up.

Then, in the carpark, because there are very few cars, hb attempt to shortcut to head out to the exit. He reversed while I was busy clipping reyes to the carseat. BANGZ! KNS!!! He hit the back where stupid mgtment people hung the fire hose onto the wall!!!! KNS KNS KNS x infinity.

Huge dent yet again. Fender gena again. So fed up. I just didnt understand why did he have to reverse for what? Shortcut lah, now he deserve it. fed up.

Swimming....

It was nice, bright and sunny..good time for a swim that R & R were looking forward to.

We finally bought a swimsuit for reyes...but I"ve ran out of swim diapers!

Then, showered for the last time in the hotel, packed up and home we went...We slept from 230 to 6pm man!!! see how tired we were.

Next....

Photos taken at the hotel lift lobby..

The kids, snoring...well..big hoo haa before we finally got into bed.

We cameback, no sight of babycot. Called up hsekeeping and was told all were already out. OUT? Barked at them, barked at the reception. Told them that the guy who checked us in did call hsekeeping, informed them our room number and told them we wanted a babycot. I heard him say it loud and clear. So why was instructions not taken down??? So what to do? No babycot.

So fine. Requested for mattress so that hb can sleep. Their reply : No mattress also. ??????Five star hotel, no more baby cot, no mattress. That's really not a valid reason to give to your customers you know. You are suppose to solve this and not merely telling me dont have.

Well, luckily there is a coach in the room. IF there is no coach or is those 2 chairs type, I think 4 of us have to squeeze in the bed and sleep uncomfortably thru the night. So the hsekeeping ladies brought bedsheet and towels up. They thought that we will put our son sleep there?? use your brain lah.

So when hb saw no pillows, he went : you all dont have extra pillows ah??

So off they went to find pillow. Just 1 miserable one and blanket. Rie was very excited and insisted to sleep there by herself!!! I'm surprised. I'm also happy lah, to be able to sleep with reyes. First time he's sleeping between me and hb...awwww....

So well, that was definitely an unpleasant issue. I didnt sleep well and neither did hb. the pillows were just too soft. But good that they had this long bolster leh and the bed was very firm and good for support. Unlike the other older hotel, the bed was soooo soft, I think countless guests have already made themselves very comfy in it and the hotel was run down. Dont know why they are not upgrading or renovating themselves..But hb didnt want to go back there to stay anymore.

R & R, still dead tired and snoring after we changed their clothings for bf at 730am.

We spotted a pretty peacook on the rooftop...

Breakfast was nice, I enjoyed it and wish I can eat more!

So I told hb to bring the kids back to the room, coz rie said she wanted to poo. And I can enjoy the food by myself...munch munch munch. And I took pineapples,took 5, drank tea and felt very very unwell. Rushed back to room with so many food uneaten...I wanted to throw up!!! Rushed to the toilet, but it was occupied, so bo bian, rushed back to room...Dashed the moment the lift opened the door, knocked on the door and hb took his own sweet time to open. darn!!!

Dashed in and ............he was so taken back and asked me what happened..sigh....what a morning...

I forgot to add on. The ikea kids cutlery that the restaurant was using was very very very over-used liao. you can see those plastic thingy coming out from the knife. Yes, knife. No fork, no spoon were provided as seen in the photo. I requested for a change hoping for another better one, but nope, it was just the same. So yucky...imagine the germs all on it man. eee

Part 2...

Next stop was to Imibiah lookout. Rie wanted to watch the pirate 4d show, so I went along with her. We bought tickets for the log ride and pirate show. IT was nice! Stimulated, so I'm not afraid. hahahaha..I dont know if I can survive the actual roller coaster rides or not.

So after waiting for us, it's time to head to the luge and skyride station...Rie was very excited. Hb took her along first.So while waiting with reyes, I took some photos... Reyes missed the height limitation of just mere 5cm and so he had to hang around with me.

They are back and hb's isnt smiling...He grumble BIG time that it was a mistake to bring rie up the skyride and that I didnt inform him. Hello????

Well, rie isnt easy to handle at times, especially so if she has missed her nap time too. I think the safety measures isnt there too lor for kids. It's actually very dangerous. I understand how hb felt when I went up with rie..

I'm forcing to smile and to divert my attention. Share a secret. I realise that I'm actually terrified of heights!!!! I was very excited to go up the skyride, hoping to see some nice scenery. But then end up, 99.9999% of the time, I was just looking straight, or looking at rie, and left hand grabbing our sandals tightly and right hand over locking rie and grabbing the wooden seat tightly. I WAS DAMN TERRIFIED!!!!!

I hated the feeling of my legs dangling in the air and I had to sing a song to keep rie from moving and also to calm myself down...embarassing...Rie was enjoying the scenery and kept asking me to turn around to look at the sea, but I didnt dare to even turn my back behind...In my mind these were just the thoughts :

...where is hb....are we there yet? are we there yet? how long more to reach?????I'm dying! Stay calm. Look so scary below, what if we fell down? ARE WE REACHING?????? ARGH!!!!!

When we arrived, I told hb and myself that I will not take the skyride anymore. Happy with feet on the ground.

We had a quick dinner. Hb insisted subway and after that I insisted we head to koufu foodcourt for the kids dinner, then rush back to watch song of the sea.

***I accidentally saved the family photo in a smaller size in the memory card. Cannot retrieve back original copy liao is it ah?? experts pls!!!!

I think it was just so so nia. But rie enjoys alot with all the lighting effects and water and plus the fireworks...Managed to grab a cheesecake before heading back to hotel to rest...tired..

Pix pix..

Okay, am gonna do Part 1 first...

We made a mad rush down to harbourfront to catch the shuttle that was leaving at 110pm sharp. Phew, made it just in time..cant wait to reach the hotel.

Hb said I curry favour the reception and got the free upgrade from the deluxe room to premier room. hahaha..But more to come later on..sigh...

We also managed to secure the top floor too! Wonderful view and the infinity pool which moonlight was talking abt, is just outside our room! We were staying at the 2nd room nia.

Here's rie posing with the apple she got from the lobby. The sweet lady also offered her Xmas cookies..nice, but not cheap.

Here's walking to our room...I just dont get it, how come the floors are not fully carpeted ah? Halfway thru then is carpetted. I prefer the atmostphere inside where is much cosier along the corridor. Ours was very bright, like in the pic.

Dah-tah!!! Heres' the huge king size bed! Uncomparable to the one we have at home man! R & R were SOOO excited about the huge room and the bath tub. Why?I'l tell u why.

The huge bath tub. Can you see to your left,there is the tap for the bath tub? Both of them are so excited, because they can turn on the tap and wash their hands there and play water at their level! haha. I love the raindrop tap in the glass shower..my fav. The telly and desk area...Rie was already self helping herself to the telly remote...A family pix before we headed out.First stop was to megazip. I dared hb to do the parajump and flying foz...The pix below shows where he will jump off, 15m tall. It costs $10 per jump. Looking from below, it doesnt look as scary, but then people are screaming and when they reach the ground, they actually lose their balance.

Getting ready...he's the first to go.

And after that was done, up again to do the flying fox....I wanted to do the flying fox if I have the chance, but will think twice...tell u why later on too.

Wonderful view...had to wait for hb to return in the coach. R & R wasnt easy to cope, as both miss their afternoon nap.

Hairclips...

Not easy to do man, looking at it like so easy. The glue is the toughest to handle and you have to press down and align the ribbons straight before the glue starts to harden. Ruined 2 clips in the end...sigh...

This pattern is my favourite. Bunny's butt. Took me countless hours just to do all these nia...pengz.

I sure hope the kids will like them.

Sentosa...here we come & back

Am really tired, so will blog again another day when I'm feeling more energetic.

here's just 2 photos... I love your smile baby...

photos...

Okay, time now is already 2:05am in the morning, so pls dont blame me for any spelling mistakes or whatever...Am really dead tired...

Some photos taken last week. We went to the Park Royal hotel for buffet. Just next to city square. Recommended to go. Dont know hw much, coz dad paid for it. Elder bro came along, so in a way, the kids got to mingle and play and I get to have my dinner in peace too.

Taken with my niece whom I dote the most...A rather good attempt for a family shot taken by my niece...Merry Christmas.... I love christmas trees. Dad used to have a christmas tree in the house every year and we would always be happily decorating it. I remember putting on cotton wools to resemble snow..hee hee..But after we lend our christmas tree to the neighbour for some mediacorp christmas advertisement, it never returned and no more xmas tree liao lor.

Been bugging hb to go and get one, but sigh...even the tinest smallest one he also dont want to buy. Cheap skate.

Here's more photos...Met up with a long long long near to lost ex colleague cum sis. It's been close to 5 years? since we last met in office?

I sneaked out the house with rie only for a cup of coffee. Needa to get out and enjoy a tai tai life abit. going crazy in the house man. And I wanna eat my cheesecake too!!!

Hb was surprisingly nice to drive dwn to town with reyes in tow to pick us up. Darn. I can faint seeing what he wore man. tsk tsk. Reyes was very good in the car, and he fell asleep. I was still worried he would be making noise in the car seat...

It's really nice walking dwn orchard road, seeing the lightings and all. Luckily half way thru, reyes woke up and he was REALLY excited to see so many lights. I think his favourites are those white and red balls hanging on the trees, coz he would go " ball!" and point them up....

I was surprised when rie stopped me and said she wanted to take a photo with Santa. We had to wait as there were 2 other people waiting to take a shot. Rie was standing few steps infront of me and each time she wanted to go forward, I had to stop her, as it wasnt her turn. She was abit disappointed...


But see how happy she is after taking photo with Santa!
There were also many many designer reindeers on display and some were really pretty...

Rie picked and chose which reindeer she wanted to take a photo with..hee hee.

P/S: I finally got to wear the peacook dress I bought online. It's a great great buy and I love it! Now I know where to turn to get good quality dress at cheap price....well, cannot go out to shop, so shop online lor!

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Been reading a no longer considered as friend blog, just out of curiousity and they just returned from a holiday trip to Bali with a year old + son in tow. I'm amazed how these people do it???? I'm begging like crazy to head out for a holiday and each time I mention holiday, the word Malaysia always comes out of everybody's mouth. I wanna take the plane! Why? Coz rie wants to take the plane and plus the travelling time is so much shorter, so I dont have to worry abt the kids making noise or whatever as compared to in the coach. Plus, there's toilet too right, got meals served.

This fri, hb is taking a day leave and I jio him to go bintan with the kids. Just 2 days 1 night. Called up his cousin to enquire and was quoted $422.50. Ex? Wah liao...sigh.