Our First Monday In The Year 2010

Not exactly a good way to begin my new year on the first Monday of the year. I woke up at 5:30am with a nagging discomfort in my abdomen area. Felt like pooing and felt nauseous. Since 5:30am, I have been purging more than 10x up until now. It must be something that I ate at the Le Meridien Hotel buffet over lunch yesterday, either the raw sashimi or the cendol. On a bright side, my weight has dropped from 46kg to 45kg since there’s almost nothing left in my guts 😀

Alycia woke up at 6am and I managed to get her ready by 6:40am. She’s quite independent and disciplined, unlike rascal #2. Everything went smoothly on her official first day at school (she had 2 days of orientation in school last week). But her teacher still thinks her hair was too long for the school’s standard (blah!) and told her to either cut it short or tie a bun (for Pete’s sake, how to tie a bun with such short hair?!). I chose the former and daddy brought her to have her hair trimmed. She’s now sulking over her short hair, me inclusive!!

Rascal #2 did pretty well in school. I hardly have to worry if she’ll cry in school coz she’s a social butterfly, ever so cheerful and happy and she even cheered up her new weepy classmates last year. 

As for Baby, I am really upset that she has a bladder infection. Her pee smelled a tad foul and looked cloudy since yesterday afternoon. I texted my surgeon and he suggested that I sent her pee for a test. The initial urine FEME test showed a WBC of 16-18. I am still hoping that her body can flush out the bacteria on its own without the need for antibiotics. The surgeon and I are equally perplexed as to why this is happening as the MCUG scan showed she has no more kidney reflux and the ultrasound scan done recently looked good too. This is her first UTI after her surgeries more than 6 months ago. I suspect that it’s caused by her swimming in the Hard Rock Hotel Penang pool 2 weeks ago. You know how much bacteria is teeming in a public pool, moreover the pool was flooded with people.


Alycia with Baby at Le Meridien yesterday. Baby was sucking on a wedge of lemon.

How was your first Monday of the year?

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Soup And Tong Sui Maker

My mum recently bought a Primada Grains Nutrition Expert, which is a ‘tong sui’ maker. The maker is primarily to make tong sui from grains – soy beans, mung beans, red beans, barley, white sesame seeds, black sesame seeds, white almonds, walnuts, peanuts, brown rice, red rice, black rice and just about any type of grains, nuts and seeds. My mum tried to be adventurous and tried using the maker to make mushroom soup, tomato soup, beet root soup, chicken soup and even went a step further by surfing the internet for soup recipes. The outcome has been amazing. Her soups were really tasty and tasted even better than canned soups  and those sold in restaurants.

When we were in Ipoh last week, she made tomato-carrot-potato-big onion soup with chicken stock and basil leaves:

This is fresh shiitake mushroom soup with evaporated milk and basil leaves.

The Primada tong sui and soup maker.  It will be a worthy and healthy investment if you love drinking soup and tong sui.

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Guess What They Are Doing?

When daddy came to pick us up from Ipoh last week, he brought along the gals’ belated X’mas pressies. Here, daddy is having fun with the gals with their new toy and guess what they’re doing? Any idea?

My 3 gals were fighting to get hold of the gadget so that they could have the first view of a ‘creature’ inside the gadget.  Baby the cili padi got to view it first.  Whenever she screams “peeeeeeeash, I wan, I wan”, she gets it her way….

Tadaaa……

This is a toy magnifying glass and there’s a real worm inside. Daddy brought the gals to the garden to catch a worm to put it inside the gadget for the gals to have a magnified view of it.  Cool toy indeed!

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Our 2010 New Year’s Eve Celebration

We had a very sumptuous BBQ dinner at the poolside of our condo with some close friends last night.

Daddy bought balloons, party hats and party whistles for the kids…

My plate of Wagyu beef and saba fish…

There were lots of delectable grub ranging from Wagyu beef, saba (mackeral) fish, sausages to fettuccine, spaghetti, grilled chicken, fresh shiitake blended mushroom soup, grilled lamb loin, fish and chips, onion rings, french fries, nuggets, salad and much more. Head over to my hubs’ catering blog to view pix of the delectable spread of food.

Baby happily putting her pressies on the chair…

SO much left over food, enough to feed us for another 2-3 days for lunch and dinner!

After dinner, we went up to our unit to count down.  Everyone watched with awe the spectacular display of fireworks at the Dataran Merdeka / KL area from the 5th floor of our unit.  After count down, we had red wine, white wine and champagne whilst the kids played and watched cartoon.  Baby who had missed her afternoon nap dozed off at 10pm during her bath in my arms haha!    Everyone hit the sack at 2ish am and only woke up at 11ish am. I for once woke up at 7am which is considered SOOOOOO late. I’m just not used to seeing a brightly lit sky when I open my eyes!

Here’s wishing everyone a very, very happy, blessed, prosperous, smooth sailing 2010!

How did you celebrate your New Year’s Eve?

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