February 2011 – Page 2 – HEALTH FREAK MOMMY

Blur Mommy

I have to knock myself on the head today for I am such a blur mother sotong! I woke Sherilyn up at 7:30am as usual, nagged her till no end to finish her milk quickly, wash up quickly and dress up quickly. I nagged her with the same words, telling her that she would miss her school Assembly again if she dilly dallies, threatened her that she will be kicked out from school next year when she goes to Primary 1, if she continues to be late for school. She was in her whiny mode and me, I was in my monster mommy mode. After going through the same motion with her every morning, she was finally ready and I sent her off with hubs.

Mil came back from her morning walk. She asked me if there’s school today as the pre-school looked seemingly quiet and devoid of humans. I smugly told her got what, why don’t have. After all, Alycia went to school this morning. Other kids from our condo also went to school this morning, so why not for Sherilyn? 5 minutes later, my handphone blasted. Hubs’ number was on the screen. I could feel air being released from my big head. Uh-oh, I just knew that he wanted to ask me to bring Sherilyn up and I was prepared to hear him pass some remarks about my carelessness. But he didn’t hah!

It was still a holiday for the pre-school. My maid went down to bring Sherilyn up. When my maid was back, she told me that a lady from our condo with a grand daughter from the same pre school saw Sherilyn in her school uniform and passed some remarks. Duh, I know. I am a blur mommy who’s getting old. I should have used a magnifying glass when I read her message book and marked my eCalendar. Sigh. I better not repeat this boo boo again.

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Personal Injury Lawyer

On the third day of Chinese New Year, I read with dismay about the tourist from China who was injured at a popular beach in Penang when a water jet ski rammed into her. 2 foreigners who were riding on the jet skis collided their vehicles and the jet skis crashed onto her. Her legs were seriously injured but thank God, her legs were not crushed. They were only badly fractured and she has to be hospitalized for at least 6 months. If I were the victim, I would go all out to sue the operators of the water jet skis and hire a lawyer as good as the Austin Personal Injury Lawyer to get a big sum on compensation. If anyone of you have been injured through the negligence of a third party, you can get initial consultations without any charge from O’Hanlon, McCollom & Demerath. Here’s their address:
O’Hanlon, McCollom & Demerath – Personal Injury Lawyers – 808 West Avenue, Austin, TX. 78701 – 512-494-9949

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The Han Room @ Gardens, Mid Valley, KL

One of the newest ventures by the Oriental Group of Restaurants is the Han Room at Gardens, Mid Valley KL. We went there on the eve of the Eve of CNY early this week. Though it was a week day, the restaurant was almost fully booked.

For appetizer, we were served a plate of flavorful and appetite whetting deep fried bean curd adorned with Thai-style sweet and sour dressing.

We wanted to eat something light, so we ordered some dim sum, a fried rice for my ‘fan toong’ Alycia and a plate of noodles for my noodles crazed Sherilyn.

The basket of dim sum on the left is otak-otak dim sum. It is Japanese tofu stuffed with fish paste, topped with a piece of otak-otak …

Double boiled chicken soup with abalone. Baby my little soup lover gulped down almost the entire bowl of soup while I wolfed the abalone hehehe…

This is our all-time favorite veggie dish – kai lan cooked in 2 different styles – stir fried at the bottom with deep fried shredded kai lan on top. My girls walloped every strand of the deep fried kailan crisps on the plate.

Fried rice with prawns and crab meat served in clay pot…

Wantan noodles with seafood and fresh mushrooms.

This Cheong fun dish is unique. Wrapped inside the thin flat rice noodles are some deep fried stuffing which this dunderhead can’t really tell what the ingredients are for the stuffing. Taste wise only so-so. I prefer the regular Hong Kong style cheong fun with char siew and prawns or fresh scallops.

We will be making another trip to this restaurant on Valentine’s Day. It will be our CNY reunion meal with our friends.

Cuisine : Chinese
Taste / presentation : 8/10
Ambience : 8/10
Price : some dishes can be pretty pricey. Overall, the price is comparable with other restaurants of this standard.

Information:
Lot G243,G246 &G247,
Ground Floor,
The Gardens Mall,
Mid Valley City, Lingkaran Syed Putra, 59200 KL.
Tel: 03 – 2284 8833
GPS: 3.117849,101.67522

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What A Way To Do Her Subtraction!

That’s how Sherilyn did her Kumon subtraction sums. Instead of working on and finishing the sums one by one, she worked on the left part of all the sums first, then tackled the right part. And that’s how she does her writing homework too. I had to whack her to stop her from doing it again and again. She even tried to copy the answers from the answer sheets at the back of the page! This cunning rascal. Gave her a big tongue lashing session and had to staple up the answer sheets to stop her from copying.

By the way, do you think this is too tough for a 6-year old? Sherilyn is now doing a Grade 2 Kumon Math book. She finds Kumon a big bore and I have to use lots of threats on her to get her to complete the sums. She prefers to practice her Math sums on the laptop, from those free Math sites for kids.

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Tabasco Original Red, Simply The Best

One of the sauces that is always available in our refrigerator is TABASCO® Original Red. I love Tabasco sauce on my steaks, on my BBQ chicken wings, on my scrambled eggs, on my fresh oysters and on my pizzas. What I like most about Tabasco is that it is naturally made with only three ingredients : fully aged red peppers, Avery Island salt and high quality distilled vinegar with no added gum, coloring or flavoring. Tabasco sauce is one of the oldest and most reputable chili sauces in the world, having been around since 1868!
TABASCO® Original Red is “So Much More Than Hot.” Whenever we have pizzas, I always ensure that my slice has a few dashes of Tabasco sauce, which makes every bite of it Pizza Perfected. My hubby loves gulping down his bowl of raw oysters with Tabasco sauce and a squeeze of fresh lemon juice. Tabasco unlocks the flavor of our favorite food so that we can relish on it even more.
If you are a fan of Tabasco sauce too, you really have to check out the Game-Day Party Menu for some simple ideas and recipes that uses Tabasco sauce, which I’ll bet everyone will love. It’s the football season now and the Super Bowl is just around the corner. Many of you are now excited and are planning to bring some snacks to nibble on as you watch the games. I think getting some pizzas to munch would be a great game day tradition. Don’t forget to stock up your kitchen with a few bottles of TABASCO® Original Red sauce to drizzle on your pizzas!

This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of TABASCO® Original Red. All opinions are 100% mine.

One of the sauces that is always available in our refrigerator is TABASCO® Original Red I love Tabasco sauce on my steaks, on my BBQ chicken wings, on my scrambled eggs, on my fresh oysters and on my pizzas. What I like most about Tabasco is that it is naturally made with only three ingredients : fully aged red peppers, Avery Island salt and high quality distilled vinegar with no added gum, coloring or flavoring. Tabasco sauce is one of the oldest and most reputable chili sauces in the world, having been around since 1868!

TABASCO® Original Red is “So Much More Than Hot.” Whenever we have pizzas, I always ensure that my slice has a few dashes of Tabasco sauce, which makes every bite of it Pizza Perfected. My hubby loves gulping down his bowl of raw oysters with Tabasco sauce and a squeeze of fresh lemon juice. Tabasco unlocks the flavor of our favorite food so that we can relish on it even more.

If you are a fan of Tabasco sauce too, you really have to check out the Game-Day Party Menu for some simple ideas and recipes that uses Tabasco sauce, which I’ll bet everyone will love. It’s the football season now and the Super Bowl is just around the corner. Many of you are now excited and are planning to bring some snacks to nibble on as you watch the games. I think getting some pizzas to munch would be a great game day tradition. Don’t forget to stock up your kitchen with a few bottles of TABASCO® Original Red sauce to drizzle on your pizzas today!

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Our 1st Day Of The Year Of The Rabbit

We greeted the year of the Rabbit by watching several spectacular fireworks displays let out from the KLCC area and Le Meridien Hotel area from the 5th floor of our condo unit at 12 midnight. Baby who was asleep was jolted up from her sleep by the continuous thunderous noise from the fireworks and crying.

This morning, my mil cooked a big pot of vegetarian fried vermicelli and ‘jai’ (vegetarian dish made up of Chinese cabbage, cloud ear fungus, mushrooms, bamboo shoots, glass noodles and red fermented tofu paste. It has been our custom to go vegetarian for half a day on the 1st day of the CNY. Alan Yun, our long-time friend (local movie star, commercial star and model) joined us for lunch.

Daddy giving out ang pows to the girls with everyone donning on red red clothes …

After lunch, we went across our condo to Alan Yun’s house to play firecrackers. When Baby heard daddy telling us that we were going to play firecrackers, she exclaimed with surprise and said “but it’s not dark yet?!!” LOL, smart girl. Yup, we know it’s not dark yet but we wanted Esther (Alan’s niece) to play with our girls as she had to leave soon. Though Esther had only just met our girls, they hit it off really well and she was in tears when we had to say good bye. See how protective Esther (who’s 4yo+) was over Baby when the firecrackers was let off.

Alycia, Sherilyn, Esther and Cassandra with leng jai Alan Yun kor kor …

Alycia playing with sparklers.

How have your nin chor yat been? Don’t over stuff yourself with red meat, cookies, snacks, meat jerky and sweet fizzy drinks ya! Get some exercise too to dissolve those calories 😀

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Our Eve Of The Year Of The Rabbit

I think no one would be able to guess where I went to today, on the Eve of the Chinese New Year. Hubs brought me for a foot reflexology! He had gone to this acu-pressure centre at Jalan Imbi a few days ago on recommendation of his close friend. Yesterday, he brought my mil there and today was my turn. The appointment was fixed at 10:30am and we spent over 2 hours there. This foot reflexologist claims that he can cure people of many ailments, even cancer. The man who was before my turn has cancer and he was trying his luck in getting the cancer treated through foot acu-pressure and reflexology. Anyway, I shall blog about this in my health blog later.

It’s 5:30pm now and our house is filled with the aroma of CNY dishes, the smell of which is making everybody’s tummy rumble…. braised mushrooms with sea cucumber and dried scallops and a pot of abalone chicken soup. My mil’s also going to steam a ‘yim kai’ aka castrated chicken (castrated chickens costs over RM50 a kilo and a bird normally costs between RM150 – RM200!), kon cheen har loke (fried prawns), some waxed meat which is a must for CNY, re-toast a big fat chunk of crispy siew yoke which she bought this morning, stir-fry a mixed veggie and steam pomfret fish.

I vowed that this CNY, I shall not gorge on CNY cookies, and especially on pork and chicken jerky and deep fried arrowroot chips. The foot reflexologist told me that I’ve got a poor digestive system (revealed through pain from specific points on my foot) and should avoid deep fried food and food laden with oil. Oh well, it’s better to trust him than to indulge in these sins, only to regret later right?

My mil brought these lovely plants back from Hong Kong last week. When she brought them back, the flowers have not bloomed yet. Now, they are blooming with pretty white-yellow flowers.

How are you celebrating your Eve of Chinese New Year? I’d like to wish all my blog readers koong hei fatt tai choy and may the year of the rabbit bring everyone good health, good wealth, peace and happiness.

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