Rascal #2 is one who gives me loads of heart and head aches each time she is asked to do her school homework, my homework or to memorize the weekly spelling, ejaan and ting xie from her pre school. Lots of nags, threats and whips are used each day. Can you imagine the amount of stress I go through everyday with her alone? I have 2 other brats who give me different kinds of stress. Sometimes when I am too caught up with work and forget to check her bag, I would uncover a pile of crap in her school bag at the end of the day – her tons of homework which is not done… which she had told me earlier that she has no homework!! In times like this, I would feel like strangling that brat. This was what happened several days ago. So she was forced to do her homework at 10pm… and this Energizer Bunny’s batteries were totally konked out at that hour.
Oh well. I should not complain. I just need to rant it out here 😀 Each time I am at the end of my tether with my 3 kiddos, I would force myself to reminisce what I had gone through 9 years ago and my promises to Him above. And my dear hubs would add in with those grim reminders of 2002 too and tell me to stop complaining.
Early this year when she just turned 3YO, she mastered the laptop. Months later, she mastered the iPad2. Now, this cili padi has mastered the Astro remote control coz she has finally recognized her numbers! This afternoon, I got a big surprise from her when she switched the channel from 855 (the TV is always on Astro channel 855 or 854 as I love working with music in the background) to her favorite Baby channel on 618 on her own! Her che che had told her once that the Baby Channel is on 618. So this afternoon, this fella hogged the remote control, conveniently switched it to her favorite channel and continued to hog it until the evening, while refusing to let her 2 che ches have it. When her che ches tried to sneak the remote control away from her, this cili padi yelled out “don’t touch the control! Do your homework!” to her sisters muahahahahahaha!! When mummy’s busy with work, the TV, iPad and laptop will be her best companion. But this ain’t that bad after all as she has learned to recognize and write the letters of the alphabet and numbers mostly from these 3 electronic gadgets.
Cassandra at 3 years 5 months and she’s a very promising junior model at her mummy’s online store!
My daughters are very lucky as they have very indulgent grandparents and aunts, from both sides of the family – my side and hubs side. Knowing that they are Angry Birds craze, my mum bought yet another batch of AB loot for them, and have them sent to them from Ipoh through my younger brother.
Here you go, for the feast of your eyes:
AB panties, AB plasters, AB sharpeners, AB jig saw puzzles for my jig saw puzzle buff Cass and AB badges…
Alycia, Sherilyn and Cassandra say a big thank you to you, granny! And you can stop buying ABs. I can feel that the AB fever is almost starting to subside… and now they are starting to show signs of Smurfs and also Plants vs Zombies fever, sei for!
Over lunch just now, my 3YO rascal was jumping up and down her chair at the dining table. Her 6.5YO che che was no better. She was hanging on the table like a primate. I was almost going to blow my top to see them behaving like that.
Me – hey you two, stop jumping up and down like a monkey. If you hurt yourself, I have no car to bring you to the hospital.
Baby – you can call the AMBULANCE!
I was speechless. Yet again I was out-talked by my vocal 3YO girl.
Recently, Baby found this very old owl mask that we got from an Enfagrow milk booth months or perhaps years ago. Each time she puts on the mask, she will come up to me, tap on my leg and say this “am I cute now mummy?” and then gives me her cutest, sweetest grin. And I will reply by telling her “Of course you are cute Baby” and give her a kiss. Ah, one of those heart-warming moments that I love.
Alycia has been hit by the Geronimo Stilton fever. Her P2 classmates have all been bitten by the same silly mouse bug too. On Sunday, we spent 6 hours at Mid Valley Megamall and Gardens. Our main purpose to the mall was to get Sherilyn a pair of black ‘kek kok’ tap shoes for her graduation cum concert. We thought that it was going to be a quick shopping trip but we ended up spending half a day there. We spent close to 2 hours at Borders and spent over RM200 on books for the girls, the bulk of which was for my Geronimo craze 7.5YO girl.
So here’s Alycia’s loot. She was overjoyed beyond words when daddy told her that she could choose 10 books so that the amount will entitle us to a year’s membership at Borders. Membership will be free if one spends a minimum of RM150 in a single receipt. Membership will entitle the member to a 10% discount on purchase of books for 1 year.
Day and night this girl had her eyes and hands glued to her books…. and that’s my girl fresh from bed with the book still glued to her hand…
She even showed no interest when I shoved a piece of bread with ice cream to her mouth! She was already full from reading her books! You’ll be surprised to know that this girl has interest mainly in horror, adventure, investigation, ghosts and ghouls, bizarre and creepy books. Nothing cute or girlish for this girl… yet.
My food critic cum food caterer hubs brought us to Steam Room Restaurant for dinner after having a satisfied lunch there with his friend a day earlier. He discovered Steam Room @ Viva Home Mall after providing catering service to his client whose shop is in Viva Mall.
Viva Home is an integrated one-stop centre where home enthusiasts can find all their home needs in one place. Whether you are decorating a new home, renovating an existing one or simply looking to fill it with fun and flair, Viva Home offers everything you need under one roof.
When the food came, my tummy was rumbling as everything looked so appetizing but my ravenous appetite was blown away when Baby puked half way through eating. This girl has a tendency of puking if she eats too full or if she is constipated. This time she puked because of the latter. She was constipated the whole day and was suffering from discomfort and bloatedness. My mistake of going out that night. It was really potong steam for me as I was enjoying my food when she spewed out her hot stinky lava all over herself and on the table. My helper and I had to bring her to the loo to have a big wash up. By the time we came out, the food was already cold and I had totally no more appetite to eat. Oh well, that’s motherhood.
Anyway, am not going to potong your steam. Do check out what we ordered:
Part of the dim sum that we ordered. Love the ma lai koa…
This kale is no run-of-the-mill kailan dish. It is kailan sushi. The blanched plain kale is served Japanese style with Japanese soy sauce and wasabi. Very refreshing. Perfect dish for weight watchers and the health-minded.
Steamed kampung chicken with Chinese wolferries…
Love this steamed egg with fish paste. Very suitable dish for kids. And I shall try cooking this dish for my kiddos very soon.
Ipoh style chicken noodles…
Beef noodles…
After an eventful dinner, we shopped at this Japanese RM4.99 concept shop that is akin to Daiso. But oops, I had forgotten the name of this shop as it is pretty new and unheard of. But many of their products are made in Japan. We spent quite a bit in this shop. I can never resist myself whenever I step foot into RM5 shops like Daiso or 100 Yen Shop. That’s one of my weaknesses!!
Apart from Steam Room, other F&B outlets are aplenty at Viva Home Mall. We shall definitely make another trip to Viva to try other eateries and to shop at the RM4.99 Japanese shop again.
Location:
Steam Room Restaurant (VIVA Home Mall)
Level 1, West Wing, Lot 1-12 & 1-13, VIVA HOME Mall,
No. 85, Jalan Loke Yew, 55200 Kuala Lumpur.
Phone: 03-9200 9906
I prepared something really healthy for lunch for the kiddos a few days ago:
A salad of boiled brocolli, potatoes, hard boiled eggs, tuna, onions, mayo, cherry tomatoes and jullienned cucumbers…
I got the idea of potato – brocolli salad from the Japanese restaurant that we frequent to. This set of cup, bowl and tray were bought from Daiso @ Tokyo Street. All are made in Japan.
Sherilyn’s bento set, which she hearts 😀
Her bento set consists of freshly made juice (carrot, celery, guava and green apple), half slice of toasted bread with homemade kaya and half slice of bread with herbs and cheese and a plate of brocolli salad.
Healthy mou? I’ll bet many kiddos will shun away from this bento set. Would your kids turn their thumbs down on this?
I like to carry Baby, though she is already 3years 5 months. As I lifted her and carried her on my hip yesterday…..
Me – baby, I love to carry you. You are so skinny and I can still carry you like a little puppy. Next year when you are 4 years old and heavier, I will not be able to carry you anymore…. to which she would always tell me this:
Baby – I thought you have backache and neck pain? Why still carry me? (so thoughtful of this girl!)
Me – because I love you.
Baby – I love you too (and then kissed me)
Me – you will be my last baby. Next time, I will carry your baby ok?
Baby – I will get married with my boyfriend and have babies. Then you carry my babies ok?
And then we laughed together. Where did she get the idea that she has to get married with her boyfriend in order to have babies? I can’t remember telling this to her LOL!
My samseng is still very much a samseng up until today. She still flat lines my heart beat all the time with her acrobat stunts everyday.
Just a moment ago, I saw her performing this stunt and quickly grabbed my camera to snap… and got this reply from her “DON’T put in your Facebook ok?” MUAHAHAHAHAHAH!!
Last Saturday, my good blogger pals, their families and my family had dinner at my good friend, Alan Yun’s restaurant at Aman Suria. Alan Yun is a local celebrity. He started off as a humble model, and is now an actor, restaurateur and entrepreneur. And he still is humble and a very nice guy!
We had a fabulous time chatting and digging into the food, which was really a LOT! All in, there were 10 mouth-watering dishes.
The facade of Pin Xiang Restaurant @ Aman Suria…
Yam ring with sweet and sour pork…
Pin Xiang deep fried Talapia with lots of garlic, yums!
Kai Lan cooked with yam, a dish that’s pretty unique…
Mongolian pork knuckles…
Yin Yang prawns. The creamy orangy prawns on the left cooked with mayonaise and tomato sauce was concocted by Alan Yun himself and was everyone’s favorite too. It was lip-smacking and very tasty.
Spare ribs with champagne sauce and fresh watermelon balls…
Another unique dish – bitter gourd stir fried with pickled lettuce, iLike!
Assam petai aka stinky beans. Can’t really comment on this as I did not taste it, though I like petai very much. Just can’t stomach the after-taste and the morning after, eewwwwww! But I think this dish was pretty good, otherwise my fussy food critic hubs and Barb’s hubs would not have polished off the dish.
House signature tofu…
Sweet and sour crabs. There was also a plate of fried mantou to eat with the sweet and sour crab sauce. Love this crab dish. Actually there was another salted eggs crab dish but we had to ask Alan to cancel this dish as we were all stuffed to the brim of our tummies.
The next time I go there, I must try this Teochew crab porridge.
While we adults yakked non stop, the 3 girls were busy reading books. I bought Alycia 3 new Geronimo Stilton books that same day and she had a book marathon, with her eyes glued to the books non-stop and finished reading the 3 books in 1.5 days!
And the boys (Annie Kiu’s twin boys) were glued to their iPads, hehehe…. Alycia enjoyed herself playing with Fearles and Cruz. This girl enjoys playing boy games with her boy classmates *slap forehead*
Us with Alan Yun (in green)…
Wait….after a satisfying dinner, there was homework! Alan Yun was giving us dictation here LOL!
The price of all the dishes are pretty reasonable and I must thank Alan Yun for giving us a treat to this sumptuous dinner.
If you are thinking of making a trip there over the weekends, be sure to call to make a booking or go there early as this restaurant is normally full to the brim on weekends.
Restaurant Pin Xiang Seafood, Chicken Rice & Noodle House
H-18-G, Jalan PJU 1/45,
Aman Suria, Damansara,
Selangor Darul Ehsan.
Tel: 016 276 1438
Another post to pen down in this eJournal for my girls.
Last night after a dinner of pork chops, I let out a satisfied burp and had forgotten to say “excuse me”. After the burp, I knew I was in for trouble. I knew that criticisms will be flying from all directions of the dining table from my 3 sarcastic rascals. My girls are always very quick to lambast if I had forgotten to say “excuse me” or “sorry”. And Baby my 3YO was quick to snap at me with “mummy, you burp like a PIG!” … to which I had to control hard from bursting out laughing out loud. 10 minutes later, I was still chortling softly to myself at the dining table as I found the remark from Baby too hilarious. Alycia saw me and asked me why I was laughing. I told her about it and together we all laughed heartily.
My girls love fried drummets, nuggets and fried chicken. While shopping for groceries at Bangsar Village, I saw some raw chicken drummets at the frozen meat section. I hardly see raw chicken drummets at the frozen meat section at the supermarkets that I normally frequent, so I was really excited and got 2 packs. But I had a problem. I did not know how to fry them. So after google searching for fried drummets recipe, I modified the recipe a little and the end result was very successful. The fried chicken drummets turned out to be golden brown, crispy and very, very delish! My girls love them to bits. The fussiest of the lot – Alycia even asked to bring some to school the next morning.
I replaced the plain flour with rye flour (50%) and corn flour (50%) and used olive oil.
I marinated the chicken with turmeric powder, pepper and sea salt. Before frying the drummets, I dipped the drummets in a bowl of beaten eggs, then dipped them in a bowl of the flour mixture, then dipped into the egg mixture again. Next shallow fried the drummets until they turned golden brown.
The delicious crispy fried dummets, free from MSG, low in sodium and no other food additives. Tasted as good as restaurant ones, yums!!!
One reason why I don’t like to go to the Pasar Malam with my hubs or to any shopping mall for that matter is because the 2 older girls will take advantage of their daddy’s softie heart. They would surely ask him to buy them stuff – just about any stuff and the ever yes-man daddy will oblige. The girls don’t even have to pester him, unlike getting things from their mummy. Whenever we are out at the Pasar Malam or shopping mall, none of the girls want to follow me as they know they will not get anything from me. All 3 will stick to their daddy like a leech, sucking him dry!
While I was busy buying fruits at the Pasar Malam 2 Fridays ago, the 3 girls were leeched on to their daddy and this is what they had sucked out from him:
The only thing that I was willing to buy was the Angry Birds shoes for Alycia, which only cost RM12 a pair! What a price to pay for! And because the price is too good to say no to, my girls each have more than 3 pairs of these Crocs look-alike shoes, each with different Disney characters on them.
We spent the day at Pavillion KL yesterday. After lunch at Duck King Pavillion (I find the food there very pricey, albeit tasty), we spent a couple of hours shopping at Daiso and buying Japanese snacks like Japanese Nama Roll (owned by The Loaf) and Kindori Japanese ice cream.
My 3 angels – look lovely don’t they? But they can drive you bonkers everyday.
My 2 vain pots shopping for girlish stuff. Too bad, my pretty Alycia is only interested in boys’ toys and games, sigh 🙁
Instead of getting pink, cute and girlish stuff, she pestered her daddy to buy her some Japanese toys for boys called Bey Blade, which she learned to play from her male classmates, double sigh!!
Only part of our loot, hehehe…
Felt so happy after buying new mugs and Japanese lacquered bowls and trays for my girls and other household stuff. Also spent over a hundred bucks on pants at Bossini for Alycia. But spent nilch on myself. Never mind, I shall splurge on some cheap and trendy ladies new arrivals for myself from my own online store 🙂
My 3YO daughter who makes me proud. She never fails to leave empty milk boxes, Vitagen bottles, plastic punnet after finishing her cherry tomatoes and empty shampoo bottles into the bag for recycling empty bottles in the wet kitchen. And I better not let her see me throw papers away with a clean reverse side, lest she will lament that I am wasting papers and not recycle them o_O…
And she would remind her sisters and we adults too whenever we conveniently dump empty bottles into the bin. She will make a good class monitor in future, I am pretty certain 😀 Who knows, my baby will pursue a course in organizational management in future or run recycling educational leadership programs!
She does not even wear her top at home as she does not want to waste water and detergent to wash her clothes… so she’s back to basics at home LOL! Just kidding. That’s actually my idea muahahahahahah!!
