Month: March 2018

Tips for Dealing with Hair Loss

As you start to get older, it is very likely that you are going to notice that there are certain areas of your scalp where your hair is either thinning or balding. This can be extremely frustrating. In addition to the fact that it makes you realize that so many years have passed, you understand what a negative effect it is having on your appearance. It makes you realize that you can never go back in time and be the youthful person you once were. While you may feel like the situation is completely grim, there is no need to worry. There are lots of things that you can do to combat hair loss.

The first route that you may decide to take is to use natural products. There are a variety of at-home treatments that you may decide to try it first that may be able to help you deal with the problem of thinning or balding hair. For example, many have found that by using a treatment of onion juice, garlic, egg, and olive oil, they are able to not only improve the areas where their hair is thinning, but they also see fewer gray hairs.

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If this does not work for you, you may decide to speak with a medical professional and look at the different options that are available for hair transplants, like Artas robotic.  When a person uses a hair transplant treatment, they need to have an area where donor hair is growing in a healthy way. For example, it is common for men who are dealing with male pattern baldness to take the hair follicle donations from the back of their head. The hair follicles will be transplanted to the top of their head. Since the techniques have advanced so much, very few people are dealing with ugly scabbing, scars, bleeding, and the other things that used to be associated with these types of treatments.

Do not give in to despair if you are dealing with hair loss. There are a variety of treatments out there that can help you. Improve your diet, improve your hair care routine, and speak to your doctor about the different treatment options that are available for you.

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My Monday Morning

For the past few mornings, I’ve been bumping into a putu mayam seller at the news stand.  Each time I see him on his bike, I’d have the urge to get a few pieces of putu mayam from him. It’s been coon’s age since I last ate putu mayam and I miss it.   It’s one of my favorite Malaysian desserts.  But it’s a high caloric and high carb food. Wolfing down one piece of putu mayam would mean dumping back all the calories that I had burnt in my morning’s 40-minute exercise. But what the heck!  Life is short and treat this as a cheat day treat, hey? 😉

Today I finally bought 3 pieces at 60 sen a piece.  I wonder how this seller earns a living selling  putu mayam at 60 sen a piece. Even if he earns a 50% profit, it’s only 30 sen profit per piece.  He can’t even earn a Ringgit of profit from my purchase of 3 pieces.  How can he possibly survive in KL with his meager earnings?   I think I’m going to buy 10 pieces from him the next time and give them away as treat to the friendly guards at our condo.

Good ‘ol putu mayam wrapped with plastic and newspapers.  It’s a dessert made up of all my favorite things ~ fresh and aromatic grated young coconut (I could live on this alone!), gula Melaka (palm sugar) and rice flour noodles (very similar to mee hoon). This is such an awesome combo albeit it looks plain and eaten cold.  Another yummy version of this dessert is ‘Putu Piring’, which is composed of the same ingredients but steamed in bamboo cups or a stainless steel steamer.

After my breakkie of a piece of putu mayam, I dropped Drama Queen at the tuition center, then brought Alycia to the clinic. She’s down with food poisoning (possibly from an overdose of some wrinkled month-old mini Mandarin oranges) and had been purging and vomiting since 2 a.m.   I could have just self treated her at home with charcoal pills and Izumio. But at the high school that she goes to, absence from school without an MC would mean 0.2 points deducted from each subject. And a few points lost may render her being kicked to lower ranking classes, something that petrifies her.

After  Drama Queen’s class ended, we went for a short retail therapy at Mid Valley Megamall! 😆  We had lunch at Nana’s Green Tea, which is the girl’s favorite restaurant just because  of the macha latte, which is her absolute favorite drink.  Nana’s Green Tea serves one of the best macha latte, much more better than Star Bucks *in our opinion* and according to Drama Queen, better than the ones she tried in Hong Kong.

Drama Queen giving me the Dab to avoid being photographed rolleyes

Despite a short retail therapy at the mall in the rush hours of the morning, I managed to drop off Drama Queen pretty early in school. I then went to the bakery to get some buns for the girls before going home, got some work done on the computer before Cass returned from school. Thank God Alycia got better by noon and needn’t have to pop the pills that the doctor prescribed her with. My approach is always to wait and see if it’s not life threatening and where there’s no fever.

 

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Random Matters

As I tore off the February page off my calendar and ticked the 1st March box, I realized how terribly fast time has flew past us.  And I realized that I am on the cusp of touching 45.  I certainly don’t feel and look anywhere near 45 but knowing that Alycia my eldest daughter will go to college in 3 years, reality sets in. I am growing old!

This weekend was another hectic week for the hubs. He and his team were hired to provide catering services for a private function at Janda Baik on Friday and the entire team stayed overnight at the mansion that his client rented.  On Saturday, I had breakfast with Cass while the 2 older girls preferred to stay home to have a simpler breakfast of cereals and banana pancakes (cooked by chef wannabe Sherilyn).  Cass has been bugging me for soup yee mee.

Below: Miss Eleventh Hour rushing her Chinese writing homework  given by the tutor at the eleventh hour while waiting for her noodles to arrive:

Her tutor’s due to arrive in less than an hour but her homework wasn’t completed yet despite umpteen reminders and nagging from me since Thursday. I told her that if she didn’t complete it, she wouldn’t get her pocket money on Monday. This threat almost always works not just for her but Drama Queen too!

On Sunday morning, 4th March, Drama Queen attended an international taekwondo event at Putrajaya. This event was attended by taekwondo participants internationally.

Below: Sherilyn with participants from Korea. The Indian lady on the right is her Moral teacher, a black belt holder.

Drama Queen came home and regaled non-stop about her first experience at the international event.  She was actually more excited about meeting the PM face to face more than anything else 😆

Lunch was at Taste & Memories, a newly opened Chinese restaurant that serves grandma’s old recipe dishes.

I love their black vinegar pork trotters and signature pork lard rice.

Even the health freak moi dug into the pork lard rice. It’s the first time I’ve heard of pork lard rice and it was indeed addictive! I’m going  to get some organic pork lard from my favorite butcher and cook it with Basmati low-GI rice.

Dinner was Dominos Pizza delivered to our home as it was pouring and we couldn’t go out.

The mil will be back tomorrow but I guess I’ll still be cooking for a couple of days  until she settles down in hot hot Malaysia.

Below: celebrity couple Alan Yun and Emily finally tied the knot. Hubs and I and the girls are SO happy for them.  Hubs and I have known Alan since he was a teenager and he’s like our younger brother.  I wish them a lifetime of love and may their years together be filled with lasting joy.

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Have an awesome and good week ahead everyone 😘

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Cheesy Online Purchase And I Discovered Something!

I’ve always thought that I am DIY-challenged. I hate anything that’s DIY, including Lego blocks. I have zero patience for DIY stuff. I think they are a waste of my time.  Thus, I never buy DIY furniture and fixtures.  Why waste an hour assembling a furniture when you can buy ready-made ones? I just don’t get it!   But the hubs is the polar opposite of me.  He’s a sucker for DIY furniture. For someone who doesn’t have much patience, I’m surprised that he actually has tons of it when it comes to assembling DIY furniture and appliances.  Alycia has inherited this DNA of mine, unfortunately, thus I can never count on her to help me in this department.  Thankfully I have two other daughters who love this sort of challenges.  But I can’t always count on them due to their limited time spent at home.

Last week, I ordered a Felton 5-tier plastic cabinet from 11 Street. It’s my first online purchase from 11 Street and I think it will be my last. I’d stick with Lazada.

5 Tier Drawers Plastic Cabinet / Plastic Furniture / Office Cabinet & Storage
Picture of the cabinet from the 11 Street website.

From the 11 Street website, the plastic cabinet looks pretty good. I chose pink, which is my favorite color. NOTHING is stated under the description section that this cabinet is a self assembled cabinet.  I have never once come across a fully dismantable multi-tiered plastic cabinet.   The existing multi-tiered plastic cabinets that I have at home are all with a one-piece frame and drawers that come in one piece which I can slot into the frame easily and smoothly.  I was in for a huge shock and WTF moment when my parcel finally arrived after 5  days of wait with no update on the website on the status of my parcel.   When the medium-size box arrived, I knew I had been ‘scammed’.  When I opened the box, confirmed I was ‘scammed’.

See the pieces of the cabinet here.  I didn’t order a DIY / FIY cabinet for Pete’s sake. All in there were about 40 pieces with NO instructions. WTF!!  How on earth am I supposed to fix this darn thing?  I am DIY-challenged and I have absolutely no time to assemble this.  And the cheesy quality of the plastic is another WTF moment.  Inside the drawers were strands of cut-off plastic. The color of the black plastic looks faded and dusty.  The frame bars were crooked and they looked as if they would dent after a few knocks.  I wanted to return this piece of crap to 11 Street but I dreaded to think of the tedious return and refund process.

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So gung-ho me squatted under the fan in the living room (it was a sizzling hot afternoon) and started assembling the pieces together. I had no frigging idea how to slot the vertical bars into the rectangular frames tightly.  The bars just wouldn’t lodge properly. Then I remembered Drama Queen using a hammer to knock on a DIY wooden picture frame with multiple parts, done under the school’s Living Skills project.  I used some strength and knocked the bars into the gap on the frame and then I heard the clicking sound.  It was secured finally!  That’s only for one bar. There were 20 bars and I had to use my cow strength to knock them all into the frame using my hands. Securing the wheels was another WTF and cussing moment.  Even the handles of the drawers had to be lodged into the gap of the drawer. I was sweating and mad as hops and vowed that I will never ever order such furniture online again.  Long story short, after an hour, the 5-tier plastic cabinet was erected but it wasn’t perfect.    As the cheesy plastic frames and bars are not aligned, the drawers can’t shut tightly. Cass found out later that she had to bang on the drawer with all her might to shut the drawer.  WTF!!  LOL!

This piece of crap is a joke.  It cost me RM136 (RM119 + RM17 shipping).  I won’t even donate it to charity. It looks like it’s going to end up in our balcony to store our floor mats and gardening tools.  The hubs had a good laugh. Well honey, it looks like you’ll have to bring me to the mall to get a better quality one.

On the hindsight, I’ve discovered that I am not that DIY-challenged after all.  Even without my handy manny and Drama Queen around to help me, I still managed to assemble a FIY (fix it yourself) furniture. Not bad ya?  I won’t deny that this felt like brain surgery to me but nothing is impossible if there’s a will.

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Online Learning Videos App

If there is one thing that my two older daughters can’t live without, it would be their android phones.  The android phone is their best boo ever.  Besides being able to be in the social media loop, they get free entertainment and even free tutorial on a few school subjects.  They use Photo Math to get help with Math homework.  Sherilyn also uses a free Math app where she’s able to interact with university students who help her with her Math homework. They use their phone for help in translating Chinese and Malay into English.  Sherilyn watches You Tube on her phone to learn how to bake cakes, pies and cookies. It is also through You Tube that she learned how to make slime, dream catchers and other crafts to sell to friends.  Alycia learns foreign languages from You Tube during her free time.

There is so much knowledge to gain from the internet.  If you have an android phone and WiFi, you can download a good android study app or online learning apps to study and to gain additional knowledge and skills.

If you love learning, The Great Courses Plus app is for you. This free app lets you explore subject matter you’re interested in without requiring a commitment to attend classes. With the Great Courses Plus app, you learn while commuting, exercising, or just enjoying down time at home.

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It’s always a good thing to learn something new and gain additional knowledge to better equip yourself whether academically, for self improvement or  career advancement.  Online learning apps are a wonderful tool for time pressed people as they get to learn at their own pace, anywhere and anytime. Learn in your pajamas on the couch. Nobody cares 😀  Most importantly, so much money can be saved.

 

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HEALTH FREAK MOMMY