When I went to the pasar malam last week, I saw the man peddling his Crocs shoes at the side of the road again. I did not have intention of buying but my hands were itchy, so I took a look. What caught my eyes were this pair of white Hello Kitty Crocs with the picture of Hello Kitty in pretty pastel colors.  They were so cute and I’ve always been a fan of Hello Kitty, since I was in primary school.  I searched the right size for Baby and she looked so cute in the cute Hello Kitty Crocs.  The best part was it only cost RM15 a pair!  So without any second, third or fourth thought like I would have if it were original Crocs, I quickly bought it.

Alycia also chose a pair of purple color Crocs. I think the color is just too gordy and suits a boy more but this girl likes boy stuff and hates girly, cute and pinky stuff, sigh…..

Then this pair of heels caught my eyes and after trying it on, which looked nice on me, I bought it too, coz it only cost RM35! My pair of original pink and white Crocs wedge which I bought last year cost me a whopping RM169 and that stupid original Crocs (which was made in China) would cost me painful blisters each time I wore them, aargh!!!

So you think these Crocs are original or fake? I think they are fakes though they look so original.

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I think I will have not much problems weaning Baby from co-sleeping with us on our king-sized bed. That’s because she absolutely adores sleeping with her 2 jie jies. Each night before she goes to bed with me, she will run to her jie jies’ bedroom, climb up their beds, pull up their blanky to cover herself and then pretend to sleep.  Alycia would be more than happy to share her squeezy bed with Baby.  She has always pleaded with me to allow Baby to sleep with her.  As for rascal #2, sigh…. this girl, she’s too bossy and I don’t think she’s ready to share her bed with Baby.

I wonder if Baby will wake up in the middle of the night searching for my boops if she sleeps with Alycia.  I think she will. 

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One afternoon last week, I was searching for lunch ideas for Baby. All her cooked frozen food in the freezer were utilized and I was too lazy to cook. Plus, I didn’t want Baby to get sick of eating pasta, spaghetti, green tea or buckwheat noodles and fried vermicelli all the time. So I prepared something really simple, nice and light for her, which she really liked:

Chawan Mushi with free-range chicken egg (Japanese steamed egg) flavored with a dash of Bragg’s Liquid Aminos Acid, Anlene high-calcium strawberry flavored yoghurt and a small bowl of soup of the day.  Though this may look like a snack rather than a lunch, that’s all my Baby’s tummy can hold.  She has a very tiny tummy and if I ever try forcing more food in, I am rest assured to see her regurgitated food spewing out at the dining table at the end of her meal

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Ever since Alycia started attending Standard 1, she has been severely sleep deprieved.  Each morning, she gets up at 6am sharp, leaves the house when the skies are still dark and on most days arrive home by 2pm.  Twice a week when she has Han Yu Pin Yin class and Calligraphy class, she comes home at 4pm.  After a quick snack, off she’ll go for swimming at 5pm or attend Mandarin tuition. If she’s given homework by her school teacher, she would have to hurriedly complete it before she eats dinner.

By the time she finishes her dinner, she is dead tired and would knock off by 8:30-9pm.  Thank God Alycia is quite a disciplined child and very independent. I leave almost everything to her and she can take care of herself (shower, dress up, dries her hair with a hair dryer, clips her nail herself, prepares herself for school every morning with minimal supervision from me, completes homework without nagging from me, etc, etc). She knows that she has to sleep early so that she can wake up without feeling groggy the next morning and will obediently go to bed by 9pm, plus read a story book without being told at times.

One afternoon last week, she was so burnt out that the moment she stepped into the house, she walked to the couch and then dozed off. After an hour of nap, she woke up and only had her lunch at 3ish pm! Life is indeed tough for school kids these days.

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I am quite convinced that rascal #2 will land herself a career either in the beauty industry or in the sales line (she’s bold, thick faced and  can really yak nonsense has a gift of gab).

She’s super duper vain and must have her hair either tied up or clipped up, even when she goes to bed at night on some nights when she’s in her vain mode. My maid and I have now come up with a new threat that will most of the time get her to hurry up finish drinking her milk and get ready for school every morning…. if she does not hurry up, her hair will not be tied up, period, HAHA!!

Whenever she has the opportunity to lay her hands on just about anyone’s hair, she will practise her hairdressing skill on us, at the expense of our hair, as she will pull off gobs of our hair!!  I have ordered that she keeps her hands off my hair, lest she gives me a premature trip to Svenson Hair Centre.

Baby was the victim here…

So serious at work…..

And this is the end result…. go ahead and have a good laugh!!

Have a great weekend everyone!

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Rascal #2 has a nasty habit of not finishing her food, especially her dinner, and especially so if it’s rice with dishes. I get so annoyed that this is happening so frequently that I made her promise me that she will finish her meals… in writing! Once her promise is broken, she can say sayonara to her after-meal snacks and desserts for one whole day.

I made her write (1) I promise I will nap in the afternoon  and  (2) I promise I will finish my dinner every night.

For agreement #1, she is still not keeping the promise and I still have to flash a cane at her to get her to nap in the afternoon.  For agreement #2, I have used the ‘removal of snacks and tit bits’ as a threat and it’s working *big satisfied grin*

Alycia is not off the hook either.  This is her written promise to me.  Both rascal #1 and rascal #2’s written promise are now stuck on the fridge door

Ever since Alycia started Standard 1, she has somewhat lost her ravenous appetite; now she always leaves her meals unfinished, especially lunch, when she comes home at 2pm and 4pm (twice a week).  However, her appetite is still BIG on tit bits.   Well, my kids are not all to be blamed for preferring tit bits coz all the adults in the family are big time fans of junk food healthy tit bits and the occasional sinful snacks, O_o !

Hey, do check out my online store for some CNY specials - limited stock and time. Get some stylo-mylo clothes at a steal!

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My friend had earlier told me about how the WiBox has helped to reduce her phone bill. With a WiBox, the bill for our home telephone calls can be reduced up to 97% when we make calls to international destinations, outstation and mobile phones. Here is the WiBox, which is a light-weight and rectangular shaped plastic box, which I had received from www.wibox.com.my last week:

The WiBox is pretty simple to use. I just plugged it to my home fixed phone line and then logged on to www.wibox.com.my to register. Once registered, I can start making calls at reduced rates. Here are the phone rates if you have a WiBox plugged to your home fixed phone line:

1)  Calls made to mobile phones – 15 sen per minute
2)  Calls made to other states in Malaysia from KL – 14 sen per minute
3)  IDD calls – start from as low as 8 sen per minute

You can check out the detailed list of rates, savings and more information at the Wibox website.

As I am still using Telekom Malaysia’s phone number, I will still be paying for the line rental and local calls (03 numbers). All other telephone calls for mobile, outstation and international numbers will be deducted from the WiBox talk-time value.

Wibox.com.my is currently offering other bloggers the opportunity to write about the WiBox. Here are the goodies that you’ll receive when you write about the WiBox in your blog:

1) A WiBox starter pack valued at RM29.90.
2) RM5 pre-loaded talk-time value
3) Free talk-time value will be rewarded once the advertorial has been published in your blog.

Click here for more information about blogging for WiBox.

There is also an amazing rewards program where you will be rewarded with FREE talk time when you refer friends and family to become WiBox fan through the WiBox Facebook Fans Page.

The other day I made a call to my mil in Hong Kong. Telekom’s rate for phone calls made to Hong Kong is about RM1.80 per minute and WiBox’s rate is only 10 sen per minute. The savings is RM1.70 per minute or 94.4% per minute! I can’t believe how much money I can save with WiBox. I can’t wait to receive my next phone bill to check the savings I have earned with a WiBox.

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Lately, Baby will throw herself onto the floor if her whims and fancies are not met. She’s the princess of the family. Everything that she wants, she gets it… most of the time but in times when we just can’t accede to her whims, she will bawl and plop herself onto the floor and then wail her lungs out.  Give her a forbidden item to distract her, you’ll be amazed that she can stop screaming and wailing instantly, as if I’d just turned off the radio and put on a cunning grin.

As her second birthday is fast approaching (April), all the Terrible Twos symptoms are slowly and surely rearing their ugly heads!!!

On another note, her vocab and speech are improving by the day. She can now speak in sentences. Some of her favorite sentences include “scared me!”, “I wan more”, “I wan peash”, “I wan go”, “mummy peash…. I wan” (begging me for something). She also likes to ask me “daddy where” and then answers me herself by saying “ofish” (office), “cheh cheh where” and answers me “skoo” (school), “nanny where, ko koong where” and answers me “Ipoh”, “ma ma where” and answers me “Ho Kong” (Hong Kong). When I ask her “where’s Baby“, she will say “HERE” aloud and point to her chest. She’s just too cute when she says that. 

Though she is my big bag of stress and has recently caused  a return of my nagging backache, I still love her to bits. 

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On Saturday, we bought more CNY cookies and snacks from our neighborhood road-side stall vendors:

Deep fried arrowroot chips (RM13), ‘bee hives’ (RM18, this is by far the best ‘bee hives’ biscuit I’ve ever tasted. It’s light, not oily at all and not too sweet), peanut-sesame seed candies (RM12), roasted almonds in shell (RM18).   This morning when I went to the road-side vegetarian stall to help my friend buy some cookies, I bought a canister of almond cookies (RM22). Gosh, the almond cookies taste SO SO good, every bite is almond bits!! I’ve whacked almost a quarter of the almond cookies all by myself just now over breakfast! 

Oh yes, on Sunday we were out almost the whole day.  Since I did not have much time to whip up hot piping dishes for dinner, I reheated some pork jerky (yoke kon) which I had kept in the fridge (hubs bought them a week ago).  My gals had hot pork jerky, fried eggs and homecooked ‘loh hon cai’ (vegetarian) for dinner.  They loved it so much!  Not a nutritionally sound meal (pork jerkies are terribly sweet), but taste damn good

By the time it’s CNY, which is in 2 weeks’, I think my tummy will churn and turn just by looking at the CNY cookies, meat jerky and snacks hahahahahah!!

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If I leave rascal #2 to shower or brush her teeth alone and without any adult supervision in the bathroom, I can be assured that a storm is brewing inside, 100% guaranteed. If I leave her alone to eat at the dining table, I can rest assure to expect some monkey business from her. This is just one of her mischief:

Towards finishing her bowl of mushroom-fish macaroni, she skewered the macaroni on her fork!! 

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