Last Friday, hubs brought us to Chinoz On The Park @ KLCC for a buffet dinner. While the ambience is 5 star (facing nice view of the KLCC fountains and park), fantastic display of food, I would rate the food 7/10. With that price for a buffet meal, I would rather go to Lemon Garden @ Shangri La Hotel KL.
We had sashimi… this is not included in the buffet spread.
Alycia and Sherilyn enjoying their spaghetti…
Maki and California rolls. My girls just love these to bits but for me, I just don’t fancy eating rice + seaweed + cucumber. I find it a weird combo. I eat my California rolls without the rice
The buffet spread included local delights,Western cuisine, a little bit of Japanese and Chinese cuisine. Nothing really whet my appetite. But this sinful carbo caught my eyes : sago pudding. My mum can make very yummy sago pudding and I ate loads of it during my childhood. I love my sago pudding with loads of fresh santan and gula melaka (coconut sugar), YUMS!!! But darn fattening!!!
After dinner, we took some pix at the KLCC park. A group of tourists from Iran stopped and asked me if they could take pix with my 3 angels :S
After the photography session, we did some grocery shopping at Cold Storage. By the time we got into the car, the girls were so exhausted that they dozed off…. and when we got up to our unit, they plunked onto the couch and continued sleeping. I had a hard time getting them to wash up and brush their teeth. That’s why I never like bringing the kids out at night.
I hardly ever indulge on a supper or a dinner later than 8pm. It takes a lot of discipline and will power not to succumb to those late night temptations. I can watch everyone in my family eat noodles, durians and desserts for supper and not lay my hands on them. Many of my friends who have a hectic lifestyle and have late dinners are on the plump side. My hubby is one of them. When we are asleep, our stomach is resting too. This means that the food we have eaten before won’t be easily digested, causing overweight. However, if you are eating at 6pm, our body is still fully working and the digestion process is performed perfectly.
My hubby works late on most days and eats his dinner later than 9pm on most nights. All these late night dinners ain’t doing any good to his belly. I was just telling him today that he should get himself an Insta Slim V Neck T-shirt to help him ‘conceal’ his beer belly.
I discovered Insta Slim garments while surfing the internet. These garments are no run-of-the-mill cotton garments. They are specially designed to help ‘conceal’ the ‘spare parts’ on your mid section instantly. Insta Slim are made of high quality fabric and can be worn under any clothing. While they help you look trim and fit, they also help you stay cool and comfortable.
Insta Slim garments are priced very reasonably. There is now a special ‘buy 1 free 1 offer’ while stock lasts. If you are doubtful about these garments, worry not as there is a 30-day money back guarantee with no questions asked! If only these garments are available here, I will surely get this V-neck Insta Slim for my man so that he can get an instant slim look
Friends and strangers always tell me that I’m lucky I have 3 girls as girls are more demure and not so hyper active, more laid back and not so rambunctious BUT I beg to differ. I always tell them, “wait till you come to my home and you’ll see their true colors!”
Check them out at home. Tell me, do your daughters sit like this? Or just mine? I never sit like this! So I wonder who they learned this from??
On another note, I’m glad that Alycia is a responsible jie jie. Her Mandarin tutor has assigned a task to her - that she is to flash cards of Mandarin characters of 1-10 to Sherilyn at home. And she obediently toed the line, brought the flash cards along with her and flashed them to her sis on our way to church on Sunday!
I made spaghetti with beef bolognaise sauce for lunch the other day. And the sauce is a healthy and wholesome one with lots of chopped celery, carrots, tomatoes, big onions and fresh shiitake mushrooms. The bottled spaghetti sauce is supposedly preservative-free and MSG-free.
This plate is for Baby. Check out the 2 containers at the background. That’s for deep-freezing for Baby’s lunch / dinner next time (usually eaten in less than 2 weeks). Her serving is always topped with extra mushrooms as she’s a great fan of mushrooms, just like #2. #1 hates mushrooms!
And this bowl is for my mum - vermicelli bolognaise! My mum, just like me, does not like spaghetti but loves rice vermicelli.
I used to think that it would be great if I could run my own online store. My dream was realized last year but things are not a bed of beautiful roses. I am in a business that deals with human all the time and it ain’t easy dealing with people with a myriad of characters, school of thoughts and attitudes.
My first bad experience was with my very first supplier. She was the most arrogant supplier I have ever met in my life. I was her customer but she made me feel like she was my most difficult customer and I have to stoop down to her and beg her for business. She put me in a tight spot when she screwed up my customers’ orders just before a major festival. Back then, she provided drop-shipping service for me. I had a bad tongue-lashing in writing from one of my customers because of her. Then she forced me to accept an item that I had canceled from her, which she accepted initially. She turned around later and refused to accept the cancellation and gave the most unreasonable excuses to shirk the cancellation though I had every chance of winning this case if I were to bring this matter to the Consumer Tribunal Court. I could have hired someone as good as the Forths Forensic Accountants to help me win my case but with the peanuts that I had earned then, why should I put myself into such hassle and spend unnecessarily on professional advice? I wanted to burn my relationship with her but my hubs advised me not to burn the bridge.
Long story cut short, I have ‘learned’ many valuable lessons from this supplier. No one taught me how to run a business and I learned it through the hard way. I am still learning the trades of online business everyday. If I make it big one day, I will need professional help from consultants like the Forensic Accountants to help me run my business so that I can have a peace of mind. I never thought that my online store could sustain this long. When I set it up about a year ago, I just wanted to have some fun dabbling into something that I had long wanted to do. Now it’s blooming but I’ll take it one step at a time.
Sherilyn is the most ‘lau hei’ (dilly dally) 5yo girl I have ever known. Unlike Alycia who is very anxious whenever it comes to completing her homework, Sherilyn will only have the urgency to start doing her homework at the eleventh hour.
Each day, I need to remind her umpteen times to do her homework. She will take her books out but barely 5 minutes into sitting on the chair, she will surely be distracted by something else. Sometimes both of us will forget all about her unfinished homework until the next morning.
This fler woke up at 5:45am to complete her homework one morning. Without wasting any time, she wrote at the quickest speed I had ever seen and within 10 minutes, she completed her homework! If only she could have this speed and enthusiasm everyday. This little girl is the type of person who will only have the zest and enthusiasm to do anything at the eleventh hour. Oh well, some people are just like that… they only work well under stress and pressure!
Gold must be the new buzz word now. Everyone is talking about gold jewelry and investing in gold. I was at Chinoz On The Park @ KLCC yesterday for dinner and a group of tourists from the Middle East were talking about and comparing the gold jewelries that they had just bought from the jewelry shop. They had gold jewelries all over their body. Gold is a safe bet for investment and if you have some extra cash, it’s a good idea to invest in some gold bullion. You’ll be surprised if they cost double the value 10 years down the road. Well, the gold jewelries that I received from friends and relatives during my wedding 10 years ago are worth almost double the price now!
Here’s another post on food, glorious food! And I think many of my readers love reading about what I cook, what I eat, where I eat and anything on food coz we are afterall Malaysians who all love food eh?
Ever since Baby started to have more pearly whites, she has been enjoying her food more and I recently discovered that she lurves meat, particularly chicken / pork ribs with BONES as she loves sucking the bones like a little puppy ahahahah! Now I need not worry about her weight anymore and she needs not drink the expensive Pediasure anymore to boost her growth. I think her weight is slowly but surely going up with all the meat binging, though I do limit her red meat intake… with no limit on fish and veggie.
Here’s Baby savouring the pork rib that koong koong cooked…..
Oooohhhh, really yummy!!
The delish braised pork ribs dish that koong koong cooked….
Steamed fish paste with minced pork that koong koong whipped up…..
Braised ’sar keong’ (sand ginger) chicken that koong koong cooked….
The girls’ all-time favorite dish - fried fish with tomatoes, tomato sauce and lots of big onions.
These are some of the simple and wholesome homecooked dishes that I whipped up recently:
Stir-fried leek flower and celery with homemade fish paste.
Bean sprout omelette. This dish was created after a grandma whom I’ve known at the morning mobile market saw me buying bean sprouts. She then told me to try making bean sprouts omelette. Well, it was tasty… and wholesome too.
An assortment of mixed veggie.
I had cooked a big pot of sauce with meat, mushrooms and egg ala Cantonese style for the yee mein for lunch in the afternoon. Since there was still so much sauce left, I blanched some brocolli, red capsicum and celery and poured the left over sauce into the wok and dumped in the blanced veggie. Then mix them well and served this as a new dish for dinner. It was delish too!
When my dad was here last week, the girls jumped on the opportunity of having an indulgent koong koong around. Sherilyn who is an opportunist brought koong koong down to the mini market and made koong koong buy her junk food and a whole bag of ice creams! She is going to be a gold-digger in future! Alycia who loves swimming, pestered koong koong to bring her down for a dip. And guess how long the dip in the pool was? A whole 2 hours til their skin became wrinkled and ‘chlorinxicated’ when they got up!
Me, I had some peaceful time at home while the kids were away and was the sleuth who snapped their pix at the pool from the 5th floor…..
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