Month: October 2014

Molding and Sculpting With Blue Tac

The hubs is hooked on blue tac sculpting! Since Saturday through today, he has been molding  fruits, pastries, flowers and cartoon characters out of blue tac whenever he had the time. And Cass is the happiest kid in town to have daddy playing blue tac with her! 🙂

Check out what he churned out from Cass’ colorful blue tac, with strips of colorful blue tac, a blade, a toothpick and a ruler.

 

Check out the green rose with intricate details. Can you see the ‘stalk’ spiraling all the way down so neatly to the end of the toothpick? And the garoupa fish too. It looks so real with curves at the right places and has patterned fins and tail.

 

In case you missed my ancient time posts on hubs, let me tell you again that he is one very creative bloke who is artistically talented. And one of the reasons why I fell for him was his bunch of cards, art and crafts that he made to woo me many, many moons back, when I saw still a teenage mui mui jai, 😀

 

 

 

 

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Our Sunday – 5 Sunday 2014

We had breakfast at Antipodean @ Mid Valley today.  This is Antipodean’s newest outlet in the Klang Valley.  As with their outlet in Bangsar, the one at Mid Valley is just as crowded.  We wanted to have breakfast at this outlet yesterday but the wait list was too long.  We were slightly luckier today and got a table pretty quickly.

 

 

We tried their ginger maple syrup cake with brandy butter today.  Not too bad but not my kind of cake.

 

After breakfast, hubs and I went separate ways.  He brought Alycia and Cass to Professor to get  Alycia another prefect skirt.  Sherilyn and I had a one-on-one mother-daughter bonding time doing what we love best – retail therapy!   I bought her stuff she likes and I can sense that her emotional bank is now full to the brim with love 🙂

While I was shopping with Sherilyn, hubs did something that I have always protested against.  He brought Alycia and Cass to do some adrenaline-pumping activities at Urban Playz – to do some heart-stopping climbing activities.   This always happens when I am shopping and he is with the girls without me!   I shall put up a separate post on the girls’ gung-ho climbing experience at Urban Playz in my coming post.  I still can’t believe that all 3 girls climbed the Nine Cross, Tetris and Speed Track without a jot of fear.  The sight of them climbing up the obstacle walls scared the living daylight outta me.  I kept getting flash back of my school mate falling from a 2-storey high flying fox structure onto the ground 25 years ago at a girl guides event in school.

 

After shopping and climbing, hubs dragged us around to find more food!  We finally settled for Amarin Heavenly Thai. This man gets his emotional bank replenished via food, I tell you.  Should anyone of us give him any hint of negativity and rejection when he is all geared up to dig into food, we better be prepared to face the wrath of an angry  dragon with balls of fire spewing out of the mouth from a rumbling tummy!

The girls and I had to be seen enjoying our food so that the hungry dragon is subdued and placated.  All will be peaceful and happy when the hungry dragon is fed well in the company of his queen and princesses, muahahaha!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Told ya… when the man is happily satiated with good food, good mood and happy vibes are all around us!

 

 

 

 

 

 

To spend our day doing all these when the girls will be sitting for their final exam in exactly a week’s time,  now I have really been too indulgent this time.   Tomorrow will be homebound day for us, all the way until 17 October 2014, the last day of their final exam for this year!

 

 

 

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Cass Reads Roald Dahl’s Books

Cass is growing up too fast. With 2 older tween sisters who are currently into pop music and novels that teenagers read, Cass is following her sisters’ foot steps too.

Yesterday, Cass started to read Charlie And The Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl and got hooked on it. Her 2 older sisters are currently reading Roald Dahl’s books.

 

 

 

 

Cass is able to read and pronounce most of the words but I doubt she understands some of the words, which are too advanced for her age.

 

At breakfast this morning, Cass was still reading Charlie And The Chocolate Factory 🙂

 

 

Cassandra at 6.5 years old.

 

 

 

 

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Salmon & Tuna Fish Macaroni

What do you do with leftover salmon fish for dinner?  My kids and I do not like eating overnight fish.  When re-fried, re-toasted or steamed, the meat gets too dry.  So I normally ‘re-cycle’ the salmon fish and convert it into another appetizing dish.  I will add the shredded salmon flesh into fried rice, fried noodles, mix it with mayo for sandwich or wrap filling and the list goes.

Yesterday, I used the overnight grilled salmon to make Salmon & Tuna Macaroni.

 

I stir-fried the shredded salmon flesh with garlic and added a can of tuna fish.  Seasoned with an assortment of dried herbs and a dash of tomato ketchup, my Salmon & Tuna Macaroni was delish!

While the girls ate macaroni, I had my kind of health-freak lunch, consisting of raw broccoli and alfalfa sprouts, cherry tomatoes, cucumber slices, pumpkin seeds, toasted almonds, cashew nuts and drizzled with goma sauce.

 

The grilled  herbs crusted salmon with crackling skin that I made for dinner two nights ago.   Left-over fish was transformed into another appetizing dish.  Cass once again said this to me “mummy, you must really open your own restaurant one day. You are such a good cook!”  🙂

 

 

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History Repeated

Do you believe in history repeating itself exactly the way it happened the first time?  I do!

When I was 9 years old, I was very much influenced by those TVB actresses who acted in kung fu movies. Barbara Yung Mei Ling (who committed suicide when I was 12 years old), Chik Mei Chan, Chan Yuk Lin to name a few. Back then, when there we no iPad, no computer, no laptop, no android phones, no iPod, etc, one of our few entertainment and luxuries were renting TVB tapes from those video tape rental shop. Dad and I along with my brothers would be chasing these kung fu movies on most nights. How I miss those nights! 🙂

So, there I was, a 9-year old actress wannabe who always dreamed of having long hair, side burns and curled up bangs like my favorite actress – Barbara Yung, as shown in the below picture…

 

One afternoon, this 9YO actress wannabe decided to curl up  her bangs before going to school.  She used a comb and  twirled her front bangs so that they would look curled up like those kung fu stars.  But she was a tad too ambitious and twirled her fringe too tightly around the comb till her fringe got stuck on the comb! KABOOM!!  Her papa would arrive in half an hour to bring her to school.  So she yelled out in tears to her dearest popo for help!  Her dear popo patiently detangled her hair from the comb just in the nick of time, phew!!  And yes, she did have extra curly wurly and frizzy bangs to boast to her friends 😀

32 years down the road, her middle daughter (she is also a middle child!) did the same thing!  And coincidentally, granny was on a visit in KL.  History then repeated itself, almost exactly the way it happened 32 years ago.  DE JA VU!

Here’s my mum patiently helping someone release the comb that got stuck to the bunch of locks…

 

And she said “don’t you dare take my picture! Don’t you dare post it in Facebook!”

Nope, this was not posted in Facebook 🙂

 

 

Finally, after what seemed like half an hour, the comb was released from the hair but granny had to snip off a chunk of the hair! HA HA HA!  I really could not believe that something so identical happened to my middle child and at the same age that I was at when that incident happened to me 32 years ago! Both events involved the middle child, object was their hair and both were rescued by their maternal grandmother! How very coincidental! Now you tell me, what is the odd of identical events happening to a mother and her daughter at the same age?

 

 

 

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Le Toy Van Blender Set From Applecrumby & Fish

Cass received another big surprise yesterday!

When she got back from school, her face lit up with glee when she saw this cool toy set on the floor…

 

 

I think the owner of Applecrumby & Fish has some kind of sixth sense and read my mind.  I had always wanted to buy the girls a wooden ‘masak-masak’ set with sliceable wooden fruits since their toddler days but never got to do so. So, when I ripped open the box and found this ‘dream toy’ for my girls, I was delighted myself!

Cass has been playing with her new toy since yesterday. When her 2 che ches returned from school, they joined her in the play too! It has really been a while since the girls have a new toy and I have not seen them play with toys with each other for yonks! It is really heartwarming to see them put aside electrical gadgets and get down to the floor to really play like kids should.

 

Cass also handmade some ‘fruits’ from colorful Blue Tac for her ‘smoothie’.  This is what I call imaginative play and I love to see kids stir up their imagination to come up with something new each time.

 

 

The Le Toy Van Blender set features:

1) a blender with detachable jug & movable settings button
2) six sliceable wooden fruits
3) wooden play knife
4) two wooden tumblers with removable toppings & wooden straws

 

Thank you very much Applecrumby & Fish for this cool blender set.  Cass loves it very much 🙂

Applecrumby & Fish is having an ongoing Anniversary Sale from now until Saturday, 4 October 2014. All items are off 20% except for clearance items. Do check them out!

 

 

 

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Surprise Buffet Dinner On Saturday – 27 September 2014

On Saturday, hubs brought us to a surprise venue for dinner!  We kept asking him where the venue was — whether it was at our neighborhood restaurant, at a posh restaurant or a regular eatery but all he said was “just dress up and get down to the lobby!”

The night before, we did mention to him that we wanted to go to our favorite ‘tai chau’ restaurant at our neighborhood for dinner on Saturday.  So thinking that he would be bringing us to this restaurant, we all wore the clothes that we wore in the morning (to the mamak restaurant)  for dinner.  Even in the car, he kept the surprise all wrapped up.  But we could guess the venue already  half way through the journey.   Jeng jeng jeng… he brought us to a posh hotel for buffet dinner, alamak!  So all of us, donned in our  house clothes walked into the hotel with slippers *coughs*.  I was hoping that I won’t chance into someone I know but as luck always has it, I did bump into someone I know at the buffet dinner!   Great!

So here we are, at the coffee house of Hiltan Sentral KL and dressed up shabbily and not a jot of make-up was on my pale face :O

 

Sherilyn in her shabbiest tee but this girl could not be bothered a jot. She enjoyed her dinner thoroughly, diving in at the buffet counters umpteen times.

 

Someone mentioned that he ain’t going to touch prawns and sea food for the next 2 months after over-doing on seafood in Penang just 2 weeks back. But look what he got…

 

For over a hundred bucks per person for the buffet dinner, hubs and I said that it ain’t worth it as we are but small eaters now.  We were there to utilize the complimentary vouchers that came with his membership with the hotel.  Of late, we cannot really pig out on food anymore.  It must be that we are aging!  We used to do hotel-hopping yonks ago and ate like a horse in buffet lunches and dinners.  He had membership with half a dozen of hotels back then but has since cut down to only two.  Buffet meals are just not the way for us anymore. We are now inclined towards kosher meals and indulging in some ‘sins’ occasionally 😉

 

 

 

 

 

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