FollowMy healthy low-fat, low-carb, low-cholesterol, high-nutrients breakkie today 🙂 Bright, fresh and crunchy baby radish with a slice of cool cantaloupe. Pork bone soup with radish and carrots. The soup was meant for dinner last night but at an eleventh hour change of plan, we ate out. So we’re going to eat last night’s dinner…
All posts in March 2016
Top 4 Bodyweight Exercises For Building Muscle
Most people think that bodyweight exercises are pointless, and you should only lift weights. Well, I’m here to tell you that they’re completely wrong. There are some great exercises out there that will help you build muscle and increase strength. To help prove my point, here are four of the best: Push Ups If you…
Random Events – 30 March 2016
Today is one of those days that I made a trip to school to check on Cass. Her school organized a free watermelon day today, with mothers as volunteers. I was caught by surprise when I saw a gazillion of watermelons at the lobby. All the students were treated to freshly juiced and cut watermelon…
Easter Sunday – 27 March 2016
Cass seems to have a thing for Easter Day. She’s really obsessed with those colorful Easter eggs. She used to make them in the toddlers Sunday School and still misses making them. Cass has had a fun-filled and EggCiting Easter this year! She got to do everything that she wanted to do on Easter this…
Tucking Into Roadside Indian Rojak & Cendol
Beet Root Smoothie On A Hot And Hazy Day (38 Degrees Celsius)
Our Sunday – 20 March 2016
To escape the predicted heat wave due to the equinox phenomenon today, we sought ‘refuge’ at Mid Valley Megamall. But what do we know? It ain’t that hot after all! Well, the heat was bearable. When we left the mall at 3ish pm, the skies were gloomy and it drizzled a wee bit too. Let’s…
Delightful Home-Cooked Dishes
Here are a few more wholesome and delightful home-cooked dishes that the mil wok-ed up this week… Below – Braised chicken with dried sand ginger, shallots and tomatoes. Below – braised chicken with dried tofu sheets (fu choke) and mushrooms. Below – pan fried prawns with soy sauce and Chinese cooking wine. I am so…
Febrile Fits Caused By High Fever And How To Perform CPR
Today I had a shock of my life when I read from my friend’s blog on how she almost lost her 2-year old son who had high fever caused by viral fever. Her blog posting made me realize how lucky Cass was to have survived a fever above 40 degrees C without any unfavorable incidences just…
Kids Say The Wittiest Things
Lego Nexo Knights Launch 2016 @ Mid Valley Megamall KL
Lego Nexo Knights has finally landed on our shores! LEGO Malaysia proudly and grandly launched the Lego Nexo Knights at the Mid Valley Megamall on 12 March 2016. It is Lego Nexo Knights’ maiden appearance in South East Asia and you know what? We are the first few in South East Asia to own a…
Attacked But I Am Winning!
Working From Home And Nursing My Sick Baby Back To Good Health
On days when I feel like I a minnow at home caring for 3 kids who are unappreciative and disobedient, I could feel myself corroding with regret – for quitting the job that I loved 10 years ago. The job paid me very well, complete with enviable perks and status. It was only when Cass…
Our Sunday (7 March 2016) – Lunch At Bru Cafe
Yesterday, being a Sunday, was indulgence day. Into food, of course. What else would make the man happier than food? Lots of yum yums! We had lunch at Bru Cafe @ Faber Tower after church. Bru has just opened its doors last month. Just last Sunday, we had grilled chicken and mushroom pizza takeout for…
Home-cooked Dinner – 3 March 2016
Yummy home-cooked dishes for dinner last night, lovingly dished out by the mil… Stir-fried baby sweet potato leaves with garlic, vegetarian ‘cai’, blanched lady fingers and crispy fried baby pomfret fish with tomato + onion sauce. Cass who has just recovered from high fever had pretty good appetite last night. It’s a joy to see…