Oftentimes, mothers get so caught up in the hard work of raising children that they neglect their physical appearance. This is a dangerous road to go down because it can compromise self-esteem. To get your beauty back so that you can maintain the level of confidence necessary to enjoy life fully, use some or all…
Author: Shireen
Selecting the Medical Options that Align with Your Healthcare Needs
Your healthcare needs may change as you get older. When you are younger, you may only need to undergo a routine physical and blood work every year. As you get older, however, you might need to start seeing specialists who can treat conditions like diabetes, high blood pressure, and heart disease. When you have moved…
My Wednesday – 6 Sept 2017
After a good 40-minute brisk walking and jogging this morning, I ‘worked out’ for another 2.5 hours at Mid Valley Megamall. That’s another 200+ calories burned, indulging in my favorite past time. I could have burned more calories as I have a habit of walking briskly whenever I go shopping. In fact, brisk walking is…
Deodorizing A Stinky Oven With Used Tea Leaves
I learnt a trick from the mil on how to deodorize the oven in the cheapest, fastest and efficient way. She used to put a halved used (squeezed) lemon into the oven and turn on oven at low heat for about 15 minutes to deodorize the oven after baking fish. Now she has switched from…
Food Pictures During The Holidays
On Wednesday, we waited for almost half an hour to get a table and then sweated buckets under the hot noon sun at the O&S Restaurant @ Paramount Garden, PJ (hawkers’ centre): Perpetual long queue at the chee cheong fun and yong tau foo stall… Assam laksa with extra fish… Famous yong tau foo with prawn…
Quick Home-Cooked Lunch
Throwback – lunch that I quickly prepped for Cass, which took me just 15 minutes: Blanched cha soba seasoned with sesame seed oil, toasted organic sesame seeds, seasoned Korean seaweed and boiled homemade dumplings. Simple, wholesome and healthy, yumsss! No. of times viewed = 14
Near Miss
Today I had a brief taste of how ‘moments before death’ must have felt. And I can only thank God for saving me. Today is yet another school-going day for Drama Queen and Cass, though it’s a school holiday. The hubs did the first round of school run in the morning. I did the second…
Rosy Cheeks
Last Sunday, while Drama Queen went on a class trip to the National Planetarium and Alycia went on a day-outing with her grandma and a friend, Cass and I stayed home. In the evening, we went jogging around our neighborhood. It’s been a while since we last did this. I had to rummage through my…
Teaching Your Kids Living Skills At Home
Alycia was feeling a tad under the weather yesterday evening. She said she felt very hot inside her body and felt very tired. I touched her body but it didn’t feel that hot. I gave her a packet of Izumio hydrogen water and told her to pop 2 capsules of Super Lutein. Later, I fished…
My Wednesday – 23 Aug 2017
This morning I had an unpleasant encounter at the car park outside some shops. I was there to get some buns for the girls for their recess tomorrow. This particular business centre at my neighborhood is one very busy area. Getting a spot to park is highly unlikely if you are there between 8am through…
Random Matters
Sorry for the lack of updates. Feeling languid today (lack of sleep again) and seemed to have left my mojo some where and still looking for it ?. This morning as I was browsing Facebook, I read with disgust and shock that my friend’s blog was defaced by some Indonesian hackers (see pic below), as counter…
Precious Locks Finally Chopped
16 August 2017: Today in history, my second daughter was willing to have her beloved hair at almost waist length cut short. Everyone was in disbelief when Drama Queen announced last week that she wanted to cut her hair to chin-length to donate it to Locks of Hope. In the past, she would bawl like…
Fruitful Wednesday
Today has been a fruitful day for me. The context of fruitful to me means every item on my Daily To Do list is ticked off and everything goes smoothly without any stumbling block ? After my morning run, I took a quick shower, did a second round of laundry, had a real quick breakfast…
Pan-Fried Soy Sauce Prawns
Today I wanted to teach Cass to be responsible at home by helping to clear and clean the table after lunch. If Alycia and Drama Queen are around, they would be the ones to clear and clean the dining table after every meal. They are normally not around for lunch on school days. After lunch,…
Our Weekend
I had a pretty ho-hum weekend this week, on the go nonetheless. Saturdays are Uber days for me with no payment or incentive. Sundays are worship and pig-out days and I get to be a little gluggy and take long naps on weekday mornings to pay back my sleep debt ? Cass and I had our…
Pan-Fried Five Spice Powder Chicken Fillet
Now that the mil is back from Hawaii, I feel a little weight taken off my shoulders ? This weight that I am talking about is cooking lunch and dinner. For someone who is not that passionate about cooking, cooking can sometimes be stressful for me. When I had live-in helpers, I liked cooking very much….

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