Author: Shireen

I’m a 50+ mum of three grown daughters, now back in my beautiful hometown of Ipoh and slowly rebuilding a quieter, gentler life. After years between Ipoh and KL, I’ve returned to my roots to spend time with my parents in their 80s, my soul-healing cat, and the simple things that matter most. I blog and vlog about family life, home cooking, Ipoh food finds, and everyday moments that make this season of life meaningful. I do product reviews and accept sponsored posts on my blogs. I hope you'll enjoy reading my blog as much as I enjoy sharing my day-to-day adventures and mostly boring ranting :P Thanks for being here. 💛

Black Monday

Posted on July 14, 2014 by Shireen

Black Monday and Monday Blues, that’s how my Monday is today. Damn that alarm clock of mine, that died down on me, it failed to wake me up again! I always have my mobile phone alarm as back-up to wake me up but dang it, I had left it at my work desk last night!…

Best Mother In The Whole Wide World

Posted on July 13, 2014July 13, 2014 by Shireen

I am supposed to be doing something more important now but I have to journal this down in my blog so that when Cass grows up and reads this, this post will serve as a reminder to her of what she had said to me when she was 6 years old. And Cassandra, you better…

Baked Mission Wraps With Beef Bolognese and Tuna Mayo

Posted on July 12, 2014July 13, 2014 by Shireen

Alycia and Cass liked the beef bolognese wraps that I made two days ago so much that they have been pestering me to make them again. Since the MIL has a date with her friends tonight and did not cook, I made this sweat-free delish baked wraps again. Sherilyn the social butterfly has gone on…

My Little Model

Posted on July 11, 2014July 11, 2014 by Shireen

It’s been a while since Cass last modeled for my online store. Since she was 2.5 years old, she has been modeling for me and she actually enjoys her freelance job with a little rewards from me hehe. She would blow my top at times when she refused to cooperate. In the first 4 pictures…

My Bad Tuesday, Not That Bad After All

Posted on July 8, 2014July 9, 2014 by Shireen

Today has been a bad day for me. I wasted over 10 hours of my precious time salvaging and restoring my precious photos that had been posted in my recent and previous blog posts for all my 3 blogs. All these photos were uploaded at Photobucket. And I feel SO SO tricked. Photobucket is a…

Blueberry Overnight Oats For Breakfast On A Hazy Morning

Posted on July 7, 2014July 8, 2014 by Shireen

Everyone at home is under the weather, with cough, phlegm and runny nose. The weather is partly to be blamed, plus I must admit that we all over-indulged in musang-king and red prawn DURIANS 😀 Today is pretty hazy and I think the haze is back again after giving us a respite for a week….

Splashing Good Time

Posted on July 5, 2014July 8, 2014 by Shireen

Here is Cass having a splashing good time with B, her friend living in the same block as ours yesterday… B is a few months older than Cass and a better swimmer than Cass. Cass seems to get her breathing technique wrong and she would struggle to breathe in air at the 2nd…

Eventful & Frightful Day For Alycia

Posted on July 3, 2014July 3, 2014 by Shireen

Today Alycia’s transporter arrived at our condo about half an hour late after school. When I picked her up at the lobby, Alycia who looked dazed said this to me the moment she saw me “mummy, something REALLY BAD happened right in front of my face!” I thought it was those pesky giant ghost moths…

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Posted on July 2, 2014July 8, 2014 by Shireen

This was what we had for dinner last night – stir-fried egg noodles with fish cake slices, meat slices, cabbage and fried eggs. The girls savored their oodles of yummy noodles to the very last strand! After dinner, they had to help to wash the dishes and clean up the dining area. Our part-time helper…

Ranting And Letting It Go

Posted on July 1, 2014July 3, 2014 by Shireen

I am feeling the blues today. It feels like Monday today though it is a Tuesday. Yesterday was a replacement school holiday for Alycia and Sherilyn as it was their school sports day on Saturday. We went out shopping the whole of yesterday. Hubs bought new Nike shoes for everyone, including a pair of running…

Home-cooked Dishes

Posted on June 27, 2014July 8, 2014 by Shireen

A short post to boast some of MIL’s delish home-cooked dishes 😛 Simple yet satisfaction to the max dishes that MIL cooked this week… Pan-fried white pomfret fish and fried minced pork with Shimeji mushrooms and carrot. Vegetarian dish and braised bitter gourd with pork slices and black beans. Sitr-fried sirloin steak…

Purging Of The Mind

Posted on June 26, 2014June 26, 2014 by Shireen

I am so in the mood to write today! After days of having a constipated mind, I finally purged out all that I wanted to write in my blogs today. Today, I transferred all the pictures that I had taken using my phone and uploaded them into my Photobucket. I feel so detoxed after purging…

Pink Hello Kitty Dress

Posted on June 26, 2014June 26, 2014 by Shireen

There is this pink Hello Kitty dress at my supplier’s warehouse, which can be purchased from my online store that I am very, very tempted to get for myself. I have been a Hello Kitty fan all my life! When I was younger, I used to eat, sleep and breathe Hello Kitty and all things…

Overnight Oats Sensation

Posted on June 24, 2014July 8, 2014 by Shireen

Lately, I am hooked on overnight oats! Oats have never really been my favorite food. But after overnight oats became a Facebook sensation for the past one week, where almost all my blog friends have been coming up with their own juicy creation of overnight oats, I got hooked on it too! This is my…

Throes Of Motherhood

Posted on June 23, 2014June 23, 2014 by Shireen

Happy Monday everyone! It’s been a while since I last updated my blogs and my reason has always been the same. I’m sure you will know why if you are a regular reader of my blog 😉 The past one week sure had been hectic for me. My regular part-time maid did the unexpected. She…

More Cameron Highlands Trip Pix (9-10 June 2014)

Posted on June 18, 2014July 8, 2014 by Shireen

Here are more pictures of our Cameron Highlands trip 🙂 At the gloriously scenic Bharat tea plantation. Pretty girls all in a row. After tucking into some delish scones with freshly brewed Bharat tea leaves teh tarik at the tea house (picture below), we walked down to the tea plantation…

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