Down But Not Totally Out
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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. 💛
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Char Siew Bread Pizza
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Bread Pizza is one of the girls’ favorite home-prepared ‘fast food’. This is an excellent way to get the girls to eat capsicum, something which they do not normally fancy. I normally top my bread pizza with lots of chopped antioxidant-packed capsicum (red and yellow ones), vitamin-packed cherry tomatoes, power-packed big onions, super mushrooms, protein-packed…
Cassandra’s First Written Journal
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Monkey see monkey do. Alycia and Sherilyn are required to write a daily journal. This is part of my efforts to help them to improve their writing skill, both in BM and English. Every evening at around 7ish pm, reminders of “Have you written your daily journal?” resonates in the house, without fail. Alycia has…
Gesture Of Appreciation
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This black sesame chiffon cake is for Alycia’s Mandarin tutor today. I give her stuff all the time. Last week, I gave her a box of mooncakes and some pomelos. Whenever the mil is around, she will give her homemade cakes and breads. This is my gesture of appreciating Miss M as she’s one of…
Yes Or No To The Idiot Box?
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A few years ago, my 3 girls were TV junkies. Even up until today, they are still TV junkies and I have since a year ago, decided to put my foot down when I observed negative behavioral changes and unfavorable academic results from school as a result of spending more than 2 hours immersing themselves…
A Health Freak Mommy’s Breakfast
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The below plate of raw goodness was my breakfast during our stay at Hilton Sentral two Sundays ago. Many people will attack the ham, bacon, sausages, nasi lemak, pancake, muffins and desserts counters first but for me, it is straight to the fresh juice counter. My health savvy girls know that they are to eat…
Alycia’s First Guitar Lesson
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Today marks an important day in Alycia’s life. It is a day that she will remember profoundly for the rest of her life as today is her first guitar lesson. After years of talking about learning guitar, I finally chanced upon this guitar teacher exactly a week ago at the lift of our condo. Actually,…
Sweat-Free Crockpot Cooked Kaya and Homecooked Meals
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This is my third attempt in making kaya (coconut milk + egg jam) using the crockpot and this time, the texture has improved as I used my most helpful kitchen helper – the Shimono food processor to blend it after cooking the kaya in crockpot for 2 hours. This is a sweat-free and easy-peasy way…
Easy Peasy Homecooked Meals
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It’s been almost a week since the MIL left for Hong Kong and the girls are still pretty happy surviving on mummy’s simple and no-frills meals. Here are some of the simple one-dish platters that I had dished out… Dinner on 30 Aug 2013 – Stir-fried Chinese cabbage with sawi and minced meat in egg…
Hectic Start Of September 2013
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First, was the red code emergency alert on water supply cut on our country’s Merdeka Day on 31 August 2013. Our neighborhood was one of the affected areas and our friends living in our neighborhood (in houses) had their water supply cut. We still had our water supply and I guessed that we were using…
Kunyit Durians For Breakfast
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Our Wednesday – 28 August 2013
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Yesterday was the MIL’s last day with us before her departure to Hong Kong today. She will be in Hong Kong and New Zealand for several months. Our kitchen was closed the whole of yesterday and we had dinner at a nearby restaurant as she wanted to spend time doing last minute packing. While we…
Berry Chocolately Bread
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This is my breakfast today: Milo sprinkled on homemade wholewheat bread with sliced jumbo sized strawberries. This is anytime healthier than char koay teow, chee cheong fun, curry laksa or nasi lemak eh? I realize that if I cut down on deep fried, oily and spicy food, the monthly zits will stop bothering my face….
Our Sunday – 25 August 2013 and Making Pesto Sauce
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Helping Alycia To Improve Her Karangan
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