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. 💛

Missed The Boat Again

Posted on June 14, 2010June 18, 2010 by Shireen

I missed the boat again. My mum had informed me about 2 months back that the Sukuk bonds were up for grabs and had kept reminding me to purchase them. As usual, I was too caught up with work that I had totally forgotten about it. That’s the third time I had missed the money…

Raring To Go

Posted on June 12, 2010 by Shireen

These pix were taken inside the lift of our condo, on the day we left KL for Ipoh. The girls had waited for this moment for days. They waited for daddy the whole day to come back from the office to start the journey and made more than 10 calls to daddy on his handphone to…

All Is Well!

Posted on June 10, 2010 by Shireen

Everything went well at the hospital today. The ultrasound scan went without a glitch, though Baby bawled and fussed initially but when she realized that it didn’t hurt, she quietly saw her ‘pictures’ on the ‘TV’. That’s what we told her – that the doctor was taking pix of her kidneys and that she could watch them on…

Don’t Take My Shampoo!

Posted on June 9, 2010June 9, 2010 by Shireen

One of Baby’s pet peeves is that her 2 jie jies cannot take the shampoo that she uses! My 2 older girls prefer to shower in the master bedroom bathroom while I prefer to shower Baby in the other bathroom. I have forbidden my 2 older girls to use liquid body shampoo as they play with…

A Story Of The Soy Bean Milk Man And Me

Posted on June 8, 2010June 8, 2010 by Shireen

I haven’t been so embarrassed for a long, long time. Yesterday morning after my half hour run, I stopped by the soy bean milk man’s van to get a packet of soy bean milk for the girls. I buy soy bean milk and bean curd from this man very regularly. That morning, a lady who…

Our Sunday

Posted on June 6, 2010 by Shireen

Today is another typical Sunday – morning in church and after church, off we went for lunch. Our initial plan was to have Italian’s at Marco’s, Bangsar Village but ended up having a joy ride round PJ looking for other food… and all the kids in the car complaining of being famished! We finally settled for Chinese food at…

Wayward Child?

Posted on June 4, 2010June 5, 2010 by Shireen

Rascal #2 never fails to give us heart attacks each time we bring her out. Many times, just when we were busy in the midst of doing something, she would be out of our radar. She loves wandering away from us. My mil, hubs and I would always chide her off big time whenever she wanders…

Sleeping Child

Posted on June 3, 2010June 3, 2010 by Shireen

See how comfy Baby is here snuggled up like a little pup with its mummy… with her little head resting on daddy’s big fat thigh. I was quietly dressing up in the room one morning at around 6:45am, ready to go for my daily morning run but when I saw this, I just had to snap…

Clandestine Eating

Posted on June 2, 2010 by Shireen

Whenever Alycia and Sherilyn (and even me!) want to eat junk food and Baby is having lunch or dinner at the dining table, we all have to go into secret hiding to eat in peace. Baby is now not a baby anymore. She has learned to love eating junk food – ice creams, cakes, biscuits,…

Naughty Jie Jie Cut My Face With A Scissors!

Posted on May 30, 2010 by Shireen

Rascal #2 cut Baby’s face with a pair of scissors early this week. I was in the toilet and suddenly, I heard Baby screaming and crying. I rushed out and rascal #2 said this “I tried to take away the scissors from Baby and I accidentally cut her face“. I don’t know if she was…

Buy Gold Bullion

Posted on May 30, 2010 by Shireen

When I was little, my mum invested a fortune in piano lessons for my elder brother and me. My brother and I took piano lessons for over 10 years but we never liked it. We felt like it was a chore for us and we felt like we were forced to like piano lessons. My…

10th Wedding Anniversary

Posted on May 29, 2010November 28, 2018 by Shireen

27th May 2010 marked the 10th anniversary of our wedding dinner. Our ROM was in the year 1999. Our wedding dinnner on 27th May 2000 was held at the Concord Hotel KL. A year ago on 27th May 2009, we celebrated our 9th wedding anniversary at the hospital in Penang with Baby. It was one of…

When Mommy Is Too Busy…

Posted on May 28, 2010 by Shireen

…. this fella will sapu everything she fancies from the kitchen drawers and cabinets and plays masak-masak with them…. she will even put them all into her potty as if it were a wash basin. I felt like screaming my throat out when I saw those spoons inside the potty but but but, if she…

Investing In Gold A Better Choice

Posted on May 28, 2010 by Shireen

We are counting down the days to the day our domestic helper is leaving us for good. She has been with us for slightly over 2 years. Hubby and I have decided that we shall not be getting a replacement helper. Hubby is spending an average of a thousand bucks on our domestic helper each…

Wrong Approach

Posted on May 27, 2010May 27, 2010 by Shireen

A good teacher brings the best out from a child, stokes up the child’s interest and knows how to capitalize on the child’s strengths and interests. But a teacher who does not have an inkling of what child psychology is and always says discouraging and intimidating words to the child will only kill a child’s…

A Safe Way To Organic Gardening

Posted on May 27, 2010May 27, 2010 by Shireen

This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of SaferBrand. All opinions are 100% mine. If only we could afford it, I would go fully organic from the fruits we eat to the greens, eggs, meat, fish, sauces, noodles, grains, snacks to the kids formulated milk. That would cost us a fortune if…

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