Monetizing Your Blog

My blogs were created 14 years ago as a journal to record my daily life as a stay at home mom with two toddlers. Alycia was only 3 years old and Sherilyn 2 years old. Shortly after my blogs were created, I’d read from my blogger friends’ blogs that they were making money from their…

SPM Is Finally Over!

Alycia’s sat for the last SPM paper (Economics) on Wednesday, 24 March 2021 after a month-long major exam. She and I can finally heave an euphoric sigh of relief that it’s all over after several postponements with almost the entire year away from school last year. I don’t even care how many As she will…

Scratched

Haru’s nails were trimmed by the vet early this month when we brought her there for her first vaccine. The nails grew sharp and long again very quickly. If you have kittens and cats, you will know how sharp they are, like razor blades! Yesterday I got scratched badly by Haru, unintentionally. Haru was on…

Cleaning Surgical Equipment

I had gone through five surgeries in my life thus far. Every time I was wheeled into the OT, I got immensely rattled by the sight of the cornucopia of metal surgical equipment laid out on a trolley next to the metal OT table that I was placed on.  It’s terrifying to know what my…

Sunday, 21 March 2021

Cass finally met up with her two BFFs from primary school today. Her bff, A, who’s now studying in an international school, has moved to our neighborhood. Cass and J went to A’s house to help her with unpacking and arranging. A’s mom brought them to Domino’s for pizza. If it wasn’t because of her…

Saturday, 20 March 2021 ~ Consultation With Cardiologist

I spent the entire morning today at the hospital. This time it was at SJMC with Sherilyn, to see a cardiologist! Sherilyn has been getting a nagging pressure with ‘clicky’ sounds on her sternum (breastbone) since Oct 2020. At times she feels lightheaded. She’s been hounding me to bring her to see a cardiologist for…

Sherilyn’s Home-Cooked Dishes

Sherilyn doesn’t cook and bake as much now than she did during the MCO months. However, she still tries to cook every other day, in between online classes. She loves trying out new recipes, especially Korean and Japanese cuisines. We’re all happy to be her guinea pigs. But all these new dishes will soon start…

Haru’s Spa Session

I recently bought several items from Shopee for Haru: a hammock, scratch board bed, squeaky toy mouse, peach scented food grade tofu litter and a hair brush (this is from Daiso). Haru didn’t like the hammock initially but she now loves to take her siesta on it. And while she enjoyed herself on the hammock,…

The Many Sides Of Haru Our Pet Kitten

Haru is much more than a kitten. We all think that she looks like a multiple- animal of sorts, all rolled into one little adorable kitten. She looks like a tiger cub, a leopard, a penguin, an oversized rat, a lizard (side profile of her face), a monkey, a racoon, a cheetah and of course…

Homemade Korean Fare (Saturday, 6 March 2021)

Sherilyn whipped up some yummy Korean fare for lunch and dinner today:Tteokbokki or spicy stir-fried Korean rice cakes for lunch, all made from scratch. This is not my kind of meal as I don’t like starchy food, so she added hard boiled eggs and ‘foo pei’ for me. For dinner, she cooked ttukbaegi bulgogi (stewed…

Ofra Cosmetics – Clean and 100% Vegan

When you use cosmetics and skincare products, the chemicals are absorbed into your skin, which can then enter the bloodstream. You might also inhale powder (talc, loose powder, compact powder, etc) or ingest lip products.  Certain ingredients present in makeup and other cosmetic products contain chemicals that researches have linked to serious health concerns. Some…

8 March 2021 – Haru’s First Vaccination

Haru’s doting sisters followed her to the vet for her very first vaccine today, which is a 4-in-1 jab. The moment she was placed on the metal table, Haru started to hiss at the doctor and the hissing only got worse with growling and snarling whenever the doctor or his daughter touched her. It was…

Tteokbokki (Spicy Korean Rice Cake)

We had Tteokbokki for lunch today, made from scratch by our in-house teenage chef. This is not my kind of meal as I don’t like starchy food, so Sherilyn added hard boiled eggs for me. For dinner, she cooked Korean beef stew with the remaining Korean marinate sauce that she made (for Korean marinated pork…