Today is Wesak Day but Buddhists in our country and in most parts of the world have to celebrate quietly while sheltering at home. The photo below was taken on Wesak Day 11 years ago from the 5th floor of our hospital room in Penang. Cass, my helper and I were still camping at Gleneagles…
MCO Day 49 ~ 5 May 2020
Today is just another uneventful MCO day at home. My poor car is still stuck at the car repair shop as the boss is facing difficulties getting the spare parts to his shop due to the MCO. I can’t wait to have my car back and give it a good scrub. She’s not taken a …
Why Women Love Fake Eye Lashes
According to a study conducted by a psychologist at University of Winchester in New Hampshire in 2017, it was revealed that both the genders view the eyes as the most important facial feature. Gorgeous hair and lips are also important factors in the beauty stakes, while the nose was reported as one of the least…
MCO Day 47 ~ 3 May 2020 (Sunday)
I sacrificed my morning workout today to go groceries shopping with hubs. It’s a relief that the Government now allows two people from the same household to go shopping together. When we buy groceries, we buy a lot, enough to last us for several days. And that’s a heavy load to carry to the car, unload…
MCO Meals & Nasi Briyani From Catermate
Friday, 1 May 2020 Our Labor’s Day lunch, prepped by Sherilyn – stir-fried assortment of homemade pastas that she hand-made a few days ago with olive oil, garlic, fresh button mushrooms, bacon, lemon zest, lemon juice and black pepper. Dinner: oven-grilled salmon, sauteed organic long beans with minced meat and organic miso, steamed egg with…
MCO Day 45 & 46 ~ 1 & 2 May 2020 (Friday & Saturday)
Friday, 1 May 2020 I didn’t realize that today is Labor’s Day until I woke Alycia up at 7:30 a.m. as usual for her Monday – Friday online classes conducted by her high school teachers and she told me groggily that today is a public holiday. Oh well, it makes no difference whether it’s a…
MCO Day 43 ~ 29 April 2020 (Wednesday)
Today the Government announced that they’re going to consider allowing outdoor jogging and exercising soon. Just like how business sectors are slowly re-opening. That’s one of the happiest news for me, to date. Not that I’m going to get out of our condo to jog. At least I can jog around our condo compound without…
Child Resistant Packaging Isn’t Just A Trend
Due to the emphasis on caring for the environment, great minds were put to work to come up with better alternatives to the tradition packaging as well as the single use plastic packaging. The list of tradition packaging includes paper and cardboard, glass, metals, plastics, wood, bamboo, cork, and others. Some of the above mentioned…
MCO Day 42 ~ 28 April 2020 (Tuesday)
Today hubs has Nasi Lemak boxes for delivery again. We’ve been having his chef’s special Nasi Lemak with Ayam Goreng Berempah twice in a week already. When I asked the girls if they still wanted the same thing for lunch today, I got a resounding “YES, why not?!” So off I went to hubs’ shop…
MCO Day 40 ~ 26 April 2020 (Sunday)
This morning, our personal trainer laid out the yoga mats to start private lessons with Miss Lazybones. He waited so long for the dawdler (who was actually hoping to get away with the boot camp) to get ready that he almost zonked out on the lounger while playing with his phone. ? See the brat –…
MCO Day 38 ~ 24 April 2020 (Friday)
We’re into the 6th week of the massive time-out forced on us by La Corona. We have another 2 weeks or more to go. Many of us have spent much of that time trying to get used to the radical lifestyle change the virus has brought. I’m pretty much used to this home quarantine by…
MCO Day 37 ~ 23 April 2020 (Thursday)
Our baking queen indeed finds pleasure and satisfaction through cooking and baking. About an hour before her online class this morning, she quickly cooked Japanese rice in the rice cooker for Korean seaweed balls or Jumeokbap (주먹밥) and sushi and pan-fried some egg rolls. When the Japanese rice was ready, in hot-foot and swift hands,…
Nasi Lemak For Delivery During MCO
Hubs and I have been super busy today – me with some urgent writing jobs and hubs with prepping over 70 boxes of Nasi Lemak and arranging for e-hailing drivers to send the food to his customers. My craving for Nasi Lemak and ayam goreng berempah is finally satiated today as he cooked extra for…
MCO Day 34 ~ 20 April 2020 (Monday)
I looked at my desktop calendar to see what MCO day number it is today and next to today’s date, I’d earlier written down Cass’ Diagnostic Exam date on today’s box. Had La Corona not invaded our lives unexpectedly, Cass would be sitting for an exam that would last the entire week! And she escaped…
MCO Day 32 ~ 19 April 2020 (Saturday)
I started off the day at 6:45 a.m. with the usual house chores while the entire family was still in lala land and then dragged Cass along to exercise with me at around 9:30 a.m. After walking up the stairs to the 18th floor and back to the 5th floor, Ms Lazybones didn’t want to…
MCO Day 30 ~ 16 April 2020 (Thursday)
Today is exactly one month that we’ve survived our country’s partial lockdown and home quarantine. Congrats to all our fellow Malaysians! We’ve all made it this far and we’ve got another 11 more days to go, hopefully. The total number of new cases have now gone down from triple digit to double digit for two…

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