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 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,…

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…

Helping Your Child Receive the Best Early Education

Helping your child succeed academically starts earlier than you may think. Skills developed during a children’s early education tend to play a fundamental role in how they go on to perform academically later in life. It’s important to stay actively involved in helping your child to develop his or her intellectual abilities during early education….

MCO Day 27 ~13 April 2020

The lockdown blues is really biting into my temperament. Everything and everyone seems to get on my nerves. It does not help that we are staying in a condo and besides my room, I have no where else to let off steam.  When I am at my nadir, my way of disinfecting my mind of…

MCO Day 26 ~ 12 April 2020

Though it’s a Sunday today, it feels like any other day now. Whether it’s Monday or Sunday, it feels the same and there’s still the MCO blues everyday.  Can’t believe that we have been home quarantine for almost a month now.  We’ve gone this far and have another 16 more days to go. But the…

Stay In Vogue Without Breaking The Bank

In times of an unprecedented pandemic like what the world is currently grappling with, many people’s income have been impacted. Many have lost their jobs or have their salaries cut resulting from the prolonged lockdown and dying economy. Many people are now spending extra cautiously.  Those who have lost of income may have to cut…