Siblings

Yep..confirm chop chop siblings. In case you still need to guess, Peanut is in yellow.

Bisou, why you don't have special cupcake holder??

Bought this lovely cupcake the other day from Bisou for Peanut. I scolded her the night before because she just refused to sleep..and I felt so bad after that. Like guilty bad kinda feeling..

Was at Bangsar Village after work,  saw Bisou and decided to grab her one. Lots of colorful heart shaped sprinkles too.. I like! As I was still shopping midway, i have to carry it in a plastic bag. Not a very good idea, when it's not placed in a special holder. Even though i was carrying it really carefully, it still managed to touch the sides of the box. Arghh...hate that. Hate that it's no longer perfect.

Peanut was still excited to see it though.

My poor cupcake

Placed it on her tray for her to eat in front of tv.

The books in my life..

So what do I do when I have a littttle bit of free time?? I wish i can say something a bit more happening like maybe oo..quilt making? But no..I have been wrapping ALL my books. All 250 plus of them. It first started off with two new books which I bought recently. Not liking how the cover feels on my hands, I decided to wrap it. I quite like the end result. So then i move on to a few other books, then 5 more..then another 10 more. And it goes on. Cos in a way I don't like my things half done. If i want my new books wrapped, then ALL my other books need to be wrapped too! After wrapping all 200 plus of them, I think i have gone through 1 cellotape, and possibly 15 rolls of plastic wrapper. No kid.


I quite enjoyed it though... it's strangely therapeutic in a way. And the result is satisfying, even though at the end of the day, it's just wrapped books haha.

My bookshelves.

Books at my bedside table that I have not read yet. I'm strangely anticipating Stieg Larrson's books. Do you know he died after he submitted his manuscripts for all his 3 books?? He died of a heart attack at the age of 50. He never knew the success that his books reached, and that movies were made for his "the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo". Kinda sad when I read this nugget of information. :(

Don't you hate boiling water?

Oh ok..the title may be a bit misleading. I don't hate boiling water. What i hate is making sure that we have enough drinking water at home all the time. We have a Diamond water filter at home, but we don't drink the water straight from the tap as I'm not 100% convinced that there won't be any germs left? Anyway..the paranoid side of me insist that I should BOIL ALL THE WATER before consuming them. Especially when I'm feeding them to my kids.

I used to use two glass water jugs at home which I used to fill up with boiled water. Lately, i realised, how inconvenient it is! These jugs are only 1 liter max each, and with the way we are downing water all the time, I have to constantly boil and fill them with water. AND worse part is, ants always seems to find their way to my drinking water even though the jugs have lids on it. Which I  place a towel on top to keep them away. And I also place these jugs into a shallow container  of water. DOESN'T HELP. And this is when i realised that ants won't die in shallow water!!! Somehow they still managed to swim to the side of the jug, creep into the water jug's beak and drowned inside. Not a nice sight, when you're drinking some water and you see some floating, dead ants inside.

I don't think buying a kettle and storing the boiled water inside will solve my problem. The ants in my house seems to be quite smart.. and I know they will find a way somehow to invade my water. So how do i solve my water woes?? Another question: how do you get rid of ants without using ridsect??

Anyway...I bought this from Tupperware. I like. Good buy of the month for me. Can fill up so much water, there's a tap, it's portable with a large handle (so can bring to picnic in future haha) and most importantly of all, I don't think a naughty, wayward ant can get inside because it's super air tight.

I likey!!

Peanut's 3rd Birthday

Peanut is now 3 years old! 3 years old omg..i think most mothers will say this. Where did time go????

To celebrate,  I organised a small dinner with my in laws at our place.And this took place a month plus ago.

Super happy with some of her gifts

Can you guess what cake is this?? If you managed to guess Special Agent Oso then congrats wtf. We thought he looked more like a mouse than a bear, but since Peanut can guess instantly when we opened the cake box, then the baker must be doing something right hoho.

Btw, the chocolate cake is really yummy and moist, and only cost me RM80 for 1kg. Bought in Klang yo. Prices so different than those in KL. 

Enjoying her cake. Finding the right people to do her Special Agent Oso cake was very worth it for she was talking about it endlessly days after.

Super happy

I did all the cooking for the day. Half way cooking gotta bring BabyD to the clinic because he still had a cough, and we can hear that his throat was quite phlegmy because everytime he breathes, I can hear a gurgling sound. So we brought him to his regular paed. And my gosh..the queue was so long!!!  So, by the time I got home and resumed my cooking, it was almost 3pm wtf.

Ah..I hate rushing when I cook.. i get all hot and sweaty and i can feel so stressed and a fever coming up. Drama betul rite? Yah, i actually felt quite sick by the end of it, that I downed a panadol. That night we took lots of pictures, with her gong gong and popo. We really cherished these photos as these pictures were the final ones that she took with her gong gong..

The re-arranger

My maid has a habit of rearranging my stuff. She puts away my slow cooker when I didn't ask her to, or there's one time I was looking for my breast pump only to find it in the kitchen cabinets.

One day I came from home a shopping trip with the family, to find that she has rearranged all of Peanut's toys storage to another location and put a flower pot on my coffee table. When I opened the door to the house , I saw her standing there, her eyes  shining brightly, showing me all her efforts, a hopeful smile on her face. She was proud of it! And so, I shaddap.  I thanked her instead. How to comment when I know her intentions are all good, and she did all that just so that  I will be pleased??  

Only when she left for my in-laws's place, did I put everything back again haha

My neighbor

I love my neighbor, but I hate it that she loves to dry her laundry on the wall dividing her house and mine. It makes the place looks very kampung and messy. She lives with her daughter and her daughter's family so there are days when i'll be staring at her son-in-law's and grandson's undies and socks. There will be bedsheets, shirts, towels whatever. She will also hang them on her gate. But her gate is her dai ci lah, i just wish she doesn't hang it on the wall between us.  If my house got good fengshui also no use lah, all the good chi will run away after seeing the undies.   And why does she wanna hang it on the gates? won't the dust from the road mess her laundry up? At times I feel like buying her a proper laundry rack lol. They sure need one cos she also hangs her clothes on the grills in the bedroom windows. *facepalm*

BUT..i don't have the heart to tell her that I prefer her to hang the laundry elsewhere..and not on the shared wall. I might hurt her feelings. She's a pretty nice neighbour and sometimes when it rains and my laundry is outside, she will ring my doorbell to let me know.

So what to do?? Close both eyes and pretend i never see the undies lor.