May 21st, 2008 | Personal | 1 Comment
My pal Jon and his wife is moving to their new house soon. For their house-warming party, I’m thinking of getting him a festool carpentry tool as when he’s not busy working, he’ll be camping out in the shed doing wood work. It’s been his main hobby, in fact his only one, for as long as I’ve known him. He’s not into computers like I am, or books, music, cars or sports much. Just carpentry, pretty boring pastime if you ask me but hey who am I to judge, I could barely hammer a nail.
May 20th, 2008 | Diet, Health, Pregnancy | No comments
Sushi
Kind of unfair to single out sushi as the main cuisine to have raw meat and fish I admit. Sickness contracted from uncooked food can be especially harmful to pregnant women. Food poisoning can cause diarrhoea which reduces your body’s ability to absorb nutrient. On the other end, it can cause severe complications and lead to foetal abnormalities.
Cold cuts
Make sure to put pre-packed lunch meat in the microwave before eating them. Pre-packed lunch meat usually sold at supermarket deli counter are known to carry the risk of containing listeria. Listeria can survive despite being heated before you buy them.
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May 20th, 2008 | Personal | No comments
It’s gonna be another busy day today. I’ve got tons of errands to run later - banking, bills, car insurance and meeting with an ex-colleague of mine to discuss over a potential vacancy at a real estate development firm. I’ll be leaving baby Clarisse to my mom earlier today and picking her up probably in the late afternoon. I hope baby Clarisse behaves herself today as she’s been pretty fussy and cranky lately, maybe due to teething.
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May 20th, 2008 | Personal | 1 Comment
My husband and I were window shopping today. We had some time to kill during the afternoon when baby Clarisse was at grandma’s house taking a nap. We stopped at a shop selling sunglasses and decided to fool around with a couple of vintage sunglasses as they are all the rage right now. You know, retro looking shades has made a come back. Unfortunately, not everyone could pull it off. Definitely not us, we look funny with them.
May 20th, 2008 | Personal, Uncategorized | No comments
We went to KL with my parents last friday to attend my cousin sister’s wedding dinner. Baby Clarisse, grandpa and grandma went along on this trip. With my parents, I thought I’d have an easier time with two extra pairs of helping hands to care of baby Clarisse but I was wrong.
On the morning when we depart for KL, baby Clarisse refused to sit beside my mom and dad. You see, eversince about a month ago, she has this weird little problem with family members’ clothings. Especially my mom. Whenever my mom and dad put on something nicer before going out, baby Clarisse would stare at them for a moment and refuse to go near them. She would cry when my mom or dad tries to carry her. Put on those shabby clothes again, everything returns to normal and baby Clarisse won’t get defensive anymore. I just don’t know why this is happening.
May 17th, 2008 | Personal | No comments
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May 17th, 2008 | Personal | No comments
My sister-in-law received a pretty cool gift today - a digital photo frame. I’ve been wanting to get myself one of these for a while but just couldn’t find one that appeals to me aesthetically. The one she got has a matte glass frame with a brushed metal border and it looks very nice indeed.
This is the first time I’ve checked out a digital frame hands on. It is very user-friendly and photos can easily be transferred from memory cards. The feature I like best is randomly rotating photo slides. Brightness and contrast can be easily adjusted to match ambience lighting.
May 17th, 2008 | Personal | No comments
As she gets stronger, I am expecting baby Clarisse to be a handful. I shudder to imagine how grandma and grandpa, their backs especially, can cope with taking care of her while I’m away because she likes to spend time on the floor walking (cruising with support), crawling and making her way slowly up the stairs. Up and down and up again. I have no idea how many times she could repeat going up and down the stairs because I ran out of gas before she does.
Recently, she discovered cupboard doors. As soon as she gets down onto the floor, she’d be heading towards the nearest cabinet to pull at the doors and check out what’s inside. Grandpa is very protective of his stuff so I have make sure baby Clarisse won’t get her hands on stuff inside the cabinets.
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May 17th, 2008 | Personal | No comments
I had a pleasant surprised when baby Clarisse managed to call out ‘poh poh’ (grandma) today. Too bad, my mom wasn’t here when it happened. I told her about it and she hopes to hear it soon.
Lately, baby Clarisse is more and more willing to call papa and mama. Everyone in the family is trying their best to persuade baby Clarisse to call them. Unfortunately, none of them managed to do so. Maybe they are trying to hard and also baby Clarisse is shy.
Baby Clarisse gave me the most wonderful Mother’s day present last week. I said to her upclose “I’d be happy if you could just call me Mama’ and I got my wish. The clearest and most accurate sounding ‘Mama’ I’ve heard her call so far.
May 13th, 2008 | Personal | No comments
On the topic of buying houses, I’d like to bring up what happened to my cousin to highlight the old adage of cutting your clothes according to the cloth. It was 3 years ago, when he got married and in less than 2 months, he and his wife threw most of their savings into a double storey link house in one of the most popular and expensive real estate in Malaysia, the Tropicana. The amount they pay for a simple double storey link house is quite obscene, personally. Unfortunately, fate dealt a bad card to them as his wife was diagnosed with cancer of the nose. The following months of cancer treatment were financially devastating. My cousin were financially exhausted and their house were months behind mortgage, on the brink of foreclosure. Family members chipped in to help with their financial problems.
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