Posted on Jul 03, 2009 under ashley, family, funny |
Sometimes when I’m in the kitchen cooking, Ashley would join me when she’s too bored in the living room. She would bring along her kitchen utensils and starts cooking.
Whipping up a storm
Got to have pretend food eh? She uses her pink playdoh
Whenever I ask her what she’s cooking, she’ll say Stone Soup. She got that from Barney’s 
Whenever hubs or I are at our desktops, she would sit at her table and pretend to do some work….hehehehe. I wonder if she’ll really help me when she is older.
Posted on Jul 02, 2009 under ashley, me |
That’s me. I have become a Mrs. Know-It-All because I have all the answers to every question. The lil’ missy would be asking me tons and tons of them everyday. She has yet to ask me the meaning of big words like Tee (www.mamapumpkin.com) would ask her mommy. Now is the “Who, What, Where, Why” phase. Some of the typical questions are:-
What is that noise?
Where is daddy going?
Who cleared all the mess?
Tell me why the man stop playing the saxophone?
What happened to the ladybug?
Where is my book?
Why is the paper on the floor?
Sometimes when hubs is at home and I am busy reading the Colonix reviews or doing other stuff, I’ll ask her to direct all the questions to him
Posted on Jul 01, 2009 under ashley |
I managed to clear some of Ashley’s toys yesterday. I am going to put these toys at one of those huge donation boxes in my area. Most of these toys are what she got when she was a baby. Actually this is not the first time I cleared them. Can’t believe I need to use a big bag for all these stuff. There are still 3 boxes and 1 basket to go through. We really have to stop buying her more toys. It’s crazy.
Posted on Jun 30, 2009 under ashley, diet, food |
Last Friday, I decided to make some potato patties after seeing Merryn’s
First I steamed the potatoes till they are soft.
Then in another bowl, I mixed the marinated chicken meat and onions together. Didn’t have any carrots that day. Bummer.
After I mashed the potatoes, I mixed them together with the meat and onions. Added a bit of cornflour. Kneaded the mixture into ball size and dipped the patties into the beaten egg. Somehow, I don’t know why mine doesn’t look like balls like what Merryn did. Mine came out looking all distorted. Below are a few of the good looking ones….hahahahaha.
Can anyone tell me how to make these patties into ball size? Despite their odd looking shape, Ashley loves them. She polished off most of the potato patties. Thank God. If not, I would have to finish them and then look for some Apidexin. Since Ashley loves them, I’ll be making more in the future.
Posted on Jun 29, 2009 under ashley, me, rant |
Ashley has been practicing some dance movement at home lately and she told me that it is for her Sports Day. She would also sing a bit of The Ole Ole Song while dancing. I was looking forward to see her doing the dance on her Sports Day which was held last Saturday. Unfortunately that never happened. What happened was after all the children sang “Negaraku” and “Rejoice” while lining up on the field, I saw one of the teachers ushering a few children into the hall. One of them was Ashley. I was very surprised by the teacher’s action. What followed next was the dance routine and the rest of the children on the field performed the dance. I thought perhaps Ashley and her schoolmates who were in the hall would eventually come out to join the rest of them but sadly they did not.
Later, I managed to see her teacher and I asked her why Ashley was not in the dance. She told me that Ashley doesn’t know how to follow the dance movement *rolls eyes* I told her that Ashley has been showing us her dance at home. She even showed her kung kung and her aunts. Her teacher kept quiet. Needless to say I am angry. What is wrong with a few kids not following the dance routine? Can’t they just let them be on the field and join the rest of their schoolmates? For God’s sake, this is NOT the opening ceremony of the Olympics! It is the sports day of a kindergarten. I am disappointed. Very.
Oh well, it’s over and nothing much can be done. I just want to rant about it. Thanks for listening (or reading).
The children singing “Rejoice”
Ashley receiving a consolation prize for the running event 
Posted on Jun 27, 2009 under ashley, family, food |
It was my dad’s birthday last week. We had a little celebration for him and my sister bought the ‘Opera’ cake from San Terri. It was delicious!
Here is Ashley singing the Happy Birthday song with kung kung. She also loved the cake
Later, we had dinner at Euro Deli in Damansara Kim. As we were the first to arrive and it was closed to Ashley’s dinner time, I ordered the sausage for her.
She only managed to finish 1 sausage. The rest of the food was gobbled up by us I ordered the ribs while hubs had the pork knuckles. My sisters and my dad ordered other dishes like black pepper sausages, stuffed pork belly, soup and ice-cream. I forgot to take any photos of the food 
Had so much food that I felt a bit sick after eating. Not really sick but just sick of porky…hehehehehe. I must really jump on an exercise equipment to lose those extra kilos I may have put on from eating all those food.
Posted on Jun 26, 2009 under me |
I bought this skirt about 7 years ago for Chinese New Year. When I became pregnant with Ashley, I couldn’t wear it anymore….even after I gave birth to her, I still couldn’t wear it. Eventually, I gave it to my sister, Jo.
Last week, I was at her place and saw this skirt again. I quickly tried it on and I was so happy that I could pull it up and zip it. The best thing is that I managed to do it without holding my breath till I suffocate…hahahahaaha. Yes, after 5 years of not being able to wear it, this skirt is finally back in my wardrobe again *wink*
Posted on Jun 25, 2009 under ashley |
Ashley is going through this phase now. When she dislikes something such as me tying her hair, she would say, “Daddy, you see mommy….she’s pulling my hair…Ouch!”. Others include – “Mommy, you see por por, I switch(ed) on the lights and she off it“. “Daddy is blocking me, mommy…you see!!” Sometimes she would make up stuff like “Mommy, you see that uncle, he kick(ed) me” when we are out and there is man standing near her, blocking her way *shake head* I explained to her that it’s not nice to say such things and no one actually did anything to her. If someone is blocking her, she should say “excuse me”.
Telling tales is a normal development stage in children. Right now, we are enjoying it…except for the lying part….hehehehehe
Posted on Jun 24, 2009 under ashley, family, funny |
Hubs was napping on the chair one afternoon and Ashley who has lots of naughty ideas decided to do this to her daddy.
Muahahahahahahahahha……..I couldn’t stop laughing when I saw it. Of course, being a blogger, I also couldn’t stop myself from taking a photo of hubs with a cute pink hairband.
He’ll kill me if he sees this….shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
Posted on Jun 22, 2009 under food, friends |
We celebrated Father’s Day with a couple of hubs’ friends last night at a quaint little cafe called Strawberry Fields. It was our first time there. The cafe is located in PJ State…same row as UOB bank. It is also owned by one of hubs’ friends. These are what we had last night….
Ashley’s Claypot Glass Noodle with Prawns and Chicken
Hubs ordered the lip-smacking lamb chop. We ordered a few other dishes to share between the 4 adults. They are …..
Sang Har Noodles
The buttered chicken. Simply Delicious!
Chicken Carbonara. The portion is really big. One of my favorite dishes.
A look at the cafe. I like the menus on the blackboard.
Some of the cakes at the cafe. They also sell lots of healthy fruit juices.
Little cakes and scones baked by the owner’s (Alvin) mom. Since we are friends, we got to eat them for free 
Last but not least, a very satisfying cup of capuccino for me.
It was a lovely dinner with friends. The guys were so busy chatting about cars, F1 race, Blue Advantage insurance for the family, the H1N1 flu and many other topics. Ashley was so bored that she kept pestering us to leave Hubs and I have decided to make Strawberry Fields Cafe our regular hangout because it is a very nice and comfortable cafe. We really enjoyed the delicious food. Strawberry Fields Cafe serves western and local food and it’s Halal too. From the above menu, you can see that the food is very affordable. Last night, it was packed to the brim with customers. So, if you happen to be in the area or are looking for a new place to eat, do visit them.
Strawberry Fields Cafe
Lot 14 Jalan Tengah PJ New Town (PJ State), Petaling Jaya
46200 Selangor. (Same row as UOB Bank)
Cuisine: Western + Local Dishes
Halal
