Sawadee Ka

Posted on May 29, 2013 by Admin

Sorry for the long absence from my blog. We went for a holiday in the Land of Elephants 🙂 Came home on Monday night but my body is still on holiday. Thank you very much for all the birthday wishes for Ashley in my previous post. We celebrated her birthday at the airport. Here are some random photos of our trips.

Got her a chocolate lava cake for her mini birthday celebration

Traffic jam in Bangkok

One of our favourite shopping destinations – Platinum Mall.  Went there 3 times.

Asiatique is another new tourist destination along the Chao Phraya river.   It is a large-scale riverside community mall which combines shopping, dining, sightseeing, activities and events under one roof.  A very nice place to hang out.  We took the train near our hotel to Saphan Thaksin BTS Station.  Then walked to the Sathorn Pier and took a 10 minute boat ride to this place.   There is a free shuttle to Asiatique but the queue was long.  So we paid 20 baht per person for a bigger boat with less queue 🙂  Had dinner with our Thai friends in one of the seafood restaurants.  Awesome food!

Our friends surprised Ashley with a birthday cake.  Cute huh?

Blowing candles

Besides shopping and walk till our legs became wobbly,  My sisters, mum and I went for our daily massages.

My besties also booked a trip to Bangkok when they found out that I was going.  It was a get-together and shopping trip for all.  Though I couldn’t follow them most of the time, we still managed to meet up at the malls and also had dinner to catch up.  It was great to see them and I can’t wait for our next trip together ♥

Will post about my shopping loots next *wink*

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eight

Posted on May 24, 2013 by Admin

Happy Birthday Little Lady. 

May you always be happy and healthy.

 

 You may outgrow our laps but you will never outgrow
our hearts. 

Love you always and forever.

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Roast Chicken With Happy Call Pan

Posted on May 22, 2013 by Admin

I finally tried roasting half a chicken with my Happy Call 🙂 I followed a recipe which I found online.  Here’s what I did.

Washed and sliced the potatoes.  Then I mixed them with some olive oil and mixed herbs.

 Rub the chicken with salt and sprinkled some mixed herbs all over the chicken.  Left it in the fridge to marinate for an hour.  Then heat the pan on high fire for a minute and add 1 tbsp of olive oil.  Place chicken in the pan together with the potatoes and snap it close.  Reduce fire to medium.  Turn the pan over after 5 minutes.  I flip the pan over again after 5 minutes.  Did this for 20 mins.  Then check if the chicken is cooked or not by pricking the meatiest part of the chicken with a fork.  If the fork comes out clean, this means the chicken is cooked.

Other than some burnt potatoes, the chicken smelled good and the meat was tender.  I think the next round, I must remember to sprinkle some water onto the chicken to make it more moist.   Is there another way?  Please tell 🙂

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Climbing Activities For Children

Posted on May 20, 2013 by Admin

So yesterday we were at Mid Valley to attend the birthday party of Ashley’s classmate. It was held at Megakidz and the missy was so excited that she couldn’t wait to go. She woke up so early in the morning (on a freakin’ Sunday) and kept hurrying me to walk faster to the Megakidz after hubs dropped us off >.<

Missy and her classmates

After 2 hours of fun, we left Megakidz and while walking past some shops, we spotted Urban Adventure which features interesting climbing facilities for beginners to try climbing on 3 artificial climbing structures – Nine Cross, Speed Track and Tetris.   Ms. Adventurous wanted to try it out and I was like,   are you sure?  She has never done this before and since there is a professional climbing guide there, I let her try it out.

Putting on the harness

Up the Tetris wall.  Climbed to the top and rang the bell

Coming down

Next she scaled Speed Track,  the 20 ft. wall

The guide asked her if she wanted to try Nine Cross, the last wall and she said yes.

I think this is the most difficult wall to climb 🙂

This is the price list for the climbs.  Initially I thought it was free …. silly me.  I just asked the guide if Ashley could try and he said yes…muahahahaha.   Missy wants to visit Urban Playz again next time as she said she had loads of fun yesterday.    Whilst we were there, a lady asked me if I am a blogger and I said yes.  She then told me that she follows my blog *smile*  I regret not asking her name.  If you are reading this post right now, “I am sorry I forgot to introduce myself properly.  Thank you very much for visiting my blog” .  Please leave a comment ok?  

The school holiday is just around the corner.  If you are in Mid Valley, do drop by Urban Playz with your kids for some fun.

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Teacher’s Day Gift

Posted on May 17, 2013 by Admin

Teacher’s Day falls on May 16th but Ashley’s school is celebrating it today to coincide with Friday. This year, I only prepared a gift for her class teacher. Here is my simple DIY gift wrap.

I cut a Froot Loops’ box into half.

Wrapped it with a floral paper

These are the little gifts for her teacher

I also got a box of Extra mints and glued it onto a card.  Got this idea from Pinterest.

Put everything inside the box and wrap it up with a clear paper and twine.  I also got Ashley to write a note on the handmade gift tag 🙂

Here are more Teacher’s Day Gift Ideas that I have made :-

2016

2012

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Paper Bow Gift Wrap

Posted on May 14, 2013 by Admin

My cousin’s granddaughter just turned one month old and they held a full moon party for her over the weekend.  Yeah, I’m a Grand Aunt already.  Sounds old huh? Boo Hoo!  It was a small and meaningful buffet dinner party at my niece’s home which was attended by family members and close friends.  Her husband even got ready a presonus audiobox from musicians friend to play the recordings of my niece’s pregnancy journey on his laptop.

I bought lil Abigail a gift and this is how I wrapped it.

First I drew a ribbon on a piece of pink paper

Then, I cut a strip of pink paper and glued it onto the box as part of the paper ribbon.  Then I glued on the ribbon which I have outlined with black pen.

Here is my simple gift wrap.  If you run out of ribbons, try this paper ribbon idea instead 🙂

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Japan’s Children Day

Posted on May 8, 2013 by Admin

Kodomo no Hi is Japan’s Children Day and it falls on 5th May. It is a day to celebrate the health and happiness of children.  We had dinner at a restaurant that day and while waiting for the election results, my friend Junko made Ashley a paper hat in the shape of a kabuto (samurai helmet), like she did for her children.  This is a popular craft which Japanese children make on this day.

Notice the black shawl that Ashley is wearing?  That is Junko’s breastfeeding shawl which she was playing with *slaps forehead*

Junko also made some traditional food known as chimaki, which is a dumpling wrapped in bamboo leaves.  It tasted like mochi and very delicious 🙂

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making sentences

Posted on May 2, 2013 by Admin

Ashley had to make a sentence with the word “Mandi Kerbau” for her Bahasa Malaysia homework from her tuition class recently. “Mandi Kerbau” is an Idiom in Bahasa Malaysia language.  “Mandi” is bath and “Kerbau” is buffalo.  So “Mandi Kerbau” means to bath like a buffalo, meaning to not bath properly.

I asked her to think in English on how she wants to make her sentence and then translate to Bahasa Malaysia.  She thought for a while and came up with this – “My daddy Mandi Kerbau because he cannot wait to go out with his friends”.  Muahahaha….this shows how frequent daddy goes out with his friends.

 

Ms. Cheeky

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My Malaysian Spring

Posted on April 28, 2013 by Admin

I have been reading news about the Malaysian Spring movement lately. It is an idea mooted by the famous landscape architect, Ng Seksan to spread the message of Hope and Change for a better Malaysia.  This movement is a simple gesture of planting ‘ flowers’ (multi-coloured flags) around the neighbourhood.  Ng Seksan began planting ‘flowers’ at a roundabout in Lucky Garden, Bangsar.   His plan is to plant 28 million of flags, or flowers, across 13 states in Malaysia before Polling Day on May 5.  Todate, there has been over 62,000 flowers planted in Malaysia and overseas.  It is very inspirational to see Malaysians coming together to do something for our beloved country. You can check out their facebook page here –  https://www.facebook.com/malaysianspring.

I don’t have any cloth with me so I did my version of the Malaysian Spring using coloured papers and plant them at home.

Instead of flag shapes, I did pinwheels.

Ready to be planted

In the pots

On the planter box outside my house.

Let us all pray for a better Malaysia after May 5th  🙂

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for me

Posted on April 25, 2013 by Admin

Recently during Ashley’s moral class, her teacher asked everyone to bring some mayonnaise, food such as lettuce, tomatoes, apples as well as a container to school. The children were taught to make salad. It is funny that they make salad in Moral class right?  Anyway I gave Ashley some small tomatoes and lettuce.   When I went to pick her up from school that evening, she ran to me, holding the salad which she was taught to prepare and said, “Surprise.  Teacher said it is for our parents“.

This is the salad prepared by Ashley.  She got the mayonnaise, raisins and apple slices from her friend.  As soon as we got into the car, she insisted that I eat the salad.  Taste pretty good although a bit soggy ♥

 

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