A little bit on kiddos

Exam is next week for my primary school going daughter. So you bet I have been at her back, making sure she did her revision every day.  Just hope Jan will be serious and when exam days come, she will not make any silly mistakes and do her questions carefully.

She has passed her Kumon's assessment tests in substraction and now she is moving to multiplication. A little tough for her but she is now in the multiplication stage so she has no choice.  I remember I only learnt multiplication tables around Primary 4, not in Primary 2.  I think I still doing the addition and subtractions that year.  Lol!

They never tired of fun.

Jan and her brother Jay are having some dry cough since last week.  Been taking some cough syrup but the cough is still there.  I think sleeping at night in air con room may not be helping in their condition, so I placed a glass of water below the air-con as it supposed to keep the air in the room less dry. 

I also been on the diaper-free trainng with Jay for the past days. Some nights he was dry and other nights he still wet it once. Jay is a very deep sleeper, hardly can wake or drag him out of the bed at night once he dozes off. Having hard time train him from wetting at night but we are seeing some progress here. Now I am not having him to wear diapers at night. Last pack used up last week. Wish me luck so I do not need to clean and dry those beddings often!  Tried early last year, but we failed.  This time, we must succeed! 

Hopefully with little incentive he will do so. 2 stamps on the day he is dry and one on the day he is not. ;)

And the youngest is turning 6 months old. Drool a lot and turn around a lot now. So we are all busy with baby Jamie every other times. :)

For their recess today

My kids requested me to cook some fried noodle for them to bring to school today. Well, of course this happy mummy accommodate their request and cook noodles for them. So "7 early, 8 early" (very early in the morning), I fried some noodles for breakfast as well as somefor their snack boxes.

My fried noodle is very simple, the main ingredients being the noodles, dried prawns and eggs.

Ingredients:
5 packs of dried noodles
Garlic cloves and shallots, minced and sliced
4 eggs, beaten
Salt to taste
Light soy sauce to taste
1 stalk of spring onion, to garnish
Fried shallot, to garnish

Methods:

1. Cook the dried noodles in boiled water. Add a bit of oil in the boiled water. Cook till noodle soften. Drain and toss with a bit of oil.

2. In a wok, heat up 2 tbsp cooking oil. Add garlic and shallots and stir fried for few second.

3. Add dried prawns. Stir fry till fragrant then add eggs. Continue stirring and breaking the eggs. Add noodles into the wok.
4. Mix everything in the wok. Add salt and light soy sauce to taste.
5. Dish out. Garnish with spring onion and fried shallots.

Picture perfect baby moments

(This article is taken from Parenthood Feb 2005 edition.)

Babies change and grow so much especially their first year. To catch all these wonderful moments, here is what it takes for parents to know a little know how and experiences.

1. Use natural light

Picture taken without flashes and indoor lamps will keep baby skin from looking mottled when you take indoor photo with colour film.  Look for natural light from window.  Even on overcast days, enough light will get inside if it is reasonably bright outside.  Here are few hints:

• turn off camera's automatic flash
• watch where shadows fall.  surround the baby in a warm glow
• act quickly as natural light changes consistently as day passes

2. Go for black and white

Baby skin seems perfect.  So why does it look blotchy when colour photos are developed?  The problem is the harsh light of a flash,.  A good solution would be using a black-and-white film.  It evens out skin tone and gives portrait a timeless feel.

3. Schedule photo sessions wisely

A happy subject makes better pictures.  Consider the times of day when baby is likely to be well rested and just fed.

4. Get close

Baby have such expressive faces and capturing those wide-mouthed smiles and saucer eyes is your main mission.  Zoom in or move up close so only face is in focus.

5. Seize the day

Keep a loaded camera handy when go out for walk or run an errand. Taken photos of your child enjoying everyday things are photo you will treasure in years to come.

Winner for the blog giveaway

Thank you to all the 9 commenters in my latest blog giveaway . Now it is the time to announce the lucky recipient of the set of masks.

The winner is Claire.  Congratulations to Claire! Now you can cry the tears of joy and got yourself a couple of eye masks. *wink*  Please check your email as I have email over to you, thanks. Hope you enjoy the masks!

The translator

Our world has been full of languages. If you ever visited a country where you do not understand a single word of the language, it may be frustrating to you to get the residents to understand you and vice versa.  What about legal or financial documents in foreign languages??  Fear not! 

Rosetta Translation is able to help you!! They offer all type of translation into 23 different languages and not only that!  They can even translate Braille!! Rosetta translates legal documents, medical documents, patents, IT, websites and many more. 

So if you come across a document and you are tempted to translate it, do not forget Rosetta!

Right partner

Everyone is talking about globalization, and it has been that trend for the past decades.  A friend used to do family business of processing and distributing vegetarian food to restaurants and retailers in KL.  This business has been in the family for more than 30 years before my friend took over after finished his university in 2000. 

 

Business is great and he started to get orders from overseas.  Demand is rocketing and he hardly could able to fulfil the order till he discovered AMS Fulfillment.  It helps in storing, distributing and services which my friend could not do in US.  Now he has been working with AMS for more than 10 years.  He does not need to worry about the overseas operating cost and other regulations when exporting his products.  Indeed he has found a right partner in business!

On the first floor

We went to Tiong Hua market this morning as we heard you can find many hawkers' food served there. Parking is hard to find but lucky for us, we managed to find one within a minute.

The ground floor of the market serves as a wet market, while first floor is hawker food market.  We went straight to first floor and hunt for food.  We saw this hawker stall with catchy sign and banner. So many choices to choose from.

I tried its kueh chap (RM4.00).  Many ingredients in my bowl, but I do not like the taste of the soup which is more peppery and sweet.  Taste more like beef soup than kueh chap soup, which is supposed to be salty.

 



 

Hubby had its beef fried noodle (RM3.50).  Tasted good enough and the beef is tasty and sweet as I believed they marinated the beef.

 

 



My boy has its kampua (RM3.50).  Very big portion and he only can ate almost half of the serving.  

 

That was our breakfast on a Saturday morning.