~* 2011 CNY Shoes *~

It was love at first sight for this jelly shoes with crystal from Stuart Weitzman. So how can I not buying it :D :p For this CNY, most of my dresses are pastel colours. It should match well with my dresses :)

~* The Maid Drama (Update) *~

It is really "sien" to deal with the maid agency. They are so slow when there is a problem. My maid confirmed hypertension and suspected of some bone syndromes. I faxed the letter to them last Wednesday. The person in charged said will give me a reply today but when I called her, she said her manager cannot make decision and need her boss approval. The problem is, her boss does not go to the office everyday. Need to wait for another day. Fingers crossed they will give me an answer tomoro. Really cannot "tahan" the black face :(

~* The Maid Drama *~

It seems like I don't have luck on the maid. 2-day ago, my maid told me she wanted to go home because her whole body was in pain. Mostly, when in an aircon room. After discussion with my hubby, we decided to call the agency. But we can't bring her to the agency immediately because we need to make an appointment. So, I can only bring her today. At the agency, the personnel told her that if she wanted to go home, she needs to pay a lot of money and she can only go home if a medical report shows that she is not fit to work. After the agency, we went to see the doctor. The doctor can't diagnose anything and need to monitor for few days if the pain still there after some medication. IF yes, will need to go for an x-ray. However, the doctor found another major health problem with her. Her blood pressure is extremely high and it could be hypertension :( Need to go back after 1-week to check on the blood pressure again to confirm. IF confirm hypertension, she definitely not fit to work. I will have to go through the tedious process of maid application again :( Hope the higher blood pressure is because of her not enough sleep these few nights and everything will back to normal again next week.

~* The Jumperoo *~

 

:D It seems like the jumperoo is too small for YJ now :D I still keep it for him to play as I can't find a proper storage place for it :p All the toys, once we assemble it, we can't disassemble it to the original small pieces.   

~* CNY 2011 *~

 

3 more weeks to CNY. This is the first mall that I saw with CNY decorations. Usually didn't do much for my house. Just basic cleaning and simple deco. The most headache part would be buying gifts for the relatives. I tried to do it simple as well to make sure not to buy the unnecessary. And this year with my sis-in-law health condition, I must volunteer early to help my MIL :p  

~* Corn Custard *~

I was craving for corn custard. Used to have this quite often when I'm a little kid. So, I tried to make it myself yesterday. The ingredients are simple - cream corn, custard powder, sugar and coconut milk (I substitute it with full cream milk). Just need to mix all the ingredients together and cook it with small fire until it thickens. 

All went smoothly until the last step. As I was stirring the custard on the slow fire, YJ poo and we need to clean him up. When I returned to the custard 5mins later, the custard already thicken by itself at the middle. I have no choice but to stirred it a bit then poured it into a container. Left it cold and to store it in the fridge. I tried it this morning. It turned out not so ok. Quite sticky. May be it is because of the full cream milk instead of coconut milk. 

~* The Stopper *~

Can you guess how many pacifiers that I bring for the Australia trip?

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6. And I am glad that I brought 6 as it was just enough for the day out :D

~* Australia 2010 *~

A short update on my Australia trip. This is a very relaxing trip as we don't have a fix itinerary. YJ can consider behave during the whole trip. He slept during most of the traveling time which is a bless as I can take a short nap as well :)

The first city was Melbourne. It was raining during the 4 days we were there. Didn't really go any where. The highlight was to see penguins at Philip Island. 

Second city was Sydney. YJ travelled a lot in Sydney. We were on the Explorer bus, ferry and train. The Opera House was as beautiful and we enjoyed a very delicious seafood meal at The Sydney Fish Market. The crab is cheap if we compare it dollar to dollar. Love the Darling Harbour area and it has developed so much since my last trip about 10 years ago :) I must mentioned about one restaurant here - Mamak. This is a Malaysian restaurant at China Town. It sells roti canai and it is amazingly long crowd every night when we passed by. My uncle didn't want to try it as he said the not delicious roti canai is not worth AUD6 :D

Next was Gold Coast. My mom and cousin joined us here. We shopped a lot here. YJ have fun at the beach :)

The last city was Adelaide. There was a sudden change of weather. It was only about 18C. We went to the beach and YJ really enjoyed his time there. He was running and 4 adults were chasing after him :D My mom enjoyed her time at the strawberry farm and YJ enjoyed plucking the leaves of the strawberry plant :D

It was a good trip overall but I think I have spend too much on chocolate as gifts (around AUD250) :p

~* Microwave Popcorn *~

Have you try this before? It's so easy and you don't have to go out the house if you are craving for popcorn :)

~* A Day Out *~

We went to Bangsar Village today to check out a play school for YJ - FasTrackids. Quite like the place. It is small but their facility is good. I ike their idea of small group (6:1). We will be going for their Play & Learn class starting next week for once a week. We will try out for a term first. 

After the "school visit", we went for some tea at Marmalade cafe. YJ made some new friends there :) One of the reason that I wanted to go to class is to let YJ make some friends. Hope he will like it. If he is ok with the class, I will then look for some music class for him :)

Then, we went to MV for dinner. It was good to have some catch up after such a long time. I felt like "katak di bawah tempurung" just after few months not in the work force :D Looking forward to the next meet up :)