Madagascar Fever

Yupe...... Madagascar is her 2nd favourite after Shrek. When she first saw the Madagascar II advertisement on TV, she was so excited and keep on singing "I like to move it, move it......" Until her grandpa came and ask me what she want actually.... LOL!

I got a copy of the latest catalog of Tupperware and so happy to see the Madagascar items. Without think twice, I drove to the nearest Tupperware office with Kendra to grab the items. Initially, I just want to get a set of the tumbler and the One Touch Topper set. Too bad that the One Touch Topper set is a PWP item and need to spend RM50 from this range to get it. So, I thought of going home with empty hands since I don't have the intention to get 4 tumbler just for the One Touch Topper. Kendra was so disappointed when I told her that we are going home without any purchase of the Madagascar items. She start to show her pity face and keep sitting on the floor and don't let me to bring her home. The shop owner can't stand to see her pity face and allow me to purchase the One Touche Topper set without the required purchase amount. She was happily home with her "Alex" tumbler at the end.

Other than the Tupperware items, we lso get her the toys from McDonald. So far, only collected 3 pcs and still waiting for the others to be release. And the cute hairband is from McDonald too!

We brought her to the cinema on last Sunday for the show and she was so excited. Before this, I had told her that when we go to cinema, we will have pop corn, cheezel, coke....... that's why she is so looking forward to the show. After the show when we were walking to the car park, She told her daddy :"Tomorrow we come again ar...." Hubby and I can feel how she enjoy herself for the show and promise her to get her the DVD once it's available.

She is Diapers Free

It has been a week Kendra didn't put on any diapers for the past one week. At first, I'm scare to take off her diapers at night as I haven't get any waterproof sheet to start get this big project started. But, from my observation over the past few weeks, her diapers were dry on the next day morning. Hubby insisted to take off her diapers and give it a try.

We will asked her to go to the toilet before she go to bed and when she wake up in the next day morning, we will ask her to go to the toilet again. Phew!!!! She did it without fail for the past one week and we are so proud of her.

Now, my problem is how to get rid of the left over diapers in my store room. Maybe will sell it below the market price...... wait for my post ya!!!!

Recipe: American Baked Cheesecake

Digestive Biscuit Base

Ingredients
160g Digestive biscuit (finely crushed)
80g melted butter

Method:
Mix all ingredients until well-blended. Press it onto bottom of a 20cm loose bottom pan. Refrigerate for 15 minutes or until firm.

Ingredients A
625g cream cheese
170g sugar

Ingredients B
40g plain flour

Ingredients C
4 egg yolk
2 1/2 egg white
1 tbsp lemon juice
1 lemon zest

Ingredients D
200g whipping cream

Ingredients E
1 1/2 egg white
20g sugar

Method:
1. Wrap the outside of the digestive biscuit base tin with aluminium foil
2. Cream ingredients A until light. Add in ingredients B, mix until well-blended
3. Add in ingredients C, cream until smooth and light
4. Add in ingredients D, mix until well-combined
5. Whip ingredients E until the soft peak stage, add it into the above cheese mixture and mix until well incorporated
6. Pour the cheese mixture over the prepared biscuit base
7. Bake in water bath at 160 Celsius for 75 minutes or until golden brown
8. Allow to cool, keep refrigerated overnight.

American Baked Cheesecake

I never thought of I can baked a cheesecake before as I always thought it's very complicated to bake it and it's better to buy from the bakery shop if I'm craving on it.

After I read a post from her blog, I got the inspiration to bake my very first Cheesecake this week. Although the cake looks a bit weird but the taste was good than what I'm expected.... yummy!!!

Carlsberg Web TV

My dad is a super fans of football and he could sleep few hours a day just for the football. On weekend, he will only stay at home and stick in front of the TV for his football matches.

Lately, hubby told me that Carlsberg have launched a web tv channel named www.partofthegame.tv. Lots of football information and video clips can be found here.

Maybe I should share this site with my dad so he will have more variety to watch his matches!!!

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Bento #5

This Bento was not packed for Kendra but for her daddy instead. Hope he will finish it during his lunch time later. I just simply fried the rice with some hams and mixed vege and layer it with some lettuce. The coleslaw was prepared yesterday and I can't find a small cup to hold it so I just use the lettuce (again) to hold it....heheheh!! The appetizer will be the kiwi as there are still plenty in the fridge!!!! I thought of prepare a bottle of apple juice for him too but he refuse to bring it. So, this is the only food for his lunch later.....enjoy ya!!!!

She Want To Be A Good Girl

After I told her that I don't like to hear the "Sorry" from her, this is what she will said when she did a mistake now.



This is the conversation between us........

mommy: tell mommy....... what??
Kendra: I don't want naughty girl already.
mommy: then what you want?
Kendra: I...I..... I want be a good girl already............ I want listen to mommy daddy!
mommy: who naughty just now?
Kendra: I....
mommy: who naughty just now
Kendra: Kendra......
mommy: so now Kendra want to be a......???
Kendra: Good girl
mommy: listen to who??
Kendra: listen to mommy daddy
mommy: promise ar..... promise
Kendra: I promise......
mommy: you want to be a.....????? (to reassure)
Kendra: GOOD GIRL!!!!

Huggies Tent

Hooray!!! Finally I managed to redeem this tent for Kendra before the closing date. A big thanks to Amanda and Macy who willing to share with me their polybags so I don't need to buy another bags of diapers just for the redemption. Since Kendra only put on her diapers at night and I think my current stock are really a lots to me. Only the Mamy Poko pants, I think there are at least 10 packets in my room.

See, Kendra was so happy with her new tent until you can't see her eyes in one of the photo below..... hahahah!!!!

Bento #4

Again I'm preparing a simple and light Bento for Kendra to bring to her gong gong's house on last Saturday.It served as a snack for her after her breakfast. It took about 10 minutes for me to pack it.



Inside the box, there are 2 pineapple tart, 2 cheese crackers with almond, a chocolate almond cookies (baked by myself) and some kiwis.

KWSP Member's Investment Withdrawal

The minimum Basic Saving amount in Account 1 for the Investment Withdrawal had been reduced from RM50k to a lower amount depend on your current age. I did not aware of this change until I came across an radio advertisement on my way to fetch Kendra today. I think it might be a good news to share with you all.

Since the market are so bad now and I think it's a good time to stock up using the fund from our EPF (rather to fork out some money from our pocket)....heheheh!!!!

You may now check your amount that can be invested here and have more details on the withdrawal here.

Required Basic Savings In Account 1

Age (Years)	Basic Savings (RM)	Age (Years)	Basic Saving (RM)
18	1,000	37	34,000
19	2,000	38	37,000
20	3,000	39	41,000
21	4,000	40	44,000
22	5,000	41	48,000
23	7,000	42	51,000
24	8,000	43	55,000
25	9,000	44	59,000
26	11,000	45	64,000
27	12,000	46	68,000
28	14,000	47	73,000
29	16,000	48	78,000
30	18,000	49	84,000
31	20,000	50	90,000
32	22,000	51	96,000
33	24,000	52	102,000
34	26,000	53	109,000
35	29,000	54	116,000
36	32,000	55	120,000

* the above information are gathered from EPF website.

Need Glasses?

Eyeglasses are expensive nowadays as one of my friend told me that she paid RM800 for her new glasses. OMG, I never paid such a huge amount for an eyeglass in my life.

After I read the article from Chicago Tribune, I found an online prescription eyeglasses store for cheaper frame and lens. From their website, I got to know that actually I can have few pairs of glasses with the amount my friend used to pay for her glasses. From rimless to plastic frame and single vision eyeglasses to complete progressive eyeglasses, you name it and they have it. Tons of frames for you to choose from with a super low price started at $8.oo. You must be wondering why they are able to sell their glasses at such low price. Zenni manufactures their own frames and sell directly to the customer. With this, no middleman and advertising fees are impose on the cost.

I need to get a backup pair of eyeglasses for myself and I think Zenni Optical is a wise choice to go for. Maybe I will get few pairs more so that I can have more stylish looks. What a good discovery! I hope you guys are tempted as I do now and let's visit Zenni Optical today for a brand new eyeglasses!

Bento #3

A simple bento for Kendra today. The chee cheong fan was bought by her gong gong and I just packed it for her with some cereal and a jelly. Surprisingly she can finished all the foods. This had give me a very big encouragement to do more bento for her.

Rose Award

Wow, so many awards come to me this few days. Just finished my butterfly awards couple minutes ago and now got the Rose Award from Esmeralda, thanks so much for this lovely award.

The rules of the award are:

1. The winner can put the logo on her blog.
2. Link the person you received your award from.
3. Nominate at least 7 other blogs.
4. Put links of those blogs on yours.
5. Leave a message on the blogs of the girls and boys you've nominated.

Now, I want to pass this award to:
1. Vicky Low
2. Lovelymummy
3. Amanda
4. family first
5. Judy
6. Debbie
7. Jessica

Butterfly Award

Yay yay! I got this award from lovelymummy, Judy, Serene and family first at the same time. A big thanks to this 3 great mommies.

Here are the rules to go with the award:-

1. Put the logo on your blog.
2. Add a link to the person who awarded you.
3. Nominate 10 other blogs.
4. Add links to those blogs on yours.
5. Leave a message for your nominees on their blogs.

I would like to pass this award to :
1. donna
2. Vivian
3. Violet
4. most of my blogger's friend are being awarded with this award....... so I only manage to nominate 3 in the list....

Shockig News

This is a heart breaking news for those who wish to migrate to Australia........ and I'm one of it.

Rudd rolls up migrant welcome mat

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has flagged a cut in immigration because of the global financial crisis, faltering economic growth and a rise in unemployment.

Mr Rudd said the current immigration rate was an increase on the previous year.

He said that increase was to meet employer demands for more skilled workers, particularly in mining and resource intensive Western Australia and Queensland.

"As with all previous governments, and mine's the same, whenever we set immigration targets we will adjust them according to the economic circumstances of the day," he told the Fairfax Radio Network in Melbourne .

The 2008-09 Migration Program is set at 190,300 places, representing a 19.8 per cent increase on the 2007-08 program. The figure includes 56,500 places for family migrants sponsored by people already in Australia and 133,500 places for those with special skills.

But that's now been criticised as excessively large in a period of economic turmoil.

Mr Rudd said immigration was not one-size-fits-all across the country and the government would take advice on where skilled workers were needed.

Monash University researcher Andrew Markus has estimated that of the 21 million Australians, a quarter were born abroad - twice the proportion of the population in the United States and three times that of Britain.

Britain and New Zealand are still the largest source countries, but almost every country is represented.

Bento #2

Thia is the 2nd bento I did for Kendra for her snack break at school. It's a very light snack for her and hope she loves it as it looks not as attractive as the previous one. Mommy promise will find more idea on the coming bento.

Whole Grain bread + strawberry jam, oranges

Mommy thought of let her bring the Vitagen to school but scare others children will fight after seeing the Vitagen. So mommy decided not to let her bring the Vitagen to school but will let her have it after school.

My First Bento

I think preparing Bento is the trend now and being a Kiasu mom, I have prepared my first Bento for hubby and Kendra today. I got not much Bento accesorries with me and I should thank market place owner to send my items promptly so that I can start my Bento-ing.

I can't wait till 18th October for the grand opening of the 100 yen shop in Ipoh. I hope I can find some useful bento stuffs there.

This is the Bento for hubby.........
Bread + ham + cheese, grapes and sausages

This is what I prepared for Kendra.....
Bread + ham & cheese, grapes

Let's go to school with my Bento.........

p/s: When I drop her to school this morning, the first thing she told her teacher is :"I got Bento today..." hahaha, normally she will greet the teacher when she reached there.

Sorry

Kendra like to apologize to me lately even for some small things... "Sorry mommy, sorry mommy" always the words from her mouth. I didn't mean that I don't like her to apologize when she did a mistake, I just wish that she will know her mistake and don't repeat it again. Not by saying a word of Sorry and forget about her mistake.

Yesterday when we are about to sleep, hubby was playing with Kendra. Suddenly, she beat her daddy because daddy sleep on her pillow. Then hubby pretended crying by the hope Kendra will 'sayang' him but Kendra still don't bother him. Hubby got no way to go but saying sorry to his princess. Guess what is Kendra answer????

Kendra: Sorry no cure!!!!!!!

Hahahaha......... this is my answer to her everytime she apologized to me. Hubby and I laughed non stop after hearing her answer.

Online Shopping Advisor

If you are my regular blog reader, you will found that I love to shop online very much. When we talk about shop online, I'm sure the first question come out from your mind is " Does online shopping can be trusted?"

I still remembered that I was so worried when I place my first order online. I worried that my personal information will be disclose to the 3rd party and wonder whether the stuffs I ordered can be deliver to my doorstep safely. I dare not to shop other online shops which I never shop before. Thanks buySAFE given me a chance to write the review of their site so that I can go beyond the online shops I used to visit before this.

The buySAFE shopping Advisor is a free tool that makes online shopping safer and more secure. Shopping Advisor provides a tool to analyze e-commerce sites and provides a safe shopping portal, which consists of bonded sellers. Shopping Advisor only show you the search result from the bonded merchants and their security rating was displayed too. Once in the safe shopping portal, every purchase is guaranteed within the limits of the bond by buySAFE up to a limit of $25,000.

What's more, buySAFE also offer the referral program. $1.00 will be given to you for every person you refer to buySAFE who installs Shopping Advisor into their browser. So, don't wait and sign up your free account now!!!