Easter in Malacca

I was in the city of Malacca over the Easter long weekend. Malacca was awarded as Unesco Heritage site recently and I’m quite proud of it as I can see some improvement and development around in Malacca now. Many of us took the opportunities to travel north and as expected I was expecting long jam at the causeway but I never expect I will be caught for 3.5 @$%# hours! Zach was behaving good considering stuck in the jam and a little mishap happen on him which he had a cut on his last finger. Skin were dangling out and we did not notice until much much later to our horror. He was brawling and crying his eyes out and we were thinking that he’s just sick and tired of the jam :p.

9 of us depart on Friday morning and the rest, 5 of them join us on Saturday afternoon. We reached Malacca town around 1.30pm and went straight to Century Mahkota Hotel to check in. It was raining heavily and we decided to have our lunch at the hotel café. I didn’t manage to take any photos here as too tired and hungry. I had Baked Portugese fish and MH had the Portugese fried rice. The rest ordered ayam percik, char kuay teow, wan tan Hor and spaghetti. Most of the dishes turn out well. Even the complimentary bun tasted good and soft with some hint of cinnamon and orange peel. I can tell they were feshly baked from the kitchen.

When the rain stops, we drove to the town area for chendol at 88 Jonker. We stopped by at San Su Gong the newly open shop at Jonker st. We bought some snacks and the concentrated Liquorice plum juice is very freshing. A must try. They do give out samples to try and the hot weather does play a part to psycho us to buy. The location is good and they also portion out a dining area for shoppers who need to rest their legs. I notice there may some future expansion above the shop as they did renovate it quite nicely. The weather is burning hot and we were almost to the brink of roast pig. The queue at 88 Jonker is horrendously long and we decided to check out the Donald & Lily corner’s chendol stall. It was closed and we decided to go back hotel for chill out at the pool. The children had fun and I’m quite pleased with the kiddy pool having 2 slides, an adult pool, 1 jacuzzi and a wading pool for the kids. There’s another pool near to the hotel lobby which somehow we were not attracted to go over. I guess the landscape of the pool does make a major role here.

When dusk falls, we headed for satay celup at Ban Lee Siang. This is another rival to Capitol satay (heard it was the originator) but this place is always with long Q and somehow it’s perpetually hot. Ban Lee Siang somehow has a little breeze but still sauna hot. Satay celup is famous in Malacca. I don’t remember other states having this. I guess we had closed to about 120 sticks for 7 of us and the bill came to RM81 include drinks. Fairly reasonable.

Next, will be Day 2 with more coming food hunt!

My beauty regime

I’m slowly turning into a night owl and I have been trying to catch up some lost sleep for many many months. I have not been sleeping 10 hours straight and sleeping and waking up as I wish.

I came across in the internet spree selling eye mask for pretty cheap pack. This eye mask is made in France and it’s call France Gold Bio-Collagen Eye Mask. Sounds cool isn’t it?

It’s selling SGD1.80 per pair and I bought 10 pairs to see the effect. Yea, I’m going to join the panda clan soon if I don’t do anything to my dark circle!This mask suppose to reduce puffy eyes and more importantly to help me reduce dark circle. Besides this, the collagen suppose to help to reduce fine lines and wrinkles which and it contains some anti-oxidating properties. How effective this properties, I can only tell after a few usage.

The instruction says to leave for about 10-15 minutes but I leave for 30mins. I notice there are some liquid in the pack and I guess is the collagen water? Or just some purify water. Anyway, I threw the liquid away and here’s how the mask should look like when it’s paste under your eye bags or dark circle.
I slept after doing the eye mask. Of course not with the mask on. I woke up in hope of seeing some miracle happen on my eye bags and dark circle. Standing 2 feet away from my mirror, I can’t see much changes. If I really really go near and stare on my mirror, I can see some dark circle or eye bags reduce. Not so puffy……

After the mask...

Verdict, the effect of the teeny weeny improvement on the dark circle and eye bags are nothing to shout at. To be fair to the product, I will continue using it every week to see the impact. Will blog again if I see any miracle happen within the 9 weeks (since I have another 9 pairs to go!).

A1 Emperor Herbs Chicken

After listen to my colleague discuss on what's good and save time and enery (aunty talk), I decided to try this A1 Emperor Herbs Chicken.

I woke up around 8:45am this morning and off I go to do some marketing. Bought half chicken, thinking for the 2 of us finishing a full chicken for lunch is quite scary.

What's the rave about on this A1 is, you only need to buy raw chicken and the rest leave to A1 All in 1 Pack to do the job!. Best right?

So, here's what you need to do. Clean the chicken and put it aside.
This is how the A1 Emperor Herbs pack look like. It cost me SGD2.80 and SGD3.80 for half chicken.

That's what you have after opening the packet. This is what I mean by leave A1 to do the job. It even provide you aluminium foil and HDPE in this pack. A small piece of instruction on 3 ways how you can benefit on this pack and next is the wholesome goodness which is the Herbs and Spices!Rub the herbs and spices on the chicken throughly. Place the chicken on the HDPE and wrap it with the aluminium foil. If you like your chicken to have some gravy, add a little water on the aluminium foil. I add some wolfberry too.

The instruction says steam for 2 hours but I steam for 1 1/2 hour.

Here's the after product. Result, finger licking good and very yummy. We finish every single drop of the gravy. Will definitely cook again anytime soon! Try it and you will love it! Now, this A1 is a must have in my kitchen now :)

In Memory for Mum...

Today is Mum's death anniversary and I decided to stay home and observe a minute of silent prayer to her. It has been 4 years since she has left us but her soul is always is in my heart and I can still feel her presence in my daily life. What I mean about her presence are those motherly advice, things we always do together and there are small little things here and there which made me remind her always. Being a mother now, I always look upon mum as an example in applying to my teachings to Zach and how I care for Zach as how mum care for me. There are times I wish Mum will be here to share my joy and taking care of Zach. I know she will be a great Grandmother to Zach but God love Mum too much and He wants the best for Mum. I always know that Mum look upon us from Heaven and there are times she's an angel to Zach.

I Love You, Mum...

Potential Model

I was folding the bedsheets after washing. My little monster refuse to let me fold and he grab from me and start "modelling" on his diaper. I was observing him for a few minutes and telling him to stop doing it but to no avail. Suddenly it reminds me of the advert on Dynamo or Softlan. I can't remember which but it has to relate to some washing liquid and this little baby sleeps on the wash fluffy towel with his satisfied smile on his face after smelling the fresh washed pile.

So I grab my camera and start snapping around. Zach is willingly to model for me ...

His Little Corner

Zach hates being caged up due to his nature. He can't sit still and he needs to move or run around freely. Even, when he's watching his favourite Barney show his little fingers will busy playing with MH's leg's hair...Wuahhahahah...Sometimes, he will help him clear a few "grass". :p

We decided to dismantle his playpen and leave the bumper mat on. I bought 4 posters for Zach to teach him some alphabets, numbers and wild and domestic animals. Sounds like real....So far, I manage to teach him a few animals and alphabets still a big failure :p.

This picture was taken before the "hurricane" comes and go :p

Finally, after 3 years of lying on the floor I managed to hang all of Bro's jigsaw puzzle up! Sounds like major project to me, huh :). Even my part time helper couldn't stand me. She has been nagging me everytime she see the jigsaw on the floor and she has given up on me after a year.

These are one of the jigsaws and I find it blend so well at this little corner for Zach.

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AirAsia to Png fm Sg...? WHEN?!

This morning on the way to work, as usual and robotic manner I will grab My Paper and Today from the newstands. It's a free paper to all and I will always read them on my way and back from work. It really kills time and stop me from people watching and procastinating in the early morning.

Browsing through the news, something caught my eye! I was excited to read that AirAsia is expanding more routes in her pipeline! WoooooooooooooT! And guess what? Penang and Langkawi is one of them. I hope this materialise in end May 09 since I have my own "pipeline" travelling up north :).

Tony, I like it Move It-Move it!