A Beautiful Day!

What will you see first thing in the morning after you wake up from your bed? Beside seeing your lovely husband/wife's face, beside seeing your baby who is still sleeping soundly, will you get to see the nature of earth with so much of green surrounding you? I do.

I could smell the fresh air when I open the window, see the birds swiftly and hear them chirruping. I often forecast the weather by looking at the sky, em....it's a sunny day again. I like to see the clouds covering part of the mountain far on the other side.

I always starts my day with a beautiful scene, how about you?

Housekeeping Habit

I must praised my 5 years old girl this time for having a good habit to house keep her bookshelf on and off. Her daddy always claimed that her good habit is inherited from her mummy, er hem.... adjusting my shirt's collar :P .

Ever since I was young (primary schooling age), I already helped out my mum on daily house chores. Floor sweeping & mopping, window glass cleaning, hang washed clothes, clean up dishes and etc. But I'm lucky to have 3 elder sisters whom will take up most of the tough house chores and left some simple one for me. But I got to absorb the work slowly when they get married one by one ..... sob* sob*

Audrey even said I'm like 'Cinderella', not that I will be granted a nice evening gown nor glass shoes from a fairy. It's simply because she saw me doing so many house work while herself and mei mei are like step sister to Cinderella, relaxing on sofa for cartoon. Ha ha......

However I find it quite important to train our children to 'love' doing house chores when they are young. At what age do you think it's a good start to train them? To me, I think as soon as they start messing up our living room with their toys, they should be taught to keep the toys for next play. Audrey does a good job most of the time after each play unlike her mei mei who hardly keep her toys. In fact we got headache to train Shannen to keep her toys.

Audrey also starts helping me to fold her own clothes (upon my request), wash non greasiness dishes when I'm busy cooking or baking and keep empty containers inside cabinet. She is my good helper sometimes.

Audrey snapped this photo of her 'after house keep bookshelf' and proudly show it to me. I gave her a thumb up sign and praised her good girl.

Shannen could sense that I'm complaining her in this blog. When I'm done with this post, she took out the floor mop and told me that she wants to mop the floor. Ha ha .... look at her... *head shaking*!

"Nanny 911" on Ntv7

We have been watching Nanny 911 twice (2 different series) and we love watching it together, yes with my two little girls. Of course Shannen will not pay full concentration to the show but Audrey does. She even put up her questions to us along the show.

In summary, this is all about the show :
Nanny 911 is a new unscripted series that follows a team of nannies armed with the dos and don'ts of child-rearing. Each nanny has a specific area of expertise (both series that we watched were handling by Nanny Deb, she is super), ranging from proper etiquette to controlling temper tantrums, and all are ready to help exhausted parents tackle the issues creating chaos in their home and whip their families into tip-top shape.

Looking at those family with more than 4 siblings, daddy working and leave all of them to mummy during day time, no maid, no helper. I'm kind of relief to compare myself with them. You can't imagine how bad was the situation until you watch the reality show. I told hubby if I were the mummy, probably I'll be holding 'rotan' all day long or I'll get mad, heart attack and die finally. But I think most of you are aware that physical punishment towards kids is illegal in overseas. Parents can only explain, consult and advise them to the "don'ts". How lucky are kids staying overseas..... he he!

Watch the show and you will know what I'm talking here. If you are interested, you may turn to Ntv7 channel every Monday 8.30pm.

What's So Smelly?

One of the morning, I walked out from the study room and saw both of my girls were closing their nose using one hand and the other hand holding colour pencil and scissor respectively. Both of them looked funny........ Ei, wondering what and where the disgusting odour from?

Then I saw hubby doing this........

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Ooooo.......... he was polishing his leather shoes. That's explained where the bad smell from.

How To Keep Your Valuable Things

How do you keep your valuable things at home, for instance your gold jewelry, diamond ring, cash, antique watches, etc? Here are some tips that I wish to share with you. If you have a better one, do let us know. Believe it or not, thieves are smarter than anyone of us. Only those stupid thieves will get caught and jailed.

Or do you prefer to use safety box? How safe can a safety box be? My former company safety box was no longer safe when it was burglarized, all the foreign currency notes gone.

I think the safer way of avoiding lost is don't keep too much of valuable things at home, am I right?

Our All Time Favorite Lunch

Since I'm not satisfied with the spaghetti that we had last weekend, I decided to cook it myself for today lunch. I used Campbell's Alfredo Portobello, fettuccine, broccoli, mushrooms, carrots, prawns, whipping scream, garlic & onion to cook my version of spaghetti. It was a thumb's up! Em.... my stomach is full now.

This is our simple yet delicious lunch for today!

Luckily both my girls and hubby also like to eat spaghetti.

What an Unlucky Day!

Tuesday 17/3, was an unlucky day for us ever since we moved into our condo 5 years ago. I often heard from our neighbours about incidents happened around us but never realize that it could happen to us as well.

Our house was being broken into on that day! It happened after we were out for work.

As usual I went back home around 7.00pm together with Audrey. We met our neighbour, Mr & Mrs. Soo at the car park and took the same lift to our units on level 5.

The moment we reached our unit, I noticed the padlock was opened. I was a little confused as I thought the key could only be taken out if the pad lock is locked. So, I'm sure I locked the door this morning otherwise I couldn't be holding the keys. But being too optimistic (should I say stupid indeed), I thought the pad lock mechanism has malfunctioned therefore opened by itself.

While figuring out why this could happened, I opened the front door grill and then I noticed something was amiss. I saw there was some sign of forced entry on the wooden door just beside the lock. Immediately I called my neighbours who was still opening their door. They quickly ran over and asked what happened.

I told them that the door looked like it has been broken into. Mr. Soo took a look and tried to forced open the door. OMG, we saw a door lock on the floor and my tv cabinet drawers were left opened. I ran into our master bed room and found some books lying on the floor. My wardrobe drawer was placed on my bed and its contents ransacked. All my valuable stuff had gone. Cash, some forex (balance left from travelling) and jewelleries.

After checking all other rooms, I was relieved that they were no sign of being ransacked. Then I went to the kitchen and saw a box of chicken essence on the floor. I stared at the rack for a while, wondering what went missing. To my surprise, 4 boxes (half dozen per box) of Brand's chicken essence had gone missing. Sounds funny right?

I quickly informed my hubby about the incident so that he could come back immediately. All the door locks were spoilt and I can't even lock my door at that moment. Mr.Soo was so kind to let me use his extra lock temporarily until hubby was back. Later that night, my brother in law came to help fix a new internal lock, otherwise it would be a sleepless night for us.

Many of you might be questioning what were the guards been doing that this can allowed to happened? I was also asking the same question. Many assumptions and suspicions popped up in my mind. Was any of the guard collaborated with the thiefs? Or the guard was the one who broke-in my house? The thief must be one of the resident here, most likely?

After fixing a new door with more locks the next day, we are now considering whether to install an alarm system. The alarm system must be wireless type, easy to manage and must be durable for effectiveness. Really hope that our life and belongings will be safer after taking these preventive measures.