It was in 1 Utama, when we went passed a fish spa. Emily saw and she wants to go it to try. She saw this in Penang a couple of times but never walked in. Since there was a child package with 10% discount, I let her try it.

Tim and I are ticklish so we didn’t join her but we accompany her. She is really daring, she put her feet in. At first she felt ticklish but later her feet were surrounded by fish. She went from pond to pond. Some ponds have small fish and some had big fish.

Today, I wanted to check out the price of fish spa in Queensbay. Children are FOC! Well, it attracted me and my hubby to try. I couldn’t stand the fish biting my palm of my foot, it made my hair stand. Later I got used to it. Funny, this time around only a few fish went to Emily’s feet. Maybe her feet were too clean.

My hubby and I felt the feet a lot smoother. His dry skin under his feet felt softer. I don’t mind going again. If you hear of any good promo, let me know.

I am on leave until next year. I have planned to paint my children’s room. Days back, I asked Tim to pick his room’s color. Tim’s room never been painted before so I will start with his. He chose Pharoah purple and I pick the clear blue for him.

I tell you paint is not cheap. I got Nippon 3 in 1, refill crack, anti-bacteria and remove dirt & stain cost me RM110 per 5 liter.

I started taping the edges of the floor and ceiling the night before. I had to work corner to corner because I didn’t have space to relocate the bed and stuff. I started at 9am and finished at 9pm. It was a hard day work. Now my body ache and muscle in pain. More painful that my work in the office. It was worth it looking at the finished product.

The paint was good. You can wash off easily on the hand as well as on the brush. Now should I even start Emily’s room? She wants fiery princess and candy floss.

Before:

After:

1 hour till Christmas. Today I didn’t need to remind my children to sleep because they want to wake up early to……open the presents.

First my children and I wanted to surprise papa. We had a plan. We wanted to set up the Christmas Tree when papa is asleep on the night we returned from KL. All three of us were trying to keep the secret. When we arrived, papa picked us up from the airport. Both of them were giggling. We headed for lunch.

Emily was telling papa this and that and opps secret let out. Hrmm…she asked papa to erase it from his memory.

After lunch, we headed home. Guess what, papa surprise us with the Christmas tree all set up. Both of them went urghh…because they really want to put up the ornaments. Maybe next year.

To all mybabybay readers, have a blessed Christmas & great New Year!

I remembered when I was young I helped my mom make tang yuen (glutinous rice flour ball). We eat this to during Winter Solstice Festival (Dong Zhi). Well, after I got married, I don’t get to eat it because I am lazy to make it. Maybe I should try to make this next year.

Since I was in KL, my kind aunt invited my family to celebrate Dong Zhi. She cooked my favorite asam boi. Tim was walloping the steam fish. He loved it, more like drinking the fish soya sauce. At the end of the meal, my cousins started making tang yuen. My children joined in the fun. They are good at it after the practice with my home made play doh.

I must say that the Tang Yuen tasted extra delicious because it was specially made by my children. I can tell which ones were made by them too. That is by the size of the sugar in them. They like to pick the big size sugar.

Actually I like the ones with peanut filling, some used peanut butter. I wonder is there any more glutinous rice flour dough in the market.

It was a good trip back to KL. Too bad my hubby could not join us due to lack of annual leave. Children were receiving lots of Christmas gifts. 70% of my luggage is their presents. Emily said, “Nice oh, come to KL and received so many presents.”

First my children wanted to check out the Ikea play area. Just imagine I went to Ikea but didn’t get to shop there. Later I saw my children watching spoonge bob in there. Sort of deprive of watching cartoon.

By the way the Ikea play area is not a very pleasant sight. The staffs were busy administering the in and out of the children. One was chatting with her visiting friends. One kid urinated on the floor and I heard another did it somewhere. One kid has a small injury, it took a long time for the first aid guy to come. Later one kid ran in to play without anyone looking.

Well it just say one thing, I would never leave them there without supervision. After that, I realized we were too late for The Snow event at 7:30pm and 8:30pm.

The next day, we shopped at 1 U, more like the children shopping for their Christmas gift as my mom promised them each a gift. Timothy chose power miners Lego and Emily chose Barbie playground set. I picked up some gifts from my niece and nephews. There goes my money.

At 7:30pm, we went to see snowing outside of The Curve. It is actually made out of soap foam, I think. The machine really pumped out a lot of snow for 30 minutes. It was really bring back memories of snowing in Colorado. Well, my children’s head, body, hands and shoes were cover with foam. Yet, they didn’t stop. They want to stay on till 8:30pm for another snowing session. Later they changed their mind because they want to play with their new toys at home.

It was a good experience. I wished they will do the same in Queensbay Mall next year.

A video on snowing in Malaysia…pretty cool!

Landed safely in KL. Of all things I forgot to pack, I didn’t bring my iPhone charger. Now my phone is flat, had to use my notebook to SMS people. I will need to hunt for a USB cable.

My children were very excited. First seeing por por (my mom) get baptize. After that, they said “mummy nothing to do.” Sigh.

Well, when they travel with me, I have to make sure they nap. Now they are napping while I get online. Hehehehe….

Later they will go to their favorite place which they always wanted to go. They want to check out the color of the balls. Another sigh. Thanks to my aunt who loan me her car so that I can be mobile.

Simple meal that I prepared for my children. Too bad my broccoli went bad if not, it will look nicer with some green. My hubby was away and I thought of opening my home restaurant for the kids. Yeap, that’s how my children called my kitchen, mummy’s restaurant. They loved to play waiter and takes order. They love private dining with mummy too.

These are previous meals:

On another topic, here is Tim’s funny remark. Daddy was giving out instruction in the car before we go shopping.

Daddy: Rule number one, all listen to papa and mummy. Rule number two, …

Tim: *P*A*P*A *Y*A* (aka papaya) :giggles:

Beware, next time if you bring your children to the swimming pool, make sure they wear slippers except when they are in the pool.

My poor boy stepped on a piece of glass near the pool. Fortunately I saw it when he pulled it out and throw it on the ground. I saw his foot was bleeding. Daddy took some tissue from me and applied pressure on it. We sat him down on the bench, still with the pressure applied on it. The pressure is to stop the wound from bleeding. Blood was dripping on the floor, I believed the cut was deep but small. Daddy wrapped a towel over his foot.

I quickly dressed Emily up, dried Tim up and put his shirt on, so that he doesn’t get a chill. After a short while, I took off the towel and tissue soaking with blood. The wound stop bleeding and I put a plaster on. Yes I carried plaster with me in my wallet.

At home, I bathed him. He sat on a stool with his wounded foot on another stool. I clean his wound a little and dried it. Then I applied yellow iodine onto the wound and wrapped it up with plaster. Some plaster would not stick. Daddy had to put cotton and wrap it with the white tape.

He was limping but throughout the incident, he didn’t shed a tear. Today the wound heal nicely.

With the Hippo Tours, it has 2 routes on the Hop On Hop Off double decker bus. The city sightseeing and the heritage route. You can go as many times as you want. It takes 1 hour per route. The top of the bus is the open deck. The sun was scorching hot but yet there are people on the top deck. It will be bbq up there. We took the lower air condition deck to avoid being burnt. When the sun was not that hot, we went to the top to get a breeze.

I took this tour because it is suitable for my children. They don’t have to walk much, they just sit in the bus and admire the journey. The bus also goes to a few attraction spots nearby like the park, museum, china town, orchid garden, art gallery and others. We can hop off anytime and come back on when we finished with it.

At night, there is a free ride up the Hippo bus for any tourist around Orchard admiring the lights on that street. All you need to do is to take your passport to register at the SVC center at Orchard Road.

We also went for the ducktour where it is a vehicle shaped like a duck that can travel on land and river. The river cruise was good because it brings to you all the famous spots like the Merlion, Esplanade, Singapore flyer, the tobe Casino etc… Because everything comes in one package, it is quite worth it. By the way, this vacation, I didn’t do much shopping although Singapore has many mega shopping malls. I just got a present for my mom. I mean what can you buy in Singapore that you cannot get cheaper in Malaysia?

My gal loves to eat guava with asam powder, just like me. She was asking me to buy for her. In Singapore, I saw a fruit stall which had guava, so I bought for her. I put quite a bit of asam powder that made me sneeze, maybe pour too much.

I told Emily, she can have the guava after she finished her lunch, which she did. She took a bite and gave it back to me. She didn’t like it at all.

I tasted it and realized I put pepper instead…lol. :giggles: I was wondering why the fruit stall would put pepper there. Then I saw the next stall was selling half boiled egg.

Well, I had to clean the guava with soup and put the right asam powder. Of coz, Emily would rub it in and said “Why did you put pepper, mummy? You want me to sneeze.” Now I know why I sneeze when I put the powder. Silly me!