I borrowed HealthToday magazine from my colleague today and the Editor’s Note caught my attention. It wrote, “Who wants to look ugly, please stand up!”

I hope you are not standing. None of us wants to look ugly and all of us want to look beautiful.

The editor wrote about being fit. But what could I do to look good besides being fit? I immediately thought of applying layers of make up on my face, cutting and coloring my hair cut, pampering my nails with nail art etc. But sad to think I don’t have any of these skills and enrolling myself into a cosmetology school would be a fun thing to do at this age.

I had a brief chat with Kylie’s teacher today. I went to see her this morning to clarify what Kylie told me yesterday night. She said her teacher wanted the paper shoes back. The only paper shoes I knew were the shoes she gave me on Mother’s Day. After getting clarification, her teacher wanted to display some of the paper crafts Kylie made at the end of this year and her teacher wanted to collect them back.

My right eye is a little swollen since yesterday morning and today my vision is not as clear as before. When checked, I found a yellowish dot underneath my eyelids. How I wish I could be resting at home with my eyes closed rather than having to open my eyes wide in the office. My eyes are really tired and swollen.

I just woke up from a very beautiful and weird dream. I dreamt that I won RM16 million, not from lottery but from playing fishing card game in a casino at vegas hotels.

My colleagues and I were day dreaming last week. We wonder what each of us would be doing if we won a lottery ticket worth RM16 million. The worst, one said, was to keep it a secret. If not, all the people surrounding you would be coming near you to borrow some money from you. Another said, “One might go crazy thinking of how to spend the money everyday

We counted the bank interest earned monthly. We will live a luxurious life with just the 3% interest earned per annum on RM10 million, if we keep them in the bank, and spending the remaining RM6 million.

How I wish my dream is true. 

Heard of Unsecured Personal Loans? Unsecured personal or business loans may be helpful if you are in need of emergency money. Not that I encourage any of you or even my children to borrow money other than from banks or relatives, but there are times when you really need fast cash and you have no one else to turn to, then Unsecured Personal Loans will be an alternative choice you may want to consider.

Borrowing money from banks to buy properties or vehicles is usually a hassle, as banks will need to see your monthly income and sometimes a guarantor is needed for you to secure big loan amount. The approval time may range from few days to few weeks depending on their services and not practical if you need to use the money urgently. 

Therefore, Accommodative Financial Solutions (AFS) made it so simple for anyone to borrow money. No application fee, no hidden charges, no home equity needed, no collateral needed, low rates, no cost to apply, no obligation, fast approval, and 100% approval guarantee. You have no obligation to accept the loan and if you do not accept the offers, the personal loan services and expert personal unsecured loan consulting has been for free. You owe them nothing!

I have always wanted to have three children and I am looking forward to be pregnant once again with the third and the last child. We hope we would be able to support all of them, to give them the best of everything we could afford. We hope we could cope with the inflation and still have enough to support their education in the next 20 years. We hope we could still be fair and afford to buy equal term life insurance policy for all our children. It is a shock for me to find out in the newspaper recently that a housewife with three school-going children, is “depending on God” to make ends meet as her household income of RM3,000 is no longer sufficient after the latest increase in prices of fuel and foodstuff.

Disposal diapers. I wonder when I can stop buying disposable diapers for Kylie. She is wearing the largest size disposable diaper available for children right now and already very tight. If I still don’t potty train her at night in the next few months, I’m afraid she can’t fit in them anymore. Looks like I have to potty train her but it is more difficult than before since she is sleeping alone now

I am hoping little Kylin will not get sick this time by drinking one fresh orange juice a day. I am hoping her immune system will be stronger to fight off the cough and flu virus from her elder sister. So far so good and I’m keeping my fingers crossed.

I wanted to reward Kylie since she achieved a milestone even I couldn’t achieve at her age. And when I saw Disney’s Pooh & Friends Electrical Animated Talking Lamp going on sale, I immediately bought it. What a co-incidence! Only that Roo, the baby Kangaroo is missing.

When the button on the electrical talking lamp is pressed, Pooh will pull the lamp chain to turn the lights on or off and talk or sing a song. At the same time, Pooh and Tigger swing Piglet back and forth.

I wanted to give it to Kylie immediately but I forgot to buy the light bulb. So we will give it to her this coming weekend.

Few days ago, on Monday night to be exact, Kylie suddenly cried while watching Disney’s Winnie the Pooh cartoon. I ran to her and she told me her tummy was painful. I was worried as I had forgotten the signs and symptoms of Appendicitis and I had to refer to Your Child: A Medical Guide book given by Uncle Peter and Margaret auntie. Thanks for giving me this medical guide. It has guided me many times.

Then the next day, my colleague was asking if I knew the symptoms of bleeding gums. I was concerned as her daughter had diarrhea for the past one week, fever for a day or two, vomited few times and now swollen gums. I had no idea what these signs and symptoms were leading too. Are they related? We searched through the net and were advised to see a doctor immediately. What if we don’t have internet access or book to refer to? Owning a PDA medical dictionary would be a great help not only to doctors but to mothers as well. Mothers these days will find out drugs side effects before giving them to their children. Do you? I do.

This announcement was paid for by Epocrates.

Kylie’s drawing has improved. She drew these two carrot men last month and I wonder where she got the idea of drawing a carrot man. Now the eyes she drew had eyelids, the nose was an upside down love to represent two holes on the nose, the ears had earrings and the mouth had a tongue sticking out.

Do compare them with these pictures she drew earlier.

Cats
A portrait of me
Kylie’s masterpiece
Totoro’s catbus
Little Ones
The Happy Robot

“Good night baby kangaroo” was what I said for the past one week. I was skeptical initially with Kylie’s sudden initiative to sleep alone in her own bedroom after watching Roo, the baby kangaroo in Winnie the Pooh’s show, sleeping alone. Now, I can proudly say she has made it so far.

She is so brave to be sleeping alone. In fact, she was asking me why the little boy, in one of her bed time books, was afraid to sleep alone. I just say “The little boy is still small. He is not as brave and clever as the baby kangaroo and you.” I don’t want to tell her that some kids are afraid of the dark, afraid of the monsters and so on. Better not to fill her mind with all these.

In fact, I am shy to say that Kylie did much better than me. I started sleeping alone much older than Kylie. If not mistaken, I was around 10 years old when I moved out from my parents’ room.

I wonder when Kylin can join her sister in the same room. Looking forward to sleep through the night once again.

I am relatively new to stock option trading and I find it so difficult to learn. If you are just like me learning to trade options, or already an experienced option trader, it is worth visiting PowerOptions at www.poweropt.com. As a beginner, I learnt a lot from their General Rules of Thumb and it is available to you and me for free. Their complete suite of educational materials such as webinars, tutorials, tips, coaching sessions, publications, statistics, and glossary, gives you the most reliable stock options investing information. They even have a blog where you can find useful information on strategy concepts, trading approaches and current news in the market.

Do you know if your vehicle is below 2000 cc and your average monthly petrol expenses used to be RM128.20 per month, then

Who is benefiting from this? In my opinion, those who own few vehicles and hardly travel will benefit from this petrol rebate.

I was hunting for Walt Disney - Winnie the Pooh movie for De’Little Ones to watch, especially Kylie, for a week already. I finally found one, bought it and gave it to Kylie on Monday night.

It was late at night when we watched the movie together. And when I saw the baby kangaroo in the Pooh’s Heffalump Movie sleeping alone in the room, I said aloud to Kylie that the baby kangaroo was so clever and brave.

Unknowingly, this little statement I made changed Kylie’s sleeping pattern for few nights already. After watching the movie for 15 minutes only on Monday night, as usual, she went to bed with us.

She waited for her sister, Kylin, to sleep first. Then she acted like the mommy Kangaroo in the movie. She kissed Kylin’s forehead, pulled the blanket to cover Kylin’s body and what surprised me most was she left the room. I was still awake and I followed her out from the room.

What was she up to? Where did she want to go? I roughly knew what she wanted and my instinct was right.

She went to another room, her room actually, which was set up more than a year ago, before the arrival of her younger sister. She requested the room lights to be turned on and then she said, “Mommy, I want to sleep here.”

Wow! A miracle. A magic had just happened. She requested to sleep here. She requested to sleep alone in her own room finally. Wasn’t it worth buying the movie? I should have bought the movie and made that statement months earlier.

More than a year ago, we failed in persuading her to sleep alone in her own room. Since then, we neither forced her nor encouraged her to sleep in her room. We allowed her to choose where she wanted to sleep and she had been sleeping with us.

Now that she slept in her own room, I missed her so much. I missed seeing her sleeping with us.

With the recent increase of oil price, I started to think about inflation and recession. How much is the inflation rate in Malaysia today? Answer is - I don’t know. I am not an expert when it comes to economics.

All I know is I can pump 100 liters of petrol for only RM192.00 early June but now, I can only pump 71.11 liters of petrol. I still have to drive to work and I still need 100 liters of petrol. (100 liters of petrol is just an example I used here.)

I felt as if the real value of cash I have today reduced significantly since the recent petrol hike. In my opinion, it has shrunk almost 29%. To me, the real value of RM1,000.00 cash is only RM711.10 today.

How to keep up with inflation if my way of calculation is right? Keeping money in the bank is not going to increase the real value fast enough to cope with the inflation. Buying properties may be risky now. Maybe this is the best time to invest in precious metals and rare coin such as gold, silver, platinum bullion or bullion coin. What do you think?  

Where is the photo frame? Why Kylie still didn’t bring it home? Hubby was not waiting for it but I am. I am going to ask Kylie’s teacher as to why hubby still didn’t receive his Father’s Day present. Last year, Kylie gave both of us presents on time but why this year only mothers received theirs on time? Or is it not necessary for teachers to prepare presents for both parents?

Related post:
Where is my present?
Early Mother’s Day Present

Occasionally, a long-legged, fast-moving species, invades my home. First they are found in the toilets and now they are found in the living room. Kylie saw it crawling in the living room, screamed and jumped to stand on the sofa. She showed me how the long-legged creature moved and I suspected it to be centipede. I was right when hubby saw the baby centipede few minutes later in the living room.

Then later that night, while I was writing my assignment, I was visited by another baby centipede. I was sitting on the floor, typing on the laptop when the baby centipede crawled on my leg.

The continued presence of the house centipede, got me worried. Any idea how to prevent them from invading my home?  

After returning to school for nearly 2 weeks, Kylie fell sick once again. She started to cough a little and now having mild fever. Do your kids fall sick as often as Kylie? She started attending preschool last year and she often fell sick. This year she fell sick almost once a month, better than last year where she was on constant cough and flu medicine for almost 6 months.

Last year when I took Kylie to see a child specialist, the doctor said she had mild asthma. I couldn’t believe the medical diagnostics and wouldn’t want Kylie to depend on the asthma prevention medicine daily for 3 months. I told hubby to return the inhaler and the medicine.

Since then, I treated Kylie using the traditional Chinese herbs and medicine instead. I wonder if my actions are correct. 

The weather is getting hotter and hotter. Even though I have air-conditioner installed, I hardly used it due to health reason for De’Little Ones. I found that without switching on the air-conditioner, they are getting stronger. They no longer have or recover faster from cough and flu; and if one do get sick, the other is less likely to be infected. The internal air circulation is definitely not doing any good for Kylie & Kylin. But since the last 2 weeks or so, we can’t sleep without switching on the air-conditioner. It’s so hot & humid. They are sweating and that affects their sleep.

Can you imagine how hot it will be then at my in-law’s house, which is facing West, the direct sunset? Kylie & Kylin are getting darker and darker since they are there the whole day. My in-law’s house seriously needed Window Treatment.
Either they get Motorized Shades or Vinyl Mini Blinds to block the sunlight from shinning directly into the living room. Kylie will love playing with the remote controlled (battery operated) blinds or shades.