Japanese Tetris

JY (my lil'bro) sent me this very funny video of a Japanese game show. They always have the new ideas for these sort of things which will eventually be copied by the Hongkies. The video is 4+ minutes but it's worth the watch. Enjoy!

Japanese Tetris - Watch more free videos

Tag: My 7 Vanity Sense Facts

Tagged by Mommibee. It's funny that us as mums tagging other mums on this topic since we merely have time for many other things let alone our beauty. It might not be the last on my long list but it certainly is not the first, or second, or third... Took the Vanity Quiz and rated

You Are 23% Vain

Okay, so you're slightly vain from time to time, but you're not superficial at all. You are realistic. You know that looks matter. You just try to make them matter less.

How Vain Are You?

Yeah, it's true. So don't expect much from these:

1. I don't have sensitive skin, I have the opposite. So any kind of skincare works for me. I use those where you can buy from the supermarket shelf. I can never feel the difference.
2. I do the basic facial care everyday; cleanse, tone, and moisturise, plus the weekly exfoliate and mask. THAT'S IT!
3. Up to this day, I only went for facial twice.
4. The last time someone put make up on me was last year when I took my wedding photos. The last time I put make up on myself was...can't remember. It would probably take me an hour plus to apply a full make up. I do have the cosmetics but I think they're long past their expiry, most still untouched.
5. Eyebrow plucking - once a week, just to clear off the excess.
6. I wash my hair once every two days because the hair is too much and it takes a while for me to blow-dry them. No I don't do it like they do in hair salons. What I do is tilt my head down, and blow-dry from the back of my head, using my fingers as comb.
7. When I get a haircut, I'd say to the stylist, "Just cut whatever you like as long as it fits my face." Normally it won't be very short because I have a round face. When I was younger I used to bring photos of the haircut I wanted, but it never turn out that way so why bother?

I can honestly say that I was very vain in my school years, needed more attention then. In college still slightly vain, then moved on to uni, not so vain, and now I'm 23% vain. hehehe... Eddie doesn't like heavy make up but I think that he would like it if I use some make up. Ahhh...the advantages of being a full time mother, I can be excused most of the time.

I'd like to tag:

Shirley of Binky, blogging & such

Harimau of moments in a day

Mrs. Wallace of Mrs. Wallace Notes

Angeleyes of RamblingMoo

Rainqueen21 of Mommy's Make Money

He did it!

About a week ago and at about 6 in the morning...

*splash*

is what I heard then woke up immediately and shouted ["OMG!"]n times. That of course shocked the hell out of my husband who woke up asking me what was wrong. I just pointed at Ethan, who was at the end of our bed, holding a 1 litre bottle, cap off, with a little bit of water that's left inside. It was quite full before we slept. We left it on the pc table at the end of our bed. Just then, he shook the bottle again and *splash* I'm wet! (Both of us were laughing already at this time) The water soaked through our quilt and went straight on our bed sheet...and mattress obviously. Eddie quickly took the quilt off our bed. He asked me why I only know how to shout OMG instead of acting fast and take off the quilt earlier so our sheet won't get soaked. I mean, hey, c'mon, I was awoken with a *splash* and it was 6am! Okay, I was a bit slow. Then we had to cover the large patch with kind of like a protector cloth (which I 'took' from the hospital) to be able to sleep on it again until later in the morning.

Ethan: "Yeah, it was me. That wet patch, I did that."

You think that was bad? Well, the story didn't end there. (This part not funny) Before we slept, Ethan vomitted on his papa's pillow and kena the bed a bit. All I can say is, lucky not my pillow!!! hehehehe... Don't worry, he got a new pillow the day after.

Mini muesli & apple muffins (by Heinz)

Got this recipe from the back of Heinz Muesli & Apple cereal box. Ethan absolutely loves it. I made it once quite a while ago and it took Ethan forever to finish all 24 of them (23 actually because my brother ate one not knowing they were for Ethan). I only gave him one or two a day at first, then I realised it was taking too long so I started to give him four muffins for breakfast, not everyday though. You can actually freeze them for up to 3 months but my freezer was full at that time.

It says there, "Recipe suggestion", so I guess it means you can replace the ingredients. I skipped the sultanas (raisins). I'm gonna write the recipe out without using the Heinz brand ingredients like they did.

Ingredients:
1 1/2 cups self raising flour, sifted
1/2 cup muesli and apple cereal (okay this one is Heinz but if you don't have that you can just use normal muesli)
1/2 cup light brown or raw sugar
2 Tbsp sultanas (raisins)
1 tsp cinnamon
3/4 cup full cream milk
1/3 cup canola oil
120g pureed cooked apples (the original suggestion was 1 x 120g can of Heinz Apples)

Method:

1. Combine flour, muesli, sugar, sultanas and cinnamon.
2. Make a well in the centre of the dry ingredients. Stir in the milk, oil and apples, until just combined.
3. Spoon into lightly greased mini muffins tins (I used patty pan cases).
4. Bake at 180ºC for 12-15 minutes, or until golden.

MAKES 24 (freeze up to 3 months)

Happy baking!!!

Happy Aussie Premmie Day!

Just found out that today is the National Premmie Day. Wishing all the premmies out there good health and have fun on this day!

My Ethan is a premmie, he was 6 weeks early. Not very early compared to many others we met, earliest we know was born at 23 weeks, 17 weeks early. We are very lucky to be living at this time with the advanced medical technology that had kept many of the very early premmies alive and living.

Eddie's off today. Too bad they don't have any events here in Adelaide. We went to premmie playgroup last year but have no idea whatsoever about this day. Maybe not as many premmie born here compared to other states.

7 Random things about me

Tagged by Mommibee.

1. I'd eat my breakfast, which normally would be a mixture of chocolate cereal and non-chocolate cereal with milk, before I brush my teeth. Unless we're going out for breakfast then of course I'd brush my teeth first.
2. When my room is messy, it is VERY messy. When my room is tidy, my drawers and wardrobe gets even messier.
3. I wish we would be able to move into our own home here in Adelaide with at least 3 bedrooms (so we'll always have a room for guests) and 2 bathrooms (so we'll always have one to use if the other is occupied).
4. I'm a pretty boring person. I hardly go out with friends, whom I hardly keep in touch. I bring Ethan to playgroup but I only keep the 'mums' relationship there. Eddie said something to me the other day that is very true, "Everyday you have the same routine, and every week you are just waiting for my day off to go out." :(
5. I wish I'd cook more for Ethan instead of feeding him baby food all the time. Both of us are getting bored. They just seem so convenient. I'd feed him our food but we normally eat after he sleeps. It's very hard for me to eat if I had to feed him at the same time. He's already 15 months old and I hope we can get out of the baby food habit before we go back to KL.
6. I'm a super duper major procrastinator.
7. I have a slight obsessive-compulsive-behaviour, where I'd prefer things in a certain way, or I do things in a certain number of times to get it perfect. For example, when I eat rice, let say there are two dishes, I will always alternate between the dishes when I eat them. If there are four dishes, I'd eat them in the same order I started. Another example is when I brush my teeth, it has to be in multiples of 5 strokes on each surface. Weird huh? I used to have more of these freakish habits before but I slowly got rid of them.

I would like to tag:

Mrs. Wallace of Mrs. Wallace Notes

JY of all the little things in life (my bro)

eiko of Dancing out! (couz)

yeloh-powah of yeloh-powah (BIL)

I don't know many mums, those I know have been tagged already. So I'm tagging my family!!!

Yay, we're going to KL!

Yes! We are flying back to KL on the 25th of September and returning on the 22nd of November. Woo hoo! Eddie is leaving one month after us and returning on the same day.

My friend from Sydney, Bird, called me today to tell me about the promotion Jetstar is having. Jetstar is a sub from Qantas, of cheap fares, like Air Asia. They are launching flights to KL in September. The promo price is $199 per way from Sydney. So I have to get flights from Adelaide to Sydney and back separately. It's well worth it. The return tickets for KUL-SYD is less than $400 and Ethan gets to travel for free. Currently the domestic tickets is $114 per way so it comes up to about $600 in total. We are waiting to see if they have promotion for the domestic flights then only we will buy.

If I were to take Malaysia Airlines back from Adelaide it would cost me at least $1,000+ return. Ethan's ticket would cost another $100+. And that ticket is for 35 days only. It's either that or one year. They don't have 3 months or 6 months ticket. Since Jetstar's price is one way so there's no time limit, but if you want to take advantage of the promo then have to be back by December lah. Also we had to search for the dates that had the cheap fare and they do not fly everyday to KL.

Since it's a cheap fare there won't be blanket, meals nor entertainment. I hardly use the blanket, I can always bring my own meal, and I cannot be entertained with Ethan around anyway. If we wanted those extras we had to pay $10 for blanket, $30 for meals, and $10 for entertainment. I think I would feel weird though, when they serve meal to everyone and skip those who did not pay for it.

It's just too bad that they do not have flights to KL now. My godbrother is getting married on Saturday and we didn't get to go. *sigh* Here we would like to wish all the best to the newlyweds, Chris and Ee-Leeng.

First video of Ethan @ 20 weeks in gestation

This was the post I wrote when that autosave feature failed me. Wrote a whole long post then GONE! Didn't have the mood to rewrite the other time. Oh well, my memory is still here, just hope that I'll be able to write it out like I did last time, only this time it will be more summarised.

30 November 2005
I just came back from KL a few days ago. This day was my appointment for my second antenatal check up and first and only ultrasound. Yup, the first video of Ethan in the womb. I made the appointment for the ultrasound on my first antenatal visit. They had a notice on the wall that said we could bring a video tape or dvd-rw to record the ultrasound. It was really exciting.

When we were at the waiting area there was another notice on the wall that said those of us who wish to have our ultrasound recorded it would only be of a few minutes and we were not allowed to ask for more. Now I really regret doing exactly what the notice said. There's no harm in trying. A dvd can record more than an hour and the ultrasound only takes 45 minutes.

So anyway, when my turn came I really wanted to pee already because of all the liquid I was required to drink. I'm not much of a drinker. But I had to keep all the liquid inside of me until the ultrasound was over. The process was actually quite boring as our technician didn't really talk much. She had her own tv while mine is at the end of the room and I didn't bring my glasses which wasn't that big deal if the tv was BIGGER! She just showed us all the important parts of the body except one that distinguishes the gender. I asked her about it and then she asked me back, "Oh, so you want to know?", err...duh! It's really funny now that I think about it because when she showed me the 'extra' part I couldn't really see it but I kept saying, "Oh yeah, there it is!" There what is? hahahah... When we left the room I asked if Eddie saw it, he told me he was half asleep. I don't blame him. She gave us three photos and the dvd before we left, and told us everything is well and in place as it should be.

I don't have a scanner to scan in the photos but a video is so much better isn't it? Enjoy our precious in his first video. Don't have to turn on your speaker.

Happy Mother's Day + 3 weeks

Haha, it's the beginning of the month and I AM BACK! I mean my internet speed is back, finally. A long wait of about 8 days. Wrote this post long time ago but couldn't publish because I couldn't upload the photo, again because of the internet. Also there will be a new post on Ethan's blog.

I hardly, actually NEVER, write blogs that happened on the same day. So my posts are all backdated, like my pregnancy one is like 2 years ago...hhahaha...didn't have the motivation to blog then. Oh well, never too late.

So, Happy belated Mother's Day to all! Before Eddie went to work, he ran out to the florist next door and got me a bouquet. Back to the time when I gave flowers to my mum, I remembered that we would always choose carnation, it was like the official flower of Mother's Day (or was it Teacher's Day? Someone refresh my memory). Can you guess what is the official flower of Mother's Day here in OZland?

Kuk far (Chrysantimum)