Nursing strike-3rd time

Can you believe it, my baby was on nursing strike for the 3rd time? He was angry with me because he had fever and I forced him taking Paracetamol. Unbelievable, isn't it? He was such a sensitive boy.

Luckily it didn't last long this round, about 3days only because I found the way to settle him. I asked papa to take care of him while I hide away. He wanted me and he would cried and cried. When he found me later, all he wanted was to latch on.

Tried this a few times and he is back to the breast again. Thanks God for that.

First Performance

HL's nursery had a mini performance on the last day of school this year. He was involved in 3 dances and recites a nursery rhyme, Humpty Dumpty.

The audience awating the start of the show.

Openning dance, Kungfu Fighting which HL likes the most.

HL's second dance, 妈妈的眼睛 with his 4 yrs old classmates. His partner is Chun Pin.

This is the 5 yrs old girl, 彩云. She dances very well.

This is the group dance.

Singing birthday song for the November birthday girl. From left are his classmates, Ting Yi, Ming Ming, Chun Pin, Kai Zi (the MC of the day who is 5 yrs old), HL and Chai Yun.

The teachers have really put an effort making this mini concert a successful one since the school only have about 15 students.

2009 Cameron Highland (Part 2)

This round our main focus was on vegetables farming, so we visited a lot of vegetables farms.

Look at the broccoli in the center of the plant.

Water crest farm.

Another special place that we went was the Big Red Strawberry Farm for the Agro Farming.

The 2 veggie above are salad that we always see in supermarket.

HY was very attracted to this fish pond. He spent at least 15min here.

When we saw the tomatoes here, then only we know why we never get to plant tomatoes successfully at home. The flowers and stem were double in size.

HY with his favourite cartoon character.

On the last day, we went to Boh Tea Farm at Sungai Palas.

We went to Lou Wong Nga Choy Kai 老黄芽菜鸡 at Ipoh for lunch. I still prefer Onn Kee Nga Choy Kai, I think thier Hor Fun is smoother and softer. 

After lunch, we went to Nam Heong again to take away white coffee, egg tarts and chicken puff before headed back to Penang.

2009 Cameron Highland (Part 1)

The first thing that we did after we checked in to Equitorial Hotel was to go for a swim. I know we were crazy. Although that it was an indoor swimming pool and the water was supposed to be warm, it was freaking cold. It was so cold that HY cried but he still wanted to join us. He refused to get into the float like HL and wanted me to carry him all the time.

After that we went to the Strawberry Farm near our hotel.

HY with his cheeky smile while HL wanted his papa to carry him too.

Everytime we went to Cameron Highlands we had steamboat but we were always disappointed. This round papa wanted to try the expensive steamboat offered by the hotel and indeed we were satisfied this time. The fish was like just caught from the sea and all the fish balls was prepared internally. The only complaint was the tomyam soap was not up to standard.

They even had Udon for steamboat, but I did not get any because HL finished all.

After dinner, the boys watched the water fountian outside the hotel for awhile and we called it a day.

Papa was quite worried about sleeping arrangement but luckily we had 2 adjoining single beds and it was slightly bigger than a king size bed. Just nice for 4 of us. All the 3 boys slept within 5 minutes after lights off.

Makan makan at Ipoh

I wanted to go for a holiday, just a short trip but kept on postponing because of work. Then the boys had diarrhea and I was really tired. Last week I was really worn out and I told myself that I need a getaway immediately. I booked the hotel on Friday evening and we left on Sun morning.

I am glad that we did it despite the not so good weather forecast. Although it was drizzling on and off but it did not spoil our mood. Just like what HL said, "We have umbrella." whenever I asked him what if it rains.

By the way we went to Cameron Highlands, our favourite place for a short and relaxing trip. As usual we planned to go to Ipoh for makan first. However we did not realised that there was a change to the exit to Ipoh, we missed the exit and have to turn back from Simpang Pulai. Luckily it was just a short drive. But luck was not at our side as Foh San (FS) was closed for 8 days, so my plan to Ipoh for dim sum was gone.

We went for our back-up plan, Thean Chun's popiah. It was not as good as I remember and the Kar See Hor Fun (鸡丝河粉) was not as good as Onn Kee and the satay was not special at all. I heard that the Chee Cheong Fun was good. Too bad we did not order. Good new was we met hubby's uncle in front of the shop. He set up a stall selling Bak Chang right in front of Thean Chun (TC). I regret not taking any photos of him with his stall. I was told that his Bak Chang is famous too. His stall was supposed to be in front of FS, he shifted to TC because FS was closed. He gave us 2 Bak Chang and recommend us to have White Coffee at Nam Heong.

So after breakfast, we headed to Nam Heong (NH) for White Coffee. I used HY's Thermos to take away the White Coffee and I bought some egg tarts and chicken puff too. Luckily we went to NH as it made my stop at Ipoh worthwhile.

Sinful blueberries cream cheese loaf

I bought 2 packet of cream cheese when I made cream cheese frosting for HL's birthday cake  in July. However I only used one and the other one was sitting in the fridge for a few months already. I wanted to use it but I don't want to make cheesecakes, hubby sure complaint if I make cheesecakes, fattenning you know. And I need to buy one more packet if I want to, no budget.

So I went to search for cream cheese bread recipe and I found this. Ended up I still need to buy the expensive blueberry. I tasted the fresh blueberry, so sour. I wondered how much sugar they put inside the blueberry jam. :(

I used my normal bread recipe for the dough and follow rest of the recipe. But I think my cream cheese is about 8oz and I actually make 2 loaf. The bread tasted like cheese cake, so cheesy and I like how the blueberries blend with cream cheese after bake. And I like the purple color too.

It was so sinful to have this kind of bread on normal day so I tell hubby, we will only have it again on Chirstmas.

Hotel

Finally my baby had recovered too.

When HL had diarrhea last weekend, we could not go anywhere. We felt so bored, so papa started a pretend play.

He started moving an armschair from the living room to our master bedroom, then he moved the TV and DVD player too. Afterthat he switched on the air-cond, get everyone inside the room, closed the door, on the TV and declared, "We are in the hotel." So all of us sat on the king size bed and watched TV just like what we did when we were in a hotel. It was so relaxing. HL like the idea very much and the games went on and on. Whenever we need to leave the room, someone would said, "Hotel check-out." :P

When we went to Ah Mah's house and he refused to leave last week, we told him that we were going back to the hotel and he would followed happily. Even Ah Mah was curious and asked which hotel that we went to.