Hot Wheels Wall Tracks Starter Set - Giveaway contest

This giveaway contest is not carried out by me.. it is carried out by one of my blogger's friend Mumsgather.

This HOT WHEELS Wall Tracks Starter Set comes with one (1) die-cast Hot Wheels car, 3M Command Strips for mounting plus an easy instruction poster. Parents guidance is needed to do the initial set up and for the rest, your child can create different pathways for his own tracks on his preference.

This is definitely a great toy for your boys at home...I bet they sure "Love" it .
Hurry up let's join this giveaway contest before it ends on 15th Jun 2012.
For more info on this giveaway contest, pls click here.

Yakult.......I love it !!

I remembered well my first time having Yakult was during my university time in Singapore. It was a sunny day and I went to my campus canteen for a drink. The first thing that caught my eyes was a bottle of Yakult..I was wondering how is the taste like,since I never drink Yakult before.
Quickly grabbed a bottle ,make the payment and gave it a try...Oh....it taste Good.
Since then, I started to stock up a pack of Yakult in my fridge..it is my favourite drink which do good to my body system.
Constipation is one of the problem that I encountered in my life, I noticed after drinking Yakult, my constipation problem is gone.
One day, I googled to find more information about Yakult & found this useful information on how Yakult works well for our body system :
- Yakult helps to  regulate our bowel movement to avoid constipation and diarrhea
- Yakult helps to  maintain the balance of good and bad bacteria in our intestines
- Yakult helps to reduce production of toxins in our body
- Yakult helps to  enhance our body's immunity to reduce risk of infections and reoccurrence of cancer cell.

Since I moved back to Sibu, I was having a hard time getting Yakult from local supermarket, I have visited quite a number of supermarkets,but there is no avail of Yakult brand in their beverage section. Until one day, Giant Hypermart was opened in Sibu and I went there for  shopping. While walking through their beverage section, I saw Yakult was displayed on the rack.Not to wait, I grabbed 2 packs of Yakult into my shopping trolley.  So happy ... at last, I can drink Yakult daily which definitely give a good effect for my body.

Yakult is not only my favourite drink,my son Ryan also loves to drink Yakult. Everyday after taking his lunch, he will drink a bottle of Yakult, which keep him stay healthy and no more constipation problem.

Ryan enjoying his mee goreng with a bottle of Yakult

From the website, I noticed that Yakult is providing a "Home Delivery" service to their customers,I am not sure whether this service is available for Sibu area....anyway, I have submitted my enquiry online about this issue and hope to get a reply from Yakult company soon.

Drinking Yakult daily will help to top up our beneficial bacteria. Always stay healthy with Yakult!!

Lastly, for those bloggers' friend who  have a great experience with Yakult, do join this "Blog and Win with Yakult" contest. For more information on the contest, please click here.

Good Luck @@@

Something "Hot" from my kitchen..

Yesterday, I was craving for curry chicken ...I found a pack of Mini  Ketupat in my kitchen. Got all the ingredients ready and started cooking my curry chicken. This time I use a pack of Amway curry chicken paste (given by MIL).
I added lot of potatoes into my curry (both me n husband love to eat potatoes).
While cooking the curry, I cooked the mini ketupat .It is definitely best to be served with a bowl of warm curry for our dinner.
Last night, I did not eat rice for dinner, I just walloped those mini ketupat for dinner and even for my supper. Taste good and "Hot". One thing make me curious....why my curry chicken was spicy,while last time my MIL was using the same paste,but it did not taste spicy at all. So strange...??

*sorry for the blurr pic.......

Something Red from my kitchen

Beetroot....did you guys like to eat beetroot? For me and Ryan, both of us like to eat beetroot so much. Normally I will cook beetroot soup with either chicken or porkribs,added some carrots...it really taste good.













The other day, I have few beetroots in my fridge and I came across this recipe "beetroot butter cake". Trying to look for the ingredients needed...lucky my kitchen has everything that was needed to make this cake. Then...here started my baking project "Beetroot butter cake". After busying in my kitchen for more than an hour.......at last my butter cake is ready.

The outcome is not that good, the cake is bit too soft and the top of the cake is over-baked.
Need to improve my baking skills.

Lastly,Wishing all my bloggers' friends "have a nice weekend".

A piece of Good News

Last Saturday, Ryan n his classmate were representing his school(Rajang Park Kindee) for colouring competition. This event was organised partly by Stationary association, Buncho is sponsoring the colour pencil. We were informed to reach the place at 7am (lucky Ryan could wake up around 6.10am). We reached the basket ball court (near Delta mall) around 7.05am and it was getting crowded. Different tadika from Sibu, Kapit and Sarikei were joining this competition.And all the participants were selected by the schools (more than 200 participants).
It was started at 8.05am and lasted for 2 hours. Ryan completed his colouring less than 2 hours and before submitting to the organiser, I managed to capture  a picture of what he coloured  "A winnie the Pooh".
Every participants were receiving  a small trophy as a token of participation on this event and Come the time to announce the winners for K1 and K2 ....Every parents were so kan-cheong...**-**

Let's the pictures do the work....

Ryan is getting ready for the competition

Nice or not?

Ryan was amongst 25 kids,won"ChiaChuo"prize

Ryan with all the 25 kids

His first time

 I did mentioned in me previous post that Ryan will be joining colouring competition(organized by United People's Activity Association) and today is the "DAY".  The location is quite near to my house ,less than 5 mins drive and we arrived at Star Mega Mall around 9am, it was so crowded. After confirming Ryan's attendance, we were proceeded to the hall and it was packed,almost full house.Lucky we managed to park our table in the middle of the crowd (squeeze like sardin...). I was told there were about 400+ kids joining this competition (not sure it was true or not).
The competition was started at 9.30am and all parents are told to leave the hall before it started. So I just waited outside for awhile, I saw Ryan waved "goodbye" to me. The organizer started to distribute the colouring paper to the kids..alamak, I lupa told Ryan to write his name on the behind of the paper,and I was not allowed to go in. I just prayed hard that the staff in charge will check Ryan's colouring paper.













Then hubby went back home and I was alone at the mall waiting for Ryan. I just went for window shopping. Time flies fast...after walking around for  an hour, I went back to the hall and saw alot of kids have finished their colouring,but Ryan was still in the hall doing his colouring. Since I saw some parents walked in to the hall,so I just walked in and see how is Ryan doing. He almost finished up his colouring (left half of the background - blue colour background). This event was sponsored by Mee Daddy (instant noodle made from Sibu) so the kids are colouring the Mee Daddy logo. I saw Ryan add some clouds on the background..not bad, I saw an improvement in his colouring skill.














Ryan finished up his colouring just on time(almost 11am) and we have to wait till 11.30am for the result. Hubby has joined us too and we walked around at the toy section while waiting for the winners' announcement.
 >>>>>>>>>>........At last, the result was out from the "Oven"..... After announcing the pre-K winners,here we are for the K1 n K2 winners. There are 8 consolations prize followed by 1-4th prize (cash + hamper).
..............................Ryan won the consolation prize (his very first time win the colouring competition). He walked to the stage to receive the prize (too bad, I never expect that he can win,so never standby my camera). Ryan was so happy.

Then we went back home and have Mee Daddy(part of the prize) as our today's lunch. This is our first time eating Mee Daddy...never try this brand of instant noodle before,it tasted GooD.

Busy days ahead

With the school exam is approaching in another week time, I am getting busy preparing revision for Ryan to do everyday. His school exam will start on 14 May-17 May(16 May is Teacher's day,so no exam). Both me and my hubby have prepared some materials for Ryan to practice every night especially those Mandarin words..need lot of practice on writing those strokes,I leave it to hubby to teach Ryan as I am a "banana"(seeing those strokes make me headache....how to teach la).
Of course, for English & Maths, I do not have a problem to teach Ryan.
Ryan has started his colouring lesson at school every Saturday, it was started since last month and this coming Sunday, he will join colouring competition at Star Mega Mall, I hope he can gain experience from it. Either win or lose, it does not matter.
On 12 May, Ryan will represent his school to join colouring competition (together with his school mates). So for this few weeks, he has to stay back till 1pm to do some practicing for the colouring competition. Of course, it is a great experience for Ryan to learn more in colouring. His school teacher will guide him on how to mix the colour and how to colour properly. As for me, I have to rush like mad,after fetching Ryan from school, have to rush back home to prepare lunch for Ryan and get him ready for nap....time flies fast.

Pray hard that Ryan can do well in his coming exam.!!

Not feeling well

After eating curry chicken for 3 consecutive days, I felt unwell. Sore throat started to visit me,followed by flu and headache. Be it I have popped Clarinase,but my flu will come on and off ,at night, I would have blocked nose which was very irritating and I have to migrate myself from sleeping the same room with Ryan. I don't want he kena "those" bugs from me.
And my hubby is not feeling well too, he has sore throat with cough. Oh no....3 of us under the same roof and only Ryan alone who is pretty healthy now. Both mummy n daddy are unwell.
Be it feel tiring, I have to do the houseworks and still do simple cooking, as we always prefer to eat home-cooked meal.
Hope  both of us fast fast recover....

Lastly, wish all my bloggers ' friends "have a nice weekend"

Cherry mini sponge cake

Yesterday I have more free time at home.Here start my baking project again. At first, I plan to make  swissroll,but it was failed. I guess I baked the sponge cake too thinly and while rolling up,it was cracked and all became mess up. Since my 1st baking was failed,the balance of the batter, I went for Cherry mini sponge cake.

The outcome was Good. It is best for Ryan to bring to school for his breakfast this morning.

- banana cake -

I can't remember when I baked this banana cake. Tonight while arranging my pictures profile, I saw this photo yet to be publish at my blog...

Once a week, when my baking mood is on..i will spend an hour in the kitchen baking a cake,of course, only those simple cake like sponge cake,butter cake,etc...Those cake that need to spent hours for preparing is definitely out from my baking list.

Banana cake is one of my favourite cake,easy to prepare and it tasted Good.

Let's me share this simple banana cake recipe :
125 gram plain flour
1tsp baking powder
1/4tsp baking soda
1 egg
125 gram sugar
125 gram banana
50ml milk
75ml corn oil
pinch of salt

Method :
1. Mashed the bananas with salt
2. Beat egg and sugar till light and fluffy
3. Add in mashed banana,beat till thick
4. Pour in milk and mixed well
5. Mixed in flour,baking powder and baking soda
6. Lastly, add in corn oil and mixed them well.
7. Preheat oven for 5 mins,bake the cake for 25-30mins @180'c (till cook).

Playing time

Ryan loves to play with his Thomas and friends train set lately, ..and he created his own railway track and decorate the surroudings with tree,cars and bridges.I should get him more extension tracks so that he can create longer tracks (may consider to buy when we are back to Medan in Nov). After getting those done, he started playing alone.Moving the car here and there n helicopter will fly here and there. Sometimes,he will ask me or his daddy to play with him together. Quite fun !!

Happy Day

I was so happy last night when I read a comment from facebook that I won a prize.
Yeah..at last my lucky day has come.
Last week, I tried my luck to join Jacker Potato Crisps contest (from Facebook). Only last night, I saw one of my facebook's friend tagged me that I won the 2nd prize :)

Thanks lot Jacker !!

Bake n Cook n Salad Kompiah

Last week, my baking mood was On..after doing my housechores, I started to get ready ingredients to bake Sponge Cake. My mom has brought small mould for me,so this round I baked mini sponge cake. Ryan was so happy when I told him that Mommy was going to make mini sponge cake for him to bring to school for breakfast tomorrow.
And here is the result.....


Yesterday, I cooked "Medan Rendang Ayam" for lunch. Why I said "Medan"..it is because the rendang paste was brought from Medan,my hometown. It taste spicy and tasty...and I just need to cook "steamed rice" to go with my rendang ayam. Easy meal for both me and my hubby.



After having the Rendang ayam for lunch, we continue to have a light snack "salad kompiah".
It was my first time having this salad kompiah.....thumbs up!!! it taste superb.
Kompiah is a traditional Foochow food. It is made from a combination of flour,yeast,water and alkaline. It is best to be eaten with stuffing like meat,vegetables,etc. Sometimes, I will eat with either curry or rendang...it definitely taste great.
Any blogger who come to Sibu, Kompiah is a must eat snack.

School holiday again...

At last I am back to my blog after missing in action for about a week.
Well, this month Ryan will have a few school holiday started from tomorrow onwards.
This morning when I sent Ryan to school, I saw the notice board have an announcement about the school holiday for this month of April. The school holiday is on 4th,6th,9th and 11th....(4 days in a month).
Good...Ryan must be very happy, can play n play and no need to wake up early for school.
For me, I also feel happy,meaning I no need to wake up so early too(oh no....lazy mom).

Till now, we have no plan for this school holiday yet,we just spend our quality time at home doing some revision.
We are looking forward for the coming Gawai holiday whereby we are going to the Lion City (S'pore) for a short holiday trip.

Stay tuned for my next post.....!!

Beads' time...

Saturday is always a relaxing day for me and Ryan,it is because no school for Ryan .We just spent our quality time together at home.Actually I planned to bake cheddar cheese butter cake,but after finishing do my house chores, I felt lazy so instead I took out Beads set that I bought for Ryan last week, This bead set is a complimentary for Ryan getting good result for his 1st school exam (Ryan get 1st rank for his 1st K1 exam).
It is our first time playing around with the Beads.It is fun but time consuming and my eyes easily got tired seeing those small beads and fixed them into the small hole. After fixing 3 pictures (teddy bears,car and dog), I ironed them and let them cool while we have out short nap.
Too bad the beads are too little and we only managed to create 5 shapes...Just wondering where can I buy those beads? Any idea?

Here is Ryan with his new pressie...beads set


And there is the results of our hardworks for today...