For all Facebook friends...

I was joining a facebook contest organised by SABAH TEA few days ago and I am aiming
for their weekly prize which is pretty good.
There will have 4 rounds of weekly prize before proceed for the grand prize.
In order to win for the weekly prize, I need some votes from my dear facebook friends.I really need their supports in order to win this contest.

Frankly speaking..I do think this contest is bit leceh,because more steps to follow.But I will really appreciated your time and effort to give me a vote and your single vote definitely play an important role for my winning in this Sabah Tea contest.

Here are the steps to follow :-

Click LIKE on the profile page
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/apps/application.php?id=48565740870

Go to CONTEST and SIGN UP your account.
http://apps.facebook.com/sabahtea/

After Sign Up, You can always skip the submission of your post for this contest. If u wish to join,then you go ahead to type your post & click SUBMIT.
Or else, you click VIEW ENTRIES, and go to this link
http://apps.facebook.com/sabahtea/view_posts.php?page=5
Currently, I am at page.5 or you can also find my name MERY SIA . As more people are joining this contest, my post will move to the next page(pls view page 6 onwards for my name).

Lastly, click LIKE on my post (my name will appear : MERY SIA).

For those who has not added me into your friend list in facebook...please add me : shia88@hotmail.com.

Please give me a vote before 19 Oct 2010.
Thanks friends !!

My Big Baby...

Ryan has been asking me to let him bath using the bath tub which I have kept it in store room, I have stopped letting him use the bath tub since Ryan can walk well. Ryan wants to swim inside the bath tub.

Ok..since only that bath tub is big enough to fit him, I let him play water inside the bath tub and

he enjoyed it alot. He even took some of his toy & put inside the bath tub .

I let him have some fun there before I continue to bath him clean.

Although the bath tub is bit small for him to move around, but seeing his happy face playing with water, I also feel happy.

Maybe I should consider to let Ryan learn swimming in future.

I hate this BUG...

When cough bug strike one of us at home....I just hate it and wanna get rid of it.
Then here comes the MEDICINE to cure the cough and this time , Ryan is getting
cough bug again. These was his 3rd time getting cough bug for this year.
OMG....what happen to Ryan? He seem easily fall sick after attending nursery.
Should I consider to change him to another school?...Maybe...???
I guess Ryan has a poor immune system,that is why he is easily kena cough or flu bug.

Yesterday night, I noticed Ryan's voice started to change a little bit...not as usual and I
let him drink plenty of water to clear his throat.
I kept asking him whether he has a sore throat and he told me "NO NO",ok...at least, he still
has appetite to eat and stay active.
This morning, he woke up as usual...then I started to hear him cough with lot of phelgm.
Oh gosh.....Cough bug is attacking him. He did not cough often ,but then I can hear the
phelgm in his throat everytime when he cough.
Faster get him eat cough medicine and after sending him off to school, I rushed to Dr.Law's clinic to get a box of MUCOLATOR(medicine to clear phelgm)- it consist of 6 small packs and Ryan need to eat 2 packs per day. Most of the time, when Ryan was sick,...I will let him eat medicine that I have standby at home for at least 2 days, if show no recovery sign,only then I will bring him for a doctor. Sometimes, I even know what medicine the doctor is going to give...Oh...Mummy is a 'home doctor' too...that is because Ryan has been checked in to Dr.Law almost every month since he started his nursery class.

Hope after the home medication, Ryan will gets better...
Takecare everyone !!!

New Toy and New Sandal..

Ryan has been fancied on animal toy lately and yesterday he went back home with a

small tiger toy(That tiger toy is belong to school and I only knew he went put inside his bag when we reached home...Has reminded him not to bring back any toys belong to school..or else it will be a very bad habit).

So....today I decided to buy him an animal toy( a reward for being good boy at home), after fetching him back from school, we have our lunch at home first before heading to nearby supermarket to get the toy.

At first, Ryan took the animal toy and said " I want this",got lion,tiger,etc...but a moment later,

he felt more interested in the fishing set which hang on the rack and they are few type of fishing game set. At last , I asked him which one he prefer : fishing set or animal toy?.....

You guess.....what he want?....He said " I want fishing set", can play later which having his bath.

Okie..since he prefer the fishing set, he chose one of it and we went to cashier for payment.

Before we walked to the car, we passed by a small section which are having sales...everything in RM10 and it was crowded,but I managed to squeeze in and I saw this Mickey sandal...so cute, actually I have seen this sandal before in the Sunday Market,but then I did not buy it.

Lucky, I never buy that time because now the supermarket is selling even cheaper with the same design and material.(looks like crocs,but not crocs la..).I let Ryan try and he also like it.

Therefore, I Got a pair of new Mickey sandal for Ryan and I choose bigger size since current sandal he is wearing is in fine condition.

I did saw some t-shirt and short pant on sales too,but it was too crowded and I prefer to go back there again tomorrow morning myself,without Ryan.I can shop easily with Ryan tagging along.

So..tomorrow will be another shopping day for me.

**Happy weekend**

Car Repair

Since I moved back to Sibu after getting married, I determined to learn driving.Or else, my life will feel miserable if I were to depend on my husband to drive me out all the time.
Okie...let's get myself register to the driving school and it was not easy like my hometown, Indonesia whereby there is no need to attend the exam at all in order to get a driving license .
Oh Gosh ***... I need to attend theory and practical course in order to obtain my Malaysia driving license. Leceh ... and I took 3 weeks to complete the practical course, sat for both the exam and I passed !!
HORRAY...HORRAY.... It meant I can drive on the road.Bit nervous when I first drove on the road,however, I managed to run out from the fear and now....I can drive smoothly on the road everyday without any fear.

I started to drive my husband's car in and out everyday... and I enjoy driving very much. Getting a new car is pretty easy,When coming to the maintenance , it costs lot of money especially when we found out something wrong with the car. Need to go for repair and change a new spareparts...NOT CHEAP!!
I am browsing through some online website for car repair and come across Houston Auto Repair. It is an amazing website which provide a complete details of some repair shops and mechanics in Houston (for those staying in Houston, this information may be needed).

Lately, my husband discovered our car seem have bit problem. Probably, it is time for oil change and some brake job to be carried out. We plan to send our car for maintenance service this weekend.

We do plan of getting a new car since both me and my husband are driving now.It is much more convenience to have two cars at home, in case, one car is broke down, we do have another car for spare used. How about this car Acura TL brand ? Anyone can give some comments on this car brand? For your info,the Acura TL is a mid-size luxury car from Honda's Acura brand.

Mid Autumn Festival

*This is a backdated post*

Mid Autumn Celebration was fall on 22 Sept 2010. As usual, we will have simple celebration at home. MIL was doing the cooking and I did help her up in the kitchen preparing the dishes.
She cooked lot of dishes and the whole dining table was full of food. Too bad , I forgot to snap the picture of the food.
Let's me recall back what food we were having on that day : siomay,corn soup,stir fried brocoli with mushroom,stew pork with Mantow,fried bread stuffed pork,fried noodle,fried kwetiaw.
With only 4 adults and 1 kid, we did not manage to finish up all the dishes. We have a wonderful dinner on that day.

After dinner, we went to Town Area to see the lantern festival.It was pretty crowded,but
nothing much to see.Only few lanterns with some lighting.
When I saw those lantern, I miss the Singapore Lantern Festival at Chinese Garden.
When I was in Singapore , I always been to the Lantern Festival every year and the lanterns were great with different cartoon character, I hope one day I will visit Singapore again for the lantern festival.

Some of the pictures taken in town area :


* Day View*






*Night View*

Lastly, this is Ryan's picture with his Doraemon Lantern(from MIL) and his own-made lantern(from school).

Some Updates on Ryan..

As per my last post, I do hope Ryan will attend his school early
Mooncake celebration,but at last he has to feel dissapointed as he did not manage to attent it as he still feel unwell on that day.
After seeing doctor for the very first time and taking Antibiotik, Ryan did not
show any improvement, fever kept coming back...no choice, has to visit doctot for second time. This round, doctor suggested for an injection as Ryan's throat is pretty bad infected. Okie...since this is the best choice, I agreed to it.
I was so glad that his condition showed slight improvement after the first injection(or else Ryan will end up in the Hospital again) and yesterday, Ryan has to go back for second injection again.
As off today, Ryan's fever has subsided ,but I still let him rest for one day at home.
I plan to let him go to school tomorrow. And tomorrow night, Ryan still need to go to doctor for another check-up.

I really hope Ryan will fully recovered soon.
*This is the second bad experience for me of Ryan getting high fever*

My Sick Boy

Yesterday afternoon (15/9/2010) Ryan developed slight fever before he goes for his nap. Since it is around 37.2, I did not give him the fever medicine and would like to monitor his condition. Before 4 pm, he woke up and I knew his fever must be shoot up which caused him feel uncomfortable to nap (normally Ryan will take at least 2-3 hours nap everyday). Faster feed him Fever medicine and within an hour,his fever subsided.He still looked active and we still went to town area to see Lanterns and took some pictures.
During dinner, he ate as normal,slowly his fever came back again. Since it has over the first 4 hours from the first medicine,gave him another dose of fever medicine. But I noticed his fever did not subsided totally,still maintain slight fever.
In the midnight, hubby woke me up because Ryan 's temperature has raised up, OMG... it was around 38.2,fed him another dose of fever medicine.I did not sleep well that whole night, I woke up every hour to check on Ryan's condition. It seem not getting better,around 5am, I gave him suppository(the last resort- although I knew Ryan hate it...no choice).Finally one hour later, his body started to sweat and his fever has gone.He managed to get a good sleep till 8.30am.
He got active back again this morning, as usual,drank his milk,watched cartoon.
When came to breakfast time, I actually cooked porridge for him,but he refused to eat,instead I gave him a slice of bread and he only could finish 3/4.I guess Ryan must have a throat infection again which caused him uncomfortable to swallow solid food.
I decided to bring him to Dr.Law for medical assistance.Lucky Dr.Law's clinic is opened for half day today and before went to Dr.Law, I feed Ryan another dose of fever medicine as his fever started to come back again.
After checking by doctor...BINGO....throat infection which caused Ryan to have fever.
Tillnow, his fever still up and down,not fully recover.
Hope by tomorrow, Ryan will get better since there will be an early mooncake celebration at school this saturday and I do hope Ryan will have chance to join this celebration.

My Breakfast

I am always having bread with kaya or jam,Pau,Mantao,or porridge for my breakfast.

After my hubby went to work, I started my project in the kitchen.
I opened up my cabinet...oh, just nice a can of luncheon meat and few slices of white bread.
Then opened my fridge, I have a KRAFT Cheese,carrot and some butter.
My brain started to think what to cook for my breakfast today.....*think think think*, got an idea,let's try make my "OWN RECIPE", not sure what is the title for my recipe.
I will think later as my stomach started to make noise.

Faster get out the steamer ,sliced the luncheon meat thinly and let it steeam for 10 minutes.
Once it is done, sprinkle few slices of thinly cut cheese on top of a bread,placed the luncheon meat and some sliced carrots,then top it with some cheese again and place another slice of bed..it looks like a sandwiches now.Apply some butter on both side of the breads.

I have not been eating toasted bread for very long time and my toaster has been in the store room for quite some time.It is time to make use of it.

I placed the sandwiches into the toaster.Toasted it for 3 minutes...smell not bad.
3 minutes is done,opened up the toaster,pour bit of honey on top of the sandwiches and toast for another 1 minute.

......... Ting Ting......... A ring from my toaster.

^
^


My sandwiches is ready to be served.Taste good....Cheesy and I love the honey mixed with butter taste.
Tomorrow I will be making this sandwiches again for my hubby to try out.

While eating, I kept thinking what should I name this recipe...
How about "Honey Cheesy Sandwiches"? Does it sound good.....?

All in One Again...

*Backdated post *

All are some good news for sharing...
I have accumualated all those good news and today I am going to blog about it one by one.

1. A Birthday card from Mamil Mama Gold Club.
A week before my birthday(27Aug), I received a birthday card from Mamil Mama Gold Club.I am definitely not their active member,but then they also have ME in their heart...so glad to receive this birthday card.
Thanks to DUMEX...


2. A Birthday point from Enfamama Club.
On my birthday, I received an SMS from Enfamama Club on my mobile phone that I am entitled for 100
birthday points and to activate the point , I need to call their hotline.
Yes...I got xtra 100 points into my enfa account...will use it to redeem for some
items in future.

3. A gift from Dumex.
I did joined the 'tried and tested tip contest' quite sometimes backs.can't remember when and to my suprise, I won the contest.
I received a parcel from Skynet and when I opened it up,it is "My Little Library",it consisted of 6 little mini books...it definitely another adding to Ryan's book collection.


4. Redemption gift from Drypers.
I received a form from SCA for the redemption of photo album and coinbox few months
ago. I need to have 6 barcodes for this redemption and just nice in my drawer, I have
those 6 barcodes that needed for the redemption..Faster mail out the form and......***at last, I got this gifts sent to me via Skynet courier service.
I also received 2 packs for Drypantz for complimentary...save $$ on diapers.
Thanks SCA for the gifts.


5. My Birthday Celebration (27 aug 2010).
At last, I can have a break for that night...no cooking for me and my husband decided
to bring us for dinner at RH HOTEL.They are having Ramadhan buffet and it is only available during the Ramadhan period.
Since we never tried before..let's go and have a our dinner there.
It was full house and lucky ,we managed to get the last table(just nice*table for 3*)
Then I was walking to see what kind of food they served for this Ramadhan buffet.Most of the tray are empty .. sure all sapu habis by other customers,as I saw some customers was having their fruits when we just arrived. We arrived there around 7pm,still early,but the buffet started at 6pm,so within that one hour, most of the nice food was sapu clean clean. Never mind,the chef was cooking to top up the empty food.
So I took non-spicy food for Ryan and for myself, Of course, I will choose those spicy food like rendang beef,prawn masak merah,ayam pongteh,etc..whatever balance food in the tray, I took some and tried them out.Not bad....I love those spicy food.
I was so hungry and did not took photo of the food.
We was there for almost 2 hours.....I was so full.Only after eating full,I realized that we have not taken any pics,faster grab my camera and snap few pics before we left the Hotel cafe.

** Wear a HAT **

I love to see my son Ryan putting on a hat...he just looks cute on it and he has few hats, all are a present from my mum since he was born.Since he has grown up now , it is time to get him a new hat as the size of his head has grown bigger .
I have been looking for some children hats at my town here,but seem can't find any nice one and I don't like those designs,not my taste...or maybe I have too high expectation...I guess so !!

When I was busy google for some nice hats online,I came across this Winter Hats Boutique.
They have largest selection of high quality winter hats at the best possible prices. For those who stay in USA and Canada, they will entitle for free shipping.
Such a good customer service...

Winterhats boutique has wide varieties from Woman's winterhats,Men's winterhats and even kids winterhats.
I love this "Herringbone Driver",the design looks simple and nice.


Not to forget, I also google for some of its Woman hats collection.Among its Womens Winter Hats collection, I am falling in love with this "Womens Wool Felted Hat".


Does it looks nice??.....Yes,I definitely love this hat design.(**hope my husband will read this post & give me a suprise gift**)

Shopping......for Children SHOES..

Am I a shopalholic?? Yes..I used to be a shopalholic when I was "Single" and still working in Singapore. Almost every weekend, I will go for shopping,not to forget buy something for myself,of course, I was not aiming for those branded goods.
As long as the things I like,suit me and the price is reasonable,then I will
grabbed it.That was my past...

Now, after married, no working(means no income), my shopalholic habit has "GONE".
I only shop for whatever necessary and most of my shopping is goes to my son Ryan.I seldom shop for myself.

I have been planning to get a pair of new shoes for Ryan since the one he is having now started to get tight for his feet.
While browsing through some online store for children shoes, I came across this children shoes website - baby shoes.
Start-rite today is an eighth generation family business. They are a wholesaler whose brand retails through a network of over 400 independent and multiple retailers across the UK and internationally.Apart from it,Start-rite shoes achieved another first when, as supplier of footwear to the Windsor children, it was granted the Royal Warrant by Queen Elizabeth in 1955.

After browsing through this interesting website, I definitely fall in love with some of the shoes displayed especially these Trainer GSR 1905.
The shoes is ultra lightweight and non-marking whilst the cushioned sock offers additional support and comfort. The additional benefit is the anti-bacterial lining which eliminates any odours. This is definitely the best shoes for sport(ie: football).

How I wish I have a daughter, as the shoes range for girls in Star-rite are so tempting. I can't resist to google more on Girls' shoes section and I found some girls' shoes that I like.
Does it means... I am planning for my second child?? ...... " A Big Question Mark"......Let's you guys GUESS !!*****

Lastly, I found this useful tutorial in youtube on how to on how to measure your own kids' feet using Start-rite's programme called Click 'n' Fit. By using this programme, you can accurately measure your child's feet, determine the footwear size appropriate for your child and make your order from Start-rite. Pretty simple...,right?

Take your sweet time to have a close look on this tutorial:


Star-rite is not only offer best range for children shoes,but it does have provide a good information on how to get the best shoes which fit your child's feet ,not to forget, it does have "win free shoes" contest opened to UK residents only.Don't miss out this good chance!!

Today is My Birthday

*** Not Ryan's birthday,but is Ryan's mummy birthday ***
This morning, I told RYan that today is his mummy's bday,then he said...
No No...is Ryan's birthday.
I guess my boy like to have birthday few times in a year,because he likes
to eat cake.
Not to forget, ryan sing a birthday song(malay style) this morning before
he goes to school. So cute.. and I definitely feel happy today.

I wish myself " Happy Birthday "...

My Bad Day...

My Birthday is fall in August...another 4 more days to go will be
my BIRTHDAY. However,alot of bad things happened to me within these two
weeks.

The first case is happened last week when I went to renew my VISA.
It has been my fifth year for Visa Renewal and I always park my car at the
roadside(yellow line area) because the car park is always Full-house.
I reached there in the morning around 8.40am...unfortunately, I forget to
bring enough cash ,therefore, I drove back to Maybank to do the withdrawal and drove
back again to the Immigration Office.
Parked my car at the same place (yellow line area) which I used to park there
every year when I renewed my visa.
Walked up to the office and it was DONE within 15 mins...Super Fast!!
OMG...when I reached my car, I saw a slip of paper near the mirror there, I was
thinking it should be some promotion notice of certain goods.Unfortunately,
when I read carefully, it was a SUMMON from trafik polis...Oh gosh, it was my first
time to get a summon and one thing for sure, my wallet is going to have another hole
again.
I have just spend RM105 for my visa renewal and now I have to pay for the Summon.
Anyway, it cost me RM30 for the summon(not a big sum...but also money lol).

The second case is happened TODAY (23/8/2010). I went to fetch Ryan back from school and these two days Sibu was kept raining and some area has flooded.
Outside my house main road was bit flooded and it was jammed with so many cars, so
I thought of going back home from another route.However, I never knew that the place I intended to passby was so terrible...it was flooded very high and I got myself stuck in between. I should say " I am stupid", I should not drive all the way through
the flood water in the first place,but I also never realized that the water level
can be so high and it was not only flooded at that part of street, It was almost
the whole street was full with water.
I could not blame others..I should blame myself being " so stupid ",what to do....???
My heart was beating fast and my brain kept thinking, should I u-turn back in order to go back home...and If I were to u-turn back,of course, I have to pass through again the flooded area where I have pastby just now and for my car...it is pretty dangerous...my car engine can be easily stop working and I will be in the middle of the "SEA"(really looks like a sea..yellowish water).
Luckily ,there was another uncle who followed my car and he was stucked here with me.
Have a short chat with him on what is his next plan...at last, I decided to park my car at the road side(that car park has no water),then follow that Uncle's car back home with Ryan. This Uncle was kind enough to send me home...Thanks God!! I have a rescuer.
Before I went off to his car, I noticed that my Plat number(front part) has gone missing and I believe it was lying in the flood (the yellowish water)...what to do...
I have to spent Money again to make the new plat number,or else, police will catch me
again.
After reached home and have my lunch...my MIL sent me to nearby neighbourhood to
get the Plat Number done,cost me RM40.At that point of time, the sun was bright and the water level started to slow down...best time to fetch my car back home.So MIL
sent me back to the place where I parked my car. Still flooded,but at least the water started to slow down(not that high level).
Slowly, I drove back home safely. Thanks god....I managed to get my car back home.

I pray hard that no more bad things happened to me AGAIN.
My birthday is coming soon (this 27 Aug) and I wish all those bad things will bring
some good luck to me.Pray hard!!

Mooncake Giveaway..

My dear friends........
I am not the person who is doing the giveaway contest.
It is my blogger friend,Cynthia who is having this Mooncake Giveaway in conjuction with the upcoming celebration of Mid Autumn Festival.

Apart from having this giveaway contest, Cynthia is making Mooncakes for sale and
this year will be her second year in this mooncake business.
Click HERE for the pricelist details.

So...what to wait...Hurry up make some mooncake order from Cynthia anytime anywhere you want.

**Good luck to Cynthia on her mooncake business**