After changing some of our house furniture from glass to wooden ones, we need not have to worry about children breaking the glass or getting themselves hurt. But our dining table has started to get worn out. The dining chairs are not in a good condition as before. Our coffee table is scratched. Something has to be done with it. It doesn’t look new anymore. Kids have been playing toys on it although I have given enough warnings.

Our anniversary is coming soon and I don’t know what to get for hubby yet. He is interested in a cigar humidor and a very good helmet. And both are so expensive! I don’t want jewelry this time and already have something in mind. Hubby has agreed to get it for me. I just need to make up my mind and confirm my selection. I will figure it out.

We celebrated mum’s birthday a few days earlier as her actual birthday falls on the weekdays.

We took her to The River Fish Restaurant in Damansara Kim for dinner.

The food was not bad either. We could see that mum enjoyed her dinner.

After dinner, we came back to our house. We had a pressie for her but she didn’t know.

Mum didn’t want cake as she hardly eats them. Besides, our kids’ birthdays are coming soon, so there will be lots of cakes for her to eat. So mum rather we spend money on taking her out for a good meal instead.

My brother took out the pressie but we told mum it was a cake. Kids were excited thinking it was a cake too.

Mum clearing our coffee table for her ‘cake’.

After singing her a birthday song, she opened her ‘cake’ box.

Boy! Was she surprised! In fact she was was very happy when she saw the bag we bought her. Look at her face.

Hubby and my brother were side betting to see if mum will cry or not when she sees her pressie.

Mum didn’t cry. But she kept on saying that she is happy because her children can buy her expensive gift. Then we could tell that she would cry if she kept on talking about it.

In the end, we even had a quick mahjong session.

Iris has just recovered from her diarrhoea and fever and during that time, she couldn’t eat anything at all. All she had was white bread and porridge and her favourite of all time, MILK was not given too.

When we were eating our normal food, she would stayed at the dining table and looked at the food. She said all those food are her favourite and told me to cook it again when she is well. Poor thing. But so discipline.

Two nights ago, after I took her to the bathroom for midnight pee, she told me she was hungry. I didn’t dare to give her milk yet as she was still recovering, I gave her white bread.

The next morning at 7.45am, she asked for food again, so hubby gave her another piece of white bread. Then went back to sleep with me.

Very kesian, hungry but can only eat white bread.

Yesterday, I stewed pork, thinking this dish would have ‘more taste’  since she has been eating very very plain food for the past few days. Kesian her mah..

Recipe here.

She was happily eating and finished all her rice by herself.

Monitoring her poo, she got better and now she has great appetite. Constantly asking for food to eat.

Lost so much weight. Her face is no longer round, her legs are slim now, and her behind is smaller now.

This afternoon, I decided to boil this ‘liong sui’ from watermelon skin where I found the tip from my friend’s blog, Kelly. With the super hot weather, I decided to save the watermelon skin but I only used the white part of the skin cause the outer part is full of pesticides. (of course I cut off the flesh, we didn’t bite it..hehe)

Added sugar and water to it and boiled for about 1.5 hours. That’s it! It does taste like sugar cane according to what Kelly has informed in her blog.

Happily drinking her ’soup’ with very good appetite.

Iris has food poisoning after eating the cheesecake from Breadtalk which was given by my mom where mom got it from her friend. She always has weak stomach and slight lactose intolerance like her dad and grandpa.When she was younger, if she ate more cheese or other dairy food, she would have diarrhoea.

This time was only some cheesecake which was not fresh anymore I guess but thankfully Ian doesn’t have diarrhoea.

So she vomited on Friday midnight and in the morning at school. Then she started having diarrhoea and fever.

Been giving her medicine and monitoring her day and night.

She could only eat bread and porridge. No milk at all even though she likes her milk a lot. She knows she can’t eat the normal food we have been eating and she would only come over to see what food we were eating and just ’smell’ it. Very discipline for a kid who likes eating food.

But she doesn’t like porridge.

Any kind of porridge.

Any chef who cooked it be it me, daddy, grandma, or even restaurant’s executive chef.

Both of my darlings have literally stopped eating porridge since they were 14 months old.

What’s wrong with eating porridge? I have never known or seen kids who dislike porridge like my kids do. They won’t even taste it.

Until I have to force them when they were sick. Sometimes, they only ate noodle or rice when having fever.

But now that Iris has severe case of diarrhoea, she could only eat bread or porridge. Be it fish, pork or plain porridge, I have to feed her, coax and scold her to eat it. Or else, she could make the choice of going to the hospital to have IV drip and let nurse feed her. But sometimes, she rather eat plain bread.

So, while letting her watch cartoons, I feed her. But not much. At least some went into her stomach.

I just hope and pray that her diarrhoea and fever will be gone soon.

That’s why I hardly cook porridge which I like to have once in a while. Especially on weekend lazy morning.

A friend of mine lives in San Jose, California and I am thinking of informing her about this San Jose motorcycle accident attorney. Not that I curse her with accidents, but just to aware her of Michael Padway who can get accident victims with on the road quickly with maximum settlement. He also provides free no obligation consultation which is great.

After consuming the detoxify drink for a few weeks, I feel lighter now. I wonder if it has cleaned up my colon like it supposed to be. I try to detoxify once in a while because some food just go into my stomach and never come out. Besides, detoxification can help with weight loss too so I don’t need to take risk in taking a diet pill. It kills two birds with one stone.

I was supposed to go for a simple medical checkup the other day because I am planning to upgrade my medical to a full medical where I get all benefits. It is still an affordable term life insurance for me and after my thyroid level has been normal, my agent informed me that I can apply for the upgrade. I have to arrange another time with my agent so that he can bring me to their panel clinic for the checkup soon.

I don’t know if my mobile phone is an unlocked phone or not but I remember the previous models I had can’t be used in US. If I am going to US next year, I don’t know how I can keep in touch with my family members other than using the internet. It is best I check with the phone dealer first, just in case I can travel next year to attend my cousin’s wedding.

With the swine fever in several countries, I notice that there are many travel deals being offered by travel agencies. It makes me want to pick up the phone to call them, but I know it is not safe to travel now. But I hope the deals will be on at the end of the year as hubby and I are planning to travel somewhere further. Keeping my fingers crossed.