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Crystal's first flower arrangement, not bad at all :D
A view from Lintas Plaza parkng lot in the late morning today. Obviously it is going to rain again. It's been raining almost every afternoon here in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah.
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It has been weeks that I was thinking of choosing some of the unwanted toys to be given to the church for distribution to the needy or passing them on to my brothers who have younger toddlersor going to have baby. We have been keeping those toys thinking that the girls might want to play them again some times. Now we realised that our girls had grown up and they are no longer interested in toys like baby rattles, incomplete pieces of activity toys that sort of stuff. Toot! Toot! I finally selected some of them. It does ease off some storage spaces.
Tuesday Toot 
Pearl had a birthday egg before dinner
Dinner time...
Family group photo..cheers..smile everyone :D 
Sprinkling process
A cake for dad
I was trying hard to get something of a 13 to match the theme for this week. About an hour of searching through photos in my collections, and trying to find some other ideas but to no avail, I took a break. While tidying up the toys that the girls left for the day and I found these loose puzzles on my working table and on the floor, they are just at the right number 13 (I'm sure there are some missing pieces around). This was a birthday present given to Crystal from SIL, Betty. I had been keeping it safely in the top drawer of a cabinet knowing that she is too little to appreciate it then. It is featuring one of the Disney character (I forgot which one and I am unable to fix it. The picture is black and white in colour). Recently she has found a new skill by stepping on a chair to reach out something higher. This set of puzzle is one of the treasures that she found among others that I had been keeping for her.
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I got to do all these since I stayed home the whole day today... 1. Get Crystal ready for school (basically just to get her water bottle and school bag ready since she had learnt to dress herself up with school uniform now which she is really pround of ); 2. Fried a packet of mee udang with sausages and eggs for brunch (Pearl asked for it but she only ate the sausages, naughty!!). We had fried mee for lunch and Clet sent a portion of it mum and dad too.. :) ; 3. SMS and follow up call to my client to see any payment ready for collection for invoice long overdue. Only noticed that the invoice had not been passed to their Finance Department for processing of payment. Amount only RM176.80 how I wish the amount is bigger..:( ; 4. bathe the girls (they just love their bathing time where they could dip themselves in the water with toys around them.. 5. Washed all the used floor towels and hanged them up for drying while the sun still smiling brightly in the afternoon. Didn't manage to get them all dry up due to rain in the late afternoon so they have to say hello and stay with the moon till the sun rise again :D ; 6. Took a nap with the girls. It's the only way to get them to rest in the afternoon; 7. Listed some items for sale on ebay; 8. Said a St.Jude Prayer (1st day). 9. Had afternoon tea with Clet and Pearl. Crystal just woke up from her nap did not feel like having anything. The sponge cake given by SIL just nice for afternoon tea (We had coffee actually). Thanks a lot!! 10. Cleaned up the kitchen floor; 11. Ready dinner for the night; 12. Cleaned up all the dishes and myself so I could start.. 13. blogging while the girls enjoying their TV time...their favourite for the night is the Barbie Mariposa:) The purpose of the meme is to get to know everyone who participates a little bit better every Thursday. Visiting fellow Thirteeners is encouraged! If you participate, leave the link to your Thirteen in others comments. It’s easy, and fun! Trackbacks, pings, comment links accepted! View More Thursday Thirteen Participants |
Finally I got my chiffon cake done this evening and I can toot about it..:@ Clet gave a good comment on my cake though it was not up to our expectation yet but it's much better than the one I baked last time. The texture was fine but it collapsed a little while letting it to cool down. Probably it could have been better if I were to use a chiffon cake container to bake, I've been searching high and low for it but couldn't find it at the end. :(
Have you ever been in the situation where you are thinking of trying something out but never put it into action getting it done? Give all sorts of excuses for procrastination?? Or even abandoning the whole idea after some times?? The excuses given to ourselves or others for not proceeding with the ideas in mind are non exhaustive. The most common ones are: no time, it was raining that day, I am not good at that, nanti lah (wait for the right time), etc, etc….Too bad isn’t it? In actual fact, sometimes the main culprit behind it simply SCARED TO FAIL??
The Scared To Fail devil came to me when I was thinking of baking a chiffon cake recently, which is too petty to mention. Due to past experiences, I delay my baking day after day until Clet finally giving a little comment on when he can have a piece of the chiffon cake that I suppose to be making, and wonder what happen to the cake mix that he was asked to buy weeks ago. My answer to him was simply “I scared to fail AGAIN ba!!”. His reply was “What can be worst, if it didn’t turn out to be what you expected we still can eat bah!!” Be honest with you, I had attended a few baking classes, followed instructions from cakes baking books, obtain advises from the gurus, however, I still fail in baking. There are times I got so disappointed that I packed all my baking stuff and store them all in the store room.
Comes to think of it, Clet’s reply was simply a “DARE TO FAIL” attitude. I vividly remember Clet got a copy of this book entitled “DARE TO FAIL” by Billi Lim years back. I believe this book must have inspired a lot of readers that include Clet too… It was mentioned by Billi that “Failing is part of success” therefore one should not allow fear of failing as a stumbling block to achieve successes, especially to a small task like mine. :))
”Here are a few quotes from Billi, “Failing in the past does not mean that you are going to fail in the future.” "Not having succeeded can be forgiven. Not having tried at all is unforgiveable." It a great book to read and be inspired.
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Rojak Mee 
We brought Pearl along to the Inland Revenue office that day, after a while she lost her patience while Clet was still waiting to meet the officer on tax matters. Thought she might be hungry so I brought her to the café to see what we can have for breakfast . She would like to have mee but it is too spicy for her so I opted for a local cake which she reluctantly having some. 
She saw the ice cream freezer and insisted on the Kit Kat drumstick merely attracted by its bright red colour packaging but after opening it she refused to have a bite probably disgusted with its dark chocolate colour so I had the whole drumstick myself. I felt lucky because we got a cap with 7 digits code on it so I kept it to see what I can do later because Pearl just wouldn’t want to sit still. 
I took a look at the cap today and guess what?? the claim for free airtime had already expired on 26 December 2007 :( now then I recalled no wonder the ice cream tasted one kind and it could have expired too.:0 I took some snapshots on the way back to the Inland Revenue Office at its small garden outside the cafe. The plants look healthy and consider well maintained. It took quite a while for Clet to meet the officers there and Pearl kept herself occupied with the hot & cold water venting machines each at the ground floor and mezzanine level. She likes that idea of dispensing water by herself and drink it. She drank quite a lot of water as a result which was good for her. 
I just have to make sure she doesn’t over filled the little paper cups and also avoid her from dispensing hot water which could lead to burning her hands. Besides that she was having fun trying walking up and down the stairs without assistants. To avoid any falls I had to hold her hands walking with her. I lost count how many times we went up and down the stairs but it was a good exercise for me. Luckily Clet has done with the officer before Pearl gets bored with the machines and stair and gets real grumpy.
"Shower Us with God's Love"
"Swan Lake Country Home"
"My Kitchen Prayer"
Crystal craving for Wat Tan Ho, this plate is good enough for 3 of us to share :)
An ordinary fried rice simply made delicious with salted fish added to it..:D
This is the name of the shop that we had our lunch 
Freshly baked banana muffins by SIL. 
Crystal was exceptionally hungry after school today and would like to have her favourite doughnut. We were thinking of dropping by Consfood to grab some doughnuts and sandwiches for her and Pearl to munch in the car so we could zoom home and let Clet send the car in for a check (our car heated up earlier on in the City, again). 
Since we have got a parking and thought it would be wise to let the car cool down a bit before proceed home considering the traffic congestion on the way home, so we decided to have our light lunch there instead. 
Like usual the girls were having so much noise in the bakery it attracted the attention of everyone there particularly a gentleman who later greeted us and asked whether Crystal likes to draw, he started conversation with Clet and gave a brief introduction of himself whom is a retiree aged 61, now teaching drawing at schools to pass time.
From there on he started to show his sketches on how to draw birds, ducks, mouse, cat, bear, dogs, dinasours, hands, fingers, faces, etc..It catches the attention of the girls, especially Crystal who likes drawing very much. I posted some sketches here which he gave to the girls to bring home to practice. He offers to show more children drawing skills next week at the same place if we want to learn more skills too. BTW I forgot his name probably Clet might remember. 
Crystal started to follow the sketches at home later in the day. However, now then I realised she didn't get to eat much in Consfood. She got a free drawing session at noon but an upset stomach at night. Her stomach is so senstive that she vomitted and having mild fever after that. Hope she will get better tomorrow. My poor little princess... 
Braised Chicken with Onions [I planned to grill the chicken actually but Clet decided to change to something easier & faster :(..]
Pan fried Lap Cheong (Chinese sausage)
Se Gua and Onion
