And off to Kota Bharu we go!

Posted on January 27, 2009January 27, 2009 by Mamapumpkin

This year, despite booking 4 months early, Malaysia Airlines was already fully booked thus we had to resort to Air Asia. Nothing wrong with Air Asia except that Tee actually enjoys the train ride to KLIA and when we take Air Asia, we.......click to learn what next.

My poor little sick puppy

Posted on January 27, 2009 by Mamapumpkin

Just before we left for Kota Bharu, Tee fell really ill with a stomach flu. She ran to us early one morning with her hands cupped below her chin and puked all over the bed, to which the Hubs and I jumped out.......click to learn what next.

Cure for pregnancy nausea

Posted on January 27, 2009 by Mamapumpkin

Today is the first day that I have very little or almost no nausea. Why? Because I have followed the advise of a friend and my MIL's Indonesian helper who says that fresh coconut water is the number one drink for pregnant women.......click to learn what next.

Update on Indonesian maid saga

Posted on January 19, 2009 by Mamapumpkin

Mom went to the embassy to meet her and she couldn't look my Mom in the eye, kept looking onto the ground all the time. Fair enough, she doesn't want to work anymore. Working life in Malaysia is too tough, she is not.......click to learn what next.

Hanky-panky at preschool

Posted on January 19, 2009 by Mamapumpkin

You heard me right. Tee and her boyfriend of almost 2.5 years go to the same school and in fact, are in the same class. But as of last week, they have been banned from sitting together. Why? Because they have been too.......click to learn what next.

Craving maggi mee Assam Laksa

Posted on January 19, 2009 by Mamapumpkin

It's terrible, isn't it? That I crave the above for it's sourness and spicy-ness. So I try to make it more healthy by adding some egg and vegetables into it but man......I think I'll be consuming quite a bit of it till the.......click to learn what next.

Swimming progress at four years old

Posted on January 19, 2009 by Mamapumpkin

Tee got to swim on both Saturday and Sunday this weekend after a long no swim hiatus. Lucky girl! Currently, she still uses her arm bands and insists that she will only remove them at the age of forty (have you ever seen.......click to learn what next.

The problem with being a Tan Sri….

Posted on January 19, 2009 by Mamapumpkin

......is that when your driver goes on long leave, you are suddenly left paralysed without someone to drive you around and run all your little errands for you. When you drive yourself, you suddenly realise you don't know how to pull out a.......click to learn what next.

Runaway maid

Posted on January 14, 2009January 14, 2009 by Mamapumpkin

It's finally happened. My mother's maid ran away today. Although I'm actually feeling quite nauseous, I am forcing myself to get off my butt to blog about this because I am SO angry. First of all, my mom got a driver to send.......click to learn what next.

Eating lots of apples during pregnancy

Posted on January 12, 2009 by Mamapumpkin

For some reason, I keep craving apples. Red apples with a pinch of salt. I'm usually not a fan of apples at all. Give me mangoes, pineapples, oranges, grapefruit, kiwi, persimmons, nectarines, peaches, plums, cherries........any day. Apples? Bleagh.... But now, I have 1-2.......click to learn what next.

Pregnancy woes

Posted on January 7, 2009 by Mamapumpkin

Pregnancy and I? We're not good friends. After week 5, we became even more suspect of each other. And now, we're on the throngs of becoming enemies. Urgh................................ I am so nauseous................................... I feel like a whale. I feel like the ocean and.......click to learn what next.

How to keep warm in winter

Posted on January 7, 2009January 12, 2009 by Mamapumpkin

I was watching the BBC weather report yesterday and good lord, it's frigging freezing all over Europe, colder than ever! I thanked the angels that I was more than 9,000 miles away so as not to bump into a snowman at every twenty.......click to learn what next.