Chinese Customs
Plucking the tails off bean sprouts (taugeh)
Thursday, November 13th, 2008I love bean sprouts and am now wondering if Westerners ever pluck the tails off bean sprouts??? I know most restaurants here don’t do it but we always do it at home. After Tee’s princess party, she was brought back into the real world to do some real work. Your pumpkin’s exploded, honey. Back to […]
Getting pregnant with the help of traditional Chinese herbs
Sunday, October 5th, 2008I am usually a skeptic when it comes to traditional Chinese medicine what with the recent milk scandal in China et al. It has gone horribly wrong before for people I know but it has also worked for some. For me personally, I have gone to the Chinese medicine shop to tell them I had […]
Thou shall honour thy grandparents in KLIA
Thursday, September 20th, 2007The Hubs is in Bahrain.
It is the kid and I.
Home alone.
I got a call this evening from Tee’s grandparents informing us that they will be in Kuala Lumpur tomorrow evening from 5pm to midnight for a long transit to Shanghai. They hinted for us to visit so they could see their ’sing kang pow pay’. […]
Wearing Gold - another Chinese superstition
Thursday, August 16th, 2007My beloved Mother believes truly that to attract wealth and good fortune, one must wear lots of gold.
This is what the Chinese believe in. Just like how they believe you should have fishes (real or otherwise, even paintings) for abundance of wealth, wear jade to ward off evil spirits and eat chestnuts if you wanted […]
Chinese Custom of Greeting Family Members
Saturday, August 11th, 2007We attended 2 family functions today and another 2 tomorrow. All my side of the family. Am I busy, or am I busy?
The first was to celebrate a family member’s birthday. The crowd was international, consisting of professionals; Doctors, Architects, Businessmen, Financial Analysts, Gay Men. The party was held at a posh restaurant and typically resembled […]
Are toddlers expected to greet people?
Saturday, July 7th, 2007OK. I need some advise here. Being Asian, it is part of our culture to greet people. I’m not saying Westerners don’t greet people but here, it is considered extremely BAD MANNERS, if you don’t. Clearly and cheerfully. Like if we visited my Grandmother’s home, we’d have to go up to each and every adult who is […]
The perils of Asian pregnancy & after-birth superstitions
Friday, June 22nd, 2007Heave-Ho! Where do I start?
This tag came from The I’mPerfect Mom.
Living in Malaysia and coming from a half-Chinese family, I am grateful that I wasn’t subjected to the customary strict pregnancy and after-birth confinement rules since my own mother was a hot, modern Mama and the MIL was safely tucked away in Kota Bharu, Kelantan. My mother did have […]
Meaning of My Children’s Names - Tag
Wednesday, June 6th, 2007I got tagged. I don’t even know what it means or how it works but I will give it a go from whatever I understand with my infinitely limited blog skills. The only tag I know was the playing chase kind of tag when I was 12.
I was tagged by Lian - thank you […]
Worshipping your Chinese Ancestors - Cheng Beng
Tuesday, May 15th, 2007Every year we go back to Kota Bharu during Cheng Beng to pay our respects to the Hub’s grandparents who have passed on. This year Tee got to come along and had a swell time helping us.
The routine is to clean out the graveyard site, then place food and whatever else the person whose grave […]
Of Twisted Ankles and Nose Polyps’s
Sunday, April 22nd, 2007Finally!
After 5 weeks of off and on limping and spurts of sharp and dull pain on my poor abused twisted left ankle, the Hubs tonight found the exact spot where it appears to have twisted.
He massaged my left foot for two hours with some special smelly alcoholic oil that my grandmother recommended from the Chinese Medicine […]
