Our getaway weekend

Posted on December 17, 2007 by Mamapumpkin

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx  Last weekend was bliss for us - just Tee, the Hubs and I. We didn't have any parties (which is so unusual for us), we didn't have any planned meals with anyone outside the three of us, and we didn't have any.......click to learn what next.

My history with diet pills

Posted on December 17, 2007December 17, 2007 by Mamapumpkin

I have taken them twice in my life, both times prescribed by Doctors. The first was Xenical, which made you pass oil out. It was gross but just imagine, all that oil that you'd consumed through your mouth, coming out instead of getting.......click to learn what next.

Toddlers fascination and obsession with stickers

Posted on December 17, 2007December 17, 2007 by Mamapumpkin

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx  Name me one who doesn't like stickers. OK. Maybe it's just MY girl who has this deep rooted addiction to the little gluey bits, but man! This is getting out of hand! I guess I should thank God it's not something else she's.......click to learn what next.

The competitive streak in mothers

Posted on December 16, 2007December 17, 2007 by Mamapumpkin

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx  You know those. Yes, THOSE. When they start asking you about your own child; whether he can add and subtract, whether he makes connections when he notices similar events, whether he can read, whether he can do a particular stunt, whether he.......click to learn what next.

I am a city girl

Posted on December 15, 2007December 15, 2007 by Mamapumpkin

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx  Wow! I am really impressed that you guys know what a durian tree looks like! Me? I am so 'ulu' and hadn't a clue if my mother in law never told me. I only know how to eat - that's what she.......click to learn what next.

What’s on our Christmas menu?

Posted on December 14, 2007December 15, 2007 by Mamapumpkin

Being Chinese Eurasians and Christians for that matter, we naturally celebrate Christmas every year with a big Christmas dinner that has always been cooked by my mother. Every year, my mother would ask us what we would like to see on the Christmas.......click to learn what next.

Love of chillies and all things spicy!

Posted on December 14, 2007 by Mamapumpkin

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx That would be me. I have Indian blood. :-P I can't remember when I first started eating chillies but now I'm all for spicy food. Tee is being trained to eat it too. So far she can eat as spicy as chilli.......click to learn what next.

Tee’s Kong-Kong’s orchard

Posted on December 14, 2007 by Mamapumpkin

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx In Kota Bharu, Kong-Kong has a big garden full of plants and flowers but better still, he has an orchard next door that houses herbs and vegetables of all sorts and fruits! Everything that the family eats (apart from meat) is from.......click to learn what next.

Toddler brushing teeth

Posted on December 14, 2007December 14, 2007 by Mamapumpkin

At what age did your toddler start brushing her own teeth? I've been trying to get Tee to start brushing her own teeth in the mornings and I would then do a thorough brush at night before bed. It saves me half the.......click to learn what next.

Christmas shopping, here I come!

Posted on December 14, 2007 by Mamapumpkin

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx  I have exactly 7 days more to do my Christmas shopping as we are off on a Christmas trip with the family next weekend. The problem is, I need to go alone. Without a whiny, irritating toddler in tow. Which means that.......click to learn what next.

The old lady I wanted to save

Posted on December 14, 2007December 14, 2007 by Mamapumpkin

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx  Back in the good ol' free days when I had a lot of free time (Now? What's free time?), I'd be the gallavanting Mother Theresa wannabe looking out for people I can help. During each summer vacation, I'd be loitering the streets.......click to learn what next.

Selling gold

Posted on December 13, 2007December 13, 2007 by Mamapumpkin

Several months ago, my Mother told me to give her all my gold jewellery that I no longer wanted so she could help me sell it. Apparently gold prices were at an all time high at 65.00 per gram. Furthermore, her friend could.......click to learn what next.

I’m addicted to Scrabulous

Posted on December 13, 2007 by Mamapumpkin

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx  Scrabulous is online Scrabble played on Facebook. You can play whenever you're free without pressure. You can think till the cows come home for your next word, or till your PC crashes, whichever comes sooner. My mother is very good at Scrabble.......click to learn what next.

Toddlers and alcohol

Posted on December 13, 2007 by Mamapumpkin

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx This was Tee's first time at a bar. And her first time holding her first bottle of alcohol. And that is the bottle she chose. We could get arrested for this. My mother used to give us teaspoonfuls of alcohol when we.......click to learn what next.

Ozeki Restaurant Menara TA One

Posted on December 13, 2007 by Mamapumpkin

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx  Just as I'd said earlier about how we don't eat Japanese very often, we had japanese for dinner today after eating it for lunch! Can you believe it!!!??? This is because Tee, the precious princess, told her grandparents that she wants to.......click to learn what next.