Today I went to see my Gynea for check up. It's been 20 days since I gave birth. When they weigh me, I got a surprise that I already back to my normal weight before pregnant. The gynea even ask me what is my secret. Why I can get back to my shape very fast.
To tell you the truth, I don't have any secret. Since I was teenager, I don't have any problem with reducing weight. Now, gain weight is the problem. I always forced myself to eat to even maintain my weight.
Back to Normal Weight
Bleach the Movie: Memories of Nobody
If you like to read Manga, you should watch Bleach the Movie: Memories of Nobody which is adapted from very popular animated series and a best-selling manga series by acclaimed Japanese artist Tite Kubo. It will make its North American debut (US) for two nights only - June 11th and 12th at 7:30 PM.
One of the main character is Ichigo Kurosaki, which means “First Guardian” or “He who protects”. Now if I were to name a manga character, I would name her Kimi (since I am a woman, of course my manga’s main character is a woman), which means “She who is without equal”. Now, how cool is that for a name. Very delicate sound and yet have a powerful meaning.
She Cut Her Own Hair!
Last Sunday, I got a shock of my life. My older daughter somehow managed to climb chair and took my scissor to cut her own hair. She cut all her fringe and some of the side. Ohhhh! I really really had a broken heart. Her hair is very long and nice. I never cut her hair since the day she born. I normally only trim her fringe every 2 months so it won’t get her eyes. Now all gone. It will takes months to grow back. And the side, it will take longer to grow back. Now, she looks so horrible with no hair in the front. Not to mention one side is longer than the other side. Her father was also broken heart, because he admired her long hair and always liked to comb her hair.
Lucky thing that she didn’t hurt herself, because the scissor that she took was a very sharp scissor. Normally, I let her cut paper using scissor. I gave her special scissor for her to play. I always supervise her when she play with it. Recently, because she was naughty, I didn’t let her play with her scissor, who knows that she managed to get my scissor instead.
Microsoft® Task Market
Microsoft® Task Market is a new Technology Preview site that connects people who need work done to those with the know-how to do it. Work will Get more done faster with Task Market, as it lets people outsource work without the commitment of freelance engagement – saving time, and improving the end product.
Microsoft® Task Market is ideal for businesses that looking for skilled freelancers to help them with design, writing, presentation, spreadsheet, etc. Also for Freelancer to get a job/task that suitable with their skills and get paid via PayPal.
See below for the Press Release:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Welcome to the launch of the Task Economy. We’d like you to be among the first to experience it, kick the tires, and share your opinions with your readers.
Microsoft® Task Market is a new Technology Preview site that lets people with tasks find people with the know-how to do them – saving time, and improving the end product. For every person who throws up both hands at the prospect of creating a complex formula in Microsoft Excel, somewhere in the world there’s another person who can make it look easy.
For every poor proofreader, there’s an expert one out there who wouldn’t mind making a few extra dollars. For every small business owner who doesn’t have time to do background research on a new business prospect, there’s a talented researcher who could quickly put together a dossier.
The big idea with Task Market is this: create a viable market to get them together and things get done.
Task Market is in the Technology Preview stage. That means that developers at Microsoft Research are releasing the site “into the wild” to demonstrate the potential of the technology, investigate the breadth of user adoption, solicit ideas on how to improve the site and, ultimately, create a market of Task Posters and Task Solvers to help people get their office tasks done.
A Task Market Task is:
· Something that can be done for $20 to $500
· Something that the Task Poster could use help doing
· Something that can be delivered electronically, like a Microsoft Office document.
A Task Market Poster might need help with:
· a specialized Excel formula
· language translation
· letter writing
· an aspect of their accounting
· making a PowerPoint presentation “pretty”
· graphics, charts, formatting or logos
· research gathering · proofreading
· building sell sheets, listing sheets or simple brochures
· fact checking
Task Market Solvers create profiles of their skills to help Posters assign tasks to Solvers with the right skill sets, and get email alerts when a job arrives that fits their skillsets. Posters can award and pay several solvers for tasks to compare results, and give more work to the ones they like. All without the commitment of a freelance engagement.
Check out the working tech preview at www.taskmarket.com . Who knows. We may be building a whole new economy. We’d like to start with you and your readers. Let me know if you have any questions.
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Conversation
One day my older daughter did funny thing when she went to the toilet. Instead of sitting on the toilet bowl as usual, she is standing in front of it.
Me: What are you trying to do?
DD: I am trying to pee like papa.
Hahahaha!
These are two teddy bears that my husband brought from Germany. He bought 2 for our daughters.
Papa talking to Older Daughter:
Papa: This is one for you, and one for your sister.
Instead of took only one, she hugged both
Papa: Why do you take both?
DD: Sister is too small. I am taking care of hers until she is big enough to play.
Yeah sure!
Need Help in Math?
Mathematics is my favorite subject. I used to love it until my last year in high school. I did not like the way my teacher explained it. Somehow he managed to make things more difficult. Then I lost interest and did not pay attention when he teached. Now the problem was, once you didn’t not understand the basic, you could not catch up. Until now, I really could not understand about integral, derivatives, etc.
As a mother of 2 young children, I don’t think I will have problem coaching them about mathematics up to middle school level. Above that, I am not really sure.
That is why I am so happy when I found MathVids. Unlike YouTube or Teachertube, MathVids.com is a website dedicated to providing free, high quality, instructional math videos from basic to middle school, high school, and college students.
This is How MathVids Works :
A.) Teachers creates videos and send them.
B.) You sign up for FREE or purchase a premium MathVids.com subscription.
C.) Students watch the videos and rate them.
D.) The great result is you will be more knowledgeable and understand the basic concepts of math.
Either you are a mother like me, student, teacher, or even principal, you will find that this site is very useful.
Need to be Punished Husband
My husband went to Germany last week. He asked me what I want him to buy for me. I asked him to look for a certain moisturizer. I gave him the target price in Euro. If more than that, no need to buy as I can buy it here.
He also asked me whether I had US Dollar. If I had, he wanted to bring it with him for emergency money. OK, I gave him USD 500,-
Last saturday, he arrived and he gave me the moisturizer. When I asked him to return the USD 500, he only return USD 500 minus the cost of the moisturizer!!!!
Looking for Diabetes Recipes?
I had neighbor that has diabetes. She really had to watch out what she ate. Mostly, she only eat vegie and a bit of rice, everyday. I remembered asking her, whether she was not bored only eat like that. She said she had no choice as she want to stay healthy.
If you have diabetes, you can visit RD.com - Managing Diabetes. They have a good site about managing diabetes. You can get more detailed information on understanding why your blood sugar matters and how it affects your overall health. You can familiarize yourself with what the Glycemic Index (GL) is. GL is an important factor in stabilizing your blood sugar levels. You also can find tips to exercise safely.
Not only you find detailed information about diabetes, you also can find hundreds of recipes suitable for diabetic person. Not only plenty of yummy recipes, in RD.com - Diabetes Friendly Foods, the recipes always updated, so you should bookmark it. Now even you are diagnosed with diabetes, it doesn't mean that you can not eat a good variety of dishes. You still can eat good food and still maintain your blood sugar.
Pssst.... Not only main dishes, they also have the recipes for desserts, like: Maple-Walnut Roasted Apple. Hmmm Yummy!
Learn to Read and Write
Yesterday, I got the progress report card and the result of her exams of my older daughter. She is going to be 4 this coming October. She started attending pre-kindergarden since this January and that was already considering late. Most children started as young as 2 or 3 years.
Actually I started teaching her to recognize alphabet since she was 2 years old using jigsaw puzzle. Within 3 months she already knew A to Z. She learned very fast because for her it was like playing. However, I only taught her uppercase letters, and now in her kindy, they are teaching her lowercase letters. It made her quite confused.
When I taught her to write, she refused. She just didn’t want to write. I did not force her, because I did not want her to be afraid. Then later on when she started kindy and on the second day the teacher asked her to write, she started to cry. Luckily, I managed to persuade her to write.
Sometimes it amazed me that children this age already have to go through homework and exams. I remember last time I started attending kindergarden when I was 5 years old, and most of the time we were only playing. No writing, no spelling, no homework and no exam. I only learn how to write when I was 6 years.
Free Seminar
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The upcoming free seminar is on June 10' 2008 by thousand oaks lapband physician.
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Body Odour?
If you have problem with body odour and already tried many things and still not successful, try to put toothpaste. You can do it while you are taking a bath. After soaping and wash as usual, you squeezed about 2 milimeter of toothpaste. Apply evenly under your arm. Do the same to the other side. Rub gently for about 1 minutes, and leave it for about 2 minutes before you wash it clean with water. That's it.
If you find this tip works for you, leave me a comment. Thanks!
Want to Reduce Weight?
I know that I am blessed with slim figure no matter how much food I take. However, I know several friends that is struggle with weight. Even diet and exercize could not work for them.
If you fall into that category, you might take a look at laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding procedure, most commonly referred to as the LAP-BAND® System from JourneyLite. All surgery is performed laparoscopically on an outpatient basis, so you will have weight loss surgery in the morning and should be discharged to go home a few hours later to enjoy the comforts of your own bed that night.
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How to Stand An Egg?
My Mom called me yesterday: Today is Bachang day, have you tried to stand eggs yet?
Bachang are glutinous rice dumplings that are made every year during the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar, to celebrate Duan Wu Jie. Duan Wu Jie is a day to commemorate the honorable Qu Yuan, a loyal minister of the State of Chu who committed suicide after he was exiled by the King. Every year on the fifth day of the fifth month in the lunar calendar, the Chinese held dragon boat festivals and make dumplings to remember the honorable Qu Yuan.
Anyway, during that day, my mom always tried to stand eggs on end as many as she can. She said it’s easier to stand an egg during that day.
Yesterday is Bachang day, so after hang up the phone with my Mom, I tried to stand an egg. True enough within seconds I could stand it.
Anti-Aging Medicine
I got a friend from Thailand. She was my classmate. We were studying together in US. She loved to send me Jokes through email. Not anymore now, probably because she is too busy with work and family. Furthermore, the sad thing was, I lost all those jokes collection when my laptop crashed.
Recently, I found out that Reader's Digest have a site called Reader’s Digest Laughs. From the name, you know that’s exactly what you'll get! If you go to RD Laughs Main page, you will find out that RD.com has a huge library of jokes and anecdotes (including those submitted by readers), humorous Stand-up Videos, hilarious Funny Cartoons galleries, funny photo contests, and more! One of my favorite one is School Joke- lost in transalation which was truly funny.
So want a dose of this anti-age, free, and sweet medicine? Well it's easy as a click of your mouse. You can go to their site, log on and enjoy the fun as much as you can. They have plenty of it. Else, you can subscribe to their newsletter and get copy right in your mailbox every week. It will make you smile in the middle of your hectic day.
Oh, one more thing, you also can submit your own joke and stand a chance to win $100. Now what are you waiting for? Get on. Laughter was never easier !!
Story of My Compact Powder
I had a funny story regarding my compact powder. Well! It was not exactly funny, but at least for me it was.
Actually I bought this compact powder by mistake. I was in a business trip to US, and was on transit in Japan airport, Narita. There was a cosmetic shop there. Since at that time I used one of Japanese brand skin care, I thought I wanted to buy some there, since I was in Japan off course the price should be cheaper, right?
Suddenly, I heard somebody’s conversation behind me:
"What is the exchange rate now?”
"Oh it's 1 USD = .... Yen”
I forgot exactly how much, but the point was, my calculation was totally wrong. I was missing 1 zero behind. Now everything was become too expensive. Luckily, I haven't bought the skin care, but I already bought the compact powder and I could not return it.
Well, it was already 8 years ago, and I am still using it. Of course the original compact powder already long gone, and I already bought many refills. The refill itself was not so expensive.
"What is the exchange rate now?”
"Oh it's 1 USD = .... Yen”
I forgot exactly how much, but the point was, my calculation was totally wrong. I was missing 1 zero behind. Now everything was become too expensive. Luckily, I haven't bought the skin care, but I already bought the compact powder and I could not return it.
Well, it was already 8 years ago, and I am still using it. Of course the original compact powder already long gone, and I already bought many refills. The refill itself was not so expensive.
Decorative Wall
I am staying in a house with 4 rooms. There is one room downstairs and three rooms upstairs. Nobody stays in the room downstairs. Mainly we use it as a store room.
Upstairs, one room is occupied by my MIL and FIL. Me and my husband occupied in the other room. There is one empty room upstairs that we plan to use it as nursery room. At this moment both of our daughters sleep in the same room with us.
We actually already plan and discuss how we are going to decorate the nursery room. We will paint the wall white with pink accent. Probably paint 1 side of the wall pink as a point of attraction where we can hang their photos there.
Then I saw this:
Don’t you think it’s very pretty?
This site offers decorative Wall Letters and Art to Decorate Your Home. Their lettering gives you the hand painted look at a fraction of the cost and time and can be used on walls, furniture, mirrors and much more. You can choose from any of their standard quotes and designs or create your own. The best part about this product is all our letters and art designs are totally customizable. You can take your favorite quote, use your family name or child’s name or monogram and use that to decorate your home.
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Sleeping is Good
My newborn baby always sleep. She only woke up when she is hungry. After fully fed, she will fall to sleep again. It's different story with my older daughter. When she was a baby, she was very fussy. Very difficult to sleep. She would be pretending (probably it's just my imagination) to sleep. Once I put her to the cot, she would be screaming again. Those days, I had not enough to sleep.
My mom always used to say that baby who is always sleeping later on they will be smart. It's because when they sleep, their brain have time to grow and develop. I am not sure whether this is true or not.
At this moment, I am co sleeping with my baby. For me it's easier. Also from the latest research it seems that this is the safest way for baby to sleep. There has been a lot of media lately claiming that sleeping with your baby in an adult bed is unsafe and can result in accidental smothering of an infant. However, if we compare it with SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome) as a whole then the number of accidental deaths in an adult bed is only 1.5% of the total cases of SIDS.
If These Pants Could Talk!
To tell you the truth, I am not a jeans person. I don’t look good wearing jeans. However, I do have several jeans and one in particular I wore it more often than the other. It is very comfy and looks not bad on me. OK, I admit it, I wore it EVERY time! If pants can talk, probably they are screaming already: Oh No! Not me again! Wear something else!
Ever wondering what a day in their life is like? My jeans will be started at 8 in the morning and ended at 8 at night. So it’s about 12 hours of work. During those 12 hours these pants have to endure all the abuse, they have to sit on dirty chair, nice chair, full of nails bench, full of ant bench, full of sticky candy sofa, and so on. Not to mention serve as a cleaner when your hand is wet or dirty and somehow you can not locate those tissues or towels. Yup! Not exactly a nice day for a pair of jeans.
Now, what a day of YOUR jeans is like? If you have interesting story, you can submit your story as a video to Dockers TV Commercial contest. So, if you think you have a talent in shooting your own video, then give Dockers contest a try. I'd love to see you win.
Oh, did I mentioned that if you won this Dockers contest, you stand a chance to appear in NBC and "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno". How cool would that be?
Spaghetti with Clam (Vongole)
The spaghetti with clams are a Neapolitan dish based on pasta and clams. Based on a soffritto of garlic and olive oil in which the clams must be open to the lively fire in a large frying pan. After a few minutes clams open (if still alive) and issue a liquid that provide the sweet taste of this dish.
The spaghetti should be cooked first before mixed and cook together in a pan sauce of clams, and supplemented with fresh chopped parsley.
Yummy! This is my favourite dish. First time I ate this dish was when I was on my business trip to Sinapore. My boss invited me and our customer to eat in Italian restaurant and he recommend me to eat this dish.
Now, I can't cook. I don't like to cook. Although actually my day job is involving selling cookware. However, my husband can and love to cook. Thus, when he found out that I like this dish, he relentlessly looking for this vongole recipe. Finally, after watched a particular episod of Jamie Oliver cooking show, he tried the recipe, and I really love the taste. It's simple to cook and the result very yummy.
Forget How to Look?
As I mentioned before in my previous post that I got another baby girl.
This is conversation between me and my older daughter:
DD (Darling Daughter): Mama, look! This is Banana.... (point at the banana picture)
Me : Yes! Very clever! (But, I did something else and didn't look at her)
DD : Mama, you didn't look at me. Please look at me!
Me : OK...OK... Wait! (still doing something else)
DD : Mama! How come now you forgot how to look at me?
I think it's my fault that I was ignoring her in the first place. I know that my older daughter feel unsecure about her position after the arrival of the new baby.
First she was not happy that she has to sleep with the grandparent for a week while I was in the hospital and the first few days afterward. She even said to her grandmother that mama and papa don't want her anymore.
When I was back home, I tried to be with her as much as I can like normally I did before the arrival of the new baby. I also tried to get her involved, like asked her to pass the milk bottle, or diaper, or just simply look the new baby together.
I hope she can get through this period fast.
Here the tips to help your preschooler adjust to a new sibling.
