Nothing fancy today. The kids each brought a piece of their Daddy’s birthday cake to school – jelly layered sponge cake and I still have pearl corn lying in the fridge. Decided to include more fruits to their diet so I just simply throw in some grapes.

You have to agree with me that a house without a curtain is but a dull house. And I mean not just a piece of cloth draped over the window. If you make comparison between a window with some cheapskates material and a window with designer silk or Italian cotton silk, which house would turn out more outstanding? You need not spent a lot on curtains if you shop at HalfPriceDrapes.com. Everything there is at half the price. You safe even more!

You know, sometimes people has got weird cravings for food for example sour, sweet, spicy, yada, yada… but the weird me has got cravings for picnic! To add in the weird stuff, I wanted a picnic specifically in TTDI park and starts calling up SIL (they stay nearby) for a picnic but too bad, they has already got plan over the weekend. Well, since Monday is a public holiday, maybe I should bring the children to Pulau Ketam (Crab Island) since I’ve been wanting to go there for ages. Now my last victim would be my neighbour aka younger Sister.

Since the green light is on, excitedly the next morning after breakkie, it took us only 10 minutes to reach the jetty in Port Klang.

This is how the jetty looks like from the departing area.

Tickets are sold at RM7.00 per way for adult and RM4.00 for children but we conveniently forgot to buy the children’s ticket. *ngek, ngek, ngek* Ini Sitiawan mali punya style.

The boat is definitely much lower than the one in Pangkor Island. I am feeling like I am sitting in a submarine and almost submerging.

Well, it does really looks like a submarine as what Eldest Princess reckon. They are air-conditioned too. But if you opt for something cheaper and more adventurous, you can try the old-fashioned boat.

Great for photographers that doesn’t mind to get wet. Well, if luck is by your side, you may spot a school of dolphin swimming alongside the boat. I.am.not.kidding.you! All this while, I thought the journey to Pulau Ketam is similar to Pangkor Island, cruising through the wide sea but hey, this is something new to me. We are actually cruising through mangrove.

Jetty in Pulau Ketam

The journey by boat to Pulau Ketam is about 45minutes ride. Not bad since it is an air-conditioned boat. Upon reaching, my children thought we are in Pangkor Island visiting their Great Grandma. hehe…. guess all fisherman’s village looks the same.

But you can tell, Pulau Ketam is much smaller, more quiet, very relaxing lifestyle and not a single car can be seen. Bicycles are all over the place. I think I’m going to love this place.

We started photographing the moment we step foot on land.

I have issue with my hair that day so you won’t be seeing my photographs. I’ll leave the story for other time. Hmm… on second thought…. this one is still quite acceptable.

Suddenly, we are lost of plan. What are we supposed to do in such a quiet  Island? Nothing! There’s nothing you can do except loitering around their village. You can rent a bicycle at RM5 for the whole day. That should be fun. I’ll come back for that other time.

It is sure a very hot day and no, I did not buy that umbrella hat for the kids. A relative bought that for them. Looks fugly but cute on them. lol

No prize for guessing correctly what they are doing there. Just observing some baby crabs crawling on the mud.

You better think twice the next time you eat crab and pregnant lady too.

We started our loitering. Just some look-see, look-see stuff. We should have rented the bicycles plus the hot sun is not helping at all.

Walking is very safe. All you need to do is watch out for the bicycles. There are not a single car in the island. And so we walk and walk and walk. No kidding! Just keep on walking! Bah.

When you think the umbrella hat is cute, watch this.

Thanks to Kimmy the photographer who caught the picture just in time. The wind blew Prince’s hat away. Hmm… wonder what is their face express like. Let me zoom further in ah.

Look at the shock on their face. Poor boy.

See, now he is so sad. What a day. Nah, who wants to help him retrieve the hat?

Reward will be given tho.

Ok la. No more hat. We continue walking and walking and walking and reach a sundry shop. The first thing we do is buy drinks with lots of ice!

It has been such a long long time since the last time I drank from a plastic bag. It does bring back some childhood memories.

So what we did again? Nothing! Just walking! And snapping and more walking!

You can tell that this is a very old signboard or rather the kindergarten has been in existence for a decade now.

One of the owner dried 4 sea horse outside their house. This can fetch a good price at the chinese medical hall.

Once upon a time, my Grandma’s house has wooden door like this. I’m talking about the brown one.

We keep on walking and walking and came to a restaurant. We sat down even thought we are not hungry yet. But I think all of us was so bored and so hot and some relative was grumbling, “You never tell me the place is so hot!”

There are more food on the table. I just choose two of the best to post them. So we just ate and call it a day. But, but that was something like one hour ago when we just set foot in this island! No wonder people has been saying something like “go there makan then come back.” We bought some hae bee (dry prawns) and tiny anchovies. I love those on fried rice.

Then i spotted something nostalgia again.

During our time, it used to be a pacifier. Now they replace it with some dodgy cartoon character.

Err… I make it look so obscene hor. Come, come, cuci mata sikit. Come look at the pretty flower.

*ngek, ngek, ngek*

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I so love this meme all thanks to Planet Kambing! This is not the usual boring meme with lots of Q & A to answer. But then I was really wondering if others even bother to read the meme especially those 70Qs meme. Gosh! Ok, back to the aluminium foil meme. You are supposed to aluminium foil yourself or your kids like my case, took a pic and post them up. This is not a tough one. Just put on your thinking cap and start to imagine it’s Halloween.lol.

The Angel and The Devil

Sorry for the wacky pic. I tried to get the kids to pose for another shot but son’s horn suddenly gave way and I have no more cellophane tape way to mend it. Plus we was supposed to leave for a day trip to Pulau Ketam and I was in a hurry.

The next five person that I think is wacky:

1. Athena
2. Jazzmint
3. Sasha
4. Kamkuey
5. Mott

Everyone will go through that once in a life time of teenage hood and acnes. However, depending on individual, some has them all over their cheek, some has them popping out once in a blue moon and some just wish they had acnes so that they could join their friends buying acne cream! lol. Now my 15 years old nephew has acnes and was asking me what is the best acne cream to buy. Well, to me, I trusted Acne Complex® solution that came in three simple steps and is known to be the best acne treatment I’ve ever used.

Step 1 – The clarifying cleanser that act as a deep cleanser that kills 99.9% bacteria from your skin and at the same time giving you that soothing and calming feeling.

Step 2 – The exfoliating acne treatment gel helps to heal existing blemish.

Step 3 – The oil free moisturising lotion to reduce redness and irritation.

And of course beside using facial product, you should take more vitamin C and drink lots of water.

What happen to the weather this few days?  I felt myself living in an oven!  Hot weather makes me moody too and when I am moody I tend to loose my temper easily.  Bad!  So, on a hot and lazy day, I have it easy in the kitchen – Red Snapper fish porridge.

Ingredients:

Red snapper fish fillet
1 cup of rice (measurement for 2 adult and 2 children)
young ginger
spring onion
sesame oil

Method:

Cook rice in low fire for about 1 hour or till rice breaks.  Marinate fish fillet with soya sauce and pepper.  Since fish don’t require longer cooking time, I add them in five minutes before the cooking end.  Season porridge with chicken granules. Leave them in the pot for about 10 to 20 minutes before consuming.  Garnish with young ginger strips and spring onion.  Optional, add in sesame oil and pepper.

Gosh, I keep saying numerous time that I want to upgrade the ram – “Ramdom Access Memory” in my computer but I have yet to do it. Procrastinating rulez! The main reason is because I keep stumbling on attractive offers on the internet. Looks like the price is getting cheaper by days. Some even throw in free shipping and speedy shipping with a small fee.

Two years ago, my 58 year old Mother had a surgery to removed her fibroid and uterus that weight about 600gm. Ever since then, she has been having mood swing, emotional and bad temper. She could be going through the post menopause syndrome and was prescribe progesterone by the Doctor. Progesterone is a steroid hormone that has been used a therapy for PMS symdrome, menopause, women with infertility or frequent pregnancy loss.

To me, I would prefer to use a sushi mould rather than the bamboo mat. The reason is, with the mould I can never get the shape wrong as I am very fussy and particular to make sure all of them are in the same size.

You just need to scoop your vinegar rice in the mould and press them down.

Transfer rolled up rice to the nori sheet and viola, all done under a minute.

It is important to cut up the sushi with a very sharp knife to avoid any breaking.

All these are my children’s favourite food. They had edamame, pearl corn that we bought from Cameron Highlands and the sushi. Oh, just incase if you are admiring the flower, good thing is, it is edible! They are marshmallow actually. lol