Moments in My Life

My SIL has just joined Netflix and I am able to watch Heroes online, using the instant play on their website, for free.  My hubby has watched all of the available episods while I was away and he highly recommend me to watch it.  Well, I had nothing much to do at night while waiting to take Brandon to potty around 1230am, so I started watching it last Saturday.  My gosh … this show is so addicting.  Luckily I don’t have to wait week by week for the next episods.  I just click and watch and click and watch.  I was able to watch 2-3 episods most of the nights.  So ‘gun cheung‘.  Now I wish I didn’t start watching this series.

We had a family gathering on June 7th at my aunt’s house in TTDI. It was a grand event for us as it was a very long time ago we had such an event. We didn’t get to have everyone to be in the picture as some of our cousins couldn’t make it on that day. But it is one of the most complete family portraits we have.

Initially, I’ve suggested that each family coordinates a different color top, but that suggestion didn’t get to everyone. It is difficult to get an agreement when you have a big group of people that doesn’t participate in group thread/email.  At the end, only my family (at least we tried) to wear WHITE color top with jeans. May be next time we can have custom t-shirts for each of us and it make the family portrait looks even better.

Here is the picture of our Kee Family: My sister and Ethan, my brother Joo Yee, Me and Brandon.

This picture was taken from PNB Darby Park service apartment on the 35th floor. We reserved a two bedrooms apartment (Unit# 3512) for a one night stay for our Kee family. It was a very nice experience. The view is magnificent. Definitely worth the RM23 upgrade. If I get to wake up to this view every morning … it will be heavenly. Although there are many constructions surrounding this building, the noise hardly bothered us, at least we didn’t notice them much.

Our recent trip to Malaysia is the second time my son met Ah-Cho (great-grandma in Hokkien). She is actually my aunt’s mother and we call her che-mm-poh (grandma in-law in Hokkien). She is a very nice person to talk to as she has many many stories to share with us. And once she starts talking, there is nothing that can stop her. A lot of times I couldn’t sit and listen to all the ending as I either had to chase after or attend to my son. And my son loves her. Every morning when he woke up, he called her while walking down the stairs. And if he saw her in the living room watching the tv later in the afternoon, he would call her, “Ah-Cho! Ah-Cho! … “ 

Ah-Cho is a very healthy woman up till 7 months ago.  That evening, she was visiting a relative staying in a high rise secured building.  When she was leaving the luxury condominium, the automatic sliding door closed on her and she fell down on the floor.  She injured badly in the fall and was confined on the bed for the first few months. 

After many physical therapies and Chinese medcine, she is now able to walk with the help of a walking stick.  She can’t stand for too long as her back will hurt.  How nice if my aunt’s house has a walkin tub in the bathroom. Ah-Cho will be able to enjoy a nice and therapeutic bath by herself. For now she only takes quick shower with the help from the maid. I am sure my son misses her.

Anyway, here are two pictures of my cheeky son and Ah-Cho together.

Middle of the night … suddenly I heard a voice from the bed.  I was sleeping on the carpeted floor.

Brandon: cot emoshun cot emoshun cot emoshun cot emoshun cot emoshun …

Mommy: *blur* … aiyo Brandon, sleeping time now lar … cannot take Scott’s Emulsion lar.  Tomorrow morning I give you lar.

Brandon: cot emoshun cot emoshun cot emoshun …

Mommy: OK OK … drink some water now … later in the morning when the sun comes up, I’ll give you Scott’s Emulsion.

Brandon: *gulping down the water from the sipper, then went back to sleep*

At night while dreaming also want to take Scott’s Emulsion. I bought 2 bottles back from my trip because I couldn’t find them selling here. Bought the Orange flavor Scott Emulsion Cod Liver Oil.

Have you notice the prices has been increasing in many of the things and services we uses? For one thing that you and I know about is the price of gasoline has gone up way too much now. It is about $4.59 per gallon at the Union 76 by the corner of 182nd and Western. It wasn’t too long ago when the price at the pump was under $2 per gallon. But it might seem ages ago that the price was that low.

So how we deal with this price increase? We try to stay home more. We try to spend less time driving out. Shopping online and spend more time on the internet to research on things before I buy them. I think there might be a boom on online users in the near future because I can see how people are spending more time online nowadays.

That is why social media marketing services like in Izea (SocialSpark and PayPerPost) is becoming very popular. They help advertisers to get their messages across to their consumers through blog posts, blog advertising, blog sponsorship as well as product sampling. It is definitely much cheaper than advertising on TV or billboards. Honestly, I no longer watch any TV or go out for movies.  And I believe many people already turn to using the internet to watch movie (DVD), news and even tv series. I know I do.

One of the things I listed on my to-do list in Malaysia was to visit a Fish Spa. I took my knowledge that there are fish spas in two places from what I read the bloggers wrote about. There is one in Bangsar. Another one in Pavillion Mall.

What I didn’t know that there is a new Fish Spa Foot Master at One Utama, a shopping center which is much closer to where I was staying. The first time we learned about this place was because we were visiting an eatery (KTZ) next to it. The promoter was very friendly and even invited Ethan dipped his hand into the tank. But because our time there wasn’t for this purpose, we didn’t go for it.

The next time we went, we already planned it out. It was about noon time and the kids fell asleep while we drove from TTDI to One Utama, very short distance. We knew immediately we had to stop at this Fish Spa since our kids both were sleeping. We pushed the strollers to aside and 4 of us went to dip our smelly legs into the tank. Each 30 minutes session is RM38. But we signed up for the package of 10 sessions with free 2 sessions, so we only have to pay RM380 for 12 sessions total.

My sister was the first one to dip her legs into the tank. And immediately she screamed! It was ticklish. Then my cousin sister joined in and later, her brother too. I was the last one as I was a bit frightened to put my legs in. I slowly immersed my right heel first. Then I got the ticklish feeling too. It was like a little electric shock when the fish biting kissing on your feet. This feeling lasted very long and I almost stopped half way. But after about 10-15 minutes, it gives a very nice sensation. We continued for a total time of about 45 minutes.

We enjoyed chatting with each other. I think is nice to go with a group of friends or family. Can chit chat mar. JoAnn’s son woke up first so she left the session earlier than the 3 of us. So did our feet feel much smoother? May be a little bit. I have deep cracks on my heels which was hard to heal with just kissing from these fishes.

We went back again before we left KL. It was also 4 of us, but that time my cousin brother was replaced by my Aunt (kammo). My account still has 4 sessions left. It has no expiration date and I left the acct with my cousin sister, hopefully she will bring her mom there again to enjoy.

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I spoke too soon.  That one day he was good, no wetting the floor.  But the next day (yesterday), he wet the floor FOUR TIMES!  Luckily I told Hubby to take away the rug in the dining area before we came back from Malaysia.  So now I don’t have to be cleaning the rug when this incident happens.  I just have to wipe it with a rag and clean it again with 401 solution and paper towel.  

First time when it happened, I told him if he has the urge/feeling that he needs to go, he should use the potty.  I asked him where he needs to go if he wants shee shee?  He pointed to the potty.  When second time happens, again I told him the same thing and he pointed to the same place again.  Same time with the third time.  Fourth time it happens, I immediately knew he was about to wet his pants, I quickly told him to hold it so he stopped.  The floor was already wet but I hurry to take of his pants and brought him to potty.  He continued his business in the potty.  For the first three times, when I asked him to hold it, he couldn’t. 

I hope he will learn this himself soon. I can’t be bringing or reminding him to potty everytime.  Worse is, whenever I ask him if he has the need to go, his answer is, “NO! NO! NO!” *sigh*

My relatives in Malaysia will sure be very happy when they see the title to this post - ‘Going back to Malaysia again?‘. How I wish I can. I really miss them very much too. I love the food, the people, the shopping and the weather too. I like the rain … kinda help to clean out the air around. You see, we don’t get much rain here in Los Angeles. The air is much polluted here.

Anyway, my itchy hands acted up again and I was checking air fare from EVA Air. Their total ticket price is the same as I paid for my recent trip and lower than Malaysia Airlines for the same traveling dates. If so I may be packing up and heading to the LAX again in the next few months. Just a hint … I may be sending beautiful personalized Christmas Cards from Malaysia. *wink*