RamblingMoo

My mom just got back from the market and she related a very ‘hot’ news. She told me she met a neighbor on her way to the market earlier and they exchanged some stories. Whatdiyouknow… that her cars’ tags were stolen earlier in the morning (around 3-4am).

Mom told me she instantly suspected the boy that came to our house 2 days ago. Apparently he has started to strike again. My mom’s friend was hopping mad as ‘he‘ not only steal one but 2 of their newly installed tags (Touch’nGo) while her son was still around watching TV when the incident happened. According to her, one car was locked while another was not… this means that boy can manipulate car locks! Imagine most cars are fitted with alarms these days and yet he can operate so smoothly…. is that a big time burglar in the making???

Mom heard that the family has not been paying their rent for months and the landlord has no way to shoo them out. Also, mom found out the boy’s mother bought a new car (YES!!!! they don’t have money to pay rent but can afford a new car!) and hence the boy is stealing again… so the tags can be used to pay for tolls!

Our neighbor was mad that it happened again so after talking to my mom she gets her staff over to confront the family sating that they have evidence who stole the tags as they have installed CCTV. And guess what? The boy brought the tags out!!!!!!!

My ear and skin acted up again and I have no choice but to go for another medical consultation at my parents’ place. I just can’t believe it that I have been visiting doctors for the past few months at such regular interval. I’ve never took so much antibiotics in my whole life until now.

Only until recently that I discovered I have allergy towards some of these antibiotics. However, I always have problems remembering their names. Whenever the doctors asked me, I will be thinking hard trying to recall (since I consult different doctors). If I carry a medical id around with me, then probably I won’t have this problem. Thing like this, is always something good to have. Especially during emergencies.

Yesterday afternoon, while I was playing with Darrius in the room, my nephew was sleeping in the next room and my mom was frying some fish in the kitchen, we have an intruder coming into our house. We always lock our main gate outside and we padlocked our main door so it really puzzled us how the intruder came in.

I was there (I closed the room door as Darrius was talking non stop and worried he might wake my nephew up) and yet I could not hear the boy opening the door. He was half way in the living room when my mom caught a glimpse of him so she rushed out. I came out when I heard the commotion in the living room.

This boy about 12 yo, who is living a few doors away came into our house…. intentionally or unintentionally. When my mom questioned him as why he came in, he said he came to retrieve his foam aeroplane. My mom was not convinced as why he needs to come into the house first before notifying us that he needs to retrieve his plane? We have door bell. He told my mom that he saw the door unlocked and thought no one is at home so he came in. Lame excuse? The padlock was on the floor then.
When my mom continue to prob him, he kept saying he did not steal anything. Don’t that shows he was having the intention to steal? In fact, in the past he stole from my dad’s car which was parked outside. And I heard from my mom he was bashed up by another neighbor for stealing from their cars parked outside the house. And if you pass by his house, you can see a lot of junks (bicycles, bicycles parts and all kinds of rubbish) in their front porch. According to my parents, most of the stuff were stolen goods.

Their house look like a slump.  This boy has at least another 4-5 siblings. Apparently the parents do not care about their children. These kids roam about the neighborhood even though they are very young (I saw one about Darrius’s age).

I asked my dad why they want to have so many kids when they can’t even take care of them? I think these parents have failed in their responsibilities as parents. They don’t have the money and time and yet want to bring so many souls into this world.

Thus my dad told me, when you have quantity, you may not have the quality…. True?

Ever since I found some larva looking thing floating in PISA, we have stopped going there for swimming sessions. Since we don’t stay in a condominium, we don’t have any access to any swimming pool so we can only let Darrius play at the beach or when we got for hotel stay.

I have been wanting to get him some pool toys so he can have fun during his pool sessions which is considered very rare. We might bring him to my sister-in-law’s old condo for a swim this weekend when his daddy is here and if the weather permits. Then Darrius could enjoy a nice session with his little cousin.

I am lucky that I am no longer breastfeeding Darrius or else I will receive the same fate like this poor bottle teat! Imagine having a little tyrannosaurus on one of your most fragile part of your body!!

That was an Avent bottle teat which I bought for Darrius in April and it has already suffered such a bad tear! Though the teat is soft but I know the material is thick and yet this could happen! In fact this has happened in the past with his Tupperwear teat which I replaced with Pigeon teat now. The Pigeon teat has survived for quite a while from those ferocious bites.

And guess what? Like grandfather like grandson, my dad actually chew off a plastic chopstick during one of our dinners at home! And that happened within the few days where Darrius chew the bottle teat with his powerful teeth.

We definitely have T-Rexes in our home!

A couple of days ago I read in the news that another express bus accident took place on the North-South Highway. Yes… again! I just cannot understand why after so many tragic accidents involving these express buses, they still do not learn… the bus companies, the drivers and our government!

Both PiggyBeng and myself used to be a frequent travelers on these buses years back and now the thoughts of going on one often send chills down our spines. Though some of these bus companies offered travel insurance, I still don’t feel ‘protected’. If the drivers are reckless, there is nothing we can do. Often these accidents happened due to the drivers’ negligence.

I just hope our ‘BOLEH’ government will do something about this… especially now with the high fuel cost, more people will travel with public transports to cut down fuel consumption.

Most of the time I have been slow in finding out what the net has to offer until someone come knocking on my door and tells me about it. Well, let say it is not easy to juggle 4 blogs, an active toddler and home all alone. I am lucky to have so many buddies around the blogsphere who often feed me with the latest news and where I can make some moolah to kept me going.

The last that I learned of is Clickbooth Affiliate Network. I am a dummy when it comes to things like such. Though I have signed up with quite a few of advertising networks, I can swear I don’t really know how they works. What I care is, after doing all the necessary registrations and what ever that follows, I just hope and pray I will get paid at the end of the day.

Clickbooth is a Performance Based CPA (Cost Per Action) Network which is based in Florida, USA. If I’m not mistaken it is similar to those of AdSense, Nuffnang and Advertlets which we are familiar with. I have registered with them and am learning how to start off making my first buck with the campaigns available in the system.

What I like about ClickBooth is, they have a very impressive website with all the necessary tools in placed for Publishers, Advertisers as well as Networks. Bloggers like us can make some moolah signing up for campaigns, where else advertisers get exposures for their products and services.

I also learned that ClickBooth pays through PayPal… which is something we, the bloggers out of the US shores love best. The only thing is, they only make payout when you hit $50. So, that could take some time before we can see our moolah. And based on my research, you can get a referral fee if you refer someone to the network as they have some tracking system in place.

Well, if you want to know more about this venue to compliment your online shopping sprees, why don’t you check out ClickBooth today?

I admit I have been lazy to do memes in the past weeks. In fact most of them are still in my draft folder waiting for me. I have quite a few posts which are half way done too. Have been lazy and busy… hehehe what an excuse! This this mama has been tagging me quite a few times and I still have not attempt some of her previous tags… *blushed with embarrassment*

And this one she tagged me a week ago and it is not too tough so I thought I’ll JUST DO IT! hahahaha She wanted to see me and my monkey. We don’t always take photos together but of late (got new camera mah) we have been snapping away. I have uploaded a few in my last few posts…

I was fortunate to find some old photos which PiggyBeng downloaded sometime ago which is just me and Darrius which I have not posted before. Here is one taken during my birthday in February. We had a small celebration in Secret Recipes e-Gate.

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We ordered 2 pieces of our all time favorite, Chocolate Banana and Mango. Darrius sang me a birthday song too with some of the staff surrounding us… he was a little shy but he finished singing the entire song.

Ok… I need to tag a few mommies for this….

1. Paik Ling and Bryan
2. Jane with L and Z
3. Shireen and her 3 sweetie pies
4. Jacelyn with Zi Wei & Zhen Nam
5. Shooi with Bryan and Dylan
6. Mott and her 3 Musketeers

 Have fun mommies~

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Call me ‘kiasu’ (afraid to lose) . I started to read to Darrius since he was a fetus in my tummy. By doing so, I hope to instill the ‘love to read’ habit to Darrius as he grows. I am glad that he loves books now and will always pick up one to read when he’s not in the mood to play. In fact I kept some of his books in the hall, our room as well as our cars so he can reach for one at any time. I even get him to read to me while I’m feeding him his meals!

I always go books hunting for him but most of the time I ended up buying quite similar books where most of them don’t covers everything but rather the same thing in the entire book. Darrius will get bored after a while as he is reading the same thing over again.

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When I received the Let’s Get Ready series from Cedar Valley Publishing for a review, I could not be happier as these books are what I have been searching for. Even Darrius was ecstatic when he saw me unwrapping them. I have to tell him that the ‘Green’ book (for age 2-6) is for him and the ‘Purple’ book (for age 5-8) is for mommy or else he will sure to snatch it from me.

What I like most about these books are the fact that they are very colorful, made of good quality glossy paper, complete with different skill sets and structured in a easy to read manner. Within each book book, different subjects are covered in every page so kids would not get bored quickly but rather more engaged and could relate better.

Darrius was very happy when he flipped through the ‘Green’ book which is Let’s Get Ready for Kindergarten. He was so attracted by the alphabets, colors, shapes, the left and right hands which he refers to ‘Where is Thumbkin?‘ from one of the VCD he has been watching. When he saw the numbers he kept asking me and now he is able to recite from one to twenty.

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My boy is one curious and ‘long winded‘ fella and he will not stop until he gets his answers not once but a few times. Though it can be a little annoying at times but I should not whine as I know he yearns to learn…. which is a good thing! When he knows something, he loves to repeat many times and won’t stop until he is satisfied. So we have been going through the ‘alphabets, color and shapes pages’ many times as he is ultra obsessed with them!

Though Darrius is still too young for the Let’s Get Ready for First Grade but I will still guide once I feel he is ready for it even he has not reach that age group as I find the book is quite easy to follow. In this book, it covers a deeper level of skill sets such as vowels, consonants, prefixes, suffixes, contractions, compound words, punctuations, singular and plural and much much more.

We are still doing home schooling at the moment but we hope to prepare Darrius for play school in a few months time and with the help of these books, I am sure Darrius will be ahead of his peers in no time. These books are not only useful for Darrius but for us, the parents who are his main educators before he attend school.

If you have kids within these two age groups, you should consider getting them the Cedar Valley’s, Grow with the Cedar Valley Kids™ Let’s Get Ready Series. These books are specially designed for and by parents, kids and educators. Also, 10% from the sales of these books will be donated to charitable organizations. So, it don’t only helps your kids but other kids as well!

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I would like to thank Elina of Parent Reviewers and Cedar Valley Publishing for giving me this opportunity to review these wonderful books.

A day before Father’s Day, we went to Mid Valley for dinner and shopping after dropping off my first cupcakes order for KL. Initially I wanted to eat in Gardens but my parents were not so keen so we walked over to Mid Valley (we parked in Gardens). After debating for a while, we decided to go Madam Kwan.

Upon arrival, guess what happened? Aiyer… that Toys R Us is next to Madam Kwan and they put a lot of play houses outside the shop. What else again? Darrius wanted to run over and refused to go into the restaurant! I told him NO and he just lie down on the floor and started screaming! What is new right? The two waiters outside the restaurant gave us that ‘weird’ look and I could hear them murmuring to each other ‘what a terrible spoilt kid!’.

So, my parents have to followed that devil and let him play while I went in to make order. We have to quickly finish as Darrius refused to sit longer and insisted he wanted to play in those houses. My mom was kind enough to look after him so I could go in and get him this and was hoping he won’t come and ‘kacau’ (bug) me at home while playing it…

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The size can only comfortably fit one toddler. Can’t really stand inside so Darrius has to play by sitting down. If there is one more kiddo inside it will be a little crowded unless both are small size toddlers.

One of the thing I noticed was, the material of this hut is made of a kind of canvas and there aren’t any tiny holes to let air pass through…. so not too well ventilated. This means, it can be quite warm sitting in there unless used in colder climate countries. The other disadvantage is, it does not have a base. So, when we lift the hut, all the toys will be left on the floor…

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The positive side is, it is light weight and can be folded effortlessly and be transported to any where. Unlike those bulky play houses, we need to have a permanent place for it and storing will be a problem.

So, is Darrius a happy camper with his new play hut? Well, he was playing with it the first day I opened it up for him and subsequently he only plays with it in the morning. He don’t stay inside too long and will starts to scatter his toys after a while…

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Darrius: Let me fry an egg for you mommy…