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Life Policy

chinnee — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 15:05:30 +0000

I still getting calls from bank agents on the life insurance policy. At least there are some kind ones and not all are rude. I appreciate gesture of the agents who took time to explain nicely the details of policy that their company are offering, but sometimes, I really can’t spend much time listen to them on the telephone with 2 screaming boys behind.

Storing Porridge in Insulated Mugs

chinnee — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 14:52:42 +0000

I love those cute little thermos mugs and I have a great collection of these. Not only they are useful to keep our drinks warm, I find these insulated custom travel mugs very useful to store my boy’s porridge. It is more easier to bring a mug than to bring the whole big multilayer food container on our short trip out.

Wrinkle cream is a must

chinnee — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 14:39:46 +0000

My boys sleep late nowadays. This mean I also have less time at night for myself. Although I have tubes of mask, I hardly have apply them on my face. The most I can apply is a quick dab of wrinkle cream on my face before I go to bed. So, in order to compensate with what I can’t do at home, I go for facial treatment more frequent.

Reverse Aging

chinnee — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 14:30:20 +0000

Have you heard of something that can reverse aging? Yes, there is actually something like that in the market now. With an effective human growth hormone enhancer. we can induce weight loss, decreased body fat, increased muscle mass, reduced wrinkles, improved skin condition, enhanced performance. If you come across something like this in the market, would you get yourself a bottle and buy human growth hormone to try it out?

Detox drink

chinnee — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 14:21:17 +0000

I must seriously consider loosing weight again. Few days back, at the clinic, I was horrified to find out that I actually gained 2 BIG KG when I stepped onto the weighting scale! A week before the CNY, I started with some detox program, after reading some important information about loosing weight effectively from the colon cleanse reviews. Unfortunately my mouth betrayed me and I actually over ate during the CNY celebration. No one to blame but myself, sigh….

Anti-aging products

chinnee — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 14:13:49 +0000

People say we can’t hide our age no matter how well we take care of our look. However with the right usage of right facial product, we can look better than our real age. For instant, lines are now more obvious on my face. I need firming face cream to hold up my sagging skin. I need to apply more moisterizer to prevent my skin from going dry. In another words, I need to spend more now on anti-aging products!

Weak boys

chinnee — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 14:06:12 +0000

I find that my boys are quite weak in health although they are fully breastfed. I remember I was prescribed by the gynae and took lots of the best prenatal vitamins when I was preggy with them for extra nutrition. Although they are born at good weight and only fed with breasmilk exclusively, they still get sick very easily monthly. I hope they will grow out of it and have better immune system when they reach 2 this June!

No beach visit during CNY

chinnee — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 04:34:54 +0000

Yay!! We are going back to the east coast again during the CNY celebration. My girl can’t wait to visit the beautiful beach again (how nice if we have a nice sea facing condo like one of the famous Miami Beach condos) at his hometown. I doubt we will have time to go to the beach this time since everyone will be busy visiting homes to homes (that’s what we are looking forward to each year). Can’t wait for the end of the week to arrive soon!

Sick during long distance travel

chinnee — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 03:42:34 +0000

The boys are so sick this time. We went to the doctor again last night and this round, they were given antibiotic together with some stronger medicine. I am most worried as we will be travelling a lot , to east back to hubby’s hometown, then south back to my mom’s place during the Chinese New Year. I should consider checking out guides for health travel since we are travelling so frequently all the time.

How to make nutmeg concentrates

chinnee — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 02:15:22 +0000

Fresh nutmegs (broken half, with its red flowery seads)

I have always wanted to get raw nutmegs to make my own nutmeg drinks. During my previous trip to Penang, Healy offer to get them for me from the wet market and she bought me 3kg in total, thanks, Healy!

How to make nutmeg concentrate

Ingredients (to get 1liter concentrate)

3kg nutmeg
1.5kg rock sugar (more or less according to individual taste)

Steps to do:

Clean the nutmegs, cut into halves, remove seeds, then smashed lightly the flesh.
Arrange all nutmeg face down (layered with rock sugar) in the slow cooker
Cover and start cooking on high for 3 hours and then set to auto for 6 hours

Remember, no water should be added if you want to extra the concentrate juice out of the nutmegs. After it cool down, I filter the concentrate and put them into clean container and keep in fridge.

front: a glass of chilled nutmeg diluted drink (made from 2nd round)
back: a bottle of very dark concentrate nutmeg juice (made from first round)

I actually made another batch of nutmeg juice by adding water into the “almost dried” nutmegs and let it cook in the slow cooker for another 6 hours or so. Tell you, it is still so thick that you can also bottle it and dilute with water when you need to a cup of drink.

Isn’t that easy?

Use of other parts:

Flowery skin on the seeds: Can be dried and great for making chinese medicine
Seeds: Great for making Salted Vege Duck Soup (Kiam Chai Ark)