Working On Saturday (18 December 2008)

This is my second post on my blog. I came to work on Saturday... i was supposed to come in early, but my cousin out of nowhere called me said she's in town and ask me to join her sightseeing Penang. After spending some time with her which was about few hours and after that i went straight to the office. Nobody is in and looks i got myself only to talk. I have finished my work and think about my blog which the progress is terribly slow.

Ehm.. I'm going to Japan in next few days and i hope i can get lots of nice shot overthere. I'll get that posted in my next blog's entry. The photo above is my work place. Pretty messy, huh... I should take from further angle so that you can see how busy i am sometime, when i'm really busy you can see lots of rubbish around me...

Well, talking about vacation, it reminds me my vacation in US, 2 yrs back. I have one photo of it in my office computer. It was great, i hope for second trip to US. That's me with typical "peace" asian sign... hehehe. It's my good friend's car, quite kewl huh?? :)

Chow.

Ketam Nipah.

Have you ever tried Ketam Nipah??
I were once tried it in Singapore with my Thai's friend. During that time, I considered myself "darurat" and in the "was-was" state. Certain people from different areas called it Ketam Batu. It is black color and it turn to red color once you cooked it. I think ate few times at the hotel,but I just don't bother of the halal/haram status because they serve in public places and a lot of moslem ate. But when I small, I was told that there are types of crab that you cannot eat, which is the one that live not in water.
So this is funny story happened to me and hubby. One day, my husband bought ketam nipah on our way back from Pantai Remis to Penang. He wanted to call his brother to dine with us. He asked me to cook the crab, and once I look at the crab, it was still alive. Then I was in the uncertainty state of the halal/haram status. I asked my cousin about it, and from her info, Ketam Batu and Ketam Nipah are the same type of crab and they are not halal. Urgh..Back to the story, I excused myself saying that I'm not feeling well. My husband finished the cooking part. During the dinner time, hubby approach me for the dinner. I excused myself again saying that I am not feeling well and I am not hungry. Actually my stomach was rambling. I ask hubby and BIL proceed with the dinner. Then I fall asleep with empty stomach.
So after my BIL went back, which was about 12 midnight, hubby woke me up. Then I got chance to raise my concern to my husband. But my husband was frowning,"I bought that from that pakcik. If its not halal, why would that pakcik sell?". He got his point, but I answer,"Maybe that pakcik sell those crab for non-muslim only and he think u are one". I got my point too, Hehe... "Noncern! I saw on Majalah3, got Malay ppl ate also. If you dont trust me, check on the internet."



Hehehe, actually those crab are safe or "halal" for muslim. Sorry Hubby!! And after that it become one of my favorite seafood. Now, most of the balik kampung time, we will look for those ketam from the same pakcik.

Mama's home recipe

I did try to cook porridge for Luffy yesterday. I'm glad that Luffy seems to like it. Thanks for my friend's thought. The recipe is simple

Ingredients
A small amount of rice
A small pcs of chicken meat
A small cubes of carrot
A small pc og ginger
Water

Procedure
1. Put the water and rice in the pot. Boil them
2. When the above ingredients starts simmering, add chicken and carrot.
3. Brew it until all the ingredient soft and looks like real porridge.
4. Remove the ginger. Cool it down, and blend it.
5. Serve to baby, he's going to like it

Look how Luffy's reaction to this. Yum-Yum Mama.... But I think it is waterlogged :) Hehe..it looks OK at first, but after I blend it. I thnik I put too much water, maybe today I'll try again.

This is my delicious porridge

Mama,you're The BEST!! It's very Yummy!!

Luffy starts eating the solids.

Since Luffy is officially six month it is recommended to introduce solid to him. Actually I wanted to introduce him much earlier, but after doing some reading I decided to wait until Luffy reach six month old. I bought two baby meal sets, one to bring to nursery and one for home. I bought a Fisher Price highchair on 50% discount and I’m glad, Luffy seems content when I put him on the highchair.

So far, I haven’t started cooking solid food for Luffy. However I did plan to do so, just need to do some shopping for correct materials and tools. I did checked few recipes on the web, and really look yummy. Check out this website http://www.wholesomebabyfood.com/. A lot of tips on how to introduce solid, recipes and tips. So for the mean time, only store food available for luffy 

The first food that Luffy had really trigged anxiety both my husband and I. We are and both anxious to see how Luffy react to his first food. As for Luffy himself, he is very excited to the new experience. One scoop is not enough. Always asking for more. I let him eat rice cereal for 4 days and see his reaction. Alhamdullilah, no food allergy.

Since then, we have given Luffy all sorts of half solid food. Luffy seems to enjoy food very much. It is always a pleasure to see Luffy facial expression as I introduced all sorts of taste to Luffy. Flavors like Rapsberry, orange and apple really gave little Luffy some level of “sourface”. Hehe.

I tried to discipline Luffy by setting his meal time around my lunch and dinner time. Customarily, I will feed him with his formula milk an hour prior to the meal time. Then his meal time is either before or after mine meal time. During my meal time, Luffy will sit on his highchair participate in the family quality time. Sometime I’ll provide his meal plate and spoon, so he can act like eating. But most of the time, he’ll knocked the plate with the spoon and cried when those fell down, maybe as a sign asking for help to get those back.

It so much fun to see and have Luffy joining us suring meal time.


Yum! Yum!

Luffy like his highchair

Luffy's first food

Happy SIX months Birth Day Luffy!!!

It's been sometime for me being stuck with my workload and housechores that left me no time to update my blog. "Feeble excuse", people might say, but it is true. However, there are lots of things happened around me since my last entry. Hopefully I able to find time to put those in words :). My little angel is already six months old. Alhamdullilah, he is healthy and develop a few skills like other normal kids. He is much more stronger and much fun to play with. I already introduced solid to him. (This will be written in the next entry). He is so active and really make use of his hand and feet. He'll touches everything near him. I think its the time for him to explore the world. So to be a good mother, I have to make sure the area within his reach should be clean and free from sharp object.

Sleep time also has been hard. He can't sleep with us anymore on the bed. There high possibility he might fell down. It happened once when Luffy sleep with me and at 5 pm, I woke up I heard he cried. I heard hubby preparing his milk. Then I just let he cried, but the cry become more intense. I woke up and check Luffy is not beside me. OMG!! He fell down, pity my little boy. He cried for help but nobody came. I checked his head and body, luckily no injury or swollen mark. After he got his milk, he went back to sleep. The next night, I monitor Luffy is so wild when sleeping at night. When he woke up at night for milk time, he already switch position. Now his head already at my feet. He really can't sleep on our bed. We did put him on his bed, but he seems doesn't get good sleep. He tend to wake-up more frequently at night. Well, its almost a time for Luffy to settle on his own room.


Luffy is so excited with the balloon.

See!!I put both his hand behind his back, so he can keep quiet. It only last for sometime :)