On This Day - (4th Aug) #Reminders from FB#

4th Aug 2024

The thunderous raging water in a cave.

The wonders of nature, so wonderful if only I can just sit down in one corner listening to the water and hide from the heat outside for an hour.

* just realised I haven't posted much of our recent trip and...算了吧 😄.I've already transferred most pics into the hard disk. Need to clear phone pics asap 😂 , always grouching abt my tons of holidays

iMovies.

4th Aug 2024

Muahaha! I would have done this to Thistle if we had this game.

4th Aug 2024

Finally tried Luke's Lobster after they arrived on our shore 4 years ago.

I wasn't willing to try then coz felt it's too expensive for something which will not make me full.

Decided to try it today and won't eat it anymore.

My personal review.

** pls note that prices in US are without tips unless otherwise indicated

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And for those who wonder why I am allergic to certain prawns but not to lobster, I really have no idea why. Maybe my body is meant to ingest expensive foods. 😂 haha!

And now after typing this, I want to say I miss Boston!

In Boston che-che ordered lobster with truffle butter (US$24 + US$1 for truffle butter) while I ordered crab (US$17). Lobster is from Canada as what they claimed not that I can tell any difference 😜

Singapore's lobster roll is (S$25.50) claimed is from Maine but eh you give me one from M'sia I also dunno.

[Truffle butter lobster roll costs S$30.50].

A fair comparison would be US$24 vs S$25.50. But it makes me wonder how is it that it'll be so expensive after the conversion to eat in Boston when the lobster is swimming somewhere near there (fly from Cape Hood to Boston, both on east side of the continent) vs we need to fly the lobster over many miles across the land masses and ocean?

Bread roll is longer and skinnier here. I assumed the roll is supplied locally as it doesn't make sense to fly them over. Taste wise coz I did try che-che's lobster roll (but hate truffle), I would say it's not bad here. How many chunks of lobster meat in the roll I believe should be the same. Tho she dropped one huge piece on the floor in Boston and my heart was screaming 💸 heartpain.

In Quincy Market, we tried this one a day before, lobster salad roll for USD29 (I think it should be slightly cheaper coz I threw receipt away and only checked back my card, must have added the tips in it)

Oh..... the lobster bisque. I love bisque.

Well...when you're in Boston you gotta eat their seafood.

I have one girl who don't eat many seafood, I don't eat clam, oysters anything except scallops in the mollusk family myself. So really can't eat the freshest bestest seafood, which turns out well coz when you start calculating the cost of food, it's so expensive!

#shouldbringtravelcooker#

Lil' one Aricia Ting likes clam chowder, eats oyster but too bad she's not here.

Since I hate clams, I should try lobster bisque. Top left pic of lobster bisque -1 had it in a restaurant which I told girl the total cost of our meal came up to few dollars short of $100, by the time I add tips in. Sigh..... told girl it's the most expensive meal so after that we should eat cheaply. I only tried 2 lobster bisque in Boston, so I must admit that's the better one. (USD10.50 vs USD6.30.

Maybe not a fair comparison coz the quantity is different + one in better setting.

I didn't like the one from Quincy Market (had this a day before the restaurant meal) and was so thankful I ordered a small cup to try. But there were huge chunks of meat in both soup.

Singapore's S$12.50. Taste just like the one in Quincy Market but only 2 small bits of meat.

Will | eat at LL again? Most likely no. I've tasted better lobster bisque in restaurants here.

4th Aug 2023

Dropped by Kimchoo to get my dumpling (the bestest nonya chang after my mom's). Saw that ondeh and kueh kosui selling at total price of $4.40, a fraction of what one will pay at ahem.. ahem.., so why not pick them up as well? Kimchoo's kuehs are equally nice + I'm adding more weight to myself and adding more pennies in my pocket. No reason for me to not buy them. Anyway, this could be the only time I'll indulge in these.

#inevergiveupketofornothingk#

#mustmakeitmorehuasuantotempstop#

4th Aug 2023

@ "my favourite uncle wanton place" - direct quote from lil' one. I realised it's the same row we sat. She didn't want to move in to the next table to replicate this photo.

Used to be wanton noodle now it's shredded chicken noodle.

Big bowl of soup which now comes to her automatically 😂. Last time she used to do the Oliver scene by going up to uncle and asking for another bowl of soup 😂a few times.

Now that I've stopped keto temp, it's one of my must indulge. And had it like 4x already 😂 in a short span of 2mths? The last time was only last wk? 🤭

Bei-Ing Wanton Noodle 美樱雲吞麵

*ps both father n son's stall serves same good food.

4th Aug 2021

The last show or should I say documentary I watched - Hitler’s Circle of Evil 🤣🤣

4th Aug 2021

Spending some quality time with 貴重な赤ちゃん before uni term commences.

We bond over food. Haha!

She saw something which I can eat, came to me and tell me while I was packing lunch. I must admit that got me really excited as I was deprived of ice-cream for quite some time 🤣

4th Aug 2021

My heart went awwww the moment NaEun said "it's my job".

Her parents raised her up so well. She always puts her siblings first.

In one episode, JooHo asked her how she felt being the eldest, and she spoke out her thoughts.

She truly deserves a day out every week or fortnight with just her parents, so she can be a child. Forget abt the troublemaker Jinwoo and cute Gunhoo for that day. 슈퍼맨이

4th Aug 2016

One happy smiley child

And one grouchy, naggy mother (later)

4th Aug 2012 

Balloons that kids can't reach. Oh oh! Like it but can't seem to get a nice shot.

Waiting for her rabbit

4th Aug 2012

“Number 6”!

Footnote written in 2022 : 

@ Bei-Ing Wanton Noodle 美櫻雲吞麵

Your young fan love your noodles for more than 10yrs.

#unclecanihaveanotherbowlofsoup#

4th Aug 2011

Asked Athena if she knew abt broken magnets, she told me a few pointers. Took out her magnet which I've broke in the day. "There you go, we can experiment it." She was enthusiastic and recalled alot- iron, cobalt, steel and nickel.?? Can't rmbr myself.

Mummy's nose almost touching the sky. Asked her “Athena, what happens when you put 2 similar poles together?" "It... er....(trying to recall)." "It re ..." Eyes opened big big shouted so loud "REWIND!!!" Immediately can cover my mouth. LOL!

4th Aug 2011

Lil' girl said, "mummy 1 1 2 go 2 school tmrw. I hv no more fever."

"mummy touch...u dun hv fever ...(touch own head n lying) but mummy hv fever now cannot bring u 2 school."

"huh??....." "go n ask daddy if he can bring u 2 school tmrw."

After some teasing, I asked "what if mummy n daddy hv fever, then who's bringing u 2 school?" "Aunty Zet!" "if everyone hv fever?" "then ….. Too bad lor!

We will take bus to school." Haha! I thought she was going 2 say," too bad, we'll hv 2 skip school."

4th Aug 2010

Time to start f #-ing again for the kids.

Click on these links or copy & paste to my blog :

http://athenamummy.blogspot.com/2008/03/blog-post.html

http://athenamummy.blogspot.com/2008/04/books-cute-overload.html

4th August - lunch

Cutlery pack with a honey sweet (Pooh loves honey) and cheese snack

Pooh pasta with Pooh ham. Eggs didn't turn out well, suppose to be one with flower and the other is heart-shape. No time to fry fish fingers - rushing for time

Assembly line

Tonsillitis

6th Oct (Mon) 

Messaged me she’ll return home early. Only one hour early. Grabbed home for $43. Peak timing! 

Got an idea on how she was sent home by Ms Lim. The CFO happened to walk by lil’ one’s desk and noticed she was flushed red and asked if she was alright. Ding ding dong dong and by then allowed her to leave office early, just an hour early.

Saw doctor. Measured and said have low grade fever. Strangely Dr Loh didn’t give any paracetamol so I gave her from our supplies at home. 

Medication given : 

1. COF-LESS (hexylresorcinol) lozenges 

2. Serraptase 10 - inflammation 

3. Atrizin (cetirizine) 10mg - runny nose non-drowsy

Medical charges : $55.92 ($55 by CDC) 

“Daddy! Stay away from me!” 

7th Oct (Tue) 

Hey! It’s supposed to be my declared off day. I asked her to help me mop the floor, only to be told off by hubby “she’s sick and still ask her to mop the floor.” “Make her perspire.” Hubby is so biased right? Cannot let his precious daughter take hardship then when the wife is sick he don’t say the same thing. Pfft! 

Che-che WFH today and likes to go to her room to get her laptop charged. AR meanwhile had to sleep outside on the sofa during the day time. Poor thing. After some time she asked to sleep in her sister’s bed as sleeping on sofa is rather uncomfortable. 

8th Oct (Wed)

On MC so rested at home. As she was feeling sniffly, she has been sleeping without the aircon for 2 nights. Pretty unsettling sleep coz so used to sleeping in aircon room. 

9th Oct (Thu)

In the morning, hubby can tell her to “take MC.” Ehh….words from a HR personnel? Here I am telling her to go to work and he’s the opposite, sending wrong message to her. I explained to her that she’s an intern, it wouldn’t look good on her records. 

Went to work by bus but after I came out from my class she messaged me that she’s tired n wants to go home. End up I had to go off immediately to pick her up, thus can’t pack lunch for mom. Called hubby to help me defrost the mince pork as I will cook porridge for her for lunch while I was driving. 

Dr Tan started giving her antibiotics this time round after I asked him if he should do it as it’s her second time seeing a doctor this week. 

Medication given : 

1. Soden (Naproxen) 275mg - inflammation 

2. SW Decondine (Triprolidine 2.5mg/pseudoephedrine 60mg) - runny nose n cause drowsiness 

3. Pulmoxyl (amoxicillin) 500mg - antibiotic

Medical charges : $54.50 ($54 by CDC) 

Ultimately I ended up cooking porridge for dinner coz she wanted to eat at foodcourt after the consultation. Since I was going to cook with pumpkin I cooked for che-che’s dinner as well. 

10th Oct (Fri) 

On MC. Still sniffing away, tired. Haiz! Everytime she gets this even on school days, it takes days to recover. 

11th Oct (Sat)

Said throat feels better so I suppose she should have been given antibiotic right from the start, but doctors often don’t do that. Thinking to self, if we had gone back to Dr Lee (PD) since the beginning when she had this problem a year or two back, would she be given a super strong antibiotic from first consultation? Would things turn out differently for her? 

Today we all only went out for lunch at Sushiro @ Waterway Point then packed dinner home. Time for her to rest again. 

12th Oct (Sun)

Nothing out of the ordinary happened today. Nuah, rest. Basically laying on bed not doing anything strenuous. Everyday also not doing anything strenuous. Her not exercising, not fit make her 一点点 so weak, worst than the weakling me. 

13th Oct (Mon) 

Messaged me she’s coming back early coz manager told her can go home if she’s not well, manager was going out for meeting then go back home to continue work. However when Ms Tan told her that she had already ordered Grab food. Ate then packed her work laptop back home at 12.46pm. 

Oh! This was the day when Miss pretend-to-want-to-save-money girl insisted on going out for lunch and use the money to Grab a ride home. But she’s already so tired didn’t want her to exhaust herself. Grabbed home, this time cheaper at $17++ 

She met me outside the main gate as I had to bring her see the doctor again. Runny nose got worst last night, couldn’t sleep so I have no idea whether her fatigue came from her illness or from lack of sleep. Wah…I tell you this girl ah … so weak!

Dr Loh asked if wants to do a test to check, anyway it’s free. She couldn’t take the discomfort after swabbing one side. He explained that test may not be accurate. 

She was left with last 2 or 3 amoxicillin and Dr Loh told her to stop, he gave her a stronger one - Enhancin 625mg (amoxicillin/clavulanate)

Gave her 2 days MC to cover today and tomorrow. But she didn’t use it and went to work. It wouldn’t look nice on her internship appraisal if she were to keep going on medical leave. 

Medication given : 

1. Enhancin (amoxicillin/clavulanate)

Medical charges : $44.15 ($44 by CDC) 

** this antibiotic may cause diarrhoea. N she really lao sai 😂

Cooked porridge for her to bring to work tomorrow

14th Oct (Tue)

Forgot to take pic of the packed porridge. Packed chrysanthemum in a thermos flask together with 板蓝梗 powder sachet for her to mix in the office later. 

Sent her to and fro work today so she won’t be exhausted. Only today I will do her this favor.

15th Oct

@ 1.03am - prepared rice in Ms Thermie before going to bed. Will save time 6hrs later. 

I’m just so good in being a lazy mom

Got up at 7.05 and cook rice and turn the knob to beat up oven while I prepared the satay chicken on a disposable liner. Pop into oven and prep the drinks - boiled chrysanthemum + 板蓝根. 

ART results - Dr Loh called back in the morning. Results showed negative for bacteria and virus but maybe coz it’s an inaccurate test coz only dig one side. Could be caused by the other bacteria that is not in the list of 20 they were testing. Other than that we all know it’s the same recurrent problem she has. 

Aiyoh! Smart to cook extra rice this morning for dinner but dumb to forget to cook extra for tmrw’s lunch, kept my rice for her. I can count the grains in my bowl, I had to scrap the simmering basket

Took out pork n wanted to marinade so can steam next day. She couldn’t finish the teriyaki chicken so decided to pack that for her lunch tomorrow. 

16th Oct (Thur)

Steamed everything together. Did chawanmushi for her

17th Oct (Fri)

WFH

18th Oct (Sat) 

Last antibiotic taken in the morning. Dropped by clinic and Dr Loh is on duty. Throat doesn’t look inflammed anymore. 37.4 deg cel and asked does she have a higher temp baseline. I only remembered when she was very young she usually has higher temperature in the mornings but also cited that if us walking across plays a part (coz aunty me is feeling hot and leg pain 😀). She reminded me that during covid period when they had to measure temperature daily, 37.4 is her normal temperature once she hits 37.5 she has fever. Wah…. How can I forget this important details? 

He asked me if I measured her temperature daily since this whole thing started, nope I didn’t I only took when he said have fever so I took and monitored at home. After that no more. Hmm… I think this makes me an irresponsible mom 🤭. So I better have a chart at home ready and chart it down. 

Medication given : 

1. serraptase 10

Medical charges : $31.61 ($30 by CDC) 

Throughout I’ve been ensuring there’s a supply of chrysanthemum in the fridge. Coz I boil the drink with 2 other herbs, she says it’s better for her. So from now on until forever, I will try to boil it every time. 

The 板蓝梗 powder 

Other thing advised her was to maybe try gargling her tonsils with salt + warm water. Might help to kill any bacteria lingering in her mouth. 

Note to self is to check on TCM treatment. But tiring leh! TCM must keep going to consult, where got time to go every 5-6 days? 

Dr Chong’s recommendation is to do a tonsillectomy but she doesn’t want the surgery. We know that the pain will always come back if she don’t do this. TCM is also not a permanent solution. I also don’t have the energy to keep bringing her to see TCM doctor. 

to give her a better quality of life. Give me too! Why must make me worry for all the family members, all got dai ji one.  I don’t have the energy to keep bringing her to see the doctor. Had to remind her that this time alone she had 4 doctor visits, how much did we spend? $186.18. Count the past 2 years how many times this has occured over and over again and the number of doctor visits each time.