Going Green: Creative and Green ways to wrap your presents.

Many of us tends to give presents at certain time all year long whether is for birthdays, anniversaries, Valentines Day, Christmas, Full Moon, housewarming or just simply for the fun of it without celebrating any special occasions.

For me, whenever I receive any gifts with nicely wrapped up presents, I would try to open it with care and try to keep the wrapping papers for other usage whether to wrap another presents to be given away or to wrap up some empty tissue or other boxes to make it into a nice container for storing stationeries and stuff.

And the best of all, I love to think, try and experiment with creative and green ways to wrap or present my gift to others. Some of these I learnt from some eco-friendly website, and some of it is from my own creation.

Enjoy!
Wrap your gift with a beautiful cloth like Japanese does. They call furoshiki. The receiver can use the cloth for other usage. They have very lovely ways of wrapping their wine, books and etc. It is a traditional art which I am sure your friend will treasure it as much as the contents of your gift.
Wrap your gift with similar theme. For e.g. for your friend who likes cooking, perhaps giving her a set of cooking sets wrapped with table-cloth or apron will be a wonderful present.
Send e-cards instead of paper card. If not use your creativity to print a greeting cards with your pictures and calendar on it. This way, it won’t be just another paper wastage that the receiver will bound to discard sooner or later.
Make greeting cards which act more than greeting cards. Make it into a picture frame, a calendar, a toaster, or even with recipes or poems on it.
If you receive a gift that you don’t actually use it, pass it on to someone who needs it or can make better use of it, you can even make it as a gift exchange during Christmas or etc.

These are just some of the few ideas I have tried or like to try someday…hope you all will like it and invent more of these creative and green ways to send a gift to someone! Let your creative juices flowing and let the other person surprised and influenced by your “green” effort!

Happy Green way of Life!

Diarrhea

Hmm.. This morning woke up with some funny gassy feeling in the stomach.

And by late afternoon today, I have made a record of 7 trips to the toilet...

Grrgg.....I asked Wai if he had the same experience since we just had some nice dinner in Klang last night. But he is fine. Now I am going to check out my dad and KY who were with us during the dinner last night.

I hope it is not the not-so-ripe banana i ate yesterday...otherwise KY will be experienced the same thing I had today. Serve me right for not heeding the advice of the fruit stall boss....to eat the banana only today...

Haih...this mommy...I shall be more careful now...

Hopefully KY is ok and I'll b ok soon too. No more losing control over food man.. :P

Glucose test

Arrgghh...had another vomiting feeling today after taking the glucose test at govt. clinic. Why? Coz my weight gain exceeded the advised quota. I have been warned last month and have took serious steps in changing my diet...no more late night snacks(practically sleeping back when i got hungry middle of the night) and no more second helping...the rice i took is even less than when I am not pregnant...haih...sad...to think that i need to on "diet" even while pregnant..

In fact my weight gain now(3.6kg a month)was less than what I had during my first pregnancy(4-5kg a month). But for the sake of my health and their strictness i guess i have to go through the glucose test.

Mind you, the glucose test is no fun at all. First you need to start fasting from 10pm the night before. Then you have to arrive sharp or before 7.30am at the clinic or you'll be made to come for another day/appointment. Then you shall wait for your turn to take your blood sample to be taken before you will be given a yucky very extremely sugary and sweet drink, that is why the name "air gula" is given. It is so sweet that no words can described. After I drank it...honestly I feel not well already. Then the nurse warned me not to vomit and don't eat anything until 2 hrs later whereby I need to back to the clinic for another blood sample to be taken. Then only I can break fast(buka puasa). For a pregnant woman and for me, this can be a challenge as I eat my breakfast regularly before 8am. However the discomfort I felt after drinking the sugar water exceeded the hunger i felt.

And I am so worried that I might vomit out the sugar water and made to drink it again and of course not to mention the blood sample to be taken again after a failed test....

When I went back to the clinic after 2 hrs, the first thing the nurse asked me was did I eat anything during that period of time and did I vomit out the sugar water. I told her I am damn hungry but I did not eat anything (actually partly coz i got no time to eat as I was busy bathing for KY, who's been staying at home with my dad ever since my nanny's son caught chicken pox few weeks back and passed on to the other son...and still recuperating).

Then I took the chance to ask the nurse, what happens if my weight gain exceed their limit(2 kg per month). Does it means I need to come for the glucose test every month? Then the nurse reassures me if this time the results turned out to be fine(means I passed with flying colors, no diabetes symptom) then I don't have to repeat the episodes again...Thank God!

And before this the gynae had told me if the test results wasn't good , the pregnant woman need to come back for glucose test for 4 times a day(instead of twice on the first test) every 2 weeks until delivery. Wow..this is how serious it sounds and seems!

Pray that my glucose test results turned out fine...meanwhile...I am going to take extra care of my diet from now..although I will not diet or reduce my food intake now..but I will make sure I eat better food...no more white bread if possible and less white rice...perhaps go for whole-meal variety.

Wish me luck...if the nurse did not call me in 2 weeks' time probably it means I am safe...and I shall be heading for another ultrascan in 17th this month. Till I update you guys again..

Take care and eat well!

Adious...........

Happy Chap Goh Mei!

Hallo...it's Chinese Valentines Day today :)

My husband and I hoped to take this chance to bring KY for a round of last day CNY visiting to our neighbours...let's see if we managed to do it tonight and how many homes we are able to enter..haha...coz some may be out celebrating rite...so let's keep our finger crossed and see how's luck tonight.

During the CNY, as KY was down with fever , we did not really go anywhere...so we thought at least we can visit our neighbours now that KY has recovered. What a good ime to visit our neighbours rite if not during CNY when people are more welcoming.. :D...hahaha...

STay tuned for more pictures as KY and I get better and better.....and same goes for the papa...we hope good news will be more happening for all the three of us and all our good fellow friends throughout the year!

Cheers to All! (Anyone throwing mandarin orange tonight? My fren said she's gonna throw lemon instead! More costly ler...but maybe that'll bring her meeting her rich Mr. Right? haha...good luck to her!)

The air still smells of CNY breeze...

I love the breeze of CNY...it's amazing how the air just smelt different during CNY! When my then boyfriend(now husband) describe to me few years ago on how since young he has the habit of sitting by the porch in front of his house during the eve and first day of CNY just enjoying the cool breeze of CNY...I too has picked up the habit of doing so...

It's certainly very refreshing and it is very hard to describe the feeling of the CNY breeze...it somehow brings you an air of renewal, togetherness, hope and happiness...a feeling of strength and energy.

I hope I can still feel this kind of energy throughout the year! It gave me a sense of happiness and strength to start a new day with much optimism and joy!

I have started back full gear at work and at home now...with KY back with me for the night. She has caught some nasty ulcer at her throat making her very clingy to me. She had fever and lose her appetite since the eve, 1st and 5th day of CNY. I hope she recover soon..it's sad seeing her lose her usual cheerfulness and the light in her eyes...I wouldn't trade it for anything...even though I will be bugged to play with her etc...but at least it's great seeing her happily exploring rather than being plague by fever and kept sleeping whole day long.

Wait till my next post up..hopefully by then it's good news about my current endeavors as well as the full recovery of KY!

CheerS for d day! :)

Happy Chinese New Year!

Hallo everyone...it's been wow...so long since I last updated my blog!

Things been hectic and I have been ups..and down...

Last two weeks..went for co. dinner after a whole 5 days being vomit-free. At first thought, finally it was over? But somehow..the vomitting comes again the next day...from 2 am till 9 am non-stop...for 15 times...or more than that...considering I still vomits in the gynae office when I went for checkup at 9am. So that Sat I was put on drip...my second drip....


Now..I slowly getting better....trying to do some light cleaning, cooking, and shopping. Trying not to tire myself out with the approaching of CNY.

This week, nanny is busy ...who 's not with the upcoming CNY for all Chinese...so I have started bringing Ka Yee home for the night. With Wai still needs to Overtime most of the nights....I am getting rather tired easily...more so when this week is filled with long day at client's office. I am exhausted.

Hopefully I can try and get at least a short nap tonight before wai goes out to office again.

I hope to find some interesting games, activities and fun for me and Kay yee to do during the nights to come( I think after CNY I should be starting to bring her back every night ...hopefully).

I tot of CNY card-making but gee..she's still so young..although she likes to scribble on paper...but I still have not started her on crayons yet...

Wat else can I do with her? Buy some cutleries or "masak-masak" toys so that can start sharing her how to cook and serve drinks? Haha..then CNY she can do some serving to the guest as practice ....hahaha....

Yesterday, Kay Yee helped me to do some light cleaning too....she is so eager(even to the point of forgoing her fav. Yakult drink) and help me to clean the floor with my trusty magic cleaner. She even walked up to her dad and try to get him to lift his leg(imitating me I guess) so that she can clean that part of the floor(LOL).

So these types of daily activities is what excites her...imitating adults...feeling and doing adults stuff..that is why I thought perhaps get her some cooking toys would be fun! Or should I just use those plastic utensils we have and let her try it out...especially children nowadays seems to be smart enough to different an unused phone, unused/spoilt Astro remote control and even a "switch-off" DVD player remote control which they felt no qualm of tossing it aside and choose the working mobile phone or TV remote control ...hahaha...

So if I get her those plastic cutlery set, would she play with it or prefer my "real" ones...hahaha...

Let me try and experiment it and let you guys know!

Meanwhile, Happy Chinese New to all of you and hey..I have started to feel and smell the breeze of CNY(chun feng) in the air, have u?


CheerS!
:D

Happy New Year!

Happy Year 2008! It's been quite awhile since I update my blog. I have been away for the short break and also coupled with some nasty HG attacks past few days keeps my spirits and energy low that I was unable to post as much as I like to.

It was a fine day on the 1st day of the year 2008. A miracle happened...no vomiting for the whole day and I had very nice meals throughout the day...at my parents place as well as at one of our favorite food stall.

But the next day at 5am in the morning the vomiting came back..to think I thought it is the end of my HG...finally..but it is not intended to just yet i guess...

Anyhow...I am starting to get use to it. How I can vomit and the next minute continuing my meals and vomit again the next few minutes ...

I certainly hope it will go off soon...at least before the CNY starts? haha..

Till I write more happy news here....stay tuned!