Personal Trainer & Munchy Donut

Lately, my lower back has been aching and i feel a strain whenever i sit for long in the same position. I went to consult my 姨丈, he is a TCM Chinese Physician. I told him about my problem and he managed to give me a very good back massage (推拿) and "push" my back to the correct position. He said it could be due to my sitting posture.

Then i asked him about weight management and i told him that i go to the gym 3x a week. He asked me : "有人教你吗？". I told him : "No, 我自己做我的 routine."

He said : "很危险!!". I sensed his tone was serious and he explained that i could be using the wrong weights or doing wrong exercises. After hearing his explanation, i did some careful consideration and made up my mind - signed up for a Personal Trainer at the gym.

Today is my 1st session with my Personal Trainer - Mavis. She went through with me the routine of measuring height,weight, fats analysis and posture analysis. It was very useful and from here i learnt about my own body and also she will know which area i should work on to improve my back strenght. Hopefully with her guidance, i will be able to manage my backache and weight management.

Today after the training session, i went by to Munchy Donuts to buy home 1/2 dozen of yummy donuts. This is the 1st time we are trying Munchy, think it will be as delicious as donut factory since they look as good..hehe.

1st Meet Up

I have been following a Baby Forum for quite a while now. It is the BayB Supplies site. I have enjoyed the topics been discussed on this forum and most of them are closely related to our Aces Family daily lifestyle.

Through this forum, I have benefited much namely:

1. I engaged our dinner tingkat through recommendation of this forum.

2. I learnt about the behavior of children of different ages – these are real children and not just reading through books.

3. Find good lobangs - nice and affordable purchases

4. Hands down some of my children stuff to mommies/daddies

5. Last but not the least, got to know a lot of bloggers mommies & daddies.

I find that mommies/daddies who write in this forum are very since and friendly. Of course, sometime, they may be critical in certain topics/issues but from their words, they meant well for the other parties.

I have personally been in contact with Idy from IT Family, via sms & msn since we hooked up. She is now on leaves before she starts her new job mid November. We arranged to meet for lunch today. We met at the MRT and headed to Novena Square for Lunch.

I must say, although this is the 1st time we met but we were able to chat quite easily and happily, it’s like we were friends for a long time. We had a nice Japanese Lunch at Ichiban and at lunch we share so much information on child caring. Idy asked me to join them for the next gathering and I know it will be fun to meet all the wonderful people.

After lunch, Idy went off to run her errands as her IT family is going on a KL/Genting drive tomorrow.

As for me.. knowing that there is a new Donut Factory outlet, how can I resist NOT Buying. The counter was big and no Q, so I bought ½ dozen of them. This outlet even has a café for people to order in to eat & drink coffee, good concept. Then I proceeded to Cold Storage to buy some baking stuff, hoping to bake some muffins on Deepavali.

Sacrifices..

Last night after dinner, Anthea requested with nai nai that she wanted to sleep over at her house. Sensing that MIL is tired from her day work and the whole day event, i told Anthea to go home to sleep, so nai nai can have a good night rest.

While on our way back in the car, Adrian told Anthea that by helping to make things easier for all of us, she will get to chose which swimming pool she would like to swim on Sunday. She was quite happy after hearing this. She chosed Safra Mouth Fable, so this morning adrian fetched both MIL and Anthea to the pool. He forego his badminton session and spend time reading his notes while waiting for them.

Now with the new weekends logistics arrangement, there are a lot of sacrifices we have to make. Sometimes as a mother, i feel sad to see her faces this kind of disappointment. However, i know this will slowly but surely build up her character and understanding - in life, we don't always get what we want. As a consolation - Anthea is now looking forward to the 2o Oct weekends as MIL assured her that she can get to spend time over at her place.. : )

Today dinner was supposed to be at Clark Quay, however, around 4pm, we got sms that venue was changed to Raffles City. My parents in law brought the new baby to Raffles City to walk around as the AMK HUB was too crowded..hehe.

Like i said, when thing change - there is always negative & positive sides to it. Negative side is since it is Thai cuisine, Anthea and Anders could not really take much of the food as most of them are hot & spicy. So we packed our own dinner for 2 of them. They had a bowl of fish maw soup with their dinner.

As for the positive side - we managed to buy some fruits that were required for Anthea Class project for this coming week.

Also, we bought DONUTS from donut factory...hee...no Q. Got them in less than 10 minutes.



Met a friend earlier who also bought a box of donuts, asked her how long she Q for them, she said : "1 Hour...".

Are we so lucky !!!

W.O.A

Another Weekends Of Abundance. (Food and Family time)

Saturday, 22 Sep
The menu for lunch was spaghetti and dessert was barley with ginko nut soup. In the morning after a nice breakfast of muffins and cheese tarts, i started preparing lunch.

I enjoyed cooking spaghetti because it is easy. I bought a small packet of fresh button mushroom from a mushroom sale in the company last thursday, so i used them. Ingredients are simple - minced beef, button mushroom, big onions, Prego's traditional spaghetti sauce - makes a simple and nice meal of spaghetti for the family. Of course, there was a side dish of cheese sausages.



Both Anthea and Anders enjoyed it and Anthea even had a 2nd helping.

My mom helped me to prepared the ginko nuts, so it was a step easier for me.The dessert that i prepared was ginko nut with barley (白果腐竹), it was supposed to be good for the lungs and clear heatiness. The weather on Saturday was really hot and the soup came in handy, especially after refrigerated.



Anders enjoyed the soup and had few servings.. : )

In the evening, we went to Costa Sands Pasir Ris for Daddy's company BBQ session. This is the 1st time that Anthea and Anders been to this chalet. They had a whole lot of fun - swimming, BBQ, eating the food, playing around with other children. We left the chalet around 10pm and Anthea was still asking us "why are we going back so early?" She said next time we must organised BBQ, she enjoyed it.



We slept almost near to midnight. An enjoyable family day.

Sunday, 23 Sep
After my routine housework, i told Adrian that i needed to go Harvey Norman to redeem my Lucky Draw vouchers. So we made our way to Millenia Tower for the redemption and also lunch.

We had a simple lunch at the Millenium Food court, the place was quite empty for a Sunday afternoon. Afte that we shopped around in Carrefour and bought some groceries. As usual, Anders had a great time at the Toys section.

We went home for his power nap before meeting the family for dinner. Dinner was at Asia Grand Restaurant at Odeon Towers. Menu were sumptous - Peking Duck (promotion price of $28) , Drunked Prawns, Sweet & sour garoupa, Green vegetable, seafood with melon soup. The food was tasty and both the children enjoyed the "koro-pok" most from the peking duck..hehe.

After dinner, we adjourned to Raffles City for a walk and dessert at Gloria Jean cafe. Just a few shop away is the ever famous Donut Factory, so i took a walk there to take a look at the Q.

I think Lady Luck is on my side, there was NO SNAKE Q...just a handful of people buying. So how can i miss this golden opportunity of 10 minutes Q-ing compared to the norm of 1 - 2 hours.


So needless to say, i bought a box of 12, a good mixtures of different flavors. We ate 2 at the cafe - apple crumbles and double chocolate. Hmm...i must admit - they are delicious. No wonder people Q for them... : P

Shared some with the extended families.

Now i have 6 donuts in the fridge, waiting for us to sample them..yummy!!

Sweet, sweet Sunday.