Facebook - Warning message

This morning, when i was surfing the facebook and i saw

URGENT!!! For all parents, Nestle is asking for everyone to return all BANANA BABY FOOD expiring 2012 because they may contain GLASS. Please copy & paste for all babies safety. Bar code 7613033089 73, EVEN if you are not a parent please help forward this post. You could help save a child!!!!

That's really frightening... But this is true?? Tried to google it, but cant find more information

source: http://www.hoax-slayer.com/nestle-banana-baby-food-recall.shtml
Brief Analysis
The warning is derived from a genuine recall, but, in its current form, it is misleading and inaccurate. It is true that Nestle France has voluntarily recalled a specific batch of "P'tit Pot" banana baby food as a precaution d...ue to possible broken glass contamination. However, the problem is confined to one batch and affects a product that is sold only in France. A second, even more inaccurate, incarnation of the message changes the company name from Nestle to Gerber. Gerber is a US based subsidiary of Nestle, but has no connection whatsoever to this Nestle France recall.


source: http://woelanku.blogspot.com/2011/07/facebook-hoax-product-recall-nestle-is.html

My conclusion: this warning is real for specific product batch "Ptiti Pot" banana baby food and only sold in france. Hence this message is not applicable to Singapore.

Shock to faint....

This morning, when i'm having a conf call in the room, my maid screaming for help from the living room.. When i rushed out the room, i saw Janelle was trying to vomit something out. She seems to be choke.. Quickly took her up and did applied some pressured on her stomach but nothing comes out... She keep crying and crying... Not sure what had happened to her, gave her some water and she throw out blood stains... Yes blood stains, i dont know what had happened, immediately i carried her and run to the nearby clinic... goodness me, just a 100 meter and breathless, mummy need to go excise le... When i reached there and her cried had stopped and back to her normal self, i kind of ease abit. But Mummy nearly fainted at the clinic after registered her... my head was spinning and i cant even stand still.. I forced myself to be calm and explain to doctor what had happened.. after that... there's mummy goes... blacked out, feeling very pale, cold, numb and scared, dr sit me down and ask me to rest while he examine Janelle, ... I was really shock and scared bad things will happened to Janelle. Doctor examined on Janelle and when says she is ok, her lung, stomach and throat are ok, but need to monitor her closely today... The stone in my heart dropped... Dr sent janelle and maid back and put mummy put in the treatment room to rest for 15min before let me go. Dr says I'm ok, cos i run and was in shocked, so my blood pressured went up and have the blackout attack.

I have decided... I will let go my maid... i had enough of all her nonsenses. Looking for a daycare nanny at yishun area to take care of Janelle. any good recommendation, please let me know.

Show the spirit, fly our flag

Less than a month to 9 Aug 2011, are you ready to celebrate singapore 46th birthday?? Will you be flying our flag outside your house..

My mom fly the flag every year without fail to show support to the champaign 'fly our flag' since 20+ years ago. Naturally the practice had flow to me. Last year, 1st national day in punggol, I have no idea where cant i get the flag, we tried book store, supermarket, it's either they dont carry or was sold out.. so no choice. But this year, hus saw a notice put up by Punggol RC at the notice board beside the lift, he gave them a call immediately and they delivered to our place within 15min by the RC volunteers. Finally we got our flag to fly outside the house.

Where Can You Get Your Flag
But before you can fly the flag, you need to get a flag first right? So where can you get one?
The answer is somewhere surprisingly near to you … at all PA Community Clubs and RC’s.
Each flag cost you about SGD$2 to SGD$2.50 depending at which area you are located. (I saw the notice board at Yishun which they are selling at $2 and i got mine at $2.50.)
Do get it early while stock last.

Proper care and disposal
When you are done flying the flag, you need to know the correct way of handling it in terms of storage and disposal (if it’s too worn out already).

Source: http://infopedia.nl.sg/articles/SIP_488_2004-12-18.html
When the flag has to be cleaned, it should be washed and dried indoors separately, and not together with other laundry.

Torn or worn-out flags should be disposed properly by being packed into a sealed black trash bag. Alternatively, the flag should be handed over to the nearest Residents’ Committee (RC) or Community Centre/Club (CC) for proper disposal.

Let's show the spirit and fly our flag to celebrate National Day..

Happy Birthday Singapore!!!

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Facebooking on iPhone

Found a very cool function on Facebook app.. It's to sync the contacts and download the profile photos to ur phone contact picture.. So now when your friends call, there is a photo shows up...

1. Under the main page of the app, select friends



2. Click on the top right hand drop down button and select sync contacts



3. Then On the syncing and if u want to replace photos on ur existing picture linked to ur contact.



4. Wait... And wait... Abt 5 min for me (I don't have too many contacts, less than 100 I guess.. The more contact u have the longer u need to wait)... And it's done

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Updates on BRT Treatment

We are on BRT Treatment for 3 months since mid April this year. We have moved from weekly BRT Treatment (where there are too many foreign substances such as amalgam, bacteria, viruses, allergens, mycosis etc to clear) to fortnightly BRT Treatment (which leave with a couple of few stubborns one), and from this week onwards we will be on 3 weeks once.

The treatment does strengthen her immune system, she doesnt has flu that often now. But as for epilepsy, personally i feel that it doesn't help much. Looking back these 3 months seizures pattern, it still seems to be about the same.. there even at one point of time where janelle was scared by the therapy on the eye mask, she was crying non-stop once she put on the mask and since then her seizure was bad for that month.

The therapist says it's still early to tell, as the past 3 months she is focusing on clearing the foreign substances and not so much of program. From next visit on, she will put janelle on for more brain activities and epilepsy program. Let's give another 3 more months and see.

Pasir Ris Park - the Gallop Stables

Suggested to bring Janelle to beach on sunday morning.. since we had been ECP a couple of times, so this time we try Pasir Ris beach..

To my surprise, most unexpected quiet corner of Rasir Ris Park, there is a Stable - the Gallop Stables in Pasir Ris Park. There is no entrance fee, anyone is free to walk in to see, touch, ride and feed the horses and ponies. Pony rides are available at $10/ride, enjoy a stroll in the "woods" (For 2 years and above). Hus wanted Janelle to try on the Pony rides, but they dont allow to co-seat... Which means Janelle had to be alone riding on the pony.. hmmm... that's very dangerous as janelle doesnt sit still for 30sec, what if she fall. Hence, we give it a missed. But we will be back for Janelle to ride on the pony when she is ready.

Besides open stables where children can feed and ride on ponies, Gallop Stable also offers private riding lessons for those keen in horse-riding. The Horseshop nearby sells interesting horse-related paraphernalia and an adjacent cafe serves breakfast, brunch and finger food and sandwiches all day. The place is also open for booking for private events such as birthday parties.

Instead, We bought dried grass from the store @ $1 per packet to feed the house.

If you wonder, yes, they are looking at each other!! When the horse came near, Janelle ran and hide before my back. :)

Development Assesment

Janelle is coming to 3 next month, mummy gets very worries of her development. Her classmates are having much more improvement than Janelle. and janelle had one huge problem, is that she cant sit still and listen in class. If this she cant do it, how can i sent her to mainstream?? So I would like to solve this problem, and had been seeing KKH OT and School OT for coming to 1.5 years, no improvement with her at all, so now i started to looked out.

Referred to Tr Sanjeey, a senior OT from ex-rainbow who had sees many special needs children. He did a developmental assessment for janelle and a few points and goals he set for Janelle:

• Although Janelle is 3 and can walk, but her development is at about 8 months... she doesnt walk freely.. she will locked herself by facing down to walk.. this gives her the control of herself not falling... but she dont look left and right or even front.. that's why she tends to trip and fall or knock into some things.


• Her truck muscles seem to be very weak, hence she cant focus while sitting down.


• She needs to do things with a meaning.. She can do it... Now activates to her are meaningless hence she is not learning and progressing.


• Need to get her seizure controlled, else we will be going round the cycle.. today she can do it.. after seizure... she cant do it again..

Tr Sanjeey mentioned that he will start sourcing for toys for janelle... toys where she will enjoyed and learn something... and will start with her next weeks and need something that she can had a huge progress to catch up.

All the above he mentioned, it's all very challenging to me. after the assessment, i got burned out, feeling very low and depressed. Asking myself what else i can do.. how can i do better??

Next day we had an OT at KKH, i flagged out my concern with the therapist. and then she did a reviewed with janelle and restructured the program. I dont like KKH OT as they dont set a goal for janelle... they are doing the same thing each session without assessing much on her... even there is no improvement, nothing changed till parents flagged out. Will be dropping KKH OT.

Met GH, Janelle's PT outside the OT room.. she asked me how is Janelle.. I gave her a sigh and when we talked, i have no ideas why my tear just flowed down infront of her... so embarrassing.. She wanted to meet me over the weekend to catch up, but i know she has 2 kids to take care, so didnt want to disturb her free time. anyway, thanks GH!!

After the OT, we had doctor reviewed on the same day. The same old things.. "let's monitor and change drugs.", i didnt asked much and just returned with a smile and "Ok".. just before i stepped out of the room, dr asked if i need parents support, he can help me to arrange... The OS in me is that "as long as you can help janelle... that's already helping me"... i shaked my head and walked out the door with tears around my eyes.

This strong mommy no longer strong.... these 2 days i tried to escape from janelle.. have been going to into office to take some time off away.. so that when i returned home, i have more energy and appreciate every minutes with her. i really dont know what's the next step i can try... told me hus, let's try TCM... but his silent had tell me off. what else??

God, you gave me pretty janelle but you forget to give me her health.. can you return it to me... I just want her to be a normal child who goes to school like normal kids.. play, talk and run around like them...

10 Simple Ways To Get Rid Of Ants

Ants had been giving me a big headache these couple of weeks. It's also one of my reason to stop cooking for the past one week just to kill them all...

Everytime i step into the kitchen, i will see them.. and i will be washing up and killing the ants with hot water. I have to do that before it gets worst. Last week, i had washed up the whole kitchen just to find their home.. but sigh. Over the weekend, i see that the ants are getting lesser and not really that many already. I stopped tingkat and start cooking. Yesterday, Just one day... the ants army came back. Ended up my maid got scolding from me for not washing up the kitchen immediately after use...

I tried using ants poison - those that will bring home and kills the families.. waited for 2 weeks, there are still ants... the ants are so smart.. they will detour and avoid the poison...

Yesterday was in a chat room with my colleagues, and i see ants on my table and i pop out the question "how to get rid of the ants???" lol.. Thanks N and S had entertained me and provided some suggestion. S told me that ants scared baby powder, so I went to try baby powder, the same thing, they will detour too... N suggested to wait till the ants formed a line and use bygone to kills them all.. But i cant use bygone as Janelle someone who will touch everywhere and put inside the mouth.

Really cant stand it anymore and i did a google search and i found this:

10 Simple Ways To Get Rid Of Ants:

Discovered ants in your kitchen cabinet? Now worried about how to get rid of ants? Don’t worry you can get rid off ants with few simple and effective home remedies. Some of the home remedies to kill ants are listed below:

• White vinegar is considered to be effective home remedy to kill ants. Simply you have to spread white vinegar in areas affected by ants and you will get rid of ants in minutes.
  Thumbs up... I tired this method and it works, cheap and good... yesterday night i went down to sheng siong and get a bottle of white vinegar (pure one, dont get those artificial) which cost me $1.20 for a big bottle. After washing the kitchen, i mopped a layer of vinegar over kitchen tabletop, dinning table and cabinets where the ants will walk passed. Just before i sleep, i check the kitchen again, the ants are so much lesser already, and i put on another layer of vinegar just before i went to bed. This morning.. THERE IS NO MORE ANTS!!!
  




• You can use cucumber to get rid off ants. Ants don’t like the taste of cucumber. Placing small piece of cucumber in ants affected area will force them to leave your home.
  




• Spray soap water on the entry points of ants as well as cabinets and other areas. This is another effective home remedy to get rid off ants permanently.
  Tried but failed. Once the soap water dried up, the ants will come back again.
  


• Crush dried mint leaves and spread the powder in areas prone to ant attack. You can even use mint tea bags. This is considered to be one of the effective home remedies to kill ants.
  


• Add borax to sugar solution and dilute it a bit and spray it. This is considered to be highly effective home remedy to get rid of ants. You can even use borax in powder from to kill ants.
  


• Spreading chili powder on the hives and nests of ants is the best way to prevent ants entering your house.
  


• Another best way to check ants entering your house is to spray peppermint oil in all the room corners, kitchen and cabinets.
  


• Table salt is also one of the effective home remedies to get rid of ants. Add salt to boiling water and prepare a salt solution. Now spray this salt solution in all corners of your house.
  Tried but failed. The ants doesn't seems to scare of salt water. they will walk over it.
  


• Placing bay leaves across the tracks of ants is another effective way to get rid off of Ants.
  In the similar way you can spread cinnamon powder on the path followed by ants. This is considered to be effective way to march ants out of your house.

Pasted from <http://homeimprovements.ygoy.com/2009/03/03/home-remedies-to-kill-ants/>

Those i put on the red comments are methods i tried and my feedback... Those who has the same problem as me... go ahead and try the above methods and do drop me a comment to see which methods works.. Good Luck. :)

Lorong Halus Wetland

A Lazy Saturday 9am, hus woke me up and brought us to "a nearby and it's very special" - he claimed... *Yawn*

It's the newly opened new garden in Punggol New Town - Lorong Halus Wetland. A landfilled from trash transformed into an Eco-friendly wetland which provide an educational site and a sanctuary for plants, birds and other wildlife. Under the ABC (Active, Beautiful, Clean) waters programme, PUB recently completed works to create ‘Halus Wetlands’, to help purify run-offs from the landfill. This is opened to the public in early this March.

A pedestrian bridge has also been constructed across Serangoon Reservoir to allow for easy access by the public and residents from the Punggol New Town located on the western bank of the reservoir.

Using an innovative bio-remediation system, PUB designed the Lorong Halus Wetland to collect and treat water passing through the former landfill, preventing it from flowing into Serangoon Reservoir. A rustic trail has been laid out among the reed beds and the ponds, allowing the public to get up close to the wetland system.

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We are all human... Let's forgive and forget..

All human made mistake.. so does the chairman and the organisers of this year's National Day parade (NDP) show.

Last weekend, Singapore had the first National Day Parade 2011 rehearsal.. and the Fun Pack Song was then first heard to the public.. the song -- which is a rip-off of Lady Gaga's "Bad Romance" -- has been roundly criticised for both its lyrics and the fact that organisers failed to obtain rights to modify the lyrics of the Gaga hit. A two-and-a-half-minute video of the song, shot during a recent rehearsal, was uploaded to YouTube and has gone viral with over 47,000 views as of Wednesday morning. I managed to catch it on wednesday afternoon after i read the news on yahoo... I cant stop laughing... cannot believe that's the song going to play in the National Day Parade and becomes one of the singapore song.. goodness me.. Netizens had reacted strongly against the song... In stomp, there was like 90% saying it's shameless and requested the organisers to take it off.

Today Update: The organisers of this year's National Day Parade (NDP) have announced that they are pulling the now-infamous "Fun Pack Song" from their performance lineup for good.

Tingkat Delivery

With last 2 weeks up and down and taking care of Janelle, and also long time never eat pork at home, cos of my helper, we tried not to let her handle so much. Thinking to give our taste bite a change, I'm subcontracting my dinner to the home delivery company. We are currently eating Tingkat Dinner from HillTopKB.

Here's are some of the feedback i gather from the forumn before i decided to go for HillTopKB:

1. Neo Garden - less salt and oil but got little MSG. Some mommies from SM commented their portion, normally the 4th dish are quite pathetic. - $190 for 2 pax for 20 days, max 2 day refund

2. Le Xin - no MSG, less salt and less oil. Vegetable dishes limited and soup taste bland - $195 for 2 pax for 20 days, unlimited days of cancellation

3. Kim's Kitchen - Got MSG. Quite a number of mommies recommended their service. - $170 for 2 pax for 20 days. The food portion is quite good, food is tasty but don't feel thristy after eating.

4. HilltopKB - no MSG, so far didnt see any negative feedback - $200 for 2 pax for 20 days. I'm currently using them. The food portion is quite good, enough for 2+1, taste is ok. Janelle enjoyed it.

Interested party can get more details from their site http://www.hilltopkb.com/delivery.html

Pediasure

After 2 months of goat milk, Janelle starts to reject the milk.. each time she only takes in 10 to 20ml the most... some times, once the bottle is put into her mouth, she immediately push it away. Mummy has no choice but to move back to cow milk. Getting BRT help to increase her intolerence limit towards the cow milk, and slowly moved back to cow milk.

Recalled that my neighbour is giving her girl Pediasure as per doctor recomendation to plump her girl up for a ear surgury. After a year, she is in a good weight now. And also one of Janelle classmate was introduced to Pediasure by doctor, because of his eating habit (many things cannot eat) and he is in a good weight too.

Hence did some read up on the formula:
- "The unique formula of PediaSure provides complete and balanced nutrition. Pediasure helps fill the nutrition gaps that can arise out of a child’s fussy eating behavior."
- "PediaSure is clinically tested by scientists, researchers and doctors to help increase height and weight** and strengthen natural immunity in children.*** These findings have been verified and published in scientific journals that are read by pediatricians around the world."

Nutritionally, a Pediasure can has 237 calories (labeled energy on the can, 7.1 g protein, 11.8 g fat, 26g carbohydrate l-carnitine 4mg, taurine 17mg, packed with many essential vitamins and minerals, and water 200g. Not surprisingly, the top of the main ingredients is water, followed by suger (sucrose), maltodextrin (corn), sodium caseinate, high-oleic safflower oil, soy oil, fractionated coconut oil (medium-chained triglycerides), and whey protein concentrate.

Pediasure is lactose free, which they say makes it easily digested. However, it is not for children with galactosemia - G6PD (lacks the enzyme to convert galactose into glucose; galactose in the bloodstream is like poison).

It's seems should be ok. Thought Janelle is not a fussy eater, but because there are things that she cant eat due to her intolerence, hence I decided to give her Pediasure to fill the nutrition gaps and also to increase weight for this skinny girl.

We are now on 100% Pediasure, but her intake wasnt alot too.. a day she properly takes in about 500 ml but is better than goat milk intake.

Happy Birthday to Me...

Started my day with a call from my manager on escalation issues that's not my supporting countries. (Yes! kanna shit work again) at 8.30am.. jumpped out of my bed and get my day started.

After 30, i had been trying to stay low profile during birthday.. nothing much to celebrate... but this year, i had a very touching birthday... Hus is in town, and he knew that i enjoyed the accompany of my family, hence we brought us back to house 13 for dinner and to celebrate my birthday with them. He arranged with my sis and bro to be back home. He wanted to surprise me, but bonding of our sibling are too good, they had spell it out to me over what'sapp.. haha..

My happiest moments were those seeing janelle smiles and laughed with us. When everyone was surrounded us, singing the birthday song, Janelle was so excitied and she was there clapping her hands and laughing non-stop.. as if is her birthday.. I enjoyed that moment... :

the 4 round face sildings...
me: "mummy, we see our face.. all so round"
mummy: "round face good... i like"
me:



When the 3 generation gets together:




with SJ and sis




w BJ and SJ.. BJ was very sweet, she gave me a red packet, inside is 80cents.. haha




me and my lovely





Many thanks for the wishes that floated my fb walls from relatives, friends and colleagues.






Ended my day with a very sweet surprise from A and her 2 baobei.. Its on my iphone 3.. Let me think of a way to share it here..

Is this a punishment?

Back from bkk with recharged... but the very next day i'm back from bkk, janelle was down with high fever (highest went up to 39.8) and lasted for one whole week with exhausted 90% of my battery. Had been waking up middle of night to check temp, to feed medicial every 4 hourly, rushing to KKH like 3 to 4 times. Finally after given antobiotic and fever got controlled on the 7th day and that's when her daddy retuned home. Is this the punishment i got for going for a break without her??