So we have Fried Rice as our One Dish Meal on Monday.

On Tuesday, we have the one dish Yee Mee Noodle Soup.

One Wednesday, it is Sandwiches.

On Thursday I cook our one pot Chicken Rice. It is very easy to cook. I will share my secret lazy cook’s Chicken Rice soon.

On Friday, we have Pasta.

The kitchen is close for the weekend, soon its Monday again and we have porridge. We can have fish porridge, meat porridge or any kind of porridge. Our favorite is salmon porridge.

On Tuesday, we have Pan Mee Dry Noodle with meat balls.

On Wednesday, we have spaghetti.

On Thursday we have dry wantan mee noodles with minced beef.

On Friday we have Yam Rice.

Soon its Monday again and we have Fried Yellow Noodles with Fish Cake.

And the list goes on. We have all sorts and manners of one dish meals or one pot meals in the form of rice, porridge, noodles dry or soupy, mee hoon, vermicelli,mee etc etc. So many combinations. We can have a different one dish meal each day for a month but usually we stick to a few staple favourites.

The best part is, the kids still get to eat home cooked meals and my job as a SAHM is made easier.

The next method is to set up termite baits. This is considered a more passive approach. After setting up the termite bait, you wait for the termites to take the bait back to the queen and in that manner you will get to kill the queen and therefore the whole colony. However, this will take a lot of time and monitoring by the pest control company.

So, we decided to set up our own termite baiting system. Hopefully the termite takes the bait. A diy termite baiting system can easily be bought online at a fraction of the cost but what is more important to us is, it is less intrusive. We hate the thought of the number of appointments and visits we would have to deal with to monitor the termite baits if we used professional help.

Of course we are no experts, so it may not work. Here are the steps on how we set up our own diy termite baits.

1. We found termite tracks!

2. We bought our own DIY termite baits online. It arrived the next day.

3. Here’s how the termite bait looks like from inside the cardboard box. You are supposed to add about 5ml of water. I used the kid’s medicine cup to measure the water.

4. The box comes with self adhesive tapes. Here is one which we stuck on the inside of my kitchen cabinet. 

5. Here is the termite baiting box we set up on the ceiling. We added extra tape to make sure it does not fall off.

6. After a few days, termite tracks can be seen outside the termite baiting box. I hope that means the termites are taking the bait.

7. We added another box to give more bait to the termites.

We are supposed to check on the baits after 3 weeks. I really hope it works. I checked the one in the kitchen cabinet after a week and it is empty of termites. That means the termites are not taking the bait there. This is probably because I had sprayed so much termite poison in there previously. It managed to kill the termites there but they merely moved on to another part of my house. I hope the termite bait will kill off the colony this time. I can’t wait to check on the baits.

This was what I received. A Maggi Magic Meal Pack. A meal that cooks in a bag within the rice cooker. I must say, I feel funny cooking that way, by putting a whole plastic bag of chicken into my rice cooker and allowing it to cook together with my rice.

Let’s open up the Magic Meals packet and have a look at what’s inside. I got the Maggi Magic Meal Fragrant Soy Sauce Chicken Variant. This type of cooking in a bag by Maggi is supposed to be the first in Malaysia.

There are two packets inside. The plastic bag and the sauce ingredients. At first I thought the plastic bag was the bigger bag so when I tore it rather carelessly, some of the powder fell out. The plastic bag is actually the smaller pack. It comes with a lock to seal up the bag. I made a mistake at first and sealed it up with that little red tape you see that seals up the folded plastic bag!

Here are my ingredients or what I am supposed to put in my Maggi Magic Meal. They are chicken cut into bite sized pieces and big red onions. That is it. I do not have to add oil, nor do I have to season the chicken with salt or anything else.

The chicken goes into the bag with the sauce powder and some water and right into the rice cooker where  you cook your rice as you usually do. You massage the bag a little bit to mix the chicken with the sauce a little bit before placing it in the rice cooker.

I am supposed to cook the chicken for 45 minutes. I also received this little Maggi Magic Meals Timer from my friend. (no, not the sponsors) This post is not sponsored. My rice usually cooks in 20-25 minutes so I am supposed to leave the chicken in there in “keep warm” position till at least 45 minutes to ensure the chicken is fully cooked.

Forty Five minutes later, my rice and my Maggi Magic Meal chicken is cooked.

I cut the plastic and pour the chicken onto a plate to serve.

I served my Maggi Magic Meal Chicken with an omelette and plain fried celery with garlic. That makes a complete meal.

At the back of the packet, I learned that there are other Maggi Magic Meals variants. They are aromatic Chicken Curry and Savoury Tomato Chicken.

According to the packet the plastic bag is safe to cook in. No matter how safe, I still feel strange cooking in a plastic bag. Cooking was extremely convenient, no oils, no spills, no cleaning up, no extra plates and cooking ware to wash up afterwards. The taste was also good and I didn’t have the thirsty aftertaste that usually comes with too much MSG in convenient meals.

I suppose this would be useful for busy mothers, novice cooks, students etc.

I might still be tempted to try the other variants because of the convenience and time saving factors but still, cooking in a plastic bag!…… I don’t know….. What about you?

I like the rain but the problem is I think the termites that share my house likes it too! Oh well, I hope the termite bait that I have set up will work. I have taken some pictures of how we put up our own DIY termite bait but just haven’t got the time to post it up yet.

With the rain also comes leaks. The roof leaks seem to be always on the move. Sometimes it moves to the front of the house, sometimes the back etc. Sigh. Roof leaks is one of the worse problems to resolve next to termites.

Then there are the telephone wires. When the rain hits my wires, it gets them wet somehow and then my phone starts to beep non-stop.

Termites, Roof Leaks and Phone Beeps. I have enough work to do around the house. I certainly don’t need you.

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I can clean the toilet in 10 minutes. Sometimes while cleaning the toilet I can do other things at the same time, like mop the floor for example or have a bath. I can also clean several toilets all at the same time, running from one to the other. That is multitasking. I don’t need to attend a course to teach me how to multitask. In fact, I can run a course on how to multitask.

I’m bored stiff with housework. It kills my creativity. It kills my desire to write. It stresses me up a lot. I no longer wake up feeling excited about the day and what I am going to write that day. Instead, I feel dreadful thinking about all the housework I have to do.

I feel bored and dreadful now.

I’ve been feeling irritable lately, snapping at everything and everyone. Its all that housework you see. When you are faced with nothing to look forward to each day accept housework, which won’t go away on its own, you get kind of grumpy and naggy.  A naturally grumpy person, I’m worse now.

I wonder how such a sour faced person can have such a sweet, loving and always smiling boy. He turned 9 yesterday. Poor boy. He had to wait all day for his birthday “party” to start because mommy and daddy were busy “helping” his sister with her homework and school project but he didn’t complain.

Happy Birthday, son. May you continue to be the happy, bright and cheerful person that you are. I will always love you.

It is no secret that taking your beloved vehicle to a repair shop is going to cost an arm and a leg. With jacked up product prices to the ridiculous labor fees. Knowing where to find discounted rates or coupons for these expensive auto parts can take your equation from complicated to simple in a matter of moments. In times like these saving money and getting back on the road will be what you need to feel secure again.

Finding online deals can be super easy. Finding codes for online stores for the products you may need in the future is a good step. If you find yourself in an emergency situation, it is a good idea to take a step back from the panic before making a decision that could cause more harm than good. Chances are your car is not going to be in and out in an hour, take that time to put whatever knowledge you have to use.

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When it comes to car troubles, it is normal to want to get it to a shop and get it in and out in hurry. However, by taking this route you are essentially causing more harm than good by not getting your money’s worth. Not to mention, the possibility you face that they may not be able to fix your wheels right away to begin with. It often takes days before a mechanic will even look at it.

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I used to transfer photos from my phone to pc by emailing them to my gmail and then dragging the photos to my desktop. I thought that was easy. Now, with bump, all I have to do is select the photos, open up the BUMP page on my browser, select the photos I want and bump my phone to my spacebar and tadaa! like magic, my photos appear on the browser which I then drag onto my desktop. Whoa! I love it!

Ok, let’s have a go. Here is How To Bump Your Photos From Your Phone To Your Computer.

First, I have to open up the BUMP page on my browser. Then I select the photo or file from my phone and bump my phone on the spacebar. The photo appears on my browser, I drag it on my desktop and then I drag it here. Fantastic! I did have some issues though. The application stopped working momentarily but I’m not giving up on it because it is so easy to use and its free.

Can you guess where the picture is from? It is the Pavillion Shopping Complex ladies restroom in Parkson.

You can download BUMP for your Android from Google Play Store or download BUMP for your iPhone, iPod or iPad from the itunes App Store.

I haven’t tried it on my iPad yet. At the moment I am using Simple Photo & Video Transfer free version to transfer my photos from iPad to Computer.  There’s also the more popular Photo Transfer App but I’m not using that because it is not free. The free version of the other photo transfer app is good enough for me because I can transfer 50 photos at a time in zip format. That is sufficient for my needs.

Here is how to repair your own parquet flooring. I’ll just share what we did here.

Step 1: Clean the area before affixing the parquet. I had to dig up all the damaged parquet with the little termites in them. Yuck! This took me a day or two.

Step 2: You will need to purchase the parquet tiles and an adhesive. We also needed the skirting as that was damaged too!

 Step 3: The Parquet Tiles comes in different sizes. Remember to measure the parquet in your room and buy the right sized parquet tiles. Initially, I bought the wrong sized ones. You will need sandpaper too for sanding the tiles for a smooth finish once you have finished glueing them

Step 4: The tiles are stuck onto a paper so you will first have to remove the paper at the back of the tiles.

Step 5: Get a strong, thick adhesive to stick your parquet tiles onto the floor.

Step 6: Glue the tiles on one at a time. It is rather like fixing a jigsaw puzzle

Step 7: Nearly done now. If you have just one or two tiles to repair, then it is very much easier, all you need is to get an adhesive and glue the tile back yourself. We do it all the time for loose parquet tiles.

Step 8: All done but hey, the tiles look different in color!

Step 9: You will need a paint and a soft parquet brush or a sponge which I prefer, to paint the parquet to the original darker wood color that you want

Step 10: Use sandpaper to sand the parquet tiles to a smooth finish, clean up and then paint the tiles to with a wood paint to the color you want. Remember to paint evenly. We had uneven patches because we got the wrong color paint! To match the rest, we had to paint one light coating of paint over the old parquet as well. We painted a thicker coat over the new parquet tiles but not satisfied with the one coating in some areas, we painted two coatings and ended up with uneven dark patches. We had to paint the skirting too.

Step 11: Finally, give your painted parquet floor a varnish using shellac as an overcoat. We have done a recoat with shellac on our other parquet floors which had scratches before but this is the most major parquet DIY fixing, replacing and repair we have done. If you skip this part, your floor will feel a bit rough.

The parquet DIY repair job took us two days. (not including the two days we spent digging the old ones out). It was a two man job. Me and my husband.

I dugged out most of the old parquet tiles myself and painted the whole parquet floor all by myself as the man was at work. We worked on fixing the tiles together.