It’s almost the end of February already. The up side of it is that Summer is coming to an end, yay! No more unbearable and unbelievably hot days. The down side of it is of course, it simply means time flies … soon it will be Easter, then the mid year financial year end sale [...]

To all those who still have the priviledge of having the vendor grate fresh coconut meat for you, well count your blessings. For those of us who have left our home countries, we have to DIY when it comes to getting freshly grated coconut, otherwise we’d have to settle for frozen grated coconut (I’ll cover [...]

Bills, bills, bills! There are 3 bills sitting on my folder waiting to be paid before their due dates. The thing I dread getting in the mail is bills for home and car insurance. Yikes, they cost a bomb but could not be avoided. And to think that many households now owns at least 3 [...]

Let’s go for some free family fun at The Ponds, on Sunday, March 14 between 2.30pm to 5.30pm. Watch Dorothy the Dinosaur, Wags, Captin Feathersword and host Fairy Clare live!   According to The Ponds website: “In addition to the Land Boat Races, this year’s Family Fun Day will include a 30 minute show Dorothy [...]

It won’t be too long before I hit retirement age and yes I must admit, time and again, I did get curious about all the eye wrinkle treatment beauty products in the market.   I am not using any at the moment (not that I don’t need it but this Aunty is too stingy to [...]

Can anyone defy ageing? Certainly not. Well I mean yeah in terms of looks like how celebrities make use of plastic surgery, botox and such to look youthful.   But when it comes to health, I doubt there is anything that could make your body in tip top condition like when you were 10 or [...]

Yeah I wish I could say that but it’s not me.  I often like to read about how families manage to pay off their mortgages within a targeted time frame. The most recent article I read was of a family who paid off a AU$165k mortgage within 4 years. That’s a very good achievement!   [...]

Sometimes both DH and I had to get out of bed several times at any hour between 2.00am to 3.30am. Our DD no longer sleep through the night on a daily basis. She has to get up and make one of us take her to the bathroom eventhough the bathroom is just next to her [...]

Goodness me, when will I stop bingeing everyday? Everytime I tell myself that I must lose weight before I even think of visiting my parents overseas but at the rate I am going, it (the weight loss) is never going to happen. I know myself too well, no diet aids would be able to help [...]

We visited some top of the range display homes at Bella Vista out of curiosity  There weren’t many, maybe about a dozen.  We didn’t go into all of them as the weather wasn’t really for a leisure walk.  Except of course when you are in a display home where the air cond is strong enough.  Some [...]

One of the scariest thing about the face is having acne. Unfortunately I make up the statistics of those who developed this horrible unwanted blemishes caused by acne.   We all know how difficult or if it’s even possible to remove acne scars completely. I am sure many would have Googled for answers. The quest [...]

Wow it has been a very long time since I meddled with the layout of this blog. I decided to get rid of the green background and the rather feminine header. This has started out as just a personal blog but over time, I noticed that visitors who landed here via search engines mostly searched [...]

Those who know me would know that I frequent display homes as if I have plans to buy another one. That is not the case at all. We just like looking at new homes for its furnishings, home designs, kitchens, flooring, etc and simply because most major display home villages are located close to our [...]

CNY is just around the corner and usually I do not bother baking cookies since me and DH are not big fans of cookies or biscuits. However, me and some friends will be having a get together after CNY and we thought it would be nice if each of us bring something homemade. My contribution [...]