All About Your Child

Sandra tagged me on this. Thank you.
We took this while ridding on the Giantic Giraffe kiddy ride at IMM shopping centre. So long as your kid (s) are below 7 years old, he (they) must ride with an adult.

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I would love to see the photo of these mommies with their kid (s):
LZmommy
Sting
Ann
Jarrett’s Mommy
Dominique

Saturday, Keatkeat did something that could have cost his life.

Sunday, he gave me a bloody wake-up call and he did it again yesterday.

It’s horrible to wake up in this way, as if you were electrocuted, totally unwarned….

So today I decided to give myself a good start, since Keatkeat is back to normal self, by eating my MIL self-made yummy glutinous rice dumplings, we call Zong-Zi in Chinese. These were prepared for the celebration of the Dragon Boat Festival on 5th May in the Lunar Calendar, which was last Sunday, 8th June on the globally recognised English Calendar.

Though a Chinese origin myself, I am still confused over how the Lunar Calendar is works. How could it be June on my desktop calendar and yet it is in the month of May in the Chinese Lunar Calendar….Hummmm….So please spare me on any explanation on this, ok?

For my non-Chinese friends who are interested in knowing the story behind this tradition can go read this short story.

 These are the usual all-time-favourites.

The black and white. The fillings in the glutinous rice varies. It could be meat only or it could be meat with some nuts. It all depends on the cook herself.

My MIL prefer to add different types of nuts with small chunks of pork.

When I was still under the care of my auntie, before my parents brought me home for good, I remember eating a super duper nice dumpling. The fillings were filled with sweet, very sweet, tasty black-coloured meat.

Till now, I still doesn’t know the name of that particular Zong-Zi, I missed it very much. Any of you out there knows the name? 

 While I’m still in search of that delicious Zong-Zi, my current favourite is this – Gan-shui-zong (Cantonese Language).

My kids are as crazy over them as I am now. Maybe because it’s baby sized or maybe because it’s eaten with sugar because there isn’t any fillings in them. Just the plain sticky glutinous rice itself.

If you have a big mouth like mine, all you need is just 2 bites and its gone. Though I have this privilege, I prefer to cut them into tiny bite size, cover it completely with snowy-white sugar and savour it slowly.

My MIL doesn’t like that, she thinks it will cause diabetes, so she will try to fill it up withred beans before she wrapped it with pandan leaves and tie them up with strings.

This year, she gave me 25 plain-baby dumplings, 5 red bean-baby dumplings, 10 black dumplings and 5 white dumplings. On top of all that, Allan’s client gave him 8 spicy dumplings for doing a great job in selling her house. So total 53 dumplings.

Some of you may wonder, how do we differentiate the dumplings when all of them looks the same on the outside? My MIL tie each flavour with different coloured strings! So now we’ve got lots to eat. I’m gonna be nice, this is for you! Enjoy my MIL’s hardwork, ok? Hope you like it.