Getting Drunk on Breastmilk

I always love the look on my baby's face when she's getting 'high or drunk' on breastmilk!

Family Outing to The Mines Shopping Center

The smiles on the faces of my little boy and my parents-in-law are priceless! I am so glad that he has the opportunity to spend some fun time during the school holidays with his grandparents and be spoilt by them.

Having a splashing time at the Splash Park

Dim Sum for lunch

Fun boat ride with grandpa!

Selamat Hari Raya Aidil Fitri!

Wishing all my Muslim friends Selamat Hari Raya Aidil Fitri. Maaf Zahir & Batin. 

Have an amazing and great time during the Raya Holidays catching up with family and loved ones.


For those who are travelling back to their hometown today, drive safely and have an enjoyable journey!

How Do I Know if a Food is Organic?

Before you buy organic products, you need to know whether they are genuinely organic. 

One of the best ways to find out is to look for the organic certification logos and the word "organic" on product labels. 

Here are some guidelines on how to differentiate the labels according to U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) standards.

100% Organic:

The product has been made using pure organic ingredients. The manufacturer has also processed, packed, handled and transported the product in full compliance with the USDA standards for organic agriculture.

Organic:

This product contains at least 95 % organic ingredients (excluding water or salt). It is eligible for the organic label provided the remaining 5% of the ingredients are not commercially available in organic form, and not produced using specifically prohibited methods (i.e. irradiation).

Made with Organic Ingredients:

The product labeled "Made with organic ingredients" must contain between 70% - 95% organic ingredients, excluding water and salt. As many as three of the organic ingredients in the content may be listed on the front of the package

Product with less than 70% organic ingredients:

The label on this product will be allowed to list the organic items in the "ingredients" panel only, and the term "organic" may not be used anywhere else on the package.

One common misconception is that "natural" equals "organic". While "natural" usually indicates foods that have been minimally processed or without added artificial ingredients, it does not address the way that food is grown.

Organic Facts

Here's more organic facts and what other terms mean legally:

Organic fruits and vegetables were grown without synthetic pesticides, synthetic fertilizers or sewage slude and haven't been genetically engineered and irradiated.

Organic beef and chicken come from animals that weren't the offspring of cloned animals. They were raised on 100% organic feed, were never given growth hormones, antibiotics or other drugs and their meat was never irradiated.

Organic milk comes from animals that, for at least the past 12 months, were fed 100% organic feed and weren't given antibiotics or growth homones like rBST. This organic fact alone gets me to drink organic milk.

Organic eggs come from hens that were fed 100% organic feed and were never given growth hormones or antibiotics.

Organic seafood doesn't mean a thing, since USDA hasn't defined the term.

Cage-free eggs come from hens that were not confined to cages and that may or may not have had access to the outdoors. They're not necessarily organic.

Free range or free roaming poultry have access to the outdoors, but for no minimum time. They're not necessarily organic. Cage-free poultry doesn't mean anything, since most chickens grown for meat are kept indoors (but cage-free) until they're transported to slaughter.

No hormones administered can appear on beef labels if the producer can document that the animals were raised without hormones.

Hormone-free is an illegal claim, since all animals produce their own hormones.

No antibiotics added can appear on a label if the producer can document that the animals were raised without antibiotics.

Natural (or All Natural) meat or poultry products contain "no artificial ingredients and are no more than minimally processed." They're not necessarily organic, though some supermarkets try to make them appear to be.

Source: www.live-the-organic-life.com

Useful Tools to Update Your Facebook Status

Today, I received a message from a friend asking me to show her how to update her Facebook status via Twitter.

Well, these are some of the useful and free tools I use to update my Facebook status and other social networking sites:

1. From Twitter to Facebook:
Use Twitter apps: http://apps.facebook.com/twitter/

2. From your Blog or RSS Feeds to Twitter and Facebook
Use Twitterfeed: http://twitterfeed.com/

3. Schedule your tweets in advance:
1st: Plan and prepare what you want to tweet over a duration of time
2nd: Use SocialOomph: http://www.socialoomph.com/

If you find this article useful, feel free to share it with your friends!

Warm regards,

Sany Woo

Families Enjoy Time Spent In Making Tang Yuan

TheStar Online (December 22, 2010)

IT IS a merry family affair whenever Lau Kwai Fong makes glutinuous rice balls (tang yuan) for the Winter Solstice festival.

Her daughters-in-law and grandchildren will gather at her home in Petaling Jaya to knead, roll and boil the tang yuan before bowls of the marble-sized balls are offered at the altar for prayers.

Lau, 80, has been making the glutinous rice balls from the time she got married.

Closely-knit: Samantha (second from left) feeding her grandmother Lau with the tang yuan while Lau’s other grandchildren Nicholas (left), Nigel (third from left) and Benjamin look on.

 

She insists that the tang yuan must be hand- made, which she does lovingly for the family.

Do You Quit Before You Even Get Started?

Watch this video and know that if you give your best in whatever you are doing... the sky's the limit.

Making A Difference With Pink

By Eena Houzyama

OCTOBER is the month that women in Malaysia should pay utmost attention to because it is a time when everyone around the world pause and take notice of breast cancer.

Not only shall we remember those who have suffered from the disease but Pink October is the month to further create aware­ness regarding all issues relating to breast cancer.

According to a report released by National Cancer Registry (NCR) recently, nearly 70,000 new cases are reported in a period of two years which showed how breast cancer continues to remain the biggest threat to women today.

In hope to shed more light onto this illness, as well as to collect funds to be chan­nelled to the breast cancer cause, Bill Keith, Malaysia's top designer with the support of Great Eastern Life Assurance (M) Berhad have designed 3,000 exclusive recycling bags as part of the Gleneagles Hos­pital Kuala Lumpur's Pink October fund-raising campaign.

Although these bags are designer bags, they are sold at only RM25 each as the campaign aims to raise RM75,000 which will be chan­nelled to the Breast Cancer Welfare Association Malay­sia (BCWA).