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I have been cutting down on doing product reviews towards the last quarter of year 2016 to prepare for our coming 4th kiddo who was born in early November 2016 and I am currently only prioritizing reviewing products that can fit into our family dynamics (especially books on parenting or homeschooling stuff, family products, something along those genre)

However, as busy as I am with 4 kiddos, home cooking, taking care of hubby's administration site of the business and swamped up with managing my FB page and blog, I just can't say no to reviewing good books! Reading is my passion and coupled with books that are of parenting, children, family or religion or educational genre, all the more I gotta say yes! 

Title: Lucie Goose
Author: Danny Baker,‎ Pippa Curnick (Illustrator)
Publisher: Hodder Children's Books; 01 edition (October 5, 2017)
ISBN: 1444937391
Paperback: 18 pages

Description from the product page:

"Lucie Goose lives all alone in a house at the edge of the woods. She has never met or spoken to another animal of any sort until... a wolf, bear and lion turn up on her doorstep and go Rraaaarrrrrr! She should start screaming. She should run away. But Lucie Goose isn't very good at being scared. What will she do?" 

We received the "Lucie Goose" book which I had intended for our 4.5-year-old girl to read. She is an emerging reader at this point, still need to be read to and can understand simple words. So far, she has been regularly insisting I read this book to her before she takes her afternoon naps. I read to her from front to end and we enjoy the storyline.

This is a funny and entertaining book about making friends and how all things work out well in the end. I like that Lucie Goose is not afraid of the things unseen / unknown and I reminded our girl that just because we have never seen or know something does not mean we have to fear it. I also taught our girl to be friendly like Lucie Goose and to always be polite and maintain good manners.

Overall, this is a really nice book to own.

A funny and quirky book about friendships and having good manners!

I totally recommend this book!

The book is available at all major bookstores in Malaysia.

I received no monetary compensation for this review, I was provided with a copy of the book in order to facilitate my review. All opinions expressed in this post are my own. Please do your own research when purchasing products, as your opinions may differ from mine. And if you'd like to read my previous book reviews, you can do so by reading this post of mine called "My Book Reviews"

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I have been sharing some of my favorite angpow pieces on an angpow collectors group in Facebook and some members have been telling me to continue sharing my memorable stories and so I thought, why not write it down, that way, our kiddos can read about it when they grow up next time, eh?

For those of you who are not familiar or never heard of the words 'Angpow' (also known as 'ang pau', 'ang pao', 'angpau'), here is a quick definition:

Angpow = Red Packet (filled with cash inside) given during festivals

So for today's angpow story, it comes from this piece of lovely angpow:

Take a good look at the yummylicious looking nasi lemak at the bottom right of the angpow. NASI LEMAK.

I remembered even at young age, I fell in love with nasi lemak. Just love love love nasi lemak. When I was young (before 12 yrs old), my late mum will tapau (it means take-away in Cantonese) nasi lemak for my breakfast and I will patiently pour out the rice onto a big plate, flattened the rice with either my palm or the back of the spoon and then slowly cut the boiled eggs into small cubes and decorated the boiled eggs, kacang (ground nuts) and ikan bilis on the rice. (Sorry I don't eat vegetables back then so cucumber got chucked away ooopss..). Once done, my plate of nasi lemak looks like a gorgeous cake... which I lovingly 'cut' into slices and devoured slowly, 'slice by slice'... such a memorable experience...

The best nasi lemak I have ever tasted in my life is the Indian lady stall right at the motorcycle parking in my old government flat last time. Have shifted out from there for 11 years, I don't know whether she is still alive or around or not. Her nasi lemak will always remain at number 1 in my nasi lemak top chart. Unbeatable.

Number 2 would be the pakcik selling the nasi lemak in between the alleys at Jalan Bukit Bintang before HSBC building. The last I recalled, there are some Arabs restaurants in that area and it changed so much I can't recall much.

Number 3 would be the nasi lemak from Village Park restaurant in Damansara Uptown. For those of you who think their nasi lemak is the best, nah.. it is number 3 in my list.

For those of you who want to read the story about the coffee cup in this pic, I mentioned about a childhood memory on it too. You can read it on my angpow - kopitiam post.

Anyway, thank you for reading my story today and I hope that my nasi lemak story will brings back happy memories to you too!

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As a busy mum with 4 kiddos between 9.5 months old to 8.5 years old, I have started cutting down on doing product reviews to focus on our childcare and family life, home cooking, helping with hubby's administration site of the business and sharing informational articles on my FB fan page so I am only accepting and prioritizing products that can fit into our family dynamics (especially books on parenting or educational stuff, family products, something along those genre)! Today's post is my review on Kids United Asia range of childrens apparels.

About the company/products:

"Kids United Asia is an authentic and licensed shopping platform, carrying apparels' brands such as Disney (Malaysia), Starwars Kids, Marvel Kawaii kids, Marvel Avenger kids, Marvel Amazing Spiderman Kids, Paul Frank Kids (Malaysia), Upin-Ipin, etc"

We received 5 children apparels from Kids United Asia of which I am featuring 4 here for now (haven't got chance to try out the 5th one which has this cool UV feature!!!), the age range I selected via their website is from 2 years old (meant for our 9.5 months old boy) to our 8.5-year-old boy.

When I received the clothes, as a parent of course I do a quick check on the quality and material of the apparels. The clothes material is thick and good quality! I am also extremely pleased with the Paul Frank Kids range of clothes (which I got for our 3 younger kiddos below age 6) as there's no label at the back of the neck area. I find labels in that position really irritates the neck, not just kiddos, even myself, I will cut off the labels! You can easily see the labels being positioned on the right hand side of the sleeve, which is pretty unique and cool in my opinion.

To be honest, I also did a scratch test and a stretching test on our girls' clothes - which were the Paul Frank Kids range. I scratched the glitter and the printing on the front as well as pulling and stretching the clothes to see whether any of the glitters and printing flakes off. Nope! Impressed!

But that wasn't the only tests I did. I told the sponsor that I need time to do more test by washing the clothes first in our washing machine. After washing and drying, the clothes were as good as when I got them. Passed!!!

I did these tests as I've personally had the experience of seeing a very nice Captain America shirt I bought for our oldest kiddo (original and from another store of course) shrunk and the sticker printing in front got stuck together after a round of washing in the washing machine. I was so upset with this as I paid good money for the shirt to see it being ruined like that! Humphfhhfffmmmm!!! Since then I was extra wary and cautious of anything claimed to be original and good quality stuff unless I've done all these tests and did a few rounds of washings in the washing machine!

Below are some pictures taken of our kiddos examining and wearing their clothes.

Our girls' (age 4 and 6) Paul Frank Kids clothes are adorable as well. Nothing to princessy which is what I'm trying to minimise in their clothing nowadays and they totally love their new clothes! (they asked to wear it EVERYDAY!!!)

Picture below is our 9.5 months old boy wearing his Paul Frank Kids clothes (meant for 2-year-old size) touching his daddy's Paul Frank T-shirt hahaha.... To me, our boy's shirt is just slightly big, which is totally fine by me as I prefer our kiddos to grow along with their clothes, more years to use the clothes :)

To sum up this review, I totally love and enjoyed this awesome, eye-catching and quality apparels for our kiddos!

As for those of you reading this, go get them for your kiddos!

Get them as birthday presents, Christmas presents, whatever, just go get it!

 Thank you Kids United Asia for giving us the opportunity to try out your apparels!

For more info, check out their website at https://www.kidsunited.asia/ or

Their FB fanpage at https://www.facebook.com/kidsunited.asia/

Do note that I received no monetary compensation for this review, I was provided with the products in order to facilitate my review. All opinions expressed in this post are my own. Please do your own research when purchasing products, as your opinions may differ from mine.

** Note: I have disabled the commenting feature on my blog engine thanks to all the spammers who happily spam my blog every day. If you wish to ask me any questions, you can find me at my Facebook page (I'm there almost every day) or just drop me an email if you wish to maintain some anonymity.