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We recently had a brief picnic outing at Bukit Kiara Park TTDI. Hubby made egg crabstick mayo sandwiches and spicy prawn aglio olio and we invited our sis in law and her teenage daughter along as well. I think we arrived at the park around 6-ish, weather is nice though we actually heard thunder roaring at a distance but thank God, no rain until late at night.

As we were walking in deeper to search for a nice sheltered area (or at least near a shelter area in case it suddenly rains), we saw a big monitor lizard. It stopped for a few seconds, us too, frozen and scared that it might lunged towards us. But luckily it went on its journey and we actually saw the monitor lizard going into the lake and it swam for a wee bit. We lost sight of it as we were busy looking for picnic spots hahaha...

Once we found a nice shaded area, which is just a few feet away from a shelter spot, we spread out our picnic mat, took out the food and drinks, sprayed on the mosquito repellents on everybody and rested. SIL and her daughter brought our 3 kiddos to a playground nearby and after that she got some bubble gadgets for our kids to play with. 

All in all, it was a very nice outing with the kiddos and extended family members. Nice weather, nice scenery, nice people to hang out with :D

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Last year, I wrote about a look back into my home-cooked journey so far. Then shortly before the end of 2014, I wrote a post on my preparation when cooking. Then I thought, "Why not snap a picture of before start cooking and the final results after cooking?"

So, here you go..

Top part of the picture is the ingredients all ready to be cooked on 2nd March 2015. From left (ingredients): Pork slices marinated in sweet soy sauce, Worchestershire sauce, sugar, salt and pepper, onion sliced thinly, 3 cloves of garlic sliced thinly, chicken slices marinated in sweet soy sauce, sugar and baking soda (to tenderise it), mushroom sliced thinly (pre-braised earlier), spinach, a cup of tomato + sugar + water, a cup of water + salt pepper + anchovy base sauce

My dinner dishes for that day? Click on the dish name to check out my recipe.

• Pan-fry chicken slices with mushroom.

• Spinach in anchovy sauce.

• Pan-fry pork chops in sweet sour sauce with onions.
  

In case you are interested to view my other recipes, feel free to hop over to my Recipe Library page for more info!

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I like to bring our kiddos to the playground whenever situations and weather permits. One morning after dropping off our olderst kiddo at kindy, I brought our girls to the playground and it rained a wee bit earlier in the morning so the place was just nice and cooling and the playground equipments are dry enough to be played with.

Our girls stomped around and at one point, our 2nd kiddo called out for me and pointed at her discovery. It was a snail! A really tiny one, about 1/3 inch in size probably. I'm giddy with snails but this is a small one and I do have to slowly get rid of my paranoia now that I have kids, so I gently explained to our girls what it is and used a small stick to gently prod on the snail, explaining the parts of the snails. The tentacles, the shell and its body.

Now why this falls into the 'Teaching & Learning Moments!'?

* I get to teach our girls about snail and its' body parts.

* I get to teach our girls to be gentle with other creatures.

* I get to slowly overcome my paranoia with snails.

Win-win!

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