I'm a full-time mummy

I have previously reviewed "The Magnificent Travelling Palace", so when the same developer asked whether I would be interested to review his latest app, I thought 'Why not?' Without further ado, here goes my feedback...

* Title: iMix
* Price: $1.99
* Category: Games
* Released: Jan 11, 2013
* Version: 1.0
* Size: 62.2 MB
* Language: English
* Seller: Shoham Drori 
* Rated: 4+
* Requirements: Compatible with iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPhone 5, iPod touch (3rd generation), iPod touch (4th generation), iPod touch (5th generation) and iPad. Requires iOS 4.3 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.

Description from the product page:

"iMix- is a creative game that improves children's reading, writing and pronouncing skills in an imaginative playful and amusing manner. By mixing and matching parts of different characters and the syllables attached to them, children can create over 2000 new comic characters with funny new names. Touching each syllable will pronounce it, while the large speaker icon pronounces the full name of each character.

* This is a cute and fun game app where it allows you to slide 3 parts: head, body and feet and as you slide each part and tap on the word corresponding with the part, you get to experiment with new words and new creatures!

* There's just so many possibilities to learn new words and see the funny creatures that you made out of the creative words you slide.

* I would prefer if the corresponding part is also pronounced out when I tap directly on the image section as well as currently, it is only pronounced when you tap on the left letters side.

You can purchase the "iMix " app from the iTunes App Store.

I received no monetary compensation for this review, I was provided with the promo code to redeem the application for free from iTunes Store 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 iPad Apps reviews, you can do so by reading this post of mine called "My iPad App Reviews"

I had earlier confessed that one of my 2013 resolutions (I rarely made them in my life so when I made it for this year, I'm trying to stick by it!) is to learn to cook for the family. For this post, I am sharing my first ever pork dish, recommended by hubby for me to try out.

Please note that I have no idea where my hubby got the list of ingredients from and the amount of sauces for marinade are also not given to me as well, so I practically blind guess the amount :P

Ingredients:

1. Pork ribs (I use about 250g)
2. Plum sauce (I use about 1.5 tbsp)
3. A small shallot (chopped until small pieces)
4. Soy sauce
5. Caramel sauce
6. Sugar
7. Sesame oil
8. Tomato sauce
9. Oyster sauce
10. Corn flour (I used about 1.5 tbsp)
(*Note: Item 4 to 9 about 1 tbsp each)

Methods:
* Blanch pork ribs in boiling water for 10 seconds. Mix item 2 to 10 together.
* Marinade pork ribs with the mixed item 2 to 10 for about 1 hour.
* Place pork ribs onto a metal plate, pour some marinade sauce on top of pork ribs.
* Wrapped metal plate with aluminium tin foil.
* Steam for about 45-60 minutes.

Outcome:

Hubby likes the dish and my almost 4 years old boy said he loved it! Oh boy, makes me float when I hear an innocent child proclaiming that hahahah! I personally feel the pork should be more tender but since hubby and my kiddos are OK with it, oh well, dish is a success!

To view my other recipes, feel free to hop over to my Recipe Library page for more info!

I have always been careful with what comes out of my mouth. I am a naive person and sometimes speak out what went on exactly on my mind. Long ago, being honest like this got me into troubles as I am not being 'political' enough and because of this, I have slowly learned to guard what I want to say before I say it out. Which, most of the times nowadays, I rather just keep quiet and let it slide.

However, it happened again quite recently where I just shared what I feel on my mind and was then blasted for not having good 'taste' to appreciate some sense of style and I was also blasted with other things which in my opinion is hurtful.

Okay... my bad... I hope this will be my final lesson learned that I really should not bother to share my honest opinion. I mean, being honest sometimes is not good because there are people who really don't appreciate it and already set their mind that they have good taste and choice and that you don't know any better and that you should just keep your mouth shut.

Point taken. I'm writing this post as a reminder to myself.

Proverbs 21:23 (NIV), Ephesians 4:29 (NIV), Proverbs 12:18 (NIV)

Also with this lesson, I think I should stay away from people like this who thinks highly of themselves. A good friend is one who appreciates and takes criticism with good strides, not blasting back at you with hurtful remarks and putting themselves up higher. So, yeah, I don't think people like this deserve to be in my range of friends.

Do you ever have to deal with situations or people like this?