JJ's everyday life

Las vegas and New york trip plan

2007-10-09T17:05:00.000-04:00

after 2 weeks of search and compare , I finally made up the perfect trip plan for this holiday.
Best of the Best.

702.448.4352 vegas artsy nanny !
Around the Clock Child Care (tel. 800/798-6768 or 702/365-1040)
four sesaons Babysitting Service (tel. 702/456-1175)
Grandma Dottie’s Babysitting (tel. 702/456-1175)!!!

Vegas Trip
friday 9:05am depart
sunday 10:10pm depart

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21st friday

lunch

Carnival World Buffet Buffet
Quick Bites
Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino
3700 W. Flamingo Rd.
Las Vegas, NV 89103
702-252-7777

Dinner:
Spice Market Buffet
Quick Bites
Planet Hollywood Hotel and Casino, a Sheraton Hotel
3667 Las Vegas Blvd. S.
Las Vegas, NV 89109
702-785-9005

V 7:30 diar baby sit from 9:30 - 1:30
Planet hollwood

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morning red rock canian

22nd Sat
lunch Wynn buffet
Wynn Las Vegas
3131 Las Vegas Blvd. S.
Las Vegas, NV 89109

3:30
Gregory Popovich's Comedy Pet Theater
V Theater
Planet Hollywood
3667 S. Las Vegas Blvd.
Las Vegas, NV 89109

Dinner at plannet hollywood rainforest cafee

le reve 10:30 - sat
wynn
Address: 3131 Las Vegas Blvd. South
City: Las Vegas
Area: Strip
Phone: 702/770-7000
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23rd sunday

brunch bally's $65 reserve
Address: 3645 Las Vegas Blvd. S.
City: Las Vegas
Area: Strip
Phone: 702/967-4111

OR

Bellagio Buffet
3600 Las Vegas Blvd. S.
Las Vegas, NV 89109
702-693-8111

MGM Grand Lion Habitat
3799 S. Las Vegas Blvd.
Las Vegas, NV 89109
(702) 891-1111
(800) 646-7787

david cooperfield 7:30pm
MGM Grand
3799 S. Las Vegas Blvd.
Las Vegas, NV 89109

- sun
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24th monday
Lunch

Cravings, The Ultimate Buffet Dining Experience Buffet
Quick Bites
The Mirage
3400 S. Las Vegas Blvd.
Las Vegas, NV 89109
702-791-7111, 800-347-9000

Secret Garden and Dolphin Habitat at the Mirage
3400 S. Las Vegas Blvd.
Las Vegas, NV 89109
(702) 791-7188
(800) 963-9634

White Tiger Habitat at the Mirage ???
3400 S. Las Vegas Blvd.
Las Vegas, NV 89109
(702) 791-7111
(800) 963-9634

Dinner

Paris buffet

oh lala 11pm
Paris Las Vegas
3655 S. Las Vegas Blvd.
Las Vegas, NV 89109

mONDAY
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25th tuesday

lunch
venetian resort buffet

afternoon
IMAX Theatre at the Luxor
3900 S. Las Vegas Blvd.
Las Vegas, NV 89109
(702) 262-4555
(800) 557-7428

Mandalay Bay Shark Reef
3950 S. Las Vegas Blvd.
Las Vegas, NV 89119
(702) 632-7777
(877) 632-7000

ice dance 8pm baby sit from 7:30 - 11:30
Riviera
2901 S. Las Vegas Blvd.
Las Vegas, NV 89109

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26th wednsday

discovery musuem
833 Las Vegas Blvd N
Las Vegas, NV 89101
(702) 382-3445 - wednsday

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spa facial
3355 Las Vegas Blvd S Ste 1159
Las Vegas, NV 89109-8931
Phone: (877) 220-2688

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NY Trip
Hotel - millenium broadway hotel BRFST promo code
45 west 44th st, 10036
11533SY142431 and 2

schedule 29th

12
lunch

1
toy store visit

3:00 circus show

5:45 dinner
omasake Kaiseki
Sugiyama
251 W 55th St
New York, NY 10019-5202
Phone: (212) 956-0670

7:30 - 11:30 baby sit diar
(212) 244-0200 back up - childcare services (212) 682-0227!

8:00 show - love me now change

30th

Hair
Persona Salon owner kris
40 West 39th St 4th Flr
New York, NY 10018
Phone: (212) 852-4850

Eyebrow
To schedule an appointment with Eliza
contact Natasha at 212-561-6414

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Exotic food

2007-09-11T09:54:00.000-04:00

Well , I have officially learned how to use the grll and cook many types of dishes.
YANG ROU CHUAN(salt,chilly,sesame oil, sesame, cumin powder)
Smoked salmon( rice and herbs on bottom , grill salmon on top with lemon juice,salt,pepper,butter

Malay Satay (leave meat in herbal mix overnight, coconut milk and oil while grilling , then dip in peanut sauce)

curry butter lobster (butter, oil, salt, on lobster, grill, then curry,butter,lemon,wine,onion,garlic mix on top of lobster

mago chilly chicken (mango,chilly pepper, onion, garlic mix on top of grilled chicken with herbs)

Lamb chops ( put lamb in salt,pepper,garlic,ginger,onion,cumin,mixed herbs,pinaple juice, fresh bazil,french sweet wine, sesame oil,sesame for 4 hours, then grill with olive oil and pinable herbal mix)

chicken marsala ( mushroom, onion , fried onion and garlic , sweet wine, butter, orange juice, salt,pepper, dian fen as sauce)
fry chicken with butter ,orange juice, salt and pepper , then put sauce on top

taiwanese kong rou

wu hua pork in small pieces, mix with black soy sauce, rice wine, kong rou powder, sesame,fried onion, garlic , brown sugar, fish powder, sesame oil )
then in a pot, put in meat and water just enough to cover over meat, small heat for 20 minutes.

salt cake
mixed cake power with milk and egg one level on the bottom, till becomes half cake like, put in kong rou in the middle,the another layer of cake mix, steam.

frog 's ovary
ice sugar, frog ovary (after 1 day in water ), ginsin, boil

middle east kabab
mix grounded meat with walnut, salt, pepper,butter then grill

middle east eggplant mix
grilled cooked eggplant in pot with tomato, eggs, onion,garlic, olive oil, nuts untill everything becomes thick soup like, dip bread in

middle east rice
orange peel, walnut, pine nut,dry berries, rosemary, cumin, bazil ,butter on bottom of pan, steam long grained rice.

WAYS TO MAKE KIDS EAT

process cooked vegie in soup form
mix with eggs and butter to become vegie egg pancake

macroni and cheese with small cooked pieces of vegie

fried rice

Asia Trip 2007

2007-09-10T22:16:00.000-04:00

I took a 2 month trip to taiwan, malaysia and singapore. I had the best food in Taiwan( grilled chicken ass, huge chicken cutlet, fresh mango ice...etc . Also stayed at the most amazing on the water villa resort with traditional malay massage daily, age the best durines in the world, such as the one that taste like red wine, milk , butter...etc diardiar also showed off his girl chasing skills. you can see the video here:
http://www.youtube.com/user/Teriniu

However, I got pregnant and didn't know it, fell 2 times to the hard stoned floor 2 times, and cold herbal tea daily, all the walking and massage made me loose a future daughter/son.

Husband missed me so much, so we had to buy an extra one way ticket for both me and my 2 year old son at full price!

Special bond between my son and I

2007-06-13T23:20:00.000-04:00

I was teachning my son how to count backwards from 20 to 1 then some animals and some body organs in chinese and english, yes this means EVERYTHInG I say to him I need to say 2 times... of course I was teaching him by playing with him and it was very tiring for me. i am definitely his favorite person in this world so far, no doubt about that , but sometimes I just wish I am not THAT special cause I need a break ! It's amazing how 2 year olds know how to sweet talk and push you around so you ended up doing what they want.

Ding ding another phone ring

2007-06-13T18:04:00.001-04:00

OK, I do not know why but I have got more phone calls from different companies this week than when I first graduated.... my degree and experiences must be hot these days. last company's director called today to let me know of a new opportunity under his department. Well I was actually tempted to WORK AGAIN, but no, the inner voice says to me, you have already choose what to do remember? OH YEAH . Well i'm still glad to hear I did have a good image ( running around in the company even to get a printout from printer, how hard working huh?)

I found an addition to interviews and get offers, i love the pressure and the way they say YOU"RE HIRED. HAHAHAH bad am I not? I wasted many people's time to hire me and I ended up not go. sign...

ok now, my dear husband is away for a few days, so i'm alone with my son. Should I go shopping? or go partying? hahaha NOTHING with a toddler around even if you WANT to go wild while husband's away. HAHA just kidding... when I mentioned to him of going back to work or not HE DEFINITELY said NOONONNONONONO and begged me to stop my addiction to WANTING to be hired.

hmmm i bet he is in middle of nowhere so bored right now, after all he never left me for 1 day , he must miss me too much to even speak now.

No arms, no feet, a doctor?

2007-06-13T16:49:00.000-04:00

amazing news:
http://thefloridamasochist.com/2007/06/02/kellie-lim-again/

WOW , this women is a super role model ! although 2 fingers would be hard to do surgery, she would still make it as a top doctor with her brain.

This proves that if you did not achieve something you wanted then you did not try hard enough.

Best way to wean toddler and potty train

2007-06-13T11:12:00.000-04:00

after all the research, once again, I found that the best way to wean a toddler is to put a bandaid AND vinegar on your breasts and say OUTCH it hurts whenever your baby tries to suck. Sour is the best after all my trials.

as for potty train, let your child stay home without anything on, first give a potty train video, then let him/her watch you go, explain poopoo or peepee goes to the potty, reward them and if they go elsewhere, put up a sad face.
in about 2 weeks my son learned to go potty on his own, every time! well it seems pretty easy, I still can't believe it. Best to start around age 2 !

Designer bag for much less

2007-06-13T10:55:00.000-04:00

Ok, so all the gucci, YSL, prada ...bag lovers, why spend $1000s of dollars on real one or $800 + on Ebay when you can get them from ioffer with real quality for much less? A new finding during internet research. Of course you must pick a good supplier and know how to identify fake ones that look real in quality and inside out. go to style.com for latest fashion shows, pick styles from there, or from borrow or steal online store for a closer look then order then on ioffer.

Where to eat and stay in Taiwan KL Singapore

2007-06-13T10:49:00.000-04:00

Today's subject of research for me is places to eat in taiwan KL singapore. Tomorrow my husband and I will be flying to taiwan with a 2 year old toddler, I am prepared for the worst.
After internet research and people's comments, I produced following list.

June 16th 6am get to taipei, taiwan

Lunch
Good place near where we live

Dinner
silin market

Shanghai Fried Buns (sheng jian bao)
Da Xi Sha Chao Lu-Wei (stew)
The best place to begin is right in front of Yang Ming Theater (1F, 113, Wen Lin Rd.; tel. 02-2881-4636) at Hao Da Chicken Steak,
herb tea, sour plum juice, star fruit juice, chrysanthemum tea and wintermelon tea.
Stinky tofu
Big pancake small pancake
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June 17th

Brunch
Local soy milk/bun

Dinner

Vegetarian restraint even budha can’t resist.

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June 18th Jenjen gets hair cut and blind massage

George Pai’s Beauty Parlor
Address: No. 14 Tianmu E. Rd.
Tianmu
Tel: (02) 2871-1515

Mod’s Hair
Address: No. 164, Section 2,
Zhongzheng Rd.
Tianmu
Tel: (02) 2877-2721
BLIND MASSAGE.
Web http://www.massage104.org.tw/
Location 3F., No.102, Sec. 2, Fuxing S. Rd. Daan Dist. Taipei City
Telephone 02-27062633
Opening Time Mon - Fri 10:00-22:00
Lunch/Dinner
On street
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June 19th rest Mucha Zoo

Dinner

Local night market
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June 20th Hot spring

I-Tsun. No.140, Wenchuan Rd., Hsin Peitou, Taipei.
Tel: [02] 2891-2121-3, fax: 2893-7129.
10/hr/person

Spring City Resort. No.18, You Ya Rd, Hsin Peitou,
Taipei. Tel: [02] 2897-2345, [02] 2897-5555,
fax: 2987-7245 (www.springresort.com.tw).
$20/person/hour

Whispering Pines Inn
Address: 1-2/F, No. 21, Youya Rd., Beitou Dist., Taipei City
Tel: +886 (02) 2891-2063

Villa 32. No 32, Zhongshan Rd, Hsin Peitou, Taipei.
Tel: [02] 6611-8888, fax: [02] 6611-5000, (www.villa32.com).
Spa featuring skin care and aroma stress-relief treatment
NO KIDS
US$45/person for four hours

Eat at hot spring

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June 21st taiwan international food trade show at world trade center

taiei international food tradeshow
Taipei World Trade Center Exhibition Hall, 5 Hsin-Yi Rd., Sec. 5, Taipei, 110, Taiwan, R.O.C.
Tel:886-2-2725-5200 Fax:886-2-2725-1314
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June 22nd Taiwan national palace, shopping or rest

Dinner
At night market or local restraunt
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June 23rd last minute food shopping/chinese movies

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SINGAPORE
June 24th leave taipei to singapore

Lunch

FOOD CENTRE MAXWELL
Tian Tian Hainanese Chicken Rice
Maxwell Road, Maxwell Food Centre Stall 10
Operation Hours : 11am - 8pm
Closed on Mondays
MRT: Tanjong Pagar Station SBS 80, 145, TIBS NR5

BEST IN SINGAPORE
Fook Seng Goldenhill Chicken Rice/ Block 37, Jalan Rumah Tinggi #01-429, 10am - 4pm

Dinner

Durian buffet for dinner

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25th Eat

Morning Snack
SERANGOON GARDEN MARKET
Shukor Stall - Roti John
Serangoon Garden Way
Serangoon Garden Market Stall 30
Operation Hours : 9.30am - 9.30pm
Closed once a month on Thursdays
MRT: Serangoon Station SBS 73, 136, 315, 317

Late Lunch
Inspirasi Stall - Soto Ayam
Block 207
New Upper Changi Road #01-11
Operation Hours : 12.30pm - 9pm
Opens daily
MRT: Bedok Station
SBS 7,9,14,17,18,25,26,30,32,33,35,38,40,60,66,69,87,168,196,
197,222,225,228,229,401,506,CT18

DINNER chilly crab
Mattar Road Seafood Barbecue
Block 51 Old Airport Road #01-131G
Opening Hours : 3.00pm - 11.00pm
Closed on Tuesdays & Wednesdays
Food Type : Chilli Crab
Meaty mud crabs cooked in a red spicy sauce concocted with
chilli, tomatoes, eggs and stock.
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26th Malaysia

Lunch
Hakka Restaurant (No 6. Jalan Kia Peng, 50450 Kuala Lumpur)
Tel: 03-2431907 /8 Fax: 03- 2443275

check in at avillion village resort port Dickson at 3pm

Dinner
Lucky seafood
It is located at the corner lot of a row of shophouses opposite Chinese School - Sekolah Rendah Jenis Kebangsaan Chung Hua Lukut. P.D 1964. If not sure, ask the locals - they will point you to the right place. Yes..It is THAT famous.
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27th stay at Avillion Village Resort Port Dickson
swim/diar play /spa

Malay dinner or local dinner
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28th stay at Avillion Village Resort Port Dickson

Spa in hotel if have time , durian if see one
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29th stay in KL ( eat out local food, durine)
Jalan Alor's Hawker Stalls - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Jalan Alor (behind Jalan Bukit Bintang), Kuala Lumpur
satays and spicy marinated grilled stingray,durians

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30th stay in KL ( eat out local food, durine)
Massage if have time.
Anggur Indrani
Spa Indrani @ Starhill
P28 Pamper Floor Starhill Gallery
Bintang Walk

Nasi Kandar Pelita - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
149 Jalan Ampang, Kuala Lumpur
(+60) 3 2162 5532
Eating out doesn't get any easier than this. At Nasi Kandar Pelita you don't have to decipher unfamiliar words on a menu. Instead, an array of dishes are paraded on heated steel trays - you simply choose and point and the waiter will scoop your selected dishes onto your plate. The price varies depending on the number and type of dishes you pick, but most servings will cost between US$1.50 to US$3 per person. If you like your food spicy and soaked with gravy, ask for their specialty mixed gravy (kuah campur). It's open 24 hours, and there's an air-conditioned section upstairs if you want to escape the heat. Due to its close proximity to office complexes, the place can be very packed during lunch hours on weekdays.
OR another keja
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july 1st Arrive Johor Bahru

shopping for movies.

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july 2nd go back to singapore
Brunch
Warong Sudi
Mampir - Satay
Block 14 Haig Road #01-19
Operation Hours : 10am - 7pm (Weekdays)
10am - 5pm (Weekends)
Closed on Wednesdays or Thursdays
MRT: Paya Lebar Station
SBS 2, 7,13, 21,24,26,28,30,51,154,155, TIBS 67, NR8

Dinner
DUNMAN FOOD CENTRE
Lau Hong Ser Rojak
271 Onan Road, Dunman Food Centre #02-14
Operation Hours : 4.38pm - 1.38am
Closed on Sundays
Food Type : Rojak

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july 3rd rest/prepare to leave

Lunch

Newton Food Centre
Along Clemenceau Ave North

Or

Lau Pa Sat Festival Market
18 Raffles Quay
dscz
DINNER
eat durian one last time
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july 4th leave singapore

Working Mom VS Stay At Home Mom

2007-06-13T09:50:00.000-04:00

I am an only child grew up in a family with 100% well educated financially independent full time working women. I was not even allowed to think that one day I may become a housewife.

My husband grew up as the oldest of the 3 siblings and females of his family were housewives after marriage by choice or not.

When I was in college I said to everyone “ I will never become a housewife” , I associated the term housewife with a low social status. I was the top student in class, I had fortune 500 company working experiences before I even graduated college, got my master’s degree in high tech industry and ivy league post graduate education by age 23.

Then I got married at 24 to my best friend for 5 years, got pregnant during first month !and of course, a baby comes 10 month later and by then I still did not even know how to put on a diaper.

Even people with little medical knowledge know that mom’s milk is best for the baby, so there, I stayed home with my son for first 2 years providing him with mommy’s milk, and produced a healthy hardly never get sick baby.

Well let me tell you about that life, since I could not get any help from parents or in laws, as a first time mother, it was boring, tiring and lonely at times , other members of the family made me feel that I wasted my master's degree and ivy league education. Oh and WHAT IF my husband and I divorce later, WHAT IF my husband becomes ill or die, WHAT IF my decision power within the household dropped since I no longer bring in $.... the list goes on and on… then of course there are benefits as well.

Right after my son turned two, I started look for full time job CLOSE to home. Since I am pretty good at what I’m doing, with the confidence and good looks still there HAHA I was able to find a good company 5 minutes from my home. I was so happy that day knowing that I finally get to work full time again and with good pay too.

Working mother’s life was not easy as I imagined. When I worked I wanted to be the best, often overtime was required, husband did not want me to work to begin with so he didn't take as much days off when baby was sick compared to me (He makes a lot more and is in senior management position), drop off, pick up, lunch etc all became my responsibility. I skipped lunch most days so I could finish work on time to pick up my son( VERY BUSY company), house was a mess, my health went down, that was still ok, but then my son was sick from day care every single week with ear infections or flu or uh happy fever or something else, his first sentence was MOM NO WORK!

I looked at my son’s eyes and wondered, what’s more important, being a slave to help someone else make $ off you so that you could be called a senior manager or spend more time with my son when I do have the choice . The next day I QUIT . I felt very bad for my boss and the company though. But hey, when they don’t need you anymore they sure won’t feel sorry to let you go.

I am now an official HAPPY stay at home mom once again thinking of it as early retirement. I am glad that I did experience the working mom’s life so I could compare myself. Now I can learn things I like rather than sad about not having the working mother title, read news on internet without being “watched” on how many minutes you spend on none company stuff, sleep till 10am if I want to …. (decision was made based on internet research of other people's feelings, my own experiences and of course calculation of our finances after tax, expenses, childcare and opportunity cost). I choose to marry this man, It’s a risk already, so why not risk it till the end, if unexpected things happen, then I’ll deal with it when it happens instead of worry 20,30,40 years ahead of time. Life is short, live happily every sec of it.

Now here is a good article about how to be a wife, I agree with some points and some I don’t agree with, but overall it’s a good article to let wives use their strength to be in control haha.
http://www.snopes.com/language/document/goodwife.asp

I found my son most happy with
1) DAY CARE SCHOOL 2 DAYS A WEEK
2)OUTSIDE EXTRA ACTIVITIES SUCH AS MOM AND ME MUSIC, DANCE, GYM CLASSES
3)HAVING ME TEACHING HIM MATH, LANGUAGE, SCIENCE, ABC...
4)HAVE MOM AROUND FOR GOOD LUNCH
5)HAVE MOM TO HUG AND KISS

I found myself well rested mentally, more educated and aware of the world events and husband much happier as well. Hope this will result in a long lasting marriage till the end.

If you are thinking of quit your professional job to stay home with your kids, be sure to
1) have $
2) buy extra insurance for your husband and yourself
3) contribute to your own IRA, extra retirement as before
4)your name on the beneficiary list of everything
5)always looks your best and stay confident
6)have a husband who loves AND respect you and of course WANTS to support you financially
7)know where your family's $ comes and goes
8)keep learning and stay attractive to other men so your husband is still a little jealous sometimes!