31.10.07 / Travels / Author: chinneeq / Comments: (13)
Just reached home. Not a very smooth trip again this time. On our way back, again, our stupid old car broke down, thank goodness we are almost reaching our house and not on the way moving down from the mountain! The car was overheated, due to the malfunction of the air-con fan (don’t even understand how it can affect the boiling water) and we had to call for our neighbour for help. Luckily nanny’s son was at home at this particular day (where he normally will be at college on weekdays) and drove a car to fetch the overheated “red lobster” me and sleeping QQ back home. Need some rest first. Will update the whole trip later…
31.10.07 / All about Blog, Blog Tech / Author: chinneeq / Comments: (10)
I was all these while using only Personal Account to accept money, but for Personal Account. I am wondering if I should upgrade it to Premier Account based on the difference of both accounts:
Personal Account
- Accept credit or debit card funded payments to a LIMIT OF 5 TRANSACTION ONLY per year with 5.4% plus $0.30 USD.
- Accept the following funded payments for free. (PayPal Balance,PayPal Instant Transfer,PayPal eCheck)
Premier Account
- Accept UNLIMITED credit or debit card funded payments with only up to USD to 3.4% + $0.30 USD
- Will be charged up to 3.4% + $0.30 USD for accept the following funded payments for free. (PayPal Balance,PayPal Instant Transfer,PayPal eCheck)
Wonder which should I choose? Anyone can explain what does PayPal Balance ,PayPal Instant Transfer and PayPal echeck mean?
29.10.07 / Chin Nee, Family, My Scrapbook, QQ, Travels, fashion, the community / Author: chinneeq / Comments: (18)
Guess what, we are just back from Melaka during the weekend and tomorrow we are going to take a short trip and going to Genting Highland again. Not to pay respect to the dear founder, but to utilize our free accomodation hotel voucher before the holiday season starts again. Last time, I borrowed some very nice winter clothes for QQ and this time I have to get this pretty pink wool shirt from Cheng Sim again. Oh…I better go do my packing again and stuff some pretty casual shirts into my bag which is now still left here in the living hall!
Oh yes, I won’t able to go online so temporary no blog hopping for the time being. Catch up with all of you on Thursday when I am back again. Wait for my stories ya…
29.10.07 / Parenting, QQ / Author: chinneeq / Comments: (12)
With QQ, everything seems to come in a family. Conversation here:
When she sees some ants crawling
Papa: Look, there are lots of ants here….
QQ: Wah…..got Papa, Mama, “di-di” (brother), “mei-mei” (sister), “piau-jie”, “piau-di” (cousins)
Papa: Oh, ya lar…*giggles*
After doing her biz
Mummy: Aiyo…why some so big one ah??
QQ: Ya lor, got Papa, mama, and baby mah!!
Mummy: *fainted*
29.10.07 / All about Blog, Blog Tech, Child's Play, Chin Nee, Daddies, Melaka, QQ / Author: chinneeq / Comments: (26)
I have always wanted to meet some of the blogger friends who has extended so much help during my blogging journey, and this time in Melaka, I had a chance to do so. Even though there are only 4 of us, we could really chat for hours, from topics ranging from kids, education, and our exciting blogging journey.
Some of the very useful tips that I guess some of you might like to know:
1. Do you know that there are many mums who are currently homeschooling their children with lots of support by an online support group?
2. Do you know you can withdraw money from your Singapore bank account here in Malaysia ATM (such as Maybank & Public bank) for FOC?
3. Do you know what a day withdrawal limit is RM5k from our ATM, with each time limit withdrawal of RM1.5k?
4. Do you know that we are able to open a Singapore bank account here from UOB Bank?
5. Do you know that users of Blogger.com can actually check their blog site meter from Mozilla Firefox browser? Get your SEO for Firefox Extension.
6. Do you know that we can actually use coupon codes to buy our hosting package and domain with just a fraction of price (which cames along with unlimited domain!)
6. And a lot more which I couldn’t think of at the moment…
(Source: fantastic bloggers like Miche, Leah and Jesslyn so now you know who’s blog to visit to get the answer)
Wasn’t it a fruitful meet up after all? Also not forgetting to thank to the fathers who go round chasing and entertained the kids for almost 3 hours while mummies busy catching up with each other 
28.10.07 / finance, the community / Author: chinneeq / Comments: (0)
When our children were little, we worry about their safety and health. When our children turn into teenagers, we worry about the distant relationship and communication problem although staying under one roof. When our children grow up making their way into the society, we worry about their habits of living out there, influenced by bad habit friends. This is currently happening to our young society now; with most of them overspend their monthly income and goes into bankruptcy and still thinking they are cool! But now, with another option from IVA, and the IVA help, they would able to recover from their bankruptcy sooner without much difficulty.
28.10.07 / Tags / Author: chinneeq / Comments: (2)
This is not a Nokia advertisement ya….It is really embarrassing and I really dono what to do with this tag I received from Sean, and Ginie. Believe or not, until today I am still using this very old handphone model with lots of difficulty to press the keypad. Sorry all my network if the sms call is slow sometimes ya!
Don’t think there would be anyone who still using similar old model like I do, hehe…
28.10.07 / Tags / Author: chinneeq / Comments: (5)
1 for you, 2 for me, thank you, thank you to Shireen, for your *toot-toot-toot* round the clock and Jasmine, who offer me a place to stay if I happen to go to France!
This award originated from Hootin’ Anni and should we decide to pass it on, we are requested to award this to random visitors to make new friends and I would like to have interesting bloggers I came across as my new friends:
Kopi Soh fromFatty Poh’s Kopi Tiam
Adrian from First Time Dad
Sean from Lifelong Sharing
Steven from Stevenwongblog
Mariuca from Wishing Upon A Star
Bob from Blogohblog (the great and helpful designer of this beautiful theme)
28.10.07 / Tags / Author: chinneeq / Comments: (4)
What a surprise! I got this award from Girlie who think that this is a friendly site (surely there must be a friendly author behind the blog….haha). Really appreciate to receive this compliment from this fantastic hip and cool mummy :0
With so much help received from all you out there, I really wanna take this opportunity to thank all of you. Wourld specially like to forward this award to my dear friends, Chanel for being such a great help and Shireen, whom has hand in hand walk with me since the beginning of my blogging journey.
26.10.07 / All about Blog, Child's Play, Melaka, Parenting, QQ / Author: chinneeq / Comments: (10)
Hooray….my girl and I are now so excited that we are going back to Melaka tomorrow. And guess what, this time we are going to meet up with some blogger mummies and kids from Melaka. So far only me, Jesslyn, Leah and Michelle have confirmed and we are going to meet up in Mahkota Parade for dinner tomorrow. Also plan to bring QQ to experience the double decker city tour London bus after the meet up if it is still early. Anyone from Melaka or will be in Melaka town tomorrow, do come and join us ya!
P/s: Oh yes, do wear flowers ya (or wear it on our kids!) so that we can easily recognise each other,HAHAHA….
26.10.07 / smart review / Author: chinneeq / Comments: (2)
I only came to learn more about the Renaults when my friend bought a new Kangoo recently. Although not a very popular model here, this utility vehicle has definitely hit into this range of vehicles. As it is more roomy and versatile, Kangoo matches family expectation more closely. Pricing wise is at the affordable side as compare to other 7-seater models available here. It even resembles to an MPV, while the cabin and interior has been refurbished.Renault in fact has got many good models which are more at the higher end side. In the Frankfurt Motor Show, Renault has presented the new Egeus concept car which is a 4WD Sport Utility Vehicle. With a 3.0-litre V6 diesel engine with a combination of a fully automatic 4WD transmission, it could regulate the traction on the four wheels to the maximum according to grip. This seven-speed automatic transmission, driving is more comfortable while fuel consumption is reduced too.
If you look closely at the picture, the Egeus has a streamlined shape like a modern coupe. Love it, grab the Renault Wallpapers here. But for me, the most important part of a car would be the comfort of riding in it. Egues features four independent seats with all the comfort of a luxury car. The seats are made of beautiful materials with nice blend of colours and textures. Riding in a nice interior car with elegant atmosphere can definitely makes one feel more relaxed, giving a feeling of serenity to the passengers. Big seats give more comfort to big size people too. With a spacious and a comfortable interior, there are more rooms to relax especially when travelling for long journey.
If you see the picture above, now do you think it worth every penny of your investment? Another important factor when choosing a car is the safety aspect. Who would want to risk their life driving a car with low safety features right? If my budget permits, I would love to go for the car with most safety features. This car even has it seat height designed for greater visibility while reinforcing passengers’ sensation of comfort and safety. The GPS navigation system can also calculates the recommended speed with a LED diodes flashing to alert the driver just in case he goes over this speed. If you want to learn about used Renault, check out the used car on this site.
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26.10.07 / All about Blog, Blog Tech / Author: chinneeq / Comments: (4)
Announcement!!!
Hey, just wanna announce De’Cuisine has been transferred to its own domain! Tell me what you see in the URL when u click on http://de-cuisine.blogspot.com!
See la, how “cleber” I am now…. All these while, I din even realised that we can have our own domain with FREE hosting on blogspot. Instead having to pay hundreds of ringgit, we CAN maintain our blogspot account by just transferring our blogspot URL to our own domain. I just did that with De’Cuisine!!! Thanks to Leah for informing me:)
How to do that?
1. Buy a domain (I bought mine from Netfirms with only $5.95)
2. Forward from blogspot to your new domain
But I must tell you the procedure was very tough for me as I really cannot understand technical terms on the instruction given. If you plan to use netfirms, just see and copy from the picture how I set my control panel. Thank goodness to the patient from the help I received from Leah and Netfirms support team (I think they almost vomit blood talking to me also), I able to pull through after almost one week. If you want to do it easily, you might wanna try godaddy as blogspot provide full instruction how to do it.
26.10.07 / Just info, the community / Author: chinneeq / Comments: (0)
Moving home can be a big nightmare to most of the families, especially those with little kids. It can be emotional when we say goodbye to our nice comfortable little hut to move to a cold new house. Not only it isn’t easy for us to adjust ourselves with the new place, it would be even a more daunting experience for the kids to stay, wake up, eat and sleep in a totally new environment. Therefore it is always wise to leave the pressure of moving house to the professional, so that we have more time spending with the family adjusting into the new home.
25.10.07 / Baking/Cooking, Child's Play, Parenting, SL Buddhist, SL Playgroup / Author: chinneeq / Comments: (21)
Guess what we did in our playgroup? Haha…baking with 13 kids in the house! No kidding, kids between age 1-6. Can you imagine what is like in poor Cheng Sim’s living hall? Bits of oily dough everywhere….
We had to do in one of our parent’s house since we do not have the baking facilities in our play center. It is so kind to have this mummy offer her place, her oven, trays and even did the biscuit dough prior to that. So sorry, Cheng Sim, I totally forgot about the dough. Next time I’ll take care of that, ok (if only you offer to do another round in your place again, hahaha!)
All kids are definitely having fun putting their finger prints and trail all over the cookies. Our kids wiped them all clean upon freshly baked from oven. I hope no one got sore throat after that, hehe…
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24.10.07 / All about Blog, Blog Tech, Chin Nee, QQ / Author: chinneeq / Comments: (8)
Thanks at lot for all wishes. I am really flushing blushing red with all the compliments pouring into this Ah Soh yellow face lady and my little star behind the blog. I see lots of great friends taking the pain to catch the show, waiting to show their kids “there, this is QQ”, and some even patiently stood in front of the TV capturing our once in a lifetime, glory moment with their cameras, or their video recorder. Thanks all, it really touches me how our community stay so united in this difficult (it is for me) but fantastic blogging journey. Although I have not receive the video from Sony (still waiting to be edited, thanks to my ex-colleagues who all stood by for this show), I hereby would like to extend my thanks to people behind the posting of these clips and write-up.
http://www.judelittle.com/?p=12
http://chumsyashley.blogspot.com/2007/10/friends-on-tv.html
http://montessorimum.com/?p=2457
http://sashablablabla.blogspot.com/2007/10/wanita-hari-ini-22-october-2007.html
http://www.shannonchong.com/?p=454
http://www.shannonchong.com/?p=455
P/S: Please let me know if I miss out any for I wish to keep this beautiful history with me