Other than dannaben we do cook lunch & dinner at most most of the days now!

Here are some of the Cheat One™ meals in our house.

Meal 1

Vegetable cream stew (broccoli, shimeji mushroom, carrot and brussel sprouts with bacon),  Japanese pear and Yakult!

Meal 2

Yong tau fu. This is one of my favorite because it’s easy and can batch make a lot to keep for several meals. And also very low carb!

Meal 3

Quick pasta lunch.

Meal 4

Don’t know if you can even imagined this, but it’s a Danna Recipe! It’s called Tomato and Avocado Sashimi. Basically it is what it is: raw diced tomato and raw diced avocado (sashimi) with wasabi and soy sauce. It probably sounds very strange but it’s surprisingly very good! The avocado is rich, creamy akin that of fatty maguro or toro!! We also had a version with added tuna flakes. 😀 read more

Last post from my Japan trip in spring. I’m going again early December for work, back, then go again middle of Dec with family, and bringing Junya for the first time! ♡

So it was my last few days in Japan, and Genie danna has granted me one last wish. I didn’t know where to go so i asked him to just bring me anywhere!! He knows i love onsen, so we (read: he) drove 3 hours to Gunma prefecture to head to one of the Top 3 Hot Spring in Japan: Kusatsu.

Today’s coordinate.

It was nearing middle of April, and that was the hottest day i’ve experienced in that trip! read more

If you love music, you will be happy to know about Jaben, the most complete headphone specialist in Malaysia.

Jaben spent years to develop a full range of products suitable for each country, providing th emost unique and exclusives pieces in the market.

I had to honor to try out one of their signature headphone: Aedele VK~1.

Unboxing the package.

The headphone is hand-assembled in France and it comes in a luxurious pouch that keeps it safe and scratch-free.

This is the VK-1 Classic edition, i love how minimalistic and refined the design is! The metal card is printed with your limited edition number on it. read more

Bloom & Grow celebrates its 10th anniversary!

Bloom & Grow is one of Asia’s largest maternity and baby product distributors with many brands under them! I blogged about how B&G helped me set up my baby room!

I was at their launch party with B&G’s celebrities and friends!

Other mommy bloggers are there and we had so much in common to talk about! I usually am the super socially awkward one, but it’s so surprising to know that becoming a mom actually made me more sociable!! (With people who can relate la ^^) read more

Some of you have asked for recipe sharing after the last dannaben blog post, but i say don’t need to waste your mouse/phone battery to ask me la because 1. even if i do there will only be the 3 of you who are interested and 2. they are actually not that yummy HAHAHHA.

I know because everyday i ask the danna “how’s the bento today?” and he’ll reply “very good!” and i’ll ask “are you just being polite?” and he’ll say “yes.”. With a very serious face. read more

Junya turns 5 months today!

It is so crazy!

It feels like i’ve juuuust written his 4th month blog post two weeks ago.

(Also read  first month , second month , third month and fourth month here.)

What has happened in the past month:

For Mama

1. Nianness

So we did not get a God-size bed. And not only do i still sleep like a Chinese Zombie, i am sleeping like a Chinese Zombie with a human baby on top.

We have tried to transition him to a cot adjacent to our bed, and he generally sleeps quite well in it. It’s just on the occasional midnights when he wakes , he goes full on complain-mode. read more

Apparently the danna is at the heaviest of his life now, so he requested me to control his diet by making healthy bento every day to help him lose weight .

So this is a collection of some of the dannaben (lunch box for husband in Japanese. Bento for the danna = dannaben) for him to bring to work. They are quite repetitive (batch cook for one week!) so i don’t think they are very interesting, mostly for my own reference. Anyway no more Kyaraben because in the end i decided it’s just not worth the time lolol. I’d rather spend extra 5 minutes to actually take a proper dump wtf. read more

No la i’m not posting my husband’s #ootd.

I am wearing his coordinates XD.

I really have not thought about this before. When you run out of clothes to wear, wear your husband’s. Quite genius right??? It all started with me borrowing his hat. And then i realized that i’m more in love with his wardrobe than with my own. How weird is that! So, like a drug, i am addicted to wearing his clothes (without letting him know lolol).

Here are 10 danna-style coordinates!

Coordinate 1 read more