I must admit that, recently i have gotten more excited whenever i shop in Japan for detergents than i do when i walk into H&M on sale. #truestory.

Welcome to a mother/housewife’s life lol.

I loooooove grocery stores, lifestyle and home departments, all the amazing Japanese inventions never fail to amaze me. And i think i figured out why Japanese household items are so so so creative and out-of-this-world?

I always wonder why mothers/housewives in Japan seem like superheroes, they juggle between work, house, kids, 3 meals for the family and lunch boxes for the husband and kids YET still have time to look so fabulous. How did they do it??? read more

I loooove Japan Food Fair!!

Averagely once every few months Aeon will bring in special Japanese products from different prefectures in Japan, and this month, they have a total of 6 prefectures participating in the food fair at Aeon 1 Utama (Old Wing) and Mid Valley!

The prefectures are: Mie, Tokushima, Hiroshima, Niigata, Akita and Iwate.

Period of time: 12-25 November!

Only for these two weeks, you get to see, sample and buy all these special products from the above prefectures!

My baby bear also joining!

Getting a big cart ready for shopping XD read more

Hello! Junya turns 17 month today!

(Also read  1st month , 2nd month , 3rd month , 4th month , 5th month , 6th month , 7th month,  8th month, 9th month , 10th month , 11th month , 12th month , 13th month , 14th month , 15th month and 16th month here.)

Having a baby probably never has been this fun AND tiring before. True, when they are first born you probably get like 2 hours of sleep each day, but at least they go to sleep. But now that they are awake almost as much as you do, you are just gonna spend the whole day between preventing them from setting fire to the house and consoling a wailing toddler who doesn’t understand why they can’t set fire to the house, 500 times a day. read more

From my previous Japan trip in October!

Sometimes i feel that i’m so lucky to be a mother, otherwise i probably will not ever rediscover all the juvenile fun stuff. It feels like i have unlocked my happiness horizon and am now able to appreciate even more things, including pushing a toy bus around.

This time around we brought Junya to Fantasy Kids Resort, a playground in the same mall as Moff Animal World in Inzai.

We went there without any expectation, and it turned out to be the largest indoor kids playground in Japan, and the best i’ve ever been!!! read more

Today i’m going to blog about an awesome animal farm which you can pet an alpaca!!!

Of course, in Japan. 

We accidentally found out about this place when we sent off a friend to Narita airport. Initially we wanted to go to Mother Farm again, but turned out that it was too far away so the danna searched for a nearer animal farm. And Bingo.

Moff Animal World

Funnily enough, we thought that it was a park/farm like Mother Farm, but it turned out to be an indoor mini zoo inside a shopping mall called the Big Hop Garden Mall in Inzai, Chiba Prefecture. read more

So the other day two big parcels arrived at our door!

What is it what is it?? 

Junya ws so excited to find out.

“Mama. Papa.” he pointed out. Yeap, that’s right.

Inside the beautiful ivory case, is two very beautiful albums, of papa and mama’s wedding. It is our 3rd anniversary soon and i thought i wanted to reprint a wedding album with some of the photos that were not used before!

I love love love the romantic glass cover! The two albums are 14″ x 14″ + 10″ x 10″ each with the personalised carry case Junya was pointing at. read more

For the past few weeks i’d been feeling like i didn’t want to live anymore.

Well, i didn’t want to live a life like this in Malaysia anymore, to be precise. I wanted to go back to Japan. Or any other place where there was no haze. I didn’t want to deal with it because i didn’t know how to.

What could i do? I bought two of the most expensive air purifiers i could find online (because i didn’t want to drive out in the haze to buy), i sealed every single window in my house tight (I went batshit crazy when i saw one that was accidentally open the other day). I limited my groceries to the market downstairs and wore N95 masks when i had to go out of the door. I grounded Junya and myself at home for 3 weeks with our aircons and air purifiers blasting at MAX. I cancelled all his classes and most of my meetings. It was the freaking Apocalypse for me. read more

Haven’t done this in a while! Previous posts here: #lunchforjunya 1, #lunchforjunya in Japan.

Junya was eating what we adults were eating mostly during our entire travel in Japan, so now that we are back i started cooking for him again! Most of the recipes were inspired by Japanese Rinyushoku (baby food) cook books, cook pad, and other awesome Japanese mommies on the internet!  Here’s a compilations of #lunchforjunya ❤︎

#LunchforJunya

Actually it’s not just #lunchforjunya la haha there are breakfasts and dinners too. But usually breakfast is kind of the same everyday and usually dinner is a recycle of lunch so… i guess lunch is more interesting! XD read more

I have briefly talked about this movie before, “Kiseki No Ringo”, literally, the “Miracle Apples”.

(Bonus of the movie: Original soundtrack by Joe Hisaishi!!!!)

The danna told me to watch this movie, and he said i would appreciate Japanese fruits even more after i watch it. And yes, i was really glad i watched it, and now i have unlimited respect for the farmers in Japan.

As i have talked about grapes, melons, peaches in Japan, apples are just another priced produce especially in Aomori, a prefecture in Tohoku. read more

Today i’m introducing another two products from CNP Laboratory!

If you are one who are concerned about dry and dull skin, here are two products that is worth a note!

CNP Dual Balance Waterlock T/U Serum

(Sorry about Junya hijacking mama’s selfie time)

Ever feel troubled by your oily T-zone and dry cheeks, when you happen to have combination skin type?

The CNP Dual Balance Waterlock T/U Serum is a refreshing serum that prevents unwanted T-zone shine and delivers abundant of moisture to your U-zone by maintaining the perfect water-oil balance. read more

Attention mommies!!!

If you have babies or kids, this is the Halloween event you would be happy to know!

I mean… how does shopping on Halloween sound? 

Applecrumby & Fish offers a comprehensive line of premium brands on baby bath care, hair care and skin care products. They also carry organic skincare & baby food, educational toys and quality accessories!

Look what comes to our door the other day??

A parcel full of baby stuff!!! 😀

Oh oh what’s this? Looks like something mama wants me to use! read more

Today i’m blogging about my baby item shopping haul from Japan!!!

If you are into health and convenience (then again, which mom isn’t???) and maybe some kawaii, Japan will be your shopping heaven for your babies/kids.

Ever since i had Junya, 80% of my luggage space are reserved for Junya’s items. Cannot resist.

Before that here are some things you will need to know if you are going to Japan with your baby/young kids! I may have mentioned it before but here they are again:

Diaper Panic read more