Jingga lost and found and Bio Valley products

Jingga refused to come back last afternoon. I thought he will be back in the evening. It was raining heavily.

I went to Ikea to buy a cat cushion. We have the cane one at home. At first I wanted to buy the cat bed 

but it was smaller , so I bought the one for the dog. I searched for him at night and I feared to find his body like I did with Cleopatra Chomel.  I woke up earlier, my husband and brother said that he had followed a female cat. My husband said that I will find him afterwards. So , at about 11.30 , I went outside. Sure enough I saw him under a neighbour's car looking shrivelled . When I put food , he refused , so I put him on his pet bed.Now he is resting contentedly. Alhamdulillah.

I have used Bio Valley products since last year when I first saw the products at Giant Pusat Damansara. Then I spotted the product at Jaya Jusco One Utama and Cold Storage and Tesco Mutiara Damansara . I bought  the shower creme at first , the one with  Coconut  . It has no SLS, or Paraben. Sometimes I could get hold of the shampoo. Only last month I  was  able to get hold of the  hair conditioner. Sometimes I could not get it at One Utama which is difficult. The body wash  with Rosemary and geranium smells nice  what with no SLS  and Paraben. It is cheaper than most organic products available  . It is locally made. By Asli Kiara if I am not mistaken.  Yesterday I saw the products sold at Guardian Pharmacy near my house. Now I can buy the stuff easily.

Ile Flottante or Floating Island

Cooked in Corelle Cups

I made the floating island  or Ile Flottante at last . There are 6 eggs at home  but I used four. I have only one good Corning ramekin so I used three Corelle cups instead. It was quite hard to make the Creme Anglaise.  My mother was worried the cups would crack but  nothing happened . The eggs got cooked, the meringue was not so hard to do  .  Perhaps it is because I used powdered milk and it was very hot as opposed to scalding hot.

The meringues are very sweet , both my parents said so. My brother Mal who came back said the sauce taste of eggs. Well , next time I will use less sugar. The meringues look neat . It took about 40 minutes to cook. The ones cooked in ramekin look nicer . Here are some of the recipes I found which were useful. I dream to make

the floating island with 18 egg whites. http://www.foodnetwork.ca/recipes/Dessert/Eggs-Dairy/recipe.html?dishID=8299 and http://kimmallari.multiply.com/tag/ile%20flottante .

I have been busy making some dish. Creme Caramel on Sunday and Beef Lasagne on Monday. Cooking does alleviate some stress. He he he

Spots on the skin

My sister Yati had gone back to Dubai. When the sisters are around , we made some dalca daging,  fried chicken , acar which is a kind of salad of  cucumber and carrot  and the lamb in tomato. My sister Nas went back on Sunday.  I have some discoloration spot on my left cheek. This must be because I did not use any sun screen while I was out to hang the clothes. Ouch !!!

I have been surfing for some cosmetics and remedies for the problem. Some of the  natural remedies I found were  putting honey and lemon juice , honey and cinnamon. I chose the  one where you put one tsp each of honey, lemon and cinnamon.  Apply on dark skin and  leave overnight. I have been doing so for two days. It is said that  it will diminish the  black spots and the discoloration in one month time. I do hope so.

Some cosmetics I found were from AG 2000 ,  a local Bumiputra  company which uses sea cucumber or gamat. One of the product is Pigment Repel   Complex which cost RM 220 , there is a smaller size for RM 138, another product is the Miraclear set which cost RM 398. 00. Here is the one of the websites selling the AG 2000 product or Healin products . They have anti dust spray too.http://www.majoriz.com/treat_en.php

My mother suggested that I use BerryGen from Tupperware. She believes in treating skin problems  from the inside. It cost RM 199 since I am a member I get a discount too. My sisters are into Stevico wild tomato . It looks good .The price is RM 230 .Here is the local website for Stevico :http://www.stevicodirect.com/products/index.htm

I also found that Eucerin has some product for pigmentation.  I bumped into a product called Mukti which can be purchased from a website. The products can be purchased at Body bar skin care at Tropicana City Mall or at Sunway pyramid. They have one product called the Mukti Sebogel for pigmentation which cost RM 48. Here is the information :http://www.bodybarskincare.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=9&

products_id=20. There are others which have products for pigmentation like Garnier .

ReNeu a local skin care company ,do have their own line for pigmentation , I like their whitening essence and the black soap . I wonder if I should just buy some soaps and some whitening essence. However   I like the idea of taking the beauty drinks. There is another drink  , a whitening  and   collagen beauty  drink from Atika Beauty. http://www.atikabeauty.com/dalaman/whitening_collagen.html#produk . I am still taking the Cocoa Collagen The product is good. I must say .

I also have been toying with the idea of buying soaps . I like soaps . Some soaps in my list  are D'bee's Tiamore soap which cost RM 100, Eumora soap which is about RM 90 to RM 95 depending on the seller and De'Wajah anti aging soap which cost RM 45. Cost , cost . He he he . You can purchase Tiamore soap here http://www.putrimall.com/products/Tiamore-Soap.html , and Eumora soap here , there are many agents who sell Eumora , Ayubeauty is one of them http://www.ayubeauty.com/eumora.html.  As for De'Wajah , they have their own cosmetics as most of the local skin care houses have now . Their website is :ttp://www.dewajah.net/produk_muka_tambahan.html

I also found out some local companies which sell mineral makeup. One of the companies is Ronasutra , which sells foundation plus powder. It looks good , the cost is RM 48.  The other company is Loving Minerals which have extensive  collection for the lips , eyes etc. You can check the it both companies at : http://www.ronasutra.com/webshaper/store/viewCat.asp?catID=1 and http://lovingminerals.com/catalog/index.php/cPath/21.

Farewell and Surprise !!!

We have sent  Zahid and his family to the airport on the 6th January. He is back to Seychelles after one month vacation. The next day I am pleasantly  surprised to see my sister Yati at home. She has brought back  some baklava and I have been eating the lovely morsels ever since.

Yesterday my husband and I went to Al Rawsha again. We had a nice time . Mal and my mother is in Kuantan. Mal is into surfing at the Cherating beach  and he is now quite dark. GG is busy searching  stuff for his wedding. His big day is in February !!!

I saw some nice linen shirts  in all shades of colour  at Sogo shopping centre  yesterday.       The price is from RM 109 to RM 139. Anne Kelly shirts cost RM 189 and during sales they have 20% less. They  do have some  nice green coloured shirts the last time I  went to visit.Sometimes during  the sales you can buy the  shirt for RM 99 . There is a nice shop at Bangsar Village which sold fine  linen. It cost RM 250 that was in 2008 , I have not been there for some time , it might be more expensive.   Tomorrow Nas and her children will come back home too. So there will be a nice gathering .  I wonder what we will cook.

A Whirlwind Engagement Ceremony

It began on Wednesday night when  my mother went for dinner with GG and his soon to be fiancee.  I had flu the day before . On Thursday when I was up my mother was on the ear phone talking to my sisters . Then the engagement day was set on Saturday night. With no thoughts left the three of us rushed to Wah Chan at Giant Shah Alam to search for an engagement ring. What followed were tense , gut wrenching and often hilarious moments. There are many dramas involved too.

After the date was set Dr. Dr  , my sister Nas was asked to come back home for the engagement ceremony. Now the 'hantaran' had to be prepared. It was such a short notice so my mother searched for the trays . My sisters had kept it in the shelves. It still looked good. Than on Friday night we were looking at the trays and the cover . We also asked for mother where shall we put the ring. So my mother brought some boxes to see . We  almost fainted to see her choice. Blue was out. Nas said that we should put some orchids but then we were laughing because it is the 90's choice. My idea of putting jasmine flowers was also ignored. Then we we looked at some of the  'hantaran' ideas on  the internet .   We decided to go hunting at the  market in the morning but my mother snatched GG the next morning.

So the 'hantaran' or gifts were later shown . It was beautiful. White so, we send five hantaran. This is the last minute preparation so it was okay . Yatie and Sadd were not around but were kept up to date  .  There were also a lot of issue of who  will be giving the speech at the ceremony.

Nas and I went to  an Ariani shop nearby.  . I  bought a salmon coloured and Nas bought a dark green coloured tudong. Since this is an official engagement I also want to look nice.

After that we wen to Giant Kota Damansara to buy some more petals and Baby's breath . There is a nice shop although things would look nicer if given ample time but it  went well. So at 9.00 pm all of us were there. Ed and family, Taqi and family , Nas and children, myself , Mal with a  childhood friend  and of course my parents. 

The engagement ceremony was brief with my father speaking for the night. And then we saw the GG's future wife for the first time for most of us at least . After the ceremony which is held in Kampung Baru all of us went to have tea at Al Rawsha . There were many people  at the restaurant . We had a nice time at the family room having lamb Maghdud  and kebab.

Jingga the kitten is nowhere to be seen today and last night .  He is afraid to come in as the children liked to chase him. So after this we will have a wedding after Aidilfitri. Insha' allah.