Earth Hour – Turned Lights Off for 1 Hour to make stand against climate change. Are you one of the supporter? Perhaps you are!

I did it last year and for sure will do the same action tonight. I had already makes an appointment with my family members to enjoy candlelight dinner and shadow fun tonight. How about you?

This is my Earth Hour lantern to support the 60 Earth Hour. (No good in design…:P)

We all should learned:-

Let’s show our support. A simple actions at the same time (local time) globally. It’s our responsibility to care about our earth. A little efforts today for tomorrow better living.

Love our planet = Love ourselves

I don’t give candies to my two little princesses. But all kids like candies. This is for sure. Then all adults like to buy candies to children. This is the bad habits of all adult! *sight*

I have to hide whatever candies in my and my parent in law home. But my princesses are smart enough to find it out. Then my trick now is told my princesses I had already installed wireless security systems at both houses. No way can they hide for stolen my hided candies. Of course they keep on asking me where are those hidden camera installed and I have no choice to lie and keep on ignore to answer their questions.

Hmm, I am wondering when my lie will be broken one day….

Honest speaking, I will never read such kitchen related articles when I was young. For me who don’t like to cook and got people to cook for me, all these tips are useless. But after being a mom, I forced started to cook, some of these helpful tips that I manage to learn are really works well.

This is the greatest part of having parents or even grandparents at home. So much of life experience they shared we will just ignore it when that is not our concern. But when we need it, we will know that all those time-tested experience are truly helps and amazing!

50 Amazingly Helpful Time-Tested Tips for the Kitchen

You know all of those helpful kitchen-related suggestions that old-timers are so willing to share with the younger generations? These little tips and tricks might be called “kitchen hacks” these days, but they’re still the same good old nuggets of wisdom that they always were. As with any old wives’ tale, hack, or tip, your mileage may vary. Some of these gems have been around for several lifetimes – and according to most grandmas, they really work.

1. For cleaning smelly hands after chopping onions or garlic, just rub them on a stainless steel spoon. The steel is supposed to absorb the odor.

2. Fresh coffee beans can also absorb nasty odors from your hands.

3. If you happen to over-salt a pot of soup, just drop in a peeled potato. The potato will absorb the excess salt.

4. When boiling eggs, add a pinch of salt to keep the shells from cracking.

5. Never put citrus fruits or tomatoes in the fridge. The low temperatures degrade the aroma and flavor of these persnickety fruits.

6. To clean cast iron cookwear, don’t use detergents. Just scrub them with salt and a clean, dry paper towel.

7. Will milk curdle if it is allowed to boil? It turns out that this age-old piece of wisdom isn’t true, after all. Milk that has been boiled is perfectly safe to consume.

8. To clean an electric kettle with calcium buildup on the heating element, boil a mixture of half white vinegar and half water, then empty.

9. When storing empty airtight containers, throw in a pinch of salt to keep them from getting stinky.

10. If you are making gravy and accidentally burn it, just pour it into a clean pan and continue cooking it. Add sugar a little at a time, tasting as you go to avoid over-sugaring it. The sugar will cancel out the burned taste.

11. Burned a pot of rice? Just place a piece of white bread on top of the rice for 5-10 minutes to draw out the burned flavor. Be careful not to scrape the burned pieces off of the bottom of the pan when serving the rice.

12. Before you chop chili peppers, rub a little vegetable oil into your hands and your skin won’t absorb the spicy chili oil.

13. If you aren’t sure how fresh your eggs are, place them in about four inches of water. Eggs that stay on the bottom are fresh. If only one end tips up, the egg is less fresh and should be used soon. If it floats, it’s past the fresh stage.

14. To banish ants from the kitchen, find out where they are coming in and cover the hole with petroleum jelly. Ants won’t trek through the jelly. If they are coming under a door, draw a line on the floor with chalk. The little bugs also won’t cross a line of chalk.

15. Before making popcorn on the stove or in an air popper, soak the kernels in water for 10 minutes. Drain the water, then pop as normal. The additional moisture helps the popcorn pop up quicker and fluffier with fewer “old maids.”

16. Don’t store your bananas in a bunch or in a fruit bowl with other fruits. Separate your bananas and place each in a different location. Bananas release gases which cause fruits (including other bananas) to ripen quickly. Separating them will keep them fresh longer.

17. To keep potatoes from budding in the bag, put an apple in with them.

18. If you manage to have some leftover wine at the end of the evening, freeze it in ice cube trays for easy addition to soups and sauces in the future.

19. To clean crevices and corners in vases and pitchers, fill with water and drop in two Alka-Seltzer tablets. The bubbles will do the scrubbing.

20. After boiling pasta or potatoes, cool the water and use it to water your house plants. The water contains nutrients that your plants will love.

21. When you clean your fish tank, the water you drain can also be used to water your house plants. The nitrogen and phosphorus in fish droppings make aquarium water a great fertilizer.

22. When defrosting meat from the freezer, pour some vinegar over it. Not only does it tenderize the meat; it will also bring down the freezing temperature of the meat and cause it to thaw quicker.

23. The substance in onions that causes your eyes to water is located in the root cluster of the onion. Cut this part out in a cone shape, with the largest part of the cone around the exterior root section.

24. Taking the top layer off of a onion can also reduce the amount of eye-watering misery.

25. Toothpaste is a great silver cleaner.

26. Baking soda isn’t as effective a deodorizer for the fridge as that baking soda company would like you to believe. Activated charcoal is much better at absorbing fridge and freezer odors.

27. Baking soda is an extremely effective cleaner, though. Use it with vinegar to deodorize drains and clean stove tops and sinks.

28. A favorite tip of thousands of grandmas: when you nick your finger while cutting veggies, wait until the bleeding stops and paint on a layer of clear nail polish. It will keep juices out of the wound and won’t fall off into the spaghetti sauce like a bandage.

29. The jury is still out on what to put in the bag of brown sugar to keep it from going hard: a slice of apple, a piece of bread, and a shard of a terra cotta pot have all been used.

30. Got a nasty invisible splinter from your kitchen tools? Put a piece of adhesive tape on the area and then pull it off to remove the splinter.

31. When you burn yourself in the kitchen, just spread mustard on the affected area. Leave it for a while and it will ease the pain and prevent blistering.

32. For aluminum pans that are looking dull, just boil some apple peels in them. This will brighten up the aluminum and make your house smell yummy.

33. To keep cookies fresh, savvy grannies like to put some crumpled-up tissue paper in the bottom of the cookie jar.

34. If your salt is clumping up, put a few grains of rice in with it to absorb excess moisture.

35. To clean fruit stains off of your fingers, rub them with a fresh, peeled potato. White vinegar can also do the trick.

36. Keep iceberg lettuce fresh in the fridge by wrapping it in a clean, dry paper towel and storing lettuce and paper towel in a sealed baggie in the fridge.

37. If your loaf of bread is starting to go stale, just put a piece of fresh celery in the bag and close it back up. For some reason, this restores a fresh taste and texture to the bread.

38. Always keep an aloe vera plant in your kitchen. It’s invaluable when you scrape your arm or burn your finger. Just break off a leaf and rub the gel from the inside on the injury.

39. When making a soup, sauce, or casserole that ends up too fatty or greasy, drop in an ice cube. The ice will attract the fat, which you can then scoop out.

40. To reuse cooking oil without tasting whatever was cooked in the oil previously, cook a 1/4″ piece of ginger in the oil. It will remove any remaining flavors and odors.

41. If your milk always goes bad before you can finish it, try adding a pinch of salt to the carton when you first open it. It will stay fresh days longer.

42. Water that has been boiled and allowed to cool will freeze faster than water from the tap. This comes in handy when you’re having a party and need ice pronto.

43. Remove tea or coffee stains from your fine china by mixing up a paste of baking soda, lemon juice, and cream of tartar. Rub it over the stains and they’ll come off easily.

44. If two drinking glasses become stuck together after stacking, it’s not impossible to un-stick them. Just put ice in the inner glass and dunk the outer glass in warm water. The warm glass will expand and the cold glass will contract, making the glasses separate easily.

45. For splinters under the fingernail, soaking the affected finger in a bowl of milk with a piece of bread in it is said to draw out the splinter.

46. Did grandpa ever give you a drink of cola for an upset tummy? It turns out that this is actually a pretty effective remedy. The sugar and carbonation can soothe many tummy problems – but it can also exacerbate others.

47. Putting salty bacon on a boil is said to “draw the poison out” of boils.

48. To help old wooden drawers (without runners) open and close smoothly, rub a candle on the tracks.

49. A cotton ball soaked in white vinegar and applied to a fresh bruise will reduce the darkness of the bruise and help it disappear sooner.

50. Drinking cranberry juice and eating blueberries regularly will help stave off urinary tract infections.

I am wondering where the treadmill my mother in law kept. This is a gift from her brother and I saw she worked great with the exercise. But that was happened few years ago.

I am thinking about her health as she has no exercise at all. Then I recall my memory about this nice exercise equipment been in her home before. Then I only realize and wondering where she kept it. This is a big stuff and it should be in her store room if I am not mistaken. Hmmm, I will ask her to take it out and encourage her back to exercise.

I stumble upon to the news about PayPal to add 1000 new jobs in Asia Pacific Region. This is definitely great job opportunities to those job hunters. It is no doubt that PayPal done the very good jobs in the pass and for sure it will grow much stronger in the further. It truly brings the convenience to sellers and buyers as well as businesses dealing with each others. Ｉ am one of the service beneficiary who truly appreciate with their services and convenient of payment and money received.

Now only I realize and perhaps it is not late to discover that PayPal headquarter is base in Singapore. And finally I know the successful man behind the business – Farhad Irani, vice president of PayPal Asia Pacific. Don’t you think he looks handsome?

Oophs, this is not the main point. I am actually looking forward to their PayPal mobile payment software development kit (SDK) which will be available in Q2/2010.

We went to my sis in law new house before school holiday ended. The house that she brought in Ipoh is so big and the price is much cheaper than in KL. Besides, I really envy she can get good deals with the spending of renovation and the cost of modern furniture in her area.

I think this is the big different living in town. With the higher living cost in town, we feel that everything is cheap in the area out of town. Since it is more affordable compare to own a house in town, buying a house at her area will be considering to include in one of our retirement plan now. Do you think Ipoh is a good place for retirement?

For those who having a home, no matter they are the house owner or rented, sleep in bedroom is the most comfortable and relaxing way to rest and re-charge energy.

Some people sleeping on sofa bed. Maybe this is because nowadays the building area of an apartment is not big, so they have no choice to do so.

They are a group of people always sleep in hotels. Most of them are travelers I think. But they are great enough as they manage to arrange some time to rest and sleep.

What about those rest in Sleep Box?

It is no doubt that this is a high-tech and creative design. For sure the charges is cheaper than renting a hotel room as the user can set how much time they need to rest. It can be rent for even only an hour.

I will think twice whether to try on this service. As for me, those who sleeping in sleep box seem like either no life or no love. Busy until only can rest for few hours or lesser? This is truly sad. Agree with me?

But if you really need a short break to re-charge your energy, no matter where the place, to enjoy a nap or a dream, it is still much greater than those insomnia.

What you think about this sleep box which will be in Dubai airport soon?

I still can not understand why our big boss not manages to offer him to continue work with us. Is it because he already get a higher pay job or is it because he is give up with our company management team?

He will be with us until this end of month. His leaving definitely is a loss for the company. What I can say other than good luck?

My dear boss: Wish you all the best!

Malaysia government departments nowadays is more and more high tech and advance compared to before. *Thumb up!*

Started this year onwards, standard one students registration to enroll at government primary schools will need to submit their applications online.

Here is the Online registration address for Selangor State:

SISTEM PENGURUSAN, PERMOHONAN DAN SEMAKAN MURID TAHUN 1

JABATAN PELAJARAN NEGERI SELANGOR

For your info, all government primary school standard 1 intakes are open from 1st of March to 31st of March every year.

For children born at:
02.01.2004 – 01.01.2005 (Standard 1 at Year 2011)
02.01.2005 – 01.01.2006 (Standard 1 at Year 2012)

The registration form is simple and easy to fill up. But before you head to the registration page, make sure you know your selected primary school’s district code.

Fill up your child MYKID or birt cert number, date of birth and the selection of your preferable school by district code then the system will auto generate you a pin number.

The pin number is for your reference of registration and amendments. Please take note that every application is allow for 3 amendments only. The pin number also your access code to check for the result of your application.

You need to print out the application form and submit it to your selected primary school. Besides, here are the documents needed upon your application forms submission: -

1. Child Birth Certificate
2. Utility Bill (TNB/ Water/ Telephone Bill) – Proof of address
3. Parent’s Identity Cards
4. Marriage Certificate / Divorce Certificate
5. Proof of guardian (if applicable)
6. Proof of disable from Doctor / OKU card (if applicable)
7. An envelope size 4 X 9 (115CM X 245CM) with 40 cents stem.

For more details, please read here.

The car’s headlights are the car’s eyes. Different brands and different models cars designs have their own fancies. But don’t know since when I am more focus my attention to the cars headlights designs.

Nowadays those headlights designs are good in performance, easy to install and stylish as well. I especially like those modern stylish halo headlights. I took a fancy to those headlights designs when they are function at night or raining days. When the lights on, it just like your pet is awake.

I am wondering will my hubby agree to invest a pair of new eyes for our car.