This Is What It Takes To Love A Single Parent
It takes a special kinda man to fall in love with a single mother of two, and I’m sure it wasn’t easy becoming a husband and father overnight but you did it anyway.
Author: Laila Zain
Nasi Lemak Salted Egg Fried Chicken At Mamalee Is Pretty Good
When people find out I work at Uptown they always say two things: There’s no parking! Got lots of good food! The first is real. There’s no parking. That’s why you work in at...
Ayub Competes In The FIRST Lego League Jr. Malaysia
Ayub and Sulaiman have been attending Bricks4Kidz for around a year. It’s a LEGO class! They go once a week for an hour and learn about the topic of the day, then they build...
Eat The Best, Most Affordable, Pork-Free Chili Pan Mee At Tropicana City Mall
Update #2 – March 2018: The quality is still nowhere near as awesome as it used to be but they are trying hard to improve and are open to feedback. Do give them a...
The Boys Get A Quick RM20 Haircut At X-Cut Tropicana City Mall
This a post about nothing. Another lazy family day over the long, long weekend. The kids have been looking like wildlings recently. They both insist on keeping their hair long. I don’t mind but...
Starbucks Mooncakes Look Better Than They Taste
One of the many perks of working at SAYS.com is that we receive a ton of freebies and goodies almost daily. Today, we got two beautiful boxes from Starbucks, filled with their new mooncakes...
Super Saigon In TTDI Has Awesome Banh Mi, Meatballs, And Decor
We saw the signboard for a new restaurant opening soon in TTDI called Super Saigon. The hubby and I were pumped. We love Vietnamese food. A couple years back we got the opportunity to...
The Children’s Business Fair At TTDI
Ayub spent the past month working on his business, Bugging Out!, by figuring out the cost and revenue and profit and all that other boring nonsense that is incredibly important and fascinating and not....
This 8-year-old Entrepreneur Launched His Own Line Of Notebooks
I’m counting my blessings today because it seems nothing wants to go right. Blessing #9287462783948476, we found an amazing school for Ayub. A few months back the kids were tasked with learning about entrepreneurship...
Oasis Place Is The Best Centre For Kids With Special Needs
We’ve been to many places in search for better understanding, stronger support, and the best care for Ayub. It took us 4 years but we finally found Oasis Place. And it is truly the...
I Got Rejected By Upwork Three Times And Now I’m Sad
So I used to write freelance for Elance back in the day and things were going alright. I made a few thousand bucks but then the workload just got too heavy and the pay-off...
KL Bird Park 2017 – Mama’s Review
I have loved the KL Bird Park since I first brought Ayub there when he was 1 year old. I’ve tried to go back every year since then because it’s my favourite KL attraction....
Enjoy Halal Chinese Comfort Food At Homst In TTDI
My family first met the owner of Homst, Yusoff Lau, over 10 years ago when he was just starting out his halal Chinese restaurant in TTDI. My parents loved his food so much and...
What Happens When A Baby Doesn’t Gain Weight After A Month
Aisha just had her 6-month check-up and vaccination jab. She only gained 100grams in 6 weeks. Yeah, we missed her 6-month appointment and brought her two weeks later. So that’s 6 weeks since her...
An Open Letter To My 21-Year-Old Self
Dear 21-year-old me, You’re stronger than you know. At this point in time, you’ve been married for over a year, been through a miscarriage, and are currently in the hospital freaking out over your rainbow...
Making Money Online In Malaysia With 8Share
I don’t know why I didn’t write a post about this earlier. It kinda slipped through the cracks I suppose. I’m forever looking for a way to make money online, from home, passive income,...
Ayub The Mighty Has Started A YouTube Channel
A few nights ago during dinner, Ayub got really excited to see a spider on the wall. He has always loved bugs, spiders are his favourite. He could not contain his excitement and...
I’m Skeptical About Kidsogenious But I’ll Wait And See
So it was determined through a thorough assessment of Ayub that he needed speech therapy. Quick backstory, I noticed his speech was delayed when, at the age of 2 he was still unable to...
I Want To Launch A Startup For Special Needs People In Malaysia
Do you know what it feels like to be parent? For me, it feels like a piece of my heart has been broken off and placed into the body of another human being. And...
It’s Baby Versus Rambutan And The Fruit Won
Little baby Aisha isn’t very interested in solid food. Usually I give her toys to play with but this evening there were a few rambutan on the table so I placed some on her...
I Tried Out Durian Condoms
So today Sam wrote a story about durian flavoured condoms from the company ONE. A short while after it was published, ONE shared it on their Facebook. And I’m not sure how this happened...
Dua By SKöHNS Restaurant Includes A Children’s Play Area And Simple Food
Decided to eat out for dinner tonight, which hasn’t happened since Aisha was born. We didn’t want to go far so decided to head over to Dua by SKöHNS in TTDI to try it out,...
I Found A Lump In My 4-Year-Old’s Neck
Sulaiman has had a lump in his neck since he was around 2-years-old. I thought it was just a lymph node that was swollen due to sore throat or a cold. But it’s been...
The Baby Rolls Over At 4 Months Old
Aisha has been trying to roll over since she was 3 months old. She was doing pretty ok. Getting to one side. Luckily for her, she’s much lighter than her two old brothers who...
Gina’s Place Helped Me Breastfeed Successfully
Despite my efforts, I have struggled with breastfeeding since the beginning. Ayub was bottle fed formula, and I pumped exclusively with Sulaiman. This round I was adamant about breastfeeding Aisha. Luckily I stumbled upon Gina’s...
Four-Year-Old Sulaiman Writes A Blog Post
Hi, I’m Sulaiman. I am 4 years old. My favourite colour is red. My favourite animal is zebra. My best friend’s name is Grace Ci. My favourite movie is Ghostbusters. My favourite game is...
This Is How To Enroll Your Special Needs Child Into Sekolah Kebangsaan PPKI
Some government schools offer a program for special needs children called Program Pendidikan Khas Integrasi (PPKI). Dyslexic children attend mainstream classes, except BM and Maths, which is taught separately by dyslexia-trained teachers. Autistic children...
Finding Schools For A High-Functioning Autistic Child In Malaysia Is Damn Hard
Click here for a list of 10 autism-friendly primary schools in the Klang Valley. Update 8-March-19: Ayub no longer attends Acton KL, and it’s still wonderful 🙂 Update 28-Sept-17: Ayub now attends Acton KL...
My Son Attends The Dyslexia Association Of Malaysia (Even Though He’s Not Dyslexic)
Eight months ago in December 2015, Ayub was diagnosed with dyslexia at Hospital Putrajaya. I now think the diagnosis is wrong, but that’s a whole other story… Anyway we were referred to the Dyslexia Association...
My 7-Year-Old Chooses To Take Ritalin Everyday
I was a little skeptical of Putrajaya Hospital’s dyslexia diagnosis of Ayub, but we got in touch with the Dyslexia Association of Malaysia all the same. But following certain events, which I’ll get into...
WhimsyThread Hairbands Are Just Adorable
I’ve been looking forward to buying hairbands for a baby girl ever since I found out I was pregnant with Aisha in June 2015. But being a complete noob at all things little girl,...
My 7-Year-Old Went Missing For An Hour After School
This is the story of how my 7-year-old son went missing after school. Ayub takes the school bus to and from school everyday. Usually he’s home in the afternoons by 1.20pm. Since the hubby...
What To Do When Your Husband Is A Gamer
If, like me, you are married to a gamer, you’ll likely find yourself either very free to do whatever you want or you’ll be bogged down with all the household chores and child-raising by...
The 6 Symptoms To Determine If Your Child Has Hand-Foot-And-Mouth Disease
Sulaiman, Ayub and I have hand-foot-and-mouth disease. I caught it early and had been treating their symptoms before the official diagnosis so there’s nothing to be alarmed about.
Somebody Plagiarized Me And I Want To Sue
So I keep meaning to write proper posts about being a Ninja Housewife. I realize at the moment it’s mostly archives from my old blog when I worked in radio and a sprinkling of recent posts...
The Shoemoney Network – I Got Paid!
I started this blog for fun. Because I really love blogging. (If you check out my Archives section, you’re actually reading several years worth of posts at my old blog “Work and Babies.”) It...
What To Do When You Have UTI And Food Poisoning At The Same Time
Answer: Crawl into a hole and cry. Alternately if you don’t have a hole nearby to crawl into, feel free to curl yourself into a ball and cry. And if crying is not your...
How I Broke My Washing Machine And Didn’t Learn From My Mistake
A couple months back we went back to the hubby’s hometown for a week. My memory is really hazy. I think it may have been the week we had our wedding reception. Anyway, we...
Baby Photoshoot
Jules, Prem and Hafiz bought me a 1 year membership to the Picture Company. It’s a photo studio that specializes in children and family portraits. Brought the boys there a while back. Here’s their...
My handsome Ayub
Ayub is such a good looking little boy. Am I being biased? Probably. Do I care? No. He’s awesome. Look at his face. Just look. He is adorable. I love him.
