Joy of Giving Treats to our pet dog and pet cats

For the past few years, I have been feeding both my dog and cat science diet pet food for dogs and cats.

I admit one of the things that draw my attention is "Science" diet, that sounds like they have research and development proper dietary planning for the requirements for your pets right? Plus it helps that they are from the giant corporate "Nestle".

Changing of Pet Food for dog and cat

so we fed them science diet pet food till they are old, and then my husband switched them to raw food diet, give them more meat and raw food to enjoy in their life, as natural intend.


Anyway my cat has aged, and actually, she doesn't like to eat hard biscuits for her meal anymore. We give her softer meat and well, she does take a longer time to chew but she seems to enjoy it.

Her favorite? canned wet cat food, that is softer, wet, and of course more appetizing.
We are giving what she wants for her, because... well she is really old.

Caring for old dog or old cat

maybe that's why we are pampering our dear cat now. she is old now and just had an operation at the vet to remove an eye to relieve the big pressure.
she nows prefer to stay alone in her own corner, far away from us.

ooooo feeding her medicine has been nothing but disastrous.

She is so stubborn, refusing to eat the pill we cut and added into her food.
She will vomit the pill out of the food too even when we start holding her for 20 minutes after feeding in the hope that the pill has reached beyond her ability to vomit out her medicine.

Well.. you can lead a cat to her medicine but you can't force her to digest it.
and she still has sharp claws and teeth lol.

sometimes it takes 3 of us just to feed her medicine, only for her to hide behind the sofa and vomit out all the pet food and the crushed pills in it.

too smart for her own good. :(

Hope to give her a good life.
I do miss giving my dog her favorite dog pet treats like puppy.
Too bad she had an illness, an operation and did not survive it.
I miss you Kiekie.

I love manuka honey, chia seeds and quinoa!

Recently had a little bit of health crazy.
Let's see what is my usual health routine as a working mum.
I got to stay active, if not gonna die from my office-bound job.

Health Routine

My exercise routine!

Do Yoga 2 or 3 times a week

Usually yoga during lunch time or weekend

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Health food I tend to eat every day

1. Dong Chong Xia Chao 冬蟲夏草
2. Royal Jelly Supplement
3. Manuka Honey UMF

Cordyceps 

"Dong Chong Xia Chao", or rather "Cordyceps" or otherwise known as the Mysterious Caterpillar Fungus. It is a caterpillar that dies when fungus attacks it and eat it from within, then it died as a fungi body. This is actually extremely expensive.

My hubby bought this regularly in powdered form, he got it from those caterpillar farms, where they harvest cordyceps, if not the wild version is about 10 times as expensive.

Royal Jelly from bees

Royal Jelly is actually a honey type of supplement that bees make for their queen bees. It is this feeding of this supplement that enables that bee to become the Queen Bee and lay eggs daily. Actually probably lay hundreds and thousands of little bees daily.

So there are a lot of reviews where the royal jelly is good for us.

I am not a big fan though. I just eat if my hubby brought this home.

Manuka honey 

This is the supplement I will buy regularly for my baby and me (Note: You can only let babies above the age of 1 to eat honey. Babies below age 1 has not developed a proper immune system yet and may die from eating honey)

I buy only manuka honey that has the UMF endorsement from the New Zealand Government.
This is important because most of the manuka honey out there are fake.
People pay tons of money to buy normal honey that is labeled falsely as "manuka honey"

Only buy those with UMF logo.

Manuka honey is great for us because of its a monofloral honey from the manuka bush, which contains a large number of antibacterial components, which they called MG (or a longer name, I dunno how to spell)
Anyway, a great number of reviews can be found online but this is the blog that I realized its a sincere explanation of manuka honey: he ate and tried more than 10 brands of manuka honey in Singapore!

Manuka Honey UMF Reviews in Singapore

It is so funny that he did try so many manuka honeys, u can read the other articles on his blog.
If you want to read on all the Manuka Honey benefits FAQ


Have a happy life!
Be a happy mother!

introducing jevity glucerna ensure delivery in Singapore

Singapore is growing old and with more and more elderly.

and we all have parents, or even grandparents to take care of.

for the past few years, i have to order wheelchair, ramps, adult diapers and adult milk feed for her.

I dread the day I have to use these for myself too. :(

Caretakers of the old

That makes people like us, the generation of caretakers.

We have to take care of our elderly because they once took care of us as kids.

So I guess it's our turn to be grateful and help out.

one of the horrible thing being a caretaker is that it is really difficult to shop for and carry the bulky items from the shop to our homes.

and of course, the tedious effort to elderly-proof the home for old folks.

Heavy and bulk adult diapers or milk cartons

It's not just the wheelchairs or commodes that are bulky and troublesome to fold and carry home, you definitely need to pay for a taxi or moving services, these are quite tough to take on public transport.

It's all the nutritious milk feed like Jevity, Glucerna or Ensure Plus.

These milk feed are very heavy. If your senior citizen is drinking the powder form, where you can mix with warm water, then at least the powder form are lighter (you just have to add water at home), but the liquid form, with all the liquid included..... is really heavy.

Ensure plus is sooooo heavy.

 Not shown in the above:- how heavy a carton of ensure plus can be.

And Tena adult diapers and etc, they are not heavy, but definitely bulky and super inconvenience to tug along from the retail shops all the way home...

And you definitely want to buy more than a carton, because it's not like a fun trip to go shopping for adult diapers on a daily or weekly basis right?

Adult diapers, Ensure milk or Glucerna Jevity delivered to your home

Anyway guess where did i find to buy all these medical and health care products?

Buy jevity glucerna in singapore

Surprise. there is a local start up that does delivery.. for free!

Glad to be supporting fellow Singaporeans!

yeah! free delivery, as long as you hit $150 per cart.

which is really not that difficult since a lot of these milk and diapers are quite expensive.

Good news is these are cheaper at SeniorCare.com.sg too. 

I saved a fair bit of money since their prices are cheaper than retail shops and competitors, and its no longer a hassle dragging these items back home too.....

Unfortunately, they do not accept cash on delivery, but I usually pay via bank transfer to their DBS bank account in Singapore, so its quite hassle-free

I even bought blood pressure monitors from them too, for myself to check on my blood pressure. its quite nice that they carry most of the models from Omron blood pressure devices.

And glucosamine, omega fish oils and vitamin C!

These supplements are cheaper at there too, made in USA quality so you don't have to worry.

Chew Chor Meng is old too

You know, whenever I buy glucerna now, i feel sad too thinking about Chew Chor Meng.

He was TV idol last time, young and cute.

Now he is the spokesperson for Glucerna..... a milk product for the elderly (or at least the middle aged adult)

and have you seen the recent TV dramas he is acting in? The scriptwriters have been kind enough to incorporate wheelchair scenes for him, because he cannot stand or walk for long....

I guess both celebrities and me are growing old. 

Thats the true about life.

Time and tide waits for no men (and women)

Children and babies instead of makeup and earrings

Woooo it has been more than 11 years since I last blogged.
back then I was still a young university girl learning about chemistry and, well, life and stuff.
a lot has changed since then, here I am, updating the internet and keeping a record in case I got old and forgot all about my personal history.
Chemistry was fun and stuff, but not something I would want to do for a career I guess.

This old blog was all about school and school work, nothing personal, and a little boring.
and frankly, I do not like to write.
Writing takes up energy and time.....
Plus facebook probably killed most of the bloggers out there.
much easier to write about your life with photos in Facebook than a chunky website right?

Life since NUS

anyway since 2008, I graduated from NUS, took a good job, learned and improved in the job.
It was non-related to what I had studied for, but a good job, excellent learning experience, and a decent pay grade.
A civil sector job in HDB, it allows me to interact with the public and learn on how to manage projects, how to manage people and staff.
I learned quite a fair bit, had a good boss and some great colleagues.

Quit the job, on a new job. slightly lower pay, but a better working environment. I make up the difference by working hard and smart and getting promoted as fast as I could.

Oh, yeah got attached, got married, had a baby =)

I am old now =P

Children topic like toddler development interest me now

Instead of shopping for earrings and makeup brushes, I am more interested in reading a blogpost on how magnetic blocks help in child's development. Interesting isn't it :)

awww the burdens of being a working mother.
now I am quite experience in milk bottles, diapers, nursing methods, babies behavior, toddlers play time. Oh my god. so much more to learn as my child grows up.

now that I am happily married, with a great hubby and a great son. what's next?
Oooooo another kid. because I think 2 is perfect. :D
probably in 9 more months, I think?

what's there now to do in life? probably planning for retirement, prepare enough to save for me after paying for all the expensive stuff related to childbirth and child-rearing.
it is almost halfway to my adult livelihood =)

should I upgrade and get another job?
should I start a sideline?
should I start documenting my life?

or maybe I should do some simple projects to improve my passive income and retirement portfolio. My hubby loves growing passive income, be it an extra $1 per month, he would be keen to build on, his pipeline of income.

Life growing up with baby and family

We will see.
one thing is for certain, I should really do more exercising.
More yoga for sure has been doing a lot less yoga since I give birth.
Mostly because of lack of time, but yeah.... will do more exercise.

Probably the best return on investment is exercise at this age.
Because let's be clear.... time is not on our side :)

Life is good! I am curious about what life would be in 2029.

Maybe I won't recognize myself then.

19 May 2019

Reflection

Looking back at the lessons and tasks completed for this module, there were really a lot! Effective communication, process of job application, research report and presentation were the main parts that were covered in this module.

Previously, I took another module related to effective communication. I found that both modules are very similar initially as we learnt about how effective communication can be achieved. Doing things like understanding a matter from others' point of views, speaking in the correct tone and using the correct non-verbal language are what affect effective communication. The main difference between these two modules is that this module introduces blogging as part of the communication process. I find that it is very relevant as most of the people nowadays like to communicate in the virtual space, which definitely includes blogging. Furthermore, there were a few blog topics which spark some really good conversations online between the classmates. It was a good chance to know one another better and the class definitely bonded better!

My overall learning experience was great as the things that we learnt are very applicable to real life. As this is my final year of study in NUS and I am going to apply for jobs the coming year, the learning process of job application was very useful to me. I hope that my cover letter and resume can get me a good job in this bad economy! Similarly, the research project was also an experience to gain as we went through the steps to conduct a good survey and to present a report.

Lastly, I am very glad to have Brad as our lecturer, and all the very friendly classmates! Thanks all for the guidance and help that was provided along this journey! :)

EDITED on 9 November 2008

My biodata

My name is Teo Su Ching Angeline. I am currently pursuing my undergraduate studies in NUS, majoring in Chemistry. The current Final Year Project that I am working on has allowed me to find my passion in Chemistry and synthesis work. Though challenging, synthesizing of new compounds is interesting and there are so much more to explore. I am considering furthering my studies in this area if possible. During my vacation in Year 2, I had internship in a chemical industrial company and it definitely added on to my exposure in this field, as well as development of great relationships with my ex-colleagues. I enjoy challenges in work and see them as a chance for me to achieve success.

My other greatest passion is to travel around the world, not that I have gone to many places, but it can definitely be achieved in the time to come. As a student, being able to travel out of Singapore in every vacation is what motivates me to work hard to earn myself a good break. In every trip, I get to learn new cultures and new activities that I can never experience in Singapore, such as skiing, diving and river rafting. It is an enjoyment to immerse oneself in the different environment and gain new experience by constantly learning new things. From these trips, I have also learnt to be more independent and achieved better communication skills.

Since my high school days, I have been given opportunities to display my leadership qualities, such as holding the position of Vice President for the First Aid Club in Hwa Chong Institution and being an officer in St John Ambulance Brigade. They were great experiences and I have acquired the skills to be a team leader, as well as a team player.

Research Project Experience

The research project has been a positive learning experience even though the time limit to complete the project was a little too short. From the project, I understand that good teamwork and effective communication are very important in contributing to an excellent final research report.

Good teamwork can be achieved by fulfilling each person’s responsibility and submitting the work by the scheduled deadline. It requires everyone in the team to cooperate and finish the assigned tasks by the deadline. As my project mates and I were very busy with other schoolwork in the midst of doing the project, we often had to rush out the work in order to send to everyone to compile the work that we had done. It was really a relief when everyone completed the tasks as appointed and moved on to the next step in the project.

During the project, we had several meetings and discussions. These include face-to-face discussions and conversing through emails. It is very crucial to express oneself in the correct tone during discussion to prevent any misunderstanding and unhappiness among the project mates. Luckily, even though we had our own opinions, we could actively listen to what the others had suggested and eventually decided on the best choices. This form of effective communication was established in all our meetings and discussions, which aided us in achieving our agenda for every meeting.

For the upcoming oral presentation, it will be important to express oneself clearly to the audience so that the ideas can be brought across and accepted. The correct tone must also be used in accordance to the formality of the presentation.