Hot Shower Make Skin Dry

My beautician friend told me that I should not wash my face with warm water. The temperature makes skin dry and cause problems with skin eventually.

After that, I keep my observation. True enough, after shower with heater for a few days, I can feel my skin drier.

My colleague went to Korea for holiday. When she came back, she said that the Koreans have good skin. The tour guide told them that Korean prefer cold drink rather than hot drink, and that was the reason for good skin. It sounded illogical, probably there is some truth to that?

Anyway, living in the equator, the climate is always hot and humid. Day in day out, we are under the sun most of the time. In the car and even in the house. My house has full sunlight. I don't need the lamp throughout the day except in the kitchen and in the toilet. Sun is bad to skin.

The skin specialist I went to a few years ago told me that sun is the worst enemy of our ladies' skin. She has nice skin without any blemishes. I think she is the only skin specialist who practices as beautician. She has very good business, and she only works half day. She asked me to carry an umbrella where ever I go. She does that. Even crossing the road, she uses her umbrella. She even uses sunblock in the house!

In order to maintain beauty, a lot of efforts are required, and money to buy all those beauty products. I don't want to spend money on beauty products as that would be long term expenses. I just be cautious of the sun.

The Westerners come here for sun, and we are here afraid of sun. Ha!

ABC

This is ABC. It stands for Ais Batu Campur. Ais = Ice, Batu = stone, Campur = Mix. Or ice cube mixed.

We had this in Malacca 2 years back. There is a street where you can find many tourists. This ABC was very good. Crunched ice with lots of thick santan (coconut milk) and gula melaka (palm sugar). Very cooling after a hot and tiring walk.

Bougainvillea

This Bougainvillea was given by my sister in a pot. The root has grown pass the pot. It is healthy, but do not flower. There are two species in this plant. White and purple colour. 

I wish it can bloom one day. Anything that I need to do to let it flowers?

Another Rat Caught

Caught another rat outside the kitchen. I think it has been hiding under the washing machine for quite long. No wonder I smelt animal hair like dogs not washed for long. And I saw traces of food behind the washing machine. Got you!

My son leaves it on the grass to let it dies from rain and sun, and without food.

This rat tried to squeeze itself out from the small hole.

Pot Plant

What plant is this? I was given this plant about 3 years back in a small pot. This is suppose to be a pot plant. I placed it next to the fence and it grew up very well. Having a plant nicely grown in my backyard is rare. I just let it grow to add some greenery scene to my backyard.

Avocado Plant

Got some avocado from my hubby's auntie two years back when she came to KK. As usual, if she dropped by my house from Tenom, she would give me fruits.

I like to eat avocado with honey. Normally I'll cool the avocado in the fridge before I scope it out to eat with honey or sugar.

I threw the seed at my backyard and it grew into about 1 foot tall. My hubby helped me to dig it out and grew it somewhere in the middle of my backyard. It grew very well up to about 7 feet. The leaves were vividly green. I just like to look at the tree to see it grow.

After several days of heavy raining, I noticed the leaves drooping. It seemed as though the leaves had no strength to lift up their happy faces. In a few days, the leaves became brown, the tree is dying.

My part-time Indonesian maid asked me why the tree dies. I don't know. I can't grow papaya at my backyard as well. After a certain height, the papaya tree dies just like the avocado tree. I suppose the root is rotten with the soaking water underneath.

It's quite sad to see a healthy growing tree suddenly dies away.

Rat in the kitchen

Look at the dark spot. I noticed this rat dropping on Wednesday morning when I walked into the kitchen. A rat in my kitchen hiding somewhere! I washed whatever left on the kitchen table top once more and wiped the table to ensure no trace of rat dirt.

In the afternoon after I fetched my son from school, we stopped at the sundry shop at Taman Pelangi. The lady boss sells all kinds of things. Whatever you want for your house, she has it. This time, I had a clear vision -- a rat trap to catch the rat intruding my kitchen!

The trap was left under the sink with a bait (chicken bone) in it. I was very sure the rat hid at the dark corner but I dare not to disturb the hiding place in fear of the rat running into my house.

The next morning, this was what I saw!

The sundry shop lady boss asked us to drown the rat in the water. Then leave the trap under the sun to remove smell the rat might leaves behind. She said rat leaves behind smell to indicate the place is owned by it. Therefore, we need to remove the smell so that other rat will go into the trap.

Anyway, I didn't drown the rat. I chose to leave the trap with the rat inside in the open. After occasional rain and hot sun, the rat was dead. My son helped me to remove the rat into a plastic bag and threw into the rubbish bin.

Next mission is to catch another bigger rat which I saw last night outside the kitchen. In fact, I think I smelled the rat a few weeks ago. Finally, I saw it yesterday. Tomorrow will be the day to trap this rat.