Since i am entering into a new phrase of my life, decided to change my blog skin too. Didnt manage to find one which i really like..so this will do for now :)
SMH gathering
Just came back from our ever first Singapore Motherhood Forum ("SMH") - july thread mummies dinner gathering. Had a great time! At first i was still afraid that we might feel awkward and wont have much things to say. But you mommies proved me wrong! Haa such fun and crazy bunch of ppl. Learnt quite a few things from one of the 2nd time mom and just had fun talking about anything under the sky. Hopefully there would be another outing soon. Cant wait :)
Finally the mystery has been solved! And i am carrying........ a BOY! After such a loonnngg wait, we can finally start to buy things for junior, offically in blue. :P Went for my detailed scan on monday at NUH (the same place where i had my oscar test during week 12th). The wait wasnt as long as the previous one but the scan was much longer. It took us a total of 40 mins to finish the scan as the sonographer needs to get measurement from head to toes and when she was trying to scan junior's face, he was in a wrong position and simply refuse to turn. Haaa... we tried shaking the tummy (gently of cos), me lying on my sides (first left side , then right side) and when nothing works, my sonographer ask me to take a break and she walked out of the room for a while..lol..i kept telling junior to be guai and pls turn and ended up he really did in the end, except that now he is using his hand to cover his face..faint.... my sonographer continues to scan for other parts before coming back to his face..hahha... so we got a very shy boy who refuse to face the camera.
So, after the reveal of the mystery, our next task would be thinking of name... actually I drag this process...and i simply got no idea what to call junior..any suggest anybody? Would only be thinking of christian name for now. Cos we need to date and time of delivery before deciding on the chinese name.
BB fair at expo
Went to the Expo BB fair yesterday. It was quite disappointing and relatively small as compared to the Taka bb fair. The vendors are in small and cramp booths and we practically have to queue to see the products as there wasnt enough space for us to squeeze to the front of the shelves to take a look. Becos of this arrangement, we spent a total of 6hrs plus there! But in between we did take a break and went next door to the Home Design fair and also the Food fair. Didnt buy much from the expo bb fair, only some small items here and there. Our main aim was to buy the Baby Safe mattress (which is very good), but as our cot (given 2nd hand by hubby's colleague) size is smaller than the smallest mattress that they have, we didnt manage to get a suitable size :( But at least we did manage to get their New Born (NB) pillow and the mattress waterproof mat.
After expo, we hop over to Marina Square, Kiddy Palace to look at their mattresses. Lucky they do sell the size that we need, but as they are not having any discount and we are not in a hurry to get the mattress, we did not buy the mattress on the spot. Wanna at least confirm the gender of junior (which is tmr!) first before buying the mattress together with the bedding set.
Our loot from expo bb fair
4 packs of Huggies Ultra (2 for my sis and 2 are mine)
With 4 packs purchased of huggies, they gave us a free "fishing" toy
Acquamarine
Am on half day today cos sis treated us lunch at Aquamarine at Marina Mandrain Hotel. Almost couldnt make it cos my leave almost wasnt approved :P anyway, the food and variety there was good! Too bad i couldnt eat raw salmon and oysters! My fav!!! Really missed them..sob sob..but their japanese section was pretty good and the dessert was great too! The main course however is only ok, but who cares abt main course :P so far i havent been to any hotel which serve impressive main courses. Didnt take a lot of photos as i forgot to bring my camera. Am only using my iphone to take pics, thus can only take photos of food (at least near enough for me to take..haha).
In the restaurant
A very cute bottle of honey and yes! we can bring it home..or..secretly bring it home :P
They even have mua-chee
That cup thingy is actually very delicious durian puree
And lastly, my fav : ice cream! Did you realise i am no longer wearing my proposal ring? Sad to say, i have "out grow" it...sob sob..it no longer fits me. Luckily for my wedding ring, i made a size bigger than my proposal ring..thus still able to wear..
Taka fair
Went for my routine gynae visit this morning, hoping that Dr Yam will "confirm" the gender of junior, but still..hai...he say 90%...so still need to wati till my detailed scan which is on next monday. Anyway, something very sweet happened during the scan this morning. As Dr Yam was trying to see the gender of junior, junior was moving ard and Dr yam said," hmm..bb very active, cant see properly." Then in my heart i told junior to be still and open legs wide wide..and junior suddenly did! haha...Dr yam did ask us," you see that..." but still he just gave us 90% confirmation.
Anyway after the checkup, met up with Huiping and went to Taka bb fair. Luckily we went today and the crowd wasnt too bad. Bought quite a few items including bottles, bb wet wipes, cotton wool balls, breast pads, bottle washing brush and the waterproof mat. All these are not cheap and the total amount is adequate to ask them to deliver the goods to my place already :P
Not much ppl as its a weekday
The 2 bags that was delivered to my place. Small yet expensive items.Since i am on MC and hubby is off today, we dont want to waste the day and go home to sleep (even thou thats very much what i wanted to do!), thus after that, we headed down to suntec for the IT fair. After 2 hrs of additional walking, we finally bought the TV for our new house and a hi-fi set. By the end of the day, satisfied with our purchase but my back is almost till the breaking point..painful.. one more fair to go this mth, thats the Expo bb fair next sat! Gambateh!
Things to buy
Seriously, planning for a bb is just like planning for wedding, except that wedding is a one off event, but bb is a forever commitment. It will always involve alot of planning from now onwards. There are so many things to buy, so many things to research, compare prices, quality, specifications etc... Also need a budget ..just like wedding. This cannot take , that cannot buy, cos no budget for it...sob sob... anyway saw this bassinet from the net just now. Isnt it gorgeous!! Its those nice to have but not must have items..hai... Gg for 2 fair this friday, (1) Taka bb fair and (2) IT fair...this mth is gg to be a super broke month again..
CNY celebration
27 Feb:
It was a busy day, with CNY lunch gathering at my ex-colleague's house followed by dinner with XDs and JMs at Bugis.
It has sort of become a habit that we will meet annual for our CNY gathering. This time round, its at Fredrick's place and boy was his place spacious and very well renovated! But of cos, since he spent a bomb ($55k) just on renovation itself. Let our place, he also hacked 2 room to combine into 1 so that part of the master bedroom is the study area. This year's theme was potluck (at first wanted steamboat, but as there are too many of us and only 1 pot, decided to do portluck instead).
We had:1) home made yu sheng by fredrick and wife
2) home made Olive rice (very delicious! from Bev and Marcus) - if u can see from the pic, they brought 1 WHOLE POT with the rice cooker..lol,
3) home made Vinegar Pork trotters (zhu jiao cu) and barley with beancurd skin (fu zhu yi mi tang shui) from Calvin and wife
4) 933 curry chicken bread and fried sotong from me and Jase (haa both of us dun have parents to cook for us, thus we decided to call and order)
5) Apple and durian strudel from Wenyi (dun think it has anything to do with my forever craving of durain, but the durian strudel is good!!),
6) Fried sotong ball from Yenling,
7) Chicken wings and meat balls from Aug and Jessica and
8 Cut fruits salad from Cindy and Alex
Ya, everyone wanted to take photos with the pregnant woman (roll eyes) and upon seeing the pics, they say i am hiding my tummy..lol..After the heavy lunch, we settled down to a game of Blackjacks. Considering the fact that i nv really won any rounds when gambling during CNY in my previous years, so i guess this could be due to bb luck :P
A group photo
Aug's car. Chio right!!As we are still early for dinner and we are stuff to our neck with food from lunch, Jase and I decided to go Bugis Junction to shop ard and hopefully to disgest our lunch in time to enjoy dinner.
Dinner was at Tian Tian Xiao Chu (steamboat) at Tan Kwee Lan street. Its a farewell dinner for Leting as she would be gg overseas to study...for 4 months only..haha but this little mei mei really hate to go to China, thus was not looking forward of leaving Singapore.
Liang Ge Jiu Gui. Dinner havent start yet, start to drink le.. haha
As usual, soup based is tom yam and herbal chicken.
The most expensive food in the menu! haha , prawn and scallop.
Leting's special request wantons
The boys
Err..forgot what they are trying to do here
Haa! Trying to make our face looks slimmer
Guess who is eating all THESE PRAWNS!!! They are eaten by ONE PERSON...
He is so proud of his achievment that he even arrnage the heads together and ask me to take a pic of it..faint..
After we are done with the steamboatLaw has to work, thus he only joined us at about 10pm+. Warning, if you have just finished a meal, better dun stroll further...the pics below might make u puke.... see at ur own risk...haha!
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Wang Ying Xiang Wu Lian Pai (taiwan style consecutive shots):
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And lastly #5!SO, did you puke?!?!? Hahahahahhaha....
Baby updates:
Do you know that a common symptom for preggy woman is being FORGETFUL n BLUR?!?!? I can testify this pt and swear its absolutely true! In the recent months, i became more and more forgetful and blur. Just yesterday, i was gg home to my parent's place to stay and i was bringing back my office laptop as i have a few backlog blog posts to write and all my photos are in that laptop. Previously i brought back my laptop but i forgot to bring back my starhub wireless connector. This time round, i reminded myself to bring the starhub connector and even hubby helped to remind me. Just as i was leaving, i find that the laptop is very heavy, thus i took out the batt. But when i reached home, i realised..........i forgot to bring back my power cord!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So now, i have my wireless connector, with no batt and no power cord....speechless.... Also on the other night, i was holding on to my towel but yet i was looking for my towel all over the room when i wanted to go and bathe....there are lots of other cases, like when i sent some doc to print and i when i was at the copier machine, i am thinking: what am i doing here ie to print / to collect / or to scan...faint...think this is getting serious... thus now i always have a notebook with me. Its to document down the more impt things, eg if i am gg out to buy things, i make sure i write it down first.
Anyway, we finally bought our 1st baby purchase last friday! Its a Pigeon sterlizer and we bought it at the Robinson sale for 25% disc. Its original price was at $125 , thus after discount, its only at $95. Have been gg ard comparing prices for this sterilizer and by far, this is the cheapest. Hopefully the bb fair that is coming soon wont have anything thats cheaper than this!
I have changed my next gynae apptm from 9th march (nite) to 12th march (morning) so that we can go to the Taka bb fair after our apptm :P and also the IT fair after that..hehe so its 3 birds with 1 stone. And hopefully junior would be cooperative enough this time round and open his/her legs wide so that we can tell the gender. If not by the time of the detailed scan (which should be at end of march), it would be too late for us to buy any clothes durig the bb fairs.
Had my 1st prenatal massage yesterday. Book Zaiton ( a thai lady) for the massage and it cost $50 for 1.5hrs. Best of all, its a home visit service! Consider the convenience man..its good :) The massage was not bad and would definitely get her back for more massages in the future. She also do normal massage (ie not just for preggy woman). So if you wan her contact, can ask me :) At night, i went for a swim. Was wearing my bikini with my big tummy.. went at night so that no one will stare at me :) just swam 5 laps and i couldnt take it anymore. As it was quite hot yesterday, the water in the pool was warm too..hmm...would prefer a cooler water since the weather is so hot.
Nowadays, i can feel junior moving ard more distinctly. Not just during bb plus lesson time. Sometimes when i was watching movie and its was the very exciting part, i can feel junior moving ard too..haha its like he/she is enjoying the movie with me :) sometimes when i just sit and watch tv, junior will kick and kick and kick as if telling me to get up and walk ard so that he/she can sleep :P yesterday law finally felt junior's power kick..hehe, he was putting his face on my tummy to try to hear junior, but instead, junior gave him a kick in the face..hahaha, like telling him: go away, dun block my view..or is junior just trying to be nice to show daddy that yes, junior is indeed inside mummy and wanted to let daddy feel his/per presence too:D