Transition Period

During this period of time, I'm slowly taking over the "big project" from my Confinement Lady in preparation of her "resignation" on 1st Jan 07. It has been almost a week since I took over her job such as bathing Zachary, washing him after he poo poo, changing his nappy/diaper, feeding him and most challenging of all is breast feeding him.

He has been rejecting me from BF him as I do not have milk for for the first few days. This creates lots of frustration to him and I have to give him formula milk to avoid dehydration and stop his hunger pangs. Sometimes when he sees my Boobs he will scream on top of his lungs, as if like he knows it's time now to milk the cow and working hard with his jaw and sucking power... hahaha..sometimes it's very funny to see him all so frustrated and his face will turn beetroot red! All this bottle feeding and breast feeding creates conflicts and confusion to him. However, with LOTSA patience, determination and persistence he has been doing pretty well. Now he will suckle for at least 15mins for ea breast before he spit it out.

Zach's coming to a month old soon and we are holding his full moon celebration on 30th Dec 07. This is Zach taken between 25th-26th Dec 07.

Zach loves to stretch....notice his legs...

My sleeping position

Here's how Zach takes his afternoon nap...

I shall consider giving him a bolster to hug.... :)

Love So Amazing...

You may noticed that I have added a new feature to my blog. This song~ Love So Amazing is specially dedicated to Zachary.

Time flies. It felt like it was just yesterday I gave birth to Lil' Zach. He is 12 days old now and he has been drinking and sleeping well. Mummy is keeping up with him and working day and night as a cow.

Aunty Tai (my Confinement Lady) with Zach

Mummy and Zach (looking sad here as nothing harvest from mummy's "tank")

I'm learning to understand his daily routine on waking up for milk and sleeping patern. He'll cry for milk and if he's not satisfied after first feed and he will ask for more by showing all sorts of expression with his mouth. I guess this is how baby "communicate" through us with their sign languages. Cute issnt?

In his slumberland...
Can you see some white patches on his face? Skin peeling...poor thing...

Pain in the Ass!

This is my life saver.

No words can describe how thankful I am to have this as my ASS IS IN PAIN for the past few days! I've been suffering from piles since the day Zachary was born and it's not getting any better when the day goes by. Seems like the piles are happily clinging on to my butts (mayb they just love the smell of my butts) and refuse to go away. Pooing to me is a pain in the ass and I have tried all remedies ie. sitting in hot salt water, applying some ointment from gynae, sitting in icy cold water, and.....any suggestions from the floor?? With all these, still pain in the ass!!! Sorry, I guess every sentence here is repeating with "pain in the ass" but I can't stop myself from saying it as IT IS REAL PAIN IN THE ASS!

Zachary has arrived!

I didn't expect this blog came so soon after my last blog. Well, I'm glad that he decided to see the world early and here I would like to share my experience on my labour process. Some friends were curious to know if the Music for Unborn works for me ~especially the short labour pain.

Ok, here's the chronological order of my labour pain, huffing, puffing, grinding, ....all in one day, 3rd Nov 07 (Mon).

4:25am - Woke up with some menstrual cramp feeling. Not intense to make me rush to the
hospital. Decide to sleep back.

4:45am - Crampy feeling comes back again. Decide to time it. With my notebook and a pen on
hand, start jotting down the time. Geez, this is madness!

7:30am - Same feeling again but very intense. Too sleepy to bother it. Slept through it again.
Told myself to call my gynae later in the morning to bring forward my appt. to Tues.

9:05am - Woke up with some intense pain at front abdominal. Went to toilet to pee and had the
"show".

9:10am - Called clinic and inform them on my situation. Told to go there immediately for a
check.

9:50am - Arrived clinic. Did a CTG and VE check by gynae. Gosh, I was told I'm 4cm dilated!
Was sent to delivery suite and told that labour will happen later in the evening.

12:05pm - Reached delivery suite after got lost like sotong. Pass a few times the delivery suite
without realising. Change gown and getting ready for labour.

3:20pm - Given epidural ( I should call it "Happydural"). Crampy feeling getting more frequent
and intense thou still bearable but told myself, dont try to be SuperWoman. Just get
it done and fast. Did VE check and only at pathetic 5cm dilated.

6:00pm - I'm 8cm dilated! Baby's heart beat drop and contraction comes in too near within
one another. Sense something is not right and nurse face turn from smiley to
frowning. Don't like this feeling as I'm hoping to have a natural birth.

6:15pm - Baby's heart back to normal. SMiley face from the nurse again. Phew.... Pray no more
frowning from them.

7:00pm - Gynae came to do another VE again. Told I'm fully dilated. Very happy look and told
I can start pushing soon.

7:15pm - Pushing starts! All eyes on me as if I'm giving out the TOTO no. Very encouraging
from everyone.

7:40pm - Gynae decides I need some assistance.

7:49pm - Zachary has arrived! He was vacum out by my last push. He was plopped on my
body the moment he was delivered and I felt in love again.... awww.......

Here's some pics of Zachary and will try to post more of him.

Day 1 (in the delivery room)

Day 3

Day 3

Counting Down...

Hey! I'm still doing the count down! Another 7 days to GO! Was busy last week entertaining my niece and nephew who were down here for 2 weeks. Now they have gone back and I'm Missing them loads! :((( To all my friends & relatives who are excited as me, I'll keep you posted when I delivered. :)

I feel like a walking time bomb. Anytime by now, when the lil' one decides to pull the "plug" and say hi to the world. I have been thinking whether to place my packed bag in the car or in the house. I'd "drew" up a plan in my mind in times of emergency when I'm alone, What's the BEST MODE to get me FAST to the hospital. I pray and hope that I won't be stucked in the peak hours jam. Scary thoughts of possibilities keep running through my mind on the "D-Day".

Engaged!

He has engaged! Yes, I had my weekly check-up yesterday and gynae confirmed he has engaged and weighs 3.1kg. Also, I'm 1cm dilated. Some of you will ask me, what is "dilated" means. Hehe....pls google for pregnancy + dilation to get the answer.... :p. For mummies, I'm sure you know what it means :)

I'm currently in 38th weeks and 3 days. I was poked "down" there and it was very uncomfortable. Not sure what my gynae uses but I suspected she use her fingers to measure the cervix for signs of dilation. And she told me is only 1 finger = 1cm. And after that, I have to walk like a duck for few hours.

Scheduled for another check-up in week 39th and this time round I will be doing half an hour CTG (to monitor the baby's heart rate and contraction time). Most likely I will be 2cm dilated next week? And good news is, I maintain my weight since the last 2 check-up! Hehe...curious of my weight? Please don't ask....fat enough Laaaaaa............!

False Alarm

I had a bad stomache yesterday since I woke up and I thought this was my first contraction to labour pain. I did some reading on contraction and it tells me it was like menses cramp. Problem is, I only experienced mild menses cramp and I can't differentiate between stomache and menses cramp!

It went off and on the whole morning and was trying to keep it cool the whole day without alarming my hubby. Knowing it if I alarmed him, he will be even more kan cheong than me or send me straight to the hospital. Than mid noon, it was so intense and I feel like poo poo. So I went to toilet and had a big Poo Poo! Thereafter, the pain subside and I guess is just the normal stomache.....

Again, in the afternoon I experienced the pain again!!! Geez.... what's wrong with me? It started again the whole cycle and I hinted to my hubby that I may go into labour anytime this week (just to keep him mentally prepare if anything happen...hehehe). Worst still, the pain came together as in I have to sloooooooowly stand up and take a SMall step before walking. It's like the baby's head is pressing my groin and this was my first real pain after carrying him for 9 mths...

We came back early yesterday from visiting my FIL and I was REAL beat the whole day with all the pain at the groin area and walking like a penguin. At night, I told my hubby I had stomached and am not sure if this is a sign of labour. He was quite worry and told me to call the nurse. Somehow, i decided to wait for a while and half an hour later, I went to Lao Sai - watery stools.

Thereafter, all goes well and till this morning I woke up with a stomache again and went to toilet to bake cakes....

Mia

It was my first time seeing my little niece, Mia since she was born on 4th Feb 07. Last week, my bro came back with his family for 2 weeks vacation and I have waited this long to meet her and I felt in love with her the moment I see her. She's such a darling!

She only cries for attention when she's hungry or sleepy. The rest of the time she's an angel.

Guess I'm going to miss her soon and wonder when will be the next occassion I will get to see her again .... :(
Hope to see you soon again, Mia....

Luv,
Kor kor

The Waiting Game now...

I'm now in 37th weeks and baby almost engage. I don't really understand what it means by "almost" engage. Was it there or was it not? Anyway, gynae told me is a waiting game now. Wow...finally I'm experiencing the "D Day" soon and I guess I will miss him kicking inside me.

I brought my 4 years old nephew together with me during the check up. Before that, he was as curious as a cat seeing me having a big tummy. He even thinks I have a BIG BODY! :) oh boy... and few times he wanted to hit or punch my tummy! I was shocked and I have to explain to him there's a baby inside my tummy. After explaning this logic to him, the next thing he did (few occassions) was to lift up my blouse and dress. He told me he wanted to see the baby inside my tummy! :-))

During the check up, my gynae show him the baby's head, tummy, legs and hands. He was so amazed and excited. Just exactly like how he watch his favourite cartoon-Pokemon. And he keeps turning his head to look at my tummy.....

I believe the whole event did wonders to him and he was such a darling after that and he touches my tummy softly and said...Baby inside. AWwwwww.....so cute and innnocent! I almost melt..... There on, he understand and did not hit my tummy anymore or lifting up my blouse or dress. :) Here's a pic of him playing his Star Wars Lego game and I will going to miss him soon.... :~(

Music for the Unborn

I received this gift from my sis-in-law for my little one. It seems that it will helps both mummy and the little one to have a smooth ride throughout the pregnancy and labour too. Initially, I was listening to Baby Einstein mozart and I do enjoy the nice classical music. However, this particular Music for the Unborn comes in 8 sonic stimulation program (very chim man) and the sonic stimulation involves playing sounds to the baby in the womb. Very interesting..... For more info, you can check it out here http://musicfortheunbornbaby.com/

I hope it works after listening diligently for 6 weeks and 2 more weeks to go!. First, let me warn you. The music is aint those classical nor mozart type. The 1st level program sounds like this - BONG.....~~ BONG...~~~ for at least 30mins. Initially, I thought my speaker spoilt as it started off this way. I replay the CD again and comes again the BONG...~~...BONG...~~~. After listening for 10mins I start to doze off.....ZZZzzzzz. Is another new found medicine for those suffering imsonia. And I have 8 programs to complete and each level I have to listen to 7 days, morning and evening. Sounds like a LOooooooong way to go man...however, each time I play I will tell and remind myself...... smooth labour, shorter labour, easy labour, baby healthy.....this is how I psycho myself for the past 6 weeks and am proud that I have reach this far and am very determine to continue for the next 2 weeks.

However, the music for each level will "improve" a little by adding on some "knocking" and echo like sounds to give some flavour and jazz to it. So, not that bad afterall.

I will let you know my birth experience (4 more weeks to go!) and whether this helps and am really looking forward to experience the "real" day soon..... :)

Sweet Dreams with Cookie Monster

Here's my baby cot which we're having problem in moving it around the house. Yes, the width of the cot is way tooooooo BIG for the standard size door (3ft). Hence, for future when baby has to be near to mummy for night feeding hubby has to dismantle the whole thing again. :p This is the ONLY best solution we can think of. Currently it has to be in the guest room for my bro who's coming back with his family and a baby in tow and also the confinement lady will be looking after him for a month.

Anyway, is big enough for him to roam around in his La La Land and I guess he will outgrow it when he's 2+.

35th Weeks & 5 days

Hohoho...! I'm 35th weeks and time flies! I'm getting a little worry as it's near to the delivery date (EDD: 9th Dec). Hospital bag is packed as hubby is as worry as me...haha...


We'd settled most of the major items and recently we bought him a nice baby cot. However, for first time parents (sotong like us) we never thought of measuring the width of the cot! Lesson learn #1, measure the width of the cot before purchase! Ours was too big and it can't fit through the door! Thought we had a good bargain but looks like a joke now.

For the time being, it comfortably sits in our guest room as brother will be coming back for a short vacation with his family. Hence, the "special guest" to open ceremony for this cot will be my little niece and it makes sense to have the cot in the guest room now. I will post a blog about this cot in my next blog.


Here's my tum-tum at week 35th! He's now @ 2.3kg+ and will check on his progress again next week.

The Making of Teddy Bear

Guess I'm too free nowdays and I decided to past my time creating my own teddy bear. It was so called a "gift" from a good friend to past my time and I guess she's not aware that I don't learn home science as part of my school subjects. :p My handiwork sucks......

I'm going to digress here, during my school days one of our projects to construct a mini size table for our SRP (Sijil Rendah Pernilaian) and "Ukiran" (crafting) for our SPM (Sijil Pernilaian Malaysia). It's so called a major project to us in order to pass this subject. Both of this subject I got a C+ and it was sweat and pain to make the table looks like a table but heck, I have 4 woobly table legs in the end! And the ukiran .... I must say you have to be creative enough to imagine the pattern or the so called "artist" trying to deliver her piece of art :p

Here I am again (am I too free or what???) trying to make my own teddy bear. I show it to my hubby and his first re-action... "Wifey, think I just get you a teddy bear".... :( Is that an insult or what???

Step by step instruction (which my hubby assist a little due to some chinese wordings)

This is how it looks before stuffing the cotton balls. The sewing process from head to toe takes me 2 days (of course with few some errors in between whereby I had to unpick and re-sew!!!)

TA-DA!!!! Here's my Teddy! :)) What do you think?

Will I ever make my own teddy again???

NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Almost give up in between but after a few remarks and "jittering" from hubby, I'm so determine to complete it! Thanks to his morale "support", I'll be giving this to him as his early X'mas present! HAHAHA..... :p

Moving towards motherhood and SAHM

I have not been blogging for the past week as I was busy with a new assignment while juggling on with my freelance work. Okay, that's not the real reasons as some of you are aware I'm shaking my legs at home! :p The truth is, yes partially to the latter reasons and the other half was my brain juice has dried up due to the new assignment! Well, I took up a challenge (and half way regretted!!!) to do a translation for a friend from English to Bahasa Malaysia and the best part is for a medical website! Oh boy, little did I know this is going to be an uphill task for me and since my big mouth has agree to it before my Brain objects it I have no choice but to deliver my promise.

Anyway, glad is all over and I have the mood to blog again. My freelance job ends yesterday and today is the mark of the beginning of Pre-SAHM (Stay-at-home-mom). I have another 5 more weeks to go and I'll be doing my count down today and wonder what is life going to be for motherhood or SAHM. Am I be able to perservere to be a SAHM and seeing my kids growing up and be a good mother to them? I guess is still too early to tell and let's see after 5 weeks and I will decide if I'm going to be a SAHM or back to the workforce. Unless luck change my fate to be a tai-tai and not a SAHM. That's my hubby strike big TOTO! (still dreaming.... :) ]

Egg from a Goose?

Someone told me this egg is not from a goose. hahaha... Than where does it comes from? Bird, Duck, Chicken, Dinosaur....I don't know, you tell me.

Anyway, I don't mind the source of this egg and I just hope that it will gives me luck in pao beh, TOTO.... as long as it gives me LUCK.....! :p

4D....

Yesterday was my 32nd week's check up and we did a 4D scan. With today's technology you can roughly guess the baby's features in my tummy and whether he/she resembles the mother/father! :) Well, for my case I can only tell he has a BIG nose. It's so prominent and I guess he follows his dad's nose. Hah! :p

Ok, besides the features we were told that he's a tall baby. I can't deny that as I was being poked everyday down below my ribs or when he does his stretching I can feel that he needs some SPACE in my tummy! I can fully understand him. If you falls into the category of being born with long legs and travelling on a long haul flight you just need to STREeeetchh your limbs in your small little "cubicle".

Between he's growing well...he's 1.9kg at 32 weeks. Will see him again in another 2 weeks time :) . Looking forward to my next appointment and till then....

Vicky's Chicken Rice

Remembering those days back in UK, my dear housemate taught us how to cook chicken rice as most of us craving for it. Lately, she recalled my memory again on those days and here's her recipe. I decided to name this chicken rice after her as this simple and healthy cooking taste fairly good!

Here's the simple step...

1. Prepare some sliced ginger, garlic (smashed), and chicken ( I prefer the drumstick)

2. Prepare a pot of water to make chicken stock. Cooked the ginger, garlic and chicken for 40 mins.

3. Prepare to cook rice. Use some of the boiled chicken stock, ginger and garlic for cooking the rice. Don't add in the chicken (which I did) as it will overcook the chicken. After boiling the chicken stock, dish out the chicken and rub them with some table salt. Not too much.

4. Add in some salt and butter (optional) into the pot of rice.
5. While waiting for the rice to cook, prepare the sauce for the chicken. Add few dashes of sesame oil, 1 teaspoon of soya sauce (adjust according to your taste), a dash of pepper and some chicken stock.

6. Voila! Vicky's chicken rice and don't forget to garnish with sliced cucumber. Use the rest of the chicken stock as soup. Add in some spring onion or chinese parsley. Sorry, chicken looks little as we had finish half of the portion. Almost forgot to take pictures!

Ingredients for chicken & stock
Chicken, cut

Sliced ginger

Galic, smashed

Cucumber, sliced

Rice
Chicken stock
Garlic-from chicken stock
Ginger-from chicken stock
Butter (optional)
Salt

Seasoning for chicken

Soya sauce

Sesame oil

Pepper

Table salt

Chicken stock

Soup

Table salt

Pepper

Chinese parsley/spring onion

Updates!

I had created an album in MSN space (under My Memoirs). Will upload all my pictures there...but bear with me I can't do all in one go. Will try to upload as much as I could. Meanwhile enjoy the few albums I have it there and the music as well.

Joy of Blogging

Guess what? haha..... 2 of my friends starts blogging with joy and I'm enjoying stalking on their blogs (check out the list i stalk).

see them so 'semangat' updating their blogs, I also being motivated by them..kekeke! I decided to blog with joy as well and decided to give myself a little treat-Brussels cookies! My gyane warns me, thou u pass your glucose test it doesn't mean it gives u a license to continue binge on sweet stuff!!! :p Sorry, Dr. I have to blame on my sweet tooth!

This cookie was introduce by my ex-colleague and it's so addictive. You can buy them in Cold storage, NTUC, Carefour and they come in all types but I just love this particular one. It must be round and says Brussels! Finger licking good and is so addictive and divine.....!

Wishy Washy

Ok, I have been delaying in washing my BB's clothing. Looking at the heaps of clothing and thinking on the hanging and post washing of folding clothes make me cringe. Is more on the post washing than dumping everything into the washer.

Somehow I had the motivation to start the washing last week and all in all I did 4 loads of washing. Today was the last load and am glad is over. Mission accomplished! Yay! Here's a photo of the post washing and I find it so cute especially the mini clothing hanging on the bamboo pole. And this is how I hang them...

Grilled Pork Ribs with Honey glazed

I luurrrrrrvv pork ribs.. Pork ribs in Bah Kut Teh, grilled honey pork ribs, steam pork ribs in black bean sauce....yummy! I decided to grill my own pork ribs after much left over from last weekend cooking.

Here's my very simple recipe which I use to season my pork ribs. Infact, my kitchen is still very minimal and bare so I decided to create my own recipe and it turns out more than what I expected!

Ingredients

6 pieces of pork ribs chopped

Garlic chopped

Seasoning

1/2 tablespoon of soya sauce

1 tablespoon of black soya sauce

1 tablespoon of oyster sauce

3 packets of chilli sauce ( I use those in packet where you can get free from McD...hehe)
2 packets of tomatoe sauce (same concept as chilli sauce =p)
Few dashes of black pepper

Method

Seasoned the porks ribs with all the above seasoning and garlic. Leave in the fridge for at least half an hour or more. The longer you leave, the better your rib taste. If you have a ziplock bag, keep the pork ribs inside the bag. Understand that it will enhance the smell and taste.

Heat oven to 250 degree and coat some margarine on the pork ribs. Turn occasionally the pork ribs and look out for sign of over cook (in hokkien = chao ta). Towards the last leg of grilling, glazed pork ribs with honey. Dont do it too early as honey will tends to burn your ribs.

Here's the result of my grilled pork ribs with honey and it taste as good as the picture... =) infact, it taste like char siew. Is this how char siew being roasted? hmm....i shall try again in future but using the collar neck meat. Known to be better for roasting char siew.

"Heng Heng" Lantern

Hey Sharon.... remember this our "heng heng" lantern? :) where's yours? My 1st trip to Chinese Garden Mid-Autumm Festival....miss those days....

Lantern Festival in Chinese Garden

Look at this.... oh-so-lovely!!!! .... I'm going to hint hubbee to bring me here ....

The Singapore Chinese Garden's Mid-Autumm Festival is back and this year festival aims to enter the Singapore Book of Record. I been once to the Chinese Garden's Mid-Autumm Festival and I enjoy every moment. Soaking in the atmosphere and being a kid again carrying the small colorful paper latern brings me back to the younger days.

Back to the past... During my younger days, my neighbours are my best of friends and we play everything under the sun. Come Latern Festival time, we will find a little corner and lit up the candles around the house (thank god we didn't manage to burn down the place) and had an adventure walk around the neighbourhood carrying our little paper lantern then. We will continue this for the rest of the week till the festival ends.

Here's the link to the Lantern Festival in Chinese Garden http://www.lanterncarnival.com/

Fried Beehoon Pork Chops

Hmm... am getting mental block on what to cook everyday. Further, am getting lazier each days to whip up something different and special so today decided to fry bee hoon with stewed pork ribs.

My FIL gave this to me and was told that it will taste good especially fried with beehoon. Something I never thought or try of!

Sounds simple and something different for dinner today. Below are the ingredients I prepared...

Ingredients

1. Shallot chopped in small bits

2. Garlic chopped

3. Carrot sliced

4. 3 beaten eggs

5. Soya sauce

6. Oyster sauce

7. 1 can of stewed pork chops

8. Lettuce - sliced

Method

1. Soak beehoon in cold water for at least half an hour till soft

2. Fried the beaten eggs in omellete style - for garnishing

3. Fried shallot till fragrant and add in carrot and garlic. Continue frying til fragrant.

4. Add in oyster sauce, soya sauce and beehoon. Stir well

5. Add in stewed pork chops together with the gravy and fried till beehoon half dry

6. Dish out and garnish with lettuce and sliced omellete

Fried Pork Chop Bee Hoon

Lovely....Taste yummy and hubbee love it! :)

SOHO

This is my 3rd week since i started as a freelance and working from home. Getting adapt to my new "environment/office" as we call it SOHO. Is just a few steps away from my bed :) and dragging my foot to work in the morning is something I never get to experience before! Well, I had been working in KL for the past few years and my work place smack right in the middle of the city and the horrendous jam is unbelievable and sometimes we call it as "huge open car park".

So, this feeling of SOHO is so so .....hehe...BLISSFUL! I don have to drive and stuck in the jam, whats more I can wake up 5 mins before work start! However GREAT DISCIPLINE is needed here as you tends to sway away from other distractions like watching HKG series non stop for hours.... :p is so intoxicated!!!

Hmm....am I going to consider this after my delivery or back to the "reality" again...???

I am 28th weeks

Here's a photo of me at 28th weeks.

Baby are getting more active now which I can feel more kicking, squirming and punching. Sometimes, he will have a few series of hic-cups whereby I can feel a consistent movement of bubble like at the lower abdomen.

Up and running...

YAY! Finally my broadband and phone line is up and running again. It was a plain torture for the past 2 days as my phone line cranks up. Of all the day, it has to be "The Day". The story goes like this...

I had signed up a package for the purpose of my SOHO use this few months and it fits perfectly well into my requirements. After the installlation on Friday afternoon (tried and tested all working) I was all set to start my freelance work on Monday. Somehow, I have this nagging feeling (women instinct?) that things might not work the same on Monday.

True enough, waking up on Monday morning dragging my feet to my SOHO I switch on the computer and start pounding on the keys. Hmm....looking at my fax machine I thought of making a phone call or rather I called it "opening ceremony". I press on the Hook/Hold button and I start hearing engage tone....Tuuuuuuu Tuuuuuuuu Tuuuuuuuuu Tuuuuu...... Puzzled...I tried again and again and again...Getting very irritated with the constant Tu Tu Tu in my head I decided to check all the wirings to the fax machine and power socket, micro filter, whateva line that links to the machine but to no avail :((( . Suspecting that the technician man may miss out one of the wirings or setting. So, I decided to call up the help desk of the telco company to get them down to take a look at it.

SMSed hubbee and told him the situation and he was as puzzled as me. He was my witnessed (on Sunday night) checking on the fax and things were all right. To cut my long story short, we had an adventure time with the telco company (I shall not put any names here - but if u wan to know I can pm u) as we have to wait for almost 2 days without any feedback to us. The only feedback I received from them (calling them almost 5 times a day) was "We noted your concern and I'm sorry as the relevant dept is still following up on your issue. We will call you back once we have an answer from them". Loosing our patience, hubbee decides to bang the tables (not once-few times mine you) and only then they decided to come down on Tuesday (late afternoon) to inspect and did some testing on all the sockets and wiring again. Also, on that particular fateful day my broadband starts to crank up and play dead on me. Can't work or access my mails so I decided to watch my cantonese series to cheer me up (hope my boss is not reading this :p)

Finally, my phone line and broadband is back and running on Tuesday evening. So far so good..... crossing my fingers and toes....

Gearing up...

I have been actively and happily doing my shopping for the past few months for the baby and I must say I ENJOY IT EVERY MOMENT!

Even so the constant nagging from my friends to prevent me from over purchased but I guess I'm hooked to this so called pill "ShopaBaby". The most addictive section that I can't resist is the baby's clothing which sometimes I wonder why can't the manufacturer just make a few size bigger for us adults?

Our recent purchase was a set of baby feeding bottle bought in Takashimaya Baby Fair and I "think" it's a steal. After paying at the counter, I quickly whizzed hubbee off from the fair to prevent me from burning more holes in our pocket. However, the cold turkey inside me starts kicking in....

Our Work Station

It has been a while my study room has been left empty for some reason. One of it was, hubbee and I hardly stay here (our cocoon in Tampinese) so we don't bother to decorate it like a study room. The one and only item which makes our study room looks like a "study room" stands our tall and proud book shelf (see Picture 2) filled with many books from my dear brother. Ever since he relocated to Copenhagen for work purpose, I inherited 80% of his books and it looks like a mini library to us.

Today, FIL, Hubbee and I went to Ikea, Tampinese. We roughly knew the design we wanted as we have been doing some window shopping in Ikea. Fortunately, my FIL* has a lorry to carry back the study table. So thankful to him! Not forgetting our BIL** for helping us to fix the table too! Here's our new work station and hubbee no longer have to make do on our TV console as a study table (I quietly took this without him knowing... :p)


BEFORE
AFTER

Picture 1

Picture 2

This will be my SOHO for the next 3 months or so as I'll be working from home while waiting for my lil' one to "pop out" this Dec 07 (EDD = 9th Dec). This is so the right time for me to land on this freelance job, else I will start growing mushroom from Sept - Dec 07.

*FIL = Father In Law
**BIL = Brother In Law