Woke up to yummy breakfast - vegetarian beehoon... hubby grumbled that he had to sleep alone last night, but well, I simply love being pampered by my parents! =)
And now my toe nails are a hot pink colour! *love* All ready to party the night away on this Saturday night with my colleagues after a colleague's wedding dinner. Why is it only Wednesday tomorrow? Oh my, I can't wait till the weekend for a night of dancing and mock-booze! (Yes lah I very disciplined one, not a single sip of alcohol please! ^^)
7 May 2012 It's the Vesak Day off day today... on Vesak Day itself, was at a colleague's wedding dinner, then went to party at New Asia Bar with fellow colleagues. Unfortunately it was not as fun as the last session. We had a table on the upper level where we could only order expensive drinks by the bottle, plus no mocktails in the menu, and I didn't bother asking, so I had NOTHING. Went off around 2am, and hoping to go somewhere else more fun the next time!
Just had yummy lunch of flavourful curry potatoes, healthy green veggies and wholesome brown rice at my parents' place, but leaving soon... gotta go ask some childcare centre to inquire on their waiting list. It's really absurd that some friends have to take unpaid leave simply because the waiting list of the childcare centres around the area are all 2 years or over! Whoever says we don't make enough babies ought to be shot, there aren't even enough childcare centres to go around for all the babies made!! When I was doing my nails, mentioned in the previous entry (above), one mama was agonizing over the fact that her daughter couldn't get a spot in the kindergarten! Seriously, how absurd is that?!?!?!
Alrighty time to go off... we are already shortlisting the childcare centres around our areas, but of course the top priority goes to the one downstairs, in our same block... oh well, in this time and space, seriously convenience rules. It'll be such a pain if we have to take the freaking crowded peak-hour LRT etc just to fetch the kid. I'll be back!
9 May 2012 It was raining and I took a cab home. A grandmother fetched her two grandchildren from the childcare centre below my block and they took the same lift as me. The siblings were telling their ah-ma that they made something for their mother for mother's day, but don't tell their mum. Then they started singing Jay's 《听妈妈的话》 in unison. Haha, very cute!
Been feeling the baby's movements more and more. Will be going for my next check on coming Saturday, before a shopping trip with my mum... it's my mother's day treat for her! Feeling really big now, I wonder how much weight I've gained so far... can't wait for Saturday to come!
17 May 2012 Finally the marking frenzy is over! Time for another task, 5 lesson plans to do for lower sec sexuality education! Jiayou to myself!!
23 May 2012 I've been through many many stuff at work and etc but didn't even have the time to come and update on my blog! Sigh.
It's a hectic week. For my lower sec class, we are doing CIP, collecting recycleables from the neighbourhood estates around school. On Monday, I walked down every single storey with them from the top level in a block, to give out flyers to the residents, informing them about the collection today. I let them do the subsequent blocks independently. Today, another hectic day, walking out in the rain and coming back in the sun... and giving instructions to a bunch of hyper lower sec students while ensuring nothing goes wrong and making sure all the newspapers etc were tied up properly and placed neatly while waiting for the lorry to come and pick them up.
Tomorrow night will be sec 3 parent-teacher dialog. And Saturday will be for my sec 2. I really hope tomorrow I don't have to speak to many parents... as I'm a subject teacher for sec 3. For my own sec 2 form class, already confirmed 3 parents meeting me on Friday, and another 27 students' parents/guardians coming for the parent-teacher dialog on Saturday... from the amount of complaints just via telephone alone I'm already overwhelmed, I'm not sure if I can stay standing without crumbling after handling 30 sets of parents/guardians... OMG.
Back to what this blog is about... my bump is getting big. People are asking me if I've eaten a lot. No I haven't been eating a lot, and I haven't gained much weight actually. My cravings are juvenile... from soya bean milk, roti prata, mashed potatoes to apple juice, maggi goreng, ice milo. No particular brand, easy to satisfied... told hubby that he's having an easy life to have such a simple pregnant wife like me.
27 May 2012 Went to Ikea and Giant at Tampines for a little window shopping, and had a late lunch at Ikea's restaurant too. The house is already packed with stuff... a folded baby cot from a friend, bags of baby clothes from friends, and bags of my own clothes too, those that I can't fit in now and need to be put aside as there's seriously not enough room for all my pre-pregnancy clothes and maternity clothes in the wardrobe. We were thinking to get storage for baby stuff as we browsed around Ikea... but seriously the house is already so packed, where to find room to fit a baby?! OMG. I wish we can afford to upgrade and get a 4-bedroom apartment...
30 May 2012 School holidays! Spent Monday doing invigilation, and Tuesday to do file checking for my level (tough being a level manager, urgh!) with fellow level managers and my committee head. Now I'm back at my parents' place to be pampered by good wholesome food that my mum always cooks... mummy showed me this news article... I was like, "Nutritious vegetarian confinement food for dragon year mummies? This article is written for ME!!" XD
Before I headed back to my folks' place on Tuesday, I went to collect a parcel from the post office... it's a pack of 5 baby rompers that I ordered from Gmarket. And something happened at the post office! A lady from China was in front of me in the queue, and she has many many packages to be sent out. As the post office is closing, another staff quickly attended to me at the same counter. When I collected my package, the lady looked at my package and I looked at her packages... They are the same!! She is the Gmarket seller that I ordered the rompers from, what coincidence!!! She actually stays near me and offered that I can go to her place to choose from her available designs and save on postage... Hahaha what's the chance of something like this happening randomly in a post office?! XD Such SUCH coincidence!!
31 May 2012 Went to Motherhood Expo TWICE on this day!! Once in the morning with my cousin... and bought a package of 10 Bum Wear cloth diapers with 25 NV inserts, along with some freebies. Also bought 2 nursing bras and 2 nursing tanktops from Autumnz booth.All those cost me over 400 bucks already!
Lunch was good with my cousin at The Soup Spoon, Changi City Point. =)
After lunch we came to my place to play Dance Central on my Kinect... yes I've been dancing dancing away through my pregnancy... hohoho~ Hubby came back and we went to Ubi to look at some of the baby stuff warehouses for strollers, then back to Expo again to compare prices. In the end we didn't get strollers, but bought bedding set, bean sprout husk pillow, bibs and a zipper swaddle.
Oh I've forgotten to mention... my PILs went to Bangkok with my BIL and his girlfriend, and they came back with a luggageful of baby stuff! They bought traditional square cloth nappies (which the baby needs when she's a newborn, as babies can only start wearing cloth diapers when they are "plump" enough to prevent leakage =P), nice baby clothes, rompers (2 from Juicy Couture!) and cute booties. Those, along with the many bags and boxes of stuff from hubby's colleagues/friends and some from SIL, my baby officially has more clothes to wear than me! Hahaha~
