December 2014

7 December 2014

Oh wow, I realized December is approaching and then leaving, all too fast and furious! The week has been good. On Monday, I met my lady colleagues for a good lunch and tea. On Tuesday, I had a drastic haircut. On Wednesday, I went for my last acupuncture session at TMC TCM (yay!!). On Thursday, I met my friend for lunch after my own breakfast at Subway, and satisfied my cravings. On Friday, I brought my girl out for lunch at Vegetarian Express Cafe.

Yesterday was a packed day, with a trip to the zoo in the morning, and two baby full month celebrations, one in the afternoon and one in the evening. Today, we bought our new home! And tomorrow... we will be flying off to Bali in 8 hours time from now. Wow. What a holiday! Okay, this is a quick entry and I'll be back... Let's all hope I have a good trip~ ^^

15 December 2014

The Bali babymoon was great! We had a relaxing trip just lazing around, sight seeing and chilling. And here's our private pool in our villa~

We spent a wonderful 5-day-4-night vacation in Bali, staying in the Bali Island Villas and Spa. And we enjoyed the plentiful of beautiful sights in Bali.

Lots of tourists at Tanah Lot.

People chilling under the sun at Potato Head Beach Club.

Letting the waves wash over my feet at Kuta Beach.

It was also kinda a gourmet trip with our meals mostly settled at nice dining places which were either recommended by friends or top restaurants according to TripAdvisor.

Our first dinner at Ultimo was the best dinner in Bali!

Chilling before dinner at Ku De Ta.

A vegetarian meal at Earth Cafe.

A sumptuous meal at Breeze, The Samaya.

Our favourite lunch must be at Merah Putih!

Hubby loves his tender babi guling set lunch to bits.

My yummy savoury dish at Merah Putih.

And my 'nasi goreng sayur' topped with a fried egg behind.

Lots more pics (and videos too!) were shared on my Instagram. :D

And tomorrow is my gynae check! Hubby has a meeting in the morning though, so I'll be heading down to TMC alone after sending our baby girl to her childcare centre. I hope we can find out the gender so we can get down to shopping in Bangkok!

16 December 2014
Baby wasn't in a good position today during the scan at Dr Tham's and the gender is still undetermined, so no shopping for baby stuff yet in Bangkok.

Was very upset over the Sydney siege. I was just in Sydney for a free and easy backpacking trip with a girl friend before our girl's conceived, back in 2011. Sydney is a place that is very close to us, especially in lifestyle. And what's worse? A colleague actually knows someone who's living in Sydney now and know the lady victim of the siege. When she told us, I was already tearing, as it brought this piece of news even closer to my heart than I could imagine. And reading articles on her really made me cry the whole day. She's a doting mother to 3 young kids, a high flyer and just someone, like us, living a city life, with a family to go home to, and going about doing her everyday stuff like meeting friends and buying coffee. And she was shot trying to protect her pregnant friend. She's a heroine, but now her unfortunate death also meant a lost to her family, her children and her field of profession. And it shouldn't even happen! Why? Why has our world become such a lunatic place?! This piece of news really made me very very sad. It made me wonder if anything like that could happen to anyone of us any day. And I wonder if I made the right decision to bring new innocent lives into this cruel blood-thirsty world that it is now.

22 December 2014
Back from Bangkok! Didn't buy much compared to my last two trips. In fact we bought soooo little this time round, most of my hardcore Bangkok shopper friends will be flabbergasted at how little we bought in such a shopping paradise! Haha. Wanted to post lots of stuff, but very tired now. And once again, check out the pics shared on my Instagram. :D

Now begin the dreadful wait to the end of my school holidays. =(

26 December 2014
Boxing Day, and my last day to slack in bed late into the day, before the dreaded full days of meetings come next Monday... and then school reopens. *URGH* This was my most boring Christmas ever. No meet ups, no extravagant dinner gatherings, no parties, no gift exchanges. NOTHING. My girl got a party complete with gift exchange at her childcare centre though... she's officially more happening than me right now, and she danced the night away with her cousin at home on Christmas eve, which was super cute! Hope all of you have a great Christmas and enjoyed yourselves though. Happy Boxing Day everyone!

31 December 2014
It's the last day of 2014. I read about people writing about closure of the year in Facebook. But what closure? I mean, me being me, I never had closures or resolutions. The years just come and go like the days, the weeks, the months. I'm simple like that, or lazy like that. Haha.

Yesterday was a full day of meetings from 7:45am to 5pm, but glad to have a great dinner with friends after the meetings, and gift exchange too! Now I'm back in school to send notes for printing and I'm supposed to be working on my SOWs but I'm just too much of a procrastinator and decided to add another blog entry instead. My baby's having a fever and I'm thinking whether I should just grab the laptop and rush home, but it's unlikely I'll get my work done at home! I wanna play with baby all day long, my final indulgence before the school term starts.

Hubby will be travelling for work from 2 January to 26 January... another long trip away from home. Sigh! I'll have to go for my detailed scan alone this time. And I'm not so keen to drive now as I'm really tired throughout the day. I hope his car won't die on me again due to not being started for days, already happened thrice in the past!

Right, stop whining and start working. Wishing everyone a happy and fulfilling 2015 ahead!!

November 2014

1 November 2014 Went for Hello Kitty Run. Didn't run of course, and was walking in a heavy downpour. It was a frustrating experience when stuck in the human jam trying to collect the race medal, only to hear the announcement that medals will be collected another day, while we continued to witness some of the temporary staff freely handing away the medals to any hand that came close enough to grab. There were people who grabbed more than they should, and those in the first and second waves already collected their medals. No record was made. That will only mean that everyto one, including those who has collected or did not go for the run and brave through the rain, will be able collect medals at the later collection date. And I read articles with people claiming they got many of the race medals and selling online! What's wrong with these people, no integrity! Like my cuzzie pointed out, Japanese even in the face of tsunami would queue up properly... What happened here? It's just a Hello Kitty Run and all the 'ugly' side of people are exposed! I just want my medal, the one medal I deserve because I paid for the run and I actually went for it. Sigh nevermind... I guess all these were not predicted by the organizers. The frustrations aside, I really salute those in the mascots. It was already so hot and humid without being in one!

Talking about mascots... this is really a bad period to be pregnant. When I was pregnant with my first child, I found out that I was pregnant on 21 January and delivered on 23 August. Now, I have been through the terrifying season of Halloween, when scary pics that I so wish I didn't get to see kept popping up on the various social media platforms, whether in friends' posts or advertisements. And then I'll be going on vacation in December... now all my plans to go for cheap massages, caffeine-overload myself at cafes, plus simply drink and be merry has to be put aside, and I'll have to be merry in a more subdued manner. Although... I found out I was 8 weeks pregnant in late January the last time, and I have been merrily drinking and clubbing away in December the year before. Oh well, I guess ignorance is always bliss.

Anyway despite all the above ranting, something cheered me up today! Hubby finally returned from his work trip and he bought this for me on his way back~ :D

These are the yummiest maracons I've ever eaten!!

2 November 2014

I had a terrifying nightmare and I'm so traumatized I've cried at least 5 times from thinking about the dream. In the dream, we were in an illegal establishment and there was a police raid. The hooligans assumed we were the culprits that called the police, and revenged on us. They tried to hurt us, and I kept having to protect my tummy from getting hit by the pipes as I'm pregnant too in the dream. Then they made us get into a car accident, where hubby was stuck in the car while I escaped and I ran as I had something very important to do... they kidnapped my girl and I have to find her! Towards the end of the dream I was hysterically screaming and wailing away. I couldn't find my girl even as the dream ended, and I woke up crying inconsolably for a while as hubby comforted me (I haven't told him about the dream, I don't feel like talking about it at all). And when I recalled the dream, I cried. I hope I'll never get into such a situation in real life. Even in a dream, it messed up my emotions and mental state. It's the most horrifying experience ever. I hope no parent will ever have to go through such an ordeal.

Alright, so on the brighter side: today I ate a lot but I didn't vomit at all, so I guess my morning sickness and nausea is finally going away... yay!

3 November 2014
I said too soon. Today I felt all queasy and bloated again after breakfast all the way until over 1pm, before I went out for lunch with my colleagues and I gobbled up the peanut congee. I was actually very hungry but felt very bloated at the same time too. It was a very uncomfy feeling. I know I should be taking frequent small meals instead but it's hard especially when I love hanging out with my colleagues and having a good meal with them. I guess the queasiness was from the oily breakfast, but I have been craving for chwee kueh and all kinds of kueh! Specially cai tao kueh and orh kuey~ And on top of the uncomfy queasiness, I felt super fatigue the entire day, my head's hurting especially behind my eyes as I guess I haven't had enough sleep to rest them, and my whole body is aching like mad. I went home to nap after lunch. OMG this baby is a night owl! I usually sleep well at night and I can't nap in the day, but now it's the other way round! I can hardly sleep at night and need to catch up on rest in the day. My only consolation is now the students have gone on holidays and work is no longer hectic like term time, thus I can go home after lunch to rest.
So, here's breakfast. I'm feeling super blessed for colleagues who go out to buy breakfast for me and the rest of our buddies. One colleague bought chwee kueh while another colleague bought soy milk for me.

Lunch was at Sin Heng Kee Porridge with my colleagues. I'm glad that someone suggested porridge... I can't stomach anything heavier than this. I had peanut congee~

And dinner was porridge again! Mum-in-law cooked sweet potato porridge for me, and topped it off with preserved beancurd. 

Actually I'm curious... I found out that preserved beancurd is actually soaked in alcoholic liquid as wine is one of the ingredients and I swear these cubes tasted alcoholic... so I shouldn't be eating too much right?

5 November 2014

Yesterday I went out for brekkie alone before school, and went to Pastamania for lunch after school with a colleague. I was very tired and went straight home after lunch, but instead of napping, I spent the first hour choreographing a simple dance with the song Brave by Sara Bareilles and practicing the moves so I can remember and teach my colleagues. Teachers these days do so much more than teaching and admin stuff! You won't believe the things we have to do to entertain our students, and this time it's for grad night. Napped a little after practising and dinner was curry noodles.

Yesterday's breakfast at the foodcourt.

And today's breakfast during maths pre-planning meeting.

Just wanna say: I really enjoy the June 2015 mummies' group in Facebook a lot. The mummies are active and not overwhelming and that keeps me very engaged!

Went to TMC today for my acupuncture session. Applied for SBI card and had a late lunch of egg-mayo baked potato and hot chocolate at Delifrance before my session. Told Dr Chen that I'm having difficulty sleeping, and she gave me extra "pokes" on the top of my head to help me ease into sleep. I had needles from my ankles up my thighs, on my wrists, top of head, forehead and in my ears. Like previous sessions, I was literally immobilized as I couldn't move my needle-studded limbs and my head as well with needles sticking out of both ears.

On my way to meet my besties for dinner, looking forward to announcing my good news to them! :D

6 November 2014

I can't believe I'm so absent minded!! I was running late this morning because I couldn't find my keys in anywhere that I could think of! Weren't at the keyhole too and I was so panicky but gotta rush out so woke hubby up (he's on study leave revising for exam) to help me lock the door. He told me to take his keys as he wouldn't be going anywhere, and he'll ask father-in-law when he's back from breakfast if he saw my keys at the door in the morning. I was on the verge of bursting into tears as I've never been so absent minded before. But I needed to hurry for work and I left. I locked the door with hubby's keys and headed to the lift, then I heard the door unlock, turned back and say hubby's hand sticking out with my keys. I was like, where did you find them?! And he said he found them on the sofa. OMG why didn't I even think of that?! Yesterday after dinner with besties, I was home quite late - near eleven - and the first thing I did after reaching home was to collapse on the sofa and surf the June 2015 mummies' group on my phone, before heading for a shower...

Seriously, my brain power's all drained by the littler one.

My close colleague asked me "How many months already?" and I acted blur. She said I'm getting bigger, and I said I'm just getting fatter. She's like, "Nonsense! Tell me how many months already?" And I gave in and told her it's not supposed to show yet! Only 2+ months... I'm really getting fatter!!

In fact my tummy is so bloated these days... even my hubby commented, and said obviously not baby. Baby's like only 2 to 3 cm now?? Haha!

10 November 2014

I've been feeling extremely fatigue over the weekend and napped most part of it away. I have a lot that I wanted to share here, all writing itself inside my head over and over during the weekend but I never really get down to typing here... and eventually I can't recall what I wanted to share. So, nevermind. I shall share when I remember. For now... I'm 11 weeks today!! Oscar test's next week~

Oh I remember one thing... I told my boss about my pregnancy last Friday! My boss is so ecstatic it almost wasn't real. Her excitement is way over my hubby's and our family members' combined. LOL~ But that's how cute it is. I'm sure the meltdowns also spurred her to do that... now that I'm FINALLY pregnant, no more meltdowns at work from the stress of not getting pregnant anymore huh? Kekeke~ I must really learn to control my emotions though. (-.-)

14 November 2014

I was unwell for the past two days and stayed at home yesterday after seeing doc on Wednesday night and he said I must rest more. My nose was dripping nonstop during the strategic workplanning session on Wednesday and it really felt like I was suffering, and I couldn't wait to go home and lie down in bed. The med that doc prescribed for me caused me to be extremely drowsy, so I napped the whole day away after taking meds yesterday, and today I'm feeling much better. As I stayed away from work yesterday, I missed the staff retreat to River Safari. Saw that my colleagues had lots of fun from the photos they shared. Sad to miss the fun moments bonding with colleagues, but I must always remember: my own health is the most important and I really need to take good care of myself, as I am no longer just responsible for myself. I'm responsible for my girl and the baby in me now.

17 November 2014

The day of grad night! Brought my girl to school in the morning, then lunch and back home, before heading back to school for rehearsal. Danced through the day and had a great evening with the graduands all dressed up and finally, we performed our dance item. I thought it was great and we had fun!! 

18 November 2014

Today we left home early for OSCAR test at TMC. Although the appointment was at 9, we left before 8 to avoid the peak-hour traffic and we had brekkie at TMC's Delifrance~

As it's an early morning appointment, so we didn't have to wait for over mere minutes, and the little one inside was lying flat very cooperatively too, so we went through the test in a blink! Went down to see Dr Tham and then paid for our package with him as I'm in the 12th week now~ 

Baby seems to be lying inside so comfortably... makes me wanna squeeze in and lie inside there too... hahha!

19 November 2014

Another happy day because I'm not going anywhere... (not going to work!) but in the end I'm working from home anyway... (-_-)

When lunch time came, we were wondering what to eat and I was having this craving for Sin Heng Kee porridge again... so hubby, who's on exam study leave right now, drove us to Hougang to satisfy my craving! Yay!!

Hmmm... raw egg for me? Haha, I used to leave the egg at the bottom and complained the egg wouldn't cook, then my hubby said I should break and stir the egg into the porridge so it will cook with the heat, and not just let the entire egg sit in the porridge... so on the right was after stirring it up and letting the bits of egg sit in the hot porridge!! Yums~ Love the porridge here!

The sight of rice or noodles, however, makes me feel so full and bloated. I've stopped puking for a while but still feel very bloated most of the time. I'm very fussy with food now and don't fancy rice or noodles at all... I crave for porridge and kueh mostly, but I'm okay with prata and laksa and anything  else with curry too. So... click here to check out tonight's dinner in my Instagram~

28 November 2014

Gosh, how time flies! I've been having so much fun over the holidays that I didn't have time to update my prenatal journal here... keke~ I'm glad that my morning sickness days are finally all over and I've been enjoying my school holidays this week catching up with friends from Monday to Thursday, and now finally a lazy Friday just chilling at home. Check out my Instagram for foodie pics from the week. =)

October 2014

8 October 2014

For the past week, I've been feeling bloated and nausea at dinner, despite feeling hungry before returning home for dinner. Last week, twice I've vomited after dinner. And in the past few days, I have thrown away most of my dinner after picking around the food. And I vomited again today after I tried to finish my dinner. I felt fatigue, emotional and I'm not well. Last Tuesday, I had a total melt down with my direct superior at work, as I was feeling emotionally very unstable. I often feel sick around dinner time, and I crave for chocolates and citrus juices. So today, finally I got down to buying a pregnancy test stick off the shelf of Watson's, and did the test. It showed a positive result. I kinda expected it from all the symptoms but I gotta admit, I've been obsessed with testing on the pee sticks since the beginning of the year and I've seen enough negative results. Just not enough to turn me off testing another time. From my previous entry, you would have read that I haven't been having a good time this year in the fertility department, so this result should cause me to be super elated. But I don't know. I'm feeling calm now, and I was recalling that I carried the stroller with my daughter sleeping inside up a flight of stairs over the weekend... and of course carrying her a lot a lot, giving me lots of backaches. I'm the gungho mom who wanna do every single thing myself, as far as I can. Now, I wonder how will a new pregnancy change that.

10 October 2014

Today, my colleagues and I went to Canton Paradise for lunch and I had egg fried rice and free flow water chestnut drink. I finished my lunch but almost immediately after lunch I felt sick and I vomited. Yesterday, I called my gynae's clinic but his next available appointment slot is 20 October. Hubby will be flying off for work from 17 October to 1 November, and the staff at the clinic advised against postponing the appointment until November as I may have difficulty securing an appointment for the detailed scan and oscar test. So today hubby called in the afternoon and mentioned he's free to go, so he'll pick me up at work and we will just go to a nearby gynae to confirm my pregnancy first.

The gynae isn't in on Friday afternoons at the Raffles Women Clinic (where I had my ultrascan for the very first time) and we ended up seeing Dr Adrian Woodworth, but he would only be at the clinic about an hour later so we went to walk around and i felt hungry again. It seems that I've lost my appetite for a full meal like rice, noodles and such. Instead, I prefer bread and kueh. Then we walked pass MOS burger and I said I wanted a corn soup and a croquette burger, so we went in and shared a meal, while he had the cold drink and bought corn soup for me too.

Finally, we get to see Dr Woodworth. He's exactly what everyone else describes, very fast, very few words, very efficient, and within minutes, we're out of the consultation room... and seen many many couples went in and out of his consultation room in mere minutes while we wanted to pay for the consultation. And yes it's been confirmed, I'm 6 weeks preggy!

My next consultation will be back with Dr Benjamin Tham, and I can't wait! Also, I will be in TMC next Wednesday for my acupuncture appointment at TMC TCM, and I can't wait to tell Dr Chen Fang that I'm pregnant too!

11 October 2014

My girl and myself are totally enjoying this very interactive book! I bought this some time ago, anticipating a second baby soon, and this book is indeed lots of fun for both of us~

I feel like vomiting after every single meal, which is bad! When I'm hungry, I feel like vomiting too, and then I feel like vomiting again after my meal. The feeling is horrible, it's like feeling constantly sick!

 

12 October 2014

This is indeed the worse of my two pregnancies so far, and it's been barely 7 weeks! I feel queasy before food AND after food, and wanna puke all the time. My migraine is already haunting me on and off, and it only attacked me in the third trimester the other time! My girl has been really fussy in her sleep for the past 2 weeks, waking up very often to cry and make noise, and mum-in-law said it could be because she could sense my pregnancy. Sounds like some kinda old wives' tales, then my mum said the same thing too. So it must be right? Hubby agreed with them! He said since she's been crying and shouting "no!" etc in her sleep, it seems like someone's snatching her stuff away from her... maybe it's her new sibling. Okay, so I must agree too. Right?

My mum is someone who isn't very tactful and today she got on my nerves again when I announced the piece of good news to her.

Me: 妈妈，我怀孕了。

Her: 恭喜，医生不是说你不会怀孕了。

I swear if I'm not trying to be a role model in front of my daughter and my unborn child, I might be spewing vulgarities, because I seriously hate it so much when someone comes and negates your positive news. Furthermore, from your mum! And I don't think I've said anything like the doc said I can't get pregnant again or anything remotely close. And my mum still asked me if I'm sure about it and I had to tell her I already went to see a doc to confirm it. Zzz I was jumping mad inside! I'm not some insane woman who just imagine that I'm pregnant and go around telling everyone, k?!

On the bright side, I have never vomited at my parents' place, where I am right now. So I guess the food here doesn't trigger me. So far, it seems like oily food stuff will make me puke. My mum's cooking is forever healthy first, oily last (if not I'll complain to no end!) and I really miss eating her food everyday. When I told my mum that I'm pregnant, after that dreadful conversation above, she started asking about my confinement, which I said it's still too far to talk about now. But darn, I sure wanna ONLY eat my mum's cooking everyday of my confinement! That's for sure. But I am so not going to move back here, away from my girl and letting my hubby get away from my confinement blues and anxieties again. It's really a torture handling everything myself, waking up in the middle of the night crying to a wailing baby without him around me. I really need to give him a taste of what REAL fatherhood is all about. Hahaha. Alright we'll just see how it goes later... seriously, confinement is still such a long time away!

13 October 2014

This app is actually my 'period calender' and not a pregnancy tracker... but I love how it has all the symptoms and uses cute icons to depict them. I'm not really diligent in using it though, and only update as and when I remember to.

I've downloaded the babycentre pregnancy app too... and will look at the daily updates every once in a while to see where's my baby's developmental milestone inside me. =)

Hubby was telling me about this piece of news today! "Jubilee commemorative Birth Certificate unveiled"

14 October 2014

I am so dying to tell everyone that I am pregnant! Omg, I gotta wait another 5 weeks before first trimester is over and I can finally announce my pregnancy?! I'm feeling extreme fatigue, having migraine, and extremely queasy after each and every meal, yet I can't let people know and have to act normal despite feeling terrible? This is so draining! =( 

And these entries are all saved as drafts until my first trimester is over too, before I can finally announce the news, and finally publish these entries.

As I'm typing now, my hubby is packing his luggage... sigh, he's flying off for his work trip again this Friday.

15 October 2014

Visited TMC today for my TCM appointment. Dr Chen Fang congratulated me upon me breaking the piece of news to her, gave me some advice, and changed the prescriptions for me so that it's more suitable for pregger me, especially to help with my appetite as I'm not keeping my food down. I had another session of acupuncture... this time I had needles poking from my feet all the way up my thighs, on my wrists, on my forehead, top of head and ears. I had to lie motionless for 20 to 30 minutes, and it was really difficult with itches here and there. Plus the two needles poking between my toes on both feet were really painful for the first few minutes... but I endured through it, so a big pat on my back! :P

Usually there'll be no more shuttle bus service after my session but today I went for an earlier session and managed to catch the last shuttle bus to Novena Square! I did a little shopping at Esprit and I bought buns for dinner and red rooibos tea too, all from Cedele, before taking the train home.

17 October 2014

I vomited twice yesterday and I vomited twice today.

I sleep early because I feel freaking tired once night falls, but I wake up at 4 in the morning and couldn't get back to sleep! =(

Today hubby's flying off, so I won't be sleeping early as I need to be at the airport at 11pm to drive his car home...

19 October 2014

I actually vomited thrice on Friday! =( But I didn't vomit at all over the weekend, which was great. I'm going to see Dr Tham tomorrow... I'm nervous, I'm drastically gaining weight and I'm really worried that I'll get gestational diabetes... sigh. Wish me all the best!

20 October 2014

Today's visit at Dr Tham's was superb. We were both very excited and kept YAY-ing - I went "Yay!" and Dr Tham went "Yay!" and I went "Yay!" and it just went on and on... which was quite fun and funny at the same time. *lol* 

Now my new baby's estimated to be 8 weeks old, with EDD on 1 June 2015. Dr Tham also gave me some meds for nausea and vomiting. And I quickly took a piccy of the ultrasound scan piccy and sent it over to hubby. My next appointment will be for oscar test and will be on 18 November... ^^v

Anyway, I vomited once today. Of course, before I take my meds.

21 October 2014

Satisfied my ultimate craving: bagel with cream cheese spread! And I'm not the only one loving it at home... my daughter kept licking the cream cheese off her quarter-piece of bagel and demanding for more cheese spread!

My other ultimate craving is for curry instant noodles, but I can't be satisfying that too often. Is once a week too much?

23 October 2014

I vomited once yesterday and twice today. And I think I'm taking the opportunity to binge and purge again. Which is really bad!!

I came home and there was no dinner. MIL asked if I've eaten and I said no, but I have no appetite. And MIL cooked sweet potato porridge for me when I was bathing. Really grateful!

Anyway, I went to a seminar with a colleague, and she mentioned that I've been looking pale for the past few weeks and showed her concerns. I do not want to tell my colleagues and friends yet, so I just matter-of-factly told her that I haven't been feeling well and have been vomiting after food, which is true.

24 October 2014

Went out with cousin after work and finally, I told someone about my pregnancy. My dear cousin was real sweet to treat me to a cuppa decaf toffee nut latte at Starbucks :D

We met because we went to collect our Hello Kitty Run race pack. :D Cute right?

Here are the plushie in the race pack, my race tee, and my baby's Red Riding Hood Kitty ^^ Can't be running definitely, will be strolling. Too many people to run anyway... the whole pathway will be super packed!

25 October 2014

Brought baby to the airport to play, and I read while she was napping in the stroller. I'm reading Revenge Wears Prada and this page happens to show that the lead character Andrea's baby would be due on June first! Same EDD as my littler one~ :D

27 October 2014

I'm going to TMC for my TCM appointment later. And my hubby's car died. I need my colleague to come jump start for me later in the evening or tomorrow, and hubby will only be back on Saturday, when I'll be strolling in Sentosa for Hello Kitty Run. I wish the car will be fine, I'm not sure I will want to call the tow truck to come bring it to the workshop. Maybe I'll wait until hubby's back from his work trip?

29 October 2014

Yesterday was both fun and hectic. First, I met my colleague early in the morning for breakfast. I had vegetarian kway tiao with curry veggie, fried beancurd and mock ngoh hiang... love my breakfast, but a bit overly filling. Keke.

Then it was time spent in school, working most of the time but spending some time chatting with colleagues too. After school, we went out for splendid lunch at a Korean restaurant in Heartland Mall.

And then the hectic part began. I went home and my hubby's car couldn't even be unlocked! I was lost and I kept messaging (over whatsapp) my hubby who's overseas. First, he said try to unlock with his other remote device, so I went home to find it and went back down to the carpark to try again. No respond. Then he suggested changing the battery of the remote device, so I went home to get my wallet and the screwdriver to unscrew the device and check the battery, went down to the hardware store to get the battery, went to replace the battery at the void deck and went back to the carpark to test on his car... no respond. And I was supposed to meet a girlfriend for dinner so I told her that I'm busy at the moment with hubby's car and will update her if I could make it. I called hubby's friend to get his advice before calling his (hubby's friend works in or owns the car workshop) car workshop guy down to check on-site, or perhaps need a tow truck. Then I tried to unlock with the key, and the alarm didn't go off. With the car unlocked successfully, I called the on-site guy. He could only reach one hour later as he's helping another car far away from my place, and it's gonna be peak hour. So I went home to wait and also informed my friend and let her know that I had to wait, and then I may meet her later for a late dinner. Fortunately the guy came earlier than predicted and settled the car. I was stinking madly from running up and down and it's really warm at the carpark. Finally it's over! I told my friend I had to bathe first because I'm super stinky (I swear I smell like vinegar!!) from running up and down the whole afternoon, and then finally took a bus down to meet her.

While waiting for dinner to be served, my friend asked me if I'm pregnant. She said it's her gut feeling, and so I told her yes I am! She was really excited, and she was so worried that I've been exhausting myself running up and down from the flat to the carpark and hardware shop etc the whole afternoon. I was like... I'm fine, don't worry! We had a great dinner and she gave me the belated birthday presents for my daughter. She wanted to meet me to pass me the presents because she missed the party due to some last minute overseas trip. My daughter's so in love with her new Craftholic plushie, she immediately hugged it to bed. =)

30 October 2014

The month is closing and I'm feeling better this week... at least I have not vomited for days now. Last night, I'm still craving for plain porridge with preserved beancurd, and I had exactly that for dinner. Then I had porridge again today for lunch with my colleagues. Some days I crave for curry and stuff, something really spicy or flavourful, while other days I just want something really simple and bland, like plain porridge.

I just hopped onto a thread in the motherhood forum. Joined the EDD May group as although my EDD is 1 June, I guess I most definitely will be delivering in May. I just hope to be in a group where I can share everyone else's excitement before me... unlike my first time, when I was the first one to pop in the entire thread, so not much anticipation for me, although lots of excitement of other mums around me over my delivery. I'm pretty sure that with my EDD on 1 June, I'll also be the first to pop if I join the EDD June group... I wish to have a different experience this time, so EDD May group it shall be!

31 October 2014

It's the last day of October! It's also my baby brother's 30th birthday! :D Today, I joined a Facebook group for EDD June mummies, recommended by my dear friend, after finding out last night that we both have EDDs in June! Gosh, I'm so excited today, I'm using a lot of exclamation marks... hahaha! Oh, I was telling my friend about my pregnancy first (and then she told me she's due in June too!) because my girl is an easy baby like her eldest boy, and her second boy was quite tough to handle... with this pregnancy being much tougher than my previous one, I really think my second baby's gonna give me a much more difficult time, and I felt I need to consult her on how she coped. =P Now I'm really excited that I actually have a friend who's going through the same stages as me! Yay!!

My breakfast today:

One colleague went to the market near his place to get dough fritters, 'butterflies', hum jim pengs, tea and coffee for us, and another colleague went to the mall near my workplace to get soya milk for me and herself. I'm so blessed that I have such awesome colleagues! We had brekkie together in the staff lounge. I love life like this :D but it's only like one week per year (this time of the year when most of the secondary school students have gone on holidays and the graduating batches are still doing their Os and our meetings and department work-plannings haven't started) that we get to do this...

Now I can't wait for the Hello Kitty Run (umm, Hello Kitty Stroll actually) tomorrow... to be over! I'm feeling super fatigue, and I couldn't sleep well at all for the last 4 consecutive nights. I can't sleep early as my mind's super alert and I keep waking up at 4ish in the morning and then I can't go back to sleep as my mind gets very active as soon as I wake up, and start thinking about work and other stuff. Sigh~ Mind ah mind, just calm down and rest a bit, can? *relax please*

And today, the last day of October, I also decided to publish this entry on my blog. Yay!! 

New post again

Teaching and motherhood has not been a breeze for me. There's been lots of updates that I've been wanting to post, but never gotten down to doing it.

This year has been an extremely turbulent year for me, filled with emotional roller coasters. I've cried on the train, melt down with my boss (and more than once), got terribly depressed over not getting pregnant with number 2 in this year, which was what I really planned to do when I had number 1. After a dragon baby, I want a horse baby, and two years apart seems ideal. My plan wasn't going smooth and my emotions went utterly haywire. From a post-natal check up after number 1, my gynae revealed that I have PCOS which will cause it to be more difficult for me to get pregnant. My number 1 who's conceived naturally was considered a miracle by my gynae. My period didn't come for 5 months which were filled with turbulent emotions and hectic (dreadful) workload, but I wasn't pregnant. Yet I was obsessed with testing with those pee sticks again and again. I decided to see a TCM physician at TMC for fertility issues and I've spent over 1000 bucks on the medication and the acupuncture packages. And not to mention, it's been torturous going for those acupuncture sessions. It's painful and time consuming, plus I gotta rush from work, and I gotta spend bombs on taxis. It's just anything but pleasant. I was sad and emotionally tortured by the fact that I am unlike any other normal women who can just get preggy whenever they wanted to. I feel so unfit. Just before my period finally returned with a vengeance, my TCM physician suggested that I should try IUI or IVF. That mere suggestion shattered me. What is wrong with me?! Why me?! Why is everyone else getting pregnant, but not me?! Even after spending 1000s of hard earned money, and going through such tortures?! Okay, I know there are other women who went through it, but I am already an emotional wreck without having to go through the ordeal. I don't know if I have the resilience to overcome it, and I salute the women who did. In addition, work hasn't been forgiving. I can handle work if that's all that I have to handle, but I cannot handle the emotional stress from the fact that it's getting really difficult for me to get pregnant. I cred at the slightest thing in and outta work. Overall, the year hasn't been nice.

But I'm back.