TV addict

Sean is a TV addict. He enjoys watching his cartoon dvd almost everyday and whenever he is at home. Despite the fact that he has watch the same cartoon for thousand times before.He will hog onto the tv, if possible 7/24hr, not giving me a chance to watch my korean series.

We reckon that is very bad for him, so we have set a rule that he can only watch his cartoon dvd only during weekends and only for a max of 1 hr a day. I will try to be a little lenient if the dvd that he choose is those educational ones, if not it will strictly be 1hr.He oblige,unwillingly of course.

Initial stage a lot of whinning and tantrum throwing....but to no avail coz I am very strict with the rule that i set. So what happen now every Saturday is the moment he opens his eyes he will request to go out brush his teeth and eat his breakfast. Because he knows that only after he does those routine work then he is allow to watch the favourite Ninja cartoon of his.

Yes he has grown up, Bob the builder, Barney, Thomas train is the thing of a past for him. He is not into Robots, Ninja turtle, Kungfu panda, Spiderman those fighting heroes and games. Faint... he is so into it that he request me to buy things in those cartoon figure for him eg socks-ninja turtle, clothes, undies-spiderman. If given a choice he will always choose to wear those first

4more weeks to go...what's in me??

-I still have 4 more weeks to go before my No 2 is due.

-Decided to try natural birth, hopefully it works miracle for me...Painless...Not possible....Be realistic... minimal pain.

-Wondering what is labor....how will i response to it, how is the pain going to be.The contraction.....ok have set a guideline for myself after gathering information from friends and Internet since i have not experience any contraction before. This is what i deduce....

"If constantly having stomachache for a long period and no output it means contraction. If it gets nearer each pain means i am in labor.When having this stomachache, try my super best to endure for as long as i can before going to the hospital to avoid being ask to go home for going to early"

** For those experience mum, does my conclusion sounds right to you?**

-Went for the hospital tour, the labor room is marvelous,almost like a hospital hotel. A very self content spacious room with bathtub, radio,tv, computer and a mini fridge...or maybe i am just "sua ku"

-But disheartening to learn about the news on the crisis that the hospital is facing-shortage of qualify staff and equipment causes the dead of many mummies and babies.But wondering how true since the source is from the Opposition side of the Government...Me still worried.

-Still tired as usual, but seems to better than before maybe because my mum is here. I am like a Queen now, because she cooks, wash and clean everything for me.

-Have been making some effort to think what to pack for my bag. But..... wonder do i really need 1 since i can't recall if i have 1pack the last round when i had Sean.

-Do i need more things for the baby.....Unsure.... Just let nature take it's course.

-Abit of guilt, as i feel that i look after myself more when i had Sean, i did more things for him even before he was born.

-Wonder how Sean will react when the baby is here, because he doesn;t seems to be able to understand it quite yet. To him mei mei is always Cailin.He does on off tell his friends that there is a baby in my mummy and sometimes talk to my belly things like "mei mei" don't cry or hello mei mei or lean on my belly pretending he is listening/communicating to the baby.Quite sweet when he does that, but wonder if the baby is out will he still be so loving towards her. Worst part....come out is a "didi" how?****scratch head****.

-Also in a mid of listing down the food that i want to eat. The Malaysia D24 durian is definetely a must, just feel like eating it.Am glad that i already satisfied my seafood pallate when my aunty is here. Other than that can't think of much, but will still come up with a list because "I ENJOY EATING AND THIS IS THE LAST CHANCE THAT I CAN EAT WITHOUT WORRYING MUCH OF WEIGHT GAINING". haha (eat first later than talk).

-Am kind of looking forward to my No2's arrival. Alot of ???? in me.

Great Ocean Road

My Yee Po was here for a short holiday, so we decided to bring her for a tour to Great Ocean Road/12 Apostles. This is also my first trip there. Overall we enjoy ourselves alot, the adults enjoy the tour and scenery where else i am more amused my the little worm that I saw at the 12 Apostles and also the spacious area for me to run around with the strong wind blowing at us.The 12 stones just mean nothing to me yet. Hee Hee.

Wai Po, Yee Po & Me

Outings with my waipo and "yee po"(my waipo's sister) who came from PNG for holiday.At first i couldn't pronounce yee po properly as it was a cantonese word which i am really bad at. So i keep calling her "tea po" which sounds like teapot.

I am a Curry Lover

Yes i am a curry lover, i like to eat it with prata or even those chinese pancake. I like the potato in it as well.The curry that mummy and waipo cook is of course far too spicy for me, so the after effect is I will drink plenty of water with it. But i will still attempt to dip my prata with curry again.



Me enjoying my curry



The after effect



Yum Yum

WOo Hoo!!!

A couple of months ago i was excited upon hearing that the Singapore govt is going to restructure their baby bonus scheme to encourage more Singaporeans to have babies. So i thought yeah!!i will get more money. Not saying the money is enough to support a kid, but better than nothing right???

My hope was dampen after I read about the National Day rally by our Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong that the baby bonus will only take effect for baby born on 1st Jan 2009. Yesterday the latest news about baby bonus was that they going to back date it from 17th august 08 onwards, which means all babies born on and after 17th August 08 will be qualify for the new package. Yeah !!!! It means my baby who will be born in October will be entitle to the increase of $1000 from $3000 to $4000.

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This extra 1k will go to my holiday fund which i desperate need one.

The new scheme sounds very attractive but too bad i am no longer staying in Singapore. 4mths paid maternity leave can you imagine that. No need to work for 4 months and yet get pay how nice right. I hope the goverment here should have something similar.

The Pear Story

There is this teacher from Sean's cc name Rajaa which i quite like. She will constantly feedback to you what she did or how your kid behave/react in the school.

So one day as usual i went to pick Sean up, she told me Sean doesn't eat fruits except for banana. This of course I am aware. So she told me she tries to encourage him by saying if he finishes his pear he will gets his banana. Sean obliged, because it's an outsider talking to him so he dare not defy. This trick wouldn't work at home.

So later at nite when i am trying to engage in a small coversation with him by asking what did he eat in the school for lunch? I always do that because i want to encourage him to feedback to me on what's happening in his daily life and i also really need to know what he is doing.

The conversation goes :

Me : Sean, what did you eat in school for lunch today?
Sean : Hmm...(thinking) I don't know. (That's his favorite reply wonder whether ixit because he can not remember)
Me : Did you eat rice or pasta? (actually i already know the answer and trying to help him recall))
Sean : I eat pasta. I eat pears and bananas.
Me : WOW yummy yummy
Sean : I don't like pears, I like only Bananas. Can you help me to tell the teacher i don't like pears

He went on :

Sean : Mummy can you remember to tell the teacher tomorrow that i don't like pear.

I was like **faint**Is he smart or what? He doesn't dare to defy his teacher's instruction and he knows even if he says no the teacher will still ask him to eat it. So he wants me to go and tell the teacher which he thinks it will definetely works better.

I am amused.

The third trimester...Urgh!!!

At 31weeks preggy, I am fat and clumsy. I am now currently 73kg, my last pregnancy with Sean is 76kg so 3 more kilos, and that's the max I allow myself to be. Hopefully i can stay within the target.

I consider myself very brave this time round, because i still manage to convince myself to take a few preggie photos which i didn't the last round.I am afraid that my photos will scare every soul on earth away. Haha..... Actually is more on myself which i can't accept the reality of seeing myself in that humpty dumpty stage of my life.So this photo you are seeing is very expensive now. "limited edition"

Currently am still contantly tired maybe because i can't sleep well at nite. God knows why?!!I will sleep at around 10pm or 11pm the lastest(interupted sleep) then wake up around 4am, and start counting sheeps,stars,cows whatever you name it.If i am lucky i will doze of in between before i need to wake up at 7am for work again.

I hope i can reach the finishing line soon because I am really feeling very uncomfortable with the big bump there.This will serve as a life time reminder for myself not to become so fat after pregnancy because, trust me the feeling is terrible. You are constantly bloated, the bump is always blocking your way in whatever you are doing or wants to do. Eg i can't cut my toe nail now, because i can't reach them.This never happens to me before when i had Sean. When i sit down especially on the floor i can feel that bump is getting on my way and i need some help to stand up later as my weight is too heavy for my feet to support myself up.No joke about it!!!

Everything that i eat seems not to be nice maybe it's because of my own cooking or what am not sure since everyone knows my cooking skill is (pte ltd) But i still eat alot for the sake of eating. This explains why my weight is always increasing in an alarming rate.

I am still comtemplating whether to go for natural or caesarean. Read many scary stories about natural birth which says the pain will goes between 3hrs to 30hours. Mind you, 3 hours is only the minority (the the lucky ones). Of course you have your pain relief to standby but some after effect just makes me sick. "nausea, puking, dizziness and worst part is you still need to hook up to the urine catheter which i hate the most. Sigh....

Have book myself in 1 of those VBAC class on 11th September, what a date right?Hopefully i can remember because i forgotten 1 of the appt the last round. If i miss this again i wouldn't be in time for the next lesson.Hope they will teach me everything from breathing to pushing (if you understand what i mean) because i seriously know nuts about giving birth. Have not attend any classes before.I think my midwife will suffer some kind of mental stress on internal injury when she helps me to deliver later.

Despite all the complaints i have, believe if or not i still luv my No 2 alot. Still looking forward to see her. Hoping and praying that she will be in good health when she is born.She is a super active baby I can feel it. Constantly kicking and moving inside me. Practicing her pilates or yoga movements. I hope when she is born she will takes thing easy as I wouldn't want her to be so active during the nite time when everyone needs to sleep.

Exactly 2 more months from now till my EDD. Counting down to see her soon.I am hoping she will be out by 38weeks, at least it saves me from extra 2 weeks of torturing.But people usually says the more you want it the more it wouldn't happen, who knows she feels too comfortable inside and refuse to come out even by week 40. see how it goes will update soon again.

For HER

I did not forget about our lil princess too. We got her 3 pieces of new clothings. Nothing fanciful, but is the thought that counts.At least she has got something to wear when she is out.It's quite difficult to think what to buy, coz am still unsure about size and weather. Maybe it will be easier to buy more things when she is out.

We still have a few more things to buy like rocker, hammock wonder if she needs 1. Pram still unsure yet because maybe will use Sean's, but this will also mean Sean is not able to nap when we go out if the baby is using his pram. And maybe a baby carrier. Wait till my mum is here and let her think for me.

Rule of the Game

He is the last player you would want to play a soldier/robots game with.
Game rules do not exist in his world.
Only his rule do, and he will decide the rules as he plays.
But basically his rules are :
1)You can have your turn only when he is satisfied with his.
2)He can have multiple turns, but not you.
3)His soldier or robots has to win, you have to lose.

Haha and that' s Sean





By the way that's his current favourite toy at the moment. I guess boys are still boys. They like cars, robots soldier etc...