U have grown...

Met up with some teammates whom we haven't met for quite a while, for a simple team lunch at T3 Popeyes...

The first word exchanged was "Hello!" And what followed next was "I see that you have grown!!!"

"My tummy?" I countered but was attacked by yet the next word my colleague had to say "Not just that! Your face is rounded!"

....

搬家前奏

过两天，我们就可以搬进自己的家了。

这是我们盼了好久的！

新家早在五月份就装修完毕。。。主要的家具也在七月份陆续就位。。。到现在，我也搞不清为什么等了那么久才搬迁。

尽管再过两天便有自己的天地；也没有感到特别兴奋。。。喜忧参半吧。

无论如何，我要努力地打造这个家！好好加油！

Auntie Enemy

It's been 4 days since Auntie was poked... Today, at the "polyclinic", "doctor" said the hole was too big to be mended...

"ok lor... Let's change 1 then!"

"Cannot, need to balance. Have to change both tyre behind!"

After a while...

"Boss! Ya rim is not okay leh... Probably been hit before, so not balanced during rotation..."

"Can fix or not?"

"Cannot, the rim itself is out of shape... Slightly though... But long term wise it'll affect the car bearer... Hav noise, unbalanced pressure on tyre... Blah"

"so u r saying we should change one lah?"

"Up to u but rim is sold in set of 4s... We don't sell individual rim"

"How much is that?"

"Depend on which one you choose... Range from $400 per set"

"Nevermind, after changing the rim we might also change door change window change whole car... So we will use the old rim for now and look for individual replacement elsewhere. Thanks!"

Auntie first Tyre puncture...

It wasn't sure where our auntie's left rear tyre was hit by a nut... A blunt nut that managed to forced itself into the thick rubber...

Dear came to fetch me and family... The music from radio station was in sync with the sound from the tyre... When the nut hit the road during every rotation... Pom-pom-pom...

Thanks to dad who noticed the problem or we would have been driving on a punctured tyre even until now...

Under 'guidance' from dad... Dear managed to complete his first hands-on tyre replacement workshop successfully... "it was easy..." he commented. Haa! -__-"

Renee, 你有很多boyfriends...

Just realized a poly-uni friend of mine is going to be a Father soon. His wife is expecting a BB boy.

My husband's cousin is expecting a boy, my sec friend is expecting twin boys, my neighbor had a boy, my colleagues have 3 boys...

Our Renee is going to make friend with many boys... Only 1 姐姐to play with... That's my buddy's princess Alivia. Hahaha ^,^

BH told Renee this morning that she's going have many boyfriends... >,<

A Fulfilling Weekend

Had great laughs catching the comedy - Johnny English Reborn at Marina Sq GV during the evening with my family! Had a not-bad "closing" by suppering at Coffee Club at Millennia Walk. (the $9 parking fee at MS was chor*!!!)



Stayed over at a fabulous "chalet" (our new nest)... prepared pancakes, ham & cheese toast and went with dear's coffee! Perfect way to start our day! (Oh I had a nightmare that our 'auntie' was summoned with $90 fine.... but it's just a dream! phew~*) BTW, the late lunch was nothing fabulous...

Before heading home, we dropped by Seng Kang Riverside Park (our second visit since our wedding day stopover photography)... Nice~*



The sky had been gloomy the whole day but it didn't seem to rain after-all... Finally gave 'auntie' a once-a-week shower she deserved... Ding-Ding~*

Renee 饥不择食

I was starving more and more as the clock ticked away during lunch hours...

After throwing out 'nothing'... I quickly packed my stuffs and tore 2 pieces of subway food voucher... Hoping to get healthy food for Renee, I happily set off for Compass Pt.

On the bus, hungry Renee couldn't help but kept sniffing the smell of Mcdonald's fries (alike) from one of the passengers packed lunch...

Should I get subway sandwich or McSpicy meal? I kept asking her on the bus... No kick, no preference...

As I reached the shopping mall, I desperately dashed to it's basement... Overwhelmed by the extraordinary long queue at subway, I turned around and marched towards McDonalds...

Long queue plus no sign of available seat for lone-luncher like me... I turned to it's neighbor fast-food chain almost immediately, without a second thought...

There I ordered the value lunch meal, settled down and started gobbling the lunch down my throat... Sending them to Renee the soonest possible before she made me puke again...

I still want subway...

Hitting myself... Happily... WT...

Why would I be hitting myself so happily!!!???

I was in a boring meeting so I stretched a little and give my tummy 3 gentle taps...

To my surprise, my little princess acknowledged my greetings by responding with 3 obvious kicks!

So for the rest of the noon... I've been trying to stay 'connected' with her and hoping to teach her counting!

So fun! But I think I should stop drumming on my own tummy... Take a break!

BB Kicks!!!

From 'What to Expect' smart phone app, the tracker suggested that we could try to flash torch at the tummy, if BB could 'see' the light and give some kicks...

I asked my gynae abt it and was told that 'we don't normally do that'. Glad that we didn't try... LOL

Well, we needn't have to try that because she's been kicking the entire night...

One kick for mummy to take a better sitting posture, another kick for mummy to flip or roll to the other side... And just one more kick for mummy to stop eating! Hahaha!

BTW, we requested for an ultrasound scan during today's follow-up, just to collect BB's pic ^,^ her legs were flipped up and her little fingers were gripping onto the umbilicord...

She's abt 700g now... And I should gain another 4-5kg until delivery. Jiayou!!!

Happy Mooncake Festival

So romantic... Our lantern-stroll along Punngol park ^,^

So many pple!!! Wahhhh!!! Picnic and burning the wooden pavement at Punggol Park...

Nothing beats the chill out at Popeye after an evening lantern-stroll... What a memorable 中秋节！

Thank you Dear Dear!

Wago Style Mocha Muffins

It was 4pm when I woke up from a short nap, hearing unbearable karaoke noises from the neighborhood...

I gazed at the clock, it was ticking just an hour before we had to leave our lovely nest for dinner... I had this sudden urge to bake some muffins!

Dear was very supportive. Instead of stopping me from baking, he gently reminded me of the limited time and let me proceed ^,^

ITCHY BACKSIDE!!!

I didn't know exactly how itchy a backside could get until today...

I was craving for omelet so I searched high and low for a decent frying pan but of course I couldn't find any since I didn't succeed in finding one the last time I tried to look for it...

Why didn't I ask? - Good question...

I happily grabbed a pot thinking that all pot should work the same and started to "cook" my omelet...

Then I heard popping sound coming from bottom of the pot, it's starting to deform a little at its base... S*** >,<

It didn't take too long before I start to smell burnt... and the stubborn black soot formed at the bottom of the pot so quickly that I didn't even have time to react! S*** S*** S*** O_O"

Egg and burnt bread thrown... pot soaked and washed over and over again (I couldn't even recall how many times I tried to wash away the evidence of me spoiling my MIL's pot... Yes... not Mine... not anyone's but my M-I-L)... Holy S*** T__T

I'm not escaping from the responsibility... Renee is not escaping either (Yes, she was the one who wanted to eat omelet!) We will confess when my MIL returned from her happy breakfast... hope she's not too heart-broken with the out of shape pot which I had tried so hard to revive... Sorry potty!

I wish I have asked earlier...

It's been 24 weeks 3 days

Officially 6 months... still in my second trimester... Some comments gathered recently:

From sis "Howcome still so small ar?"

From colleague "Ehh, 6 months? looks small..."

From pantry auntie "Daughter? Normally pple say tummy will be bigger for daughter..."

From another colleague who's a guy and still single... "Maybe your tummy will grow very big from 7 months onwards!"

Question to my gynae when we meet next Tuesday would be...

"Is my tummy considered small?"

"Based on the height of my husband and I, what should be the scale of growth for my BB girl?"

Too many questions... No answer...

BTW, I have 3 wedding dinner on the agenda in Oct and late Nov... Hopefully I have something to wear... O_O"

And... still thinking of a name for our precious...

1 miss and 1 miss miss

Looking at the clock, "there's still 20 mins" I convinced myself to take a morning shower before my checkpoint call with a US counterpart...

Besides bathing myself, I started to "bath" our pillow cases, as well...

Probably because of the flu pills, I was slow and still a bit drowsy... so I took much longer than I normally would... and by the time I came out from the washroom and stared at the clock blankly...

"oh shoot!" I was late by 10 mins for my call!

1 call missed... bad bad bad ;p