How i spend my birthday!

On Sunday, i turned 29 and i realised my birthday was spent with my loved ones!

Pirate King and I met up with my parents, Sis and Doris at the temple in Geylang to pay our respects to our grandparents (both maternal & paternal). Afterwards, we went back to my parents' place for lunch and spent our time napping!

Mum, Pirate King and I took the free shuttle bus to Parkway Parade to get Sis' shoes mended and had our 1st round of dinner there. Subsequently, Sis met up with us at Parkway and we took a cab to the Food Centre at East Coast Park for our second round of dinner.

We had junk food at the Food Centre. Junk food meaning BBQ Stingray, Satay Beehoon (I still prefer the one at Redhill), BBQ Chicken wings and chendol! I ate alot and everyone was amazed at my food consumption (except for Mum).... Guess pregnant ladies really ate a lot! For me, i ate really a lot in my last trimester as compared to my first & second trimester!

Afterwards, we walked to the Seafood Centre and took a cab back home! So, this is how i spent my birthday... No birthday bashes or anything... Just another normal day! :)

My Mum....

My Mum is a housewife, in today's term, she will be known as SAHM => Stay At Home Mum or a homemaker!

She is a fanastic Mum. She has little education but she bought up the 3 of us well, imparting all the values and trained us to be independent, not to take things for granted etc etc.......

For me, I m the eldest so her expectations on me are high to the extent of being too harsh on me at times. Plus, i really set a bad example to my siblings. If, you looked at it objectively, I m the model example of "reverse education"... ie my siblings are self trained to avoid provoking my Mum during their growing up days!

No doubt, my Mum loves me the most! Somehow, now that i 'm married and pregnant with my 1st child. I relied heavily on her to advise me what re the necessities to get for the birth of my child!

So, we went to the Baby Fair at Takashimaya..... Pirate King and I wanted to get the baby sling so that we could use this to carry piglet around without straining our arm muscles when fetching Piglet to & fro Mum's place. Wow, Mum's opinons about the baby sling is so strong that we put off the idea of getting it for the time being.

Basically, Mum is not objecting to us getting it but she feels that it is cumbersome to use the sling... Plus, it might not be useful if Piglet is a notti baby... She feels that its better for us to buy the stuff if we really need to use it!

Pirate King and i discussed about the differences of opinions between Mum & our friends who had children. I came to a conclusion that times had changed and Mum meant for our good so that we dun spend too much on Piglet and waste resources.

After all, she is my Mum and I respect her for all that she has given me! :)

Names

Names are important. It is an identity of us and a lousy name can be the butt of all jokes..... Especially, i had seen some of the Chinese names my classmates had and they choose to use English names when they started working.... Aim is to prevent themselves from being the butt of name jokes!

Pirate King borrowed a book on Chinese names. Yes, he is thinking of a good name for our piglet! For the past few days, i haven't been feeling well.... Thus no inspiration to think of any characters for our dear piglet.....

In the end, he decided on this name for her, "子晰", meaning bright. It does click with the meaning of the English name he decided for piglet, "Claire".

Guess, he is more excited about piglet than me now! My notti gal gets excited upon hearing Daddy's voice. The moment she heard his voice, she will respond by alot of movements in my tummy.... It's confirmed, Piglet will be Daddy's gal!

Sick & Tired

Yup, i m down with flu.... Its' due to insufficient sleep and being too heaty! But, i can conveniently blame my colleague who spread the virus to me!

Tired is because i have been working late since Monday.... And it gets worse when u re sick!

So, after writing this post, i keep my fingers crossed that I can get to sleep easily!

Still at office....

Its unusual for me to be in the office at this time of the day.....

Gosh, i m so tired...... I dunno what time i can go home... I m waiting for my boss to discuss the variance of my work. She s still in discussion with my colleague. So, there are 4 of us in the office.

Thank god for the fan and radio on my workstation if not, i will go crazy due to the heat and lack of entertainment!

My day was okie... Denise treated me to a birthday lunch.... Yup, will be turning 29 on this Sunday. I have yet to apply for leave on next Monday & Tuesday! Must get it done by end of this week!

Okie... got to go to the loo to clear my bladder.... Till the next post!

My Pig Princess!

Okie, all along i dun want to know the gender of my piglet coz of the unnecessary pressure that I might face from my Mother in law..... The pressure of producing a male offspring... Anyway, the gender of the baby is determined by Pirate King not me! If one fine day, my Mother in law will to complain about the male offspring, i will point the finger at her precious son!

So, we went for my routine check up today.... Dr Chan was late due to an emergency C-selection that he has to done for a preggie and i got an MC from him today... coz today is supposed to be my duty! :)

I told Dr Chan about the horrible pain i felt on my left side of the tummy. He prescribed me some medication to soften the uterus. He told me that the pain is contractions... I was so scared... I think it could be due to the massage i had that might bring it on.

Pirate King asked for a double confirmation of the gender of piglet.... Its confirmed, I m having a PIG PRINCESS! Yup, i want a gal as my first born! My little princess weighs 1.8kg and everything is on schedule... So, i m expecting to see her in end Oct!

Anyway, i think Pirate King prefers a gal than a boy even though he did not explictly stated his preference! Whatever it is, to hell with the attitude of my in laws!

Arggh..... Please help me!!!!

Last night was Sleepless in Redhill....

What happened was I overate during the day (too much oily & deep fried food), my left side of the tummy was so hard that its so bloody painful! I started to panic.... could it be due to the massage that i had done in the evening? But, i only massage my back, shoulder & neck! Could something happened to piglet?

1001 panicky thoughts came to my mind and it all revolved around the well being of piglet... It turns out that its actually diahorrea cum constipation.....

Sounds complicated huh? Diahorrea cum constipation? Okie, diahorrea coz i know i kept on going to the toilet to pass out... but it comes to a point whereby you know there is waste inside your body but you can't pass it out.... That's constipation to me!

All i know is i need help to get rid of the waste and gas in my system! Please help me!!!