What I'm going to bring to the hospital

小臭 is coming into the world tmr morning at 9am +. I'm packed my hospital bag and here's what I'm bringing.

1) Marriage cert - to register BC
2) disposable undies
3) sanitary pads - normal kind.. will try breastfeeding so I doubt my menses will be strong
4) letters - blood tests and doctor's instructions + letter from my confinement food caterer so I can activate them
5) Baby accessories : bootiesX2sets, mittensX2sets and hat
6) Swaddle blanket
7) 1 set of clothes to bring baby back .. this set is sponsored by MG .. she bought from mothercare and its very comfy; Going to take care of it in case she decides to have another baby stone.
8) Postnatal binder - on promo in Guardian .. cheap! less than $30; I tink my previous one costed over $60 from the hospital
9) my own shawl to keep warm

10) DS Lite in case I'm really bored!
11) camera
12) wallet + NRIC
13) Gifts for MLS
14) A heavy heart .. I'm quite scared to be cut open and then there's the defenceless baby to nurture and MLS's reaction. She's been prep to be a sister but still the real thing is hard to
predict.

Its been quite a tough 38 weeks. The first week I know, the gynea was saying there's a 50% MC chance and I had a strong flu for 3 weeks, coupled with the 4 mths of vomitting. Life sucks as the vomitting came 6x a day, on my trips to and fro office and after every meal or snacks.

Then there was the giddiness everyday. When Ahda doesnt work, I'll drive slowly to work. Albeit the slowness, my car was knocked 2 times. Once, from the back by a bike and I was stationary waiting for the traffic light. The 2nd time on the driver door .. that once was milder and only the mirror was hurt.

There's also the on-going house renov. To save ard $6K, we are getting another contractor instead of the one Laksa recommended. He's ok but very very blur; and forget quite a number of things, so we cant move in time for the new baby.

And my maid had to go back Indonesia 2 times; effectively drying up all my official leaves. Each time she goes back, she doesnt come back home straight when the plane touch down. The 1st time she came back at 1pm and went out with her friends till 4pm the next day. The 2nd time she came back at 1am and slept in the airport before coming back at 8am the next day. Having a maid is troublesome; if not for the lazy men in the house who cant do their share of housework, I would love to go maid-free! Then the kids will go to childcare.

Finally, Ahda hates the gynea I went to at Mt A. I hate him too.. so mercenary. He knew from the start that I was hoping for a no pain op and my old scar is on the pelvic bone which makes it impossible to be no-pain but he waited till I pay up everything before he told me! The nurses at his clinic are gossipy and rude too. Plus if we want to choose a date for the op, its an extra 2K on top of the 3K for his choice of date! The final straw was that he arranged to go holiday on my baby's 38wk and wanted to do the op on the 37 weeks. So I sacked him; took back my deposit and went to another gynea.

I hope things will go slowly back to equilibrium after tmr. One thing good is that Ahda is more "man" during this period. Before that, I was quite pissed off with his bo-chapness abt MLS stuffs and always playing pc games. Now he will take initiative to do more things for the kids; e.g. he changed the switches and gangs for the new place; even though it was quite a scare initially. He blowed up a socket and short-circuited the neighbour's house! At the end, he got a few cuts but more man lar!

Preparation for the new baby.

there are a few things to get prepared

1) book hospital room - mt A

2) book confinement food - natal essentials

3) order confinement herbs - Aider

4) get mattress for baby

5) breastpump

6) Yaolan - gotten!

7) transfer MLS to a nearer school

8) Present from baby to MLS

9) Get sanitary pads, dun think hubby will get that for me over my dead body.

10) Organise MLS baby clothes for the new addition

I seems to be ill-prepared for the new baby and thats making me grouchy.

My first new home

First floor

View from the living room

Utility room

Master bedroom toilet

Master bedroom

The common toilet

Study Room

MLS and LMLS room

Living Room

Staircase

I'm so excited to have my new home! Yeah, no more sudden visits from people who don't flush the toilet, shit on the floor, urine on the seat, dont close the door when they are in the toilet, handle food without washing hands after toilet, finish half of my carton of soft-drinks that I need to suppress my nausea, talk loudly, visit without invitation, expect my maid to loan them charger, etc blab blab blab..

I need a place to express all these bad feelings and I cant wait to move to a place I can finally call my own. A lot of things went wrong with this flat purchase.

1) The agents got the Option to Purchase form wrong (both of them!) and we didnt find out till 2 weeks later when the lawyer told us.

2) We wanted to get the more conservative DBS house loan but the DBS officer servicing us took mc for 2 days and 3 days before the OTP deadline, we called her and she was in shock and said "u better go to another bank just in case."

3) We finally signed up with UOB's best loan rates they can offer and one of the form was lost a week later, had to re-sign it.

4) Called the law firm 4-5 times to find out the status and they didnt get back to us. When I finally the clerk in charge, she told me I had to go down to pay 23K by 2 days!

5) The seller's lawyer forgot to supply the original OTP and my law firm called us to ask for it.

6) Penalty for service and conservancy charges when I didnt get the bill to pay for it last month.

We have finally gotten our keys and renovation will begin 1 week later. Pray pray renovation will go smoothly and I can have my confinement in peace and cleanliness.

A short trip to bangkok

MLS cheeky look while waiting for Grand Oishi at Siam Discovery Centre to open. Grand Oishi is about 600baht per pax but has wide wide assortment of premium japanese and chinese food.
The poor Koala Bear sweating under the hot sun. He ran to the shade shakily after we took this pic.

Who do u ask when u cant find the way?? Map!! (Dora's Adventure)

Its the last trip for only child MLS; I hope it makes her happy. With an addition to the family and the age catching up, I doubt I can handle going overseas with 2 clinging kids.

Small Eagle's wedding

Small Eagle has chosen 10Oct for her church wedding. In Chinese, this symbolizes perfection. I hope she has a blissful life ahead too; my personal feel is that the groom is a very gentle and nice guy. With the help of my creative friend Laksa, I customized a gift for the happy couple; hope it'll retain their happy memories!

I thought I was just pasting 2 person interlocking hands and it looks like the chinese character "xi", so was very shocked when AQ says its the world-famous crumpler symbol! Then I realize it really is leh!

Small Eagle also invited MLS to be her flower girl for the day. Even though we practiced, MLS was still overwhelmed on the actual day and forgot to throw petals, but Small Eagle's guests were so nice, a few of them even came up and praised MLS for doing a good job! They were so kind I'm tempted to join a church and be around these wonderful people more.

Here's some shots I managed to shoot at the wedding, bearing in mind AQ's warning not to run around; not that I could actually.. hehe

MLS got out of her shyness once she reached home and happily posed for pictures.

Baby #2

Despite having a IUC implanted and removing the IUC at a 50% chance of miscarriage, I'm already 6 mths pregnant!

I'm planning to name the new baby Aeris. Aeris has been a trouble-maker after she's been conceived in Japan, a re-honeymoon for us.

After 4 mths of continuous puking, the hormones been making me giddy most of the time.

Plus she loves to move around during my sleep time, making it tough to stay asleep.

Keeping my fingers crossed the remaining mths to her delivery will be smoother. Formerly with MLS, the pregnancy has been relatively peaceful and craving-free.

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Today I brought MLS her music class but happily forgot my wallet. So back home, I told MLS:

me: Mummy got no money to buy cake for you, cake too expensive!

MLS: its ok .. no need to buy cake .. cake so expensive

me: Mummy got no money to buy toys, new present for you!

me: *think* ... its ok .. money at home ... go home take money.

1st trip out with MLS to friend's house

MLS with my charming secondary school friends. The one in red shirt is 7 mei.

Flashback - 4mths old

This is MLS at 4 mths old.. after an injection and feverish. I can recount when she was born and I was quite shocked to see her. She was so tiny, had little hair, wrinkled up and single eyelids; nothing like a lovely girl.

So later that night, as I cuddled her, I told her that "u so poor thing but never mind, Mummy's contented to have you alone and you can have all my love to make up for the bad genes." It seems that she has some recollection of this and sometimes she'll say " I so poor thing leh". And even when the PD Dr Terence Tan said she had good features, I was quite sure he was lying.

4mths after she was born, I went back to NTU to continue my half-finished masters and the mths that followed were horrible with trying to balance the new baby, my work and the masters which I had set high expectations for myself.

Some time in the 2nd semester of my return to masters, MLS had a fall on our bed when I was alone with her. I was doing my project for the Masters and not paying attention to her while she was running around the bed. Then I heard her cried loudly. At first I thought it was just a normal fall; as I held her up, I realized there was a lot of blood.

I remembered carrying her screaming all the way down. My hubby stopped me halfway to check if she had lost her front teeth but it was worse. Her forehead was bleeding.

We drove to Mt Alvernia and waiting for the PD to come. My white T-shirt was drenched in her blood. MLS was subsequently stitched up by a PD. I watched every moment of her hysteria wailing during the stitching and cried along. To date, I don't think I've forgiven myself for that. After that incident, I hated my masters even though I completed it in the end. I quitted my job too a few months after that incident.

Her scar has whitened after all these months; when there's no trace of it I'll then be able to put this behind altogether.

Cool Look

MLS looks so cool in this that I just have to post it. Nevermind the not so attractive man in the background. *GRINS*

hair styling

Some hair styles that I'm trying out on mls. Not very well-done but I'll work on it somemore. Its really fun!