Miserable

This is the worst phase of the pregnancy thus far. Since Monday, I had been nursing a migraine that fades in and out but stubbornly refuses to make an exit. The nasty thing about migraine coupled with the dizzy spells of pregnancy, I don't dare to stand too near the MRT tracks anymore lest i lose my balance. I also feel disoriented and lost in a crowd, losing all navigational skills. It also makes working on a computer hard and i always must turn down the backlight or my eyes feel strained and tired, worsening the pain. It also caused my 1st puking session since i got pregnant. Sleeping is another problem, as i can no longer seem to sleep uninterrupted. Wake up in the night, sometimes unable to get back to sleep.

i also hate that it caused my appetite to take a downturn, causing family to fret over everything i ate (or didn't eat). I certainly felt I was mature enough to worry about my own diet. I recalled before I got pregnant, I promised myself I will be one of those model mums who would eat a healthy, nutritious diet for the sake of my unborn child. But reality could be cruel, as my tastebuds got really picky (frankly i'm not much a picky eater before pregnancy) and I only seem to crave unhealthy food (chicken rice, laksa, otah, fast food etc). This of course made family fret even more. which stresses me out and headache gets worse, and cycle continues :(

Second visit, first regurgitation

i went to see the gynae happily today, all hopeful to know the gender of baby. unfortunately, she couldn't commit to me any gender at all :( say its too early. but but, when she was doing the scan, she (purposely i think) disturbed the baby so that baby moved her hand! look like baby was waving at me! very very cute. baby is now about 4.7cm, last visit baby was just under 1cm. =) grown so much from first visit hor? sigh but i had such high hopes to go to HK knowing to buy blues or pinks! hee... oh yes, gynae say i put on 300gm :( she say not good for 1st trim. say if weight gain in 1st trim means tendancy to gain weight. hai.. better watch diet le.

it was a really warm day compared to previously, and me and mum marched all of orchard up down running errands and for a yummy brayani lunch near ming's workplace. probably the heat and exertion got to me, and i settled home nursing a migraine. in the evening, i puked my 1st since pregnancy :(

Michael's first month

the girls and i popped by simei to visit fran and her new addition to the family, michael darius. he was quite active already, with a pair of big alert eyes that were already pretty focused. the girls took turns carrying him but unoruntely coz pandang for me, i din get to carry him :( photos for this pending in fran's camera. Fran and sugi also shared their very interesting labour experiences (note to self, write birth plan...) and it was quite interesting to see sugi handle the tiny baby michael. to his credit, michael stopped crying when daddy picked him up. so he must be quite good at it ya? =)

fran's aunt oso made a killer mee siam for us, with huge slices of fresh succulent prawns, and the chilli!! yum! words cannot describe. and not to mention the yummy fish-paste you tiao...droolz... we all had second (or third) helpings ;P was really very yummy

Should-have-stayed-home Saturday

You know there are some days that u just wished u stayed in bed? this had gotta be one of those days. and we knew this year wasn't quite auspicious for us. why din we just stay home?

guess it all started with me. after 5 days of restricting myself to miserable canteen food, i just had to get out in the weekend to catch up on my cravings. i had a long to do (and to eat) list i wanted to fulfill this weekend, so we headed off to Marina Square early in the morning, about 10+. Of course hardly any shop was open yet so we window shopped for what to eat for lunch. too many choices, too little stomach :( we decided to share a whopper meal at BK. Yes, throughout my pregnancy, I kept craving fast food, its totally irritating. I think I have eaten as much fastfood in the last 3 months as I had for the past 3 years. I'm normally not a huge fan. But the thought of the yummy mayo mixed with tomato, oozing out of the succulent burger...argh... it even beat my kimchi fried rice craving i'd been having since forever. We shared the meal so we may share the big prawn noodles i had been craving for from lavender food center since i watched that cursed show on channel U.

so after shopping around marina square for some baby stuff, and resting a while, to cut long story short, we eventually headed to lavender food center, where parking was all in parallel. and did i mention, the parking here was killer? even at an off peak hour, the roads were packed with cars parked in parallel lots and traffic inching forward in the narrow 2 way lane. as we tried to inch our way into a carpark, we scratched a car waiting by the road :( between settling and claiming of insurance, the 'victim' wanted to 'save the trouble' and pocket hundred over dollars from us. we had a really tough time looking for an atm after that. ming even broke his slipper (bad things come in pairs indeed). when we finally gave up looking for a dbs or uob atm, after walking the entire stretch atound the food center and we decided to use the ocbc atm to withdraw from uob, regardless of charges. i'm sure as they ate their ah lam noodles, they used our money and probably were unlikely to send the car for servicing for that small scratch on the door. i know i wouldn't. it was a most costly lunch for us.

My first seat

Today, amazingly, i got my first volunteered seat! Not sure if its coz i already look pregnant or coz i was carrying 2 heavy bags, one for a laptop. nonetheless, put me in a good mood for the day to know such nice ppl are around =) kudos!

Hong Kong

Hai, we had finally confirmed our dates and booked airtickets for Hong Kong. Then we heard over the news about the flu bug in Hong Kong. Furthermore this morning heard that even more students were infected and school holidays were brought forward to prevent an epidemic! How come so suay?? Last time i probably won't care or just go take flu jab. But now with little one inside, I really am in 2 minds. dunno wanna take the risk to go not? furthermore we fly budget airline, cannot even change date! even if change, my school opening soon liao. by the time next break, baby due liao, how to go...? so how now? to go or not to go, that is the question? why so many obstacles one...

Search is on

Apparently, confinement nannies are booked way in advance. So now commences my search for confinement nanny. with so many posters in the forum is hard to tell which is an imposter. and hearing so many nightmare stories of bad CLs, just make me worry. hai.

On a side note, ate macdonalds mcspicy meal today. hai super sinful. but haha changed the coke for Sprite lor. no caffiene de. lots of sugar and oil tho. haha yum yum tho