Craving for Tim Sum

I'm having this sudden craving for Tim Sum. Was supposed to go Neptune Theatre for my tim sum this week, but due to unforseen circumstances , I can't go.
Now, I'm dying for the Tim Sum in Crystal Jade in TM. What bad timing! Girl has to be home-bound. How am I suppose to go without her? And if I had brought her along, she would want to eat those deep-fried stuffs. It will worsen her cough.
How long more can I hold back my craving????????

Funny Girl

Yesterday girl was standing next to me by the bedside in the late afternoon. My stomach started growling due to hunger. She looked at me with her eyes and mouth opened bigger.
M: What's that sound
A: I listen, I listen (puts her ear to my tummy)
(stomach growling again)
A: Baby talking
M: What did baby say?
A: Grrrr... (imitates the growling sound)

Later in the night, she was so excited again. Asked to listen to 弟弟.
A: 弟弟 never make any sound
M: Why?
A: Just now, 弟弟 say he haven't drink Vitagen
M: Is it? You drank Vitagen just now??
A: (realising she's not suppose to let me know she drank Vitagen) Errr.........bye bye! (runs off)

No more grey hairs

Just 2 days ago I was sulking about the white hairs I have on my head. And thinking about the evil look in my girlfriend's(AiLeng) eyes when she wanted to pull my white hairs 2 Fridays ago.
Anyway, I was really tempted to colour my hair with the Loreal Booster I was using but then decided against it. But then again, when I was preggie with my little girl - I coloured my hair at least twice leh.. Nothing happened!
In the end, I decided to try out Henna. Looked around in pharmacies and finally found it in NTUC Healthcare for $15.20. It's very costly considering it can only last me 8-10 washes.
Once I got my hair dried, I'm so happy that I can spell H-A-P-P-Y

Thank you Yvonne

Thanks to Yvonne(Little Miss Snooze) for her help. I have managed to change the Comments part of my blog at the bottom of every post.
She'll be helping me with the rests, so hopefully my blog page will look more interesting.
Just in case you're wondering who she is. She's a fellow blogger whom I love to read her interesting musings of her daily life, she writes well. Umm... actually she's a stranger but I felt that I've known her. And it's really so sweet of her to help me.
You can read her blog at my link :Yveon

She never fails to amuse me and family

Girl insisted on staying over in Grandma's place after her music lesson yesterday. Although I was trying to 'get rid of her' after going crazy for 5 consecutive days, I must admit that when mom offered to let her stay over I was abit hesitant. In the end, I gave in, thinking that I need a sanity check for 2 days before I am home-bound with her next week.
I drove them back home, and then I asked girl what should she say... I was expecting a "Goodnight mummy" and a kiss. But she surprised me with "Thank you mummy for driving me to Thum-per-nis (Tampines)" and gave me a kiss. I found it funny that she thanked me for this.
At night, the little tyrant rules the house. Everyone would have to bow down and give in to her and calls her "Your Royal Highness. When grandpa comes home, she ransacked his bag checking for dupes and illegal items aka sweets. Then she asked "ye-ye did you buy anything for me (in chinese)" Grandpa answered, "I didn't know you are here tonight. I didn't buy you anything."
Smart as she is, ran away and refused to talk to grandpa no matter how much grandpa talked her to come to him; coaxed her etc... Then he offered her "I give you $2"
A : No, I dowan
Ye-ye: (after some time) Come, I give you $2. You want or not
A: (who was playing in uncle/auntie's room, rolled down from the bed fast and started running to grandpa in kitchen)
A: (took the $2, went to the room to take her now empty piggy bank and put in the money)(came out the room and showed everyone her piggy bank)
Sis-in-law(SIL):How come your piggy bank is empty?
A: Mummy take my money to put in bank
SIL: ye-ye also can go to the bank. Why didn't you let him bank in the money for you?
A: No, I only want mummy to do it
Ye-ye: (seeing her piggy bank quite empty gave another 2 gold coins, SIL gave her some coins.)
A: (shaking her piggy bank happily)

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A week ago, she heard me hugging the sink in the evening. She quickly ran to the bathroom, said "mummy you womit(vomit)? I looked at her but couldn't answer, she ran out of our bedroom and came back few seconds later. This time I sat on the toilet seat resting and the sweetest thing happened. "Mummy, I give you sweet sweet..." Sounds sweet, wait till you hear what she says next. " You only take one only ok? Cannot take so many.. later Athena don't have, how?" She ended her sentence with that kind of pathetic look (which only we know coz' we've seen it upteen times)

If she really meant to offer sweets to me, then don't say those words. But then kids are kids, they speak their mind.

In the end of the whole episode, I thanked her for her kindness and thoughtfulness.
What surprises me later is she ran back to her dark room to put back her sweets (on top of her telephone - abit silly). Why surprised? Coz' that girl is afraid of the dark. But she overcame that fear and ran, probably for her life, to get me her sweets.

Footnote:
She never fails to amuse me and my family. Sometimes I really wonder how that little girl thinks. No wonder they say that having children is a joy.

If only I can be that accurate with 4 digits numbers??

If only, if only..................... If only I can be accurate with 4 digits numbers. How accurate can I get when I decided to send my girl to school today. Why must it be today? Why can't it be tomorrow? Or next week? Girl has been at home for the past 3 days, as I wanted to let her recover from her cough. Truth is, she was driving me crazy at home (mess the house here and there; keeping me busy; wanting to sleep next to me.. and I had to sleep with her in a non-aircon room) and I really had a terrible headache yesterday due to the lack of sleep for 5 nights. Today, brought her in to school at close to 10am. At 11 plus, as I was walking towards the coffeeshop, I saw Braxton and Melia's papa & mama. So it means they just got in to school. At 1plus, I was putting parking coupon in the car when they drove in. I was puzzled and asked why are they back at this time, and they told me that Braxton has HFMD. And they're back to bring Melia home as well. At this time I was quite worried as girl's immunity system is still low, and although he was there for a short while I'm afraid of the contact they had ( they are lovers you see) . Most importantly is choy!choy! if my girl has it.. my mom and myself can't take care of her (mom's immunity is low and me preggie) so who's gonna do it. Might as well let her have less contact in her school, since Braxton's is the first person.. um... someone will get it. Good thing I've been asking girl to keep washing her hands with the anti-bacterial handwash. Now it's time to bring out the anti-bacterial hand gels and bring it out with me. Anyway, call me kiasu or kiasi.. the moment I heard that I went to sterilize all her school uniforms. Pulled her out at 2pm, Ms Chan had to wake her up from her sleep. Sigh...............she's going to drive me crazy. And I've to stay indoor with her too.............Argh! Need to do on rotation basis with my mom so that I can exercise.

Pregnancy Report

Post pregnancy report (was suppose to post it but had problem linking it - so here it is now.)

Baby2

Chinese sinseh Vs Western doctor

Last Friday, brought my girl to the Chinese sinseh to prevent her bronchitis from coming up. Thing in, on Wednesday we noticed the air around out area was very hazy.. Once she reached school she started rubbing her eyes. I asked Ms Chan to help me put the eye-drops, then she started a little coughing on Thursday.On Friday, I brought her to see the chinese sinseh.

I could have brought her to see her PD, but what I don't like is the prescription of antibiotics she always does. Yes, it does help as compared if I brought her to a normal GP (they'll usually give Chlormine) and since they did not know her history of "suspicious of being asthmatic due to inheriditary" they would give normal medications. In the end, I would still have to bring her back to the PD days later.

My girl is already immuned to one antibiotics and can only take Klacid, which I suspect is stronger than the first. See Bacterial Resistence :

What is "bacterial resistance"?
Usually antibiotics kill bacteria or stop them from growing. However, some bacteria have become resistant to specific antibiotics. This means that the antibiotics don’t work against them. Bacteria become resistant more quickly when antibiotics are used too often or are not used correctly.
Resistant bacteria sometimes can be treated with different antibiotics to which the bacteria have not yet become resistant. These medicines may have to be given intravenously (through a vein) in a hospital. A few kinds of resistant bacteria are untreatable.

If I'm not wrong, this time she will also ask me to do 4 times of Ventolin on her; complete dosage of antibiotics; and a bitter dark pink whasalone (something like that) for wheezing.

When I brought her to see the Chinese sinseh again yesterday, she was surprised to see me back within 3 days. I expressed my concern for her as her cough got worst and this time she keeps sneezing and started having stuffy nose. So she explained that her cough arises from the mucus. (Umm... logical since ENT-ear, nose, throat are connected) and asked if I had brought her out for the past 2 days and the sudden switch of temperature eg. hot; cold; hot; cold.
It was spot on! I remember on Saturday when we went for seafood, she was hot then I brought her down to walk along the beach and it was cold. Rushed up to get her her cardigan put it on for her... went back to eat while mom took care of her. Then mom said she was playing/ running in the grass patch, she perspired. Cool down a while and we went back to the car.
When I asked her to help me listen to her lungs, she said it's clear no wheezing at all. So i stopped giving her the Ventolin, but in the night I thought I heard some sound when she was sleeping next to me so I gave her again.

Now, I'm wondering if there's such thing called resistence to Ventolin??

I don't deny that her PD is good but at one visit, she mentioned something about not testing her for something before prescribing her Ventolin and Flixotide. And somehow she kept saying that she is asthmatic.. I don't deny there's a higher chances of her being asthmatic as her papa has it when he was young (and recently it came back again) but I don't see the symptoms of her being asthmatic. In her case, I can safely say she has bronchitis.

Time being, I've been giving her Illiadin nose drops and burning Eucalyptus oil (to the extent that I'm afraid I'll burn down the house one of these days) and hopefully by doing it the natural way will help too.

Tidying up of wardrobe

It only took me less than 20 minutes to pack my clothes from my wardrobe. Nope! Not that I'm moving house or going on a holiday.. but rather I'll be going from a Size M to XL and some clothes will not fit me.

It was easy to distinguish the clothes which obviously I can't wear now and those which still can last me a few months down the road. Jeans were the first to go.. still can wear but it's the belt area that I feel uncomfortable. As I packed them I wondered if I could still wear them after delivery. I have some work dresses which I bought from Southhaven, and they were my favourites in the working world. And not forgetting one bloody expensive dress(suitable for evening dress) which was not officially used yet (still has label on) from GG5.. Argh! Determination! Determination! Must lose weight no matter what! Maybe for the sake of beauty will have the urut lady bind me up for long. Haha!

13 minutes later, I took out my maternity clothes and packed them in my wardrobe.

And ooohh......... I had some undergarments and boy was I surprised that I actually was upgraded to a C-cup before. I think I was too over-zealous in getting the disposable panties too, realised that I had some new unopened packs left.

At the end of the day, I was so happy that my wardrobe looks much tidier now.

Road Runner

Remember as a little kid there's this cartoon called the Road Runner where Coyote will always try to blast him? Well, I was on Animal Planet in the evening and was surprised when I heard that Road Runners existed, and boy do they run real fast! New discovery for me.

First attempt in using chopsticks

Girl tried to have her rice with chopsticks. Umm... she's getting the hang of it but still can't grasp that much rice grains. Not to mention, the mess she made on the table and floor after that.
Ps. Can't figure whether to use left or right hand.

New discovery

Was at Hougang Mall today when I stopped infront of Polar. And guess what? I only realise now that they do have birthday cakes with the Sesame Street Characters on it, and they're quite pretty. However I do not know if their cake taste as good as Bengawan Solo's.

But anyway, I'm prepared to order it from them this year if my girl still wants Cookie Monster as her birthday theme. If not, I hope it's Princess, (now she tells me she likes Princess) then it's easier to get the favors from Singapore (rather than sourcing from the US- anyway when the time comes I don't have much time to plan her birthday. Probably be more tired or busy with No.2)

Furious! Furious!

Was craving for crabs in the late morning, then hubby suggested having seafood for dinner as it'll be too heavy for lunch. And at the same time to call mom, bro and SIL along.
I was too excited thinking about my crabs that I actually went without an afternoon nap. Hahaha!
We reached East Coast at 7plus, and Red House was already quite packed. Darn! Should have made reservations. Was happy to see that they have a section airconditioned. But we were warned of a 20 minute wait for a table anywhere in the restaurant.
Brother raccee the other places and told us that No Signage has seats upstairs. So we thought 'what the heck. We might as well try other places.' and how hot it can get - can't be right? Cause there are fans.
We were dealt with the most horrendous heat. Make it worst is the bloody service. I can't believe that they had only 4 people serving and only 2 (inclusive in the 4)can take order in our top section. So we waited and waited, trying to get the attention of the staff to take our order. And he made a blunder when he repeated the order so we corrected him.
The worst has yet to come. We actually waited for 40 minutes for our first dish to be served and the stupid woman didn't even bring our rice. Chinese take their meals with rice what!! Thank goodness we asked for one bowl of rice for my girl who was about to faint (ok, just exaggerated on that) quite some time back. Quite poor thing, only had white rice to eat.. Then when the dishes came we try to feed her with the dishes. Not only she was aggitated, I was too! Firstly is the service, secondly is the heat. I was feeding her and then brother was fanning her (mind you, she was seated under the fan yet she still feels hot) with a piece of paper. We all had to settle her dinner first. Hubby kept telling me "you eat first, you eat first. Let her eat herself." How can I do that? Whenever I'm out, myself; mom or brother would rather starve ourselves and feed the child first. Let the child have her fill then we can have our fill. Hubby ordered two kinds of crabs, chilli and black pepper. And when the black pepper crab came we all stared and told the lady it's the wrong dish they served. Then she said "it's correct, we don't have black pepper only white pepper." I was quite pissed off and told her "shouldn't the guy tell us." Though I must admit she was quite apologetic. (what to do when you have a fuming mad pregnant lady). The waiters are quite blur too! One guy came up with a tray full of Cokes and walked towards our table and then somehow I think he realised the number of Cokes don't tally with the number of people there; turned to the other table. And remember we already had our Pepper Crab?? He came out again putting the dish down. We looked at him and told him "we ordered Chilli Crab" And I can't imagine how blur can he get when he was moving the first Crab dish to make way for the new one that he brought out.??!! No common sense.
Anyway, their food is horrible. The Chilli Crab is not nice as Red House's, I think they used curry powder to cook the gravy.
I will NEVER recommend this place to anyone.It's no wonder everywhere else was packed except for this place.
RATINGS:
FOOD : NOT NICE
SERVICE: VERY BAD. AT ONE POINT, DIDN'T EVEN HAVE STAFFS THERE EXCEPT FOR LIZARDS ON THE CEILING. YUCKS!IT TOOK THEM 10 MINUTES TO SETTLE A BILL ALSO. ?!?!?!
AMBIENCE: FANS ARE OF NO USE. THE HEAT WAS HORRIBLE
OVERALL: NOT RECOMMENDED AT ALL. I THINK EVEN THE ZHI-CA CAN COOK BETTER CHILLI CRABS.

A clone of our little girl

Hubby and myself were talking about "what if there's another clone of Athena?"
M: What if there's another clone of Athena
H: (paused) will be so cute like Athena
M: Double trouble (thinking of the days when I was a SAHM with her, she practically kept me busy the whole day)
H: No what..........she's quite sensible
M: Yah, true she's sensible; cute; likes to tease people..
M: What if we had twins?
M: Twins personality are different. Never mind!

Spoke my mind

Spoke to Ms Chan yesterday as I picked girl up from school. " I need to discuss with you something about the incident." She was all ears when I told her it was all an misunderstanding, as girl has told grandma she pulled the soup towards her and it spilled.
Moreover I was not aware of what had happened as she was not at home, and if she remembered I was abit hesitant on the phone.. I was skeptical infact and kept questioning "if she drank soup from the bowl..." And when I asked mother what happened, she said girl told her the truth - which then means that what I had deduced is correct.
The cut the whole story short, I made myself clear to her that I'm one who believes in disciplining a child when wrong but not when it's not justified. And I also told her frankly that I was not at all happy when she told me about it, and I'm her mother I know her behaviour.
Ms Chan apologized to my girl. She felt bad that I was a little traumatized, I told her its okay but I need to make myself clear to her. At some point the principal happened to walk pass, I kept quiet coz' I wanted to show her that I'm on her side at this moment and is not making a big booha on this. She got the whole idea... so now she knows the grandma and mother cannot be trifled with.
But what I'm glad is that I've finally spoken my mind and tell her how I feel. Afterall a mother knows her child best!

Did this to her hair - nice?

I'm running out of ideas on how to tie her hair. Did this I dunno call what hairstyle for her, nice? Umm.............maybe it's time to check out the library if there are any books on how to tie hair.

My inner ramblings

I am not at all pleased or happy when I received a phonecall from Ms Chan on Tuesday afternoon. She had called to ask me why girl was not in school, I did not suspect anything but assured her that she's fine (no sickness... just incase they're worried about the HFMD that is spreading) . Then she toned down her voice and told me that she has given my girl a smack in the hand on Monday afternoon because she poured the soup on herself during lunch. I was abit shocked as mom had not mentioned anything of this to me (girl stayed over in Tampines on Monday night).
But normally, I would listen to what Ms Chan has to say about my girl being naughty in school. I did the same yesterday but somehow an instinct told me "there's something wrong somewhere.." and I kept asking her "are you sure? You mean she drank the soup from the bowl and the soup spilled?" I doubted her words, worst still as a mother I felt angry that she had smacked my girl's hand. Do not be mistaken, I believe in disciplining my child when she has done wrong and I've given the teachers permission (altho' they are not supposed to use physical disciplining methods) to discipline her when she has done something wrong. I don't believe in scolding or beating my girl a few hours later when she would have forgotten what she has done, and 'why did my mother beat me?'
I don't know how to describe the feeling I have inside me now.. I need to find out the truth. Am thinking if it's repetitive smackings for no reason then I may have to pull her out from her school. Which I know many people have asked me why I have not pulled her out since I'm not working.. true, I could have put her somewhere closer to home but I thought of how much the teachers loved her and how she's gotten used to the place. Like one childcare teacher in Pasir Ris I bumped in Hougang pool told me "You're the first mother I know who will think of the child, many mothers will think about themselves first eg. convenience"
Okay, gotta find out the truth..........

Grandma & granddaughter relationship

My girl simply adores her grandma (my mom). Not to mention too that she'll take the opportunity to bully my mom sometimes eg. refusing to keep toys. While I can be screaming at her to keep her toys, grandma keeps her toys for her without complaining.
Grandma has build a close relationship with girl when she was born. Infact, she was the second person to see her in the hospital. Thereafter, grandma helped me with the confinement period and passed on what she knows about feeding child to me (well, I'm a first time mother.. what do you expect). The rests were picked up from my big brother who used to work in PD wards. In the subsequent months, she stayed on a few days in a week to help me take care of her; play with her. Let's just say she was the one who taught me how to cook the porridge at 4 months; 6 months and etc... and grandma sacrificed to be in the heat to help me sun the brown rice- thrice! Everytime she comes back 2-3 hours later, I start wondering if she'll come back brown herself. I wouldn't have done it myself unless there's a portable aircon.
Anyway, there's alot more to write but I don't have the time to write everything down.
Girl loves to be with her grandma. Always loved to stay over in Tampines, and she would sleep in grandma's room. When grandma comes over to Punggol, she will not sleep with daddy mummy but would sleep with grandma.
Asked her who she loves most anytime... and she'll reply grandma.
Of course grandma loves her afterall she's the first grandchild. And having raised all her 3 children to this age (youngest me -31), she somehow liked the idea of having a small child around.

Chwee Kueh

Hubby came home last night with 8 chwee kuehs, asking me if I wanted to eat it imediately. Being the person who likes to "save the best for last" decided that I can have my Nutella bread that night and the chwee kueh the next morning. Also I just had my serving of the herbal soup I'm suppose to take for my pregnancy and you can't have white carrots once you have that.

Was being kind in asking him if he wanted me to steam some for him in the morning but he declined. Okay.. he left for an appointment in the morning; I slept in bed a little longer and then decided to eat it at 9+.Was suppose to go for my Pilates class at Cali... argh! Thought of going swimming instead then it started to pour.

Wow.... the chai po is heavenly. Found the plastic bag.

It's the Bedok Chwee Kueh, they have 9 outlets selling it.
1) Blk 628 Ang Mo Kio Ave 4
2) Blk 207 Bedok Central
3) Blk 448 Clementi Central
4) Blk 105 Lorong Ah Soo
5) Blk 50A Marine Terrace
6) Blk 270 Queen Street (Albert Ctr)
7) Blk 85 Redhill
8) Blk 335 Smith Street (Chinatown Complex)
9) Blk 105 Yishun (Chong Pang)

He called to ask what I wanted for lunch. Craving for the Hougang Chicken Rice again. Being kind, I told him "it's raining here, you want me to go over to pick you up from the train station later." "Huh? I drove the car what..." You see lah! Lucky thing I didn't go downstairs to the carpark wanting to go swimming. Otherwise it's going to be a wasted trip.

Left to pick girl up from Tampines. Mom joined us for dinner as she didn't have enough ingredients at home to cook for all of us, then the girl kept insisting grandma to come over to stay with us. More will be blogged after this entry.

Girl has been using my stuffs

Just found out that my girl has been using my stuffs. She didn't want to use her Kids' Bath & Bodyworks shower foam but has been using my Cotton Blossom Shower Cream -also from Bath & Bodyworks (saying its very nice smelling). And here I am worried that my supplies will run out. Umm... I think it still can last me another year. Before then, must go to US to stock up on that.

She has also been using my Body Shop Hair Serum, which unfortunately cannot be found here. I bought it in London, so may have to ask hubby to shop for me when he goes back to Switzerland.
Actually, I kindda of realised I've been too pampered by using stuffs not available here. When I was flying making purchases were much easier. Now have to resort to asking my girlfriend (who's still flying), or hubby or doing it during our holidays. I think I must stop this stupid bad habit. Thing is, can I??