the 2 scary devices

the washing machine and the rice cooker... the 2 scary devices which i will never learn how to operate... and the two of them have to be side by side lor...

anyway, my sad story goes like this: after i took out the bedsheet, pillow case and quilt cover, i dump all of them to the scary washing machine, switch on the power plug, press the power button, but no light, nothing working... nb, same procedure as what joelle taught me leh... then i press the bloody 'power on' button again and again, nb, don't want to start means don't want to start... dun know which f**king idiot invert one... i'm almost close to kicking the bloody washing machine when joelle, who is standing beside me all these while, burst out laughing... "b ah.... why you switch on rice cooker's power plug?"

grrrrr..... i hate washing machine.... i hate rice cooker!!!!

anyway, anyway, new bedsheet is changed and old bedsheet washed and hanged to dry... enuff of my insult... what a day...

our peanut grows!

just came back from our gynae, he said baby is growing well, what joelle facing is normal and should go away in a month time or so... anyway, he prescribe some medicine for joelle and gave her a 3 days mc!!! 3 days for fri, mon and tues... and he explained, rest is very very important for joelle during this stage... i'm not sure how much help can resting prevent morning sickness, but the 3 days mc do does its wonders as joelle's mood is lifted up...

come to think about it, woman in pregnancy really need lotsa support... last nite, when i got home from work, joelle has already knocked out, when i got on to bed, she woke up and once see me only, she said "b.... 我很辛苦....." and burst out crying...

ahhh, so heart broken... told her today i'll take urgent leave and accompany her to see gynae then only she sleeps...

and today, after seeing our gynae, got 3 days mc, and me accompanying her, she managed to finish a whole plate of 菜饭 after a few weeks of no appetite... hubby support is really really important! oh btw, doc adrian printed for us another baby scan...

our little one is now 2.3cm!
guess what? the size of a grape... haha...

i have to confess

last nite, joelle was feeling extremely discomfort and vomited... feeling tired but couldn't sleep... today got to bring her to see doc and let her rest well... that means i got to get another urgent leave... that means der got to help cover my duties again... thanks bro...

well, feel i owe you guys an apology for not telling.
- to der, for needing to cover my duties, and being so close and yet didn't tell you about it...
- to jann, whom ytd ask if me and joelle wanna join them to the comex fair (and i just said, no lah, joelle not feeling well lah... :P )
- to eveie, who tot today i not feeling well...
- to nancy, who had a dream some days back... haha
- reg, who is still not suspecting anything yet... keke
- to suzzie, who asked the other day, 2 persons not boring meh??
- to alice, cw and sophia (for having to keep secret for me... haha)

no more, no need to keep it secret le, telling you all today. yes, joelle is pregnant, and i'm going to be a dad soon...

sorry to keep ya all in the dark for so long, but you all know lah, old people say mah, cannot announce immediately...

phew... we feel so relieved telling...

finally home...

finally home, had my dinner, showered, charged my ipod, updated bloggy, and time to sleep... joelle knocked out le, she must have a tiring day, poor baby... weekend around the corner, dear, 再忍一天!


haiz, eat until dun know what else to eat, so its always hor fan... :P

so tired...

so sianz, so tired, so hungry, so sianz... ghee, i said sianz again... now still in office, waiting for the tupid starhub contractor to fix the line... meanwhile continuing my task of installing a print server... so many print queues to install... do until 'tao gong gong' liao...
something like this:

grrr.... cannot take it liao, time to go liao, have to go liao, bye bye liao....

bedshit smell like sheet... whatever...

last nite, joelle was lazing on bed and suddenly exclaimed "bedsheet 很臭leh, weekend 要换了hor, but 我不可以换wor...." win liao lor... nvm lah, change bedsheet only mah... then got to wash, got to hang out to dry... grrr... weekend coming le, got to wash socks again...
ahhh.....

omg, now she say "b, 你要跟我按摩脚吔,我的脚肿了leh..."
ahhhhh.....

but, from what i see, no swollen leh... maybe she sensitive bah... or an excuse to get free foot massage.. grrr... i guess its time to google this "swollen feet during pregnancy". well, as usual, some funny medical term come up... its called edema, where excess fluid collects in tissue hence causing swelling... however, to prevent this:
1. don't cross legs when sitting
2. don't sit for too long
3. wear comfy shoes
4. walk, swim or immerse in water up to shoulder
5. drink lotsa water... (funni, retain fluid already still drink water?)

well, enuff said, to this sum1 here:
when tired, must
加油哦!

psst, i ain't no better, got to go iron joelle's cloths she wanna wear tomolo...

3 versus 3

haha, today joelle cannot take it and told jacjac (her colleague) that she is pregnant... that makes the count 3 versus 3... so in joelle's office, its teresa, joey and jacjac, and my office, alice, cw and sophia... but wait, for my case its because i need to inform alice (hr manager) why i take urgent leave the other day, cw (my manager) about looking for gynae, and sophia (currently 2nd time pregnant) for tips... and my 爆料 is to find out information hor... for joelle, its just to satisfy her itch lor... keke...

we also talked about how to get a seat for joelle in mrt.. i suggested joelle to carry a motherhood magazine on train... keke

nancy's dream...

today, during lunchie, i was queueing to order food with nancy when she suddenly turned to me and asked "psst, is joelle pregnant?"...

i was like, very taken back, but i kept my cool and say "who say one..." then she replied, "oh, last nite i dreamt about your wife, she told me she pregnant"... amazing!!!

grrr... i can't take it anymore, but 老人家说, 3 months later than can announce... don't know why, its like people suddenly keep asking nowadays... the other day, jann just asked about long time never see joelle le, and wonder how she is doing lately... and ah-fern asked if i going to be father anot during msn...

grrr... my dear friends, 再等一下下吧! deep inside, i can't wait to announce our little peanut to you all!

morning sickness strikes...

last nite, joelle was 'attacked' by morning sickness again... yeah, morning sickness don't just happen in the morning... she complaint being hungry around 10pm, so i said i go downstairs tabao roti prata for her, but she insisted coming with me... but when we at downstairs, she puked... poor baby...

then i decided to fired up google and do a research on morning sickness thingy. and this is what i found out... the doctors around the world know shit thing about morning sickness, meaning, they don't know what exactly caused it... they can only guess... sianz... these people, study so much and dun know a damn thing... but, human body is a complicated system, so can't really blame them lah...

finally, concluded that using google yield too many answers and confuses myself even more, i decided to try wiki... and wiki ready pro lor...got lotsa explainations and medical terms that if you use 1 breath to say the word, u may choke on your words... no kidding... try these: (hormone estrogen, progesterone, human chorionic gonadotropin)... ya, i know, wtf....

but one theory do offers the 重听 answer. it says normal food we eat contain toxic that is harmless to adult human, however, not so for the embryo. so thats why, morning sickness purges the harmful wastes out of the mother's body, away from our peanut... oh ya, we started calling our bb, peanut... haha... anyway, back to the topic, hunger also cause morning sickness, due to building up of acid in stomach... so most commonly suggested workaround, not solving the root thou, is to:
1. don't be hungry
2. eat many meals in small quantity
3. take ginger tea
4. drink lotsa water
and for joelle, i found that, when she is cold, she feels nauseous... so i'm not switching on the fan evey nite le... dear, 加油哦!

i washed my socks...

yeah, besides doing the usual house chores, today i washed my socks... hang out laundries and folded all the cloths... joelle said "wah, feel so privileged"... i replied, "yeah yeah, enjoy while u can, 9 months only hor... keke"

sianz, weekend over soon... rest time always so short one...

grrrr.... i dun wan to work ahhhhh!!!

luckily later got shanghai knights, with our fav crooked nose actor, owen wilson!

queen of yew tee, ver 1

time now 12am, ytd, after our first appointment, joelle enthrone herself to be queen of yew tee. being queen of yew tee, below will be her privilege, i reckon the list will grow, so today, version 1 is created:


1. i will wash my own socks
2. i will hang out & bring in laundries
3. i must make sure she is not hungry
4. i cannot call her "buay eh" or "小黑"

first gynae appointment

today is our first appointment with doc adrian, the gynae my friends recommanded. he did a scan for joelle, and for the first time, we get to see our baby! from the scanner's screen, we can see our baby's tiny heart beating... hee... so cute... then doc adrian measured our baby to be 1.41cm long... haha... size of a peanut... from the measurement, doc adrian concluded our baby to be 7 weeks 5 days plus old, and estimated delivery date is around 7th April 2008!

we are pretty comfortable with doc adrian and since my friends say he is ok, and forum seems to say he is good, so we decided to sign his package, that is $550. so we paid 50% first:

our next appointment is 8th Sept, 11am, gonna mark my calendar for this... maybe i'll create a list element on the right side of this page to keep track... hey, this bloggy stuff is getting more and more useful....

kekeke

oh ya, did i mentioned our baby is around the size of a peanut... haha, managed to find a 1.41cm peanut:

bfast again

scrambled egg sandwich! i think hor, the real problem is the bread itself, wholemeal bread really sucks lor... cuz its too dry liao... left with last 4 pieces of wholemeal bread. i used the softer pieces for joelle, and the 'head' and 'tail' pieces of the loaf for myself... and it was so hard, stiff and dry lor... i bite and bite until teeth gonna break, and cheek feeling so sore after finishing it in office... wah kaoz eh... anyway, joelle did managed to finish 3/4 of it... but she told me dun make anymore bfast for her le, she dread of bread stuff... maybe next week onwards we'll go foodcourt to ta bao bah...
this is the scrambled egg sandwich i made, and a nice glass of milk:

joelle actually woke up this morning at 3am, feeling nauseous, and went back to bed around 5am... all these time, i was zzzzzing... morning then tell me, so i suggest taking a cab... guess what? massive traffic jam today from bke to pie lor... anyway, managed to use the jam to sleep on cab...

oh ya, just annouced to my parents, and they are overjoyed lor... finally going to be grandparents... my brother not home, maybe tomolo sms him that he is going to be uncle soon... keke... tomolo going to see gynae, doc adrian b woodworth... very ang mo name, heard he is eurasian, recommended by 2 of my friends, both has 2 kids liao, all delivered by this doc... i guess, by tomorrow, we can more or less know the more accurate estimated delivery date... then i'll update that ticker on top... :)

psst, joelle keep showing me and looking at her belly now... and she weighted herself and exclaimed "ahhh... 1kg heavier now!" .....

haha (thanks to my bfast bah... keke)

bfast by me

today i prepared another simple bfast... hardboiled egg sandwich... its only wholemeal bread + hardboiled egg + marginrine + pepper, and this is the end product:

it looked nice, but i find it kinda tasteless... but joelle say nb (not bad)... hmmm... if its really not bad, how come she only eat half of it... sob sob... nvm, tomolo i make scrambled egg sandwich!

today waited for joelle at her workplace, the parkview, since i'm early, i took some of the building photo with my nokia 6288... quality not bad leh... of course skill also played a part lah... keke


nice building, nice interior, but joelle came out of it face black black... she very dl over her work... darling, you got to control your temper k? not good for our bb... i can be there to cheer u up whenever i'm with you, but when i'm not, u got to control your temper, and don't forget, i'm only a sms away... and hey, our bb is due in another 32 weeks!!!

got to work late today

got to work late today... sianz... need to be here, in office, for contractors to lay the fiber optics backbone between 4th and 5th floor... since waiting for them to do their work, i.... blog lor.... keke...

well, today managed to get a code up for our login script to add a website to to user's trusted site in their internet explorer... used most of my brain juice today to get it up... so tiring... below is the code, to 'wow' you all... haha...

Shell.RegWrite "HKCU\software\policies\microsoft\windows\currentversion\internet settings\zonemap\domains\gov.sg\",""

Shell.RegWrite "HKCU\software\policies\microsoft\windows\currentversion\internet settings\zonemap\domains\gov.sg\www.corenet-ess\",""

Shell.RegWrite "HKCU\software\policies\microsoft\windows\currentversion\internet settings\zonemap\domains\gov.sg\www.corenet-ess\https",2,"REG_DWORD"

this morning, prepared a little bfast for joelle and myself... its just only spread marginrine over wholemeal bread... tomolo, i'm doing some hardboiled egg sandwich for joelle... bfast is very important for pregnant ger, and i have to make for joelle, cuz i know only then she'll eat, cuz its my 爱心早餐! this morning, however, joelle say "wah lao eh, pregnant only got 爱心早餐"... then i reply "come on lah, better than don't have right?"

kekeke... 我又赢了!

come to think about it, this is not the first 爱心早餐 wor.... this should be the first 爱心早餐 i prepared when joelle need to work during one weekend.

不错吧! not to mention the mess i made in joelle's kitchen... :P

i'm just too excited liao...

just found out this website from jiankai, http://www.idobaby.com/... very lame website name, but they got this very kawa-ii ticker, to countdown the estimated delivery date for our baby... so, everyday we'll be seeing this little baby tram, traveling towards the 40 weeks mark! i'll change or update the ticker once we got the estimated delivery date from a gynae... ghee, today we have 32 weeks and 2 days to go...

joelle said, i'm too excited liao... come on lah, who wouldn't be right?? of course, poor joelle, still no appetite and kept having morning sickness... sianz... hopefully she can quickly overcome this...

yes, its confirmed, we gonna be parents!

this morning, joelle vomited twice... we are so bloody anxious...

well, its confirmed by the doc, joelle is pregnant... i'm going to be a father... and joelle is going to be a mother... and my parents, going to be grandparents for the first time... gonna break the news to them on this friday, can't imagine whats their reaction going to be... and guess what, estimated delivery date is 3rd april 2008... my bday is 4th april!!!

now we got to decide on our gynae. for the next 2 weeks, got to find friends and relatives to find out which gynae is good... sianz, first time parenthood, really 不知头不知尾... feel so lost...

for a starter, the doc advise us not to take coffee, tea or carbonated drinks as these drinks are acidic and contain caffeine that increases the mother's heartbeat and hence, the baby's...

well, after a little internet research, food recommended to eat:

1. fruits and veggie (for vitamins)

2. bread, cereal, rice, potato (for fiber)

3. meat and fish (for protein and iron)

4. milk and dairy food (for calcium)

hmmm... pretty much normal meals...

most importantly: folic acid

its an important B vitamin, vital for the growth and health of all the cells in the body and it reduces the risk of the baby being affected by neural tube defects... in simple english, must eat this!

food to avoid:

1. unpasteurized (unsterilization) milks
2. soft, ripened cheeses

3. ice-cream from soft whip machines

4. raw and undercooked eggs
5. liver and liver products
6. mayonnaise
7. shark, marlin, swordfish and tuna (high mercury)

super no no:
1. smoking
2. alcohol

enuff of that... i'm not a doc, and internet thingy also dun know can believe or not... we'll seek professional advises from the professionals... which means, we should get our gynae soon, if not, sooner... well, i guess i was overjoyed... finally we are moving another step forward to parenthood... love ya, dear...

oh ya, put aside the baby talks, i bought a garment rack after joelle's checkups... its a rack to errr... hang garment lor... aiya, i'll use it to hang my shirts after i've ironed them... only $38, after bargaining with the 五金店 uncle. (originally was $42.50)...

not bad leh...
okie dokie, gtg...

omg, no false alarm plsss....

yes, omg... joelle had been missing her period and not feeling well for the past 2 weeks. we were suspecting but not speculating. cuz, the first false alarm we got, was when we got back from our honeymoon... this time round, its a bit different, joelle had craving for sweet stuff, no appetite for food, and morning sickness.

there is only one thing left to do, that is to buy a pregnancy test kit. well, the result is positive again, hopefully its not another false alarm... only one way to find out, tomolo i'm getting an urgent leave to accompany joelle to see a doc to confirm this... {crossing fingers}

on a rainy saturday like this

on a rainy saturday like this, i should be home, with joelle, drinking hot coffee, watching tv, lazing the weekends away. but here i am, in office, looking outside the window, with this view:

why do i work? so i can provide for me and joelle, to enjoy nice dinner everynite, enjoy relaxing weekends everyweek. now, i can provide, but work is taking time away from me... feeling so darn down and sick of working... so wanna give up liao... please, if sum1 is up there, give me 1 more good reason why i should let work take my time away? just dun know how much longer i can hang on now... sianz... enuff of my kbkp, gonna go back to work... grrrr!

last day of ict

finally, last day of my last reservist. once home, i just 'jumped' out of my uniform and quickly adjusted myself back to civilian life-style, by putting back on my earring and opening a pack of my fav ruffles... hee...

today was another hectic day, it was raining and we were wondering if this parade will be cancelled and do the indoor parade instead (which is simpler). but, kinda feel effort wasted leh... practised over 6 full rehersals ytd, and today not able to execute it... finally the rain died down, so we were allowed to do our parade outdoor, even when its still drizzling... it was a well executed parade, and everyone of us standdown with honor and glory... end of our reservists... finally...

to my band of brothers, it has been such meaningful 10 years with you guys and there is no other company i would want to be in, except the one we are in... hip hip hurray for 1st and 81st company!

ghee, did i said quickly adjusting back to civilian life-style? tomolo got to go back office to work... grrr....

second day of ict

i'm back again from the 2nd day of my ict... today we did our stand-down parade rehersal for the whole day... omg, legs crampy from ytd's ippt, and after today, hand crampy... siao liao... tomolo got to reach camp by 6.30am, so got to meet campmate by 5.30am, so got to wake up at 5am... this is getting crazier... nvm, tomolo last day le...

oh ya, today we got our certification of apprieciation from our chief commanding officer. 让我 hao lian 一下吧... keke

顺便 show the medal we got last year... 再 hao lian 一下... :P

oh, i was talking about the no-more-ippt thingy eh? i was wrong... nb, even after this last ict, i still need to go for ippt until the m.r. (military reserve) letter come... and it wouldn't come if you didn't pass your ippt for this workyear lor... nbnb ahhh... nvm nvm, i'll train for it... starting next or next next week bah... oh, next week cannot, youhe's baby shower on next sat, so next next week then see how lah... keke

first day of ict

just got back from my ict... as usual, it started with some briefing bla bla bla... then its time to pay e-mart a visit again. just found out i still have $121 credits in my ns account, so i decided to buy some items... well, i bought 2 towels, which joelle like to use it as a 'blanket' whenever she feel cold on our sofa. and 2 grey army singlets, 3 white commando singlets, and 8 pairs of white socks... keke...

then off we go to bedok camp for our ippt...haiz, failed again... its the bloody 2.4km run... 12:20, is the passing mark, but this time, i can only manage 12:37... fail fail fail... nb, run until legs jelly, still fail... nvm, my window is still opened until next year april, so got to train starting next week... maybe next next week... haa...

my ippt result...

situp: 36 - 4pts

broad jump: 243cm - 5pts

chin up: 8 - 4pts

shuttle run: 9.2s - 5pts

5.4km run: 12:37min - 2pts

total: 20pts

result: FAIL....

grrr... now legs wobby like jelly... tomolo got whole day parade rehersal... siao liao lor...

speaking of it, got to go iron my uniform le...

my last reservist

this day, i'm going back to reservist for the last time. yeah u heard me, its my last reserivst le... 8 years since i o.r.d. in 2000. come to think about it, today, after 2.5 years 1st coy in nsf, 8 years 81st coy in reservist, we are gatheing in greens for the last time... well, gathering for the last time seems too heavy, so on the lighter side, it may seem worth it as there may be no more ippt le!!!

this is the last year, but it has to be that year when the army decided to change the uniform layout... so, no choice, got to go the army stores at beach road market to sew on the new badges, cost me $10 somemore... heng, my workplace near there... so, since spent $10 already, might as well take some snap snaps... 1st picture, is the commando airborne wing, 2nd is the country i serve, 3rd is my name, 4th is the commando unit logo, 5th is my rank and lastly my little proud red beret...

as usual, i'll be meeting yew mun for the 8th time at jurong east later, as he is driving... thanks bro...

come to think back again, army life is tough, but the ger behind the army guy 也过得不是很好. thanks dear, for waiting patiently during the army daze... gtg, and give joelle a kissy and set off...

oh ya, "R.O.D. lor!"