Interesting ... :)

Not sure whether you have the chance to notice this interesting thing around us these days. Here are some of the interesting "happening" around me and not sure whether you could agree with me in some of it:

1. When you go out in a group, especially to a foreign place, you tend to order the same thing/drink as the first person would order. For instance, if the first joker order a barley ice, 80% of the people in the group will order the same thing.

2. We tend to complain that we dont have time to do our own things and blame it to our work and traffic jam; but we have alot of time to kill infront of the TV set or in Cinema even in the midst of business.

3. We tend to follow the crowd in deciding what to buy in the supermarket, this is called peer pressure. For example, a promoter will tell you that alot of people buying this stuff and instantly you'll lower down the alertness and tend to buy the unnecessary stuff just because everyone in the world having it.

4. While driving through a toll booth we tend to go for the one with cars and dont dare to try the one without cars especially at the Touch N Go booth fearing that the bar will not work at our turn especially true when you have a bad experience with it before.

5. (just added) Do you notice that the way you dry yourself after taking a bath is the same sequence since you were young? The moment you change the sequence you'll just feel "something is wrong somewhere" :)

:)

tim

Babysitter update

A big thanks to all our friends who sent us contacts for potential babysitters :) We managed to engage one babysitter after visiting a couple of homes.

She is a grandma who's looking to babysit now that her grand kids have all gone back to their respective homes/parents. Sounds like she likes to have kids around. Both her & her husband seem nice enough. Does not seem calculative and quite flexible. House is not big but seems tidy enough. It is also on the way for Tim and me, actually I rented at the same apartment block 3 years ago *what a coincidence :)

Hopefully this is really 'The One' that will work out.

~Audrey

Thirteen more weeks

Last week we saw Dr Ng for my regular monthly pre-natal checkup. Thank God everything is going well so it was a short visit ~15 mins after a 1.5 hour wait :)

Baby is still in horizontal position, growing well with head and thigh bone measuring 27 weeks 1 day which matched exactly with the fetal age.

Baby was facing outwards during the scan and we saw her face. Doc's comment was "wah, nice nose!", and she had her tongue stuck out between her lips :P I think she looks like her Daddy... we'll know later hehe... Doc actually discouraged us from taking the 3D/4D scan which is expensive ~RM250/scan although he had all the equipment to do the scan, he said "better go for a nice meal, you will see baby's face later"...

Mummy's statistics:
Blood pressure: 90 50
Urine test: normal
Weight: 53.5kg (increasing!)
Tummy measurement (vertical): 27cm (normal)

Baby should be weighing around 800g now.

No picture this time, doc said she's getting too big?!... hmm... the bill was cheaper though, Rm40+ as compared to the usual RM80-90.

We also confirmed with doc that he will be around for the delivery and not on vacation or something. Another 13 weeks to go!

Unlike the poor monkey...

I'm happy to report that this time the tortoise (unlike the monkey) that crossed the highway in front of us on our way back from Cameron Highlands was more fortunate, it escaped getting rolled over by our car. Hopefully other cars behind managed to avoid it too.

AnniVerSary Part 2 - the Celebration

We went to The View in Equatorial Hotel and it was really a memorable celebration, not because of the place, but because of the person that went with me. :)

We were blessed by the staffs because they decorated our table with lovely flowers patels and a bucquet of fresh flower with candle light to light up the ambient. We were really the "special" guest there :) I actually told them that we were celebrating our 3rd anniversary and requested a small slice of choc cake as desert (specially ordered for Audrey) and I was expecting to pay for that extra. After our main course, I asked the waiter to serve us the cake and to MY/our surprise that the cake they brought was a full size choc cake! And also Audrey was given a fresh rose complementary from the hotel for our anniversary. We'll definitely going back next year to celebrate again :) 

Here are some of the photos taken:

 

Cod Fish and Lamb -- the best of the best. :) the fish actually will melt in your mouth and the lamb is the best compare to other places.

 My lovely wife in her dress

afternoon lunch with choc cake bought by my lovely wife to celebrate our anniversary. By then, she still didnt know that i have secetly ordered a SLICE of choc cake at The View.

 Not this choc cake. There's another one... :P

 This is the one i'm talking about ! huge eh??!!!

oh ya.... did i mention that the cake is complementary from the hotel also?!

:)

tim

AnniVerSary

Today is our third anniversary... time really flies. Now really cant remember much of the detail of the wedding day. Well, both of us enjoying our marriage and looking forward for more years to come. Now, we are waiting for a new member to be added to our family and by next year, we'll have different kind of celebration. :)

Little Yan Yi, you are joining us tonight in mummy's tummy and by next year you'll be able to enjoy the time with us outside mummy's tummy. :)

btw, all four of us in the photo changed abit liao... :P the guys are thinner now... and the ladies has became mother liao... :D

:)

tim

What we learnt

Tim and I attended the antenatal class at Adventist Hospital last week, 4 hours on Sunday, and ~3 hours each night on Tuesday-Thursday...hectic but worth it.
For reference of other parents-to-be, the cost was RM125 which includes lunch on Sunday, some simple snacks during the night sessions and some class notes. They gave out some small sample/freebies too like stretch mark cream, diapers, etc.
Some hospitals refund the fees for antenatal class upon baby delivery at the hospital, but not Adventist.
Each session of the class was actually quite informative and also practical. No doubt some information can be obtained through books/online but somehow, instructor led sessions are still most effective... for us at least :)
The topics covered were as below:
1. Diet & Nutrition
2. Post natal child immunization & care
3. How to give a baby bath
4. How to give a baby massage (just legs only. Fully body massage is a separate class)
5. Labor & delivery
6. Exercises, massages during & after pregnancy (we used floor mats for this!)
7. Pain relief during labor
8. Maternity & labor ward tour (we skipped this as we did it before on our own)

~Audrey