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yahn's first tiffany

the key to all your heart's desires lie within you...

♥ ah bor

-sep 2009-

our little girl received her first tiffany from ah bor (my sister). it's to be her 姐妹 symbol with her cousin, rei anne jie jie. each of them has one, and supposedly meant for their 21st year when they gain their independence. i guess my sis couldn't wait for them to grow up. :)

well, me too. i long for the day my girl can smile at me, walk with me, talk to me, and maybe even make me 啼笑皆非 with her antics. until then, i shall just play the guessing game on each of her tears, her cries and her breakdowns... ... and pray i do a good job while i'm at it. :)

18 days old and still counting...

gaming or daughter?

the father has found the perfect balance. he can handle both together! -- on a good day, that is.

recently the daughter has shown us her true colours. i guess the angel we once knew was really just a newborn's first 2 weeks of sleepiness. 2 weeks has JUST passed and she has decided :

- food must be served immediately

- spit-ups are to be cleared immediately

- her parents are to be her clowns when she's bored

- the bed is not as comfy as her daddy's arms

- etc...

the daddy and me are super exhausted. those who knew us... well, let's just say we never knew our eye-bags could get any darker until now.

and so, our girl has hit her 2 weeks mark. she's growing real fast! i am finding it more difficult to carry her weight while feeding her... and not to mention my arms don't seem to be able to surround her so easily anymore. the daddy just measured her... 4kg?!?! is it really possible for someone to sprout so fast in just 2 weeks?!?!

let's hope it's a healthy growth rate. i really wouldn't want to overfeed the little tyrant. but then again, we're at her mercy. there is absolutely no way she's listening to us now... nope, not at all above her loud-hailer cries...

daddy & baby

my favourite man and girl. :)

the daddy bonds with his precious girl when she gets delivered to us in the ward. looking really proud and happy (i mean, check it out! he wore a shirt for the big event!!!)

everyone said the girl looks like the dad!!

while that kindof leaves me out of the picture, i'm really quite happy to hear that cos hopefully with that... the daddy will show even more parental love to the girl, and of course volunteer more with the parental duties... to which i must say, he is already doing a great job - but who would complain if he does more right? :P

*check it out - my favourite onesie with a huge monkey on the butt. hehe... so cute*

little bundle of joy

in the wee hours of 24th sept (八月初六), 2.30am......

MY : (woke up in shock) ouch!
WL : (still in dreamland) what happened?
MY : .... i felt a gush of water...
WL : (suddenly wide awake) HUH???
MY : let me go check...

confirmed. the water bag broke! so after calling the doc who told us to go hospital immediately, we hurriedly did a quick wash up, grabbed our bags and headed off. reached hospital at about 3.30am. the nurse put me up on a monitor and to our surprise, although i wasn't in pain, i was having very close contractions and was already 3cm dilated at 4am. i was in labour!!!

no time to waste, they sent me to the operating theatre at 4.30am for a last minute 5am operation. by the time i reached the OT, all my docs were there. quickly, i was given epidural and everything started speeding up. WL came to my side and not long after at 5.10am, i heard the loud wail of our little one. :)

when she was brought to me, i was overwhelmed. i couldn't help but teared uncontrollably. and then... call it anti-climax but... my first thoughts were - "damn, she doesn't look any bit like me!!" :P

so here, our little bundle of joy (and stress for the days to come) - Yeow Haau Yahn says hello to all. :)

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our girl screams her first hellos in the operating theatre...

and here's our first family shot, in the operating theatre itself - thanks to the anaethetist who helped us take several shots...

here's our little one looking all sweet, contented and angelic...

and after 4D3N at the hospital, our new family of three head home to start our lives together! stay tuned for more updates on baby yahn! (that is, when the mommy can find the energy)

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point of interest:

on 24th sept 2006 (八月初三), we gave our vows in front of the justice of peace to love, to comfort, to honour and to keep each other in sickness and in health, so long as we both shall live.

on 16th sept 2007 (八月初六), we had our customary ceremony in front of all our relatives and friends, announcing and celebrating our union.

on 24th sept 2009 (八月初六), our little bundle of joy was born. :) and hey, it was a date she chose herself too!!! :D

treasuring the last moments...

this is us, in my 38 weeks and 0 days. the daddy is taking the chance to play with the baby bump more before it goes away tmr. or at least hopefully the bulk of it. :)

i probably will miss our little kick-boxer's actions. tomorrow this time, she'll be out and i'll no longer feel those kicks from my insides. the daddy said i'm a masochist. :) i liken this to hearing and complaining about his snoring, but yet still missing it when he's not around. :P

enjoy the last of my pregnancy shots. from tmr onwards... the focus will shift to the little tyrant (or so i'm told by all my friends *sigh* )

the final countdown

IT'S THE FINAL COUNTDOWN!


the big day is fast approaching. and it seems like many more people are more excited about it than the 当事人 themselves. :) WL and me? we're busy enjoying the last of our 二人世界. since the day he returned, we've been super busy with our own activites. :P


the very noon of the day WL touched down, we headed to dr lim for the daddy to see his girl on tv for the last time before we receive her in our arms. :) i guess it's cos dr lim feels sorry that the father was deprived of his girl's actions for so many months that he did a almost full detailed scan to orientate the daddy of his girl. the head, the mouth, the nose, the heart, fingers, toes etc... of course the daddy is super happy. it's written all over his face. :)


for the 5 days he's been back, we have caught 2 movies (Up + The Ugly Truth), did a 4-hour karaoke marathon (Kbox @ Suntec), ate mooncakes (baked + snow-skined + durian), celebrated our 2nd wedding anniversary (@ 1827 Thai), caught up with family and friends before my upcoming imprisonment etc... and of course finish up the last of the baby matters like setting up the baby cot.


i'm not sure if it was cos of the packed schedule we had that had me up and moving around more, or the mooncakes i've been eating, or just the plain happiness to have the husband back with me... but in a matter of days since WL came back, i mega ballooned. this is how i look like now (taken in my 37 weeks + 5 days)...


i feel huge... i am huge... the husband calls me a "beached whale"... ... talk about being supportive... :( oh well, as a quote i've seen -- i can't sleep... i can't breathe... i can't walk... so how am i supposed to find the energy to "glow"?


but very soon, it's no longer going to be just the two of us. in just a couple of days, we'll be welcoming a new member to our loving family. :) come back for updates then!

Don't deep-fry without a deep fryer

I think the picture says it all...

Lesson learnt: don't ever attempt to deep fry stuff without the proper equipment. Even though when it is possible to use a normal pot filled with oil, and achieve the same visual effect seen on youtube videos on deep-frying...

Once the meat is dropped into the hot oil, you can see it being fried. The bubbles... the familiar sounds... the meat floating... the smell... the smoke... lots of smoke...

All it takes is less than 20 seconds to achieve those oh-so-deliciously-looking little black balls. Nothing like the picture on the packet. Maybe the “酸” character is there to 酸 me... At this point I would like to apologise to my wife for wasting such a nice present sent all the way from Singapore. Gomenasai.

I did finish the rest of the pork frying in the pan. Not as nice. Oh well, lesson learnt. And maybe one more lesson: don't follow the cooking instructions when they tell you to deep fry. :P

Spent the next few hours cleaning the kitchen stove... What a day...

Oh, can I still use that pot? Its just a few black stains... Hmm...

ah mai x2

today, i'm "mai mai" to yet another. :D so happy! makes me long and wish that my turn will come soon...

well my little girl, while i'm eagerly awaiting your arrival, if you could hold on, let's wait for your daddy to return. :) i'm sure he'd really want to be there to witness the exact moment of your arrival too. let's not gang up our girl-power so fast and deprive him of his moment. :P

girlfriends

it was a rare occassion that us girls were together at the same time, at the same place. so we decided to do something that we've always talked about but never got around to doing.

our photoshoot!

it's almost one month ago when we woke up super early and headed down to botanic gardens to take some shots to celebrate almost 2 decades of friendship!

'twas great fun... with great photos too!

one regret i have though.... oh why didn't we take it before i got preggers! my most unglam time somemore... *sigh....*

遙遠的Paradise

在某年某月的某一天，
若我在天堂遇见你，
你会认得我吗？

不知为何，突然想起你。
或许是因为我刚看过的漫画，
或许是因为这刻等待的心情，
又或许是因为这时本该属于你。

望著你走遠 我並沒有心酸
唯望天邊一方 他朝可重逢
我们不曾忘记，也绝对不会忘记。
在那遥远的Paradise, 你过得好吗？




曾經　滿載了希望
你我會有天衝開黑暗
誰知　再次的失望
看這裡已經走到盡頭

＊望著你走遠　我並沒有心酸
　唯望天邊一方　他朝可重逢

＃Oh Para Paradise
　只想跟你一起　一起走向這一天
　Oh Para Paradise
　風中希冀一點　今天一再想起你

寧可　永遠的等待
也怕背棄當初的一切
如今　你遠走彼岸
告訴我那邊天色好嗎

Repeat ＊＃＃＃

time and tide

what started as 64 days... slowly but surely now became 21... time really doesn't wait for anyone. but for the few times in my life, i'm really happy time doesn't stop. there are just so many things i'm looking forward to!

21 days till the man of my life returns...
~ 28 days till the girl of my life appears...

time and tide waits for no man, nor woman... and definitely not a girl who's eager to see the world... :) but hang in there little one. while patience was never my virtue, let's hope you take after the daddy in this aspect and grow healthily and happily to full term... or at least until your daddy returns. :)

meanwhile, i guess i have to put up with your abusive streak and suffer your strong kickboxing techniques... but it's okay. once you're out, we'll show you who's the boss. :P

at the 33rd week mark...

if you asked me 20+ weeks ago do i enjoy my pregnancy, i definitely would have shouted loudly at you - NO!!!

in my 29 years of life, i have never known such dark moments... such dark times when i...

• hugged the toilet bowl more than i hugged my husband.
• fainted for no reason in public.
• concussed, dead to the world, locking my husband out.
• feared eating and drinking knowing what goes in will definitely come out - upwards.
• etc... etc... etc...

things only got better when i hit second trimester. it's probably cos i took those 3 months to find out how to control each and every symptom. but still there are the bouts of - i really feel like dying... ask WL and you'll know. the poor man had to come home each day wondering whether he'll be facing a loving wife (on good days) or a suicidal crying machine (on the bad days)...

but we pulled through. and now, in my 33rd week with 5-7 more to go, i'm kind of looking forward yet feeling apprehensive. are we really able to be good parents? do we have the means to look after our little one? will our little one love us back?

well, we'll know in a few weeks time. the countdown continues...

give up on blogspot?

it has been more than a month since blogspot has been giving me problems. i thought it was finally resolved when i managed to make my last entry, but NO! the edit / new post page is still buggy. i will write and write and not be able to post. or worse, the textbox for my post doesn't even appear! that totally exacerbates my anger...

maybe because i was a computer engineer, i cannot tolerate such bugs. once, okay... twice, tolerable... but a bug that takes more than a month to resolve is just unforgiveable! how can this come from google whom i'm a faithful user...

i have a very good mind to relocate now... so where should i go? livejournal? wordpress? or try to set up my own web server?

P/S: oh how amazing... how very interesting. i can post using internet explorer, but i cannot post using google chrome? what crap.

46 days to family reunion

it has been 18 days since our family took a short break apart...

we're just apart but not separated. does that make sense? somehow i find "separation" too inappropriate a word to describe our situation. true hubby is not physically with me now, but i still feel very much connected to him - mentally, emotionally.

in this 18 days, my 24/7 companion has somehow decided that midnight was her favourite time to do kickboxing stunts. although i'm not participating, her antics has drained me out nonetheless. and when i thought i could take a nap in the afternoon, she decides to make it a full-day affair!

like what the hubby says - 8 more weeks and the kickboxer is out! but before that, i'm counting down to something happier. :) 46 more days until the hubby returns! oh, how can i fast forward these 46 days towards our family reunion.... ?