baby cot for my chantal

Today Singapore was pouring rains, although the day start with a beautiful morning and a hot and humid afternoon, by 1 am, the skies suddenly darken, and wind was blowing with such a high pitch. Then its raining, it wasn’t pissing like it usually does, it’s a total rain, and sky was so dark, you’ll think it was 6 o’clock in the evening.

I supposed to go to the market today, to grab some veggies and some other stuff needed at home. Well, I’m glad that I cancel it due to the delivery of my new baby cot, which supposed to come on the 2nd September (this Saturday). Another thing I really don’t like doing business with Singapore was they wont tell you the exact time for them to delivery the items, they always put down between 10-12 or between 1-5, and expect people to be home during that time. Why can’t they give people more precise time, or at least more reasonable interval like 1 to 3? When I was living in Australia, every delivery will came around 7-9 or 9-11, they always gave you 2 hours interval, not 4 hours!

Anyways, stop with the complaining, the baby cot came around 4 and it was perfectly fit the space left in the room along with the single bed. I love it, though the bedding was in blue, I wouldn’t asked for the pink one, cause last time I saw it was so ugly. Blue can go with girl too right? I know,…I know, I will look for the set of bedding for the cot, maybe some natural color, and some diapers bag, mattress cover, toys for the cot, wow…I still have so much things to buy for the baby.
I guess it gave me a reason for another shopping spree….yeeheee…

An old friend of mine

I have received an sms from a very old friend of mine, she apparently got my singapore number from my younger brother. She used to live in perth, and was a friend of Lia (my best friend).
Anyways, she called me and i was curious as what was she doing here and was wondering whether what lia told me before was true, about her being separate (maybe even divorce) and she move to singapore to enter some beauty course or something. And it turns out that what lia told me was totally true, she separate from her husband the day her son was born, her son is now 2 1/2 years old, which means that she has been a single parents for nearly 3 years already.

Hmm, after hearing her story, i couldn't help but thinking how lucky i am, to have married the one i truly love, and not just marrying someone for the shake of "getting married'.

The reason why i said this was because some of my friends were getting married for the wrong reason. Which then end up living with a regrets, some then decide to get a divorce, some still trying to figure it out what they want from their relationship (too late when you already say I DO isn't it?).

Pepper Crab

Yes, i ordered another round Joo Chiat's famous crab.
I called them first, and it was kinda hard talking to singaporian, their english is very hard to understand, and i ended up with 2 medium (medium = larger) crab. Ha ha,..i hope we can finish all of them. Couldn't wait for my dear to arrived from work, it smell so darn good.

Dinner @ eunos

Well, we decided that we were doing to stay at home after doctor visit, and just be lazy. So we did! we stayed home, browsing the internet (psst..we still using other ppl connection!), wacthing infotainment on indonesian channel, laying on couch...well..just plain lazy.

Although, we decided to go for a swim just to cool down a bit. However, we couldn't stay too long at the pool, as the water became too cold and there's no sun at all.

Then after a shower and a cup of cocoa, we went to grab something to eat at the foodcourt near by the mrt station.

After lurking around for about 10 minutes, we decide to order 3 dishes from one of the busiest stall. And these are the dishes... butter sotong, bean curd with minced beef and kangkung blacan. I know...it was quiet a lot for just 2 people, but we manage to finished them all...:)

2nd visit to ObGyn

Weight: 61 Kg
Blood Pressure: 120/80
Baby weight: 1.4 Kg

My appt was 8:30 am on saturday, when we arrived at the hospital, the doctor was still doing his routine check on the 4th floor.

So we made some small take with the nurse there, her name is Azizah, she was sho cheerful and so nice. She told me not to consider any epidural, because the pain wasn't that bad. Oh yeah rite, just because she had a very easy labour that doesn't mean i will too. But i took her advice and just smile.

When we went inside to see the doctor, with 2 of my early scan, the doctor then determined that my due will be around 20th.

I asked him about pain relief during labour, and he said theres some injection to numb the pain for a while, and there s epidural to numb the pain all the way to labour. And i told him that i choose to take epidural, and he said that it will be ok and will take note on that.

Everything was fine, my water level was totally fine, my baby head position is already where it should be, which is down, and my placenta position is ok. So, he told me to just relax, and enjoy my pregnancy.

Oyah, we finally find out how much will the labour will cost if i choose to have the 1 bedded, approx S$4000 something, that is including the doctor fee, and if i choose to take epidural, than theres and additional S$700.

Joo Chiat's Famous Chilli Crab

As tomorrow is a public Holiday in Singapore for National Day Celebration, we decide to try the very famous Joo Chiat Chilli crab which is located 5 minutes from where we live.

We were thinking of eating out, but we change our mind as soon as we saw the place was packed and there are people still waiting to be seated.

So we order for take away, the person asked my hubby to choose the 2 life crab form the aquarium, and she will then weight them and then escort those life crabs to the chef to be cooked.

2 life crabs which were weight 1.8 kg cost S$38.

When we arrived back at our apartment, and start eating those crabs, our comments was "Oh My Gosh...this is really delicious...hmm...yummie". The taste was soooo goooood. The sauce was plain black, with a sense of margarine and the crabs was sweet and juice and thick. I took a picture of my dear eating those crab and will post it later.

We cleaned up the plate, and agreed that was the best black pepper crab that we ever tasted.

Starter Kit for newborn

Today i went window shopping @ suntec city to look for a couple of stuff for our baby. I went by mrt and stop at city hall interchange so i can walk through city hall mall and take my time looking at shops along the way.

After browsing through baby's stuff in mothercare, i have just noticed that i would be needing so much stuff for the baby, that i could not know where to start.

So i start by buying a pack of 8 clothing for our baby's, its a starter kit for newborn. Although i couldn't take my eyes on the pink set, i still bought the white one, just in case it wasn't a baby girl. After our visit to doctor, i still have doubt on the sex of our baby. Because i have develop a pimple face which got to do with hormonal changing, some said if the mother developed a lot of pimples, than theres a high possibility of her having a baby boy.

Thus, i will only buy those pinky stuff if i'm diff sure about my baby's sex. However, baby looks more radiant and pure and innocent in white don't they?

For the cot and other stuff, i'm still browsing around for the most efficient and affordable one, the one that will last untill my baby is 3-5 years old. Preferably the one which can be convert into a toddler bed.

Arriving in Singapore with Family and Sibling

At last, i can start writing in our "forgotten blog" again.
Not that we want to left it behind, its just some many things i have to do, and considering we haven't had any internet connection since we move to our new apartment.

We arrived in Singapore on the next day of My Dear's best friend wedding, it was on the 16th july. We had an early flight, and arrived in singapore around 10 am, and straight away headed to the apartement in Changi.

To our surprise, angie (our RE Agent) didn't mention that all the furniture which supposed to be arrived yesterday afternoon weren't not completed delivered by Novena ppl. There were only the divans and coffee table in the apartment. I was so dissapointed, she told us that the delivery was delayed and she couldn't wait for the delivery ppl. So she (or the person whom she told to wait) had left the premises around 6:30, and the delivery ppl came around 7:30 pm.

My parents were also kinda surprise and we decided that we might as well check-in into the hotel and come again tomorrow for the delivery of the rest of the stuff.

So we took some of our stuff and catch a cab to scotts road, hoping to get a room at Royal Plaza in Scotts. Though it wasn't our lucky day, as no room available, then i tried to call hyatt hotel which located opposite Royal which had a rate much higher than the Royal one. But my parents was tired and my mom need to rest, so my dad said it was ok and told me to take 2 rooms at Hyatt.

After settling in Hyatt, it was time for lunch, so we had lunch just around the corner of Hyatt.

After lunch, my parents wanted to take a nap and we (me, my dear and choky) will do some shopping for the apartments and will be back when its time for dinner.

We decided to take MRT instead to go to Harvey Norman, coz we need to buy some household such as rice cooker, kettle, and so on. After spending some time deciding which type of things we like to purchase. We headed to Carrefour to buy some other things for the apartments. After finished shopping we took a cab back to the apartments and drop the goods there and head back to Hyatt. What an exhausted day we had so far.