Baby in me

Here's a pic of the baby in me during week 25 taken last week

Realised I've got some stretchmarks on my tummy few days back despite that I have been faithfully applying moisturiser every day T_T

Around 3 more months to go. Kam-ba-de !

English

Had some tops that are bought from Taiwan. And I realised that their English really cannot make it.



Do you see the vocab error for the top above? In case you don't see it, it reads "MACHINE WASH GOLD NEEDED". Well, guess I need gold bar instead of soap bar to wash this top. Anyone nice enough to donate a gold bar to me?



And this spelling error.

Its a ridicule that some Taiwan artist were laughing at our English when theirs is no better.

Generation gap

Was at my mum's house yesterday when my bro pick out some LD movies from the cupboard to bring home to watch. And so my bro took out the piece of LD from the cover to check for scratches when my niece commented "Wah... Big big CD..." -_-|||

You know, nowadays everyone are into DVDs and the LD era is already over. No wonder my niece is so amused over the giant CD -____-|||

Tainted milk

More checks on China products
19 brands on shelves here being tested for melamine

Sep 18, 2008
From The Straits Time by Tessa Wong

SINGAPORE'S Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority (AVA) has expanded its checks on milk and dairy products from China for melamine contamination.
The AVA said there are 19 dairy and milk products from China sold here. Among them are well-known products such as Magnum, Meiji and Walls ice cream, Rabbit milk candy, and Monmilk and Yili milk.

Meng Niu Group, which produces Monmilk, and the Yili Group have been implicated in the scandal in China.

There is no China-produced infant formula or milk powder available on shelves in Singapore; however manufacturers here do use un-branded milk powder and other dairy products made in China, the AVA said.

When contacted about this, Singapore Food Manufacturers' Association president Allan Tan said it would find out more details from AVA before deciding on a course of action.

He added that if needed, the association may send out a circular advising members to be wary of ingredients sourced from China.

The AVA has already advised retailers to yank a China-made dairy product from shelves - Yili's Natural Choice Yogurt Flavoured Ice Bar with Real Fruit - as a sample of it here was found by the AVA to be tainted with melamine - the chemical found in the tainted infant formula in China.

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Oh man... I drank this Monmilk chocolate milk many months back. *Gulps* 6 small packets of it *Gulps*
Hope my kidneys are ok... T_T

Christian names to avoid

Some names to avoid when you're choosing a christian name for yourself or your child.
Find some of the names quite hilarious. I like Carmen Teng best.

Ann Zhang => Dirty (Mandarin)
Ann Chin => Keep Quiet (Mandarin)
Faye Chen => Dusty (Mandarin)
Carl Cheng => Buttock (Hokkien)
Carmen Teng => Leg hair long (Hokkien)
Connie Mah => Call your mother (Cantonese)
Corrine Tai => Poor fellow (Hokkien)
Danny See => Squeeze you to death (Hokkien)
Henry Mah => Hate your mum (Mandarin)
Ivan Tan => I'm stupid (Mandarin)
Jane Tan => Frying eggs (Mandarin)
Lucy Leow => You are dead (Hokkien)
Leslie Tong => Rubbish Bin (Mandarin)
Macy Koh => Never die before (Cantonese)
Monica Cheng => Touching your buttocks (Hokkien)
Nelson Tan => Bird laying eggs (Mandarin)
Paul Chan => Bankrupt (Mandarin)
Pete Tsai => Nose droppings (Hokkien)
Rosie Teng => Screws and nails (Hokkien)
Suzie Leow => Lose till death (Hokkien)

Amazed & amused

I felt so amazed last time, as I touched other preggy mum's tummy when she tell me to feel the baby's kicking. Its doubly amazing and amusing when the baby is kicking, punching and turning inside your own tummy.

Yesterday I was doing my facial and the little one kept doing his gong fu inside my tummy. On one hand, my face was twitching in pain as the beautician squeezed my clogged pores. On the other hand, I felt kinda ticklish in my tummy as the baby kept kicking 真是哭笑不得 T_T

Going for detailed scan next Thursday. Extremely looking forward to it coz I read that you can actually see the baby's face more clearly as compared to the normal scan. Hopefully baby is cooperative. The last scan at my gynea's clinic, I talked to baby before we went to the clinic to ask her to open her legs big big so that we can see the gender. The baby did opened her legs, but, sigh... showing us from her bottom. -_-||| Maybe my instructions given not clear enough... And the gynea says could be a girl. Think the detailed scan next week will more or less confirm the gender =D

Dealing with nuisance bank calls

Its really a nuisance when banks call you up as and when to promote their bank services which you have zero interest in them.
This is how I deal with such nuisance call:

Banker : Hi, is this Wong XX (my name)?
Me : Yes
Banker : Hi Ms Wong, I'm calling from YYY bank and would like to share with you our new credit line service that our bank is currently offering...
Me : (before letting him continue further) Err... sorry, I'm busy at the moment, can you call me back later?
Banker : (usually...) Oh, can I call you later in the evening say 5pm?
Me : Yes, sure... bye...

Some will never call back and those who really call backs will only get to listen to my lovely voice message greetings.

I've got a colleague, very power response. She will say "Hi, oh, I'm very rich, rich enough, and I don't need all such services. Thanks huh..."

And I've overheard another colleague who response with agitation. "I'm not interested! This is not the first time I receive calls from your bank! Can you update your list that I'm not interested in whatever services you all are offering and stop calling my handphone?!" Poor banker, just wanna do his job but kenna scolded.

I believe such tele-salesperson must have met 1001 kinds of rejection. I do sympathise them as they're just fulfiling their task. So, the next time a banker or tele-sales calls you up, maybe just find a nice way to turn them down or a creative way to response to them and make their day; like the first colleague which I mentioned above =D

My dua li ji

Happy birthday to me...
Happy birthday to mee...
Happy birthday to mee-eee...
Happy birthday to meeee....

My lovely colleagues celebrated my birthday for me the day before. I've now got $160 shopping vouchers for me to do my shopping! Yeah! Time to get new shoes (my comfy shoe has a hole now =S ), new bra (its getting tight =S ) and new clothes. =D Thanks all my colleagues for the birthday contribution.

And yesterday morning I received a pleasant surprise from hubby. A bouquet of flowers and Levi's watch! Was reading some emails in office when Zhenxiong came along with an uncle saying that he's here to pass me something. I was so caught by surprise and so touched when I read the card. Thank you hubby for the thoughtfulness. Love ya lots !!!



After work, went to this restaurant called "Samba steakhouse" at Katong for dinner. It'ss buffet style of roasted meats. Pork la, chicken la, beef la, lamb la... Was very full after that meal. Thanks hubby for everything yesterday. Muackz !

Tonight going to mum's house to eat mee sua coz its my lunar calender birthday today. Happy to me again. Heh heh...

Thank you all my friends for your birthday wishes too!

Tap-tap

I can feel some quickening and gentle tapping in my lower abdomen for the past few days. Wondering if its stomach rumbling/gas or baby's movement?

Tap-tap, is that you little one?

In my 16 weeks currently, they say 2nd trimester is the honeymoon period during pregnancy. Indeed, I didnt felt as tired as before. Looking forward to the next gynea visit. =D

Ferrero

Have seen someone mentioning about Ferrero Rouche dark chocolate in the blog quite some time back. And I finally get to taste it recently !



It was bitterly sweet. The top coat was covered with tiny chocolate bits and is kinda crunchy when you bite it. I don't really know how to appreciate dark chocolate though I'm a chocolate lover and it leaves a bitter aftertaste in my mouth after finishing one. Well... I still prefer the original version.

Do give it a try, especially if you like dark chocolate. Its available in 7-11, selling at 3 for $2.50.

Pimples, pimples

Pimples, pimples on the wall face... which is the biggest of them all?

Boo hoo... first its forehead, now is chin... and my itchy fingers like to scratch them coz sometimes they feel itchy. Argh... Applying axe oil on my chin pimples so it feels minty cool and I won't go and touch it. I like axe oil. I use it for almost anything and everything. Ya, even on my pimples especially when they itch.

Tomorrow's Friday. Finally, Friday is coming! Think weekend is gonna be a nua-ing day again. Zzz... Suddenly feel like eating BBQ food. Hmm...

Another tired day

Monday... Zzz...

Another lethargic day. Wierd, I thought I should be more energetic at this stage, but it was totally the opposite. I'm still not having very good appetite and I'm having zits popping out on my forehead. Grrr... clipping up my irritating, fraying, making-my-face-itch fringe.

Looking forward to my appointment on 2-Aug *Smiles and waves*

Extreme tiredness

Feeling extremely tired today. Having slight headache. Don't feel like working or doing anything. I wanna go home to rest.

Was supposed to have a dinner gathering with my colleagues and ex-colleagues who had left the company this evening. Sigh, me in such a state, I think I better go home rest early.

Its Kee's birthday this Sunday, and CCHB gathering as well. Don't think I will go to the class gathering. Nowadays, by evening time, I get very tired and sleepy. Think its just normal, afterall, I need alot of rest at this stage. Somemore they're meeting at Dauby Ghaut, when I thought of having to squeeze and walk in crowds, it makes me doubly sianz.

Feel that Kee and me is getting more and more distant. Perhaps now we seldom meet or chat. Even in MSN, she'll only appear offline. Selective chatting. Or perhaps she only talks to him, afterall, love conquers all *shrugz* Just glad that she's deeply in love now. I'm hopeful that this relationship will blossom. Hope that she's keeping in touch constantly with other frenz though she seldom contacts me. Afterall, family and frenz will never walk out of you, but boyfriend juz comes and go. Ugly facts of life.

3.30pm, 2.5 more hours to go before I can knock off work. Zzz... Dozing off at my workdesk -_-

Long waited Monday

Been long since last blogged.

The Monday that I had been looking forward to is finally here. Excited and curious.
I hope everything will be well.

Updates

Alright, back from Bangkok last Saturday. It was raining everyday. Rain, rain, rain... If its not raining, it was super hot and sunny. Went to lotsa day, night and weekend markets. Jatuchak, Silom, Pratunum, Suan Lam, Chinatown, etc, etc... Was kinda tiring as there's a lot of shopping and walking. Didn't bought alot of stuffs. 5 t-shirts, 4 tops, 4 berms, 1 gaucho pants, 2 bags for myself, 2 pairs of slipper, 1 pair of flat, 1 belt and some snacks. Not alot as compared to the other 2 couple of friends who we went together =P

Oh yea, David Cook won this season's American Idol! Yeah!!! I like him the best among all the contestants. I was extremely awed and impressed when he sang "Always Be my Baby" during the top 7. It was so awesome and so well sang, I love his version as compared to Maria Carey's.



Way to go David Cook !!!

Fishy fishy...

Sometimes I wonder... The fish food is so much bigger than the fish's mouth and the fish's teeth is so small, plus the water current that cause the food to float around... Wouldn't it be difficult to eat? How long will they need to take to feel full?

New hairstyle

Met Fang, Yun and Wen for ktv this noon. After the ktv, shopped a while at marina and city link with Wen and went home around 4.30pm.

Dunno what came to me, probably getting sick of my boring straight hair, I went to have my hair permed after that. And so as I sat on the chair while the hair stylist put on the curls on my hair, applied some strong chemical which pungent almost choked me, wrapped a towel below my hair and ears, and put on a black cap on my head before pulling over the hair heater over my head.




I looked kinda hilarious and told the hairdresser that I looked like a nun. You see, with the black hairdressing sheet in front of my body, towel around my neck, and the long black cap on my head, I resembled exactly like the nun in Sister Act.




This is not the first time I permed my hair, but somehow, my hair look a mess. And the hairdresser blow and style the hair till it looked like pong-sai-gao.

Anyway, perfer this new hairstyle as compared to the boring straight hair, makes my face smaller as well. Hee...

Utterly regretful bus trip

Juehui and I are sick of having to squeeze into the train every night after our boxing session. So we decided to take the bus yesterday night.

We waited at the bus stop, some bus are quite full, so we decided to wait for another bus since there's alot of bus going to Bedok. And so we waited for around 5 to 10 mins and started to give up the idea of taking bus. As we were turning back to head for the MRT, bus# 7 came. So I shouted to Juehui and we boarded the bus.

Then along the way, we became utterly regretful of taking the bus. We started to think of the possbilities if we had taken train instead. You know, we might have reached Bedok, almost reaching our house, finished bathing, ready for late dinner. Then we started to grumble that we still need to wait for the hair to dry... It was close to 11pm then.

So the whole bus ride became a whining session coz we could have reached Bedok in less than 15 minutes train ride while the bus waiting and travelling time took more than half an hour. T_T

We swear that we will never take bus from there to Bedok again next time. @_@

Blurry blurry...

This morning, as usual, woke up, brush teeth, wash up, bath, put on my clothes, put on my contact lens... wait... how come my right vision is blur after I put on the lens? I took out the contact lens, went to the fridge and took out the eyewash solution. Washed my right eye... washed my left eye... put on the lens again and its still not clear. Anyway, was running late to work, so decided to change a new pair of contact lens to solve eveything, but it still doesn't help. So decided to let it be and rushed out of the house.

I sat in my office workdesk and the blurry vision is irritating me, I can't concentrate on what I was doing. Went to bedok interchange during lunch time to check it out.

At the optometry, I passed my glasses to the optician to check the degree
Optician : OK, please place your chin here (the usual machine that checks the eyes' degree) and let me check your eye sight.
Few seconds later...
Optician : What's the degree of your contact lens that you're wearing?
Blury me : Ermm... 100 left, 200 right...
Optician : Could you have wear the lenses wrongly? Coz the degree for your glasses is 100 right, 200 left.
Blury me : (Pengz...) Errr... OK, I try to change the other way round, if there's anything, I'll come back again.
Zoommmm... Faster left the shop....

Back to office, tried to interchange the right and left lens and ta dah! its so much clearly now. Diaoz... Blury me... And this is not the first time...

Box, box... boxing!

Aiyo... my shoulder is aching. My back is aching too. And my knees, they're aching also... Aiyo... the boxing lesson at Kadir boxing school yesterday after my stopping of kickboxing and body-sculpting class for 2 months almost killed me... -_-|||

I hate the running part coz my running sucks. We're required to run one big round outside PA. Halfway through it, I already ai-see-ai-wa... started to become out of breathe and gos-tan run back to the school. Lucky hubby is beside me "entertaining" me as we run. Gee... Skipping is the easiest stunt for me coz last time I always skip ma. Then the circuit training almost killed my knee. Anyway, my knee-cap hasn't been very good la, so expected to feel the ache.

First thing I reached office, I told JH "my shoulders are aching..." She say its like that one la, coz of the boxing motion. Ya hor... The boxing motion... Took quite some time to get it right as the instructor came to guide us. "Open your legs wider...", "punch straight...", "twist your hip...", "arms dun open so wide..."...... Bleah...

Feel so sleepy now... Yawn... Hubby going overseas again in one week's time. Boo hoo... Looking forward to our Bangkok trip in May... 1 more month!