Friday, September 19, 2008
today is my darling's birthday.
sigh....due to our fears of all the upcoming costs of babycare and all, plus my constant discomfort and need for food.. we decided not to do what we do each year....and instead, we just decided to go for a good dinner........Darling's been craving for good pasta....so I thought of going to Prego...after all, it is quite well-known, and i've heard some good stuff about it........we definitely were not disappointed......i'd expected a slightly upmarket place, but the atmosphere was rather casual....i'd attribute it to the location of being in a shopping centre, and the fact that it's linked to the hotel.......service was superb, and the staff were very attentive, constantly checking if we were doing okay, and if the food was alright.....food was not bad, and for a place like that, i think the price was rather reasonable.....told them it was darling's birthday when i made the reservations, and he got a nice surprise when they presented him with the cake.....Been a really really long time since we both indulged ourselves in good food, and i reminded him to splurge today, especially since it's his birthday..... it sure feels good to enjoy yummy scrumptious food.......thank god Baby kept it down!!! or it'd have been an absolute waste of money!!!
Enough talking though....the pics will be able to tell you much more!!!Complimentary sourdough bread with tomato sauce......
Bruschetta..... Crispy yet soft bread with tomatoes, buffalo mozzarella and yummy parma ham!
Darling's carbonara......really nice....the bacon was flavourful, and the cheese flavour was sufficient. Really rich and creamy, and a portion that was just nice....
My Lamb Rack with rosemary scented potatoes and vegetables....not bad....lamb was done quite well......
My dessert...semifreddo.....can't remember what else it had....haha.... but the biscuit on top is really nice..... =)
Darling's Pear Flambe with chocolate ice-cream...... nice to have tableside service done for you in a restaurant!
Darling's complimentary birthday cake.... sponge with chocolate mousse, and a caramel topping
Had a really wonderful time today...been such a long time since we enjoyed ourselves so much..... this 2 weeks will be filled with dinner parties....since there are so many birthdays in september! My dad's birthday is next week...and we'll be bringing my parents out to eat tomorrow....and next week, my entire family will be celebrating my dad's birthday....... just hope that during these times, Baby will be good and keep my food down!!!
Next week is my recess week........wish I could take the time to rest...but there's many assignments to be done.... guess i'll push myself to complete as many as possible.... so that it'll be less taxing when i'm back to school.......
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Saturday, September 13, 2008
13 weeks and 1 day. Is this how all mummies feel like as they keep track of their children's birth/age? It's so hard to keep track of when you're counting in weeks and days. Hmmm...never had such a problem with the months that Darling and me have been together..... so i guess when you break in down into weeks, it really does get a little bit harder to keep track of.Do I sound very depressed? Please be reassured that I really and truly am not depressed in any way. I'm just feeling a teeny wee bit miserable purely coz I'm not feeling comfortable and up to my normal hyper active self. I appreciate all the concern and words of encouragement.....really I do..... but I'm really not pulling a long face every where I go....... but I guess you wouldn't really understand how I'm feeling unless you've seen me in person lately. I still laugh, i still make stupid jokes......I'm just much more whiny coz my stomach feels like it's on a washing machine's constant spin cycle........It just don't feel all that great to eat something and wonder in your mind if you're gonna puke after you swallow it.....and even if you don't puke, you can't eat much coz of the lack of appetite, and barely 2 hours later, your stomach grumbles coz it wasn't filled to a 100%...am i making sense? I guess it's harder to express myself in words.....this week has been kinda hard though. Took 2 MCs coz really am not feeling very well so far.... puked all over myself at TM on Tuesday evening whilst waiting for Darling to come have dinner with me.....and everyone stared and gawked at me. That feeling sucks man....... I felt like an absolute fool. But....I survived......but emotionally I felt like shit.....so I took an MC on Wednesday....... only to have myself puking thrice on Wednesday evening, and twice after I woke up on Thursday morning. Was rather feverish too...... couldn'y help but to see the doc again, and he diagnosed me with gastric flu. Man.....gastric flu coupled with morning sickness..........Sucks big time. But I am surviving....Just had my JXY meeting today.....settled most of our programs, so that's one burden off my mind....now i've to focus on my assignments.....lots and lots due over the next couple of weeks, so I really have to work my butt off.........Things are beginning to look up for darling and myself in small ways.....and I guess we just got to keep praying and having faith.........Btw, baby's website link can be found on the left of the blog, under my wedding photo....so if you wanna see how baby looks like....you can link yourself there!
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Wednesday, September 03, 2008
hah.......as i'm typing this, a thought just came into my mind. I think my blog would be filled with nothing much except for news of the baby in the months to come. Isn't it scary how something so small dominates your life so completely just by its presence? sheesh, it's almost daunting to think of how drastically changed both darling and my life would be with the arrival of the baby.I know i've sounded less than excited so far.....even made the entire news sound almost dismal in the last couple of posts.....and well, for those of you who haven't heard me whine about how i've been feeling, or even seen me in person, you probably wouldn't understand how i can feel so down about such an exciting piece of news. I have tried. Really.... tried really hard to make myself feel a little bit happier, to think of the things I can do to make myself smile and think happy thoughts......but then, my mood swings get caught up with me. And so does the discomfort, and all the human worries that somehow can't seem to escape the depths of my mind. Seriously, all I wanna do day after day right now is to stay at home in bed, beside darling. I have no need or want to do anything else. That, is all I want to do. I have zilch motivation or happy thoughts to last me more than half an hour. Darling's greatest wish right now is to see me smile or be happy for one entire day. I can't even begin to tell you how hard that is. The mere attempt of keeping myself normal whilst I am in school with my friends almost tires me so far that once dusk falls, I end up crying. Don't ask me why. My mood swings are that terrible. They change instantaneously. And when I say cry, I really mean sob......It's weird what pregnancy does to you. Despite what everyone says, every pregnancy is different. My sense of smell and hearing is super acute right now. And I'm totally sensitive to strong smelling things. It just irks me when something smells too pungent. I can't seem to find anything I LOVE or CRAVE to eat, and I have constant heartburn, or in layman's terms, pain in my abdominal area. There haven't been many "good" days in the entire time I've found out about my pregnancy, and I'm just crossing my fingers that I'm one of the lucky few whose vomitting stops after the 1st 3 months. And just for the info, sour plum does not work for ALL pregnant mummies. It sure as hell does not work for me! Sheesh. I've puked to the extent whereby I can just vomit and after I'm done, continue eating straight away. That's how extreme it is.......but, according to my doctor, I'm only a moderate case. I fear to think what an extremely bad case is like!School has been ongoing for 5 weeks now.......and....... already I've taken 5 MCs. It's scary. I almost feel as if I'm re-living my JC days, where I took countless MCs just to skip school coz I hated it. The only difference is that now, I can't seem to pull myself to go to school because I have absolutely no motivation. For those of you who know how driven I am, especially when it comes to work, yup well, now I've turned into the extreme opposite of myself. And that's what I detest about me, right now. It's the incapability to even mentally push myself to do a little bit more than what I think I can. That, to me in the past, was weakness. And I am now living it out. Sigh.Don't get me wrong though. I don't hate my baby. I am excited about it. Maybe I don't talk or coo to baby as much as Darling does....(He does it every time he's home!), But I sure am excited everytime we see the doctor........more because I want to ensure that baby is growing well, especially since my stomach still looks quite flat, this in addition to the puking of the food I consume.....Right now, Baby is 51mm. Baby has grown from a mere 2mm when we first did our check-up in my 5th week......It's amazing coz everytime we go to the doctor's, Baby grows twice the size from the last time we went.......... Just yesterday, it was so so cute, during the scan, Baby was sitting up, cross-legged, lifting both arms up. I don't know how it manages to do that since it's still so so tiny. I've captured the picture on my phone, and that is now my current motivation.....Darling and me have chosen not to do any tests to find out if Baby has any problems like Down's Syndrome, etc, because I feel that medical tests always have an uncertainty. No point increasing our worries when we are gonna bring Baby to this world anyway....Might as well leave it all in God's hands, and just pray for Baby's safety. After all, as Angela said, I probably have a tonne of people praying for Baby's safety right now! Neither would we want to find out the gender of the baby...... we kinda want it to be a surprise.... =) Although we wouldn't mind either, but secretly, I'm hoping for a girl, and Darling's hoping for a little boy for him to play soccer with.... so, let's just leave it to the last date!Names have been picked though..... and Baby's gonna be born in the year of the Ox, just like darling and me....so we are officially a Cow family! How apt for Darling's nickname eh? Haha.....Ah well, I've started a website for Baby......will be posting Baby's sonograms on it soon.....so, if you really wanna know everything, then, I guess you can check that page up regularly!
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