Week 27th - scared, excited, busy, tired!

Monday was as usual, tired on the 1st day of the week, drag myself to work. sil flew HK for 1 week's work. came home and rested till we went out for dinner and ate our favourite monday meal. it had been weeks since we ate kuey chap at tpy lor8 coffeeshop. slepty early as i was tired.
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On tuesday 10th march, met Cousin A after work and we head to sembawang shopping ctr. its newly renovated and i wanted to check out the esprit outlet and daiso. managed to get 2 tops from esprit but the outlet wasnt as big and some items are not very cheap after discount.

then we head to try out the desserts at MOF. Ministry of Food serves jap desserts. please dun try the savoury dishes. i suspect they use the microwave to heat up the rice and curry and it was hardly warm at all! the rice was so hard!!! terrible! the dessert was not bad. (pics taken with hp = blur!)

then we head to daiso and i love it here! not as crowded here compared to other daiso. got 10 items that day - a spagetti container and a container that cooks the spag using mircrowave. kidos food picks, washing net, clothes peg hanger, saw alot of ice-packs here and i bot 2 packs to standby cos now uncle K sometimes need to use it to bring cod fish to shanghai. got a new waterbottle and gx's favourite caramel corn. there is bus-service provided to khatib and yishun mrt station. went home and i felt very uncomfortable. my baby belly had pulls and no matter how i turn i felt tight and to the extend some pain. worse i felt very little movement from my little one. i went to bed to rest and pray that everything was fine.

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Wed 11th March, i worried the whole morning as my tummy still felt tight and i tot i was suffering from constipation, which was common in pregnancy but i didnt feel baby moved much and that make me so scared. called the nurse and they suggest that i leave work and down to see gynae immediately... with so many mc track record, i told the nurse i will observe for another hour to see if i can feel baby move before gog down. lucky i did feel her but it was very faint and i just tahan till end of school day, told my tcher and i left 15mins earlier.

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Sat at the clinic and i was very worried and i even text gx that if i need to go into labour ward to save the child, he should go home to get the delivery bag 1st which has only half the list of things packed thou! he was in an important meeting and can't be with me but he called me once he could and told me not to worry and make jokes to cheer me up and to make me relax. saw my gynae and after telling him how i felt ... gana scolded! he asked if i ate too much carbo... em... i have been having alot of bread for meals and of cos sweets! but i did eat more dessert during the 2 weeks... the excessive carbo creates too much fluid, thus my tummy feels extremely tight! so he gave me medication and also an order to stay lying down more! he told me that sitting is not resting. i must lie down to rest! EVERYDAY AT LEAST 9HOURS! soon i told him i would be able to do that! cos i will be taking no-pay leave from 2nd week of april. he gave me 2 days of mc but i decided to go to work.

i didn't listen to his advice immediately as i already planned to check out burberry warehouse sale at suntec since tues nite. also i really needed to go to cityhall to buy my tcher's bdae gift. got her a $60 pen. then i spotted robinson sale. managed to get NukNuk milkbottles at 20% and with rbs card 5% rebate! happy with my buy! i got the buddlepack which came with a bathing sponge, a pacifier that i just want to stand by, still not very keen in introducing it to my baby. it also came with a pacifier clip. as recommended by V, i got NukNuk's bottle brush. then not sure it it was useful but i go a bath thermomter, it indicates the safe temperature of the water for baby to bath in.

then i head over to suntec, as many people walked FAST past me... they could be at a normal pace, i felt i was crawling among the crowd. made it to suntec finally and seeing many were heading the same direction as me... there seems to have many exhibitions and events gog on, some were preparing to open the next day, mostly IT fair. when i reached the burberry sale... unbelivable, we gota q to put our bags into plastic bags and they will cable-tie the bag up! i had my fully-packed agnes b demin bag and a robinson shopping bag! they just stuff into a bag and i had to carry that heavy load in my hand and hold my wallet and hp with the other hand! i sweared! it was so heavy and how to shop!!! pissed but since i got in, i went to shop with alot of difficulty.

walked around and i was disappointed with the items and after discount it was still ex! then i walked on to spot a wagon of 70% items and these were nicer than those on 50%. after trying 4 tops, i only got 1 pc that fit me and i like it. $250 and after 70% less i paid $75. i have been a burberry fan but never got myself many items, more for gx. then i went on to the baby's wagon. managed to to get 2 sets of giftsets.

these cost $310 and after 70% it was $93! em... yah more ex than my top and for my top i will get to wear it for endless times... not for babies cos after a few wear they grow very fast and won't be able to wear it again but i like it and i just went ahead to get it... a thin polo material, i suddenly dun know this type of baby top is called... rompers? and it came with a baby burberry hat! so i got a set in pink and a set in brown. gx joined me for dinner at viet restaurant phohoa and we head home and after medication i checked the internet for more information on Amniotic fluid and protein food before i slept!

Thursday 12th march, with the orders of no carb, i can't snack on biscuits anymore! lucky for me i got 2 tubs of chilli-fried fish which i almost finish one at home and i brought the other to school. got these near school and i love it cos its not too hot and it has this sweetness to the cripsy fish! after school, i went to woodlands with ann to eat dinner. poor her, she had to go back to school for students' nite rehersal. it was tough choice as i was not to eat carbo, there are not many stalls i can choose from. so i ate ampang yongtaufu... without rice or noodles. then i went on to look for my new hotwater bottle to warm my aching back. went to get my tcher a cake for her bdae celebration with the kids and head home to rest. for the first time, i felt my baby moved so much! she pratically seems to be turning non-stop in my baby belly! but i was so tired that i fell asleep on the sofa. i was glad she is moving!

Friday 13th -surprise my tcher with the cake and gave her the pen i got. i got the pen for her as she travels alot and i tot it will be useful. hope she likes it. what i was most looking forward to was to meet my dear fren tabby finally! chose to meet at isetan supermarket as dap informed me about Jap fair. right after we hugged, as both of us are starving, we started browsing around to buy something to munch! we got jap fishcake to share! we each got a spicy cod roe fishcake and shared the seaweed fishcake which was really nice!

we head to sun with moon and i ordered a kyoho grape yogurt drink. it had bits of grape jello and i like it. em... yes its sweet... we ordered mini tori teriyaki set. we gota wait for the sand-timer before opening up to eat our teriyaki chicken rice. the salmon balls was a cold-dish and it was hard... lucky we asked ofr extra teriyaki sauce.

we talked for ages and we ordered a platter of ice-cream filled puffs to share. i liked the strawberry ice-cream least! i like the macha and black sesame ice-cream puff best! we chatted non-stopped even when we were walking to the mrt station. got myself 2 bags of cherries. one for gx family and one for my mum. these were better than the ones at cold storage!

got a very lovely cupcake puffy sticker at borders, just have to have it! its so pretty! at the jap fair, i got this lovely fruit recipes chart. love the nice, cute colour pencil illustrations that was next to the text! the only thing i bought from the fair was a pack of 2 oranges! i got to try a tiny bit of this orange and there were 2 other type of oranges but i fell in love with this odd-shaped orange!

Deconpon Kumamoto is the Jap name for this odd-shaped but very sweet orange! i picked this pack and asked the nice jap lady if the pack i chose was a good choice! she said the longer the the top of the orange is the sweeter! Tabby oso got herself a packet! yes i know $9.90 is ex for 2 oranges but i love the shape cos it resembles a hu'lu and seems a very good and symbolic gift. i gave my mil one and she said it looks like a hu'lu! gog to give the other one to my mum.

my little one loves cherries! when i ate a bunch of cherries, she got excited and moved alot! so i decided to take a pic of baby with the cherry! well, March has been a fruity month so far! the jap fair ends next week... i think i should stay away from isetan and ck tang supermkt... been spending too much on these ntaural sweets! but they are sure better than artificial sweets! with no-pay in april, i seem to just go ahead and buy whatever i want now!