02Nov / 2011

38 weeks

I know! I can’t believe it myself :)

When my OBGYN told us ‘your baby is now full term’, I wanted to cry. I look over at my husband and he’s smiling from cheek to cheek! We will meet him soon.

We currently go for a checkup on a weekly basis. The baby has been developing fine so far but at our doctor’s visit yesterday, he has decided to move and is no longer effaced like the week before. I’m a little upset but I tell myself that maybe it’s safer to keep him in there just for a little while longer.

Like clockwork since the 4th month, I wake up at 5 something to use to loo. I can hear the morning prayers from the nearby mosque just before I settle to sleep again. However, for the past few days, I wake up, pee, and don’t go back to sleep till 7 or 8 a.m. I really dread this. One morning, I was so awake, I got up to cook!

For some funny reason, I’m in love with the smell of popcorn. And this week, all I want to do is eat fried chicken! What an unhealthy craving!

We have bought almost everything for the baby and made several decisions on what we would like to do or how we would parent our child. Right now, Praveen and I are just enjoying the quiet moments we have together, smiling with anticipation that our lives are about to change.

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20May / 2011

A year ago

It’s been almost a year since our religious and civil ceremony. How time flies when you’re having fun. I’m enjoying every minute of my marriage to my best friend, the moments spent together, the discussions and decisions we make, our ability to function as a team despite being physically away from each other, the silent understandings of how we do things a certain way. Of course, there’s also the nagging, the arguments over who washes the dishes and the stress over when and where we should go on vacation.

I have kept the empty angpow packets and cards from our wedding in a shoebox. I reached for it the other day and was touched with the words and well wishes from everyone we knew. I smiled reading them knowing that at the moment they wrote it, they were thinking about us. There were two that made me laugh, one was an incorrect spelling of my name (not sure if it was incorrect or just the handwriting) and the other from a good mate from our days in Sydney where we used to play silly Tower Defense games till 6a.m. (reads: Congrats! Now go forth and spawn your United Colours of Benetton family)!

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18Feb / 2011

On pasta, chicken stew and you

We didn’t iron the apron before the photo shoot. Silly me!

I find it hard to believe that people find it hard to believe that I cook.

But I do! I do cook dinner at least four out of seven nights in a week.

I cooked more often when I was working 9-5 because after a long day, there’s nothing like relaxing in front of the tv with your dinner in hand

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30Jan / 2011

Happy Chinese New Year

Cute rabbit ang pow packets from Bangsar Village

It’s the first year we are distributing ang pows so I made sure I was prepared ahead of time.

It’s a day before the new year, I’m getting ready to go over to help my father prep for reunion dinner, and dodging shameless self-invites by distant relatives (which they post on Facebook…not very tasteful) to come over to my house. Yes, shameless cause I am absolutely against people self-inviting themselves for any event. But I suppose that can be a topic for a new blog post

Gong Xi Fa Chai!

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05Jun / 2010

Wedding Day

We got married 7-days ago