Happy Valentine's Day!

Been a long time since I posted cos I got gastric flu since chu3 and had to see 24 hr clinic. Took me 1 long week and another visit to the GP before I finally recovered. :(

Happy Valentine's Day to hubby! Thanks for remembering and getting a new Swatch watch for me. So sweet! :) We didn't go out for Valentine's day lunch nor dinner but we sneaked out for a short while in the afternoon (RaeAnne woke up by then, oops!) and had a heavy tea at F.I.S.H. Tampines1. Didn't manage to buy hubby a gift yet cos he didn't see anything that he fancied. Hope he can find something on ebay later. :P

Happy Rabbit Year!

Today is 初一, Mei Mei woke up at 6am and cried so loudly at 7am that she woke up Cheh Cheh (she cried cos she wanted to touch her pee in the potty and was stopped by the maid. :P). End up we woke up early but went back to sleep. It's a good thing we did not make any plans for CNY visiting today. Just wanted to pop by ILs place and maybe my mum's place. My bro came over for a while in the morning cos he helped my mum deliver some CNY goodies to MIL. In the end, we popped over to ILs place at 5pm, had steamboat dinner there, then my bro picked us up at 7+pm and we went to my parents for a short while.

Measured Mei Mei today, she is 73cm tall and according to maid who weighed her on Wed 9.4kg. :)

Raelynn is 14 months old!

Today is 年三十, the last day of Tiger lunar year and also the day Mei Mei turned 14 months. She is trying to wear her own clothes n will stand on any circular eg. Book or placemat n pretend it's a weighing scale. She cries easily when she is hungry or sleepy. Have let her try a few foods so far cos she is such a glutton eg. Waffle, corn bread, bun, mushroom, tingkat soup, crab n even fish maw n abalone today.


We did not go to ILs place n my mum's place for reunion dinner today. I cooked the soup (chicken stock with fishballs, fish maw, prawns, scallops, mushrooms, vegetables) while hubby cut the abalone. Simple 2 dish reunion dinner for us. Hope that we will 年年有余,代代平安,哈哈(虾虾)大笑 this whole year.

Officially stopped BF

29 Jan 11 - The day I officially stopped BF cos the last pack of FEBM was gone. Switched off the stand alone freezer last week too. Have been mixing FM with FEBM for Raelynn and she's taking it well so that's a relief. :) I wouldn't never have been able to stop BF on my own (will have felt too guilty). Stopped BF cos of the circumstances after the accident so in a way, I'm glad the decision was taken out of my hands. Time to take out the BF ticker. I've lasted almost 14 months (3 days short) so I am still proud of myself. Hope Raelynn will stay healthy and grow up tall and strong. :)

Red CNY dresses

Although we don't have plans to go CNY visiting this year (cos post accident, must wear brace plus no car), I couldn't resist ordering two 'Ang3 gong4 gong4' dresses for the 2 gals from SMH BP. Thought they look so sweet. I especially like the one of Raelynn doing a 'Marilyn Monroe'. :)

Follow up dr review

Came back from dr review at cgh, condition not worsen (good news) but still need to wear brace for 6 more weeks (bad news). Thought my 6 weeks started from 14 Jan, how come kenna restarted and now still got to wear for 6 weeks.

Next review is 7 mar, so close to my phuket trip on 14 mar. Hope I can still go for my trip lor. Got to wear the brace for so long. Hiaz. Went back to Lifeforce rehab centre and adjusted my brace slightly to give my face more breathing space. Bought another cervical collar too and it costs $156. No choice cos the brace is too uncomfortable to use on the bed so look for another alternative so that I won't feel so miserable. Met a couple there and the Malay lady is still wearing a hard plastic brace though her accident was in Nov and her fracture is only in T12, guess I can't complain. :p

Wonder if I was right to insist on no surgery so I went to search online. Looks like most pp will only go for surgery if there is nerve damage (which hopefully I don't have). So, brace is the best option for now bah. http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000443.htm

RaeAnne is 3 years old!!!

Raeanne finally turned 3 today. She is 12.8 kg n 95cm tall. We did not managed to go out n celebrate as a family today cos hubby brought RaeAnne to her music class in the morning and went for tuition in the afternoon and he's tired out. But at least we walk out to nearby Ntuc together to buy mamy poko diapers for Mei Mei.

She was a very sweet gal together, maybe because she knows it's her birthday.She asked me a few times, 'Mummy, are you feeling well?' When I said no, she took the 'yoko yoko' and wanted to apply the yoko yoko for me. :) When I was watching Japan hour and said that the gal was so nice to bring her Daddy and Mummy on holiday. I asked her 'Next time when you grow up and have money, will you bring Mummy on holiday. She replied. 'Monday, Monday, I bring you on holiday'.

hehe, so sweet, don't know if it'll be an unfulfilled promise. But I'll look forward to the day when instead of we bringing the gals on holiday. The gals will bring us on holiday. :)

Happy 6th wedding anniversary (again)!

Today is our customary wedding anniversary. Normally, we don't celebrate in a big way since it's after our ROM anniversary and hubby's birthday. But after surviving the accident, must learn to appreciate each other even more. Plus hubby just had his hand operation on Wed, so I bought an Ipad for him as anniversary present. So that it's easier for him to type and read chinese comics online.

Got it from SMH WTS thread at almost $150 cheaper than retail and the seller delivered to my house on Wed night, just a few hrs after confirming the deal. But another forum mummy got it even cheaper than me from hardwarezone forum at only $820. :( Oh well, never mind, as long as hubby likes it right? :)

Anyway, we can't go out to eat since we already ordered tingkat but we did tapow some salmon belly sashimi from NTUC finest to jia cai. After accompanying hubby to polyclinic to change his bandage, we popped by Tampines Mall and had a snack at Wang Jiao and hubby bought 2 sets of drama DVD (1 taiwan, 1 korean) and promised to watch them with me. I hope it's true and he won't fall sleep halfway as usual. hee. :P

Birthday celebration at Elfa

RaeAnne's school is closed tomorrow for staff training. So, we had to celebrate early for her birthday which is on Sat. Luckily, I had ordered most of the items from Party City when preparing for Mei Mei's BD party. Cos post accident, we really don't have the time and energy to shop for her party stuff. But we still had to scramble to buy party favours and sweets/jelly last minute cos we didn't know there were 18 kids in her class including herself. I only see her own class ie. PrenurseryIIA (only about 6 kids) but PrenurseryIIB are also counted cos they share a classroom (separated by book shelves) and the same lunch break.

With me and hubby in bandage and brace, we were quite a sight walking to the CC with maid, baby and MIL in tow. I got the most curious stares from kaypoh aunties and uncles cos of my neck to waist brace. But bo bian, told myself must be thick skin and sacrifice my 'face' for my daughter. After all, it's her 3rd birthday party and I wouldn't miss it for the world. :)

RaeAnne got the pink smiley face cake that she requested for and all the kids are happy with the party bags and cake. We didn't bring the cake back since it wasn't very big in the first place. No place to store in the fridge also. But in hindsight, we should have cut a piece and put into tupperware for Ye Ye. I was too busy trying to take photos that I forgot. :P One of RA's classmate, a little boy by the name of Ryan Koh (Standing behind RaeAnne) likes me so much (despite my strange looking brace) that he called me Mummy and tried to leave with me. So sweet. :) Even RL hasn't called me Mummy yet. Duh...

Anyway, we also got RaeAnne's fortnightly progress report from school today. Her English lessons were of good progress but Chinese vocabulary 有待加强. These were for words like 幼儿园,再见,小朋友,你好etc. Yes, although we do speak Mandarin at home, we don't use such words often. No wonder she doesn't know. Got to hide the 'Beauty and the Beast' book which she loves and start reading some more of the Pelangi chinese books that we used to read to her. :P

Hubby's in the news today

Just found out that my hubby is featured in today's 联合早报, in the 现在 supplement. Haven't seen the papers yet, cos my mum was the one who tipped us off and we don't subscribe to chinese papers but at least managed to find the article online http://www.zaobao.com.sg/fk/fk110119_009.shtml. There is a reporting error though cos my hubby studied at NUS/NIE, not in USA. :P No photo in the online version though. But maybe it's better this way cos I don't like the photo they used in the article. Asked hubby and he said the student journalist took many photos, don't know why they picked that one. :P