Wednesday, October 21, 2009
hey peepz!!! i'm back!!! hehe
my little seed has finally arrived!!! JOY, that's her name...let me rewind back to the day i went for my last gynae appt...this shall be a long post...
14th oct 2009went for gynae appt as usual but with my SIL, parents and hubs this time...so happens that my SIL was there for her gynae (same doc fyi) appt too and my parents were around that area...so all dropped by...
did my 30mins CTG for the 3rd time...and little joy was hyperactive as usual during the CTG rubbing against my stomach wall where the CTG belt is being strapped around my tummy....
layed there for 30 mins, NO CONTRACTIONS!!! super demoralised...
BUT......when i went to see my gynae, had my routine checkup and cervix checked...doc says, I CAN INDUCE ANYTIME LE!!! yipee~ i don't know how to describe that feeling....i'm so happy lor...was almost at the verge of tears when doc announced this to hubs and my parents....saw my mum jumped in joy and she even teared alittle...hahaha....that's how happy we were...
so we fixed our appt with gynae for the next day, 15th oct, induction process to welcome our little one...
the next moment, we stepped out of our gynae's office, ALL of us were on the phone...hahaha...busy keeping everyone updated...
15th Oct 2009couldn't sleep the whole night...too excited =p
the thought of not being able to bathe with normal tap water for the next whole month, i got up to have my longest bath ever at 5am...hehe
after which, me and dear dear headed to mac donalds for my last fastfood breakfast before my pregnancy is over... =p cos for the next few hours, during labour, i'm told that i cannot consume any food... =(
7am, reached raffles hospital...feeling all excited...and sickening dear dear said he felt like he's going on a holiday... (-_-)"
so upon arriving, dear dear went to settle my admission stuffs while i get myself changed and await what's next as i was totally clueless...
first, i was given some medicine to have my bowels cleared...pengz...hate that...within seconds, i was running toilet...hahaha
next, there's the CTG to monitor little joy's heart beat and contraction...
following that, my anesthetic doctor arrived to put me on glucose drip...thank goodness he's really gentle, so the process of having a needle stuck into my veins isn't painful....the only feeling that still sends the shivers down me is the cold feeling that i get when the glucose flows thru my veins....eeww...sucky feeling...
and i had my epidural dose done too....dear dear so funny...right from the start, he's so insistant to have me take epidural...but when doc told him that there's a list of side effects and that he needs to base on FEEL to have it successfully injected into my back, he was suddenly so uncertain and asked doc lotsa questions...hahahaha...but in end, he still told the doc to go ahead with it.. (-_-)"
after epidural, there's the wait for it to take effect and my gynae dropped by at about 8.30~9am (if i never remember wrongly) to burst my waterbag...and there's the start of the WAITING GAME........
10hrs passed, and i wasn't ready to deliver little joy yet!!! pengz... thank goodness i took epidural, else, i don't know how to endure the 10 hours...and best part, gynae came by after 10 hours telling me that little joy is showing signs of distress and my cervix was only opened for 5cm despite having 2-3mins interval of strong contractions....i'm really stunned by the news...cos doc says i've gotta go for emergency c-section...PENGZ!!! my greatest fear manz....
within mins, the nurses prepared me to be wheeled to the operation theatre...totally at a loss when i was wheeled there...dear dear wasn't beside me as i was going for GA so he can't see the whole delivery process... =( and my fear for all the needles and scissors made me shiver once again at the thought of having my body CUT!!! eeewww~
in the operating theatre, the trademark scare of the operation theatre lights was shining brightly above me...just like those in the movie...and all the nurses and surgeons were dressed in green, with a cap and mask, again, JUST EXACTLY LIKE MOVIES!!! arghhhh~ and i bet my heart was racing mad fast cos i overheard 1 of the nurses reporting to the doc after my surgery that my heart beat was very fast but after surgery, was back to normal...hahaha... =p
the whole surgery process took 45mins..and the next thing i knew, my anesthetic doc was slapping my face to wake me up...and all the tubes and needles were taken out from my mouth and body at that point of time...and i hate that stupid tube in my mouth which was choking me by sucking out seems-like-every-bit-of-thing in my throat which caused me to have lotsa phelgm and complete dryness in my throat and i couldn't talk for quite awhile...(-_-)" AND.............I CAN'T COUGH OUT THE PHELGM COS OF MY WOUND....it hurts...
so next, i was wheeled to my ward and there i saw dear dear waiting for me outside the operation theatre...so glad to see him but i was still recovering from the GA...so i was half asleep and half wanting to ask him "how's baby"...
was warded at room 848...and i was shown the following pic by dear dear....hehe...
my little joy's pic when she was just out of my womb
weighing at 2.91kg only... =( so i guess the fats went to me...sigh~

stayed in the ward for the next 3 nights...first night, i was told i can't have any food, only warm water or milo...pengz~ water, my mum told me i can't drink coz it'll cause air, while milo, i can drink but it'll add on to the phelgm...sigh~ dilemma....
but halo~ i didn't have any food after 7am and i can only eat the next day??!! i was damn hungry lor...after asking dear dear "how's baby", next question was "can i eat?" hahahahha... =p i know, what a question...
was too weak that night to breastfeed joy....so had formula milk for her and my first breastfeeding attempt will start the next day...
so day 2, i was only relieved from my drips in the morning and given only liquid food for all 3 meals...and i was walking by 4pm with the help of the "Magic Ball" aka pain killer which is attached to my tummy through a long long tube....gross~
joy at day 2
day 2, that's the start of our nightmare...hahahaha... =p just kidding...
being a newbie to breastfeeding despite reading much about it, i have not tried hands on of coz...so when it came to hands on, i was all flustered...don't know how to handle her...coz by then the nurses handed her over, she was already crying and yelling at the top of her voice....seeing her like this breaks me and dear dear's heart immediately while i tried my best trying to position her properly for a proper feed....poor gal...you cry, mummy also crying deep down... =(
so her cries was on for almost every 2hrs....while i'm still not getting a hang out of it....ended up, me and dear dear was worrying the whole night about her losing her voice with such a cry etc. so we didn't sleep much at all the 2nd night...adding on, my room was just opposite the nursery, thus, through out the night, i jumped at the sound of baby cries thinking that it's little joy.....worrying night it was...
Day 3

Day 3 was much better...got alittle hang out of feeding her...but......it's just the beginning...so there wasn't much milk for her as the flow isn't there yet...
that night, i was given sleeping pills by doc to rest myself after seeing me so tired the night before...so i was told to excuse myself from feeding her that night....well, i did sleep through out without waking up....even the nurse brought little joy to me, i didn't know and it was dear dear who told me... =p
next day, woke up having engorgement!!! pengz~ #&@*(#&(@*# stupid sleeping pills...
Day 4
Day 4...finally discharged....can finally go home and have a proper bath (of coz, using some chinese herbs to bathe)....and that's the start of my confinement.....sianz...
little joy's first visitors after discharge
just like the way little joy relaxes while we burp her...she'll find her best position which is always with her head tilted to the side, then fall asleep with her hands and legs danggling...hahaha
so here's some pics taken for the next few days:
Day 5


Day 6


that's all for now....have to prepare for her next feed before she starts yelling...hee....shall update again...
will be going for joy's first checkup tomorrow....so we'll be going out!!! yeah!!! hehe =p a treat to my confinement....
btw, thanks to all who came to visit us in the hospital.....and also to those for the gifts and those who have sent their well wishes...

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6:19 PM 
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
sorry for the long absence...hehe...ever since i've shifted to serangoon, i've yet to move my imac along with me... =p that explains why i've not been blogging other than times when i blog from office..
anyway, i've also been lazy to blog too lar...with the big big tummy in front of me now, it's so hard for me to sit still in front of the computer for long to edit photos and type...i just can't help moving about just like what little seed does everytime i stay in one position for too long...hehe
to fill up some info about little seed...she's already fully grown weighing at 2.8kg at 37th weeks..hehe...not yet 3kg thou...but i'll try to eat more from now till the day she arrives....oh by the way, her name will be called JOY TAN... =D can't wait for her arrival...
was down with h1n1 a week plus ago....all because of the stupid comex...sigh~ and because of that, i lost weight for the first time during my pregnancy....but thank goodness Joy is fine and putting on weight as usual...was so worried that she'll be having a high fever like me during that period....from 38.3 degrees fever when i arrived at Raffles Hospital, i waited till my fever was 39.5 degrees...madness....and my gynae told me when i hit 40, i'll be in danger...pengz....imagine how worried i was while i was lying on the bed so sickly waiting for all the proper procedures to take place....sigh~ i'm never going to take the risk again going to crowded places from now till Joy is born....it was hell back then....
now, i'm fine already except for the cough and flu that's taking centuries to recover.....hopefully i'll be completely fine by the day she arrives....can't imagine coughing and sneezing like mad with a wound at my cervix.....OUCH~
will be back to update about Joy as soon as i'm back at bt panjang....as for pics, erm....not for now....i feel too fat to post my pics up in my blog...wahahaha....will post Joy's pics in future instead until i feel slim enough to appear in pics...wahahahahaha =p

The Diva was here at
4:31 PM 
Friday, June 26, 2009
sianz~ i don't know how to load my video files into my computer...all the files are in .ind format.....dah~ what's that sia? i feel like a computer idiot...
so, no videos for now...just pictures we took from our recent genting trip... =) not many though...
took the konsortium coach up for the first time...morning bus...wasn't that bad until it was going up that mountain...we're practically crawling manz....i see cars, taxis, and other coaches zooming pass us and what we're doing? crawling lor~ hahahaha...even mummy and daddy took a taxi from KL up later than us still reached about 20mins earlier than us lor... (-__-)"
luckily i managed to catch some sleep through out...hehe...but i think poor baby didnt slp...could feel her kicking inside all the time...especially when we're going up the mountain...wonder is the pressure got anything to do with it...cos her kick was very very often then...
oh yah, sidetrack abit, hehe...did i mention, till now, hubs only managed to feel baby's so-called "ding-dang kick" (named by hubs) twice last night??? hahahaha....somehow, don't know why, baby just doesnt want to kick daddy when his hands is on my tummy till yesterday... =p
ok, back to the trip...lazy to type liao....here's some pics lar... =p
love love baby... =D

our messy room & the stuffs we did in the room...hahaha...
sorry ms chambermaid... =p

samper pics...i know i know...i'm bloated liao...hahaha

got dennis to take a pic of us, and see what kind of end product he gave us...
SHOT NO.1 (BIG HEAD)
can see DOUBLE CHINS!!!

SHOT NO.2 (STOMACH ONLY)

SHOT NO.3 that's more like it...
* my next trip up, i want to eat OLIVE again....but just ESCARGOTS!!! hahahahha....

The Diva was here at
11:57 AM 
as promised, here's my full set of pre-wedding shoot taken from french bridal... =) i love my main bridal gown...but too bad, all was changed for the AD...


our main portrait


the more i look at this gold gown, the more i dislike it...wahahaha... =p

The Diva was here at
10:01 AM 
Thursday, June 25, 2009
last friday, we had a final celebration with all our "brothers" & "sisters" from our wedding at the House of Steamboat in Tan Quee Lan Street...
had so much fun making a whole lot of noise in this small & crowded place...haha....i think till the extend the waitresses & waiters are kinda pissed... =p anyway, we didn't bother and continued with our photo taking sessions using polaroid camera...so the photo quality isn't very gd when i scanned into the computer...so, bear with it..hehe
obf couples...


my 2 best buddies...

and of course not forgetting the "bang" galz...
(don't ask me why it's "bang" cos i don't really know..hahaha)

after the dinner, had to go home pack for our trip to genting the next morning..hehe...so didn't stay out till long....shall catch up with you peepz again soon... =)
as for our genting trip, it was full of fun and laughter once again....we went up with suping, yanjie and dennis....managed to have my favourite!!! OLIVE ESCARGOTS!!! but..............sad to say...this time, we find that the standard has dropped... =( but still it's nicer than other escargots that i've ever eaten lar....hehe...
met mummy and daddy up in genting the moment we arrived for lunch...hehe...miss them so much...they were in KL so they made a trip up to genting to find us when they knew we're going...hehe...so sweet~ and the lunch is our so-called Fathers' Day celebration up in genting without my brother as he's tied up with work...hehe....rare opportunity indeed as they seldom travel...
there wasn't many pictures taken during the trip but there are videos!!! hahahahaha....=p shall upload them as soon as i find out how to transfer the files to my computer...hehe....
*don't worry yj, i won't upload ALL the videos...WAHAHAHAHAHA... =p
shall update soon with all my pre-wedding shoots....

The Diva was here at
9:40 AM 
Thursday, June 18, 2009
here's more pics...thanks again derrick..hehe...i look super preggy in these pics....ignore me..hahahaha =p
my lovely mummy...hehe
getting ready
sisters prep...

poor hubs...eating wasabi + some cricket
don't cry my dear..hahaha
ang pow~!!! my galz..slowly...later tear...hahaha

are you sure this is the right key my dear?

10 promises to my wife...hahaha...
muackx muackx!!!
zoom~ to serangoon...hahaha
caught in action..hahaha
derrick told hubs that swing above me or something then i'll listen to him in future...
and sickening hubs...swing so hard...
kua...

the banquet...

my emcees announcing the introduction to the dinner

while they're doing that, little el is getting prepared...

and i'm nervous once again..hahaha...holding hubs little pinky

my parents...excited =D

and my mummy-in-law....so pretty~

my sisters....

2nd march in...
i like hub's expression...wahahaha....

yum seng~ hahaha

guangjin with his performance

while he's performing, we're doing this
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hahahaha

last but not least....
artistic!!! love love~ hahaha


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4:53 PM 