i love weekends!

now that baby is well again, its back to action for the ng family!
aka go out jalan jalan. heh.

went to redhill hawker for yummy brekkie with baby and to get his food for the coming week.

gangsta' baby with mildly surprised look.

after that, we busied ourselves with doing housework and baby napped away.
then we made our way to marina square to look for shoes for the little one!

seems not very happy with the idea of going out

spent a relaxed afternoon and early evening there.
baby got his shoes + new sock! :)
mammy got a new top from topshop!
pappy got some gadget that holds his phone in an upright position in the car....

everyone is happy at the end of the day!
taking kiddy ride outside kiddy palace

yoyoyo!

baby 1st photoshoot

we brought baby yz to his 1st photoshoot yesterday! :))
it was done by a fellow mummy who just started this home-based job!
so glad that he recovered in time for this for we've postponed it once when he was down with his fever...
stole some un-edited raw photos from her yesterday to complete his photobook (look out for updates on this! its a beauty!).

here are some copies!
i cant wait for the final edited photos! :)
money well-spent if you asked me!

southeast asia, here we come!

yippee, dear dear and me are going travelling once again.
short trips they may be, but more than enough to sooth my travel urges for the rest of this year. :)

we popped down to chinatown to source for good deals for our year-end travelling.
it was between HK/macau and cambodia though hubbi and me are more or less quite fixated on cambodia.
for its somewhere we've never been to before!
in the end, we booked a 4D3N cambodia trip in dec with CTC!
happy happy. though the price is not as cheap as i expected. but yay, still happy.

and as i reached there earlier, i went browsing on other travel deals (my fav. past-time).
and i got soooo attracted to the genting pamphlets!
and so when the husband came, i whined and whined about going to genting. LOL.
and he does love me! hiaks.
for we booked a 3D2N mini trip to genting as well! setting off mid next mth! *wee*
this time we are taking the 草原快车 and staying at the resort hotel.
no more cramming in a small bus and small room at first world hotel! :)
dear dear and me gonna shop, eat, watch movie, relax and of cos GAMBLE.
i think i look forward to his trip more than the cambodia one. tsk tsk.

thanks baby for agreeing to go with me for i know how much u hate taking the plane and travelling per se. ha.
thanks for subsidising my trips too! i can gamble more now. LOVL.

in the mood for blabberings

the house bunny
went to catch this show with the husband last thursday. a good light-hearted show that let us had a grin plastered to our faces for almost the whole time.
anna faris (the female lead) is just so likeable! and it sure doesnt hurt that she has killer legs too.
i'll give it 3.5 popcorns for a movie per se. but 4 popcorns for its genre!

travel travel
i think its time that hubbi and me started planning for yet another retreat on our own. heh.
all the mundane daily operations sometimes left me thinking we could have spend more quality time together.
the last recharge we had was the 2D1N thingy @ rasa sentosa. but that is too short if u ask me, though we did enjoyed ourselves tremendously.
so im thinking if it's possible to slot in a short trip in nov/dec. will hunt around for good deals middle of this week with the husband.
my heart says HK/macau. but my head says cambodia. my pocket says nowhere.
my hubbi says anything.
will it be too greedy to sneakily add a 2D2N genting trip somewhere next mth?

the financial meltdown
everyday flip the papers can see this market crashing, that bank going bankrupt etc.
i think i really have no 危机感. totally irritated with such onslaught of news.
ah long, on the other hand, is like totally immensed in them. every single related article on the stock market cant escape him.
for someone who hates reading, his committment to read up all these is shocking.

im a risk-averse being who holds my assets like LIQUID. so the dumb dumb who has all her limited cash in bank is totally not affected by this financial crisis.
luckily the other dumb dumb, sells most of his shares just before this meltdown.
nowadays, everything also not safe. investments can go to nought in a day. banks can go bankrupt. so i say, just save reasonably and spend the rest.
life is really too short to get caught up with beating the inflation, growing your wealth etc.
but again, this is me talking. and who is me?
no one you should be too concerned with. :P

mm...mah mah

dun know since when, baby has totally forgotten how to say papa (this used to be one of his 1st words). after much coaching, he now will call out mm...mah mah at me when prompted.
or when he wants me to get him something.
he will go :"mm...mah mah." then point relentlessly at things. heh.

yesterday night at ard 4am, he started coughing abit. must be due to the irritation from phlegm in throat.
me quickly went to sleep beside him on his mattress.
he opened his eyes, saw me and say:"mm...mah mah." then promptly slept back again.
aww... utterly sweet!

now the husband has been trying to no avail to get the little one to say papa.
hiaks.

popped down to browhaus at raffles city for eyebrow trimming last friday.
though the price is kinda steep compared to the usual hollywood secrets, im deeply satisfied with the results.
so much so that i went on to sign a mini package of 5 sessions with them! :)
im a sucker for nicely shaped brows.
everyone should housekeep their brows, really!

weekend with the little tot

thanks to all mummies who left their well-wishes comments (excluding auntie ayu, LOL).
baby yz's fever has gone down. the photo in last post was taken last weekend.
his runny nose has cleared up abit. no more sneezing but the occasional mucus will still snake its way out of his tiny nostrils. not a pretty sight.
now got to monitor the cough abit. good thing is its not as phlegmy as his previous cough.

bought him to cut his hair today! his last haircut was back when he's 4 mths old!
not that his hair grows out alot but those lalang needs a trim badly!

giving me a suspicious look. new leg warmers! :)

blurry shot no thanks to pappy.

having hair cut!

baby was surprisingly 乖 during the haircut session. the funny part was when he tried to point at the tv screen infront of him but cant see his own hand beneath the green cloak! ha.
any difference? he really got very little hair, hor?

i wonder when his next haircut will be... hmm.

hello auntie dewi, no bubbly photos yet.

still under the weather.. :(

here's a grouchy one for you first. heh.

viral fever sucks

just when baby yz is recovering from his long cough, he kena viral fever last wednesday!
of cough, cold & fever, i hate fever most.
his encounter with fever when he was barely 1 mth old left me shaken.
fever makes a baby lose weight in the shortest time, lose their appetite and if at too high a temperature, there maybe complications.
no parents like a fever, trust me.
so imagine how my heart took a lurch when i felt that his head is a tad hotter than normal last wednesday (yup, on a public holiday somemore!).
we self-fed him some paracetamol left behind from his last jab and the fever came down in late noon. thinking everything is ok, we left it at that since most GPs are closed on PH anyway.
but at night, the fever soars to 38.5! so we rushed him to KK chilren clinic and it was diagnosed at viral fever so prescribed paracetamol but no antibiotics. the dosage is much higher at 5ml.
and so the next few days the fever went up n down and by friday night the fever went up to 39.5 again! and we made another trip down to KK again. this time blood and urine tests were performed.
poor baby was crying the most pitifully when the nurse squeezed his tiny middle finger to get big droplets of blood. :(
luckily the tests came back normal. the doc said its normal viral fever and asked us to continue on the meds and she took a look at his throat and commented that its abit reddish.
again, we didnt think much of it (we really should have!!).

and so we went back more confident since the tests are fine. assumed that the fever will be gone soon but we were wrong!
over the weekend, the fever soars over 39 no less than 2 times and each time we sponged the baby down, he cried like mad. *heartpain*
and on mon, he started rejected all kind of food, be it milk/rice cereal and even water!!
so my mum took him to visit the GP downstairs and he said baby throat is all red- he is suffering from sore throat and runny nose as well!
poor poor baby. and his body broke out in rashes (fake measles - a condition common to babies with high fever.) but that is the least of our concern as we were told that these will fade in good time. and all this while the fever still comes n go!!

and finally by tuesday this week, the fever was finally gone. took a good 6 days for it to subside!
i suspect baby yz immune system is not very strong. perhaps due to him taking few courses of antibiotics for his fever+sore throat when he was less than 1 mth old then.
in any case, i hope he started building some immunity from this illness.
and his appetite for milk/solids finally come back after 2 days of strike. *relieved*
we literally has to hold him down to spoon/syringe feed him milk 60ml by 60ml, all the time he will cry like mad. really a nightmare.
now his feeding is slowly back to normal but still rejects water. *headache*

and he still nursing a slight runny nose + phlegm cough now. really hope he'll recover in time for his birthday celebration end of this month.
if not, we may have to cancel it.
maybe as my pantang mum said, he is a low profile baby. he didnt celebrate full mth cos he was hospitalised then. then now this illness just before his 1 year old bday. :(

hope he'll recover soon. i miss bringing my baby out and doing all kinda activities with him.

some photos i dug out from hubbi's hp

a baby with bad fashion sense on kiddy ride

i (we) love honda cars!

candice bday at shabu shabu

it's time for the AHS gang to meet up once again!
this time, its for candice's belated bday!
location is at vivo's shabu shabu restaurant at L1. food wise is so so and again, price is very steep. over-priced food again. :

but the company is the highlight, not the food. and i really enjoyed my evening with them! :)
zm got this new fujifilm camera which has a protrait mode that makes our skin appear radiant and smooth in the pictures!
great!

ok, some photos!


umm... dan's face like TOO radiant. LOL.

me n jx

and yah, my bra strap like peeking out for all the photos! bleh.

we may meet up like only once a mth or every other month. but the conversations just flow like avalanche! sometimes, i've problem following cos everyone is just talking at the top of his/her voice.
let's hope our strong friendship will last till we are middle-aged and beyond! *eeks*

是的，我是偏激的。
讨厌一个人，就像覆水难收。
很难回到最初。

九月二十六日 ： 十一个月大了!

我的宝贝不知不觉已经十一个月大了！
再多一个月，他就是个孩童而不是北鼻了。。
感到有点不舍嘞。



现在的他有四颗牙牙。
能够准确得辩认许多物品。
睡觉的时候，丑态百出。
脾气之倔强，牛的有点像我。
运动量越来越大，头不能再敷衍了事的洗了。会臭的。
笑容与笑声越来越不吝啬。
我的小不点，真的长大了。
* 百感交集*

黄勇智小朋友，妈咪与爸比都很爱你！
要健健康康，开开心心长大哦！：）

要拍我吗？

好，笑一个给你。

虾？没看镜头？现在可以吗？

来一个走光的。嘿。

surreal...

.... to see F1 racing cars turning here and there like small plastic cars on the tracks from my office building. heh.
im getting geared up like excited little children for the grand prix. when i know nuts beforehand!
i think F1 die-hard fans must be pissed with people like me. :)

rasa sentosa - 2 years anniversary

this coming thursday marked the 2nd marriage anniversary of ah long and me! :)
and so, hubbi and me both took friday off to spend a night at rasa sentosa as a pre-celebration of the occasion.
we got ourselves a seaview room which aint great cos can't really see the sea with the many trees. x_x
still, it was a nice detour from our usual movie-window shop-dinner celebration prototype.

we woke up early at 9+, did some housechores (yeah, life goes on..) and then headed to tiong bahru for grocery shopping (for the baby!) and had mac brekkie! then we went home to pack and left for sentosa soon. we checked in at 2pm and found the hotel location great - its on siloso beach itself - but it was abit shabby compared to our last local hotel stays (conrad + pan pacific).


us at the balcony of our room

hubbi with the card and pressie that i got for him :)

after settling our stuff, we left to find some activities and some food for a late lunch.
@ siloso beach. yup, thats me.

lunch @ trepizza, one of the eateries along the beach

sentosa has change so much since my last visit 3 years ago! hubbi and me had fun exploring the different shops lined along the beach front. and we tried the sentosa luge and skyride. we opted to take the skyride up the other side of the hill and came down by using the luges (small sleds like thingies)!

before boarding the skyride

the ride up was a mistake. i confirmed that i ve fear of heights! and it got so high up at a point and the thing stopped for god-knows-wat reason and it swayed with fragile me on it! i teared.

yes, the experience was that horrible for me. no way am i gonna do this another time. gonna take the tram/walk up to enjoy the luge ride down next time!

but the ride down was very fun! though it was over in a flash. and stupid hubbi was cheonging all the way down despite me shouting "wait for meeeee!" " let me overtake youuuu.....!" for the 1st half of the ride. after that, i never bother. humpf.

me on luge!

after that, sentosa is really quite bored for us. we've visited most of the attractions that last time we were here (yes, even the images of singapore!). so we board the monorail and made our way to vivo for our dinner.

the monorail cut through what will be the sentosa resort in 2 years time. cant wait for it to be completed. it looks huge and promises to be choke full with entertainment.

sweaty us on the monorail

dinner was at akashi for ive the craving for sashimi! after that, we headed back to our hotel and stayed there for the night liao from 8+pm! LOL. but it was really nice just to chill in room, watching trashy shows on HBO with hubbi.

thick slices. i like!

wanted to head out to cafe del mar late at night but no surprise, we were beaten with the day activities and were zonked out. ha.

next time, must bring baby yz with us to sentosa! i can imagine him having fun on the beach and exploring underwater world perhaps!

it's never too late to start.

recently started to notice that my arms and forearms' pigmentation is getting more prominent.
i've always been more tanned than fair and the good thing about this is i've never kena sun-burnt in my entire life.
i just become ah bu neh neh when under the sun for too long.
also, very little freckles compared to my fair-skinned friends.
BUT my luck is running out.
so its time to whip out the sunblock for daily use!
so now, during weekdays (weekends seldom in the sun), i've been diligently using a SPF40 sunblock on my arms/forearms.
no results so far but i believe it will show as i age.

remember, it's never too late to start!

baby yz is a handful nowadays! getting v smarty pants and also v naughty!
recently, his stunts are:
1) making sniffing sounds and face on cue. i just need to go "sniff sniff sniff" and he'll follow. and the results? a very ugly face as posted in last post. and when we do it together, hubbi got a shock cos we look alike. LOL.
2) when i carry him and say "hug tight tight", he will hug me tight! and when i say "baby sleep sleep", he'll lie his head on my shoulders. so cute!
3) when i carry him with one hand and put out the other hand and ask him "dance dance?". he'll put his hand in my extended out hand and i'll proceed to "waltz" with him. LOL. and he loves every minute of it, judging from the tiny smile on his face!
4) *this is disgusting* when i ask him "where is mummy nose nose?", he'll proceed to try to dig my nostrils with his index finger! haha. most of the time, i will move out of the way. most of the time, at least. :P
5) we play a small session of "catch" before his bedtime everynight. he'll crawl all over our bed and his mattress at night. and i'll go "mummy coming coming" to which he'll give a squeal and quickly scurry out of my reach. :)
6) and now whenever we take things out of his hands, he'll give an angry sound, and thrusts his hand towards us, asking it back.
7) and its a battle to change his diapers & clothes nowadays. the moment the diaper/clothing is off him, he will flip and attempted to crawl away!

the above are just some of his many antics. really, he is fast approaching toddler years and losing his baby naviety! :

but still, mummy n daddy love u tons!

love you 归 love you, we still need some time to ourselves. heh.
so for this weekend, hubbi and me are going for a short getaway to sentosa! to celebrate our 2 years anniversary in advance. :)
think we will just rot in hotel, swimming or watching some DVDs. just rest n relax will be good. what else can we do in sentosa?

and 1 1/2 mths left before baby 1 year old bday celebration. hope its a blast！：）

a day with my lil' pumkin

was on childcare leave for today and hence got to spend the whole day with my little baby! :)
think it has been a good 3m+ since i last take care of him alone for the whole day.
and i really enjoy the day with him! though he did make me lose my patience for a few times. :P

recently, he started making all kind of funny faces and that really crack me up!
ha , more ugly photos of baby yz!!
nowadays, his fav is this scrunch up look which he'll make ON CUE lor.
dun know to laugh or to cringe.

eeeeeeeeeee..... my 2 pearlies!

like some bad rocker on booze.

我的老北鼻和小北鼻

和我性感的背影。嘿。

(photo courtesy of mummy gingerleaf!)

Oct babies bday bash!

can you believe baby yz is only a good 1 1/2 mths+ away from his 1 year old birthday?!
gosh! he is going to be a toddler like SOON! *gulp*

anyway, the ng family headed down to AMK grassroot club for the october babies bday bash on sunday! think there are 32 babies in all attending this bash!~ FUN!
but i didnt take any photos with anyone/other babies cos baby yz was still nursing his cough and i was careful to not let him go into close contact with other babies.

still, i think he had fun then! so much so that the poor tired baby falls asleep upon reaching home and napped for 2 hours straight!

ok, some photos taken there.

yz with pappy (in the children room)

with mammy! 脸贴脸！

super happy in slide

cheeky face

in ball pool. he loves swimming on the balls!

*yawn* im getting bored taking photos with this auntie liao.



side note: baby yz LOVEs to scrunch up his face nowadays and fake-cry.
step 1: scrunch up face till super ugly
step 2: open eyes see abit
step 3: let out a fake crying sound
step 4: face return to normal and see your reaction.
wah buay tahan. but super cute lah.

here's one of his ugly fake crying face.

Wall-E....

is good!

i actually teared at the end of the show!
the love between wall-e and eve is really too endearing!
or maybe its just me.
but, even the hubbi likes it so it means something. :)

i was wrong.......

baby yz really is thinner now!!! :( sad sad curry pok

he was 10.1kg when he was 9mths old.

2 weeks back when he was nearly 10mths, we weighed him and he was 10.4kg.

and yesterday at the PD, he weighs 10.1kg now! 300g thinner. *sob*

mum was commenting his ass is much smaller when she baths him (i thought it was funny upon hearing it and kept chanting 屁股小小 to him..). sigh.

baby always has a good weight since birth and im really at a loss when his weight goes the reverse direction for the 1st time. :(

really hope his cough will recover soon. arg!

a slimmer yz...... (courtesy of ayu)

SIGH

depressed. baby yz cough is still ard. and its a strange one.
he doesnt cough during the daytime, only during the night when he sleeps (very heartpain to hear him flip here n there, coughing with eyes closed. and in the morning from 7-10+am.
and when he coughs, the phlegm rumbles. :(

1) took him to my family GP. finish 1 course of medicine. no use.
2) took him to hubbi's company doc. finish 1 course of medicine. no use.
3) took him to PD, finish 1 course, slight improvement
4) took him to PD for review, improvement so we stopped the medicine.
i think we stopped too soon cos the cough is back again!
and this is like the 5th week his cough is still lingering.

my mum has been commenting he is much thinner now. so sad.
though i know its common for babies his age to slim down too due to increased activity, but really very sad to see him lose baby fats ard his face n arms. :(
but the weird thing is his weight is still increasing! maybe cos he is getting much taller too hence the overall look is a slim version of last time. :(
very sad lah.

later going to bring him back to PD again. SIGH.
and if this time still cannot recover, i really dont know wat to do.
mum wants to let him try another doctor who sees me for my asthma when im young but hubbi is a lil' against letting him switch so many docs.
im caught in between. and im getting frustrated.
i just want him to get well soon!

ok, some photos of baby yz to cheer meself up on an otherwise happy friday. :((

crying for attention and getting none

cruised towards me, still fussing

pissed with me for not entertaining him during mealtimes.