Kallang Heights Welcome Party

Few weeks back my neighbour passed us a card that HDB guy left with her as we are not at home. The card was a welcome party for our estate - Kallang Heights on 21st Feb. Complimentary from HDB... Nice rite?? Got free food, drinks, ice cream, pop corn, games stall and souvenir too! :)

The party started at 5.30pm but we only back at home around 7pm and saw our neighbours happily collected their dinner packets liao. So we quickly went up to put our stuff and went down to join the queues... :P

The dinner pack queue was rather long so i brought Adelle to see what contest we can participate while hubby joined the queue. There is a "Guess the number of ping pong balls inside a fish tank" contest and we are given choices of 90, 100 or 110. I was thinking either 100 or 110 but left the place without filling up the form and looked for Hubby at dinner pack queue. Half way to the dinner pack area, hubby saw us and i told him abt the contest so we went back to try our luck!

Thank God we are a few seconds faster cos they are about to end the contest when we head back to the area. Hubby suggested to put for 100 and i hesitated. Then the staff there say put 100 lah... So i filled up the form and Adelle drop it into the lucky draw box. :D We are told that they will do the draw in abt 30mins later so hubby went up to put the dinner packs while i hang around at the games stall and collected the popcorn to share with Adelle!! Well, surprisingly Adelle likes the popcorn leh.... *munch munch*... :)

When hubby is back again, it's abt time that they are announcing the contest results. We heard the answer is 100 and quickly walk over to the stage area to see if we are the lucky winner. The emcee told us that there is 3 prizes and the 3rd prize went to someone who is not around and they will deliver to the person.. nice service rite? Then the 2nd prize was someone who scribble his/her contact details and the organiser void it since they can't figure out the name and other stuffs. So they redraw and hubby say maybe we are the next winner.

Well, true enough.... I heard "Debbie Ng" was called!! Yippeee!!! Surprise surprise and i carry Adelle up to the stage and collected the prize from our MP - Dr Lee Boon Yang. Very nice chap cause he asking me if i need help to carry the prize down the stage but i told him it's ok! :D I was so kam cheong that evening and forget to ask hubby to take pictures of me on stage with the MP... hahahaa.... So we took picture after i get off from the stage. :P

We also tried our luck to play the games like golf, basketball, bowling and soccer. Only won 1 prizes from the basketball section cos the rest are so difficult loh... Anyway, it was fun and we head back to our house after we completed all the games and collected the souvenir which is a metal cup.

Overall it was a nice party with free food(2 "bento" set of asian food), drink (2 btl of mineral water), games and of cos prizes to win!! Heheee... :D

Princess is 13 months old on 16th Feb

Princess Adelle is getting smarter as she grows older! ;)

Here are the list of her TOP favourites :

- Favourite game is to play hide and seek

- Favourite TV programmes are Mickey Mouse Clubhouse and My friends Tigger & Pooh

- Favourite word she say is "THERE" or "WHERE"

Other than her favourite stuffs, she also know

- When i say "teeth" and "ear" (in english and mandarin), she will point to the teeth or ear

- When i say "wave wave or bye bye", she will wave her hand and on good mood days, she will give a good-bye kiss

- When i say "baby", she will bang her head or tap her hand on my tummy

- When i say "give tu-tu", she will give me her pacifier

Everyday I will tell her today is monday/tuesday/wednesday/thursday/friday/saturday/sunday. However, the only one that she can say or prefer is FRIDAY! Why? Probably the next day saturday, she gets to see her #1 favourite TV programme or she knows mummy and daddy not working so can bring her go gai-gai... :P

The only thing that i am waiting is when she will start to walk!

What is going on?

Torturing Nites

Since beginning of this year, Adelle has been waking up several times every nite from 12 to 7am. In good days, she woke up 5 times else 10 times also have. :( When she woke up, she will make some noise to get my attention. I will have to start looking for her pacific in pitch darkness and then she doze ooff again. Until around 2-3am, she will sit up and take her booster, wanting me to carry her out from her cot. So i have no choice but to carry her out loh. Within seconds, she will insist to roll over and want to sleep in the middle of our bed! Dunno is it her "scheming" plot to trick me to let her co-sleep with us? ;)


As Adelle kept interrupting my sleep, i started to get headache during day time. What makes it worst was the nites of leg cramp also started at the same time! Thank God so far i only experience once a week as compared to my previous pregnancy, leg cramp can be 2-3 times a week. :( Haiz... why all happened now??

Last nite was the worst nitemare for us. Adelle woke up many times, crying/screaming, eyes wide open with a look of fear and panic each time she's awake!!! She is sweating and feel kinda warm from her body. She also refused to be put down on the bed to sleep and wanting me to carry her. I think I am going to be panda soon. Each time, she's awake and doze off at my arms, i can feel that she is shaking like being frightened by "something". Don't ask me what is the something cos i also dunno.... :( I wished she can tell me what exactly happen loh... Could it be nitemare or night terror ?

Valentine Day

This year Valentine Day is our fourth dating anniverary. So what surprise do i get this time? :P

Well, hubby left the house to buy breakfast in the morning. Shortly after he left, the doorbell rang and i saw a delivery guy holding a box of flowers with chocolates in it. I opened up the card and it say "Love is within the box". Thank U dear dear! *MUACKS* :)

My darling Adelle was very amazed with the box of flowers and chocolate so i quickly put on a table to avoid her having "free-flow" of chocolates. To make her happy, i pull out 1 chocolate (wrapped in plastic and stick that look like lollipop) and give to her. I tot she will only hold for fun but minutes later, i saw she attempt to bite the plastic and can see chocolate is leaking to the plastic covering. Yucks! So i quickly took away and place it back into the box. ;)

In the evening after church service, hubby suggested to go Singapore Flyer since we never been there before. We reache there around 6.45pm and hopping to catch sunset view. It was long queue for the ride and i guess it's becos of valentine day cos saw some couples holding bouquet of flowers. :) It also happened to be the day of the Singapore 2009 promotion ie first 2009 customers get free ride but by the time we reach, all free tickets were snapped up and only get discounted price. Better than nothing rite..

By the time we reach the entrance, it was pitch dark already. Didn't managed to catch any sunset view... :( Nevertheless, we enjoyed the ride and taking pictures with Adelle.

After the ride, we tried to look for food but most restaurants have to wait cos long queue. We were super hungry so we went to Marina SQ and decided to settle with Carls Junior. Bump into a church friend and his wife and they were going to Flyer to help their friend to propose to the girlfriend on valentine day. So sweet rite... :)

Well, this year no romantic dinner for us and don't think our dinner can ever be romantic with monster Adelle around cos she will make noise and ask for food! :P So guess i have to wait for another 10 years to have a candle light dinner with hubby loh.... :(

My observation of this year valentine day was there is budget cut and recession/economic crisis. :P Why i say this? Reason being i saw very few ladies holding flowers this yr and those who have flower, it was a small bouquet like either a single or 3 stalk of roses. The biggest bouquet i saw at the Flyer was a bouquet of lilies and well, it always reminded me and hubby of the first bouquet that he bought for me. Yes, the "punishment" flower cos it super heavy loh. Hubby was laughing at the guy and say he is now smarter. Ordered a heavy box of flower and delivered to our house so don't have to carry here & there! :P

Our 2nd wedding anniversary photo

I received phone call few days back that the complimentary anniversary photos are ready for collection. We are looking forward to it so quickly hopped by on weekend to collect from Sophia.

I love the pics of my princess Adelle. So cute right? :D Was telling hubby that Adelle is "cross-breed" ie above the nose level, she look like hubby and below the nose, she look like me. :P Hmm... wondering if baby #2 will be the opposite of Adelle?? We shall know in due time.

Here are Adelle's pics!

Baby #2 - 6th Check up on 14 Feb 2009

Our checkup these days are "chop-chop" one cos Adelle always make lotsa noise in Dr Adrian clinic. So the usual statement will be like this :

Dr A : "Hi Debbie, how are you? Everything ok?

Me : "Yes"

* Adelle will start to make noise or cry

Dr A: "Ok come and i take a look

* Adelle noise/cry even louder

Dr A: "Baby looks healthy and normal"

Dr A: "Ok, see you in 1 months time"

Thats it. Less than 10 mins, we are out of the room. Adelle will stop making noise the minutes we step out. Wonder why?

Anyway as it was a quick one, Dr Adrian forgotton to measure baby weight and i also didn't notice until i left the clinic. Haiz.... all thanks to Adelle and her eh-eh-eh.... :(

A Husband Voice - Simple words but Great inspiration

This week, I am into depression and I asked God what is the fundamental role of a husband and father? Is it to work 24 hrs for your job, pay the bills then your job/role is considered done?


I happened to read this blog (http://ahusband.blogspot.com) by chance on how the husband and his wife went through their journey together. This blog is not abt something that the wife is dying or some terminal diseases lah. But what impresses me was it is a very simple thing that the husband know how to appreciate the wife and no need to wait until one day the wife get some terminal illnesses or leaving him then start to treasure of the things he has in life.

Have extracted 3 threads that husband should read but of cos there are more than 3 that husband shd read
- http://ahusband.blogspot.com/2008/09/journey.html
- http://ahusband.blogspot.com/2008/08/harder.html
- http://ahusband.blogspot.com/2008_10_01_archive.html


Well, i can only say the wife is very fortunate to have this man who is a understanding and helpful husband who support and be with the wife throughout the journey. If only husbands including mine could spend some time study and understand how woman feels especially during our pregnancy days (doesn't matter if it is 1st or Xth pregnancy) and even on non-pregnancy days, the world will be a better place. Do u agree?

Useful links for the father :
http://www.fatheringmatters.com/dpl/links

BB# 2 start to kick on wk 18 b4 CNY

Hmm.. dunno is it i very bochap this time or i got too much fats left over that i only felt BB# start to "bubble" on wk 18? :P Cos i tot 2nd time mummy will feel the bubbling much earlier wor... :)

Adelle 2nd CNY

This year is Adelle 2nd CNY and of cos the difference is she seemed to enjoy more than last year. Why?

1. She gets to eat! Yes, uncles and aunties keep wanting to feed her food!

2. She gets to drink! She simply loves taking packet drink and self service to the straw then attempt to drink.

3. She gets to shop @ chinatown! Ha.. we brought her to squeeze with crowd @ the chinatown market. :P

The only thing that she has yet to appreciate is to receive angbaos. She will take and throw it on the floor despite a few nites of training that i have done with her but it doesn't seemed to work still. Unless there is cute picture like Hello Kitty, Cow, etc then she will hold on to it and look at the pic.

First Day - 26th Jan

Adelle wore a cheong sam bought by my sis and everyone say NICE! In the morning, we brought her to maternal grandparents house and my brother got a lion dance troupe to perform at my parents house at 9am. To our surprise, Adelle doesn't seem scared of lion dance nor the loud sound at all. She enjoyed watching the lion dance. Brave girl! After the lion dance, we went to do the usual house visitings at my relatives place. We only went back home around 4-5pm and Adelle managed to take a nap b4 hubby siblings came over in the night time and then Adelle was busy playing catching with her elder cousins. In case u are wondering how they play catching? Well, Airrence's nephew running around while Adelle busy crawling after him!

Second Day - 27th Jan

Adelle wore a bugs bunny dress that i bought long time ago. :P Very pinky!! We went over to my parent's place for lunch and over there, Adelle saw her "competitor". My cousin brought her daughter(3 mths younger than Adelle) and my dad carried the girl. Immediately, Adelle was angry and making noise + refuse to share toy/food and play with the girl. Haiz... jealousy girl..... : Thus, all my relatives were worried what will happen when #2 came out? Hopefully they will learn to love and share with one another loh. Keeping my fingers crossed and pray hard! At nite, we went over to Airrence's friends house and left at around 11+pm. Adelle was very tired cos she get to take any proper nap thoroughout the day. Poor baby. I think she dislike CNY cos her sleeping schedule is all upside down! :P

Sixth Day - 31st Jan

Airrence sister organised a BBQ cum birthday celebration for her daughter @ some park in Bishan. We went over in the morning to collect stingray and prawns from my dad and tot of depositing the stuff at his sis place but kenna rejected. As we never buy seafood during our grocery shopping thus our car never have fishy smells until then.. :( Anyway, we reached the park at 5pm and they have started to bbq. Food variety is not a lot and all are small eaters so there are a lot of food left. We had yu-sheng and then waited quite long for the birthday girl to come down to cut the cake. We are supposed to go for Jack & Suping house warming that same day and only reached their place around 8.30-9pm. Then we had another round of yu-sheng but i didn't get to eat also cos it's raw and preggy cannot take raw food mah... so sad! :( Last yr didn't eat too cos confinement and this year also... *sob sob*....

Seventh Day - 1st Feb

My secondary school friends came over to my house at 1.45pm for CNY gathering this year. We have to rush home after the little neurotree class end at 1pm and on the way buy snacks and food for the guests cos i don't have time to cook. Thank God that the class coordinator didn't delay me cos she didn't pressure me to sign up for the classes after our trial classes ended that day. So far i like the english and chinese class cos i can understand but not the jap class plus Adelle seemed very distracted and not attentive after the first class. :P Meggie and I agreed that we will sign them up when they are 2 yrs old and not when they can't even walk and can only understand 30% of what's being taught.

Back to the gathering, It's good to catch up with old friends once in a blue moon especially now everyone has a family. Also very happy to know that my friend Feng'e is getting married this year Oct! Congratulations to her & her hubby-to-be. :) After my friends left, we went for our 2nd anniversary photo shoot session at 6pm cos we missed it during Dec. It was abt 30mins and glad that the photgrapher managed to capture some nice shots for Adelle and a nice family pic to keep. Added bonus was we get 3 pieces of photo this time cos our friend just signed up Sophia a few days ago with my coordinator and she say give us 1 extra piece to thank us for recommending friends to them! :D

After photo session, we went over to the River Angbao and it was sooooo boring. Nothing interesting to see and Adelle was making so much noise and refuse to sit in her stroller!! :( Hubby carried her and she cried all the way from there to the carpark.. Haiz...