Happy 2nd Birthday!

It was a successful birthday & i enjoy myself very much too.

Hubby and I went out the night before to buy andrea's present, due to recent adhoc & many small small health issue popping up, we really do not have time to think of what to buy nor have time to go out for shopping. However we are glad that we found something nice that andrea really likes.

Early in the morning, we blow up balloons and decorated our living room and waited for my parents & sis to come. Andrea was very excited with her hello kitty cake & cupcakes. We took few pictures before they arrived.

Andrea loves when all of us sing Happy Birthday song to her, her smile is so sweet and look at everyone of us when we were singing. Dad decided to sing second round to her & her smile was as sweet as before too! She really loves it! She can also blow her own candles without fail, one attempt and it went off! All of us were very shock! haha, i think shichida blowing exercise helps. All of us busy taking photos before cake cutting, after that andrea open her presents!

Hubby & I bought her 2 cooking sets from ELC, the cooking pot with mushrooms, broccoli, carrots etc & the other one is the baking set to add into her previous collection. Beside we also bought a train lego set, it was meant for 6-12 years old, hence we build the train and track & andrea enjoy using the controller for the train, the train has 7 speed, stop button, forward and reverse button and train horn. Not bad.. Andrea enjoy looking at the train & controlling the train! Parents & two sisters bought her: Yellow bicycle, strawberry shortcake culinary set, strawberry shortcake magnetic book, puzzles, Hello Kitty cooking set and biscuit. Andrea loves all of them!

We left home at 11.45am for lunch at Friday's at subang parade for father's day celebration.

Card Making

I've bought some cards and card making accessories from craft haven yesterday, it cost me RM80! So so expensive!!!! anyway the rubber stamp and colour was really impressive. I've did the card together with andrea yesterday night, she doesn't really enjoy making it. She just love to mess it up!

Andrea helped to stamp all the birthday stamp (cake, confetti & happy birthday wording) - it was so so messy, colours are all over her hands! she chooses the flower brads to put on & also choose which design (paper) to add on to the card. I hold her hand to write some message on the card.

Phew, not very fun because i keep on worrying she will ruin the card! she stamp everywhere & some double stamping & some blurred! Well, at least grandma know it was from her granddaughter! ha!

Hubby is Sick

I'm close to emotional break down because Hubby is down with cough & flu & i have to take care of andrea all alone! Day & Night. This is so so terrible and i feel extremely exhausted, Andrea needs to be carried very often, maybe it's weekends and i need to bring her to kizsport & shichida, it involves too many hours of carrying & my back is hurt, my tummy muscle is hurt (hope my baby inside my tummy is OK), constipation is bad :( Carrying heavy stuff will push the piles out & causes constipation... when will this end? This pregnancy is so so difficult!

Got addicted to Farm Town

I've been addicted to one of the facebook application lately - Farm Town. I get so hook to it and could not bathe/ sleep without plowing & planting the seeds that i suppose to do! It's because i'm a very results orientated person, 1st day after start playing farm town, i went and search for cheat sheet & wanted to be rich fast & also to earn the level FAST. Everything FAST FAST FAST. Just like how i treated my life right now. I feel very tired after this Farm Town game & i realised that in real life i've been giving myself too much pressure too, just like the recent case of not having a promotion after 4 years of working experience. I know what i want in life and i want to find the shortest shortcuts in life, hence i enter IT MNC company & apply for their Management Trainee program. I feel different from others of course, my starting pay is higher than most of my peers & i get a jump pay after 3 years when i join another Banking MNC. Why i return to this IT industry? because i can work from home and i realised that beside money i need family, i need to have kids, hence im back but i always wanted it to be PERFECT. Both Family & Work!!! I work very hard at work try to proof myself, but i always hit with bad luck with managers that is not so supportive. With the pay im getting right now, and workload that i have i would say God is treating me very good already. I shall not insist in have PERFECT for everything. Thanks to Farm Town to make me realise it. Sorry Farm Town, i will not be as addicted as before! LOL!

Lego

Andrea start playing Lego! Mum took out a large box of lego which is all of our (3 sisters) inheritance. Now mum is passing down to her granddaughter! Andrea doesn't know how to use the small pieces to do house nor car yet, but we do have this really nice Lego playground, she enjoy playing with the swing, see-saw, slide etc. She loves to play with the little lego man/women, because it's an inheritance, we have more than 30+ ppl & have lots of tiny cups, tools for gardening, tools for mechanics, different hair style, hats etc. She enjoy playing with those little lego man/ women & putting them on the car that grandma & dad build. She will plant trees and flowers on the lego play ground too. I need to browse thru lego products right now and see if there are any interesting sets that i can buy for andrea's birthday!

Im not bothered

There is no promotion for me this year & i did well for last year's performance. How unfair & heart broken. I hate my ex-manager & also myself for not having a good bazi to support me in this area. I always do not have affinity with bosses & they can't do as much work as i have did for them! In life, i've got almost everything i want & only in this area - career, i always fret & get frustrated. Having this type of bazi, i better off doing some business & be my own boss but ... opportunity is not there yet, i do not know what to do.

I just need to tell myself, having able to claim my medical bills... especially for delivery.. i must endure & also for the privilege of being able to work from home. Work just work, i will get what i want later, I need to keep my baby calm. *meditate*

Muzzy DVD

Andrea loves to watch Muzzy right now. She enjoy pei yi yi read her the books, enjoy mummy sing muzzy songs. She even tried to fill in the blanks sometimes.

It's really funny, i watched it when i was 7 years old? Almost 20 years now and it's still in my head, very amazing. I watched it just last week with andrea when we were at my mum place, and the memory flashed back & i could even know what each character going to say next & surprisingly i still know the songs! It's fun singing to andrea when we were at home and she will stare at me surprisingly, why i know how to sing! hahaa....

Yesterday andrea saw a housefly standing by the window & she keep on saying 'dragon, dragon'. I think she is too afraid that she can't say the whole thing - Dragonfly. Anyway, i asked her, where is the dragonfly? is that outside the window? She said, No, here.... i went and see... it's actually a housefly o_O

Sunway Wildlife Interactive Zoo

Last Saturday was a public holiday, hubby decided to bring andrea to the Sunway Zoo. It was a good choice & i love that place alot, especially for a lazy & pregnant mum! hahaa.... That place is not very big, but enough animals for andrea to learn & touch!

What Andrea like
(1) The Rimba section - She touches the tortoise, fluffy rabbit & Guinea pigs. Beside andrea also touch ferret & a white monkey. There are many more, but they are too ugly for our liking! The staff were very friendly too...
(2) Petting Zoo - It has lots of rabbits, guinea pig, a skunk & baby goat. All we get to touch and feel it. The staff were friendly enough to give us LOTS of vege, andrea really enjoy feeding these animals at the petting Zoo area. We spent about 30min here!

What mummy like
(1) This place has benches everywhere, i sit and enjoy andrea playing with the animals! Above benches, has fans too! Really considerate!
(2) The place is really clean and has no awful smell at all
(3) This place has a washing area + soap provided! i don't need to worry about andrea cleanliness after touching those animals
(4) Love to watch andrea expression when she touches/ feed the animals, and the way she tell me they are 'CUTE'

What daddy like
(1) Taking lots of pretty photographs

down with flu again

It was started with Andrea, she has a runny nose past 2 days, we fed her paracetamol & Zyrtec & it stopped after a day or two. On her second day of flu i caught the virus! How fast and how weak i am, I hate it, now im with stuck nose, runny sometimes & feeling extremely tired :( I have some phlegm too, oh dear... pls be over soon

Went and visit the gynae again to get some medicine, surprisingly she gave me Zyrtec as well but in pills form. Baby baby, thank you to be so cooperative yesterday :)

I feel little kicks

After the prenatal class, i did not do the whole meditation process, i did a little bit.. like relaxing and sending energy ball for the past 2 nights. Yesterday night andrea was not feeling well, and she keeps on crying... i was awake and settle back to sleep when hubby is awake. I feel this little kicks on my lower tummy, i think baby is awake too... haha.. I hope these are not my imagination.. if not i think im in trouble.

The problem with shichida meditation is, everything in your mind. You send signal, send image to your baby, and u image your baby... i do not know this little kicks is real or just in my mind! gosh! Anyway... I trust my baby is feeling very happy now. Mummy Love you...

Loves to Scribble

I've bought cryola magic colour (washable) for andrea to do all her shichida worksheet, when she enters 3rd term, i've bought pelikan crayons (washable) for her to do her worksheet. Just recently she loves to use her crayons and scribble on papers. Hence hubby bought her drawing blocks to let her scribble and amazingly she doesn't get tired of it after 2 days. Anyway, she doesn't know how to draw or colour properly yet.. but she knows how to draw nice circle.

I've also bought stamping foam for her from Artfriends (at the gardens), she loves to do stamping using her finger paint tub from think toys.

Development sequence
1. Magic colour
2. Finger paint tub - using finger only
3. Stamping - using foam
4. Crayons

Shichida Prenatal Class

I'm glad that i've attended this cos it taught me about food that Nury institute did not elaborate in detailed. The course outline are more or less the same as Nury Institute. Nury institute was based on Glen Dorman's Finding and Shichida is based on Shichida's findings + jocelyn's research & experiences. I learnt about natural food from jocelyn & will try those & hopefully my baby will be healthier. However the 2 days course exchaust me, i'm feeling tired and nausea like b4!!

Now only i know that Andrea soft spot took so long to close, it is due to too much soft drinks intake during pregnancy! I drank coke everytime i'm out for dinner! 1 can of coke remove 18 sardines = amount of calcium removed from mother & baby! How scary.... :( I owe it to Andrea. Who say you can eat anything during pregnancy?? I believed that and see my little girl now she is so thin and soft spot has not closed 100% :( I'm really not a qualified mummy. I owe it to my girl, too much... I hope i could do better this time.

Shichida additional thing was that all the 5 senses is used, just like what Andrea did in class. There are a few non-shichida mothers, 1st time mum i guess, I'm not sure if they can fully understand & accept what is being taught! hahaha... I could hardly believe it until andrea joins shichida, i dind't know i could practise it on an unborn baby too. Its all in the mind and mothers need to open their right brain too, or shall i say use the alpha wavelength... i'm still practising and getting myself into this wavelength. Need full concentration.

2 days to 23 months

One more month andrea will be 2 years old!

She has grown so much, and i love her more everyday. She is such an obedient girl when im around and she always makes me smile. She would annoy my maid or daddy at times but will always be my angel.

1. I've just started brushing andrea's teeth 3 days ago. My maid did not clean her teeth thoroughly, my mum told me andrea's mouth smells & i could sometimes scrap some bacteria off her teeth! Anyway, andrea enjoy me brushing her teeth and is very cooperative.
2. Memory training at Shichida improves, daddy said she could always get 90% correct if not 100%.
3. ladder climbing skills improved at Kizsport, mum said that she could do the stairs without having the feet touching the ground.
4. Reading 10 Chinese books that my mum bought from popular and is enjoying it.
5. Loves her new Ikea table (big round blue table) that daddy bought last week, she loves it very much. Andrea does not need to do her homework on the floor now.
6. Can recite 11-20 without help
7. Sing Many songs by herself, latest song is bare necessity (the jungle book)
8. Start chatting with people, everyone in the house told me andrea chat with them. Andrea could ask you question and wait for your answer or to tell you a statement and you will surely respond to her. This goes on and it amaze everyone in the house.
9. weight 9.7 kg, 83cm tall
10. will say "cute" when she sees bunny (we bought her to bukit tinggi again few weeks ago & when we saw bunny cupcakes at delectable)

Back to work

I've been working from home for almost 1 1/2 months, time flies, however i've not completely recovered from my cough, flu & morning sickness yet. I'm at my week 16 & 1 day today, 4 months already but still not yet ended... hope it will go away soon. I'm worried right now, because i do not know if there is any problem with my stomach, why is it still feeling bloated and nausea too..

1st day at work, feeling extremely weak. I'm just back from my lunch & feeling sleepy right now. Sigh.... during the past 15 weeks, i've not done much, lazy around as usual and sleep whenever i can. I did not bring andrea to any class and hubby did all the work for me from small little things to big things. I've no idea how can i survive without him.

I'm going for a break this weekend. Hope i could enjoy myself and morning sickness will end by end of this week! finger crossed!

Feng Shui Module 1&2

I've attended Joey Yap's Feng Shui module 1&2 for the past 4 days, the information were overwhelming for me. I've attended it with my fellow Bazi course mates and 80% of them sit in for repeat for Feng Shui. It was because these modules has been upgraded & their previous feng shui lesson was not taught by Joey himself. They can grasp the information faster than i do & could do all activities/ practise that was asked by Joey, me... i take my own sweet time to refer to notes and try my best to do those activities. Most of the time i see how my friend does it.

It was very exhausted for me, being not pass the 1st trimester, i still feel extremely weak. I'm glad that i did not fall sick in between, if not my money will not worth it. As Usual, after a long course, i would need to do revision & memorize those important formulas.

Things to do:
1.read the course notes
2.memorize he tu & luo shu arrangement
3.each ba gua character, yin & yang form, directions etc
That's for this week. Alot Of things....

22 Months Old

Andrea is 22 Months Old today:
1. Sing lots of song - Twinkle twinkle little star, Rock a by baby, To market to market, I'm a little tea pot, Sing 2 Japanese song (fill in the blank type), A-Z song with no miss (that's all i can remember)
2. Learn to read some Chinese character
3. Upgrade to Little Rompers class in Kizsport
4. Likes to dance around and calling it Ballet
5. Still loving her hello kitty despite it has already turn black

Little Conversation

"scene 1"
Daddy: Andrea, go and change now, we are going out for Dinner.
Andrea: No
Daddy: Why
Andrea: Andrea is Lazy
(Lots of excuse)

"scene 2"
Andrea: ng ng... (wanna pee or poo)
Grandma: go and sit on your potty
Andrea: "walking around, looking for something. Pee out on the floor"
Grandma: Andrea, why you Shh Shh on the floor?
Andrea: I want the purple potty (new potty that grandma bought for her to be used in dad's car) (Choosy Girl)

"scene 3"
Mummy: How's the fish biscuit andrea? Nice or not
Andrea: Tasty
(Wide vocab)

a Little bit Better

These two days i feel a little bit better, nausea does not strike 24 hours anymore. I could have better sleep now despite still throwing up my breakfast/ lunch/ dinner, i felt very much like a human right now. The feeling of wanting to vomit really kills me, and how long does it last? about 2 months i think or a little bit lesser than that, Please Do Not Return!

I have also confirmed a place for Pre-natal class at Shichida in May, i hope i could gain some useful knowledge from there. I have also been working from home whole day for 3 weeks now, hopefully by May i have full energy to go back to work. I'm still feeling weak, can't stand for too long, can't concentrate for too long, can't walk for too long... all i did was lying down or sitting down.

No close friend is having a baby right now, i will be all alone going thru this pregnancy. I remembered having few pregnant friends together is fun and i feel more emotional secured, as in we complain the same thing and comfort each other because we are going thru the same, we exchange information on what to eat & exchange doctors advise etc, it's quite fun & enjoyable. I felt terrible this time, maybe i do not have anyone to talk to because hubby does not really provide me enough emotional support & with andrea around, it increases my stress level.

all in all, i hope i can go thru this & be a happy mummy!

How am i doing?

More than a week, im still feeling the same. I do not want to elaborate nor mentioned about MS, i just hope that it will go away by end of week 12! Keeping my finger crossed.

I work from home the whole week this week, thank god that i do not have telecon this week. However i do feel emotional threaten this week because of an evil friend that i have made and mistakenly brought her close to me at work. Since the day i told her that im pregnant, she start telling me real ghost related story that has actually happen around her or happen to her. I do not know how vicious this lady is but it does really affect my emotion. Hope my faith is strong and i could overcome this threat. Gohonzon, please keep me away from all these evils & give me strength to face it.

Not quite over yet

Life has been depressing. I cannot eat alot, i feel like vomiting 24hrs, feeling tired 24hrs, feel sleepy 24hrs, has metallic tongue, no energy to play with andrea or read to andrea, I feel that my life is so meaningless right now. When will this awful feeling disappear? I hate it.