Pregnancy Yoga set

I found these from web. I've tried it this morning, Simple and easier for me to do. Now, i cant do the normal yoga like sun salutaion and etc.. cos very difficult to bend down..so these set come in handy..


Pregnancy Yoga Set #1


1. Stand up with arms next to the ears and palms together, Inhale, bend the upper body slightly back. Exhale, bend forward. 1-3 minutes.
2. Sit on heels. Inhale, raise body up. Exhale, sit on the heels, Hands rest on lower waist, 1 minute.


3. Stretch legs out. Support upper body with hands on floor. Inhale, raise right leg up. Exhale, lower leg down to floor. 1-3 minutes. Repeat with left leg.
4. Bring the soles of the feet together. Hold hands over toes. For 1 minute, rock side to side on the buttocks. Then, bounce the knees up and down. Continue for 1-3 minutes.
5. Easy Pose. Inhale stretch spine straight, Exhale, relax spine. 1-3 minutes.
6. Come into the squat, feet are flat on the floor. Relax in the position for 1-3 minutes.
7. Easy Pose. Slowly roll head in large circles. 1-3 minutes.
8. Relax on side. Lower leg is slightly bent. Support head with pillow. Inhale, raise leg up. Exhale, lower leg. 1-3 minutes each side.
9. Totally relax on your side.



Pregnancy Yoga Set #2


1. Easy Pose. soles of the feet are together. Inhale, relax thighs. Exhale, press thighs to floor. 1-3 minutes.
2. Stretch out both legs and spread them wide apart. Inhale, stretch back up straight, Exhale, lower upper body to left leg. Hold onto toes during the movement. 1 minute to each side.
3. Come onto the hands and the feet. Inhale and stretch the head up, relax back (but no sway back). Exhale, stretch up back (like a stretching cat). 1-3 minutes.
4. On hands and knees relax head and begin to rotate the hips in large circles. 1-3 minutes in each direction.
5. On hands and knees. Inhale, bend head and hips to the left. Exhale, bend head and hips to the right. 1-3 minutes.
6. Relax in baby pose. 3-5 minutes.
7. On hands and knees. Inhale, lift right leg and head up. Exhale, bring chin and knee to chest. 1-3 minutes. Continue on other side.
8. Come into the squat. Begin to move the knees back and forth with the elbows, 1-3 minutes, 9. Slowly roll head in circles. 1-3 minutes.


Pregnancy Yoga Set #3


1. Arms are parallel to floor and out to sides. Relax in position with deep breathing, 3-5 minutes.
2. Easy Pose. Inhale, stretch spine straight, Exhale, let back relax. 1-3 minutes.
3. Soles of the feet are together. Bounce the knees up and down. 1 minute. Then massage inner thighs for 1 minute. Repeat bouncing 1 minute.
4. Stretch legs straight out, spread wide, Grab onto toes. Inhale, stretch up spine. Exhale, relax upper body forward, bending from the hips.
5. On hands and knees. Relax head down. Begin to rotate the hips in large circles. 1-3 minutes. Repeat other directions.
6. Relax into Baby Pose. Spread knees to allow your abdomen to fall forward. 3-5 minutes.
7. Easy Pose. Place hands on shoulders. Inhale, turn upper body and head to left. Exhale and turn to right. 1-3 minutes.
8. Hands on shoulders. Inhale, raise up elbows and exhale; bring elbows to the sides. 1-3 minutes.
9. Press the palms firmly together. Breathe deeply for 1-3 minutes, keeping the pressure.
10. Hands in gyan mudra. Practice pelvic floor (kegel) exercises for 3 minutes.



Pregnancy Yoga Set #4


1. Stand with arms to side and parallel to floor. Inhale and swing whole upper body to left. Exhale, and swing to right. 1-3 minutes.
2. Easy Pose. Arms to side, parallel to floor. Hands in fist with middle finger stretched out. Rotate in circle, backwards. 1 minute.
3. Interlock fingers under hair behind neck. Stretch elbows back. Begin to rotate upper body in circles for 1 minute. Repeat other direction.
4. Place the thumb on the root of the small finger. Arms are straight. Inhale, bring left arm up 60 degrees and right arm 60 degrees below. 1-3 minutes.
5. Stretch both legs out, then place the right sole to touch the left thigh. Bend slowly the upper body forward, breathe very fully. 1-3 minutes. Change legs, repeat.
6. Soles of the feet are together. Relax. Inhale and relax the thighs. Exhale, stretch the thighs to floor. 1-3 minutes.
7. Easy Pose. Hands relaxed an the knees. Roll upper body in large circles. 1-3 minutes and reverse direction, same time.
8. On hands and knees. Relax head down. Begin to rotate the hips in large circles. 1-3 minutes and then other direction.
9. Sit on heels. Hands interlocked, arms next to ears. Inhale sit up onto knees and exhale lower body to sit an the heels.
10. Arms same as #9. Inhale, raise up body and sit on the left side of feet. Exhale, sit on the right side of f eet. 1 minute.
11. Easy Pose. Hands on shoulders. Inhale and turn upper body and head to left. Exhale and turn to right. 1-3 minutes.
12. Concentrate, between eye brows. Slowly rotate head in large circles. 1 minute.
13. Place hands on abdomen. Contract the pelvic floor, without using the abdominal muscles. First slow, fast and elevator. 100 times.

Baking Knowledge

There are many ingredients that you come across during cooking/baking that you are not sure what they actually are or what is the difference between one another. I have that problem too.

So instead of always bugging LGG .. i decided to search for it from website. some of the doubts are cleared after getting the answer like the following or asking friends who bake together with you.

Baking Powder

Q: Several times the recipe called for "Double-action" baking powder.
What is Double-action baking powder and how is it different than regular baking powder?


A: Baking powder is only one way of leavening baked goods.

There are three basic types of baking powder.
(a) Double-action which releases 1/3 of the carbon dioxide at room temperature
and the rest during baking.
(b) Tartrate baking powder reacts quicker, as soon as the liquid is added.
(c) Phosphate baking powder is slower and only heat releases its gases.

Basically, the difference between baking powder & double action baking powder is that double action baking powder is the enhanced version which promote the leavening action.

Other agents used are baking soda and yeast.
Baking soda acts as a leavening agent when mixed with an acid such as sour cream, sour milk, buttermilk or citrus juice. Baking soda is mainly used in cakes that contain cocoa powder or chocolate

Q: What does Yeast do ?

A: Yeast is a tiny living fungus that thrives on sweetness, warmth, and moisture. Yeast releases gases that makes bread dough rise, lightening the bread.
Yeast not only makes dough rise, it also works on the gluten in the flour to give it flavor and texture.

Q: What is buttermilk? Does buttermilk contain butter?

A: You might be surprised to learn there is no butter, per se, in buttermilk, and it is lower in fat than sweet milk. Old-fashioned homemade buttermilk is the slightly sour, residual liquid which remains after butter is churned, ie. milk from the butter or buttermilk. It was usually flecked with tiny spots of sweet, creamy butter that didn't quite make it to the top to be skimmed. The flavor of buttermilk is reminiscent of yogurt and most people prefer it well-chilled. You'll find it is slightly thicker in texture than regular milk but not as heavy as cream. It takes one gallon of milk to yield one-half pint of true buttermilk.

Nowadays, most commercial buttermilk is made by adding a lactic acid bacteria culture to pasteurized sweet whole milk or, more commonly skim milk or non-fat milk, and it may or may not have added butter flecks.
After the addition of the culture, the milk is left to ferment for 12 to 14 hours at a low temperature (optimum 69 degrees F.). It is usually labeled cultured buttermilk and may be salted or unsalted. Most commercial varieties are salted, so check the label if you are on a sodium-restricted diet

... will add in as i go along..

Baking Kaki

Yesterday brought the steam cakes for cols..they all said very nice.. heee.. happy.. at least my first steam cake receive positive response.

One of my col brought the one piece given to him back home for his wifey. This morning, she called me up, saying that the cake is very nice, very aromatic. (eventhough, i baked it on Friday )

She ask me for the recipe, ask me to fax to her home.. haaa.. so siao ON. even have fax machine at home. She is the one who gave me the kuih lapis (Indonesia) recipe whch i have yet to try cos the need to prepare many ingredients. Im trying out those simpler one first.

So, i guest she is baking it at home now as she called again to ask how i make the batter and all.. heeee..

Happy Baking.

Just now, i went to NTUC to look for ground cinnamon for the apple cake, It is those "Gui Ling" powder a bit like five spice powder which i don't really have much favour.. so i decided to bake without the cinnamon.

Shall post the photo when done. maybe tmw cos thursday vesak day !

Love is...

Love is when he looks at you quietly, smiling on his own, when ask him why is he looking and smiling, he said he loves you..

Love is when you are preggy, with Protruding abdomen, fat thigh, fat arm.. he still looks at you..says he loves you..

Love is when you are throwing temper.. he will calm you down by talking softly to you and reconcile by hugging and says we love each other

Love is when u are sleeping, he comes to you, kissing you, smelling you and says he loves you..

Love is when you injure your knee.. he will help you to rub oil and massage for you..

love is when i take care of him by cooking lots of nice food/bake all the nice things for him to eat... heeeee

Pearlscale gone

I just posted on Sunday that my 2 pearlscale still alive . but never knew.. yesterday i found one of them floating lifeless in the fish tank..sob sob

Morning i still fed them like usual, cos everytime i open my balcony sliding door, the two pearlscale will swim excitedly asking for food.. so i cant bear seeing them like that, usually will feed them one or two fish feed.. cannot feed too much else will dirty the water too soon and will cause them to die faster.

When i fed them, only one (the bigger one) swim excitedly on top of the water to eat the other one remain below.. i tot maybe he is eating those food dropping below..

never knew, evebing when i came home, he died le.. so sad.. now left with one.

dunno whether should get one more or not...

Apple Cake Delight

My Next Baking...

Looks simple and the ingredients are healthy.
I'll definitely reduce on the sugar input. I find most recipe has sugar level that is too much for us, so reduce it.

Green apples


End-result


sticky apple cake


Ingredients:

1 cup sugar

1 1/2 cups self-raising flour

125 g margarine (melted)

2 eggs (beaten)

1 teaspoon cinnamon

3 apples (peeled, cored and sliced) <-- use green apples, It is meant for baking

Methods

1. Mix sugar, flour and cinnamon together.
2. Add the beaten eggs and melted margarine.
3. Pour half the cake mixture into a well greased ring tin.
4. Add the apples, then the remaining cake mixture.
5. Bake in a 180°C oven for 1 hour. Serve hot or cold.

After-baking tot:
Not so nice actually, the inside is creamy/sticky, outside is crunchie like biscuits.
Anything sticky is not likeable by LGG. so this recipe is out !

Unique

After so long, now then i have time to go through our honeymoon photos & video. Got to select to print into hardcopy.

Found this video taken by LGG. toilet visit in Grmany.
Comparing toilets in China .. this is thousand time more high-tech.. they clean it for you ..with proper door of course.

But the charges is much more expensive, 1 euro or something.. but in china is Renmin Pi..that explains why so much different.

Baby First Steps

Been doing a lot of reading on parenting & baby's development.

I like this book, very informational.



This author wrote many pregnancy & baby books. Good if you are pregnant/plan to get pregnant to get hold of her book. I borrowed it from library.

My Pearlscale

After more than 3 months, my pearlscale still alive & kicking..i mean swimming. yesterday one of them almost Died cos bacteria attacking its body. covered by all whitish thing.. and floating on the water.. luckily we noticed and quickly remove them from the fish tahnk and put them into clean water with salt.

here tbey are... swim happily..

Tonight's dinner

Tonight i'm making marcaroni .. simple one.. just take a photo..



The recipe taken from here:

Ingredients:
150 g macaroni <-- i just take one packet
(regular 'elbows' or coloured spirals)

1 tin cream of chicken / corn / mushroom soup

125 g grated cheddar cheese <-- replace with parmesa cheese

3 slices picnic ham or 3 rashers bacon <--replace with minced meat. marinate first
(finely sliced)

1 large white onion (diced)

1 tomato (diced)

2 teaspoons margarine

a pinch of black pepper and salt to taste


Method:



1. Bring water to the boil in a pot, adding 1/2 teaspoon margarine and a large pinch of salt. Boil the pasta until it is tender. Drain and leave aside to cool.

2. Heat margarine in frying pan and fry onions until fragrant. Add bacon or ham strips and stir fry for a minute. Add diced tomatoes and season with a little pepper (salt may not be necessary). Turn off heat and leave aside to cool.

3.
Heat soup with recommended amount of water. Place macaroni in oven proof dish and pour hot soup over to the depth of the dish.

4. Sprinkle half the cheese over the macaroni and about 2/3 the bacon / ham mixture. Mix both into the macaroni soup mixture.

5. Cover macaroni with the rest of the ham / bacon mixture and sprinkle the remaining cheese over with a generous sprinkle of black pepper.

6. Grill for 5 to 8 minutes until cheese melts and turns a golden brown. Serve warm.

Bread Making

Today Morning, i decided to bake the bread that i've longed to make since weeks ago. I've got the required ingredients last week, but not the improver which i cant seem to find it at carrefour or ntuc. no time to go else where to search for it, so just go ahead without it.

My bread making was successful ! it looks so good. but the inside a bit sticky, not as fluffy as it looks





I don't have softcopy recipe. so have to post it when i'm free enough to type it all out.

Yipeee !! This is the simple version of bread. next round i'll try the "po lo pao" famous in Hong Kong. But will need few more steps . got to get ready all the ingredients before i can bake it !

Tmw bring my self-baked bread to office for breakie. so satisfying !

Yam Cake

Sue,

Here's the yam cake recipe, not the one i used, but the steps & ingredients almost similar. You can try. Mine is microwave version, this is purely steam. I don't use tapioca starch, but this has. the comment says it gives glistering look.


Yam Cake (Yu Tou Kueh
Ingredients:
1 small yam (rinsed, skin peeled and cubed)
3 shallots, sliced
2 Tbsp dried shrimps (washed, soaked in hot water to soften)

100 gm rice flour
3 Tbsp tapioca flour
550 ml filtered water
sea salt
1 tsp five spice powder
white pepper

Steps to follow
Steam cube yam for 15 minutes. Set aside to cool.
Heat wok, drizzle in some oil, stir-fry shallots till slightly brown.
Add in the cube yam, salt, five spice powder, pepper and stir for approximately 2 minutes.
Combine rice flour, tapioca flour, salt and filtered water in a saucepan until mixture is smooth (lumps free), place over low heat, stirring continuously with a fork until it thickens like light custard. Remove saucepan from heat and add in all
the yam, mix evenly.

Transfer yam mixture into a 20 cm square cake tin and steam for 25 minutes.
Leave to cool and garnish with chopped spring onions, chili and crispy fried shallots (as preferred). Served with sweet chili sauce of your choice.



Note : Most yam cake recipes call for alkali water which give this dish a gelatin texture but I have omitted it altogether. Instead, I keep my yam cake cling wrapped overnight in the refrigerator to firm up the texture. As for the tapioca flour (tapioca starch), it gives the dish an attractive glistening look.

Steam Cake

Tonight i'm going to make this steam cake. muahh.. all steam steam steam cos feel healthier !

I will post the photo of my cake making tonight.

Recipe as below:
Steam Cake
Ingredients A:
300g marie biscuit (crush)
10g double action baking powder (sieve)

Ingredients B:
4 eggs
240g sugar <-- reduce to 200g 240g milk Vanilla oil : ¼ tsp Ingredients C: 160g melted butter <-- reduce to 100g Ingredients D: 15g cocoa powder (sieve) Method: 1. Mix Ingredients B into a mixing bowl stir till sugar dissolves, strain 2. Add in Ingredients A and mix until well combined 3. Add melted butter and mix well 4. Divide batter into 3 portions. Add cocoa powder into one of the portion and mix till well combined 5. Grease baking tin (20cm) and line with baking paper 6. Pour 1st portion of plain batter into baking tin and spread neatly. Steam with high heat for 15 mins. Remove baking tin from steamer, prick 7. Pour in 2nd portion of brown batter and spread neatly. Steam with high heat for 15 mins. Remove baking tin from steamer, prick 8. Pour in 3rd portion of plain batter and spread neatly. Steam with high heat for 15 mins. Remove baking tin from steamer and let cool After baking-




I've modified the recipe by reduing the sugar. After baking, i noticed that the cake is a bit oliy, not when eating, but you'll feel ur finger is oily after holding it, so i decided to rduce the butter next time.

The cake is sooo aromatic 9due to marie biscuits and also yummy !! a bit like marble cake but the fragrant is much more than normal marble cake...

Happy happy !! will bring some for cols on Monday !

Steam chicken

Ohh.. forgotten to mention i also made steam chicken using the recipe from the DJ's blog. simple and nice. yum yum.

I din take any photo of it. Next time i do again will take.
I exclude the "hua tiao" wine, cos pregnant, cannot take alcohol. still the dish turn out to be very aromatic ( i think due to sesame oil & oyster sauce)and tender.

Recipe
STEAM CHICKEN
Ingredient A:
1 chicken (cut into pieces)

Ingredient B: (marinade)
2 tbsp oyster sauce
1 tbsp sugar
¼ tsp pepper
1 tbsp hua tiao wine
1 tbsp sesame oil
½ tbsp corn flour

Ingredient C:
8 clove of garlic (chopped)
1 ginger (chopped)
2 chillies (diced)
5 spring onion (diced)

Method:
1. Mix Ingredient A with Ingredients B evenly and marinate
for 15 mins
2. Spread chopped garlic and ginger evenly on chicken,
then sprinkle diced chillies and onion on top
3. Steam over high flame for 15 mins

Tapioca Steam cake

Gotten this recipe from one of the DJ's blog.

Seems simple enough and i have the ingredients, so yesterday chop chop made it

But, im not sure is the coconut milk or what it tasted funny.. anyway, my tapioca steam cake looks more like onde-onde heee.. taken photo, maybe weekend upload.



Recipe:

Steam Tapioca kueh
Ingredients A: (mixed and steam for 5 mins)
1 grated white coconut
½ tsp salt

Ingredients B:
500g grated tapioca
100g coconut milk
150g sugar
½ tsp salt

Method:
1) Grease baking tin (20cm) and line with banana leaf
2) Mix Ingredients B in a mixing bowl till well combined.
Pour into baking tin
3) Place in steamer and steam with high heat for 30 mins till cooked
4) Leave to cool. Cut and coat with grated white coconut

D&D

This year D&D was quite different from previous years as the theme is so casual and relaxing..Aloha...so we really get to see people wearing beach wear and spaghetti straps and some just wrap in those beach sarong.. we even have 2 guys in coconut leaves only, without shirt for the whole night, wonder if they r cold.

i cant wear anything other than my flaring black dress to cover my bulging tummy. so i never follow the theme.

We get to enjoy coconut drink, fortune wheel, medicure and some tatoo on body..and AGAIN this year our table no one wins anything big prize !!! so dissappointing ! winners get plasma tv, get to go Paris & Hawaii.. sob sob.. when will my turn comes ?? so no luck !

anyway, we enjoy the food that night, i can eat a lot.. eat for two huh ! 2 cols cant make it so we have ample food for the 8 of us..eat until so full .. phewwww.. LGG has been eating like this for few days consecutively ! functions after functions !

Ohh.. one small thing to mention, my boss.. that funny guy again.. never come and greet us .. just peep from far.. we wonder why he always acted like this. even our french boss come from tables to tables to chit chat..

Tom is very very disappointed as he purposely put boss's name with our table this year and yet being turned down without even telling us why. well.. Tom intention is to carry him.. but it was backfired.

Anyway, as for me, i don;t care lah.. so long we enjoy ourselves that's most important.

Now, waiting for APT dinner and year end xmas party ! by then i can bring my bb to the xmas makaning le.. heeee..

My BB is healthy

yesterday went for prenatal follow up again. monthly check up for the time being. It's a relief to know my bb is growing according to schedule, yesterday did a detail scanning on her body structure such as limbs, organs, heart beats etc etc..

The report stated she is in normal growing range. Phewww.. the most worries being a mothes-to-be is whether the bb you carry is healthy and normal or not.

Blood test also show very minimum chances of down syndrom. This is partly due to age. when you ar 35 and above, you may have higher risk. so i've decided to have all the children i want to have before 35. to play safe.

LGG & i started our prenatal course on saturday. First sessions is very basic, but good for LGG as he don;t read as much as i do, he receive info mostly via what he sees and what he hear so this course will definitely benefit him. and in a way, help in my pregnancy cos if your husband knows more, it's always a plus point.

In the class, all of the couples are first time parents. so, we are actually learning together. mm.. if im having my second child, i don;t think i'll be coming to this class too, cos already have experience lah.

5 more months to go !! Ganbate !

Yam Cake

Yipeee !!! My yam cake making is successful ! I follow exactly the recipe given in the microwave book with exact measurement and all.



Not bad, at least it really tasted like yam cake. but just that i don't have the sauce to go with it.

Sunday, i gave some to my mum-in-law and she said not bad too. kekekek..

I've taken photo of my first yam cake but lazy to on home pc to upload ! next time lah.

While yam cake making was successful but my kaya making was a failure !! cos i forgot to stir, i just leave it to steam so it ended up like scramble egg, chunky. not sticky like actual kaya! but still can eat with bread , the taste and smell exactly like kaya just the texture different. nvm i'll try again !

this weekend, maybe i'll do the steam cake, seem healthy and also tapioca steam cake cos i still have 1/2 package of tapioca left from last week.

Geesss... so much to make but so little time to really sit down and enjoy my food. now, yam cake still have left over in fridge !

Lessons in Logic

some quite true though..

If your father is a poor man,
it is your fate but,
if your father-in-law is a poor man,
it's your stupidity.

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I was born intelligent -
education ruined me.

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Practice makes perfect.....
But nobody's perfect......
so why practice?

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If it's true that we are here to help others,
then what exactly are the others here for?

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Since light travels faster than sound,
people appear bright until you hear them speak.

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How come "abbreviated" is such a long word?

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Money is not everything.
There's MasterCard & Visa.
One should love animals.
They are so tasty.

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Behind every successful man, there is a woman
And behind every unsuccessful man, there are two.

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Every man should marry.
After all, happiness is not the only thing in
life.

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The wise never marry.
and when they marry they become otherwise.

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Success is a relative term.
It brings so many relatives.

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Never put off the work till tomorrow
what you can put off today.

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"Your future depends on your dreams"
So go to sleep

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There should be a better way to start a day
Than waking up every morning

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"Hard work never killed anybody"
But why take the risk

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"Work fascinates me"
I can look at it for hours

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God made relatives;
Thank God we can choose our friends.

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The more you learn, the more you know,
The more you know, the more you forget
The more you forget, the less you know
So.. why learn.


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A bus station is where a bus stops.

A train station is where a train stops.

On my desk, is a work station....
what more can I say........

New Hobby

yesterday my asam cuttlefish was not bad. at least i enjoy it ! LGG complained too spicy for him muahh.. but the taste , the aroma.. all there..

today, i went to buy the weighing machine, the greaseproof paper, rice flour. these are my tools to baking !!!

this weekend, i will try to make yam pudding, shall post some photos if successful.
I will try to make the "nine storey kueh" aka kuih lapis, the steps are simple.
shall try out and see.

PunCtuality

Simply hate rainy day on weekday morning. bus always so crowded and umbrella dripping water everywhere..

Like usual, i go down to wait for bus around 8:05am. one bus came, not many seats left, many waiting to board. so i thought, ok, maybe i should wait for next one for more seats. so i missed this bus.

The next bus, over-crowded, the bus never even stop. damn. miss this too. already 8:15am. nevermind, i still have plenty of time. so i missed 2 more buses, cos all overly crowded.

but now, it's 8:30am already. im gonna be late and the next bus just take too long to arrive. start to feel nervous. so when the bus finally came, i have to board even crowded. no choice, go to stand. for the past few months, ever since i pregnant, i never take bus that make me stand .. but today exception !!

i reached tampani's bus stop at around 8:55am, i know i'll be late cos i need to walk over which takes abt 5 minutes. floor wet and slippery some more, have to walk extremely slow..

so, today, first time, im late to work for 5 minutes ! sob !

It's not that my work place is that strict but i always believe in pucntuality. I never late to work ! it's a very bad habit to come to work late just b'cos others do the same.

last time, my x-col used to do that, she always come to work near to 9am everthough she suppose to start work at 8:30am. reason being, others also late. which is the attitude i cannot accept.

neeway, my current cols abide to the punctuality principle. only yong sometimes late cos when he is early, he go walk walk, ended up he comes in late.. we always tell him, why don't he comes in first, then if want go out walk walk again lor.. at least boss sees him on time !

My Cookings

So proud of myself cos i can cook more dish than say 6 months back..

tonight im going to make asam sotong..follow the recipe book..yesterday blended the chilli paste le.. so tonight just add in the sotong and cook as usual.

my col just passed me the recipe for indonesian kuih lapis..woahh.. so excited.

this week, i will try the yam rice on my own. i will also do the yam pudding (Yu dou gao) cos the yam i bought (1/2 yam) is so much after cubed it. so can split into 2 potions for 2 dish.. mooooo..

i bought a package of tapioca, maybe i can try to make some tapioca related food.. mm..

I can feel You, bb

Recently, i think starting from 2 weeks back, i can start to feel bb moving inside me.. the movement is getting more often..anytime, morning, during work, evening, night...

We are excited to feel bb's movement inside me..From the readings i've done, start talking to bb now will help as bb can hear sounds but may not know what we are talkign about but bb can recognise voices already..

so, shall start my music therapy soon.. put some Enya music to my tummy.. muahh..soothing music helps bb's growth as stated by those baby book to stimulate bb's brain while in the womb.

I wonder if my mum sings to me when im in her womb.. heee

I'm BigGER

Friday ! tot wanna wear down.. try to squeeze into my jeans but it seems too tight at the belly.. cant even button..then try on my three quaters.. same.. must breath in to get the button up ! but so tight..start to feel nervous.. try on one of my short skirt.. same.. cannot button .. no need say zip..

sob.. it means time to get maternity clothes.. i cant fit into my normal clothes..i can only fit into my larger skirt..and working pants as i used to buy them in comfortable size.. so still have buffer for my enlarging tummy..

im walking into 1/2 of my pregnancy journey now.. next week will be 5th month le..so fast.. but i wish it is faster..cos it is never easy to carry big tummy around..

i start to feel my inner thighs rubbing againts each other.. my buttock getting wider..my arm getting more flabby.. and my bust line..needless to say.. i have to wear a D cup now.. can u imagine

Today no choice.. i have to go and get some maternity wear.. one stop. already spent 200 plus in that shop with bras, panties, 1 pants, 1 skirt plus a free photo frame..
and of course the so-called VIP membersip card.
The sales lady keep sharing lots of thngs abt her experience till i have to chase her to rush up a bit as i have to get back to work ! no wonder mummies always have topics to talk to each other..

Happy Pregnancy !

Aloha Fiesta

D&D coming !! happy event.. but this year many cannot make it as the event announced late and some already taken leave or have to work on shift.

however, this year we will be occupying only 1 table just for our department including boss.. all Tom's arrangement. i think he is trying to thank him for those claims approved by boss. thus he purposely arrange it this way.

previously, he always avoid sitting in same table as boss.. anyway, for me no difference lah.. just go there eat and enjoy.. This year im bringing LGG along too..see see look look my compnay grand event..

But this year venue not so fantastic.. Meritus mandarine.. sound not so class..

C@_@k-ing SkILL

Mum been here for a week now. she is going back to sis's place for a few days before going back home.

So guess what i've learnt to cook.
(1) Yam rice
(2) Ikan Bilis Chilli
(3) Stingray asam
(4) curry chicken without coconut milk

So now, i have to try to do it myself to be sure i can actually cook these.

i still need to learn from my mum how to make chilli paste. now i use ready made she pack from home.

Happy Cooking !!