Wonderful fellowship!

Yesterday, I brought J and her boyfriend to the bridal shop that I had engaged for my wedding two years ago and also to catch up on each other's life during lunch.

Amoy Street Food Centre is a must to go. This was my first time there and we were glad to be there early before lunch crowd. I was highly recommeded to try out the fish soup stall at second level but did not manage to try that as the queue was very long. Guessed must really queue up for about half an hour before I could get my food. Evangeline couldn't wait anymore as she was kicking to protest for food. Oh well, so I scurried off to another stall with a shorter queue for a plate of yummy Wan Tan noodles.

Hey hey hey, it was super duper delicious and value for money ($4). it's either $3 or $4 and I opted for the bigger one..no choice, double serving now leh. :) But I was dumbfounded. The noodles given was about two person servings, 6 fried wantans and a bowl of wan tan soup with further 12 non-fried wan tans in it. Eh, I couldn;t believe what I got for the price I was paying. I was not joking. It's true. Try it out if you ever have a chance..Seeing is believing.

After a full-filling lunch, we went to Flamingo Bridal to try out the gowns there. J was facinated by the wide choices of gowns she can choose from. She was totally clueless at the various cuts, empire cut, toga, halter, embrioderies, lace patch etc. In the end, she was so wearied after trying the gowns but at least have an idea what she wanted. Since Shirley, the designer and owner of the shop was not there, we make an appointment to meet her again on Sat. Hopefully, Shirley can come up with something unique for J.

Honestly speaking, I was very happy for J. It reminded me of my wedding day and how pretty I looked in those gowns. Those were the good old days. Now, I looked more like a bloated balloon. J, hope you like the gowns you have tried!

Yup, a great day of fellowship, but ended up with a night of painful leg cramps due to exhausted calves muscles after a long day of walking. Ah.....I am indeed getting super heavy for my poor legs to handle.

Current Mood: Weary but joyful

National Day Family Gathering

It was really fun catching up with Hubby's cousins at a family gathering on National Day. It was H.E's birthday and boy oh boy, isn't he tall. Managed to catch some parenting tips from one of the cousin's wife who is a SAHM. Another cousin also handed me some pregnancy books to read. Glad to have such supportive cousins to guide me thru this whole pregnancy process. I am truly blessed!

Current Mood: Tired

Big mistake I made

When I was posting on my blog, I realised that the publisher is under the name of Evangeline and not mine anymore. I pondered for a while and realised that when I set up Evangeline's blog, I used my account. So I had accidentally changed my profile to hers. Now I have a big problem. Under her blog, her profile is correct, but under my blog, my profile is hers. The best I can do is to remove the profile element under my blog and use the text element to replace the profile. To the best ability I can make, the publisher of my post in my blog is still Evangeline. sigh.

At least for now, I do not need to redo and change Evangeline's blog as the blog address will be totally different. Sigh! what a blunder. I should have created another blogger account for Evangeline.

Argh!!!!! oh well, nobody is IT savy and perfect.

Current mood: helpless

Pls Pray for Evangeline!

I am super duper worried..Evangeline has not been kicking much. Normally, she is very active at night but yesterday, she hardly kicked at all, less than 10 times a day. Today, I tried talking to her, tapping my tummy, trying to feel her, but silence is all I get.

Should I call my gynae? Should I see doc now? or should I wait and observe and not get panicky? Oh I am so worried. What should I do?

Just pray!

Current mood: Worried

An update of my pregnancy

Yup! Evangeline's blog is up! Who is Evangeline? My baby girl, our precious child. Took me one whole day to do up the blog for her. The whole pregnancy has been smooth except for a back sprain last month. One week of groans, pains and total bed rest. Thanks for the prayers of church members and my wonderful Mum who took good care of me that enabled me to recover speedily.

17 more weeks to go. Tummy's getting heavier, movements become more strenous and slow. Oh well, have to buck up in getting the baby stuff ready for Evangeline's arrival since hubby is super busy. So far still lots of things to settle like doing up the baby's room, buying baby's furniture and the necessities for myself.

COntinue to pray for us and Evangeline for good health and GOd's guidance and providence in our lives.

Evangeline's blog: http://preciousevangeline.blogspot.com

Current mood: hungry

A pleasant surprise!

Sometimes, I wondered how much will your past students remember you and how much you remember them? Well, I received a pleasant surprise from Shuqi (Class 6/4 2005)through sms. It was heartwarming and touching when Shuqi mentioned she missed me lots. As I looked back those times at RSS, there were so much joy, fun and laughters, I just love being with my students. Being a teacher has taught me so much about life, ppl and the impact you may have left in their lives. I am glad I left a positive one for Shuqi.

Now, not able to continue my profession as a teacher is such a regretful decision. I really miss teaching. If not for some unforseen circumstances, I would have never left my students and my such fulfilling job. Well, I just have to move on in life and now seek new challenges in learning how to be a homemaker and a mother wannabe! Having a child on my own now means more responsibilities, more challenges in how to bring up the kid not just in the Godly way but ensuring every part of his/her character, personality and life are well developed and righteous. It is not easy. I just hope Precious will be filled with so much of God's love, warmth and that God will mould Precious character well and godly.

Thanks Shuqi for that pleasant surprise. I am glad you were once and still are part of my life. May God bless you abundantly in your life, your studies and your future. Be happy and joyful always. I love ya!

Current mood: Touched and happy

Our Precious (5th Week, 5 April 2008)

* The water bag is the one where the arrow is pointing. *

Hubby and I got up excitedly to prepare ourselves for the second visit to the Gynae. We were rather nervous and worried. Praying hard that we could see the water bag and knowing that our precious is safe and sound, growing well in my womb.

As usual, Dr Adrian is forever calm and cool. Guess hubby was too lost to even get up from his seat to see the scan. Imagine he has to be 'invited' by Dr Adrian, asking hubby to join him to see the ultrasound.

It was so amazing to see a tiny black dot which Dr Adrian explained that that is the water bag and the embryo is still very small. The water bag with the embryo in it is just simply 1.1cm long. How tiny and this little precious is growing in my womb, till now I still cannot believe that I am pregnant!

After checking that I am eating well, sleeping well with no more cramps and pains in my abdominal, Dr Adrian declared the session closed. Of course, I would not let him get away so easily..I took out my little booklet with thousands of questions to ask him...He just grinned and smile, helped himself with the booklet and wrote down the answers to my questions. What an interesting gynae he was! I just can't help laughing.

Asked Dr Adrian about my EDD and he said that he could only confirm with me once the foetus has grown bigger. By measuring the size of the foetus, it would give him a more accurate prediction on the due date of our precious.

Thus, my next visit will be in two weeks time on the 19 April. Can't wait till then. Each day, I am joyfully learning how to cope with my pregnancy and praying for my precious. Hubby and I are going to make a point to pray for our precious every night and establishing a bond between our precious, hubby and I and not forgetting God!

Dear God, fill our little precious with your abiding love, joy and peace each and everyday. See through his / her physical and neuro development and every parts of the organs and body. May this child inherits the characteristics of Jesus and help us as parents to learn how to pray and build an amazing relationship with our precious even when the little one is growing in my tummy. We surrender every worries, concerns, inadequacies and insecurities into your hands for we know that You are a God who provides and a God who is merciful, gracious and loving. Thanks for this precious we have. Amen!

Current mood: Amazed and thankful