Thursday, August 31, 2006

Flashy

At the rate I'm going, I will probably end up flashing my round solid alien looking tummy in the eyes of public.

Why? Because I can't stop selak-king my top to see the moving bulge lah dey. He moves every few minits hokay!! Macam ada alien gitu!! It's so much fun feeling him/her while he/she creates kallang wave in my belly. So syiok. So nilu. Sumtimes a sudden kick make me jump on my seat. Anjat u. And I really wonder what is going on in there when I can feel him so hard and stiff. Like he froze himself or sumting and he enjoys stretching to the right of my belly that it makes my perot look so senget! I guess this is the best part of pregnancy all mummies raved about. I wish I have X-Ray eyes!!

Oops there he goes again rolling and kicking as I type... in the words of my mother ; menggeletis!!!!!!

Posted at 3:57 PM

Tuesday, August 29, 2006

Time To Kill

On the contrary, I think I need to KILL for time.

Day in day out I find lack of time to do what I want during weekdays. And to think that having your own house and freedom seem like the answer to convinience. BUT not for me. Firstly unlike my parents house where I can just drop by Tampines Mall or any other tons of neighbourhood shops to get the things I need for whatever project I intend to do.

There isn't any relevant shops nearby my own house and certainly NONE on the way either. Wanting to grab something means making a trip somewhere. Not on-the-way kinda thing. So by the time I am done buying things I need, it will already be almost 8pm. Or even later. That means reaching home will be 8-ish or 9-ish. Naturally I will hit the shower, perform prayers and prepare dinner for hub. Followed by cleaning up the kitchen. After all that, where is the energy to do anything else? Very frustrating.

DON'T even think about weekends. Piled up laudries to clear, parents / in-laws to visit, classes to attend, toilets to scrub, need I say more? I used to be able to bake cookies after work gawddammit. I thought I would have even more time being married and living at my own house and all its glory. But I was SO WRONG. SO SO WRONG.

Posted at 5:19 PM

Friday, August 25, 2006

No More Peaceful Nights

I have gained about 9kg so far and carrying this sack of flesh on my tummy sure does literally stab me in the back. Maybe it would have been less painful if the weight was proportionately equal on the rest of the body parts instead of most of it just potruding forward. Then again I should be thankful that I don't have too much excess weight to worry about shedding after I pop.

Having a good deep peaceful sleep is so out of the question right now. With the number of toss and turn I pull everynight is enough to create sparks between the sheets. No not the sexual kind. And by the time I get some shut eye, its almost time to get up. No wonder most bloated pregnant women look no different from a Panda.

Now the little one is getting more active. And hub is having a good time playing with him. When it's time for me to rest or sleep, that's when he start poking and shaking my tummy gently to wake the little fella. Geeeez wheeez. Not helping with my already difficult to sleep situation here!! But it's fun to feel junior inside responding to his/her father's poking. When I get my hp cam to record the movements in action (like a tummy invaded by aliens) it's all silent. The moment I switch it off he/she starts stretching and kicking. Camera shy no my baby?

3 months plus to go. Trying not to think too much about the POPPING part. Youchy man!!

Posted at 9:39 AM

Tuesday, August 22, 2006

Lapis Bumbu Sotong

For Eszal aka FloatingLilac;

Apologies for the looooong wait hor!!

Ingredients:
2 tablespoon of olive oil
4 huge pieces of sotong
2 fat lemon grass
1 thumb of lengkuas
1 1/2 tablespoon of onion
1/2 tablespoon of garlic
3 tablespoon of blended dried chilli (cili boh)
1 cup of tamarind juice
1/2 cup of coconut milk
1/2 cup of water

Preparation:
Use a blender for the onion and garlic (separately)
Wash thoroughly, remove skin and slice the sotong (not too thin)
Drain the sotong, mix well and soak it in the blended onion, garlic and dried chilli for at least 10 minutes
Cut the lemon grass into 3-4 pieces each (smash the root part)
Peel and slice the lengkuas

Method:
Heat the wok and put in the oil. Throw in the lemon grass along with lengkuas and stir fry until fragrant. Now add the soaked sotong and stir for 2 minutes. Make sure it does not dry up. Add in the coconut milk and water. Lastly add the tamarind juice. Mix well on medium fire. Add salt to your taste. Make sure sotong is not overcooked. Serve hot with rice. Yum yum.

Ok now I'm hungry..... hmmmmmmmmmmppffft.

Posted at 9:57 AM

Friday, August 18, 2006

Jeepers Creepers

Is it me or time flies faster than you can blink twice?

Last nite I had a toe-dancing belly-jiggly encounter. We have been living at our own place for almost 6 months now and never have I laid eyes on any cockraches. A sneak trip to the fridge to quench my thirst after midnight turned into a squealing fit. A BIG FAT ONE AT THAT. Baygon sure do KILL those disgusting crawlers. Urgh...cockroaches really give me the jeepers creepers. I would rather be slapped to death than be in a room with one!!

I couldn't sleep last nite worrying over which part of the kitchen it's breeding. I have been using those anti-pest paper in every shelf. This morning I made sure there isn't any crawling in my cabinet. And there was none. It must have came in from the kitchen window.

Someone should invent a kind of net that could be installed at windows to prevent any bug invasion. I can't rest at ease like this. When will they ever extinct!!!!!

Posted at 3:21 PM

Tuesday, August 15, 2006

Insensitive

Must I really repeat myself like a thousand times? Or should I have an autoreply with my bloated tummy image attached to it?

It's already bad enough that I have to face insensitive people at work who don't care that I only have 2 hands while having extra weight and condition slowing me down. I still have to put up with gory disgusting mutilating images in forwarded emails. If from people whom don't know my current situation is fine then. But my yahoo email is only circulated amongst people whom actually DO know me.

I can't be bothered to remind these people again. Yeah sure I have a choice of opening or not opening the attachments. But hello it's a web-based email (read: YAHOO) where everything is in preview mode for images. Maybe I should just block their email addresses. So pardon me if I don't reply to your future emails. If you can't be bothered to acknowledge my countless gentle reminder, then I shall not bother with your emails at all.

Posted at 2:24 PM

Monday, August 14, 2006

Best plan is no plan

Impromptu always have actual output. As long as I can remember, I have been wanting to change handphone. Not that there is a need. Just gatal oni. Habit of just changing. But somehow nothing really catch my eye for the past of almost 2 years. (Lama jugak aku gunakan Nokia 6670 tu).

The hub was feeling oh so generous. Now we are both using Nokia 6280. No pictures cause I can't be bothered to actually use a camera to snap it just to upload here. His is silver while mine is orange. I wasn't really prepared to change cause I can't remember the last time I backup all my rubbish in that phone to my PC. But hub was so on about it. He asked for like 4 different models to be paraded in my hands. He already changed to the 6280 few days ago. And he keeps on psycho-ing me that it's a good phone. Cet. Terkial-kial aku bluetooth whatever I can salvage from the oldie to the newbie. The saddest part is I lost the saved messages from him to me on the night after our nikah. Sigh..

And he was like "you kept all that? I dah delete pon suma." Ciz!! Sungguh tak romantic. Heart pain tau. This new phone better be good to me...

Posted at 10:52 AM

Friday, August 11, 2006

Wave..

This week pretty much suck at work. No word could describe how damn shitty it has been. Too tired to even explain.

At least Friday is almost over.

Posted at 5:42 PM

Monday, August 07, 2006

Mr Grumpy

Orang tua2 selalu cakap, "Dah tinggal sebumbung baru tahu semua baik dan buruk". Very true indeed. Everyday is a learning experience.

Ever since we lived under one roof, this is the first time he has gotten quite sick. Not that he has been oh so healthy all the while. But just mild headaches here and there. Nothing that dragged for days.

This time around, the fever and stomach discomfort has haunted him for 4 days now. And never have I seen him so grumpy. Now I know how he gets when he is sick. I thought I was the cranky one. But nooooooo...his is worst than a woman PMS-ing. Pfffffffffffft.

Posted at 10:07 AM

Friday, August 04, 2006

Let's Talk about Shit

No not the kind that happens TO you. But the kind that comes out FROM you. Yeah the one that makes your nose cringe.

For my case, that would be barely out. Constipation can be the most excruciating pain (maybe birth should be first but I have yet to experience that). I was stuck in the toilet cubicle yesterday for more than an hour. Why? Because my shit refuse to thrust all the way out. I tried every position you can think of. One leg up and the other down. Both legs up. Bended knees. Crossed legs. Full squat. Resting back on the wall. You name it. I tried it. And none helped. I think my body got into trauma state from fear of thrusting out the wrong thing but yet needed so badly for the half-way shit to come out. My nerves went cuckoo and every limb felt like jelly. If only the shit was like Jelly. All the water-drinking didn't help either. Crap! I walked back to the office like a turtle with wiggly knees.

This severe torture happened twice in a week. I'm now so afraid to even THINK about having to deposit those little monsters into the bowl. Ok maybe mine has not been so little lately. How can something SO BIG come out from something so small?? Ok too graphic there no? Enuff details then. Pffft.

Me and the hub are both having problems with the crap department. Except his would be a twisted fate of having too much of those coming out. Looks like this weekend will be a Lot Less of Shit. Bleargh!

Posted at 3:01 PM

Tuesday, August 01, 2006

Let it GOOOOO

Been 4 days already. Although the bengkak-ness has subsided. The heart still wrench when I think about it. Having to pass by Raoul boutique everyday to get to my office isn't much help either. Puik!! Lucky nobody use IBM thinkpad in my office. Lagi sakit hati.

Alhamdulillah the company didn't make my hub pay for the loss. That would have been another blow. The incident really zapped out all the mood and energy in us sey. We were like living zombies the past few days.

Thanks for all the comforting messages/tags/msn/emails. Smoochies. Now it's time for me to let it goooooooooooooooooo. I'll try......