But too busy at work… too lazy at home. Hehe..
I wanna write about my day at ODAC (Obstretics Day Care) where i learnt SO MUCH last Fri!!
Also how Z entertained a guy friend of mine at home.
As well as about the only 2nd birthday present i’ve got!
So hang in there people.
Really Q 1 scares me. My left hand already got injury.. now my right hand like not functioning correctly.
Also i forgot to write that @ KK last monday, we signed up for an antenatal class. I know its veryyyyy late already. Actually recommended from when you were at week 16. Im week 27 already! and it starts 3rd week Jan. But i really wanna be armed with some knowledge to prepare for labour as well as to care for the infant. Dont wanna be caught dumbfounded when slapped with the situation, panicked and ended up having C sect or something.
But Z said im just wasting my money. He said he knows already all things. YUCKS. Hellooooo how can you possibly know already simply by watching ur aunties?? It’s not the same ok just WATCHING and actually EXPERIENCING the whole ordeal.
I signed up anyways. Hopefully we will benefit from it. Ameen.
It was close to 5:30pm when Ash and I decided to watch a movie. So i booked the tickets online.
It was as though a force was stopping me from buying the tickets because i keyed in my debit card details TWICE but the site told me the card has expired. That was impossible cos i just used it the day before. So i tried another card and it returned the same thing! I was sooo puzzled.
I then suddenly realised that in my haste, i entered the wrong exp date. I dont know what came over me. I Finally got all the card details right. But i still didnt feel good (rasa tak sedap) about something. Felt like something is still wrong, like i moved thru the site so fast. I gave it a once over and tot it was correct. Bedtime Stories, 2 tickets, 7:40pm.
Now it was 7:30pm. Ash called me to come out. I rushed and rushed and rushed like mad to walk over to Causeway POint. It was already 7:45pm when i collected my tickets. Only to be told, “YOUR TICKET IS FOR TMRW!!!!!!!!!”
OH.MY.GOD.
I can’t believe it! The one thing that i didnt check was the DATE of the movie. I suppose i felt something was awry when the ticket i bought cost $10 each when it’s actually a weekday night. I dismissed it thinking maybe cos its a sneak preview.
Then i recalled that i saw only one day of show timing for this movie and it said WED. I clearly saw it was WED. But what selenger me didn’t realise was, Yesterday was NOT WED… it was TUESDAY! SELENGENYE JULISSAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!
Thank God Ash wasn’t mad. But that is only bcos she hasnt paid for it!!! Humph 😛
So i frantically sent out an sms to 5 or 6 of my contacts whom i tot might be interested and convenient for them to go to Causeway Point to buy my tickets as both me and Ash cldnt make it for that date. Nobody replied.
Luckily Ash gave me an idea. Before my class at 7:30pm, I can go to the ticket counter and approach pple to buy my tickets. Definitely they’re there to buy one and as exp has it, Pple who Q to buy tickets will get very lousy seats and mine was 2nd row from the back. Surely somebody would want it.
However, very fortunately, im on half day on Xmas eve, so i decided to try my luck and ask my student if i can come over in the afternoon. This morning she replied me with a positive!
In a way, im relieved that i dont hafta approach strangers and “sell” my tickets. On the other hand, i’m $21 poorer instead of just $10.50 if i were to share with Ash. Oh well. that’s the price to pay for not checking your work!
I received a call during lunch yesterday from the hospital to confirm my ODAC appointment.
She also reminded me to fast and things like that.
At 3pm, a similar no called me again.
Me: Hello
Nurse: Er… Boleh cakap dgn Maknye? (Can i speak to your mother?)
Me: *Puzzled why somebody who called my hp would wanna talk to my mother* Er… Mak kat rumah (My mum’s at home)
Nurse: Oh… kat rumah? Er… Ni Julissa ke? (OH at home?… Are you Julissa?)
Me: Saya (Yes i am)
Nurse: Ohhh ingatkan anaknye tadi. (Oh i tot it was ur child just now)
HAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
??????????????????
She proceeded to ask me why i indicated vegetables as my Food taboo in the form. I told her i DO eat vege but not a wide range.. just potatoes, carrots and cabbages. She said the first 2 are diabetics’ enemies. She coaxed me to try to eat whatever they serve on Fri.
After we hung up. I wanted to laugh sooooo hard so i called Ash to tell her. I could have conveyed the msg thru msn but i wanted to do some hardcore laughing and felt so relieved afterwards.
hahahahhahahahahahahahahahaahahahahahhahahahahahahahaha
*shake head*
22/12
5min past midnight, i was just about to turn in to bed and Zubair was already asleep since 8pm (leaving me in peace to play game), when suddenly he hold out his hand and mumbled something. I took it and shook hands and asked what did u say? “Happy Birthday.”
I was very very pleasantly surprised!
So that’s Milestone 1: My first Bday with the husband actually around with me.
Last year, not only was he in Pakistan WITHOUT me, he also forgot the date. Not my birthdate but he tot it was still 21st when it was already end of 22nd. Bah.
It’s a Mon so i had to come in to the office despite it being my bday. But its for a good reason.
Milestone 2: Went to meet a broker to train them on our eCargo system!
I feel like its a big step in my career here w current employer. For the 3 years i’ve been with them, I barely hafta correspond with clients except for the occasional email and phone calls and this is my first! Me being the most senior n experienced in actually using the system, it was only right that i had to conduct the meeting.
I was nervous as hell cos i dont really know the technical underwriting part of the system if they were to ask me, I only know the IT part of the process. Thankfully we have 2 new underwriters so i roped one in. She’s supposed to be in charged of this system eventually, So it’s also only right that she was there too.
It went brilliantly. Sure there were glitches and some customisation that the broker and Insured would want and that’s exactly our job to look into it. Their office is located at Springleaf Tower. One i had wished to visit for a longgggggg time bcos of the nice building structure. You know lah me, very keen to look at other pple’s office. It’s quite small but very chic and organised. I LOVEEEE their filing cabinet. God so neat!!! So jakun like tt.
Milestone No 3: Check up @ KK Hospital.
I have been looking forward to start going to check up at KK to familiarise myself with them. Now, not only did i get referred earlier, the first appt also fell on my bday! Wow.
Luckily, appt is at 1.30pm. So right @ 1pm, i left office in a cab to the hosp. $6.40. As usual, Z was a bit late. So i went ahead to register myself in first and bought a light Delifrance lunch.
I feel soooo cared for at the registration counter where they set up my file. The nurse there was veryyy…. caring and sensitive.. while asking me this n that, explaining procedures and stuffs.
One of which is that no specific doctor will be attending to me during the course of my pregnancy as well as delivery but a TEAM of doctors. I’m fine with that. But the other thing is that, i might just be getting a STUDENT doctor. hmmm that i might be a bit reserved. But let’s just hope that won’t happen?
Bcos im from the Subsidised rate, if i were, God Forbid, be admitted for c-Sect, i’d be staying in a B2 class ward… which is a 4 bedder. A bit of downside cos my only hosp exp was at a 2 bedder ward in Mount Elizabeth. But it shld be just a short stay n somebody said that pple normally just draw the curtains anyways.
The wait to see the gynae wasn’t very long. I noticed that its prolly bcos women visiting other rooms also have very short consultation. It was soooooooooooo short n sassy i cldnt help feel like she’s trying to get rid of me ASAP. I totally forgot to ask a few things i had in mind like:
The doc from Poly didn’t print ALL my blood tests results so i hafta actually go back there to collect them. ERGHHHH so leceh (troublesome)!!
When checking for my medical history, i pointed out i had childhood mild asthma but that i sometimes get attacks once a year. But even then, i’ve never needed the ventolin puffs, just the pills, which i normally skipped anyways. I gave excuse that pple say i shldnt be taking medicines when pregnant. She scoffed off that remark saying that Ventolin is safe for pregnant women and its better to take this medicine otherwise you’ll be suffocating your baby without much oxygen intake! Ok ok, i thought, dont hafta roar at me. Duh.
I was given multi vitamins to take. But i forgot to ask if that means i dont hafta take the folic acids, irons n Vit C prescribed by the polyclinic since they are all included in the multi vit??
I was also instructed to go thru ODAC (Obstetric Day Care) to do a Supervised Blood Sugar Profile. This is where i hafta “check in” at the facility at 9am… be fed 3 hospital meals with no other extra outside food then at the end of the day, they will analyse all my blood readings to see if the status’ improved. If my blood’s good, i’ll be released at 6pm, otherwise, i may just be admitted!!! No visitors allowed. I saw a TV in there, but i doubt there’s computer?? I sooo hafta visit the library and get as many books as i can!
For this, I hafta pay $341!! Thank god, payment by Medisave is allowed. (Medisave being our first line of insurance / savings deducted monthly from our salary and a portion contributed by our employer.)
Now the thing is, i tried to defer this appt till Jan cos i dont have anymore leaves and i have tons to do at work and i have been taking a lot of MCs this month for check ups! But they insist it has to be done in the same week so i chose Fri. My boss will not be in too anyways.
By the time we finished Q-ing at the pharmacy and all, it was close to 4pm. Had late lunch / early dinner at Taj.. but i wasnt really famished so i didnt really enjoy the Fish Methi properly. Then did some toiletries shopping at Mustafa and walked back to my dad’s office near the hosp to get a ride home.
My feet were aching like CRAZY by then! But i felt proud when i told my dad where we’ve been and he said, “Wah so far u walked. Good exercise huh” Yeah i should remind myself its an exercise. It’s good except that it left me no energy to go for my teaching class that night. Again, i had to cancel. I didnt go last week either cos parents not around. *guilty guilty guilty*
Shall totally make it up to them. Somehow.
Sun 21/12
My parents, Ash and i went out at 12:30pm for Bday lunch @ Sakura International Buffet.
It was a guided move to just be sure and reserve a table. Bcos initially we wanted to go to the one at Admiralty, however, when i checked their website for phone number i discovered that that outlet was not halal!!! The halal ones are only at Downtown East, Clementi and Jurong West Stadium. We decided on JW.
Fortunately or unfortunately, Zubair gave priority to his music, so he wasn’t able to join. Shan’t comment on this further. But i told him to give ME a treat next time simply bcos he cldnt make it that day.
I dont know why but that day i just cldnt be bothered to pick up the hp and take pictures. Well prolly cos the batt was @ 50%, if i take pictures, it might just die soon. I tried to charge in the morning but the damn wiring in my room really irked me. I was practically slamming and tossing the cables around to unravel it. Such was the extent of my pent up anger. Ayah did take some pictures and videos but hm… havent received from him yet.
But… this is a good occasion. So im determined to enjoy it. Even tho we were late. Well not late late but just late to be able to eat MORE. Well i was nicely full by the time it finished anyways.
I had chicken satay, pizza, mushroom soup, siew mai, breaded prawn, cereal prawn, pasta salad, wedges, breaded scallop… and of course… Ice Cream! =) Ash cldn’t stop herself on those raw squid and japanese green peas or something. I didnt dare to try. I cldnt imagine how somebody could actually eat RAW seafood… esp PRAWN. real GREY uncooked prawn. Er….
My parents were then off to two wedding invitations and not wanting to be subjected to same, we made our way home first by train. Found out Jurong Point has a sequel. Jurong.2 (notice how i put the Point? haha)
Last Thurs night (18/12), I was alone in my room.
It was 1:30am. Desperately sleepy but desperately wanted to wait up for Zubair. So much so i started crying thinking, “WHY HE MADE ME STAY UP TILL SO LATE??? He knows right the next day we hafta go for check up very early in the morning!!”
Before i knew it, i was spilling out vomit. But it wasn’t as easy as that time exactly 10 yrs ago when i had diarrhoea. That was like a spoilt running tap. This night, it felt more like a congested tap. I truly felt like dying. I cldn’t breathe. I was choking.
I wailed out loud but nobody came to my aid. Parents were away on Honeymoon, Ash in Vietnam. So i tried to compose myself and stop as much cough as i could just to be able to dial Zubair’s no. Even so, i could hardly speak. I just continued crying and managed to gasp, “Come. home. quick. i’m. vomitting.”
To my great disappointment, he chided me, “You’re only vomitting, then why are you crying. CHUP (Quiet!).”
I hung up crying more than ever. Why doesnt he care?!?!??! Well maybe to him it IS normal for pregnant women to vomit, despite me having not vomitted twice in the whole 6 months of my pregnancy. But cldn’t he see i NEEDED to be comforted, even if its NORMAL?? Surely if HE was in pain, he’d want the same? Normaly but STILL AGONISING to be DYING ok.
Also because, I had been having cough + phlegm for the past 2 weeks. it seemed to be gone already but sometimes when i breathe, i will suddenly feel something sharp in my throat and will get into a coughing fit. I had to stop myself many times from continuing to cough cos i was afraid i’d vomit.
Being an inexperienced vomitter, i spilt them on the floor! Ok maybe he made me cry, but at least he had some sense to clean up my mess for me. I left him no choice when i spent the night in my parents’ room anyway, in case i need to rush to toilet to vomit.
When i started to clean myself up, i looked in the mirror and almost fainted at the HORRIFIC view.
Right Cheek
LEFT CHEEKDoc prescribed me with DOUBLE dose of Iron as well as Vit C for better absorption. *faint*
Oh yeah those red blotches.. they are BURST BLOOD VESSELS from straining too much when i was throwing up. They will got away after 3 days or so. The doc didnt look too concerned. Humph! Apparently my mum and sis (who throw up often) also suffer from this phenomenon. Altho when Ash saw my left cheek, she did say it was VERY bad she never had one like tt before. And that, cornily enough, assured me somehow. That i was really sick and in pain. Unlike what somebody thought. Humph!
Best part was i was given MC for the whole day so i got to rest at home some. and Thankfully, Z had some consideration for me and cancelled his lunch meeting with a prospective bandmember something or other. Although, i suspect it might also give him the excuse to “rest” at home after such a tiring short night. 😉 At least he was there for me. And even better, he had class in the evening, so i had some time to myself as well. So it was a nice day after a horrendous night.
Thurs. 18/12
After a few days of scrimping and trying to stretch the $, finally came the time for us to be able to go out on a date. Properly.
Didn’t even care that we’ve lost the discount coupon for the Flyer. We just wanted to go there. DIE DIE must go – as the slang dictates. The plan got cancelled many times before when we readjusted our monetary priorities.
Met him at the Esplanade right after work.
Check out the white thingies on the water in the background.
They are New Year message balls something or other. You buy a ball with 3 size range, write a msg w a marker on it and splash in on the water. Something like tt. Dont have details.
Oh God. We took like some 10mins to walk to the Flyer from the Esplanade. My feet could barely stand walking, and the evening was only beginning! We bought the ticket at about 6:30pm. Glad there was not a long Q and we skipped thru the fake camera shot. We were hoping to witness day to night change again, but alas it was still not properly dark by the time we got off.
Inside the allegedly biggest observatory cabin.
We asked a stranger to take our photo.
To make up for the awkward smile, i deepened my dimple.
Me cldn’t stand anymore.
Zubair the Savage Bear @ the Souvenir Shop.
Inevitably, we had dinner at the foodcourt at Marina Sq. Again.
Just wanted to show you this halter neck maternity top i bought from Spring Maternity @ 50% discount. $25Hopefully today is the last day of the week long Public Transport Commute for this 6.5month pregger me. My parents are coming back tmrw from “Honeymoon” *chuckles* and dad can start sending n picking me up from work pronto. (Ameen!!)
This morning, a miracle happened.
I caught a train at about 7:54am. This came about 4min after the last one (which by standard is long and wld be slightly packed). However, the priority seat just next to the 3rd door where i was standing was vacant. Unfortunately, there was another lady in front of me and she got the seat.
So i resorted to standing in front of 3 able bodied men. 1 sleeping. 1 was listening to iPod with a laptop bag on his lap. the other watching video on his PSP or something with a laptop bag also. I tried to bring on my courage and voice out to please for a seat. At the same time, i was coyly resting my hands just under my bump to make it look MORE obvious that im pregnant cos i was wearing this… wat some pple (read: the FC) call a TENT.
Suddenly, that very lady who got that priority seat rose and called me to sit. WOW. She’s like in her 40s most prolly and would have wanted very much to have the seat for herself. But i imagined she was ever pregnant before and understood the pain of having to stand the whole 45min ride.
I felt very relieved and grateful that there are still some Singaporeans who are not selfish but do have that social graciousness. On the other hand, i felt a bit guilty. I shld have saved her from having to give up that seat by asking THOSE FIT GUYS to let me sit.
Oh well…
This is a journal entry about a 6 month pregnant woman’s – my – feat to get a seat in the train during rush hour.
MON, 15/12
I saw the same uncle from last Thurs! I tried to make eye contact while standing in front of him but he was looking the other way and then buried behind the papers. I was hopeful that he would give me a seat again at Yishun like he did last week. But unfortunately, he didnt recognise me and i wasn’t wearing a maternity top or i didnt really show, i suppose.
At the other corner, the priority seat was vacated and then filled by a Fit young man. I almost wanted to go over and claimed it but tot it was too dangerous to squeeze my way there while the training was bumping around.
So i stood. and stood. and stood some more. shaking my feet in between because it was hurting so bad. Nobody cared. Everybody closed their eyes.
30min later at Orchard, suddenly the uncle’s eyes shot open and he jumped and alighted the train. I relinquished his seat most gladly. Almost too greedily. hehe.
However, it’s too late. My Monday was already spoilt. I felt tired thru out the day. Had to resort to taking a nap in the toilet. twice.
TUES, 16/12
It was by some twist of luck that the train i got was fairly empty with lotsa seats. I was seated in no time at all. But i found it very difficult to catch a nap.
WED, 17/12
This morning i reached the platform at 8am. Before that i looked at the board. Train coming in 4min and next one in 6min. Actually im quite late already (by my standard) so i told myself i HAFTA get on the first train that comes.
When it did, other pple behind me overtook me to get to the door even before the train stopped properly! I made a tentative scan of the profile of pple sitting down. Mostly women, dozing men and newspaper reading guys. i cld prolly walk down the carriage till i find a suitable “candidate” to victimize but it wld be troublesome, embarassing and not to mention dangerous.
So i waited for the next one.
From the platform as the train slowed down, i could see there was a vacant seat just next to the door i was waiting. i calmly let passengers alight first and THEN went for the seat. But i saw already another middle aged guy smartly dressed with a laptop case dashed from the other door to the seat i was eyeing. I looked in his general direction with my head held high and absolutely DID NOT hesitate in any body lang TO GET THAT SEAT. He saw me and faltered.
YES! This time i won. Woohooo
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