baby E is out!!!

waited waited waited, finally induced baby E on 28 morning....thankfully this time with epidural. so it was painless and normal delivery (prayer answered!) eventhough i got all the annoying side effects, (headache, nausea, vomitting, shivering) i still won't trade it for the PAIIIIIINNNNNNNN!!!

baby E is 3.8 kg 49cm long, head circumfrance 33cm
born on 11:22am, 28 april 2008 (daddy very happy to see so many number 8 - cina man la)
stayed in room 288 summore (hahhahaa)

will post pic later!

36 weeks - almost out soon!!!

last doc visit on 34wks...i weigh about 62kg
this doc visit at 36+wks...i weigh about 63.2kg

great...guess i gained about 1.2 kg in 2 wks.

then went for the scan...turns out me gained zero kg but my fei fei inside gained almost 1.4kg....alamak...means i even lost weight!! baby is around 3.4-3.8kg!!

how can? i asked the doc

she said...baby got a mind of its own now...blame it on my 'BIG' gene...

aiyoo even if i starve or eat like a pig...baby will just balloon up following her genetic map.

so i asked....can induce ah....so it won't be toooo big

doc said...big babies risky to induce...u just wait la

aiyoooo like this also cannot, like tat also cannot

but the best news i heard is she will let me go ahead with epidural for this one, if the anaesthetist is willing to do it..finally, something to look forward to.??? or not?? dare not even think about it yet...will jump that bridge when i need too...until then, just think happiii thots.


overall i still gained weight la...so need to strategise my slimming strategeeesss....what is the best diet pills ah??

33 weeks & 5 days

so far this pregnancy has not been as smooth sailing as the 1st 2...maybe old ledi...*sob sob sob*

as usual i have my stuff ear problems (imagine you stick your fingers in both your ears and speak), the effect is i can hear myself very loud when i speak, but i dunnot if i am whispering or talking loud...you can consider me half-deaf...this is one of my preggy symtoms...and it will miraculously dissappear once baby is out. so sometimes i am so irritated with daddy when i speak to him, cos he seems to be "deaf" too...either he also suffers the same symtoms?? (which i doubt) or he genuinely can't hear me or he is into his "selective hearing" mode!

then i was hoping i won't get any leg cramps, but i spoke too soon, last nite i had my 1st attack....ooooouuuuuucccccchhhhh. daddy not here to unbend my toes (away in manila) so suffer alone la....poor me...*sob sob sob* hahahaha

being 'old' have it downside ~ had to go thru amnio test and diabetic test for this one...both also not fun or easy and waiting for results, even though i took it lightly, it still stress me up a whole lot. thankfully all turn out normal...what more can i ask for?

but being so greedy...of cos i ask for more la...like

• must have loads of dark black hair (just like me)
• must have my nose (at least one of them should inherit a better anatomy than daddy's) but from the scan, doc said it's not looking my way (again!!! arrrrhhhh!)
• ok ok settle for at least have my other features la
• must have long long fingers like me (hehehe) daddy got shot stubby ones
• long limbs like me (heheheheh)

can't wait for baby to be out...hopefully house will be all ready for this new princess.

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Here it is…

1. erika loves to eat: shangri-la lemon garden buffet.

2. erika hates to eat: medicine

3. erika loves to go: stay in nice hotels

4. erika hates to go: school toilet, her logic dun drink water...then no need to pee.

5. erika loves it when: she has all daddy & mommy attention on her...no ellisa to bug in.

6. erika hates it when: elli dun follow "all" her rules.

7. erika loves to see: new baby

8. erika hates to see: lion dance...scares her and she cries and scream...

9. erika loves to hear: disney songs...

10. erika hates to hear: the banging of the lion dance drums

kunming photoblog

**backdated post**

finally time to brag about my short kunming trip, since its for work, not much sight-seeing pictures la...just manage to sneak a lil time here & there to shop and see the local scene.

stayed at a very good b'ness hotel - green lake hotel (voted one of china's best business hotels of 2007 by Forbes - quite impressive la) the price also super impressive - mega expensive la, sure wins hands-down on the room and meeting packages if compared to kay-el!!

in front of the hotel is the beautiful green lake (so obvious rite with name of the hotel - like duhhh!)

pictures take from the lake - lots of seagull, quite serene but weather was very cold.

this is the famous restaurant and their fantastic service that i blog about earlier. since we were the vip, we got to sat at the largest table in the restaurant to fit 20 -25 people. since yunnan has so many ethnic groups, the dances and songs for the night was amazing...enjoy the photos.

sexy girls dancing...bells were stuck to their costume so when they move they make tingling rings.

then off to stone forest (a world heritage site) for a half day visit....that's the only touristy place i went. another spectacular place to unwind and get lost in the stone woods.
look at the beautiful formations done by god's hands. see an elephant?



outer area of the stone forest....there's a world famous golf course just 15min drive from here...daddy would love to hit some balls here...me too la...dun care the score.

some ethnic handicrafts, didn't buy so take pic lor.

summore handicrafts at the birds & flower market...

guess where i shopped the most?? i so lazy to bargain and haggle...i ended up in wal-mart and carrefour to get all my stuff....that is until the last day when i still had lots of RMB to splurge that i went to a souvenir shop at the lake for last minute shopping. got a beautiful art piece drawn on paper...hope to decorate the house, but dunno where to hang.

now with all my goodies, need shipping boxes home.

erika school progress

this is me erika and i am in my school uniform with my 2 pony tails.

most days before i go to school i will whine to kong kong and popo that i am sooooo scared to go to school, if daddy and mommy was around i will whine even more. so they will ask me why am i scared, i say i scared of teacher hee coz she is so fierce. but in the end, they still send me to school. somehow when i reached school, i forgot all about it and happily run into the school hall with my pink princess bag and search for my friends, especially evelyn.

my sad face - before going to school

my best fren - evelyn

popo cooked - yummy chicken, vege, soup and rice for my lunch

everyday my purse will have one $1 note, one 50sen coin and one 20sen coin. you know why? coz i am sooooo shy, if i dun have this combination of note and coins, i dare not go and buy my soup noodle which cost 70sen. i dare not give the uncle the $1 note or make up 70sen with other coins. and the $1 note i used to buy my ice-cream. everyday, i eat this soup noodle and if i finish it and have summore time i will buy the $1 ice-cream. mommy is amazed i can eat soup noodles every day for 2 whole months, she ask me to buy fried chicken sometimes, but i shy. the soup noodle is soooo yummylicious, i never bring food from home anymore, just my princess water bottle.

sometimes my friends ask me for some money, i used to give them if i have extra, then teacher say cannot do that and must tell her if my friend ask for money, not i do that anymore.

my belt also has tightened over these 2 months, mommy gotta resew the belt buckle for me. who said canteen food was yucky?

sometimes mommy will see teacher hee, since she is also my tuition teacher. i always hear them talk about me. teacher hee always says i am blurrrr, very very blurrrrr! she said after she gave all the instructions to the class in mandarin, i will still be looking blankly at her with my big, big innocent eyes, while all my friends have started their work. i also have a lot of “belum siap” stamp on my work books but mommy never scolds me about it. when mommy tells this story to her friends, she always laughs about it…is it so funny ah?

me in my class, now teacher put me to sit right in front, eventhough i am not short. why? becoz i am blurrrrr i guess. i dun really know why but i am not scared to go and ask them questions if i dunno how to do my work. sometimes i ask teacher so many times that they write some of the work for me...hehehhehe

good vs bad

erika was curious and started asking me lots of questions...one of them was this.

mommy mommy why outside our house got so many flags with pictures of girl and boy?

huh? where got? where did you see them? what boy and girl pictures? (thinking aiyooo hopefully nothing funniee or wierd pic here...since so many pic/photo scandals recently)

there outside our house all the flags with the boy and girl pictures?

me think think think....oh those election banners.... ya ya...those are for election

what is election?

it means we gotta go vote for the good person

what is vote?

it means we gotta choose the good person to fight for us

how? they fight all the bad guys ah? (in their world, there is a very clear line between good guys and bad guys)

yes but they dun fight with hands, but with letters and words

how?

like they could go to court and fight (dare not even say parliament...dunno when this conversation will end then)

what is court?

alamak.... you know the show "judging amy" there is a judge in the court

i dun remember that show la....what is a judge?

a judge decides who is right and wrong, so you gotta chose the right person to fight for you

so all the bad guys will lose ah?

not true in the real world, but for her sake...i said this: if you choose the good person then all the bad guys will lose lah!! if you choose the wrong guy then all the bad guys will win la! remember ~ so you gotta choose the good person.


in the end, i dunno if she got what i was trying to say, but you guys choose wisely okay!!