My trip back Pontian

Last Friday nite, after work, I followed my cousin's car back to Pontian for my grandma's 80th birthday celebrations on Saturday. It was a nice gathering as usual, with all my relatives get-together and cracking jokes.. Ah ma is 80 years old this year, and Sunday is Mother's Day, so we have 2 celebrations at the same time.

On Saturday morning, as quite a number of our relatives are gathered at my house for the night's dinner, so mum prepared her signature's dish ~ Popiah ~ to serve them. Mum likes to do this when there is a big gathering so that easier to eat although the cutting vegetables preparations might take time. I actually hardly eat popiah at outside coz we are all so used to my mum's popiah, so do our cousins... One of my cousins can eat about 10+ pieces at one time!


This morning, before I am back to KL, I managed to shot some photos behind my house. The trees behind my house are now 'botak' already because of the strong waves from time to time... We used to be cannot see the island at the opposite when I was small, but now the island can be seen from my house...

20th Weeks of Pregnancy

Middle of last night, suddenly woke up because of leg cramps... This is my first experience, so I did not know what can be done. So I woke up hubby, told him that my leg very pain because of the cramps, got him to do some light massage for me. Once the cramps stopped, I slowly falled back into sleep, but the leg still seemed like couldn't be lay straight.

This morning woke up, I thought I can go to work, but the muscle still a bit pain, made me couldn't really walked normally. So I think better don't go to office and climb the staircase, so I applied MC from boss to rest at home.

Hubby also took leave to accompany me. He suggested since I am supposed to go for my monthly check-up this Saturday, but I am going back Johor for the weekend and is a public holiday, clinic will be closed, so might as well we go today for the monthly check-up and can also consult gynae on the leg cramps.

When we were at the clinic, after the urine test and another blood test, my sugar level has gone down, not as serious as last month, but then still a bit on the high side although the blood reading was ok (did not exceed the dangerous zone). But gynae suggested to me, to be safe, better take a thorough test so that can have more accurate results to know whether do I need to be under medication or not. So I fix the date to be on next Saturday, as the test needs me to be at the clinic for the whole morning (the process might takes a few hours) and I need to fast from 12 midnite the day before.

I informed gynae about my leg cramps. She said it should be the time for me to start taking the calcium pills. She told me to eat one per day. If the leg cramps seems serious to me, I need to take the calcium pills twice a day.

She also told me, I am now in my week 20th of pregnancy. How time flies! Hehehe... So I went for the ultrasound scan again, normal procedures for everytime check-up. Everything is normal for the baby, heart-beat, etc. But perhaps this round, gynae didn't show us the 3D scan, so we couldn't really see the face clearly. Gynae said my baby is growing healthily in me after she scanned all the parts and read through the results for me. She showed me everything through the scan, and informed hubby and I that the baby's sex can be known already. Asked us do we wish to know or not? Hahaha... Of course la!

**************************DANG*DANG*DANG*****************************

So the gynae pointed at the baby and told us the baby is a BOY! We seen it. I think with four pairs of eyes in the room, this news should be confirmed kua... Hehehe... Even the nurse also said so. After hearing the news, hubby and I were very excited as we can start planning on what to buy for our baby already. Before this, we didn't really shopping much for our baby coz it seems like still too early. Now since we know is a baby boy, we can start to find the colour theme already ~~

Again, I wish my baby can continue to grow healthily in me! Daddy and Mummy always prays for you, hope that you can always be healthy... We shall see you again in another month. Really can't wait for the day to come...

Fish Porridge at Taiping

Ever since pregnant, I think the only food that I keep on thinking wants to eat, should be the fish porridge. Since young, I always get to eat very fresh fish porridge at home, which makes me doesn't feel like trying any of the fish porridge selling in KL or searching around to find a nice one.

When I was at Taiping over the weekend with hubby, I suddenly recalled that my dad told me before, he went to a shop and tried out their seafood porridge which was quite nice when he came to Taiping to attend my wedding on last December. As I explain the shop to hubby, he seems like does not really know which shop is that, all he knows is the place should be in Matang. So I asked MIL about it. She knows which shop is that, and even told me that last time our ex-PM and his wife been there to eat before as well.

So before driving back to KL on Monday, hubby brought me there to eat the fish porridge which I have been longing for ~~ The shop has a lot of fresh seafood to choose from, to see which one you wish to add in your porridge or mee.

This shop's boss also sells a lot of antique stuffs. A lot of older things can be seen there... old clocks, old notes, old iron, etc...

Seafood Mee (with baby shark meat in it) & Fried Fish ~~

Seafood Porridge - the super delicious and yummy porridge. We also added in some prawns, and the fish meat is really very fresh... No wonder even my dad also said nice coz he hardly eats seafood at outside since we are from a fishing village.

Finally, I got to eat the fish porridge which I have been craving for... I really had a very satisfying lunch ~~ Hope can come back here more often. Haha!

Preparing for the New Baby: Checklist 1

Today I was browsing through some websites, wanna find some checklists so that I know what need to get/buy while waiting for our baby to arrive in September... Then I saw one which I found it quite ok, so thought of posting it up for my future reference.

This checklist is for the feeding purposes. I will update more again once I compile the checklist for some other purposes... ^_^

Bottle Feeding
□ Steriliser
□ Feeding Bottles & Teats: 4-6 bottles (4 and 8 ounce size)
□ Bottle Brush
□ Pacifier & Pacifier Attacher
□ Pacifier Holder
□ Bottles Drying Racks
□ Formula Milk Dispenser

Breast Feeding
□ Breast Pump
□ Breast Milk Storage Container
□ Bottle & Food Warmer
□ Breast Pad
□ Nursing Pillow
□ Nipple Cream
□ Nipple Protector
□ 2 nursing bras

Basic bottles

These come in two sizes:
i) the smaller 120mls/4oz bottles are more suitable for newborns who can only take a little milk at a time

ii) the larger 225mls/8oz bottles are better for older babies who can easily down a large feed.

Each bottle generally comes with a teat and a lid.

Mmmm... anything else that I left out?? Hehehe...

Homemade Nyonya Laksa

Labour day that weekend, hubby and I decided to come back to Taiping to spend our long weekend as well as to see if need to buy any things to stock up for our future baby in Taiping or not.

I think because of the long weekend, hubby's grandma decided to come to our house to cook her speciality 'Nyonya Laksa' for her grandchildren, as quite a number of hubby's cousins are back too.. So on Friday, we got to eat the very delicious laksa which grandma hardly cooked nowadays.

Grandma reached our house as early as 9 something to get ready the things with the help of MIL. MIL prepared and cleaned the prawns and fish a day before so that grandma no need to cook in a rush. As hubby and I were out for breakfast after grandma reached, so didn't manage to see how they prepare the laksa... Too bad, I didn't get to learn any skills from grandma.

Some of the ingredients for the Laksa:



Wow, the super delicious 'Nyonya Laksa' is ready to be served!!

Isn't it look so tempting to you?? Hehehe.... We really enjoyed it very much ~~ Yummy-yummy ^_^