Cut gums (2nd time)

today was horrid... the worst of the month

it has been quite a ride waiting for the 2 top one to cut... endless crying... mainly grouchiness... then it seems like its descending cause you can see the whitish gum but yet so long....

just today, I realized she cut gums for the 2nd time... top right tooth... the long awaited one... for it has been a bad trip this time.. oh well, its out, just a few more days of screaming for the top left tooth and all will be well...

then back to sleep-full nights again... :)

Reading

i love reading

I have been dying to go back to reading... something I find a luxury to do recently. Just on friday, we went to see the christmas lights in town and parked in Wheelock, the lift brought us to Borders... Since we were staying with the grands over the weekend I found it a opportunity to indulge a little. You must be wondering why? Coz when I read I don't put it now, once I start I must finish... I have this thing about being immersed "in the book" and can't detach myself, its like watching a good movie, you don't watch it in parts over a period of 1 week. DD T has gotten used to me sobbing in the middle of the night or not sleep at all until I complete it.

My favourite indulgence is a good book with a good meal - ALONE, better still, a good book, my iphone+music, a bottle of water, walking the streets of anywhere the whole day - yes, ALONE. I do well alone cause with a good book, you are never really alone. Everybody has different ways of unwinding.... some watch a movie, some listen to music, some read...

So I hesitated... because I wasn't sure of what book I should get. A new Dan Brown maybe but it wasn't a paperback and I like portability - Yes, the book doesn't leave my sight. Then I stumbled upon Twilight; and pondered if I should get it as since there has been a hype about the movie and all.. I didn't get a chance to catch the movie last year. I love fantasy, magical stories noting that my favourite books when I was young was "The Enchanted Woods Series" by Enid Blyton. Then there was my "Harry Potter" that DD T religiously bought for me every year, he would order online and collect it on the day of the release. Of course there are many other books that I truly love.... fiction... DD T always tell me how he will make have a room just for my books- a library... next time. They are all in big Toyogo boxes all in good condition, eh because I must read new books and I don't like to bend them... if you open them, it should have a receipt or hotel notepad of some place some where in the world which I use it as bookmarks.

Then vampires are not really what I was into... but I thought oh why not? Asked for money to pay up and DD T was like .. "400+ pages only? you will finish so fast... no point leh" and so I bought 2 books... I usually finish a book in a day or so.. depending. Though I have this super thick book "The Pillars of The World" that I was reading when I was preggie but its a damn difficult and taxing book to read... if it took Oprah 4 years to finish, I wonder how long for me now with a baby.

I spent the whole Saturday reading... The grands, DD T, aunty Nita saw me reading and got BB [V] out of my way for a good 3-4 hours while I read. How sweet! Manz the book was really engaging.... by the 1/3 into the book , I was smiling sweetly as I flipped...a twinkle of innocent love that sprinkle every page... 400 pages was easy peasy, though I must add this is a rare book that comes a few years once.. a feeling that deals with one's most inner most feeling of relationship - the first love.

MIlk

so there was this debate about fresh milk and formula milk after 1 years old in smh..

Last monday, I went to the PD as BB[V] was having some sniffles that she caught from Julian in kindermusik on sunday.... MM F didn't want it to turn into anything serious as the weather was a little bad... Dr Tan saw her and gave her 1 bottle of medicine just to clear the dripping nose. Since it was a simple consultation, I had a few questions as usual to ask her...

1) Hospital: I was going on about her trip to KKH and how the Dr was duhz etc etc... and wanted her to recommend me a hospital to go in case of emergency. She said go KKH a) even if you go to private hospital, its still medical officers attending to you b) all the specialists are there, if you go private and they can't solve your problem they will still refer you to KKH... example, our case... you will need to go back there as all the children eye specialist are there. c) just be careful in May and June as the new medical officers comes in.. ALL HOSPITALS, so its inevitable.

2) Drinking water: Told her that BB [V] likes water and some mummies say it is better to feed milk than water. Which got me thinking why? So she ask me why I give so much water? Coz there are days she is constipated and so water helps alot... so she says then why worry since I have reasons to give? In my case, it will defeat the purpose of giving milk as the bb won't poo. But she did caution me since BB[V] loves drinking water, she may feel full and not want to eat. Since she is a small "CC" baby, food 1st then water. So I started on this thing on not feeding water while she is having her meal except to help her flush her food down. So I'm sure that she is full from solids and not drink till full.

3) The little bub is only 8kg!!! She smiled when I asked her this, for she said "I knew you will ask me this question" coz I'm always so concerned about her weight. LOL... so she said if I wanna fatten her up, feed her things I won't want to eat.. Coz I'm afraid to get fat right, so I give her those things I find fattening...

4) So came the fresh milk, formula milk question...

I told her I was still breast feeding and she was all "great job, well done"... think its actually quite rare to find mummies who will breast feed till now as I read in forums that mummies now will stop bf-ing once they slim down or bf becoz formula milk are expensive... I mean why can it be because of love?

Dr Tan explained that....

Formula milk has all the necessary nutrients necessary for a growing child, with all the added supplements, vitamins, DHA etc. The main reason why fresh milk can give given to baby after 1 year old is because of it high minerals, the baby can't digest all the minerals. Which is why breast milk is the best and that stage 1 milk is the most expensive as they need to remove all the minerals in the milk and add back in whatever is necessary. Stage 2 being the next most ex as they will remove partial and stage 3 and 4 cheapest as they retain most of it. So its really the parents' choice on which they prefer to give. Transitional to fresh milk can be the easiest if you don't have a fussy eater at hand and easy to get as there are milk everywhere. Her 2nd and 3rd child never had FM and was introduced fresh milk once she wean them off, though she will buy Nespray tin milk if they feel like vanilla taste milk. So there are no hard and fast rule.

She did further explain examples like the India indians will give fresh milk and a cocktail of supplements till the child gets old or that the caucasians always have milk in their fridge - feeding the child will be out of convenience as they practice child/adult to have same diet.Of course, most Singaporeans will chose FM because of a simple reason - our diet (not every family has a fresh carton of milk everyday) and its convenience, with all necessary supplements included though its way more expensive than fresh milk.

So its really a person's choice.... carry milk powder everywhere or fresh milk on the go... oh ya must be full cream she said... fats is gd for brain development!!!

Her new bed

So we decided she was ready....

So its bed shopping time... We couldn't decide on what bed to buy manz.. another cot to toddler bed? toddler bed? single bed?

So darn confusing...

cot to toddler: same problem, restrictive for BB [V] rolls alot

toddler: can use for few years and gotta change.. cheaper though

single: spacious for a roller like her.. expensive.. are we ready to spend and in the end not sleep?

We went Ikea to try beds out as they had everything... so it was $200, $400, $1000 respectively. Then there is that issue of whether we should invest in a expensive mattress as most children go through the bed wetting and placing plastic/pee pads/or whatever thing on top of the mattress issin't very comfy and training takes a while. Imagine sleeping on the same mattress for the next ten years with load of pee (past). Not feasible leh....

Then.. we stumbled upon this bed and fell in love with it... the reason why we were given a girl to pamper.

DD T bought it for his princess... MM F was so happy..

This is the whole collection... I'm so buying it, when she is ready to sleep on her own.

Then we went bed sheets shopping.. MM Flo decided to buy her Egyptian cotton and DD Trev frown at the price tag "$49 for pillow case?" So MM F says "I buy lar"... then he kept quiet throughout... Must entice her with good sheets then she will sleep what, right?

Just 1 hour ago, BB [V] spat out a little milk as she was jumping about so much on her new bed and DD T said "Oh my greek sheets!" Please pardon him... MEN

in conversation

in the car..

MM f: lao gong, next week is Julia Gabriel holiday program ...all 5 days hor

DD t: okie, is julia gng?

MM f: how the f do i know?

DD t: she better be there huh... not shy use her name for a school...

MM f: ....

DD t: if the Dr sears comes to Sin , tell me

MM f: for what?

DD t: I wanna talk to her

MM f: its a him... what for?

DD t: talk to him lar, for making my daughter the girl she is today, happy, sociable and confident. I have a lot of questions to ask him also..

MM f: ...

But I totally agree how extremely fantastic she has grown up to be.... gone where the stormy days... we had a difficult early start and now its cruising after...

It was all Gina Ford when she was born but as days passed I realized she was crap! Oh you can't imagine how I hated her... all these nonsense about bottle feeding is better than BF-ing, so that you can train them, routine this, 7am-7pm that. I read when I was preggie as she was well received. Then when the baby came along... omg cmi!! The one gf told me she used this and her son can never change his 7 am call time, she hates it as she never got to sleep in... he woke up earlier and earlier in fact.. told me to tweak my time if I want to use her. Then there was Ern's mummy who never got a chance to go out for dinners as she demands sleep at 7pm. Really... how often have BB [V] sleep patterns change become of teething, growth spurts.. there will be 1 week of 10 hrs of sleep through then out of sudden she decides that 6 hours is good enough... is 12 sleep through a bench mark of good parenting?

So they say Tracy Hoggs was gd too... briefly read through and so BB [V] was a spirited baby in her context, but couldn't find info on how to deal with my special gal.. though I do use her e.a.s.y method. It was about the same shit lar, just that she advocated Bf more than GinaF. But it totally didn't solve my problems... both were gurus dealing things at the shortest time, giving shortcuts, cry it out methods, picking 5 mins, dream feedings and all... and I hated such parenting styles. I was damn desperate!

So I paid a visit to the library... brought back stacks and stacks of books... no point buying another $40+ book that say the same shit. After about 5 books, I stumbled on Dr Sears... it got me hooked on lar... everything he said was BB [V]... to the T. He doesn't have routines, methods or anything. What he has is love, nuture, patience... explaining why BB [V] behave this way or why things happens. He does attachment parenting - doesn't allow cry out methods, he instill trust in the child, love that parents can offer, sensitivities that we can give. He uses tools like breast-feeding, baby wearing... Yes, I agree it takes a long time but issit parenting a life long commitment?

There will be more factors that determine the character and personality of a child. Its lifelong, there will be more challengers to come but for now... we are glad we found him for the pros of his style instills confidence, empathy, caring, compassionate, affections to the child.

and most importantly, he created 2 very confident parents.

http://www.askdrsears.com/html/10/T130700.asp

Hong Kong (Day 2)

1st night

Cityview Hotel a great hotel, good price, good location. It was 3 mins walk to Yau Ma Tei MTR station and 8-10 mins walk from the ladies street which was basically a turn out from the hotel which means it was a bustling area. We settle in after our dinner and adventures around the hotel. So we came back at about 10-ish, gave BB [V] and nette nette a bath together. Yes,we bunked in as I had to do a last minute cancellation of my room as we were not able to turn up. We had an upgraded room and there were ample space around which was great as BB[V] and Nette had a cot to themselves... although by morning they were both on the bed.

call time 8am....

We started the day early as we have 3 babies to deal with and you never know what surprises they might give us. No morning baths as we were abit afraid of the morning chill in HKG... so we got ready and waited for Ern to come over.

We shared our load amongst 3 mummies, brought our Beco carriers and shared a stroller. But honestly, in HKG its totally pointless to bring one as there are hardly escalators in every exit, they do have but it usually the biggest exit... but you know HKG right, there are like exits A-Z... We carried the strollers most of the time up and down which was darn tiring.

Brought the mummies to my favourite Dim Sum haunt... Serenade Restaurant at HK Cultural centre. Great view, great food... a little pricey but I prefer here than the noisy Dim Sum where the old ppl hang around and talk loud. Ambience was very important as we have babies with us, we needed to eat in a clean environment. Another thing we realized in HKG is that this was the ONLY restaurant that had 3 baby chair.. *sigh* really, every where else only have ONE chair if not none. Really, I wonder where do families eat in that country? no wonder they are worse off in the reproduction sector.

Here is her actually enjoying the view of the famous habour... quite cultured right?! so smart...

Just downstairs of the restaurant.. told you the view is awesome.

So we proceeded to do our shopping in central, causeway bay after lunch. Interestingly we can't really find nice baby shops around in the island so it was shopping for the mummies more. At about after lunch time, we searched around for a restaurant again to BF the babies and rest our legs... but nothing convenient as it was business area and so we ended up in Macdonald's. Here is BB [V] in the one and only high chair.

The MTR was really convenient in terms of their locations and exit, not tough to find our ways around. At about 3-4pm-ish we were back at the hotel to give the babies a stretch as they were in their Becos the whole day. Spend 1 hour or so resting, latch the babies and continued our part 2... This time round we went to tsim sha tsui area to walk walk as the shops close later here. Went to Tang Dynasty for dinner, great food...

By the time we reached hotel, we were TOTALLY drained...

Guess who wasn't??

Getting back ...

Me time

Now that she is getting older and is not totally reliant on me, I have learn to let go and find myself some me time. I had been taking care of BB [V] by myself without much help as we stay by ourselves, unless of course when we stay over at the grands.

So I have starting making more effort to get in touch with the world outside of the breast-feeding, changing diapers and patting baby to sleep. I have started slowly but surely to "train" the grands to assist me on days I would like to go out late with the girlies. May it for a meal or gossips over drinks Not that I have done it many times but once a month with the exception of this month. Guess the grands kind of pity me for I haven't gotta my me time since like April last year.

They are very keen on me to stop breast-feeding soon, mainly after Grandma Barbara looked after BB [V] one evening and realized that she doesn't have very good sleeping pattern, stirring a few times at 2am. She advised to to try weaning off the boobs especially at night to ensure that BB [V] and I will have good rest. Grandpa John ask me one day on why I'm still BF as I told him 6 months, I was like errmm 1 year now. It was kinda weird for my father in law to ask questions like this, but I guess he was tactfully trying to tell me to look after myself better. Even DD T doesn't wan to continue too long as he feels that BB [V] is very sticky to me and it is time to relax and take a back seat as she is bigger now.

He wants to take over so as I can sleep through 10 hours or so, for I have never past 6 hours... sometimes I look in the mirror and realized how much motherhood has aged me.

Well, 9+ months now... just 3 more months to go.. gotta start slowly to wean her off... as the 1 year mark is nearly and its time to start thinking what I want to do.

Here are some things I have been up to for the last few months. Though it was fun catching up with my girlies, I still have hellavu lots of people to catch up but I guess slowly is good. The list of friends goes on and on, but I'm sticking to the easy few. These are a few photos as I have photos everywhere... sianz to search.

Yes, I have a fantastic hubby that stays at home to look after her while I go unwind.

Wine + Dine + Club is my forte.

@ Scarlet

@ pre-F1 party at the helipad of Swissotel, magnificent view!

@ Butter... I felt old-ish there.. haha

@ Rochester One

@ Amara hotel... we party fantastic together... was a crazy night

@ Bonta

@ Raku

@ Zouk mambo

Why same faces? Coz these girls will never force me to drink.... You can't imagine how much work it is to drink and BF at the same time. I have to go toilet to hand express, go home and pump and of course chose not to feed her the whole day. So lucky, its once a month and for the 1st time in years I walked out of Zouk sober!!!

Chronicles of KKH

so I owe you stories (1st night)

If it wasn't by default that I was stuck in class C, I would never know these peeps and their lifestyle. So I was checked in KKH hotel at 5pm, for the "observation". Condition: NO TV, NO FAN *duhz* These stories are the happenings after I checked -in lar - so about 8-9-ish. WE have indian boy on our right bed 1, opposite us was little baby bed 4, little gal bed 6

WARD 56 ( BB [V] was in bed 2)

5601 - I don't know what he was admitted there for but he has a arm cast. Indian boy who I feel looks a little awkward- look abit like the Nepalese siamese twins. The 2 days while I was there, he was always alone.. no family members or friends to entertain him. He was playing on the bed with a piece of string...*???* So I sat there wondering like eh where lar the people?? Thinking like a typical mother, why no books? no newspaper? no nothing to entertain him but ONE string?

I tried to make friends but like I said he was quite the weirdo and decided not to probe.... I mean what if he comes and play with BB [V] ? and so I kept my curiosity to myself. Then at one point I saw nurses fussing over him and realized that he was bleeding profusely from his IV and my thoughts was like "play string also can bleed?"

At about 9-ish, the DRs decided to administer antihistamine to reduce swelling to BB [V] and informed me that she may K/O the whole night. So at 10 she slept.. and so I settled in.

At 1030 BB [V] did her usual 1/2 hr nap and woke up lar! Then OMG she was playing, screaming... it was lights off in the ward manz... the boy started to "SHHSSSSSSS", "KEEP QUIET" but you know... as if the princess understood.... the more he SHHHsss , the more she "EHHehhhEEHHH AHhhh" She thought he was playing with her!!!! *headache* and she was screaming louder than usual, which I think was calling him to play.

The nurses came to draw curtains... BB [V] continue to play, he continue to shhhhssss....

*piangz* I was cursing the DRs under my breath- Liars loh! what K/O?

5606 -Little Megan

Opposite us on our left was this sweet little thing, who was admitted for gastrointestinal thingy. Had diahorrea and vomiting for several day already and needed to be warded. Mummy quite chio, got nice tattoo behind her ear type.. quite the zoukette type of style lar. Megan got the biggest eyes for a chinese gal, I thought mixed wor but pure chinese. So she had mummy and grandaunty with her. Not much story with Megan lar, nice educated peeps, speaks well type.

5604- Baby Andy Lau

So small lar, less than 1 month old. Kena continuous fever, then admitted, did checks, intestines inflammed ..blah blah.... Mummy can't speak very well-indo chinese, Daddy worse-golden mouth, refused to open *rolls eyes* But I got to know baby name... mummy told me his name, some chinese one lar... then I was *??* so she was very proud to tell me that this is Andy Lau.... Did I not mention her english fail... again I was *??* so I walked to his name tag.. ALAMAK really ANDY LAU!!!!!!!!

damn funny loh.. wahaha

so knooz... think about 11 ++... I was still cursing *NO FAN*!!!!!

Then 1am...

5603 came... 1 bloody group you know... "click clang ding dong" so much noise... I woke up lar.. BB [V] stirred, chop chop latch her back. So I can't sleep, lie there to hear story.

Boy says: got headaches... he said many many headache. Many many pain. Want to vomit.

Old lady: dunch bluff.. u wer got headache.. go home...

Dr: many many questions.. damn boring... issit stress? PSLE when? over? then why headache.. ..........

Boy: I want to stay in hospital.. headache

Old lady: dunch bluff.. go home

Alot of peeps lar think got 8 peeps talking... I know it was his cousins and auntie that brought him in, not his parents, I was drowsy... *knooz* I remembered at 1 point after his family left, the nurses came to explain the call bell, lights etc. He pressed the freaking call bell at least 4 times!!!!!!!

3 am .. little megan cries!!! *vomits* change bedsheet .. damn noisy..... *knooz*

4 am .. next bed family came with his clothes.. talk talk talk

5 am...

5605 came... don't know what *knooz*

7am... rise and shine. lights on. draws curtain. BB [V] woke up smiling... so happy that there were at least 50 ppl for her to watch. I wanna knooz but cannot knooz.

Nurses with medicine. Breakfast. 1st round of DRs. Collection of breakfast. 2nd round of DRs. Cleaners. Nurses came and see see. 3rd round of DRs.

See what I mean? so many happening, BB[V] was SOOOOOO happy. Everybody came" Victoria Victoria Victoria Andy Lau Andy lau Andy Lau"

Then hahaha.. stories started...

Puppet Time

Since the trial at My Gym, DD T saw the enthusiasm in BB [V] during the puppet story telling time and has been so determined in getting the puppets. We searched around and found that it was impossible to buy 1 family of hand puppets for the were ridiculously priced. Then while shopping in Ikea we saw this on display and liked it very much but they were out of stock!

So just 2 days ago, we went Ikea again and the stock arrived.... after 3 months.

So just now before her sleep, DD T pulled them out from the bag

and knowing DD T's style, he named all of them in split second! I had a good laugh...haha the things he do...

TImmy Tortoise, Ronny Rabbit, Elly the Elephant, Xin Xin the Panda, Freddie the Frog

Leo the Lion, Peter the Parrot, Danny the Deer, Sharkie Shark, Mikey Mouse

So now you know why I never found the need to buy books for BB [V] ... coz the DD T is her source of entertainment. He once me said that the curriculum for the babies classes is way so simple, that if he has the time he will open schools for to earn easy money. Well I won't deny that he has a knack for such things, he is the kind of guy who won't sing romantic songs but sing jingles to me. Like "the couresy song", "that froggy advertisement" ... you know those wayyyyy long time ago type of advertisement .. ya he can remember!!

he played .. SAVE RONNY RABBIT

FIND YOUR FRIENDS

PIGGY BACK FRIENDS

haha ... I had a good laugh.... hope you did too... :)

oh 90 cents niah!!!! pls buy for the small ones!

HaPpY BIrthDay!

I'm 31 today

Oh well.. the 30's are the new 20's... so literally speaking I'm 21 today ;p I actually feel 21 except that I have everything that I have planned fulfilled. I wanted find someone I love, get married, have a child, get my driving license, get my degree, get promoted, clubbed my ass off..... all checked!

So I will have to start thinking about 30-40.. the things that I want to achieve. Or maybe 10 years is way to long to think, so I will have a 5 years plan instead, I guess short term achievement is way easier with a family and all...

So what? Okay 1) I will have another child. 2) Get a job that I love since I had the best job in my 20's, it is going to tough but I will hunt it down!!! now if I don't find one, I will go back and aim for my red uniform ..wahhaha... 3) Be healthy... no smoking, less drinking, still club (I can't help it, I love dancing and socializing

Then my mind is blank.. aiyo so no self achievement seh.... how?

Lets try a 10 years plan instead

1) Have 1 or 2 more children

2) Get a awesome job!

3) Be darn healthy!!

4) Have a 2nd honeymoon... I have ALWAYS wanted to go Alaska to see the glaciers but you really need to be hang loose type for its rotting in a cruise for 12 days, something DD T can NEVER do due to work commitments but he promised me - one day. Oh and it cost an arm and 3 legs... (USD15K)

5) Go to Holyland with the family as is the WHOLE family with my priest uncle leading the tour, how awesome is that.

6) Buy DD T a awesome number plate for his 40th

7) Bring BB [V] to all the Disneylands in the world.

8) Be more religious

9) Look younger... I'm lucky to have great skin, the type that survives without moisturizer everyday or never go facials type. Wash face with facial foam only, minimal wrinkles, no freckles, pigmentation... but hey lady luck will run off soon.... so I will need help one day LOL

10) Change a new look...

So the list is quite minimal..... and they all need money to achieve damn sianz manz....

But what ever it is going to be.... I feel damn bloody blessed oredi.

Happy Birthday to ME!!!!

Busy November

so many things going on...

Its has been so busy... I really want to sit down to blog but time is so tight. After the trip back, BB [V] was down with diahorrea and so we visited the PD, was diagnosed with Travellers' diahorrea .. *duhz* checked with the others who flew together Ern had and Ginetts's mummy had it too.. what was bad was that it was airborne... then DD T had it, he vomited too, poor guy... Then I didn't feel fit till 2 days ago.. One thing good was that we all bought travel insurance and so medical bills were all covered.

Then this week is 2 weddings .. *yawnz* I don't do well at weddings , they bored me to death.... but these 3 is must go type... tomorrow we are witnesses, must sign papers, how cool is that? Well, we must be doing something good in our marriage, to allow our friends make such special request... I personally think it is big shit, as usually people will ask parents or godparents to do things like that... oh well, I hope I can survive the day. Not bringing the princess as we thought we will go dating tomorrow

Next week is my birthday celebrations ... *yippee* I have this craving for Truffles not the chocolate ones but the fungi (oh the smell!!!!) I have been having cravings manz,the foie gras, cheese, champagne... but I got the greatest girlfriends to accompany me to go eat .. heehee... so this one I told DD T and he was like how many hundreds is the dinner? hehe... I told him very little hundreds.. so we will go truffles galore for my birthday.. Garibaldi maybe? must check .... then another day I will go out with my girlies to celebrate... I still owe DD T his birthday dinner as he was on Biz trip...

Then we will end the week with another wedding.... this one I will bring BB [V]

Last week of Nov will be Julia Gabriels holiday program with BB [V] ...

So darn busy....

HongKong - 3 Nov

I walked past a bunch of smokers.... and felt like smoking....

I came home at about 6-ish 7pm, called DD T and told him... was feeling real down, no holiday and am stuck dealing with this alone...

DD T says go... I spoke to my parents, they said go..

So I made some calls and got us on the next available flight of Singapore and flew to Hongkong...

Here is us at 0600h ... Happy to fly

On the A380

In her bassinet...

Then towards the end of the flight, we went to Suite class (aka 1st class) to look, look, see, see...

At about 1500h, I reached the hotel and latch BB [V], unpacked a little and waited for the other mummies to return from their shopping. I bunked in with Ginette's mummy as I cancelled my room when we were in the hospital. A good thing was that the hotel upgraded the room, so we had a bigger room and was able to put 2 baby cots in.

At 1800h, we went for our dinner and shopping.

HHK or KKH?

Hong Kong Kowloon or KKH

Okie I'm supposed to be in HK right? Nope am stuck in KKH ward 5602 because Bamz scratched BB [V] near the eye and it got inflammed. (I wrote it on 2 Nov... but was too drained to post it)

I was feeding BB [V] some bread and Bamz wanted to eat too... so as I was feeding both,BB [V] decided that she should pulled Bamz with her 2 strong hands!!!!! Then Bamz natural defense was to scratch her... haiz... so thats how we ended up in the hospital... it was alright the 1st day when we came to KKH 24 hours, took some medicine and went home... by during this time the idiot DR tried to pry open her eyes to put dye to check for cornea tear.. and I honestly freaking think he was the cause of the swell it caused to BB [V]'s eyes... for he was so rough!!!! I mean baby leh and he was using force... WTF! (note: weekend hospital = housemen)

Then next following day it started to swell and we rushed down to KKH again, the Dr feels that the antibiotics may not work as effectively. So he wanted us to be admitted for observation. So I signed some papers and chose class C as it was for observation mah... by the time the "boss" Dr (only 2 senior drs that night, once again... weekend= where the F are the drs??) came, which was like about 4-5 hours later... he wanted us to be warded and I was stuck in Class C as they can't upgrade us as it was night time... OMG!!! and if her swell doesn't subside, we may have to IV her... OMG!!!!! *sigh*

So I had so many calls to make!!! I was to fly off in another 12 hrs time, there was the airline, the hotel, the mummies I was travelling with, DD T, my parents, my Parents in laws....*sigh x 2* it sucks not having the husband... I was very thankful my sister was with me the whole time. So she helped me with BB [V] while I concentrated on doing other things... *sigh x 3* After I got everything settle, she drove back to my parents place and got all my things which happened to be packed for HKG.....

bad? my heart was so broken...

the makeshift bed which costs $2... its like sleeping on metal rods... in the end I slept in the crib with her.... COZ their policy is no bed for babies under 4 years old...

her toys I packed for her trip ended up in the hospital...

she looked so upset... sigh

After 1 night of so much noises... which I will write about soon!! (I had fun....) BB [V] woke up SO SO happy with the amount of people in the ward.... she had so many people to watch, so much noise to listen to...(remember my sociable girl) then came her greatest horror, medicine eating time.... she wasn't never like this but I guess after so many rounds of poking around her eye area, she got very sensitive to any thing that goes near her face.... *sigh x 4*

And may I add that the nurses in ward 56 were awesome!!! She was treated like a princess there....

This "Doctors' rounds" went around 3 times... and she just stood there the whole time... just listening to what was going on... I'm not joking....

I think I must be crazy to say this.... I know my daughter enjoyed her stay in KKH....

The next day after we discharged, we flew off..... with her "kor par kar"