Expenditure!

With the Great Singapore Sale on, we decided to start purchasing things for little bb. Actually we even started before the GSS in Brisbane. Whenever we go shopping nowadays, it usually out looking at the baby stuffs. We practically went crazy at DFO in Brisbane.


Look at all the clothings which we had purchased. They were pretty cheap so we decided to purchase some.. But without realising it, we purchased that many.


This is my personal favourite!


These are the things which her Daddy wanted to get for her. Nike socks and a dress. Haha.


Things bought by my colleagues when they were out shopping on their own. Aren't they cute?

We also received news that there was a carnival ongoing at Philips and we headed down to look at the prices. Since we have been on the lookout, we knew that the items were really cheaper then when its on sale at the departmental store and purchased some items. Well, not some.. but quite a bit. Hahaha.



The weather was pretty hot then as I headed over after my gynae appointment in the morning. Only when we reached home, we realised that there were some items that were free in the steriliser which we had added on in the purchase. Now we have additional pacifier and teats for newborn. Hiaz....

The items spend at the Philips Carnival was about $400 already. This is not including the items which we had bought at the Robinson Sale and in Brisbane. We also still need to get the big items like the stroller and the baby cot. We plan to get the baby cot which will enable us to use it till bb is around 4 or 5 years old. Hopefully there will be a good bargain with the GSS here.

Trip to Brisbane 09

We are back from Brisbane! The trip was a little to short as we were there for only 4 days. We wanted to extend however it was too late as the air tickets were already booked and cannot be changed. There will be another time I guess. After we touched down at Brisbane Airport, we collected our rented cars and spend a while at the airport car park figuring how to move the car seat forward! hahaha... As we arrived at midnight, the car park was pretty dark and we could not find the button to open the boot! hahahah. After fumbling for a while we finally found the right buttons and we headed off to our service apartment at Oaks Charlotte Towers. We stayed in a two bedroom apartment with kitchen and living room which were all pretty nice!

The living room from the balcony

The Bedroom

The toilet.

On the second day, we had our Team Building activities. We were divided into groups and to perform some art on a painting which was actually divided into 16 pieces. There were a lot of chaos at the beginning as the painting had to be matched and the colours were different. We managed to finished the entire painting on time and here is the result!

The picture does not have any meaning to it. We even added our company logo to it haha.

The group picture with the finished product. The second half of the day was Hell Kitchen, where we had to cook two dishes and to present it. We all headed over to Woodsworth to purchase our items and there were a lot of fun trying to get the best bargains from the supermarket. Luckily Dear taught me to purchase everything and anything that is their housebrands and we managed a savings of $14. Hahhaa.

Karin's group presenting their dishes

Leong's group with Dionex logo!

Presenting while telling a long long story. Hahahha

Shane presenting the winning team with their crowns.

The second day the rest of the group went to take part in the Go Kart. With my present condition, I am unable to play so we opted out of it and went over to some factory outlet to shop and South Banks in the afternoon for a walk. We met up with some of them in the evening for dinner at South Banks and Mt Coota following dinner.

The third day we headed over to Harbour Town for more shopping but I did not manage to purchase as many things as I had at DFO as the shops were almost the same. We bought mostly things for the bb like overall and all as they were really cheap. Dear managed to get a pair of Levis while bb got 5 suits! We ended our day at Surfer's Paradise and headed back to Brisbane town for dinner.

Oh me look so fat!

Detail Scanning

Its a GIRL! I saw the radiologist who performed the scan on me typed the word G I R L in and I went hmmmm. With the swine flu going on, it was a little chaotic at TMC as we are suppose to fill up the forms and take our temperature before we were allow to go in. I will say that the things were not organised properly so things were a little messy. Thank God that the government will change it from Orange to Yellow alert on Monday.

The scanned showed everything is normal and baby is healthy. That is the best thing I had heard. Nothing really beats the health of the baby. During the scan she also showed us that the baby is growing normally and has the necessary fingers and toes. While showing us the scans, bb started to kick. Or should I say stamp her foot! She does not kick only once, she does it continuously for a few times! Maybe she thinks that she is Wong Fei Hong and performs the no shadow kick in my tummy. Hahhaa

I am leaving for the airport soon! See you all when I am back from Brisbane.

19 Weeks

We visited the gynae over the weekend and he confirmed that bb is a girl. Oh well, I will wait for the detailed scanning which is tomorrow before I am sure that bb is boy or girl after the previous incident. Dr Kee also managed to show us a 3D picture of little bb, but it wasn't very clear as he said the placenta was in the way... Hmmm will we be able to see something tomorrow then??

Now we are trying to search online for bb names. There are so many names to choose from and we are pretty lost. When we thought that a name seems nice, we realised that the meaning of the name seems weird. We are also afraid that the name will be easily twisted and change when bb goes to school by her friends. Ohhh... such a tough choice and I mean only the english name. I have yet to get down to the chinese one. Tough tough choices...

Some of the names we have came across and seems nice are:

Audrey
Andrea
Nicole - seems to be favoured by Dear
Kaylie

Any suggestions??

I am gaining weight! Just gained 1kg within a span of 2 weeks, hopefully I will not gain too much at the end of the pregnancy.