A short trip to Melaka

Naz and I took last Friday off to bring the kids to Melaka for a short holiday. They had a splendid time, especially when they had ice-cream almost 2-3 times a day (only during vacations that they are allowed to do so). Anyway, let the photos do the talking...

Just arrived. About 1:25pm, Friday, August 22

First activity after lepaking for a few minutes in the room

Then, went for a late lunch at Mahkota Parade. This was taken at Candy Land inside Mahkota Parade's Food Court

On our way to lunch, we saw a new tower by the road side and decided to try it out. We later found out that the tower is called the Menara Taming Sari. Here's the replica of the tower that we will be on in the next few minutes

Waiting excitedly to board the ride

On the ride that goes around in a 360 degree circle at 110 metres above the ground

Peace...

Woken up...

Last Sunday, for the very first time, the baby woke me up - with 3 soft kicks, very early in the morning.... I was shocked at first but could not stop smiling after that. Those were actually the first real kicks I've felt since I got pregnant hehe.

This morning I was woken up again but this time, even earlier - 4:00am. Not because of the baby though. It was because I was thinking and worrying so much about work. I tried very hard but just could not get back to sleep. This is bad. It is happening again. The last time this happened was like two years ago when I literally broke down and confronted my boss.

Anyway, in the process of trying to relax my tensed body and mind, I suddenly started thinking about friends from the office whom have left. All the wonderful memories I had with them - Joal and John who are back in the Philippines, Pat, Steph and Sheryl who are in KL but can hardly meet, Joel and Joy in Australia, Charis who is leaving to the U.S. soon and Tse Leng who is London. I miss them so dearly...:(

Week 17 - Almost half way there my babeh!

Email from Baby Gaga...Update on my pregnancy.

Fetal development in pregnancy week 17: fetus in fourth month.
Don't be too shocked but... your baby is EVEN bigger than it was last week, not to mention getting cuter, and smarter every day! (Leenda: Cuter? I'm sure hehe). As you’ve come to expect, there’s no shortage of growth and development this week: your fantastic little bean stalk has added yet another half inch to their overall height--making them nearly half a foot long (Leenda: Wow!). Their little limbs have reached (or are within one week of) their relative proportions, and will continue to grow evenly with the rest of the body after this week. Reactive listening has begun for your baby, even though their ears are not yet structurally complete or fully functional. Meanwhile, different parts of their astonishingly complex brain are developing to process your little one’s hearing and other senses, (you know, sight, smell, taste and touch). Mind boggling factoid of the week: if you’re going to have a little girl, her ovaries have already produced millions of primordial egg cells (Leenda: What? Hemmm...), which, within a few weeks, will develop into actual eggs! Phew… just wait till she’s a teenager eh? (Leenda: Tell me about it hehe...)

And how's mom doing? Even though the second trimester is often characterized as the most enjoyable of the three, you can count on a few ailments (see week 14 for additional tri-2 symptoms). This week, or in the coming weeks, you may be privy to the uncommon joys of “round ligament pain.” (Leenda: My God, I'm experiencing exactly that!)
These not-so-lovely symptoms - bellyaches, pain in the lower abdomen and sharp shooting and/or stabbing pains, most often expressed at the end of the day. Your suffering is due to stretched ligaments and muscles that support your ever-growing uterus (Leenda: Oh, no wonder!) This is to be expected and is perfectly normal (especially since your uterus is only getting bigger!)(Leenda: Thank God!).
Some doctors advise sleeping on your left side as lying on your back can compress your pelvic veins, decreasing blood return to the lower half of your body. Lying on your left side relieves this pressure thereby allowing normal blood flow. If this doesn’t do the trick, go ahead and consult your health care practitioner, but try not to punch them when they serenely tell you it’s normal to feel stabbing pain during this time. As we all know, violence never solves anything. (Leenda: I'll try the sleeping position as well as not to punch the doctor muahaha...)

Malas...

I have been feeling extremely lazy (and heavy) lately. Find it especially hard to get up in the morning. All I feel like doing now is just to lie down in bed, in ai air conditioned room, with a remote control in my hand and of course with snacks by my side. Aaahh...that sounds like a perfect way to spend my pregnant days. However, coming back to reality, weekdays - got to go to work, come home at 6pm, spend a bit of time with the kids and would already be half asleep by 9 pm. Weekends? Well, possible...but with two kids and and Naz, there is always something that I need to do that requires me getting out of bed hehe...

I was so looking forward to last Saturday cause I was not feeling well almost the whole of last week. I managed to rest a bit but most of the time, was out with Naz and Muzafar, running errands. Munira was also not feeling well and was spending most of her Saturday in bed.

Took Kak Jah to Italiannies (Gardens)on Sunday for her birthday lunch and I found the food to be as great as the last time I came with friends from the office for Cin's birthday. As for Naz who was there for the first time, he really loved it! So, we will definitely go back there especially when they gave us free dessert (they didn't even know that it was Kak Jah's birthday)!

After Italiannies, took the kids to Tasik Titiwangsa. Munira was feeling a lot better and wanted to rollerblade and the lil boy wanted to play soccer with his Ayah. I was just there as a spectator, water supplier and moral supporter hehe.






Oh, baked Marble Cheesecake with Walnuts on Sunday but totally forgotten to snap a photo of it. What a waste!

Just Last Week...

Sunday - July 20. Fira's birthday...Happy birthday darling. Going to have dinner with her after work tomorrow.

At home, so much for my 'katil day', Naz and my dad were outside having a gotong royong to clean up our front yard, I felt guilty so I ended helping a tiny bit hehe. It looked like really hard labour for them though. Poor Naz, he had to cut down a dead rambutan tree all by himself. His hands were aching that night. Am sure my dad had a bad night too :)




Saturday - Munira was in school for her Solat Camp. Naz and I went to Carrefour for our monthly grocery shopping and by the time we got back, my brother's kids have arrived. They were spending a night with us as my brother and sis-in-law had to go for a business trip. They were sleeping in my room with Munira and they looked sooo cuteee...

Rashad, Munira & Aneesa

Saturday night, Naz and I went to Chris and Gayan's wedding at Concorde KL. It was a simple wedding but the hall was nicely decorated. I especially love the wedding cake.

I love the candle stand. Beautiful flowers
The Wedding Cake, alamak gelap laa...
Chris and Gayan cutting their wedding cake

Friday - July 18. It was the birthday of the most special person in my life. It was Naz's birthday. Naz and I took a day off on that Friday for two reasons. First, to go for my monthly check-up at Pusrawi and second, to celebrate Naz's birthday. That night we decided to go for Iranian Food which all of us enjoyed. Naz has always liked middle-eastern food.

Naz and his babies on his 33rd birthday...
Muzafar posing
Naz ordered Iranian tea which my throat couldn't accept. Some funky taste there, man
Superb Lamb Shank

Update - My Life etc

I am officially in my second trimester, Syukur Alhamdulillah. Everything is, so far, so good. Can't wait to start buying baby's clothes. Found Carter's newborn suits at Bangsar Village. 3 in a pack for for RM36/-. Buy 3 packs and get one free. Gonna get them as soon as I know the gender of the baby since the suits are all color coordinated. Blues or pinks. Should I bother letting my boy wear pink or vice versa? Hemmm..I actually do mind ;) hehehe...

Last two Saturdays, took the kids for a picnic at Tekala. Just for a short while since they were very dissapointed for not being able to go for a deep at Sri Palma Villa's pool. It is closed for maintenance. God knows how long it will be closed. The pool's condition was horrible. Yucks!




Last Wednesday, Naz and I watched Hancock and I kinda like it. It was really entertaining. Will Smith is as cool and as handsome as ever and Jason Bateman? Wow, he has aged, but gracefully I would say. Charlize Theron is of course as attractive as ever. Superhero that needed some PR training. Out of the ordinary I would say. Cute.

Just last Saturday, took the kids to the KL library pulak. For a change. Have not taken them for ages.

I decided took cook something special yesterday. Took me about 2 hours to prepare then after eating, I was super exhausted. Couldn't even lift up my arms. Terrible.
Didn't get to snap photos of the Nasi Beriani and Honey Chicken as we were all just too hungry and couldn't wait to start eating hehe.

A movie date...

Naz and I watched The Happening, M. Night Shyamalan's latest movie last night. We can say that we are his loyal fans and have never missed any of his movies. We actually like all his previous movies - they are all awesome and my all time favourite is of course, The Sixth Sense. However The Happening isn't so great. There were very interesting/strong scenes at the beginning, that will make you want to watch the movie right till the end but when the movie finally ended, Naz and I were thinking...aiyo, is that it? Hemmm...