我几个月了？

超沮丧的。。。

有人竟然以为我怀孕了！我的自信心被他那句，“几个月了？”毁灭了。

当时我穿了时下流行的高腰连身裙。再次证明真的不能盲目追求潮流。 我低头望着鼓起来的小腹，真的有点象怀孕四个多月。回过神来，我开始自我安慰。很多男人其实对时下留行的事物很不敏感。这同一群人也应该会纳闷为什么最近出现那么多“孕妇”。孤陋寡闻。不要怪他，不要怪他。。。

不过我还是超沮丧的。

小博士已经九个月了。当初我只给了自己六个月的时间减肥。我买了一架六百多块的运动机、每天早上六点爬起床、边看CNA边朝着49公斤体重的目标前进。。。直到我达到50公斤（我家那骗人的秤是那么显示的…)， 我开始松懈下来。况且圣诞节哩，我的胃也得过节的啊。

还好，不只我一个人沮丧。没见老曾几个月的朋友都惊讶老曾胖了那么多。我怀孕时肚子一天天的大， 老曾的肚子也不甘示弱一天天的膨胀。他也许忘了，小博士出世后，我的肚子可是会缩小的，他的嘛。。。仍维持在怀孕五个月的状态。

他口里说不在乎，心里却很不是滋味。于是我们便立下2007年的新目标。那就是。。。

减肥！

怎么样才能美美？

每年到了这个月份就会有一种莫名的冲动，要把自己从头到脚打扮得美美的。。。即使没人约我出门、没有圣诞派对也没有新年倒数活动。

今年，我终于有了个好理由：老曾的好友就刚好在圣诞前夕的前夕举行婚礼。好喂，我终于可以名正言顺的变美了！

买了一件超性感的 tubedress 和一双超流行的金色高跟鞋、脚指甲图上了“不很明显却令我信心大增”的粉红奶色（哦。。。就是有点粉红，又有点奶色，明白吗？)、头发染了、眉毛修了。。。我想只剩下一条能够搭配我那超性感裙子和超有形高跟鞋的项链。于是，作晚我便冒着倾盆大雨到了乌节路。

我从没想过买一条项链竟那么难！

现在不是超流行夸张到不行的首饰吗？台湾综艺节目的主持不也常常戴那些长长大大的项链？很好看啊。为什么当我戴上时，却总觉得象在装饰圣诞树？够应节了吧。结果逛了几个钟头还是什么都没买到。

我想真的不能盲目的跟着潮流。也许个子矮、肩膀窄的我比较适合“含蓄”一点的首饰哦。

Mummy's Corner - Ouch!

Qi has been crawling, standing, climbing and inevitably, falling. She is definitely a sportswoman in the making. Exactly like her father, she simply cannot get her butt on the seat for more than 5 minutes. I wonder if that means I have to give up on the idea of her being a violinist or a pianist.

Anyhow, a couple of days ago, while fidgetting in front of the coffee table, she fell and knocked her head on the side of the table. Ouch! It must have been a pretty hard knock because there was an apparent "dent" on top of her right brow.

I am not exaggerating...it really was a "dent". Can see or not?

Cannot see meh, but this is enough to scare the hell out of me. I tried, in vain, to pacify her as she bawled. I have to confess that I am guilty for not holding on to her tightly before her fall. I wanted to let her move around on her own. To "train" her to be independent.

Thank goodness, the "dent" disappeared shortly after. I was later told that it is common for babies to be involved with minor accidents like this as they gain mobility; no cause for alarm but I saw an urgent need to childproof the house.

So hours after the drama, I shifted the coffee table to the corner of the living room, leaving a large space between the TV console and the sofa for Qi to do all her yoga and gymnastics. It's definitely better to be safe than sorry.

Universal Studios Is Coming To Town!

Yeah! Universal Studios will be here soon! This is oh so exciting! I wonder if we will have the Jurassic ride, the ET ride, the Back To The Future ride and ooo...my favourite tram ride!! If they complete the project by 2015...Qi will be 9 years old by then. Just the right time for all those rides! And, I can even save on the air tickets to LA because Universal Studios SINGAPORE will be larger than Universal Studios Hollywood! (Er...not I say one, the newspaper say one. Give them the benefit of the doubt, can?)

I have always been enticed by a Universal Studios in Singapore. I mean Kerzner-CapitaLand's proposal of a water theme park is nothing new to Singapore and "dramatic glass structures" sounds very greenhouse loh.


As for the Eighth Wonder...alright, alright, to be fair, not that the proposals by both Kerzner and Eighth Wonder are, or rather, were not exciting. But some of the attractions like a 10-storey high waterfall, a man made volcano et cetera et cetera are rather vague ideas. People who have been to Universal Studios would not need much imagination, they have personally experienced world class entertainment.


ANYhow, Universal Studios is coming to town!

Yippeeeeeeee!!

Mummy's Corner - Teats Teats Teats

Baby bottles should be designed like AVENT bottles. No nonsense, wide neck, ergonomically designed. (Even though it is not economically priced) I mean, who needs cartoons on milk bottles? Haven't we been taught when we were young, not to play with our food...or the utensils? Besides, those cute pictures on milk bottles impress mummies more than babies.

Just like baby toys. They can be so facinating that I can spend hours at the infant section choosing one that can stimulate all the different senses of Qi and making sure my money is well-spent. I happily bring the carefully selected toy back home to Qi, only to discover she is more interested in the box or the tag that comes with it.

Oh...back to feeding bottles...as I was saying AVENT bottle are great! Sturdy and unlike other brands which look more like masak-masak, it is everything a milk bottle should be ... except Qi does not like it. In fact she refused to drink from it. I suspect it's the teats that are relatively harder than other brands of bottles. Hence I made an unreluctant switch to NUK.

This time round Qi adored her new NUK bottle with soft latex teats, and for me, I had an excuse to buy bottles with cartoons. Qi loved the soft teats so much that she spent an hour drinking her 120 ml of milk. And so much so that she frequently just fell asleep sucking on the teats.

It was really by chance, that I found out Qi is not a slow drinker at all.

She was very much misunderstood.

In fact, she could even finish her bottle of 180ml before I am done typing and uploading this post. What happened was, one fine day I tried to feed her water with a PIGEON milk bottle which I found lying around in her wardrobe. (Yes, my Qi has a wardrobe, not some mini chest of drawers nor a filmsy shelf hor) I was surprised she drank so fast from the PIGEON bottle. The very next day, I tried milk and viola! She finished her milk in 10 minutes.

Forget about anti-colic, I figure how much air can she sucked in in 10 minutes, right? I just burped her more often, burped her in between her feeds, after her feeds, as and when she is awake and I've got nothing better to do.

JUST BURP & BURP & BURP!

I really cannot understand why babies have so much 'wind' in their stomach! But nutmeg oil aka 如意油works wonders.

Anyhow, parenthood is really all about trial and errors. I have friends who swear by AVENT and NUK.

Heng, Qi prefers a cheaper brand.

Mummy's Corner －Baby refuses to eat?

真感动，虽然我的Blog不是一个Baby Blog，妈咪网友仍然把我的Blog 连接到她们的Blog。因此，我决定开设一个“妈咪角落”，好让进来流览的妈咪们可以阅读。网友说我很cheem，用中文写Blog。。。好啦。。。好啦。。。为了这群网上朋友，也为了展示我“精通双语”（chey!)，英文板的“妈咪角落”诞生喽！小博士应该很开心，因为她将从“配角”摇身一变成为“主角”喔！


Recently, I have heard of some mummies around me getting vexed as their precious darlings drink very little milk or do not eat enough. There can be a hundred reasons why our precious darlings go on an unwanted diet, but from my own personal experience, the culprit is the teat of the bottle. - See next post.

Or it could simply be Kan Jeong...the parents lah, not the baby. Actually, I have discovered that it is unneccessary to follow the suggested amount stated on the tin can of the milk powder. It is almost always more than what my little Qi can drink. Sometimes, I suspect it is a conspiracy to make us finish up the powder faster so that we can buy a new can...and oh gosh...it's so expensive that I wish I had continued to breastfeed!

On not eating enough, I have seen mummies feeding babies table food. Snacking will naturally fill up babies' little stomachs, so how can babies finish their own food after that?

Having said that, not that I do not understand why parents get anxious when their kids are not eating enough. Because nothing beats watching Qi gulps down her food, finishes every drop of her milk and poo poo everyday.

It's funny how such mundane stuff becomes one's top priority after we progress to motherhood.

天才与白痴

今天又让我读了一则令人沮丧的报导。我开始想起为什么有一阵子，我连新闻都懒得看，报纸也不想读。真的有太多、太多成功的故事了。而这些企业家都好年轻、好年轻。好年轻就赚了他们的第一桶金子。而且是很大一桶，OK！

前阵子是Googles用1.6 亿万美金(USD1.6billion啦,如果我翻译错了，请原谅我，我真的不知如何翻译那么大的一个数目) 收购了YouTube。那创办YouTube的小子才27岁喔。。。1.6亿万美金。那到底有几个零呀？

今天这则新闻更气人。 22岁的Mark Zuckerberg, 哈佛大学生，创办了网站 thefacebook.com。那好象是一个能让大学生保持联络的系统。 至今已有9，500万人流览那个网站了。Viacom和Yahoo分别想以 。。。哎呀，不翻译了。。。就是分别想以US$750 million和 US$900 millon收购他的网站。但都被他拒绝了。

天啊。。。真是气死人不偿命。

不是说网际网络是泡沫经济吗？为什么就有这群人能在一夜之间成为亿万富翁啊？

还有为什么有人在网上图图写写就能开始主持电视节目。哎呀，我在说xiaxue啦。。。真不愿意再给她额外的宣传，不过我想短期内，我的blog也不会有太多人流览。。。甚至都不懂有没有人进来，所以也不可能达到宣传效果，对吗？

还有，那两个嬉皮笑脸的小伙子－“后舍男孩”，在摄影机面前耍耍宝，然后放上Youtube, 竟然会当了手机代言人！

这是什么世界啊！

不过，话又说回来。他们的的确确有他们的才华啦。只不过，如果在十年前，或许就不容易被发掘。但“新媒体”的诞生, 制造了许多平台，如Youtube啦、 Blog啦, 让一些平凡人有机会变得不平凡。

当初我告诉小博士将来要去读医科，然后当个妇产科或小儿科医生。那天，老曾却改变了主意，还是让她读IT Engineering啦，Computer Science 之类的。

老爸老妈也想过好日子，好吗？拜托您啦，小博士。

小博士去 Gai Gai

今天七早八早带了小博士去东海岸。早上在海边散散步、晒晒太阳的感觉真好！

看！小博士还挺开心的哦！

出乎我的意料，东海岸的人不少。我还以为现在的小孩都躲在家里玩Maplesea了呢。

有几个同事的小孩沉迷于电玩。但他们说他们孩子的社交圈没因此而变小。相反的，他们认识了很多网友。

是吗？

我不是一个石鼓不化的人。（人家也是很跟得上潮流的，好不好。〕现代科技对我来说是好的。若没有手机短讯、没有电子邮件、没有MSN、没有on-line forums, 我想我这个懒人会与大部分的朋友失去联络。我也结交了一些网友。（我都说我是跟得上潮流的咯。) 我们在网上很能聊。见过几次面，也都能面对面聊天。

可是我们毕竟和现在的孩子不一样。我们是老早就学会如何与人面对面沟通，然后从网上认识新朋友的。现在的孩子如果大部分的时间都花在网上，他们肯定是先学网络上的“人际关系”，而极少与人面对面沟通。网上的“人际关系”缺乏了肢体语言、眼神交流、语气控制等。而这些技巧只有面对面交流才能学到。

说到这里，我非得很骄傲的提一提小博士的“人缘”。

简直太好了。

每当我们经过楼下的邻里商店时，总有人会和小博士搭讪。经过卖衣服的阿姨：“啊！Baby，又去Por Por的家啊！”

经过卖水果的辣妈：“Baby，今天没去Por Por家吗？”

经过卖杂货的姐姐：“Baby, 怎么今天不笑啊?" （很显然，小博士不喜欢你，ok?)

甚至当我在食物中心吃早餐时，也有auntie走过来：“Baby,你又来啦！”

我问小博士，“你认识她呀？”

小博士一脸茫然。

哦。。。没关系，没关系。认识人多，忘记一两个也是正常的。

真没想到小博士在这一区住了不到八个月，认识的人竟比这个住这儿三十多年的老母还要多。不错，不错，相当好的开始。

希望她长大后，能先学如何与人正面交流。而对于电脑、电玩嘛。一句相当老调牙，却又很实在的话 ： 视可而止吧！

钱怎么可能会够用？

我读了一则令我相当沮丧的新闻。

政府又要调高消费税了。

当然，当然，政府有个宏观理由。调高消费税是为了鼓励人民储蓄和作适当的投资、吸引企业家和外国投资者、也是为了劫富济贫。。。哦，不，不，我的意思是为了帮助低收入家庭，拉近贫富距离。

总是说得头头是道。周游列国的偶像一号也曾说过。新加坡的消费税算低了，不信？到伦敦走一趟。也许是我孤陋寡闻。

但为什么心理仍然很不舒服？

我只读了两个月的经济学便放弃了。我不太明白通货膨胀和什么税、什么税的概念原理。我只有一个简单的问题： 为什么我加薪的幅度永远跟不上什么税、什么费的涨幅？

我不属于政府口中的“低收入家庭”，所以我不会得到很多、很多的津贴。我更不是有钱人，他们懂得用钱生钱，什么税涨也ok的啦。我曾读过一份报导。。。我忘了在哪里读过。也许是『时代』杂志。日本出现了一群“新穷人”。他们拥有大专毕业文凭和一辈子还不清的房屋贷款和汽车贷款。咦？在说我吗？

这个时代不再属于安分守己，不好也不坏的白领阶级，要嘛就做最好的，要嘛就做最烂的。我说的。

对了，我必须跟小博士说一定要把奶喝完。不然打屁股。因为明年奶粉要涨价了。

开张大吉

开张喽！开张喽！

Blog Phenomenon － 部落格现象其实显示出一个病态。原来有那么多人都是暴露狂跟偷窥狂。暴露的不是肉体，是心灵。偷窥的是别人的想法。这样也爽吗？

是挺爽的啦。

想开始一个自己Blog并不是一个新概念。早在三四年前阅读了朋友的Blog之后就想过了。我所想的和我的实际行动常常在赛跑。当我的想法已抵达一百米终点时，我的行动只走了一厘米。。。甚至停留在原地。

后来，我真的开始了一个Blog。但那是为了纪念我的光头小帅哥。是我和他的一个私人角落。连老曾也不知道的喔。

好了，今天我终于正正式式的开始了！

为什么？我曾经告诉偶像三号和同事们我想出书 ： 一本回忆录吧。正在吃饭的友人哄堂大笑。偶像三号说我又不是名人，哪有人会去买我的 “回忆录”？有谁会管我有什么回忆啊！我很不服气。我告诉她们就因为我不是名人，别人读我的“回忆录”才会有所共鸣嘛。何必去读Adam Khoo或李光耀的 “回忆录”然后感慨自己不是百万富翁或总理？

当然没人同意我的谬论。

真没远见。

我仍然觉得我的梦想会成真！就由此Blog开始！以后我会把这个Blog刊登成一本书！有了这个想法，我马上发了一则短讯给偶像三号。她的回答 ：

“Ha ha! If u like it, then do it! :)"

为什么我总觉得她在敷衍我？

好了啦，别以为凭一个Blog就能出书了。网络世界就如浩瀚汪洋，要“出位”嘛。。。除非我的Blog有裸照。不知道我的小博士愿不愿意。。。

好。。。好。。。好。。。不愿意就算了嘛，扁什么嘴嘛。。。