Kari Udang at Nibong Tebol

For those who living at Nibong Tebal, this restaurant is very famous among the local in the small town. My colleagues are kind enough to take me to have a lunch at Nibong Tebal all the way from Parit Buntar. And YES! It worth all the effort to find this restaurant.

They are popular with big-head prawn cooked in dry curry. YUMMY! They actually will ask you if you would to have rice or bread instead. Most of my colleagues actually opted for bread. As i'm preggie.. i opted for rice instead. Don't think bread can fulfil my hunger till dinner.. hehehe.. :P

The prawn is meaty and fresh! Nice! Usually this kinda of prawn will be steamed and serve with some garlic and garnishing to taste it freshness. But i must admit this curry prawn is YUM YUM especially if you dip the bread into the curry! Remember to try their sugar cane drink too .. self-packed in glass bottle ... Those who are curry-lover ... this is a must-try dish! :)

Forgot to bring camera, so didn't catch any pictures of it.. Sorry ya.. :) But still managed to get name card from the si-tou... :)

Hub is BACK!

Yeah, finally hub is back safely. Though he encountered missing parcels (thanks to Emirates), missed flight (thanks for flood), early check out of luggage at Exchange Port.. but most importantly he is safe! hehehe..

Hub reached home at 2am. YiWen slept already, so can't see Papa yet.

Morning she woke up at 7:15am. I was busy preparing for work. Hub heard her voice, rushed up to see her.. but YiWen chased hub away.. AIYO! What a welcome YiWen gave to Papa.. hub must be very disappointed.. :S I carried her down.. and Papa gave YiWen a gift. A camel soft toy from DUBAI! Cute!!

Seems like Papa need to put more effort to play more with YiWen uh?..

Wordless : YiWen at PlayGround near Po Po's House

YiWen's evening at playground near PoPo's house :)

Can't Sleep Well

Can't sleep well yesterday night. YiWen was coughing a lot while sleeping. I was worried sicked that she will vomit out.. 3am woke up asked mom if she got any VICKS at home? Too bad none. So i took minyak angin cap kapak instead to apply a little bit onto YiWen neck. Argh.. amazing she stopped coughing right immediately and slept soundly till morning 8am. Great!

Brought her to see doctor at Kinta Medical Hospital this morning and doctor prescribed her flu, cough syrup and 5 days course of antibiotic for phlegm and fever syrup (just in case). But overall, she is still super active, eat well and extremely playful. I think no one ever can believe she is sick right now ... hehehe.. :P

Will bring her to playground later this evening for some exercises. :)

Fifth Day & Night : Me and You

We woke up at 8am. YiWen helped to water plants at room's balcony. Very GOOD girl she seems..

After she finished her 8oz milk, we walked out tah pau breakfast with my favourite tiffin just behind the house. She saw the swing at the restaurant. Played with it for 15 mins. Then she saw play horse at nearby shop. Put 2x 50cents and let her had a ride. We then walked back and apparently YiWen was in good mood. Hehehe..

Had our breakfast at home. Really love the rocker horse that PoPo bought for YiWen. It is a play toy, lazy chair and feeding chair to YiWen. I fed her some mee and beehoon when she rock happily on the horse while watching TV. That's so easy for me. 10mins she ate quite a lot of mee.. hehehe..

After bathing her, we lepak around the house watching TV before getting ready to leave the house at 11:30am. We are going to PoPo and Kung Kung's house! YEAH! Miss them ooo.. macam long time didn't spend time with them. Since my car is super dirty .. brought her to wash my car at Cyclone Wash at Jln Kampar (guess what?! Only RM2). It is better to wash car at professional wash centre rather than wash it by yourself. Why? Coz they use those nano spray that only spray out little amount of water to clean your car compared to your hose at home. Save water mah! Then RM2 not expensive wat, can save my energy too..hehehe :P Wwe went into the Cyclone main wash machine, YiWen was very excited and scare as well.. .. especially when lots of microfiber cloth rollers are surrounding the car.. hehehe..

Reached Po Po's house at 12:30pm. Had our lunch and YiWen had a noon nap at 2pm till 4:30pm.

After her 8oz of milk, i brought her to ECOPARK nearby Po Po's house. The park is a very nice place for family, children, lover and photographer. It is well maintained thanks to TAIKO PROPERTIES for such thoughtful facility and great landscape for people living around. YA, admission is free so don't litter around ya.. :)

Playing with Moo Moo Spring

Playing with slide :)

She used all her strength to rock the turtle.. WAH SEH! Pity the turtle.. hehehe

After 1 hour of playing, running, jumping and laughing.. we pujuk YiWen to go home. That's so difficult you know! It is very hard to tell her to stop playing when she is still super excited. Hahaha... But we still managed after several persuasion.. phew!

Quickly bath her and we makan dinner at home. Missing dinner at home with my mom and dad.. :) YiWen had great time playing with them while i washed all the dishes and scrubed her stain clothes.

She slept at 10pm after 8oz of milk. Early huh? Coz she was super tired after all the activities in ECOPARK. hehehe..

Fourth Night : Me and You

Reached MIL's house at 7:05pm, today quite early as brother in law (fr kl) and sister in law (fr malacca) coming back for dinner together with us. Ya, they are all going to Penang to look for my younger sister in law to celebrate my MIL's bday on 8th Aug. What an ONG number hor? 88 :) I won't be joining them as hub not around. Alone travel with MM , and in trimester pregnancy condition like now.. is really big NO-NO to me. Coz i had bad water retention on my legs.. pity my legs.. hehe :)

Apparently, they couldn't make it for dinner as traffic was quite jam in highway. So we headed to look for Jia Poh (my MIL's mom) for dinner at EIPOH restaurant somewhere in Pasir Puteh. Yummy ooo! Maybe i hungry at that time.. apa pun on the table will look and taste yummy. MM was quite behaving during the whole dinner period. Playing with her tupperware water bottle.. aka.. playing water la.. hehehe.. :P

After dinner, we sent Jia Poh back to her house and head straight to Tesco to buy diaper for my sister in law. YiWen is always like "kambing keluar dari kandang" when reach any supermarket.. she will run and run to the entrance.. no way for me to chase her.. only FIL so free chase after her.. hahahaha.. while they paying for the diaper, i brought MM to jalan jalan in front of counter. She saw a Play Car.. which a little boy is riding.. she ran and tried to climb into the play car.. AIYO.. she really thought that little boy is invisible.. teruknya!! Of Coz i stopped her.. but she kept pushing the poor boy away.. until the boy's grandma asked the boy to let jie jie sit. I pun pai seh with YiWen's behaviour. I tell the auntie to "ignore her.. let the poor boy sit.. she is always fighting for something with everyone.. dun care her.. " The auntie nodded with a smile..but YiWen kept climbing into the car even i scold her many many times.. the auntie beh tahan liao.. she said "let her sit.. she must be very eager since she tried to climb into it many times.. ".. i really speechless already. I put RM1 in it, and let her had a ride. Then Yeh Yeh and Mama came out from the counter. Once the play car stopped, Yeh Yeh carried YiWen away ... of coz she cried! Kicking and crying till everyone looked at her.. but only man-power can stop her.. yeh yeh used up all his power to carry her to the car.. hahaha.. NO WAY for me to do that.. i always use the soft way..coz I DON'T have the energy .. maybe not now.. let BB come out first, just don't want to hurt my BB inside me. :)

Reached home.. wah seh!! She saw her horse rocker which PoPo bought for her birthday in advanced. Hehehe.. YA, finally it has arrived. Together with the Kitchen Set. But I'll wait for hubby to assemble the kitchen set when he is back. :)

Look at how happy is YiWen with her horse rocker? AMBOI!

After cleaned her up, bancuh 8oz susu for her..

10pm: She was like very tired.. before i off the light and ask her to go to bedroom, she already run and off the tv and head to the staircase with BUSUK.. cute huh? So easy for me ... hehe..

We zzzz at 10:15pm.

Happy World Breastfeeding Week 2010!!

Do you all know that 1-7th Aug 2010 (this week) is World Breastfeeding Week (WBW) ? YES! Breastfeeding is so important that there is even a week in a year that is dedicated to it.

Myself is a hardcore breastfeeding mom. Hehehe.. i used to failed, felt frustrated and dissappointed when i can't breastfeed YiWen exclusively during first 2 months. I bummed into several problems e.g lack of milk, sore nipples, cracked nipples, severe engorgement (due to blocked ducts) leading to fever .. you name it.. i think i kena all before. But thank GOD, after received lots of advises from my sis in law and also few experts on the NET, i managed to hold on and successfully exclusively breastfeed YiWen till she is 10 months. Phew.. then slowly, i'm introducing her formula milk (FM).. Why 10 months? Why not 1 year? Hehehe.. coz i thought to wean her off when she is 1 year old mah... so it was time to introduce her FM lor.. So she still mixing on BM and FM till about 1yr 3 months, then we stopped BM altogether and only drink FM from feeding bottle.. i no longer pumping milk.. just on demand, i will give her direct suck from my breast. That continue till she 1yr 9months and then she weaned off from breast.. :)

Women are not born with breastfeeding knowledge. They need to learn and gain support from surrounding in order to succeed. If you wish to breastfeed, but surrounding are negatively detering you.. then be firm and gain knowledge and support from all breastfeeding moms on the NET. They are many of them around. Don't be shy to befriend and ask advises from them. :)

Just can't wait to breastfeed my newborn this Nov. Hehehe.. need to check my pump condition too.. it got to be working fine!

That's my journey on breastfeeding. :)

I got this article from The Star Online. For those breastfeeding mom, please join the 1 Minute Simultaneous Breastfeeding. The event is in Penang, but if inconvenient to you, you may do it at home too.. :) You will eventually be given a cert by MMPS too.. :) Below are the details:

In conjunction with World Breastfeeding Week 2010, Penang Mother-To-Mother Peer Support group is inviting mothers to participate in the momentous One Minute of Simultaneous Breastfeeding.

This event which calls for Malaysia's mothers to join together to breastfeed their babies for one minute at the same time, will take place on 7 August at 3pm at the DISTED College, 340 Macalister Road, Penang.

The event is open to the public with song and dance performances for famiily and friends to enjoy, as well as to learn about your rights to successfully breastfeed your baby.

Registration is free and for information please call Jeya Aravin – 0192782728; Vasumathi Muthuramu – 0124996389; Deborah Lee – 0174259378; Tamil Selvvi – 0124159758 or email pgmmps@gmail.com or visit the blog at http://pgmmps.wordpress.com

*** If you are not in Penang on 7 August, no worries because you can still participate from wherever you are – at home, in the office and anywhere.

Here's how to take part:

1.On Saturday 7 August, at about 3.15pm prepare yourself and the baby (or babies). You can begin breastfeeding at this time and continue to do so till 3.30pm and continue after according to your baby's convenience. However, it is very important that you are breastfeeding your baby at exactly 3.30pm, because this is when all the mothers in Malaysia in their homes, offices, hospitals and at the event venue will be breastfeeding.

2.Just after you have successfully breastfed your baby at 3.30pm, pick up your phone and sms to 0124996389 /0124156446 / 0174259378 or email to pgmmps@gmail.com before 4.00pm so they can count you in as part of the number of mothers in Malaysia who have joined the One Minute Simultaneous Breastfeeding event. The announcement of the official numbers of participants will be made at 4.15pm.

Please sms or email the following details: Name of Mother: Name of Baby/Babies: Address for Mailing: Phone No.:

This information is required so that MMPS can send you a Certificate that you can proudly display and let the world know that you joined Malaysia's mothers in support of Breastfeeding.

Third Night : Me and You

Reached MIL's house at 7:20pm. A bit late as i went to Jusco to buy present for MIL's birthday this Sunday.

YiWen as usual very happy seeing me. Flagging door key at me asking me to open the door and come into the house quick.

While having dinner she was very naughty. Reluctant to sit and kept playing with containers at the rack. She took one with tea leaves in it and ran out to living room. Of coz , we disallowed her to play further. We pujuk her with another empty container as exchange. She buy it for a while, then cried asking for the latter pulak.. cham.. ignore her for a while, then she kept quiet. Then, she cried again asking us to on Jie-Jie Vcd (those 4 gals singing in a group which sold in every VCD shop) for her. So, Yeh-Yeh on the CNY musical for her as the house dun have any of the CD she wanted. She was happily enjoying the show and out of sudden, she went to my handbag and took out the camera. Kept asking me to "hoi... hoi.. hoi.." Ok.. on it for her.. she sat quietly on my lap and viewed all the pictures and videos from the cam until reluctant to stop! 8:30pm... still watching! Asked her to bangun.. she make noise again.. yeh-yeh carry also bising.. alamak! So i carry her to the car with the cam still on preview (so scare she drop it!).. isks! GILA sangat dengan camera!

Reached home. Very cooperative. Went to living room by herself without whining. Mommy is extremely hungry even already wollup 1 bowl of rice. Cooked the same cintan mee as yesterday. As usual YiWen wanted her share as well.. so we happily eating and finished it in 5 mins.. :P Then heat up the "fu chuk yi mai" i brought from MIL's house. Share again with YiWen. Lastly gave YiWen 8oz of milk and she wallop it all while watching Jie-Jie VCD. Cham, i'm like training my gal to take SUPPER every nite pulak.. :P

Done with all that, off all lights and she will automatically off the tv for me. Nowadays, she won't go to bedroom without her Hippo. So, i got to carry the Hippo (beside her BUSUK, water bottles and my precious handphone) up all the way to her bedroom .. cham.. pregnant also got to carry so many stuff. :S

Tired! Zzzzzzzz.. at 10:30pm.

Cherries from Washington

My colleague bought 1 box of red cherries claimed is from Washington , US. Everyone told me cherries are good for pregnant lady.. coz full of Vitamin especially Vitamin C. I never thought of it. Only thought to get some for YiWen since she caught flu lately. She needs it more i guess. So i bought 1 kg from my colleague. Guess how much? Not cheap .. RM35.60 for 1kg .. agak agak 74 bji ( i didn't count la, only my colleague so free to count it) .. so actually is 48cents for 1 BIJI!! What an expensive fruit! :P

I asked my colleague if can keep till Sunday for hub or not... She said "CAN la!! But must put in the fridge and in TUPPERWARE tupperware!" She emphasized TUPPERWARE so many times! kekeke.. She is a BIG fan of TUPPERWARE. Apa plastic also she buy TUPPERWARE brand. No doubt TUPPERWARE products are at upmost quality .. some more life time warranty, so expect some "WOW" when you see the product pricing ya.. hehehe.. :)

Third Day : Me and You

Woke up at 7:16am. YES! 7:16am!! Late by 45mins. Usual time is 6:30am. I must have pressed the alarm 2 times without knowing it. Luckily YiWen came by my bed , else surely will continue to sleep till 8am! GOSH! Panic.. quickly clean and dress up.

Took my prenatal suplements. Got to skip my milk intake in the morning. Replace it when i'm in the office later.

Packed my bags and her bag and put in the car first.

YiWen saw me going out to compound.. wanna push her Hippo out as well. I stopped her. "Hippo not suppose to be out of house. Hippo must be clean clean wan" .. She listened and push it back.. hehehe.. listen jugak.. :)

Quickly asked her to take her snack - coco jelly and naik kereta to nanny's house.

Luckily she is obedient in such a rush minutes. Phew!

Reached office at 8:25am and still managed to tah pau my favourite Pan Mee from Chha Yong Restaurant at Ipoh Garden South. Must take it with their sambal.. SUPER YUMMY!!