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We attended our first antenatal class yesterday afternoon at Pantai Medical Centre. No prizes for guessing what the topic was. The speaker was a wonderfully candid and down to earth staff midwife, Sister Elizabeth. She’s the one whom all of…  

My mom came by my office about an hour ago to deliver a thermos full of home-cooked pork and oyster porridge with pumpkin. And muffins. And a bunch of grapes. Both baby and I are enjoying the food immensely. How not to, when…  

While waiting for one of Han’s company’s clients to debate over the semantics for a presentation the day before an important launch event (while at the venue itself), I took some snaps:  

A healthy, camera-shy, restless one. The full ultrasound scan showed that we have a perfectly normal baby boy at this stage. But, as Dr Wong put it, ‘a bit on the scrawny side’ (I guess I should be eating even more from…  

The scale’s weighing me in at 59kg! The last time I was this heavy was in my first term at uni—a result of stuffing my face with Tesco value chocolate chip cookies, chocolates, milk, cheese and pasta. After that it just…  

Non-maternity, bias-cut dresses will still fit you quite nicely even while pregnant. I bought a couple of them as office wear from the Carven label in Isetan about a year ago and they’re still a part of my wardrobe now. They’re…  

It happened last night, just as I was about to go to sleep. I put my hand on my tummy as usual, then whoa, two little kicks! Han felt them too, but kiddo either lost interest really quickly or realised that mummy…  

Body’s slowly repairing itself after the weekend’s bout of food poisoning. Despite the lousy indigestion that strikes every afternoon after lunch, I still felt game for whipping up something new in the kitchen. My new online place of interest is now [BBC’s…  

I baked yesterday. A batch of chocolate chip and raisin oatmeal cookies, which turned out quite well. And since I don’t have an electric mixer, I learned there and then that the job of creaming butter and sugar can be undertaken just…  

Earlier this morning I glanced at my phone to check on the time, and it turns out that my mom sent me a text, saying that if I’m so firm on still seeing the current gynae, there wouldn’t be much point in…