Bean sprout husk

See this big bag of bean sprout husk! Hahaha... ws got this from the "dao gei" auntie from the market near her place... Its a big big hugh big.... hahhaa she took 20% out from this bag, split into 4 small bags. We collected from her on friday evening.


Nick started his task on the bean sprout husk selection.... he took about 1.5 hour to sieve and select out 1 bag... hahhaa ... tough job sia.... Sat morning I tried to sun it but my hse no sun... in the end I try to oven dry it and it works! I sieved another bag on Sat morning... I must be quite good at it...hahaha I only took 1 hour...
When Nick came back from his school in the afternoon, I shared with him my tips! Sieve out the small small "fresh" then left the big sprout and husk... then pick out the big sprout then left over are the husks! He say it a much easier method... he finished the rest of the 2 bags while I help with the oven dry task!
 
We have a mini basket of dried husks now...hahhaha... will leave it aside till I got time to find the cover to fill them.

Those were the days...

Last evening I accompanied Nick to his new school in Jalan Raja to pay some payment for new term... He is studying in Curtin and they have a new premise. First time I been to this new premise.... As I was waiting for him in the car, I saw students rushing for class at about 7pm... thoughts of memories flood back....

Back then, my class was at orchard far east plaza... the lift is damm wulu... hahaha... classroom small small and class start at 7 end at 10...hmmm... still rem how we used to frequent BK for dinner just before class... and me and joey sharing a cab back after class! The class size is not big.. students's age range from 20 to 30+... back then I was the youngest in class...hahhahaha.... we have classmate who are working, doing NS, etc... I still recall that we kinda dun believe wat Andrew said when he told us he was doing police service! Hahahah...As me, joey and kelvin come from the same poly... we have each other accompany in class....Coincidently we have a classmate whom is from our neighbour course in poly... we used to attend the same lecturer in poly and we all recognised him from his "outstanding" dressing! Still recall when we saw him in our first lesson we were like "HUH! its him ar" :P

I still rem we have a lot of different lecturers which I already cant rem them...got some boring ones as usual, some sisi one.... the most impressive one is none other but the famous Mohammad! The fat fat Mohammad in his tiny scooter and John always curse and swear that the scooter is going to fall apart very soon! Why we dislike him so much??? Because he "bo standard"! Hahahaha... anyhow mark our assignment and he is very "ti koh" one... I guess the guys in the class cant stand him, cos he never "treated" them well... hahahha.... Cant really recall wat we learn in class... only rem that it was the first time we heard of the term "referrencing" hahaha... now the it does help Nick, cos I am the one who help him with his "referrencing" in assignment!

Back then we do not have to sit for exam...so its always assignment and assignment... still rem the days we all bunk at Joey place just to burn the stupid application into Mac format.... there is only one mac machine from a classmate then all gather to create that stupid Mac format... till as late as 3 am... still rem driving home alone in my father mini bus along SLE at 3am... hahaha why I can rem? cos I was speeding cos too sleepy liao...and now think of it... scary!

Nothing beats the memories we had in Perth! It was the year of 911... I still recalled that our flight is on 922... alot of rumous that there will be bomb and stuff on 922... I guess we are too young and dangerous to worry that much... I still rem the lousy plane we had... and the stupid delay we had at SG airport... Andrew was damm late for flight but due to the flight delay we were loitering at SG airport.... We reached Perth midnight and it was freezing cold.... The apartment we stayed was at some Wulu pandan place... Recently Nick just went for his Perth trip... He said the new place they stay was good, nearby got store and most importantly beer are easy to buy! Hmmm... back then we like not so beer siao...

I still rem 5 to an apartment... me and joey share 1 room with attached bath room... first time we get to use a clothes dryer! Hahaha... In the bath room got a jacuzzi... both of us locked ourself in our bedroom to enjoy the jacuzzi... when John get to know abt it, he is curious how we use the jaccuzzi cos we din have swim suit with us... when we said we use towel lar... his mind ran wild....
John, Jimmy, Kelvin and Tong Chang shared another apartment.... I still recall the joke of how 1 guy leopard crawl to another guy room... hmmm if my memory dun fail me, Jimmy is the one leopard crawling!

We attended stupid lessons at Uni, do stupid project... the fun part is shopping for food in the super duper big supermarket place and cooking our meal in the apartment... of course dun expect the guy to cook. We all bunked in at the ladies apartment for meal...hahhaa...I still remember we rented a car and there were only 5 ladies with about 6 or 7 guys... but none of the guys wanna share the car with us! So we end up 5 ladies driving in the white coralla... No gentleman lar..... hahha.... but must also give 2 guys the credit, Kelvin and Andrew...cos they are constantly taking care and looking out for our safety.... hahhahaha

Still recalled there was once we were late for the bus back to our apartment we wanted to pay the driver extra to bring us back and she refused saying she already knocked off...it was only 5 plus in the evening... so the whole lot of us try to make our way back by taking public transport... john got "arrow" by a little ang mo boy who threw paper ball at him! why only John??? perhap... he looked too cocky liao...Hahaha... we droped at the wrong station and walked a big round along the swan lake and finally back to the apartment.

From this trip we had a common Joker... that is emily! cos her topics mostly "unsensored" and the guys kinda feeling er sin... the best was... she fart openly and none wanted to sit near her!!! Hahahahhaha.... some of us extended our stay and John had to go back to SG urgently so left Jimmy the only guy with 5 ladies... I still recall how poor jimmy is when emily wanted to sit with him on the tour bus! Hahahaha.... we even caught emily "eyeing" on him while he was sleeping in the bus! :P But Jimmy is heng de...cos he shared room with me and joey... we dun have "other" motive on him... imagine if he was in the same room as emily instead.......hahahhahahhahah.... imagination run wild.... :P

The only thing I gained from the trip was the title of "zhu Sheng" (Pig God) all thanks to Mr. Kelvin Ho... we were at a chinese resturant in Perth... so glad to find chinese food... and when ask wat to order I shouted Pork! Kelvin immediately do that handsign and said cos I am "Zhu Sheng"! That's it.... the name stayed with me till now.... but I guess the only one who is still using this term is Uncle John... Please erase this term from your memories K..... thou I still like pork now... :P
All these are ages like about 7 to 8 years ago.... hahhaha... many of the guys are already father of 2.... The gals I guess most are married.... wonder wat happen to Mohammad and his tiny scooter...hahhaa... Still rem the days we used to have gathering at orchard wisma foodcourt after we graduated.... hahhahaha.... Hope you guys are doing well in life and happy memories!

Our Ong Lye Huat liao!

I haven been login to the Punggol forum lately.... I received a ptd message in my email, my neighbour drop me a msg asking if I left a pineapple in our house... hahaha

She was there last Sat and saw some workers working in the defects and there are lots of fruitflies coming from that unit. Seems like smelly liao.... but also like not smelly cos one of the worker is staring at the pineapple....Hahhaa.... oh gosh!!! Its us loh.... We left the pineapple in the unit and we haven been visiting our unit for a few weeks.

I went into the forum and realise they are "looking" for me...hahhaha Looking for the neighbour with the pineapple... so pai sei....

We went up to our unit last evening.... the pineapple really HUAT liao... and tons of fruit flies... Nick cleared the pineapple and the fruitflies... Heng our neighbour alert us via the forum! Hahaha

Today I reply saying that heng my pineapple is on the table, so din stain the floor. One forum member mentioned that the one she saw, the pineapple is on the floor... Hahahah so many units with pineapple and all HUAT liao :P

Kinda silly at times

I was reading through some of my past blog entries and came across this entry which I wrote on bb, house, finance, thoughts and plan

Looking back then, I realised that sometimes we just tend to place too much importance in certain issue or thing... perhaps its when its not here and right here at this moment, U dun really feel the importance and you may think that it has lesser priority.

Back then I was worried about "time frame", with the house coming and family planning... to cross over cow year a not and stuff... Hahah... kinda silly of me back then... hahahha... now then I realized and feel that things will just get into place when times come....

We din really planned as in "Planned" when to have a child... the thought of a calf bb was always there but we did not really actively pursue over this issue... when friends among us know that we wanted a calf baby... questions are always raise as in "Any news" ??? Hahhaha... My usually reply is "no lei"...hahhaha.... Certain things just dun come as you wanted at times....

Just as we are happily idling and busy attending weddings of 2008... a little life is growing and ready to say "Hi".... Little NJ officially say "Hi" just a few days into 2009... and shortly.. about 2 weeks later, we received our loan application letter... And as I was busily handling my "morning sickness", we have received the keys to our new home! A place that we longed for and a major plan of 2009 in my resolution....

Everything like happen in a split second... I thought just in time... we can have a place of our own before Little NJ pop... sometimes its called "人算不如天算"...hahhaha... we are forbidden to shift or do anything to the house before Little NJ pop!.... To some people might feel that "HUH!!! so dampening mood!!! its like a wish for a long time (since wedding in 2007 I have been keep talking about Coralinus) hahhahaha...

Frankly speaking I m not sad by this... not a little sad at all! I guess its a shift of priority... I never have thought that I would feel this way...hmmm... though we cant shift place yet, though we cant go to Japan holiday (this mar) as planned... none of this upset me... weird rite... I guess back then when I wrote that blog entry in Aug last yr, if I foresee all these happen, I might have scream and shout all over my blog... hahahha....

However when all these happening now... I m not affected by it at all... :) I am quite surprise by my own thoughts and reaction too! Looking back at some of my blog entry towards the end of last year, its like very very "dark"... I have learn to let go and feel that everything has a life path of its own...
Although I do get emo and upset by my "MS", sobbing and feeling sad for myself...hahha but these does not have any lasting effect... hahhaa... its kinda release of emotion at that moment and next minute I m back to my usual self. 

Looking forward to the days to come... I guess experiences in life does bring one to a new height of understanding of one self and be amazed by how things can change your life and thoughts that you would have least or never expected.

I still do think and planned... but my MS has been giving me a lot of to handle at this moment and I am too busy "conquering" it... hahhaha... I thought I would be reading a lot about motherhood but I haven been do so... hahha... luckily Ws is there to be my walking encyclopedia these while... hahhaha
Since Jan, I have been staying at home all these while and we seldom go out... because of my "suffering"... Nick has been understanding and there always to offer comfort hug. Hahah... the lazy worm has also been reading a bit to understand about gastric reflux and some solution.... 

I do at times feel worried and scared of the "new" challenge... I guess "thinking of it" in a visual form and see it happening in a physical form is really different! Sometimes I do feel "lost" and dun know how to handle... its kinda scary at times too... when U think deeper into it... I believe that I will be having more experiences and thoughts as the days come... after all its part and parcel of life that we have to go through to form life experiences.... without experiences... life would be just as plain as water... but too much drama also very siong... hahhaha... ok I am contradicting...
Stay tuned!

Diary of Little NJ - Part 1

Little NJ is detected on week 4. I usually had my "auntie" reporting quite on the dot. However I have experiences of 1 week late. This time round Nick suggest to do the check later. But me being the anxious me, I wanted to test soon...hahhaa we bought the clear blue kit. Finally... cos I convince Nick to get it, cos he always feel its Xpensive. It was on promotion some more....hahhaa

I could'nt believe my eyes, the plus sign appear b4 the test window line... which make it a bit unbeliveable, because previously I have tried those ulu brand, it take a while b4 the test window line to appear then the actual window. We saw the plus sign for the very first time. Nick was so excited that he was lost for words. we start to read the online stuffs. Hahaha.

The next day he was beaming with "steal" laugh... because he say cannot annouce yet since we are not really sure. I am feeling ok and quite normal.. I spend the day surfing the web for gynea... Was thinking of going to another gynea (apart from the usual one I see because of her cost). We decided to visit Doc W the following week. By then I should be in week 5.

The rest of week pass in bliss, except occassionally tiredness. We visited Doc W on a Sat. The visit was disappointing. The clinic is filled with people and first come first serve basis... The visit lasted in 5 min, with him scambling through some writing and a brief tummy scan which only show lining thickening and ask me to come back in 2 weeks time. I was hopping to see the sag.  I was'nt feeling happy with the visit. Although I have been pre-warn by mummies of Doc W that he is fast and straight forward, because being first timer, I hope for a more delicated doc... Nick was happy with Doc W as he say he is very fast and direct dun need to waste time. But he leave the final decision to me. I decided to visit my usual gynea and make an appointment just before CNY.

10.01.09, Sunday was bad, the first experience of morning sickness! I keep feeling like going to vomit and gastic bloating. I tried to keep snacking. It was terrible feeling. Monday morning was worse... I experience the first "wanting to vomit but nothing come out even if u dig" it was bad. I decided to see a GP. I visited a GP near Nick hse. We have seen him b4 for stomach flu and he is very loh soh one... hhahahha... I told him I have done a home test and seen a gyne but nothing is being confirmed. He suggest that I go for a blood test and if everything is good, I shall visit my gynea after CNY for a scan (which will most probably be the best time) The visit lasted 30 min, he goes on telling me what to expect and being a super on dot cycle woman, I most probably experience the most super on dot MS... then he goes on telling me that since I have fat membrane in my body (since young I m on the overweight borderline) he said that I would most probably blow up to very big size. I thank him for the pre-empt. :(

I was given 1 day mc to rest at home and I slept through the day. The symptoms continued the next few days.... it was really terrible. It is like the minute the stomach call for food, u cannot delay if not it will give u hell! I drink a lot of milo cos it seems to smoothen the feeling but the consequences is constipation. We returned to the loh soh doc to collect the blood report on Thur. The blood report show 30,000 over HCG level, which mean about week 5. We decided to delay the gynea visit to after CNY. I told the loh soh doc abt how bad the MS I am feeling. He say the window is only 15 min, which mean once u feel hungry u are only given 15 min to find food. Faint....We broke the news to our parents and close friend. Nick feel that its better to follow the tradition of keep quiet for the 1st trimester till everything stabilize. I agreed with him too.

As we go to the pai pai place to pai pai, I was told not to attend any red or white event. But I have a close fred wedding in Mar and I thought I can still go for dinner at least. I was told not to attend due to red clash red. I told SW about it, thou she is not patang but I guess for both party sake, I have no choice. I feel bad as she is one of my very close fred since secondary school. Hope that she understands my difficulty and how badly I wish to be there for her on her big day. I promised that I will definitely join her for her hen night party. I have asked the rest of the fluffy gers to carry out my duties on my behalf. hahahah.

The rest of the week passed by with me munching every 2 hours. I was practically carrying plain biscuit ard incase it strike! I start to drink ribena as I heard it can help to curb MS. I start to worried if I am having too much sugar in take. For the past 1 week, I really feel that the body is not mine. There was 1 incident that I m on my way back home for dinner, the hunger feeling kick in and I have to rush to the nearest foodcourt, uncontrollably, my hand reach out for the wallet before I reach the foodcourt! And as usually I cant finish the food. I packed back the rest after like eating 10 spoonful. Nick learn to be clever, whenever we dined out, he would make me order my food and see if I can finished, which usually I cant. Then he will finish the rest, he scare else he eat 2 portions he will become fatty very soon.

At the end week 6, I realised I am getting forgetful and slightly dis-oriented as well. I was making my way back home and since the LRT (sengkang) started I have never taken the LRT on the wrong side. For the very 1st time, I actually took the wrong side. There was another ger who took the wrong side too. The LRT is a one way train so she suggests that we share a cab and I agreed. I have to admit that it is something very weird.

I made appointment to tame my hair on Sat. I brought along bread, biscuit and water for just in case. After the 3 hours plus at saloon, I was rushing for food. After a few mouthful of porridge I cant manage to squeeze in anymore. I decided to walk to the train station under the hot sun which was a bad decision. Before I could reach the MRT, I was feeling weak and cant walk anymore. I decided to take bus and change mrt later. It was bad. The rest of the day I suffer from feverish and strong gastric juice! It was unbearable... and terrible feeling. I cant eat my food yet the gastric is keep "guggling" inside... I decided that if it puke just puke, I have no way out. But its just dun puke! Hungry or not, I cant really confirmed... I eat some porridge and took my heartburn medicine. I sleep and Nick asked if I want to see a doc. But I know see liao also no use. I just try to sleep. I sleep from 6pm till the next morning 7am.. Then I feel better. For the past few weeks I m also very scared of cold… sometimes I just dun wish to shower. I will faster blow dry my hair else I will be shivering.

I hate week 7! It’s a torturing week. I m on like 2.5 days mc! It started on Sat and Sun having gastric attack. The point below my chest bone get painful and more painful when food goes in. Monday I tried to eat many many meals. But there is a limitation to the kind of food I can eat. I have to eat all the tasteless food. For a few days I m surviving on bread, milo and biscuit! I got a breakdown on Monday, I told Nick I had enough liao… I hate to eat, for the sake of eating. He is very nice to coax me and try different food for dinner that evening. The gastric problem din stop, on Tuesday it went into peak! I can no longer tolerate. Went to see doc at Raffles hospital which is next to my office. The doc prescribe a medicine to so call stop the gastric juice. I took the medicine but it did not cure immediately, we went home to have dinner which is plain rice and soup then follow by the “er xin” milky medicine to so call stop the gastric juice backflow. I puke out everything including the “munched” rice. I feel better after puking.

Though I was given an mc for Wed, I have an event in the morning so I have no choice but to report to work. Took half day mc instead. That afternoon I had a fever. Nick ask me not to see the doc as it will mean more medicine. I broke down again. But I agree that what he say was right. I would have to endure. I was having cold sweat in the night. And the best thing was, I dream of eating a lot of my fav food in my dream! Thur I can’t go to work. I was feeling feverish, headache and giddy… I went to see the GP. He concluded that its not gastric pain. Its due to the gastric backflow. He wants me to “guai guai” take the “er xin” milky solution if I dun want to suffer gastric pain again. I dun seems to have a choice. The doc also mentioned that the cold sweat is due to constipation! Not fever! I was given the medicine to ease the shit and 2 days mc. Thursday went on sleeping the whole day and feeling “wanting to vomit” all the time. I tried digging! Nothing was out. On Friday late morning as usual I was feeling very nausea, I thought nothing would come out, just as I was feeding myself the “er xin” milky solution preparing my stomach for food, the “er xin” milky solution made me vomit! Nothing but white stuff… dun know it’s the milky stuff or my gastric juice. Today mark the end of week 7. I hate week 7. I am going crazy very soon.

Week 8, I decided to keep my “mouth” shut and finger cross… maybe superstitious… I think by not mentioning anything it seems that I din really go and think and be bothered by it… I just keep my finger cross everyday. I tried to stop all the form of medication wherever possible. We visited Doc Watt and did a scan. We saw little NJ and saw the heartbeat for the very 1^st time!

Week 9, finger crossing for this week. We are getting keys to our new place!!! But we are not renovating and moving in after little NJ is born. We collected our keys and went to our new place for defects checking. What a tired day, perhaps due to irregular timing for meal, I am not feeling very well again. Hopefully it goes away after the weekend rest.

Week 10 went on in a breeze… I am able to eat and without feeling nausea. Keeping finger cross.

Week 11, 2 days mc plus vomiting as and well which I cannot control! Feeling terrible. Dun know wats wrong. Can’t help but feeling frustrated and emo….. The food I used to eat turn out to be vomiting provoking food… I think my taste buds have gone haywired… No choice but to return work on Wednesday. For the first time… I blackout at bugis mrt station… I was conscious and aware of the surrounding but I was totally blackout! I was squatting and sitting at one corner and Singaporean being Singaporean, no body bother abt me… also good lar… cos so pai sei lei…. I regained colour and walk back to office. Din dare to join my colleague for lunch as I tend to puke half way or towards end of meal. Wednesday evening Nick and me went for teochew “fan shu” porridge dinner. I was eating “fan shu” and salted egg yoke… before I can finished, the orangy porridge is all out in the seiyu plastic bag!

Week 12, terrible symptoms continue….I am feeling like a piece of shit….I am stuck on my bed 20 hours during weekend and on leave… Really frustrating… walk a bit feel like black out…always feeling nausea around meal time…eat a bit, seem like the food going to come out. When will the symptoms goes off. I was reading online and by right it should start to taper off. When??????

We went to do Raffles hospital for the scheduled “Oscar” test by Doc Tony. From the scan, all look well and Doc say the result is good, we will have to wait for blood test to have he final result. Doc Watt fav line is “No news is good news”. I told Doc Watt my problems and she say its pretty normal to experience low blood pressure at this stage and just take note that when about to blackout, faster find a place to sit or lye down. She also mentioned that during this period of time, I might feel “stretchy” in the abdominal as the womb is going to expand outside the pelvis…. Sound scary. Hahahaha… We saw a lot of preggy women walking around at the clinic. Dun know why, I feel a sting of “scariness” at the moment… perhaps I start worried about the expansion of tummy….I share this feeling with a friend lately and she jokingly say, “Dun worry, it will expand but will not explode!”

The queue to see doc is fast. But the queue to take medicine and pay money is damm slow… I took the blood test as well… The nurse who drew my blood is not very gentle and its kinda of pain when I felt that she is “digging” my vein. My gastric already start to object violently!!!! We hurried to get a brownie from the nearest shop at level 1 (coffeebean). I swear I will not eat another muffin from coffeebean anymore. The minute I took 1 bite, its greasy and I felt like vomiting. The minute we reached the car, everything is out! Including the gastric juice! Terrible. We went home and picked up a mac fish filet meal on the way back. I was given 2 days MC to rest. But not full rest as the symptoms continued….. Gastric juice dancing and making me feel like puking or rather really puke… I did check with Doc when will these stop. She mentioned some starts to feel better in week 12 and some towards week 14. Nick’s colleague shared with him that she start to feel better in week 14. I am so damm looking forward to week 14.