obstacles ...

Comex starts tomorrow!! I am such a gadget freak .. if I had my way, I'd be dead broke tomorrow buying all the wonderful stuff there at Comex ..

But of course, there is one big obstacle to my nefarious plan of spending money ...

my hubby

sigh. Guess I won't be getting my Canon dSLR and my Omia ...

sob.



I found another random pic of Claudia .. she was 3.5 years old here ... this is just before we left for the States .. she was in her "I'm wearing my galoshes with everything" phase .. hence the Phua Chu Kang style boots (they were from Mothercare at least thank god) with a dress .. lol

Back in 2002

Isabel ... when we first got her in the States .. she was already quite sizable for a puppy barely 4 months old .. lol !



This is my sweetie, Claudia .. NOW do u see why people often mistook her for an adopted child from China? .. lol :)
This was at a restaurant in the States .. we had JUST arrived there .. Claudia was a wee lil thing at that time .. she was about to turn 4 .. doesn't she look different from Lauren at that age?

Getting closer to that divorce ...

Don't say a word. I got this from Mothercare today. Isn't it AWESOME? It's so pretty !! I lurve it ... Hubby is gonna kill me though ... sigh ...

Hubby is close to murdering me ..

lol :)

I really don't know what's up with me this time around .. I seem to have suddenly been bitten by the "let's buy new baby gear for this baby" ... I was like that with Claudia as she was my first, then also Lauren cos there was such a big gap between her and Lauren that I got all excited about buying baby stuff again ... anyway, I had cleverly given away most of Claudia's stuff before we were posted to the States .. so of course, I had to buy NEW stuff when Lauren came along ... With Emily, it's not that I was NOT excited, but I was at the time, very frazzled cos I was maidless so I was handling the 2 girls and my dogs and the house and chores .. and Lauren's stuff at the time was pretty brand new .. her rocker, her swing etc .. (let's not include clothes as I have always had the bad bad habit of buying new anyway so that doesn't count) .. but this time around .. I want new stuff.

Much to my husband's horror, of course. He thinks since it's the last baby we'll have ... there is no reason to buy all new baby gear ... like swings etc ..

I beg to differ.

So far, I've bought the new stroller ...

And now ...

This awesome looking MacLaren rocker ..





I don't want to talk about how much it cost, ok? I saw it at one of those baby shops at Great World City mall and fell in love with it. I have something similar .. a Fisher-Price rocker with the same vibrating options where baby's feet are ... but that's totally different !! This one is PINK and COFFEE coloured ... so sweet!!

Emily and me ...

I lurve this Baby LuLu dress of Emily's that I bought off Forget Me Not Kids .. I look sleepy cos I am .. it was 8 am on a Sunday morning and we were in church .. *yawn* Lauren's Sunday school asked us to bring her to church 1 hour earlier before service at 9am to prepare for some choral performance her Sunday School was presenting ...

My dog and my ewok ... lol

Everytime Isabel and Kimmy get sent for doggie grooming .. Isabel comes back nice and clean .. while Kimmy comes back looking like a cross between an ewok and a rat ...

lol. I always tell my groomer ... give her a puppy cut and while they do a good job, she inevitably DOES come back lookin like an extra in a Star Wars movie ..

Blardy Olympics ...

Come on, admit it ... the Olympics aren't that big a deal ..

My girls and I have been FORCED to watch it everytime we're all sitting in the hall outside with Daddy ...

I can cry. I keep complaining to my maid how terribly boring it is .. and who cares if you can run or swim THAT fast? ... Hubby is glued to the screen .. I have been shushed a few times too when I tried to talk to him ...

BLARDY. Thank goodness the Olympics will be over by the time December comes around .. or else HOW IN HELL AM I GOING TO TELL HIM I AM IN LABOUR IF THE MAN KEEPS SHUSHING ME??!!

To make it worse, Channel 5 has temporarily stopped showing some series in the 10 pm slot and later ... like Ghost Whisperer, Criminal Minds, Cold Case and Nip/Tuck ...

DAMMIT TO HELL.

Yes, those are my MY shows ok?! I follow them every week .. now I am forced to sleep early cos there is nothing else to watch .. strangely enough, there happens to be nothing showing on the cable channels around that time too ... most of the shows I have been following have ended their current season .. so I am left with NOTHING much to watch.

I will be glad when the Olympics end ... I can't wait !!

Hubby is sweet ...

He has so far, gone for almost all of my gynae visits with me ... well, you must be saying, that's nice ...

Nope.

Not to me. I have plans. I have shops to visit when I go to KK and food to buy ... like Delifrance's egg mayo croissant ...

With him with me .. I don't get to do or buy ANYTHING. Not that he says I can't. But the man always likes to maximize the outing. So ...

when I had a gynae appt yesterday, we not only did that ... but we also went to Chinatown Point to book my maid's air ticket home (holiday trip) and also made a trip to buy meat at the wholesale place we go to every month in Jurong ...

SIGH.

It was literally a mad rush from one place to another ... I din get to buy my croissant, see the baby shops at KK and I walked into the Hello Kitty shop at Chinatown Point for barely 2 minutes. WHAT CAN U SEE WHEN YOU WALK INTO ANY SHOP FOR 2 MINUTES, I ASK YOU?

As I told my maid, when we go out with sir .. yes, we accomplish a lot of things ... but we see NOTHING.

dammit.

I was sulking in the car for a while on the way back cos I was hungry and thinking about my egg mayo croissant that I DIDN'T gt to buy and eat.

Told the man that for my next appt at KK on the 17th of Sept, can he NOT come with me? ...

hahahahahah ....

The man means well .. he says he wants to get these things done for me so I won't have to do them myself some other day.

Yeah, whatever, man ... I didn't get my croissant ...

BAH.

My hubby is resigned ...

to his wife's shopaholic's habits ... yeah, sure .. we're having another girl .. does that mean I can recycle Emily and Lauren's stuff ... NOT A CHANCE, man ... I just got these 2 outfits for my new girl ... yes, they're PINK .. I like seeing babies/toddlers in pink, ok?! One is for a 3 month old and other is for when she's 9 months old I think .. RL sizing tends to be on the small side so I know my girl will be able to wear these in no time ..

Saw some other baby gear that I want to get ... a new bouncer from Fisher-Price .. and a few other things .. must go shopping WITHOUT my hubby more .. so he can't monitor my purchases ... lol !!

We were in Mothercare at Marina Square today for lunch after church .. and he saw me admiring the 2008 MacLaren Quest strollers .. he had this utterly defeated look on his face as he said, "please don't tell me you want another stroller .. " ... hahahahahahaha ...

I didn't have the heart to tell him that I was actually planning to "upgrade" my current MacLaren to this new awesome coffee and PINK 2008 MacLaren Quest stroller .. it's so CUTE !!! I was asking my maid if she thought sir would notice it if our stroller fabric changed colour (the frame is basically the same what .. just that the fabric and canopy are different in colour) .. and she said "yes, he would" ... DAMMIT.

Please don't ask what is with me and my obsession with NICE (and usually not cheap) strollers ... I DON'T KNOW OK?!!! I just like them ...

To be pregnant .. and playing tennis ... baseball ..

lol ... not in real life, of course !! On our spanking new Nintendo Wii set ... it's pretty awesome ... damn hubby kept beating me at bowling ... HOW COME AH??!!! Even in the virtual world, I can't beat the man ... lol :)

The Wii is very entertaining .. and you do actually feel tired .. especially if you play baseball ... after batting and pitching .. my arm felt tired .. and also tennis ... hahahahaha ... I dun think Roger will ever date me .. I suck at tennis on the Wii .. let's not even talk about playing tennis in real life ...

So anyway, I enjoyed myself .. pregnant and all .. well, it was in the cool air-conditioned comfort of our living room .. you feel odd at first ... swinging and throwing NOTHING (well you swing the Wii remote) .. but after a while you forget how silly you look and start enjoying the game ...

hehehe ... well, I'm going off to play Wii golf ... damn I suck at that too ... did I ever tell you that my friend back in the States, in a vain effort to get me interested in golf, brought me on the green once? ... I was falling asleep sitting in the golf car with Claudia who was around 4years old at the time. I also took golfing lessons while I was there in the States ... I could never get the hang of swinging and felt I looked weird ...

Golf is boring ... ok?!! At least on the Wii, you're in your own home .. all comfy ... ok, I'm going to get myself a drink now ... ttfn !!

My hubby means well but ...

he's plain lousy at buying me gifts .. I've known the man for many many years .. like almost 18 years now .. and out of that, we dated that 7 and been married for almost 11 years .. and let me say, he's given me some strange gifts ..

The worst was a LASER POINTER ..

Yes, you read that right .. a laser pointer .. u know, those things you use when you're giving a presentation in the office .. or you're trying to blind someone you don't like ...

I neither work in an office nor do I need to give ANY type of presentations to ANYONE .. whether I like them or not .. SIGH.

This was years ago btw .. he had come back from a detachment from Indonesia .. some rural area .. and had chanced upon the laser pointers in some shop .. granted the thing was quite nice and came in a nice leather pouch thingy .. BUT STILL ..

When he presented it to me, he actually thought I would be thrilled with the gift, the poor poor delusional man ..

LOL. I tried really hard to look happy with it ... (this was very early on in our marriage .. ) .. but chucked it into my pencil case and never used it .. (yeah, like when am I, the happy housewife, supposed to get a chance to use a LASER POINTER?)

Since then .. other gifts not really of any use to me include a WHITE Toscano tote bag and also a WHITE Coach handbag .. I was telling my friend that I NEVER carry white handbags .. and wondered how come hubby didn't realize it .. she said maybe that's why he keeps gettin me WHITE handbags .. he figures since I don't seem to have any ..

Well, duh .. she may be right about that!!!

Anyway, nowadays .. I just tell him NOT to get me anything when he's overseas ..

LOL. Can u blame me??!!

Recently, upon returning from his trip to Darwin .. he got me a Billabong tote bag .. the trimming is pink .. but the handbag was made to look like it's straw .. my friend commented that it's not something she's used to seeing me carry ie it's not my style .. plus she said .. "it's not branded, Sam .. since when do YOU carry non-branded bags?!" ...

Eh, that's not true, ok? .. it just so happens that I have a lot of Coach bags and some other brands .. totally unintentional ... of course, I'd die if I had to carry a Perlini or Poccilli bag.

HAHAHAHA ... I carried it for a week .. then went back to my Gucci tote ..

Poor man.