Swimming fun

Swimming is the only exercise I can do at the moment. Tried putting on track shoes the other day and gave up after walking a few steps. The wound portion still hurts when pressure is applied.

Swimming is going to be a weekly routine with my sister(I hope anyway). Brought my Mom to the pool for the first time in her life. It was hilarious. She has low water confidence and was very scared. Bought a floating board for her, and you should see the way she is hanging to it for dear life in a 1.2m pool. She was so cute, and we were trying to teach her to float and she was like screaming. Nearly died laughing... =) Hope things will improve as she gains her confidence. :)

Prelude to MIL's call

Got to found out the secret recipe over the weekend. According to my MIL, if you share some of the confinement food of a mother that just gave birth, vinegar pig trotters specifically, then you will have high chance of getting pregnant. She told me that there was this relative who tried to conceive for many years, but did not succeed, but once she tried this method, she got pregnant. That's why she asked me if I wanted to try. Hmmm, what a myth!

MIL's weird call

MIL called me this morning and asked me weird things. She started with asking me if I wanted kids, so I said of cos yes lah. Then she went on to tell me that her friend shared with her a 秘诀, and asked me if I'm keen to try. So I replied as long as it does not involve me eating meat, anything lah. Not that I believe in old folklore, but I think I have to appreciate her efforts and concern right? Then she repeated her questions of whether we wanted kids and and that this 秘诀 has worked for 2 of her friends but I will have to make some "sacrifice". Smelling something "fishy", I repeated that as long as it does not involve me eating meat, I can go along with it. So finally she said well, then don't say lah, cos it is eating something not vegetarian. Putting down the phone, I was wondering to myself if she knows that we only started family planning like last month. Is she wondering how come we are taking so long, as in married for a year already, still nothing? Still, I know she called me out of good intentions and wanted to share good stuff with me. I just hope these things don't get too "stressful" for me and I sure hope she is not banging her hopes on me for a grandson.

Welcome 2008!

Had a quiet Xmas at home with my Mum, sister and hubby. Counted down to year 2008 with mahjong also at home with some friends. I am such a homely person... haha...Think I'm going to have a very blessed good year with good luck for 2008, was the biggest winner for both New Year's Eve and New Year's Day mahjong session! Ha ha, that hardly happens to me! (Btw, biggest winner does not mean winning BIG money ok, I won $4.50 for first game and $5.80 for 2nd game. What did you expect, we only played 10 cents and 20 cents what!! Plus we did not really collect $, more for playing for fun. keke)

In the past, I always had the habit of setting some new year resolutions, and penning them down on New Year's Eve, but I realised I never got down to implementing them. This year, I'm going to set a more practical one. I want to be a mother in year 2008 and will work hard to make it come true! Wish me luck everyone and pray for success for us ok? :D

May all wishes come dream for all of us this year. Happy New Year!! :p

Junqi and Bailing's first Marathon

7 stitches!

JQ cut his finger on Monday and it was a very deep cut. It required 7 stitches and the doctor gave him a week's MC!! The accident happened at home while he was sharpening the mini chopper knife. He told me that he could actually see a layer of whitish thing inside and according to the doc, that was the fats tissue or something. That is how deep the cut is! The doc even carried out some finger moving tests to ensure the nerves was not cut! Anyway, it was a horrible accident, really gruesome recovery process. There were traces of the accident when I reached home. Blood on the tissue holder! Anyway, he is recovering well now and the size of the bandage around his finger is smaller by each visit to the doc. I'm going to throw away that gadget and get a safer one!