Prenatal Yoga Class

I have decided to take my prenatal yoga class with Vandayoga. I tried one trial session for $35. It was a small class, consists of 4-5 mothers only. I think the price is reasonable enough compare to Trueyoga (membership based $1200/year) or the one in Hajilane ($600/8 sessions).

The trueyoga sales really irritated me. She kept calling me and asked me to go there and took the trial session while it doesn't have weekend class.

The Vandayoga so far is the most reasonable one. After joining the class, I feel my body is more flexible and more energize. It really helps me stretch my joins and relax my muscles.

Pregnancy Week 19

I remember on week 16th I was complaining on how small my tummy was compared to other people's photos on the internet. Now I feel I am short of breath because my tummy is getting bigger and it starts pressing my other organs. It is growing really fast since 2-3 weeks ago. on my 16th week, I still wore my normal skirt to work. Now I only can wear loose dress and the rubber skirt.

On week 16th and 17th I was so happy that my weight didn't increase so much. It was just around 2.5 kg. Now it's like I gained around 5 kg. In fact, my breakfast is the same thing, recently since the second trimester, I have not been eating a lot for breakfast compared to first trimester. In the first trimester, I needed to have breakfast because it helped a lot to reduce morning sickness.

My lunches have been always regular and same as before pregnancy. Evening time tea break also I have not been eating snacks compared to first trimester which I felt hungry always. I needed to bring extra bread for 4.30pm. So I don't know how I gained the extra 3kg in 2 weeks.

This week I feel fatigue as always, not energized. My back pain is getting stronger. My tummy skin is really tight. I experienced swollen feet because of too much walking. My nights starts getting hard as I have difficulty finding comfortable sleeping position. Poor Niko has to sleep on the study room floor. My sleep always gets interrupted because I need to go to toilet at least once.

I had not felt the movement of my baby clearly at the beginning of the week. At the end of the week, I felt it clearer. Sometimes it is like popcorn popping in your lower tummy. When I am walking normally the baby does not move.

Another thing we have been thinking this week is the name for the baby. Since it is a boy (90% chance based on the 16th week scanning) we only think about boy names.

Niko actually had chosen a name but his mother doesn't agree. He choose Philippo (I don't know how he intent to spell it but it is a Italian name). His mother has a point that he will be born in horse year while Philippo means horse lover. She thinks too much "horse" element. So I can not be more agreed with her point. Some more our friends' comments are Philippo sounds funny and out of the Asian region.

While Niko has no idea to choose other names. I remember I actually had chosen a name long long time ago (around 3 years ago) for our son. MARCO. It's inspired by MARtha & niKO with a little bit change on the letter K. How does it sound? MARCO GUNADI. For me it sounds pleasant to hear and doesn't sound funny also.

Second plan is we name him NIKO GUNADI Jr. There's another problem with this name, if we have more than 1 son. Then what name should we give for our 2nd one? He will feel hurt as he is not the junior of his father. But anyway, this is just a rubbish talk.

Pregnancy Week 18

This week I just feel very tired. I think the fatigue kicked in since week 17.

Other symptoms I feel is constipation...my shit is like stone, solid, and very dry texture.

I started experiencing difficulty in sleeping and I always wake up at least once a night on 3am or 5am to pee. One day I tried to ignore the feeling to pee, I just forced my self to fall asleep again. But it didn't work. I had to wake up and pee.

I went to Somerset to have dinner at J-town and karaoke on Friday night at Orchard Plaza. During the karaoke time, I felt my lower tummy was cooking popcorn in it.

I went home near midnight, I still managed to catch the MRT but no bus service at bus interchange. I walked home. I felt that I was super tired.

Pregnancy Week 17

This week was peaceful week. There was no emotional occasion. Niko also behaved quite good.

I could feel something moving in my tummy but it was very soft not so strong. It was like a popcorn popping in side your lower tummy.

Hari Raya Haji Holiday

Finally this month got public holiday. I finally can rest a day.

Morning to afternoon I helped him to prepare the ingredients for cooking.

These were the menu for this public holiday : Pasta aglio olio, braised pork in milk, and spinach soup.



The spinach soup was the best as always. :)

Agedashi Tofu

He had an idea to make agedashi tofu. I was pessimistic on the idea because it needed to be fried and it was troublesome just for two serving of tofu.

He finally did it. This was the first trial but it was successful. I really like it. Outside was crispy but inside was soft. The soup was very good also. :)

Niko's 31st Bday

I ordered cheese cake for him from Coffee Bean. But the cake I wanted couldn't be ordered less than 3 working days. So I need to take the cake of the month, which is also strawberry cheesecake done in different manner.



He didn't wanna take my present. I gave him holiday 3 days to Bangkok for 2. :(

Nong Khai Golden Mile Complex

My friend told me that this place is better than Diandin Leluk. Infact, this place is more expensive and they don't serve some of our favorite menu like garlic pork.

Nonk Khai has nice Tom Yum soup and Green Curry. They also have coconut pudding which is very refreshing.

Weekend Lunch and Dinner 13 Oct 2013

My expert chef cooked garlic pork, minced pork long bean with basil, and Foo Yong Hai for Sunday meal.



The garlic pork was very successful for first time trial.

Dog Tick

I remember as a young girl staying in a house with 4 to 5 dogs, I liked to spend my time with my dogs. I used to drag them near me and started to find tick in between their furs. Before I started with finding the tick, there was a bowl of kerosene (minyak tanah) beside me to dump the tick in it. Another way doing it was to prepare tissue to pop the tick to dead.

The ticks could be small, medium, and engorged one. The engorged ones were easy to find because they were seen in between furs. The small ones (babies) normally were found in one area form a group with the mother. The babies were difficult to remove as they were just a small dot size. The common locations for the tick are dog's armpit, space in between toes, below tail (near anus), and ears.



My dogs when I was primary school were the lazy type. They didn't like to go out from the house to sunbath. That's why they had so many tick. But since I had my dog Pinkan (the half chow chow breed), she liked to sunbath outside on 12pm to 1pm when the sun was super hot and bright. That's why she had lesser smell because the sun washed the stinky smell away even though her fur was thick. She was very smart, she knew how to take care her self. She has lesser tick than my previous dogs. And at the end of her life, I guesses she had no tick at all.

The dog after her, Carrie, was also smart. She was caring and friendly. As a young dog, she saw Pinkan always went out to sunbath in the afternoon. She also did the same. She sunbath almost everyday. She didn't like to bath and she knew when I prepared the shower gel and her towel. She quickly ran and hide below the table. She also didn't have tick.

I really miss my dogs... :(

Duck Rice Geylang Lor 35

I like the duck rice here but I don't like the place and it's very difficult to go there compare to other place.

The rice, the toufu, the bean are so nice. The soup got herbal taste. I really like it.

Saveur, Purvis Street

I waited 1 hour plus to have a plate of duck confit. I should have ordered more. It's was cheap for french food.

Duck confit costs for $9.90

Penang Seafood Restaurant

Big Prawn Noodle @ Old Airport Road

I decided to eat this because I had no idea what I wanted to eat there.

The prawn noodle was good. The soup was also rich in flavor. It was just nice to eat that with chilli padi. Their skin is easy to peel.



Cost for $5.00

Weekend Dinner 6th Oct

I already knew it...it was going to be Italian food as the prosciutto had not been used for cooking.

The menu last week was asparagus w/prosciutto, creme spaghetti with prosciutto n bacon, braised beef with onion.

Pork Chop @ Happy Chef

I actually think that this place is the better one if you want to eat western food. It is much better that Botak Jones.

My favorite food there is pork chop.



Address : #01-12, Tai Hwa Eating House, 466 Crawford Lane

Pregnancy Week 16

Today morning was raining and when I woke up, Niko was out for jogging. So I msg him to go home since it was raining anyway...

I wanted to eat prata at upper thompson road. So we went there and order 4 prata. One of them was my favorite banana cheese one.

After that we rushed to AMK hub to visit KKH clinic. This visit it took only 5 minutes in the room and the rest 30 minutes we spent for waiting. :(



When the doctor scanned my tummy, he said total from head to rump was about 11.3cm and my due date was pushed 2 days based on the scan result from 13th week. When he turned the scanner device to the left of my tummy, I could see that in between my baby legs there was something protruding out. After that, the doctor said 90% was boy...



I actually was not very surprise about that because from the symptoms I checked on the internet, I am carrying a baby boy. I also had a dream on my 11th week that my baby is a boy. I think those prepared my from knowing the fact that it is a boy.