Is there any medical names for baby phobia?  I realise that I’m really afraid of babies.

The nurse wheeled in the baby today when I was at the hospital, accompanying my sis while Kelvin went back home to clean up the baby cot and stuff.  First, the baby stared at me from across the bed.  Then I stared back.  And he just kept staring at me, without blinking, even.  I got a little unnerved, and started pacing around the room.  Then unconsciously, I walked over to his little plastic “bed-on-wheels”, and peered at him.

Okay, I know what happened next was probably not because of me, but it didn’t help to know that I’ve always caused babies to cry by just being near.

Dylan suddenly started coughing, and started to fidget quite a lot.  Then he opened his mouth and he sure sounded like he was choking.  I was scared out of my wits.  Then he started crying.  Those kind of helpless cries, not wilful ones.  Basically I was totally spooked and just… don’t know what to do.  My sis struggled to get up from her bed to carry him, but I was too uh, “out of it” to help her.  She managed to scoop Dylan into her arms and coo-ed to him, but he just continued crying.  So poor thing!

So I was like, uh want me to press the emergency button???  My sis said yeah.  Then I went around like a crazy woman trying to locate the where the hell the emergency button was.  I recalled it’s usually hung around the bed, but for some reason I just couldn’t find it.  Finally, I found it hanging next to the wall instead.  So I pressed the button, and waited for the nurse to come in.  Dylan was still crying pretty helplessly, and started to pant.  Like, breathless, you know?

So I panicked again, and paced around the ward, wondering what took the nurses so long.  Then I asked my sis, “Should I go out and ask them to come in???”  Then my sis was like, yeah you could.  Then I ran out of the ward, trying to get the nurses’ attention.  They told me that yeah, they were on their way.  Then when I get back into the room, the baby had calmed down somewhat.  (Maybe it’s because I had left the room?)

My sis then explained that Dylan had a lot of mucus in his throat, so it might be the reason why he was choking a bit as his body naturally tried to get rid of it.  Well, that might be the reason, but it didn’t help that he only started crying when I peered at him over his secure plastic bed.  >_>;

Gah, I hence conclude that I’m not a baby-person, and I’m just not comfortable with babies and vice versa.

Took a photo of him today, and got my sis to send me another photo which my bro-in-law had taken yesterday.  Here’s Dylan for you!

Dylan, just after his meal.

Say ‘hello’!

Yup.  I’m an Aunt now.  :D

My sis had given birth to a healthy 2.86kg baby boy, whom they’d decided to name Dylan, at Mount Elizabeth at noon (estimated) on 21 Feb 2009.

Happy (belated!) Birthday, Dylan!

Babies look so agonisingly small and fragile… I didn’t even dare to touch Dylan when the nurse brought him into the ward for his first breastfeed.  But I can safely say that he’s an energetic one… While Reko and I were spying on him through the windows of the nursery, he was sleeping (I think), but he kept stretching and kicking.  o_O  Yeah, it’s very obvious that he was kicking coz the end of his blanket flew up every few seconds or so for the five minutes that we stood there.  XD

Well, no photos of Dylan yet for now, as my sis was not feeling that well after the ordeal, so the baby was kept in the nursery most of the times, except for that one time when my sis breastfed him.  I didn’t really look as I thought it’s quite a private moment for her and Kelvin.

Even though it’s amazing how a new life is brought to the world, I can never see myself holding a newborn, much less carrying one inside me for nine months.  I’m never a baby-person.  I get chills just looking at the tiny creature.  I mean, I feel fine when I’m looking at Dylan through the windows, but when he’s right there in front of me, I got the chills.  Don’t ask me why.  >_>;;

Reko wasn’t quite enthusiastic about babies either, but he went to the hospital with me anyway to visit my sis.  He even sat in the darkness silently with me, as we stayed in my sis’ ward to keep her “company” while she slept.  I felt a little bad and guilty as he kinda wasted almost half a day there, not understanding much of our conversation (as my sis and I are used to converse in Mandarin), and didn’t have the chance to talk much with me, except during dinner and on the way home.  :(

Well in any way, my sis and bro-in-law definitely appreciated his presence, and I’m glad he’s with me there at the hospital.  Thanks, dear.  ^_^

Ahh, I should sleep early.  Need to go to the hospital again later in a few hours time!  Let’s hope I’ll be able to take some photos of baby Dylan.  :D

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好看！ 虽然只是看了第一集，但剧情就是属于那种欢喜冤家类似的台湾剧。 我想那种剧情会比较吸引我吧！

好希望可以尽快看到第二集哦！

… never fail to make me tear. With a smile. =)

After celebrating our V-day dinner last year at Suntec’s CrossTalk Cafe, which was cosy and quiet (and cheap!), we decided to go to somewhere different this year.

This time, we headed to Gillman Village, for a nice dinner at Brazil Churrasco.

Gillman Village sign… which looked a bit broken from this angle.

Brazil Churrasco!

The dinner was a buffet spread of 14 different cuts of beef, together with beef sausages, piping hot yet awfully tender chicken thighs, fish, pineapples… The passadors just kept coming with the meat! I had a few helpings to some beef rump, beef sausages and chicken, before I gave up and attacked the salad bar, which was filled with delectable lady’s fingers, potato salad, banana fritters (yummy!!~~) and many, many more. It’s safe to say that I can easily be full just getting food from the salad bar.

The Valentine’s dinner package comes with a bottle of red wine for every couple as well, and it’s my first time drinking red wine, really. I had tried red wine previously but argh, I’m really not a wine person. This time, I watched with trepidation as the waiter poured the red wine into my wineglass. However, after the first sip, I realised it wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be. So… I ended up drinking quite a bit. Haha! Reko, on the other hand, is a champagne person more than a wine person, but even he said that the wine was pretty good. So he ended up drinking quite a bit too.

Nah, we didn’t finish the whole bottle. Only half of it. Well… we don’t really wanna get too drunk, you know? :D

After the dinner, we decided to walk off some of the calories (and guilt, on my part, for eating so many banana fritters), and so we went to walk on the famous Southern Ridges, walking from the Alexandra Arch to the Henderson Waves, before heading back home. Below are some of the pictures which I had taken of the Alexandra Arch.

Alexandra Arch

It’s pink this time!

Upclose, when the lights turned purple.

Blue!

All in all, it’s quite an enjoyable and different (in a sense) Valentine’s Day. We’ve yet to buy the gifts from each other, because we both haven’t really decided what we wanted. XD He has just way too many things to buy, so he’s trying to figure out which one to buy first. As for me, I’ll have to wait till my mom decides to throw away my sis’ bed in my room, before I have space to get another new PC. :D (Yes, he’s buying a whole new unit of PC for me, together with a spanking new LCD monitor.)

Well, it’s our third Valentine’s together (at least IRL, not online), and… we are still trying to find new ways to celebrate it. Let’s hope things won’t get dull anytime soon!

As per subject heading, I wish all my family members, friends and readers a happy Valentine’s Day!  :)

I’ll update about mine towards the end of the day… if I’m still hyped enough to do it.  XD

PS:  I know it’s early, but it’s only a few minutes more to 14th Feb!

One thing bad about WordPress is that… you have to put some kind of subject heading there.  I can never think of any, so I either came up with lame ones or… I can’t be arsed.

I’m recovering quite fast from the tooth extraction, even though yesterday it was pain as hell.  After a good night’s sleep, I woke up this morning feeling way better.  Reko bought me hotcakes from McDonald’s, and what usually would have taken me 10 minutes to finish, I had took about 30 minutes to finish 3 hotcakes.  Simply because I had to cut them up into really small pieces before I can eat them.  Argh.  And I had to give up my hashbrown to Reko coz it was too “hard” for me to chew.  My hashbrown!!!  *sniff*  The sweet guy then ordered pasta from Pizza Hut for me for dinner.  Again, it took a longer time than usual, but at least I was able to eat most of it.

It was still a tad achey for the whole day today, though it’s a vast improvement from the pain I felt yesterday.  At least I was able to brush my teeth properly just now and could floss too!  Damn, I felt so odd not being able to floss yesterday coz I can’t open my mouth wide enough.

Let’s hope that tomorrow it won’t be achey anymore.  Then I can have that sumptious department lunch on Monday!  I want my sharks’ fin!!

Today, Reko finally hit level 74 on his warrior, and we were able to get to the new main town, Dalaran, in the latest World of Warcraft expansion.  Yeah, I know the expansion was out months ago, but it’s not like we were in a hurry to get level 80 or something.

Dalaran was… interesting.  Well, it has interesting vendors, nice music, but uh, I absolutely hate human/alliance buildings.  They were so freaking small!  The stairways are narrow, building entrances are small, and not to mention the town layout is as complicated as hell.  I get a headache just running around there, trying to get my bearings.  Gah.

Ah well, at least I got my bear mount.  Hur hur.  And now, to save for that cold-flying skill at level 77, as well as for the epic flying skill… zzz.  5k gold for that.  How the hell am I gonna get that huge amount of money >_>?!  Pssshh.

On a totally unrelated note…

I WANNA GO KARAOKE!!!!!!!!

I feel so deprived.

Yeah, changed my layout because of below:-

• Old layout was a little cluttered;
• I was bored;
• I am in a hell lot of pain;
• This layout looks simple and nice

I should try and sleep this pain off.  If… I can fall asleep, that is.

… in Singapore, at least.

I got my upper right wisdom tooth out today.  Well technically, an hour ago, in a spacious white room, on a comfy big white dentist chair, looking up into a huge iMac monitor (with iTunes on), and very nice, soothing classical music in the background.

The dental clinic that I went to is ToofDoctor.  I’ve been to a fair number of dental clinics in Singapore, and I must say I’m most impressed with this one.  They have a couple of outlets around, and the one I went to is at Tanjong Pagar.

It was first recommended to me by Reko, who used to work around there.  Initially, I was quite worried that it’s another dental clinic who will charge “caucasian prices” when they see Reko, but no, that’s not the case. He had his wisdom tooth extraction there too, and when he still felt pain for the next few days, he went back and the dentist re-examined him for free.  Now, that’s what I call “after-sales customer service”.  They can easily charge him the standard consultation fee or something, but no they did not.  This gave me a very good impression of them.

After my horrendous wisdom tooth surgery experience with NTUC Denticare (Marine Parade branch), I decided to switch to ToofDoctor, since my company had increased our dental claim amount to S$250.00 per year.  And I’m glad I made the change.  The receptionists are always very friendly and they are never once without a smile on their face when you walk into the clinic.  My dentist, Dr Choy, is also a very nice and gentle guy, who gave me a lot of reassurance about this extraction after he heard my ordeal with the previous dental clinic.

He promised a painless extraction, and painless it is.  Well, at least during the process.  I’m feeling quite a bit of the pain now that the anesthetic is wearing off.  Well, there’s the painkillers, but Reko advised me not to take them unless it’s really too painful to bear.

My wisdom tooth was extraordinarily big, and even the dentist commented so.  It had a 3-root canal, which gave him a bit of trouble when he was trying to get it out.  XD  Anyway, it’s out now, and here I am enjoying a 1 day MC, typing this entry with an empty stomach while biting on a blood-soaked gauze.

Hur hur.  Envious?  :D