Zyan Tay

It's a long day.

Woke up very early today. About 5am.
I always like to make sure I have enough time for appointment. We have our appointment for hospital admission at 0745hrs, so we need to leave our home at about 7am. 2hrs is definitely enough time to take breakfast, do some checks before moving off to parenthood. :P

Of course, we reached on time. Then we went ahead for the observation room, and the doctor came about 8am to give some insertion pill for Karinna to help dilate the cervix. This will help to induce labour.

It helped. The dilation got bigger, and by lunch time, it was about 4cm. Good, so says the doctor.
Then it was waiting game again. But this time, we were move to the delivery room.

As a precaution, epidural is done for Karinna, so that the pain can be reduced significantly. And yes, she proclaimed that it is one of the best inventions ever! :P

By 4.30pm, the dilation was about 8cm. Cool! Doctor said we can be ready by 5.15pm! How exciting!

As 5.15pm came, the nurse came in to check. Not ready she said.
At 5.45pm, she came in, and not ready again.

Karinna tried to push hard, but still, the little boy simply didn't want to come out.
After consulting the doctor, the doctor decided to assist her in getting the baby out. The method used, vacuum.

So all got ready again with the pushing, and vacuum.
As the contractions come, Karinna pushed and pushed.
Took quite a few pushes, and pulls from the vacuum, the baby finally popped his head out to see the world.
The time? 1827hrs.
His weight? A hefty 4.220kg!
His length? Whopping 54cm!
He is a huge baby.


After that, it's spreading the news around.

A new life has begun.
For me, my wife, and my son. :)

Excitable Baby

Yesterday went to visit the gynae again.
It's getting nearer and nearer to the due date, so the appointment is getting shorter between each visit.

It's the usual checkup. Probably the last.

Zyan is now estimated about 3.58kg.
Getting a little big, and the doctor has concerns for him to get even bigger.
Well, valid concerns.

Thus, he suggested admission next Monday for assisted delivery, if it doesn't happen in the next few days.
Woah!!!!!!!!!!!! So exciting!!!!!!!! :D

And yesterday had problem using the camera again. I remembered shooting the video of the ultrascan, but it came out totally different. Appears to be shooting at the floor.
ha ha ha
Not sure what happen.

Other than big, Zyan is all good!
And yes, he's very excited too. Mommy's complaining of him twisting and rubbing her belly from within, too much. hahaha

It's good that he didn't want to come out on first day of CNY. :)

Counting down ... ... ...

Tiger

The Tiger has arrived.
What have you done to welcome the Tiger?

Anyway, according to the astrology information given to me, the year of Tiger is not so good for me.
Luck and fortune etc seems to be not on my side.
However, there's a mirror star along my path, which can help me mirror the bad to good and good to bad!
hehehe

At between 6-7pm, went to do a simple ceremony. That is, face towards SE direction, and did simple 6-3-6 breathing. Breathe in for 6 seconds, then hold for 3 seconds, and breathe out for 6 seconds. :)
The numbers supposed to represent Heaven/Human/Earth.

Also, for people like me who are born in year of the dog, need to do some extra things to help to make the year smoother. :P
Need a black or blue calendar. Bought a 5-Dynasty coin previously, and paste this on the front cover hf the calendar. Then just write something and start using the calendar.
OK. So the simple rituals are done now.

Time to buy TOTO. :)

Kickery Baby

Today went for the gynae appointment again.

It's the 35th week this week, so my little boy is almost ready to see the world.
Doctor says he's 2.9kg today, still a little oversized than normal.
Other than that, everything is perfect, and baby is growing very well.



And he's moving a lot, so the mommy says.
Kicking around in mommy's womb quite a bit.
Nah, he's not taking my genes on that. I don't play soccer.
Don't even watch soccer actually. hahaha

Of course, when mommy is eating, he feels damn excited. Sometimes probably do somersault when he feels food coming down to him. Yum yum!
Maybe that's why he's a little oversized. :D

And he likes music. Well, may be not all kinds of music, but he dances to Bach's classics, and some of the songs play on radio.
I'll get him to listen to the POP 80s! Then he can dance all night away.
Not so good idea, mommy needs to sleep too.

Few weeks more to go.
We're excited, and yet gan jiong for his arrival.
We'll be right here waiting ... :)

Moses

Today, a new member joined our Tay Family.
His name is now Moses.

Didn't intend to go and see him today, since I was supposed to have a dinner date with an old friend.
That dinner was last minute cancelled.
It's hard to get old friends together actually, but still try.
Anyway, decided to postpone a little, to see if can manage to get more people the next time round.

Since no dinner, went to pick Karinna. She was at United Square, which is a short distance away from TMC.
Thus, we decided to drop by today to visit the little boy and his parents.

He's 3.02kg heavy, 49cm long, born at 0937hrs on 22 Jan 2010.
Some pictures of him. Compare with his elder brother Matthew.

Bus

Morning went to customer's site to continue the last bit of installation for the Production system.
By the time the things were completed, was already about noon time.

Decided not to work too long today. Been spending too much time already on that. Weekends should be kept minimal for work. :D

Today didn't have my car. Karinna needed the car to go for her massage.
Fine.

I rely on my own 'kar' then.
此kar非彼car.

So I took a bus along Xi Lin Road. The frequency for Bus 35 is pretty low, about 25mins during off peak hours. D'uh!

Took to Bedok, had my quick lunch, then took the bus to check out my dad.
DAMN LONG never take Bus 225 already. Taking that bus somehow made me feel like back to school days. hahahaha
Ever since we shifted from Bedok to Tampines, Bus 225 is history to me.
For a period of time, my parents were not staying at the Bedok old house anyway, so no chance to appear back here too.

Still the same route, not much change for that.
Now I'm at the old house. Dad is somewhere watching TV.
While waiting for Karinna and my car, I just sit around loiter for a while.

Sleeping Beauty

Have you heard Sleeping Beauty story?

Well, guess most of us would have, and probably had forgotten too.
At least, I don't quite remember.

Needed to bring my mom to hospital for her medical appointment in the afternoon.
Reached around 2pm, as she needed to do some tests before seeing the doctor.
The tests took a while, maybe about half an hour or so.

After that, went to the clinic, and wait.
Can't see doctor immediately after the tests, as they would need to get the report ready.
Thus, have to wait.

So mom took a seat outside the clinic area, then saw a bench.
Walk walk walk ... ... and tadah!

After a while, the Buddha post appeared.

Cool huh?

That's my mother. :P