Sneak Preview of my maternity photoshoot

This was taken on 31/12/2011 by my cousin.

31/12/2011

今天是2011年的最后一天，对我来说有点特别，三年前的今天，我成了蔡太太。虽然今天没有特别庆祝，只简单地吃了一顿晚餐，但有最爱的陪在我身边，还有我肚子里可爱的宝宝!新年快乐，祝大家在2012年有更好的开始，永远幸福!

bb 在肚子里打嗝

最近一直觉得自己的肚子一跳一跳的，很有规律性的抽动，一直在想bb在里面做什么呢？然后有个朋友告诉我是bb在打嗝，不过有时候打得蛮久，大概有十分钟吧！一天可能几次呢！有点担心不知有什么问题吗？所以就上网查了资料，跟大家分享一下！原来bb在学习呢！

孕晚期胎儿为什么会打嗝呢？

医学上称打嗝为“呃逆”。成人如果受到寒冷刺激、饱餐、吃饭过快、吃进干硬食物后，都可能出现暂时性的呃逆，到了孕晚期28周左右开始，胎儿会在妈妈的体内不断的吞食羊水，用来锻炼肺部的呼吸，肺泡在羊水里不断的长大，就跟大人在吃东西一样，不断的吞食，在胎儿的胸腔和腹腔之间，有一个像帽子似的厚厚肌肉膜，称为膈肌，将胸腔和腹腔分隔开，和身体其他器官一样，膈肌也有神经分布和血液供应，当引起打嗝的诱因刺激传导给大脑以后，大脑就会发出指令，使膈肌出现阵发性和痉挛性收缩，于是就出现打嗝。

打嗝正常不正常呢？

胎儿打嗝是很正常的，就跟我们大人呼吸一样的，因为胎儿的肺部还没有发育好，所以要不断吞食羊水，在吞食羊水的同时练习肺部的呼吸，以便出生后能够像大人一样正常的呼吸，也就是说宝宝在打嗝其实是一种提升肺部呼吸能力的一种方式，所以妈妈们就别太担心了，只是在宝宝打嗝的时候轻轻抚摸就可以了，过个几分钟就不会打了！

打嗝与妈妈有关吗？

很多妈妈说是不是我吃的太多了啊，还是宝宝缺氧了啊，要么宝宝为什么会打嗝呢？还是说跟妈妈的生活习惯有关系啊？是不是自己的习惯不好导致宝宝打嗝了？其实这个跟妈妈的习惯是没有关系的，胎儿打嗝就跟我们大人吃饭睡觉一样的正常，是她成长经历的一个过程，是她在学会长大，学会一种体外生存的能力，所以各位妈妈们不必担心。

打嗝又是怎么表现的呢，妈妈们如何判断是宝宝在打嗝呢？

打嗝的表现为胎儿在腹中会有规律的动，2-3秒一次，持续的时间为2-5分钟，有时候会持续10-20分钟，具体表现为一跳一跳的，类似心跳，准妈妈们手摸在跳动的地方，会一弹一弹的，很有规律，跟胎动有所区别！

幸福胎动的感觉

当21week时，我开始觉得胎动，bb开始在我肚子里活动了，不知怎么形容那种感觉，是一种幸福的感觉！好开心喔！

现在已经33week了，bb动得也越来越多，尤其是当我在工作时，需要一直摸肚子安抚他，害得我无法专心工作，bb好顽皮喔！不过真的很开心感觉他在我的肚子里，有时候会想他到底在做什么呢？吃得饱吗？睡得好吗？玩得开心吗？哈哈! 有时候他动的可大力呢，我就想他一定是饿了，抗议的告诉妈咪我要吃了！呵呵！

我要珍惜这幸福的感觉！

水肿

我开始觉得自己有点水肿了，戒指已经戴不进了，手表也不大能戴了，是时候要求老公再买新的给我，哈哈！

总觉得手指的关节有点痛，尤其是刚睡醒时，不大能手握拳头，不知是否少了些维他命？

First checkup at KKIA Kelana Jaya

I just went to KKIA Kelana Jaya on 15/09/2011, the nurses and doctors there are nice and helpful, although a lot of people but the process is not too slow... after took the number, waited for ur turn to take weight and height measurement, then blood pressure... dunno y yesterday i was so nervous until my bp suddenly went up... d nurse asked me dun be nervous and chit chat wif me 1st to make me relax... after that went to take urine test, waited for my turn to take blood test also... after that waited for turn to c the nurse, the nurse check my breast and taught me how to check my breast at home... she measures baby's height and heart beat as well... after that told me what shud eat more what shud not eat... then advised me must breastfeeding which i think is good... then refer me to c doctor... doctor asked me to go for detailed scanning by giving me a referrel letter... overall process took abt 2 hrs... will go for scanning next wk...

after that went to take supplement... all is free...

i think i'll still continue go checkup there :) will go private as well... thumbs up for the government service... hope they will keep it up!!!!

16 Weeks Pregnancy

On 01/09/2011 3pm, we went to checkup as usual, today need to do triple test to classify a patient as either high-risk or low-risk for chromosomal abnormalities . Although I know the test accuracy is just 60%-70%, I still want to check for it.

For this test, will need to do blood test and measure fluid under the skin at the back of a baby's neck. Today baby is very naughty, when doctor wanted to measure the fluid under skin, he just don't want turn up the head for doctor to measure no matter how doctor push my tummy. But when doctor want to measure his body length, then he turn up. Haha... mummy's naughty boy... :D

Baby is 13 weeks now

06/08/2011 - My baby is in 13 weeks now, can see baby's hands and legs clearly in the ultrasound today, it's so exciting!

After checkup today, can share this good news with my family and friends already, because baby is 3 months old :) Parents are so happy when know about this news, keep on reminding me what can eat what cannot eat, then asked me whether I feel any discomfort or not, I told them everything is ok, no morning sickness, can eat a lot :P

Baby, mummy feels happy to see your growth everyday, can't wait to feel your kicking soon :)

Hear baby heart beat

16/07/2011 - Went for 2nd checkup, I'm so excited during scanning, as I have seen baby grow bigger again, from a small black dot to now can see clearer, can see the heart beat too. Then doctor let me hear baby heart beat, so strong and loud, my tears dropped... I'm so touch, my little baby is growing in my body... Baby, u must grow up happily and healthy ya... Mummy loves u!!!

First visit to gynae

On 20 June 2011, we decided to visit gynae to double confirm on the pregnancy. I've chose PJ Women Specialist and Family Clinic as this situated in SS2 which is nearer to our house.

Reached there at about 7:30pm, waited for a while then it's my turn. Bryan did not go in together with me, haha don't know why he did not follow me in.

The doctor is a chinese mid-aged man.

Doctor: Yes, Ms Jong. Anything wrong?

Me: I would like to confirm that whether I'm pregnant or not.

Doctor: Ok, did you test at home? Did you feel like vomitting?

Me: Yeah I tested twice at home, it showed +ve. But I don't feel like vomitting.

Doctor: Ok, let's get your weight and height measurement, and blood pressure.

(Measurement in progress)

Doctor: I need to test your pee as well.

(Went to toilet to collect the pee)

Doctor: Ok, let's do scanning. Ms. Jong, it's still too small, cannot see clearly from scanning, do you mind to do vaginal scan?

Me: Ok.

Doctor: Oh can see a small dot there? It's still very small. That's your baby.

(Don't know how to describe my feeling, so excited to see a new life in my body)

The whole consultation took about 30 min, got some supplement like folic acid, calcium, DHA+Vit E. I was charged RM196 for this. I don't know consider expensive or not :P But I think is worth it.

My best birthday present

On 11 June 2011 morning, I had a feeling that I might pregnant already, then grabbed a pregnancy tester and tested... It was 2 lines... clearly... I was so happy and wake Bryan up... told him the good news, but he not really believe :P

So I decided to buy another pregnancy tester after my facial... I chose Clearblue as this is up to 99% accurate and can test how many week pregnant already...

On the next morning, I was so excited wake up early and tested again... Waited for a while, then it showed "Pregnant"... Wow so happy... Then it showed 2-3 which means I'm pregnant for 4-5 weeks... Fast-fast wake up Bryan again, he believed this time... He was so happy and excited too :)

Then at night time, I tried to test again using Ovulation tester as I ever seen online got people comment can test pregnancy too... Oh yeah... It showed 2 lines as well... So is true that ovulation tester can use to test early pregnancy too.

I'm ready to celebrate your coming my little one, you are my most precious birthday present for 31 years. Muakssss

Merry Christmas!!!

Merry Christmas everyone!!!

Nothing special for me during this christmas day... wake up to clean the house... then went to shopping in One Utama...

But had a relaxing evening, went to spa... had body polish, hydro bath and body treatment using volcanic wrap...

Had a surprise gift from hubby... he bought it from thailand during his business trip... it is a nice cosmetic bag which I really need it :d Thanks dear...

Wish everyone have a warmed and blessed Christmas!!!

My first attempt to make fondant cake

Has been thinking of try to make a fondant cake for quite some time, finally bought all the material yesterday and tried to make a simple birthday cake for sister :D

Haha... not so nice yet, will try to make nicer one next time and challenge for more difficult one :D

Happy birthday my dear sis :)

好久不见

嗨！已有一段时间没回来了 :P 转眼2010年已过了半年，回头看过去的一年，发生了很多事：

- 拥有自己的甜蜜小屋
- 成为蔡太太 :p
- 已不是2字头了 :)
- 第一次与新家人一起过新年
- 第一次没和自己的家人一起过年初一

我会努力地常回来这里。。。

My Birthday Celebration 2009

I'm glad that this year got a lot of friends and family celebrate my birthday with me, although not on the same day, it's great to hang out with friends that are seldom meet.

The first treat was from my ex-colleagues and some current colleagues, we went to DainTihill (代官山) located at Pavilion KL for dinner on 12 June 2009. There was 7 of us, we ordered food with rice, those that have 50% with Citibank credit card :D I didn't bring my camera, so didn't take any photos :( Never mind, I'll always remember those who celebrate with me, thanks a lot to Yuky, Pui Pui, Chee Fee, Liang Yan, Jason and Voon for the birthday treat...

On 14 June 2009, I went to have high tea with Sian Peng and Chen Ying. At first, we went around Puchong area but can't find cafe that we like, so Chen Ying suggested Kuchai Lama. But we could not find one that suit ours there too, because Sian Peng and me wish to eat cake :P So Chen Ying brought us to Sri Hartamas, then we found this Austria Bakery, the cakes are so attempting, so we decided to have a drink and a piece of cake here. This is the birthday celebration for Sian Peng too, so Chen Ying is the one who paid the bill hehe :D Thanks a lot...

We ordered Italian Delight which I like it the most, Green Tea cake and Chocolate cake. The cakes are really nice with reasonable price, only RM4.50 per slice, worth to go to try out.

Backofen Bakery
34 Jalan 24/70A, Desa Sri Hartamas,
50480 Kuala Lumpur


One day before my birthday, my sister said want buy me dinner for my birthday. Since my dear will work late, so we decided to go Zen Cafe located near my working place - KL Sentral. This is because there is an All day long promotion on dessert, when you order a dessert, then can get a cup of coffee or tea for free. So we ordered Crispy Chicken Salad which I like too, a piece of green tea cheese cake, a piece of chocolate berry cake with two cups of Flat White. It was a nice dinner which only cost RM25 including tax. Thanks my sis for the birthday treat, I enjoyed it a lot.

I received a lot of birthday wishes from friends and family on my birthday, some of them wishing me through phone call, sms, facebook or messages on messenger. I really happy received the wishes... Thanks thanks...

I went to The Cave Couple Cafe and Restaurant which located at PJ SS2 with my dear for dinner. It was my first time been here, everytime we passing by we were attracted by the design outside, so we decided to have a try on the food there. The whole interior design is just look like a cave, it's a three storey high restaurant which serve Japanese and Western food. Why it's being called Couple Cafe? It's just because most of the seats inside are just for 2 pax, then it's covered by a piece of thin clothes to serve privacy for the couple dining there. Sounds romantic right? hehe :D It has free wifi here too.
I didn't bring my camera out, so just took some photos with my super "good" camera phone. :D

We ordered a couple drink - Romeo & Juliet which is just mix fruit juice and cost RM23 for 1 cup. Dear ordered his favourite Rosemary Lamb chop (RM26.90) and I ordered seafood cabonara fetucinne (RM32.90). The food are ok for me, but we waited 30 min for the food, so I think it's a bit too long. Overall the environment and the food are nice, worth to go there to try out. I'll rate it as 7/10 as the service is not so good.

The Cave Couple Cafe & Restaurant
16 & 18, grd, Meze, 1 & 2 Floor,
Jalan SS2/61, 47300
Petaling Jaya.
Tel: 603-7873 9888/9698


Dear bought me a small black forest birthday cake from Bread Story cake house after dinner, the cake is very nice... yummy :D

The next day, I went to Marmalade with Lane, Diana and LZ which located at Bangsar Village 2 for lunch. Lane and me ordered the Healthy Breakfast set and Benny's Salmon Breakfast set. The food are delicious and fresh and healthy... After that we ordered a slice of carrot cake which is very famous there... It's yummy....

This is the birthday present from my uni friends, thanks a lot, it's suit on me... I like it very much :D

This is the precious present from my dear... a pair of diamond earring... I love it... thanks a lot my dear... muakssssssss :D

I would like to thank all my friends and family for the birthday treats and presents, wish all of you stay healthy and happy always too :D

第一次看演唱会 - 梁静茹《今天情人节》

6月13日- 今天是我第一次去看演唱会，为什么选择梁静茹呢？因为我一向来都蛮喜欢她的歌，从《勇气》开始到现在。。。Ms Wendy 于6：30pm来载我，但我们迷路了，直到7：30pm才到达Bukit Jalil 哈哈！！！还好还没开始，我们还来得及吃burger后才进Bukit Jalil Indoor Stadium，演唱会于8：15pm开始，而且还爆满呢！演唱会不可以拍照，所以没有照片可以分享，但我从光华日报网站下载了一些精彩的图片。

我购买了RM118的票，虽然看得不是很清楚，但只听歌也已足够了，梁静茹的歌声太棒了！！！

美美的梁静茹，美妙的歌声，梁静茹一开始便唱一首接一首的好歌，全场歌迷也与她合唱，直到《小手拉大手》，更有动画舞动机，大家跟着拍手，跺脚及挥手，好开心哦！

光良是特别来宾，他一开始便和梁静茹合唱《掌心》，梁静茹的确挑战高音，但还是不敌光良 ：P 不过，超好听的！光良还演唱了自己的第一首广东歌曲《店小二》，还特别演唱《童话》呢！全场还与他来个大合唱！！超high的！！！

在安哥部分，梁静茹还特别拉了阿牛上台演唱，阿牛实在太会搞笑了，弄得梁静茹小的脸都红了。最后张智成，菲比及阿飞也被拉上台与梁静茹合唱，真的太精彩了！相关报道可以看星洲娱乐。下次如有机会，我还会再去看的！！！

曲目

■風笛手、一秒的天堂、燕尾蝶、會呼吸的痛、Fly Away、無條件為你、崇拜、親親、暖暖、沒有如果、我喜歡、今天情人節、情歌、屬於、C´est La Vie、別再為他流淚、記得+天下無雙+情人、知足、可惜不是你、掌心（與光良合唱）、店小二+童話（光良）、小手拉大手、孤單北半球、聽不到、分手快 樂、多得他、勇氣

安哥

■原來你也唱過我的歌、寧夏、我願意、不要再讓你孤單（阿牛）、Moon River（大合唱）、愛你不是兩三天

Happy Mother's Day

First of all, I would like to wish all mothers in the world a Happy Mother's Day! It has been few years I didn't able to celebrate with my Mum on Mother's Day, just because I work at other place, really sad about that. Mum, I love you.

Today is another hot day, so dear and me just went to Digital Mall for a walk to enjoy the free aircond again :p After that we found this restaurant - 粗茶淡饭, which make us feel like eating mum's home cook food. So we had our dinner there.


This is the set menu, the price is affordable for everyone. We chose set for 2-3 person which cost RM28.

This is the chicken called 三杯鸡. There got other type of chicken dish which you can order.

Seaweed egg soup - 紫菜蛋花汤. Dear said it's a lot more yummy than what I cook :p

Vege - 油菜.
Tofu with minced meat - 肉碎豆付. You can choose other tofu as well. This dish is yummy when mix with rice.

We ordered 2 bowl of white rice and 2 glass of hot chinese tea. So the total bill was RM31, which the dinner set cost RM28, rice cost RM2, and tea cost RM1.

Overall we think the food is really like home cook food, you may come to try on if you miss home cooking food. The service is ok. We definitely will come back to try again.


粗茶淡饭 Restaurant
No.6A-2, Jalan 14/20,
Seksyen 14, 46100 PJ.
Tel/Fax: 03-79583114

Business hour:
11:00am - 3:00pm
5:00pm - 10:00pm

Shopping at Sunway Pyramid

It has been quite a while we didn't go shopping because want save money for wedding :P But this lately really too hot until we can't stay at home, so we went out enjoy the free aircond in shopping mall - Sunway Pyramid. Actually we got nothing to buy, only see some electric appliances and furniture for our future new house, don't know when only we can move to new house :(

As for dinner, we found a Taiwanese Restaurant named FORMOSA - 台湾风味馆 at the Asian Avenue, the price is quite affordable I think, so we went in to try.


It's a small shop only.


Sour & spicy soup (RM6.00). But I think not nice.


Bubble tea (RM4.00). Normal bubble tea only.


Rice (RM1.50) with braised egg (RM1.00). Not bad.


Hot Crispy Chicken (RM6.00). This is the nicest.

Formosa 台湾风味馆
Unit 167, First Floor, Asian Avenue,
Sunway Pyramid, Bandar Sunway.
Tel: 03-56367522

Relaxing Saturday

Wow... I have a wonderful and relaxing Saturday today... Because of hot weather, I went to Impress Esteem for facial and body massage for the whole afternoon, feel so relax and happy...

After that, I went to dinner with hubby, I brought him to Kissaten Coffee and Restaurant @ Jaya One. It's my second time been here, but hubby came here for the first time. Share with you all some of the food we ordered.

This is the menu.


Here's the environment. It has outdoor and indoor seating. Got free wifi too.


This is my ice white coffee (RM5.90). It's quite nice and hubby said is too thick for him. :D


Here comes my Katsu Don (RM15.90). It's japanese meal. Got fried chicken fillet and egg on top of rice. The taste is not too bad, just I think can't take too much because is a lot for me.


Hubby ordered Half Spring Chicken (RM16.90). This chicken need half an hour to be done. But hubby said the taste is so so only, not really special.


A Teriyaki Chicken Sausage Burger (RM5.90) for hubby. The burger has big sausage, vege, tomato and mayo inside. This is yummy, worth to try.


Our dessert - Pumpkin Cream with 2 scoops of Haagen Dazs vanilla ice cream (RM11.90). This dessert is quite special for me. Taste nice too.


Total bill is just RM62.15 including 10% service tax. I think is quite affordable.

Overall I think the food is quite nice, they have variety of choice, have western food, japanese food, sizzling, pizza etc. The service is quite nice too, and they are polite. Worth to try it out.

KISSATEN Coffee and Restaurant
L12A-1-1, Palm Square JAYA ONE
Jalan Universiti, Petaling Jaya, SEL.
Tel: 03 - 7954 1990
Fax: 03-7957 3440

Finally finished the pre-wedding photo shooting

2009-04-30 - We reached Eyeshot Studio at 8:10am, but the MakeUp Artist (MUA) not yet arrived, she arrived at about 8:35am due to traffic jam. Right after the makeup artist (Pey Ru) arrived, she started help me to makeup, it took about 1 hour for her to make up me, after that she did hairstyle for me and makeup for hubby. So at about 10:30am we only went to Lake Garden, reached there at about 10:45am. The weather is not so nice, got sun but with thick cloud, fortunately no raining. The photographer Joshua and his assistant Alfred showed us the place to take photo because both of us never been here before :P We left Lake Garden at about 12 noon, luckily we left earlier, because on the way back to Eyeshot Studio, it started to rain.

When reached Eyeshot Studio, I started changing another evening gown for my indoor shooting. Then the other wedding gown will be for Teapot Cafe shooting. We only can go Teapot Cafe shooting at around 3 something because there are too many customers during lunch hour. We need to pay RM50 to join member in order for us to take photo at Teapot cafe. I think it still worth it because we can get 10% discount in the future if we dining there or even take away. The membership is for lifetime. By the time we reached Teapot Cafe, there are some other customers dining there too, but we just took our photo shoot and ignore them :D

After took photo at Teapot Cafe, we went back to Eyeshot Studio for my another evening gown. We started our way to Putrajaya at about 5:20pm, yet it started jam at LDP. By the time we reached Putrajaya is about 5:50pm already. Joshua showed us the place to take the photo, we went to few spots and able to take some sunset shot too. Too bad is the most of the buildings didnt on the light, so we not really take the night scene. Just able to take at one place. Then is the first time hubby hold me up in his arms... haha

Overall I'm quite satisfied and enjoyed this photo shoot, Joshua is a nice photographer and Pey Ru is a nice MUA. I'm not really tired with the photo shooting because I'm having a lot of fun and new experience from it. Thanks Joshua, Alfred, Pey Ru and Zoe for the good service. Hopefully my photo will be turning out good as well.

Here's some of the photos that hubby took using our own camera on the shooting day, share with you all.

This is the cosmetic that they used.



Prepare go out to Lake Garden.




At Lake Garden.




Indoor photo shoot.


Style go to Teapot Cafe, but forgot to take with the gown one :D




Putrajaya night scene.


P/S: Thanks Zoe for the chicken rice lunch :D

Teapot Cafe address:
169, Jalan SS2/24, 47300, Petaling Jaya.
Tel: +603- 78753024
Fax: +603-78750550
Close on every Sunday and Public Holiday.