37th week

Nose so big.
Lips are swollen.
Face is so round.
Warts appear all around.
Hands and feet has water retention.
Leg cramps in the early morning.
Lethargic
Skin darkening.
Heavy at 72.5 Kg!!!!
Feeling Pain. . . pain. . . pain
Everyone reminding you how big you are every moment, betting that tomorrow you will be giving birth.  Asking if you are carrying twins as you look as big like an elephant!

With all of the above...I'm feeling depressed...crying every morning due to bad dreams and for no reason at all.

I'm expected to deliver on August 19, so that would be 3 more weeks from now. Baby is confirmed to have not yet engaged so cannot expect to deliver any earlier as of this moment.

This must be the longest month of my life so far.  I was on scheduled CS delivery for my first baby at 34 weeks so I never reached this difficult times.

This afternoon, I received a gift from my Korean friends...how nice of them to perk me up.



Anyway, soon, very soon, I'll be writing about the new addition.  I still remember the wonderful feeling when I first saw my darling Audrey.  And the two months we spent together was simply great!

Come on Boy, Mommy is so excited to hold you and kiss you!


The Wit of a 5 Year Old

Some lines that my girl has said...amazes me and makes me laugh!


Can I borrow your "daster" when I also get pregnant?

When you are not yet dead (by the time I can reach the stove), can you teach me how to cook?

When I grow up, will you look after my kids so that I can go to work?

I can't understand how your mom became my Lola, then my Daddy's mom is also my Lola!

Will I get married someday? I want to marry a Filipino.  Can I marry Kuya Wacky (her first cousin)?

Mommy, you have such big butt and legs...eeew!

Dear Ate Charo,

taong 2001 nang una kong maranasan ang humiwalay sa piling ng aking mga magulang.
tumira ako sa Sampaloc, Manila ng 6 na buwan para sa review ng board exam.


pagkapasa ay lumayo akong lalo, napunta ako sa Sta. Rosa, Laguna kung saan akoy naging manggawa sa isang pabrika.


Dito sa Sta. Rosa, naranasan kong tumira sa tatlong apartment, hanggang sa lumipat ako sa aking sariling Row House sa Lakeside, Cabuyao, Laguna nung May 2004.


3 buwan lang ako sa pinapagawa ko palang na bahay ay lumipat naman ako sa kabilang village, sa Hong Kong. Sa bahay ng aking asawa.


Nagpabakod, nagpaextend, nagpa-grills, tiles…yun na. Ang saya saya ko naman sa aming munting tahanan. Namimiss ko ang orchid garden ko sa HKV. Kaso, lahat ng orchid ko pinabayaan ng asawa ko nung lumayo ako't nagpunta naman sa Singapore taong 2007.


Sa Singapore, tumira ako sa Ghim Moh, sa Eunos, sa Yishun, sa Sembwang, sa Ang Mo Kio at nitong buwan nga, kasabay ng aming pangalawang annibersaryo ng pagiging PR ng aking pamilya, ay lumipat na kami sa aming sariling bahay, sa AMK parin.  Itong bahay na ito ay uupahan namin sa susunod na 69 years dahil lahat ng bahay dito ay pag aari ng gobyerno.  Masasabi ko narin "amin" ang bahay, basta!


Gulo gulo parin ang aming bahay pero ang aking kalooban ay kalmado na. Hindi na ako guguluhin ng mga ka-board mate at ng mga land lord. Hindi narin ako maghihintay pag may nagugustuhan akong bilhin. Dati kasi laging "pag may bahay na ako" kasi pag umuupa ka lang, at palipat-lipat, ayaw mo ng sobrang daming gamit.

Ngayon ako'y lubos na nagpapasalamat sa iyo Ama, tunay kang matapat! Ang bawat araw ngayon ay mas lalong tumatamis. Papuri sa iyo!

Gumagalang,
Kuripot


"Sampung Taong Palipat-lipat"

RESERVED - II

pinigilan ko nalang maiyak sa awa sa sarili ko at sa precious baby boy ko.
morning I had the encounter with the uncle (see previous post), afternoon was as crazy as well.

dahil uwian na, siksikan ang train.  so I do not expect a free seat but if luck strikes me, someone will be good to offer their seat.  this is just not that afternoon.  two ends of the seat rows are RESERVED.  ironically, yung dalawang seat ay occupied ng mga babae at tulog na tulog parehas...while the middle seats were all occupied also by ladies.  These ladies were all eyeing me (are they wondering why I have such big tummy???) also people standing were all eyes on me...my face was perspiring and my baby was kicking me.  For 15 minutes, nobody was gracious enough to give up their seat for me.  So I turned around to check the other side...the guy who was seated at the reserved seat alighted, I had to rub elbows with another lady trying to grab the seat.  For heaven's sake...I am travelling for 45 minutes.  I really need and DESERVE the RESERVED seat ( wow, same letters in those two words).  Maybe the notice should be revised to RESERVED FOR THE DESERVING. 

This topic on graciousness on trains and buses has never died down.  On forums and on local papers.  Government has revised the notices from small to very large eye catching ones...all to no avail. 

how can people be so rude?

Singapore is a nice place...but the people are not nice! not at all...

God allowing, today will be my last long ride to work.  I hope to be able to sleep in my own home this weekend so the next week, I just need to walk to work.  Yahoo!

RESERVED

jurong east interchange. lahat ng pasahero ng train ay bumababa dahil dulo ng ito ng red line. sa mga babalik sa pinanggalingang destinasyon, maluwag at malaki ang opportunidad para makaupo.




word for the day is RESERVED : adj. - Set aside for the use of a particular person or party






kahit maluwag ang train, diretso ako sa mga reserved seats kasi nga, those are set aside for particular persons…like me! but today, this uncle sat on the reserved seat, there were so many available seats, actually one right beside him. I gave him the stare.






"you want this seat? sit here (pointing at the empty seat beside him)" I raised my eyebrow. "So many empty seat and you want this seat ah?" I softly said "because this is reserved seat, you should not take it" I was still standing in front of him. "Wah so many empty seat and you want this seat! If there are no available seats, I will give it to you but now so many empty seat." He was talking at quite a loud volume. I sat beside him and out of nowhere I kept on pestering him that he should, in the first place, not have seated on the reserved seat . He was pissed off and stood up "Nah, here you sit, you want? I give you!" He continued to grumble loudly till the next station then he alighted.






Ang topak ko naman kasi at binuwisit ko si Uncle. Malamang ay kagigising lang niya, nasira ang araw niya sa akin. Ang topak naman kasi niya at magdahilan pa siya na umupo ako sa ibang upuan. Sana nagslide nalang siya sa next seat at pinaupo niya ako.






what a day!