Hazy Saturday

Saturday 26 August 2006, 2.35 pm

Pre-preggie, one of the thing I love most about Saturday morning is waking up late. Hmmhh..the feeling of natural morning wake, without alarm buzzing by my ear, shut mobile, closed curtain. I remember waking up at 11 feeling refreshed, satisfied and glowing.. did a little stretching before shower and straightaway headed to lunch.. ah.. heaven.

Ok now, as I mentioned in earlier post good sleep is a long lost friend of mine that I miss dearly, so by 9 am I couldn’t continue sleeping anymore, in fact I can’t stand even lying on the bed any longer. It worsens my back ache. Upon waking up I wandered around my house, I don’t know why I did that, maybe because I’m just plain blur or simply habitual. And normally will end up at the balcony. I stayed there no shorter than 10 minutes.

We were lucky to get this apartment unit. The view is breathtaking..at least to me. My husband always says the view is only ‘very nice’ but he never used the word ‘breathtaking’. Standing at the balcony, you have a direct angle above the pool area, which garnished with lots of greens everywhere. They planted so many trees it gives the pool a really cooling resort ambience. The sound of waterfall splashing above the pool water from the pillars add tranquil to the whole effect. Looking left, we get the view of newly-rise starting price at 750K Armanee Terrace, and busily under construction Metropolitan Condo on the right. We also get a peek of the main road going up to DP. And the sky, we also have a wide spread of blue sky with the hill bearing the big sign of DP at our left. Our unit never gets direct sunlight except during mid-day as we are blocked by the building in front of us and of course, in the evening the sun sets behind our building. So I get to stand at my balcony to just savour the view at anytime of the day. By the way, 10 minutes usually will do. If there are none naked people hanging by the pool. (According to our management office, there were cases where a couple of foreign chicks swimming topless at our pool okay.. that adds extra points to my already ‘breathtaking’ view..heheh. Of course they were shooed off *sigh*)

Naturally I got hungry, so this morning I just had bread and milk. Bigfish had left earlier to the Tropicana driving range. He was back while I was having my lame mini breakfast. He already had his at the golf club. Sitting on the plush couch, we talked as a regular man and wife do about our plans and agendas for the day.

As eager and excited as I was, I nagged my husband to assemble the baby’s playpen while I nominated three drawers inside our wardrobe for baby’s clothes and essentials. Wow, it’s baby stuffs checklist day! The playpen (or playard) was setup like a breeze, thank God. Both me and hubby are not fond of assembling / setting up any complicated anything, we love good product manuals with clear instructions and good language, and we don’t mind paying people to fix anything that involves a hammer. Our time’s too precious laa..heeheee..alasaann..

The playpen looks fabulous standing in the living room. We bought it at The Curve, there’s this shop opposite Mothercare that sells imported baby equipments. Naturally I forgot the name of the shop (blame it on the hormones). We initially planned to look for Graco models but on that day we just fell for this one. It’s by Simplicity for Children (Travel Tender series), light brown colour, complete with hanging little sheeps and vibrating mattress. The musical mobile plays nursery rhymes when we set to ‘Playtime’ and classical tunes when we set to ‘Sleep’. It also comes together with a mounted changing table, easily foldable and everything can be stuffed into the travelling bag provided. Cool huh?

In the US and UK, it’s a national rule that they wont let your newborn baby leave the hospital if you don’t have a proper car seat installed in the car. Haa..takut tak.. In Malaysia semua baby selamba je dukung bawak balik. Instead of a separate pushchair (stroller) and car seat, we got the two in one model by the name of baby travel system. Nama cam gempak ek. But this so called system thingy is actually a baby car seat that can also be mounted on the pushchair for that extra convenience so that you don’t have to unstrap a snuggled sleeping baby from the car seat in order to remove to the pushchair. The carseat can also doubled up as a baby carrier. Ours is a dark brown with black finishing Graco that looks so sporty even me would love to have a ride in that pushchair. Alahai mak buyungg..

Then of course we have the other items, the tiny baby clothes, nothing pink hehe, blanket la, bedding la bla bla, bantal golek segala.. I also purchased a newborn baby bottle set from Avent. Most probably I can only afford to breastfeed my baby exclusively during the 2 months maternity leave before he shifts to formula milk.

By the way, I still bought a breast pump for any just-in-case situation or should we have a plan B when the baby gets here..I used to think this breast pump gadget sounds scary but fortunately it looks quite user-friendly. I got a Medela Harmony sweet corn-coloured manual expression pump..cant imagine I’ll be using that..

Since we foresee the baby will be doing quite a travelling, with Hari Raya approaching and from mommy’s house in Pahang to daddy’s in Malacca, now that we have the car seat part intact, baby also has a cool diaper bag. We got it at the same shop where we bought the playpen. It’s by GR8X (Great Expectation), black colour and doesn’t look very baby-ish. Something daddy Bigfish wouldn’t mind carrying in public, I too will look like a soccer-mom carrying the bag. Heheheh.. it comes with soft padded back straps that can conveniently be hidden inside a zipper pocket should we wish not to use it. It’s not too big and bulky so easily can sumbat in the lower compartment of the pushchair. Lots of compartments and best feature is the insulated pocket to keep milk or food at the desired temperature.

A note of advice to anyone reading the blog, baby stuff can be pricey so belilah masa sale, like me. Hehehe

Ok time to get some rest at my balcony to checkout the haze and naked people by the pool yang tak pernah ada..

Cheers!