Dos & Don'ts During Pregnancy

Today i want to blog about pregnancy... No.. Don't get me wrong. I'm not pregnant (yet)! Haha! It's just that for the pass 1 year, i have a few pregnant ladies in office and personal life. Therefore made me learn quite a lot of "free" classes on what is the Dos & Don'ts during pregnancy in order to delivery a healthy child. Here are the few basic and common sense things that 1 should obey during her pregnancy on WHICH i know there is 1 particular person i know who do not obey or more like able to bend the rules so that she can get away with it:

Rule #1: No raw food and ice PLEASE! In Cantonese "sang lang yeh".
Excuse #1: "Aiya, only once in a while mah"! - Take note: Empty stomach in the morning!

Rule #2: No nail polishing, hair rebonding, coloring or curling PLEASE! - because the chemical will effect the baby.
Excuse #2: " Rebonding is allowed because the the chemical will not reach the scalp!" wahahah!
* Few of my pregnant friend actually told me that government nurse actually will scold expecting moms with polished nails or dyed hair etc!

Rule #3: If you are not allergic to dairy, drink those milk which is made for expecting moms.
Excuse #3: "Milk is smelly, i can't take it" i'll drink soy base product.." wei.. those product do not have DHA and other vitamins which is important for the growing embryo leh! Want to take vitamin pills to substitute? wahaha!

Rule #4: For God sake! Consume the vitamin tablets that they provide you during you checkup. Because they know what the baby need more that you do. Unless, you are rich to go get it from pharmacies.
Excuse #4: "The pills are smelly, i can't take it!" Shit! what the baby's gonna eat ah?

Rule #5: Have the least Fast Food as possible because it's widely known that Fast Food is not healthy.
Excuse #5: "It's the pregnancy crave, nothing to do with the mom.. Blame the baby"! HA HA FUNNY! Doesn't mean should eat Fast Food so frequent kua!

Rule #6: Be good! BE very Good! because whatever you do or think will indirectly effect the womb! They call it "toi kau" in cantonese.
Don't #6: Never ever call other people's son STUPID, DOG, USELESS or GO EAT SHIT! - Pregnant or not, it's still wrong to do that! Normally what old people like to say is that, the more you say bad about other child, the more likely your child will be like that, or even worse! We call it karma. So, let's do good, shall we?

So, those are the ABCs & 123s of pregnancy. For more info, please do not hesitate to ask your doctors! Hehe.

Although i have never been pregnant before. But i think the most important period to determine whether a child will be healthy in the future is during the child's growth in the mother's womb. No matter what, it's a mom's responsibility to make sure the child is healthy when he or she is brought into this world. But then again, i really do hope that this "unique" expecting mom that i mentioned knows what she's doing. And i hope the baby will be healthy when he or she is out later.

Those old times

I still remembers that i really loved eating at A&W comparing to KFC or McDonald's... The main reason will be it's Rootbeer Float of course. And not forgetting the onion rings too (although i don't really like the onion).. Normally i will pull out the onion.. Shhhhh.... Hehe!

But then i was really dissapointed when i visited A&W outlet at Sunway Pyramid yesterday. I ordered 1 combo set of grilled chicken which comes with Rootbeer & fries...

The whole set which is more expensive than a chicken set in McD, but the portion was much much more smaller then McD... the Chicken fillet was so thin that i almost can't taste the fillet when i bite the burger...The chicken fillet is so thin that the ketchup packaging size is almost the same as the fillet.. Haiz...

And also, besides the fillet, between the 2 bread is actually only 1 pc of vege and some mayo.. That's it?? I really rather have Ramli burger!!
Then guess what i saw on the burger wrapping?

"MORE THAN THE USUAL"??? Sure boh??

i think other than the Rootbeer.. there is nothing in A&W that is worth for me to go for.

friday night

ouch… procrastination got the hold of me. i should have posted this on friday night.

rainy days are bane for us KTM Kommuter passengers. last friday was one of those days…

trains will definitely delayed if it rains heavily. worse thing is, even the announcers don’t even know what time will the train will arrive (for all destinations).

the killer move was out when the announcer told us to “Take other types of public transport and will refund back the tickets bought”.

damn, after waiting for almost an hour, this is what we get…

with nowhere to go and raining heavily, i decided to wander around before making the next move.

KL is a nice place to walk if you don’t mind the filth and some bad hats around the are.

anyway, i walked to Putra LRT station coz i was thinking of taking it to bandaraya station.

but i scrapped the plan.

instead, i walked around the station for half an hour. nice graffiti there.

this is only a part of it. and yes, that is the famous Yasmin Ahmad on the wall. i think most of you had seen it on the papers or on the TV.

so random photo that i took. just standing there watching people walking in the rain somehow gives me a calm effect. not to mention fun. haha!

went to Central Market next. decide to skip Petaling Street coz i don’t think there will be much to see there on a rainy days.

do you know that there are various kind of show in the Central Market at night? i only knew it on that day. but i did not waited for it. plus, i don’t think they can perform anything on a weather like this (it’s an open air performance).

since i’m at Central Market already, i might as well took a bus home. plus i don’t think trains will be a very efficient transport on a rainy day. not worth taking the risk anyway.

but then again, taking a bus is a risk itself. after all, how many times have we read in the papers that there are daylight robbery in the bus and yet nobody is willing to help.

and i have not taken a bus ride for more than 3 years. that’s a big risk. yikes…

the above is a bad photo. it’s actually me inside the bus. haha!

daylight or not, i still took out my PSP to kill time coz in KL :

rain + public hols. = massive jam.

but the journey is still fast considering that i’m taking a Selangor Bus (or was it Metro Bus?). doesn’t matter. the speed of these two buses are the equivalent to F1 racing.

and these smart asses even skipped a few routes to evade the jam. but of course, they had warned the passengers beforehand that they will skip that particular route.

reached kepong in an hours time. feels a lot better than waiting for the train for an hour!!!

photo taken while i was waiting for GF in Kepong. can’t complain the quality of the photo much coz i was using my old handphone to take this.

left office at 5.30pm, reached home at 8.10pm. that’s a great friday!!!

Bukit Gambang Water Park (30.08.09 – 31.08.09)

since this is a 2 day 1 night trip, i’m going to post everything in one post. are you ready to read? don’t fall asleep!

yes, as there was an extra holiday on Monday due to Merdeka celebrations, mom had suggested that we go to Bukit Gambang Water Park.

Bukit what???!!!!

never heard of that place before. does such a place exist in the first place?

a search on Google doesn’t seem to give any positive feedback as there were blogs giving negative feedbacks of it.

going to an obscure place with negative feedbacks seems like a disaster in the making. plus, i’ve never liked going to vacations with my mom as i felt restrained.

but i decided to follow suit this time (together with GF) as it’s been years since i went to one with the family.

and so we go on a two and a half hour journey to the unknown trail. at the end of the journey, GF and i were left with sore legs…

the back seat of Honda Stream is not made for people with long legs…

fyi, sis bought a promotion package for 4 person earlier (which includes accommodation + water park tickets + breakfast + dinner) for i dunno-how-much as i’ only paying for me and GF. haha!

the place turns out to be very new. hence, it was clean. the staff were very friendly too.

a quick view of the place, it looks like apartments for universities, right? haha!

the apartment is very spacious though. nice and clean. overall it is A ok, except for the mini bar in which they took an hour to change it. and that was after my sis made 3 phone calls to the receptionist!

contrary to what i thought, there were a lot of people coming here and mostly from KL/Selangor area based on the car plate i saw in the parking.

since there were a lot of people there, we did not get an apartment with a nice view. instead, we got this view…

aiks, a lorry… lucky it was not a working day. else, we will see a lot of construction workers there. haha!

after a quick lunch, off we go to the water park. woo hoo!!!

the park is still developing actually…

no outside food are allowed. but the is a cafe though.

for those who are lazy to walk, there are rides to the park too. but be prepared to pay RM2…

this is the wave pool. just like the one in Sunway Lagoon, there will be a period of waves and non-waves in that pool.

the water is not murky. it’s just that the bottom of the pool is brownish that makes it look murky. so, no worries about it.

cam-whoring. haha…

at the corner of the park, there are slides for those who crave for adrenalin rush too. did not tried it coz… yes, i’m a scaredy cat. haha!

and also slides for the whole family.

not sure what it is as it is still under construction.

slides for the kiddies

this is one of the pools where you laze around and just let the wave take its course

aiks, abit of an eyesore…

spend most of our time lazing here coz GF does not like all those water games. no complaints from me as i’m enjoying feasting my eyes on the girls though. haha!

and of course, this is the one place that everyone seems to like:

see the crowd surrounding the area? you wonder what are they looking/waiting for?

ah… this is why. the big piranha will collect water from the pipes. and after a while (around 5 mins. it’s a big piranha, you know), the water will come splashing down, drenching everyone in sight. fun~~~

that’s me, oblivious to the ‘danger’ behind me. this is the smaller piranha.

mom had spend quite some time there too, saying that it is like having massage on her head. haha!

Chun before getting swallowed by the water~~~

don’t ask my what were my sis and her family doing there…

GF and Chun the Lalat Boy~~~

Lalat Boy learning to swim

at the end of the day, we were dark and some of us got sun burnt coz GF left the sun tan in the apartment.

buffet dinner starts from 5pm to 9pm. since Chun, GF and i were not included in the package, we have to pay RM38 for each adults and RM18 for kids.

which in my humble opinion is not worth it!!!!! so little selection plus they did not provide enough food for the buffet. didn’t they anticipate this on a school holiday? aiks…

nite time at Bukit Gambang can be quite boring. nothing much there. there’s an arcade with old games and also a mini karaoke where you put one token for a song…

after dinner, there is a movie screening though. watched Rush Hour for an hour and then sneaked out to sit somewhere else to catch a fresh air.

after the movie, there is a magic show too. but we went back to our room already. since it’s Merdeka eve that night, there was a fireworks display when the clock strikes 12am.

but i passed out way before that. was too tired… in fact i even sleepwalk (or rather sleeptalk) on that night. GF told me that i woke her up at night and told her something undecipherable while pointing at the air-con.

did not went for breakfast in the Cafe on the next morning due to the bad experience the previous night but it seems that the breakfast was better, from what i heard from mom and sis.

upon checking out, we hit the road back to KL. in between the journey, wanted to buy petai and fruits from the roadside stalls. but contrary to what we thought, those stall are selling it more expensive than in KL. and they have this bad take-it-or-leave-it attitude. sheesh!

stopped over at the Karak town only to find a treasure there in a form of a Yik Kee Restaurant. i’m not going to blog what we had there though, but the food they serve is big and inexpensive.

din take much photos while i was there but i did took some photos of its specialty – DURIAN BOMBS!!!

but once it detonates… BOOM!!! the durian filling melts in your mouth

they also sell egg tarts and durian tarts. egg tarts are nice, but the durian tarts, ok ok lah…

and also kaya swiss roll. unlike the normal swiss roll you buy, they are very generous with the filling. the kaya are literally flowing out of the roll!!! no more dry swiss roll. yummy!!!

and oh, the photos of the food might seem unappetizing but it was due to my photo shooting skills though.

and just like most restaurants which are popular and full with people, be prepared to get fired by some of the unfriendly staff.

one more thing too. never buy any dumplings from them. it might seem huge and it was stated that there were lots of fillings, but in reality, they are the lousiest dumplings i’ve ever tasted. not worth the RM8. there’s still one sitting in my fridge till now.

i think they wanted to cash in the fame they are getting. trying to sell as much food they can think of. don’t be fooled. not everything they served is good…

want to try it but too lazy to drive to karak? fret not, they have various Branches even in PJ area! please refer to the photo below:

and that sums up our short trip to Bukit Gambang! but it was a long wordy post indeed!