Well, well…I ate 2 packets of Nasi Lemak today and it gave me gas too!
I guess I have to abstain from Nasi Lemak for the next 7 months!
Can I do it? I doubt coz Nasi Lemak is one of my favorite food and I do crave for it from time to time.
Looks like…”Eat first, Suffer Later.”
Year end equals to more money needed. Birthdays; mine, Clarissa’s and hubby’s. There’s wedding in my family; need to prepare BIG angpow. Christmas; plan to travel to Ipoh to celebrate it if hubby got staff to work for him then. Insurance; medical insurance, life insurance and car insurance. New schooling year; new set of books!
Oh Oh! Chinese New Year is in January. Need to prepare money for angpows and CNY preparations!
Money!!!! Where art thou?
People say 2nd trimester is the best part of pregnancy. Well, I can’t remember what I went through during my last 3 pregnancies unless I dig my old blog post. All I can remember is, I don’t have to endure morning sickness at all with the previous 3.
I am now in my 2nd Trimester and the morning sickness still don’t want to leave me! 
My sense of smell is extra sensitive, my sense of taste is extra sensitive and my emotion is extra sensitive too!
Due to it, I have not been gaining any weight yet!
My mom said, wait till after the 4th month. It should go away. I hope so.
Are you feeling it yet?
As for me, since I have been living a simple lifestyle, I don’t feel the pinch except I got less offer from US. That also means I have less income now even with the high exchange rate.
I don’t rush to the shopping complexes when I hear there is sale going on. Hmmm…come to think of it, I always avoid sale; hate the crowds!
Looks like no holiday for us this year.
I just hope and pray that hubby business won’t be affected.
But I have a splitting headache now!
I hate the hot weather but hubby is loving it coz it helps to stop his coughing.
I belong to the Artic, he to the Sahara desert.
Opposite attracts???
Ptui!
I am thinking whether to upgrade my laptop memory. My laptop is running slow now. I have no idea where it went wrong. Can virus cause this? Anyway, thank God that I am not using this laptop for any graphic or other application that requires large memory. This laptop is only for blogging. As it is, I have to be extra patient and wait.
If they are the Gas we use to run our car, I won’t complaint but the gas caused my tummy to be more bloated and sleepless night. There was so much wind in my tummy that I can’t sleep until 4am in the morning!
I tried to vomit but the food I ate just don’t want to come out. I tried my very best to fart but the only time I can fart is when I PU sitting on the toilet bowl. How many times can I PU in a night??? When I lie on my bed I felt like gas coming out from my throat but it is just the feeling, no gas come out.
I wish I can be like a baby where the mommy pat her back to burp her. Tempted to wake hubby up to do just that but I did not. He had a long day at work; let him sleep and let me suffer alone. 
So I ended up sleeping while leaning on the bed. Didn’t manage to get a good night sleep until 4am when I was awaken by a dream where my son was calling me to sleep with him. I woke up, walk over to his room and sleep beside him till 7.30am.
This is what I ate and drank:
2 cups of Teh Tarik; one for breakfast and one after dinner
Nasi Lemak
A few slices of juicy and sweet Honeydew
Pegat Durian with Glutinous Rice
My mom told me later that all those food “banyak angin” (will cause wind in the tummy).
I won’t be earning some side income from Genting because the special friend of mine who is working with Genting is not coming to Malacca. They are saving cost by appointing local agent to sell their products rather than getting their employees to come down to Malacca.
Not just any Nasi Lemak but this one…
It may not look presentable but it sure taste good. Furthermore, Nasi Lemak wrapped in banana leaf is hard to find now. It adds that special aroma to the rice.
Let’s take a peep inside…
The rice are steamed and the coconut milk used to cook the rice is just at the right amount; not to little and not too much. The best is the chili/sambal. So far, I can’t find another other sambal that beats this one. I dunno how to describe the sambal. 
And I almost didn’t get to eat this Nasi Lemak today. By the time I arrived at the stall at around 7.30am, there was a lady on a motorbike waiting for hers. The seller told me that she is buying all of them; I think there were about 20 packets left. So I used my pregnancy as an excuse to “snatch” some from her! hahaha.
I told them that I was craving for this Nasi Lemak (that’s the truth, I didn’t lie, hehe) and they looked at my tummy and asked how many I want. 
I told them that I just want 2 packets.
Yahoo! I got my Nasi Lemak!!! 
Unfortunately due to my “pregnant” taste bud, the Nasi Lemak does not taste good on my tongue.
Nowadays almost every food does not taste how it supposed to taste like even my mom’s food. I hate morning sickness!!! I want to be normal again!!!!!!!!!
Due to my morning sickness, I feel tired and nausea most of the time and I don’t feel like going anywhere. Even a drive from home to hubby’s shop feel like a thousand miles away. If someone were to sponsor me a trip on one of Caribbean cruises, I will definitely give it a pass. All I want to do now is sleep, sleep and sleep. That is the only time I feel normal.
I was informed by a friend yesterday that Genting is going to hold a fair in Mahkota Parade this 31st October - 2nd November. The good news is that this special friend of mine is going to be on duty. I will get to meet her face to face for the very first time and I might even get to work with her if her boss agrees to high a part-timer to help her out during the fair!!! Isn’t this good news? I am keeping my fingers crossed that I will hear more good news from her soon.
One of the worst thing that one has to face is when one is sick but still have to go to work. If only by going to work he can get better, then I would not mind at all. However, going to work makes the sickness even worse. His coughing would worsen because of the air-conditioned room. Furthermore, at work he would not be able to exercise much to increase his metabolism rate. If he does not switch on the air-conditioners, then his customers would complain and it would not look good for the business.
He has to skip church last Sunday because of this reason. It is very cold in temperature during church service. He would be coughing and coughing out loud if he has to sit in the sanctuary. I’m not so sure if he would be going to church this Sunday too. Hopefully he would be healthy by then not to be affected by the cold temperature.
I was at my apartment on Tuesday to clean it up after the tenant left. I brought my children along and all they can think of was food, food and more food. So I head down to the mini market downstairs to buy some tidbits for them.
At the entrance door to the mini market was pasted so many apartments and rooms to let. Some even advertised having new contemporary furniture, new air-cond, new TV, new fridge and everything new at only RM250 per room. With this kind of competition, I wonder how can I get my apartment rented.
Look what she got for me. Young/Unripe manggos for me to make mango pickles. And this is only 1/4 of what she got for me.
And I did not asked her to look for it. I was just walking around the house looking at the manggo trees, hoping to spot some young manggo, saw 2 of it but it was too high for me to pluck.
The next day, I saw the big plastic bag filled with manggo. She got my sister to get her kindergarten’s maid to pluck from the kindy compound.
Isn’t she the best?
Unfortunately the mango pickles is not helping much in reducing the nausea.
These are exciting time. Just a few days ago, someone approached hubby and offer to sell his cyber café business to hubby. Well, hubby has the intention of expanding his business for quite some time but has yet to materialize. As for experience, I know hubby has the experiences to start another cyber café. It is just that we do not have the capital to do so. We are currently paying back the loan taken for the current business and that would take some time to finish. Hubby is trying his best to settle his business loan and as such we do not have extras to start a new business branch.
miche | 
10 17th, 2008| 
