Tasting the Sunsweet Berries of My Life

It’s my birthday!

31 Aug 2010 1 Comment

by pinkliciouz in Birthday, Dining Experts, Emotional, Family

Went to work as usual in the morning as I didn’t want to take a full day off cos usually I would just sleep the mornings away. Got to office and quickly settle off the urgent work on hand before rushing down to my client’s office to deliver documents and to get some documents signed off.

Since my client’s office is just above my MIL’s office, I dropped by her office for a short chit-chat and she actually had my present with her, in her office. Other than the present from my colleagues, this is my third present this year. She gave me a set of Hermes Fragrance and a red packet. I jokingly asked her if I have to share the red pocket with her grandson and she said her grandson will receive another red packet when it’s his birthday.

I rushed down to the lunch appointment at Suntec. Eileen, Mabel and Lynette were already there and they were almost done when I arrived. I am 30 mins late that’s why I can’t blame them for starting without me. August is a month of birthdays, Eileen and Lynette’s birthday are also in August so we are all August babies. I passed Lynette her birthday gift as I have it in my car already.

Lunch was nice, but I didn’t like the main course. Actually, when I go to Sizzlers, I prefer  to only eat from the buffet spread as that is enough to satisfy me. The main course really ain’t that fantastic. I remember hearing somewhere before that all their main courses are pre-cooked and microwave, thus it won’t be that fantastic. However, I feel that their buffet spread is very good. Mostly salads of different sorts which I really like.

We updated each other with our latest happenings and they are going Bangkok, without me… So sad… I can’t go cos I am pregnant and I really hate to miss out on such fun trips. Sigh… Sacrifices for the baby… They were nice though, asking me if I wanted anything from Bangkok and they’ll buy for me but there really ain’t much that I want so I told them not to buy anything for me. Just want them to have a safe and fun trip and come home safely… I actually thought of having coffee with them after lunch but Lynette got a meeting so she couldn’t stay and Mabel is car-pooling with her, thus she gotta go too. Eileen got to be back at her desk by 2pm so I have no coffee kakis…

After lunch, I went for my appointment at Thomson Medical for my check-up. As the EDD date draws closer, the visits to the Gynae becomes more intense, from once a month visits, to 3 weeks once, and now, every alternate week. Luckily Gynaes in Singapore will offer a package so that you don’t have to pay every visits cos paying every visit will be much more expensive. Just imagine 1 consultation is already $100 to $150 excluding the ultrasound scans, thus taking up a package would be a much wiser thing to do.

I was asking the Gynae about the position of the foetus since I only feel the kicks on the right side of my tummy and it just makes me wonder how the baby is coping inside. Apparently, the head of the baby has already turned down and it is a good thing that the kicks are always on 1 side, meaning the baby is no longer turning around, thus the head won’t turn up again.

As the Gynae was doing the ultrasound, she was asking about my diet and I was a little embarrassed to tell her since I was having so much desserts. Ice-cream, cakes, sweets, moon-cakes are my favourite munchies. As she was looking at the foetus, she was telling me that the baby is very chubby, the tummy is very round and the limbs are very chubby, even I could see that the tummy is really round. Then she measured the baby and told me, my baby is already 2.2kg, which is the weight of a full term baby but as I still have another 7 weeks before I am due, she is worried that the baby will be too heavy, making natural birth more difficult.

The Gynae told me to watch my diet and to take less sugar and carbohydrates which is really difficult. Every meal, I am craving for white rice, and I find them so appetising even if it is just white rice with a bowl of soup. Sigh… Cravings during pregnancy is soooo easy to succumb. The Gynae told me to take a blood test to determine the level of sugar in my blood as she is worried that I might be diabetic, thus why the baby is growing so big. Luckily for me, the test came out fine and I am not diabetic or anything.

Went home after the appointment and the whole house is in a mess, did some cleaning up as no one else is really helping out at home. The husband helps with the laundry, uncle helps with the laundry, the dishes and to clean up the dog’s pee. I am helping with the laundry and the cleaning of the dog pee. Other than that, no one else is helping out. Even though my mother is a housewife, she is not doing any house cleaning at all, not even the dog pee. I really get so fed-up with her sometimes. All she cares about, is going to the casino and going to the casino.

We went to Resorts World Sentosa and I had the impression that we are going for Japanese food but turns out, they are going to Fenshui Inn and I was so disappointed. I didn’t enjoy the dinner the least bit as the restaurant are serving mostly live seafood and I do not eat live seafood, so there’s nothing much to eat. Also, the food is truly over-price, everything looks so exorbitant.

We ordered 1 live lobster which cost $300+ and they over-cooked the lobster, so my mother and step-dad were complaining away the whole night, about how awful the lobster is. Even my brother, who is not a picky eater, says that the lobster is really awful and thus, I know how awful the lobster is. Then we order spinach with eggs, peking duck, suckling pig assorted platter with charsiew, egg yolk prawns, noodles, cod-fish and ginseng soup.

The cod-fish is terrible tasting too, even when my step-dad cooks it for us at home, the cod-fish still has that sweetness in it but the codfish in Fengshui Inn doesn’t have that distinctive codfish sweetness and it is such a disappointment. My take is that they are using a super low-grade codfish, otherwise the codfish won’t taste that bland. My brother commented that it taste like any other fish and not like a cod-fish anymore. The ginseng soup has this over-powering ginseng taste and most people don’t like it, but I find it ok, so I managed to finish the whole bowl but it really is nothing fantastic too.

The ½ peking duck that we ordered came as a surprise. I have had so many peking duck at so many restaurants but not once, did any restaurant tried to cheat off consumers so much. They charge for half a peking duck but the portion came like only ¼ of the peking duck, and they didn’t even serve the meat. It didn’t come with the thin egg pancake that you can wrap the duck with but came with a min bun which makes us feel jerlat after just 1 piece of the bun. Maybe they are trying to be innovative but it is not working at all, at least for our table of 5 it is not working at all.

I didn’t enjoy the dinner at all but I just kept my mouth shut. I know my mother really don’t care if I enjoy the dinner and I feel that she don’t even care that it is my birthday. There were no cakes, and no presents. Thus I felt that it just clearly shows how much someone really care for you when they don’t even bother to order a cake for you or to give you a tiny present.

This year’s birthday is a huge disappointment. At least if I celebrate with my girlfriends, they would have bought me a birthday cake but there were no celebrations this year, thus even they also didn’t buy me a cake. Then my family didn’t buy me a cake too and I am so upset. Maybe to some people, a birthday cake doesn’t mean a lot but to me, a birthday cake means a lot to me on my birthday. When it is anyone else’s birthday, I always make it a point to order the cake for them but when it comes to me, people always tend to forget about me. Am I so invisible now that I am pregnant?

I shall go buy myself a cake from The Patissier this week, and sing myself a little birthday song. When the whole world forgets about me, I shall never forget about myself and I will continue to love myself. I love me!