My first mummy post

I only co-slept with my baby during her first month. Then the next 2 months she slept in her cot although we placed it just beside our bed so I could easily reach her during the night. She's been sleeping in her own room since she turned 3 months. 

Last weekend during our short holiday, she slept beside me on the hotel bed. She loved the hotel bed and she slept so peacefully. I could've let her sleep on the baby cot the hotel provided but I decided  to make an exception. Besides, it was just for two nights. Thankfully, she didn't seem to have any trouble adjusting back since she's been sleeping as per normal in her room. But it seems like it's me who's having difficulty now -- I'm terribly missing her, at night when she's sleeping and even more when I am at work during the day! :,( Usually, when I rock her and then see that she's already in deep sleep I put her down in her cot but last night I let her sleep longer than usual in my arms. 

*Sigh* I wish I can spend more time with my baby. It is not so easy though to just drop everything and be a stay at home mum. But then again, though it may not be easy, it still could be done indeed. Hmmmm...

A picture worth a thousand wrong words

I had lunch today with my colleagues at The King Louis restaurant and on our way out I saw they had this photo booth where they let you have a picture. And because I was feeling hyper(perhaps because of the big slab of ribs I ate by myself), I pulled 2 of my colleagues to have our picture taken. 

Then the picture was sent to the email I've input there. What I didn't realize before that was that the photobooth was actually sponsored by Carlsberg and pictures are automatically uploaded to their facebook page! 

Nooooooooo!!!

I wouldn't usually mind this and in fact I've had similar picture uploaded toHeineken's  website during my single and clubbing days ;p but this time I have to object because:

1. It makes it look like I had a beer when in fact I haven't had alcohol since I learned I was pregnant in March last year; 

2. It makes it look like I had a night out but as I've said earlier, this was during lunch time and hubby and I rarely go past 8pm of not being home since we had our baby;

and most all,

3. I look like I'm pregnant here er I mean I'm not looking my best here!!! Not fair! Hahahaha. If the camera was lower, you would've actually seen my big bag of breastpump. Then it would have just perfectly made this beer picture all so wrong! Hahahaha

No, I'm not drunk, just had a big slab of bbq ribs as I've told you :p. 

The 30minute blog

That's what I was supposed to name my new blog when I thought of creating a new one. 

My idea was that this new blog will be some kind of experiment where I'll be writing my blog entries on my way to/from work while in the train and within 30minutes, which is my approximate travel time per way. I thought it could be an awesome idea and perhaps maybe I could even make a book out of that blog which would become a bestseller and I'll be famous and then I could finally quit my job and live thru income from royalties! Yeah! Ok I got carried away on that last part but yeah that was my idea.

But then I changed my mind because besides getting sentimental about giving up my silentwaves blog, I thought I might not be able to sustain it anyway. Writing a blog entry in the train means I'll just be mostly writing just texts which can get boring to read and also because it also assumes that everything will be constant with my current situation right now which actually is not because there is now a chance that I will be kicked out of my job in a year (hello outsourcing). Anyhow, I would be mostly writing in the train, just like how I am writing this post now :)

WANTED: Caffeine free diet Coke

My heart almost made a small leap last weekend in the grocery when I saw a familiar coke label:

I thought I finally found my dream caffeine free diet coke here in Singapore. Well almost, but not quite, this is the caffeine free coke only. So far, I've only seen the caffeine free diet coke in California and Japan. Somebody told me though that they also have it in Hong Kong. 

I really hope it makes it to Singapore soon or if it already did, somebody please let me know where to get it!!! 

Three wishes

If a genie appears to you right now and tells you that the first 3 wishes he sees in your mind in this exact moment would be granted, what would those 3 things be?

I think mine would be:

1. To be a stay at home mom. 

2. To zap away undeserving elected politicians in the Philippines.

3. To take away my insecurities. 

So what's with year long coffee break?

Well, I got pregnant! 

Yep, on St. Patrick's day last year, hubby and I discovered (to our happy shock) that we were expecting a baby. There's a serendipitous story behind that but I won't go into that right now. 

I completely gave up coffee during my pregnancy so yeah you could literally say that I stopped being Coffee Fairy for some time. 

On October last year I gave birth to the greatest joy of my life. For five months I enjoyed feeling like a stay at home mom with a monthly pension fund (yeah baby!). You'd think I'd have lots of time to write then but if you're a hands on mom you'll know that taking care of a newborn and recovering yourself back needs more than 24 hours each day. Anyways, now it's been over a month that I've been a working mom and yes, I've resumed drinking coffee! 

I don't know how my blog will be now that I'm a mom. Maybe I'll be blogging mommy posts from time to time, maybe not. Maybe I'll make a separate Mommy blog like my Bride-to-be blog. We'll see. For now I am just happy to be writing again. 

Decaf time is over (hopefully!)

A thought came into me today: I thought I'd start a new blog, something which would be in line with my current lifestyle right now (i.e. sit-down writing time constrained!). 
But then I had a look at my silentwaves blog and well, I realized I can't just give this up. This blog is like a piece of myself that I chose to share with the world and as I read and look back to my past, I can't help but feel sentimental to see who I was and still is. 

So yes, here I am again, in another attempt to revive it up. 

Ladies and gentlemen, Coffee Fairy is back!  ;)