The "B" Word

Rant: If you wonder why people are treating you this way, have a second thought and ask yourself how you treated others first.
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B for BABY!

On last Saturday, while I was attending the boring wedding dinner, my phone rang. It's my SMS alert.

"King, I just gave birth to a baby boy justnow at 6.30pm. Now at room xxx"

This is a promise I made Orange to make. Right after she recovered, and pushed out from the labor room, got the energy to sms, I want to be the first she told. Hehehe.

Orange is one of my bestest Chinese schoolmates back in ITB. She's in business stream whereas I'm in my CIS (Computing & Information Systems) department. Coincidentally, we had our work attachment in the same bank for six months too. Thus developing the thick friendship.

She's only 9 months elder than me.. but ... but.. aiyoyoo.. now she's already officially a mother of TWO (2!), and me.. not even close to get married yet.

TWO : NIL !
(Orange) (King)

Ngaiteee.....

Here, let me introduce the 2 days old baby boy, JunHou. (I hope I get the spelling right)



Ah... I know what you are thinking now. New born babies all look the same one.
- Soft
- Small
- Red & Dark

Sometimes I wonder.. How come those aunties can say ...
"Aiyo~ Look at this handsome/pretty girl. The eyes look like mother, nose like father.. Ear like Gong-Gong, mouth like Po-Po"

Wah seh! Got Superman's or Cyclops's laser eyes? Steady also.
(Can you sense the sarcasm there?)

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It's pretty cute and funny. Orange named her first baby girl after the female lead character from the Taiwan Idol Drama, Lavender... 雨薰.

And now this baby boy, she named it after the male lead character's name from the drama "Prince become Frog", 军昊.

Cool?


She's lack of confidence now thinking that she looks like a bloated-balloon, unattractive and fat. So, you better says she's pretty if not I come and tumbuk you.

Orange looked really cute when she's pregnant, big round tummy and walking around like Penguin! I always felt like I'm her big sister because I nag her when she drank cold stuffs or eat unhealthy food.

She often prepares me about taking the role of wife and mother. But most of the times, after hearing what she says, I'll get extra tense and worried more nya...

Especially after the day when I hear another friend telling me her progress of giving birth, when the doctor took a pair of scissors and "cut" open... you know where...

WAH.LAU. *sweat* My whole body shrugs and involuntarily roll myself up into a ball.

One word.... SCARY!


Babies are cute when they're sleeping and/or they belong to someone else... what I think for the moment. I'm certainly not prepared to be a mother yet obviously.

Poo-Poo, pee-pee, saliva, crying, tantrums... err... Bye bye.

(That's when my mum comes into the picture and start 'lecturing' me about how nobel and great are mothers.. Children must be filial and nice to their mum. Yes mum, I know you're the greatest mum in the whole wide world and I love you..)

Don't worry, I always think that only by having a baby, a woman's life is complete. So, I'll for sure have mine soon... ok.. not so soon but the day will come. And also, I want to make sure I can give my baby what's best for him/her.

有云，不孝有三，无后为大。我可担当不起这罪名.

(Translation: Not having any children is the biggest sin of not being filial. I tak sanggup tanggung this kesalahan eh)

Ok, enough rubbish. Here, take a look at the room.


Me: How come you stay in this room and not those bed in the normal wad?

Orange: You don't know.. the beds are full. So many pregnant ladies laboring soon.. I have no choice... B$150.00 ah!

Me: Wo! Bah... Must make full use of your time spending here.

The room is big, got dining table, a set of sofa, coffee table, TV and washroom (with bath tub, shower, basin, mirror and of course toilet bowl lah)

Steady.. really like hotel room you know.

I was happy to see Eshyn, Orange's eldest daughter. But she wasn't quite in a good mood, ignoring her mummy and everyone else. Maybe she's jealous of her baby brother.. seeing all the attentions drawn to him kua? Nevermind, she just needs some time I think.


Hehe. Theen was really curious about the whole baby thing. You know, she's really like those Goldfish-aunty, when she saw cute-cute babies, she'll take her camera phone out and snap pictures..making the parents worry that she'll kidnapped their baby like that.

(For those who don't understand the term Goldfish uncle/auntie, it's a name Chinese use to label those pien-tai paedophile)


Everytime she goes like, "King ah. You see you see, so cute the baby!"

I go like, "Cute ah? Go and "make" one yourself lah.. See your saliva drip till my floor wet already. Go Go Go, go take tissue paper and wipe yourself up"

Apparently, our 1hr stay in the hospital taught us quite a lot.. There's so damn many things we didn't know. But too bad, I don't think Brunei offer pre-Mummy course, teaching you how to bath, feed, change diapers, baju, clean poo-poo and pee-pee..

Wu.... I want to be a mother too. By the time I kasian-ly bring my baby to kindergarten, Orange's babies already in college liao lor.. And she's a young gorgeous mummy whom everyone says "Wah... your daughter ah? I thought your younger sister leh~".

Me leh.. like over-age mummy liao, carring my son's Power Ranger school bag, hanging the Tupperware water bottle around my neck fetching him from school.. Obasan!

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Here's a little joke that happened to my mum yesterday.

I asked my mum to help 3 of us take a picture. I passed her my camera and you guess what she do?

She hold the camera real close to her face, and like moving the camera in-front of her face here and there...

-__-?

Then I say, "Ma ah? You trying to look for the focus hole hah? HAHAHHAHAHAHA! This one don't have lah... You look at the screen can already."

Really ah.. My mum very funny one. She doesn't even know how to use mobile, not even picking or dialling a number. What's more to say computer. At least, she knows how to switch on the TV and watch channels on Astro. If that one also don't know, I really vomit blood.

p/s: Planning to get the B-mobile ,B$99 3G phone + line and force my mum to use it. Because it's really hard to find her when she's not at home.. Yes.. pathetically, my 53 yrs old mum actually has more outings and functions than her coming 23 yrs old young and cute daughters..

Sigh...

Here, the picture my mum took.
Got skill?

If you're wondering.. yes.. This pic is taken infront of Baiduri Bank, Kiulap branch when goldfish Theen want to "tut" money.