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bear bear i wun say never ever coz i duno the future mah but i'm very sure 4 now i dun wan hehe

pressure? i'm not some1 who givs in 2 pressure u noe? keke its my womb n my right 2 decide whether i wan any imps bothering my life anot, y shld i b pressured from ppl whose not gonna play any part in bringing up my offsprings? even 2 my in laws, i said the same thing n knowing the temper i haf, they dun dare bother me after they asked me once :P
 


Heehee.. ya from ur posts i also can sense what kind of temper u have... heehee... u must be ready to have a baby urself...

Honestly, making the decision never ever to have a kid is more difficult than deciding to have one hor?

So what's more impt if u have a gal? Looks or intelligent? rem u can only choose one... if u choose looks then the kid is gonna be those that is academically slow. If u choose brains, then the baby will be super duper ugly...

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bear bear hahaha ya i always tell ppl i will haf a kid only if i really wanna haf 1..n not becoz others wan me 2 haf 1..n sadly alot of ppl dun get their priorities rite n stick by them so end up suffering :P

hmm if i really have 2 choose, i will choose brains over looks, at least the poor kid will haf the option of undergoing a plastic surgery lol but if 1 is born stupid..no medicine cure liao

altho lotsa ppl always say corny things like 'looks r not impt' blah blah but we all jolly well noe human beings r juz conditioned in such a way dat we r definitely attracted 2 ppl's looks 1st then we explore inner being..so if look like some babe but open mouth onli tok rot...then kena deduct points lagi more hehe
 
Skylar, I don't watch movies like The Ring but I don't mind vampire movies like Van Helsing.
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Bear I've nothing to read at the moment.. time to hit the bookstores. There's only so much tv one can watch and that much time one can spend playing the xbox :P Oh you are right.. I've no kids YET.

We get absolutely ZERO pressure from our parents to have kids.. to think that my hubby's the only child. It's only the relatives who tend to bug us during CNY, at weddings etc. It gets kind of irritating after 5 years… asking the same questions over and over again. Asking us why we bought a 2-seater car.. what if we have kids? Why our house has no window grilles.. so dangerous WHEN we have kids etc. Why are we waiting so long to have kids etc etc.

I agree with Serene that at the end of the day, it should be the couple’s own decision. When it’s time, it’s time. There are those couples who have kids, but they don’t seem to be coping well cos financially and mentally they weren’t ready. Of course there will be people who say that there’s no way one can be mentally prepared. But at the very least, the couple has to spend enough time as a married couple.. doing the things they want, travelling etc before they start having kids. Or at least that’s what I feel.
 
hi avid reader

LOL u noe wad? the questions u kena r exactly the same i kena as well! i was laffing when i saw the window grills thingy wahahha coz we oso dun haf dat n best part is...i stay in a 4rm n we knocked down most walls n theres actually no spare rooms at all..picture this..2 rooms were knocked n joined 2 form the masterbedroom...the 3rd room was knock 2 become a dining room..n most walls 4 those rooms were replaced by glass lol so technically i only got 1 bedroom, 1 living n 1 kitchen kekeke n my MIL was not veli happy obviously when she 1st came 2 visit while my place was still under renovation kakakaka

wad cums next r the dodgy ques like...if next time got kid no place 2 slp lah..n she even said in malay 2 my FIL n my ah lao (she's a nonya n tinks i dun understand simple melayu) dat we no spare rooms if they wanna come n stay over etc etc DUH!
 
Morning ladies!

Speaking of pressure, my ILs already started hinting to us about giving them a grandkid a couple of mths after we got hitched (that was in 2001). After awhile, they gave up, coz we just boh hue their hints..treat it as one ear in, one ear out..hehe. My hubby once told them...since u want to hv another baby, go hv your own lor. They nvr bugged us after that :P

Hmm..looks vs brains. I wld pick brains too, coz if she's too stupid, I wld be worrying abt her all the time! Like Serene says, can always go for plastic surgery..but brain..no brain transplant technology available now.
 
Serene, it's the same for us. We stay in an exec masionette. The balcony and windows has NO window grilles, the lower part of the stairs has NO railings (almost all the aunties commented aiyoh so dangerous ah!!!), of the 3 bedrooms we've upstairs, we knocked off one of the walls for one of the bedroom facing the stairs and replaced it with a glass pane too! And that's our TV room cum library. The other room is filled with our clothes. Same old questions... where are your kids going to sleep?? And so we don't have a tv in our living room. That is like totally UNACCEPTABLE to some of our relatives!
 
Hello! busy busy! clearing 17 days worth of work...

Serene and Alhana, i also choose intelligence BUT hor my hb (he was the one that started this) said what if u can't have plastic surgery? then how? heehee.. kind of tough right?? sad to say we gals got the most pressure.. must look gd, wear butt flossing thongs, toe killing stilletos etc etc.. and we must not be bimbotic, cannot ask silly qns, must be able to cook, wash and balance the damn accounts.. how tough is that? how come the guys dun get all this grief?

Avid and Serene, wah talking abt the window grills, my MIL came to see my place while it was under renovation. She straightaway commented how come the windows no grills?! i said later then put lah, money was tight mah... she said next time got kids how? i replied, 'got kids then talk.' she immediately said marry liao cannot wait so long to have kids blah blah blah.. it wasn't me that doesn't wanna have kids, its her precious son!! aarrghh!!

Avid i also stay in EM leh.. heh.. my MIL first comment when i bought it was that the stairs too dangerous for kids... haizzz.... so are u like Serene? having kids later?
 
Hi Bear

Ask your hubby don't ask so many nonsense qns lah...I tot only girls like to ask such qns :P I know I always ask my hubby all these 'what if' qns..he buay tahan!

My house is a baby hazard man. Got stairs everywhere (we stay in a 2 story apartment, and my bedroom has a built-in loft that can only be accessed by stairs)...kinda scared my girl will kay poh and put her head thru the stair rail then kena stuck..keke. Why do I worry abt that? Coz her dear daddy did that same silly thing when he was young! Then there are rough corners everywhere..it's gonna be tough baby proofing our hse. We will leave her downstairs in the living room most of the time anyway...prob gotta buy those child safety gates for the stairs eventually.
 
Alhana... hahahaa.. this is funny. Got stairs railing also will have 'potential' danger. hmmm.. I've no railings so how to put up the child safety gates? hhmm.. we will worry when we've kids :P
 
hahahaha.. Alhana my hb likes to crap a lot.. ask this type of qns to scare ourselves.. u know he asked wat if we have a daughter who gets herself preggie at 14 yrs old or wat if our kids dun wanna study and go to normal tech stream instd!! the more he thinks he more he dun want a baby... haizzz...

Ur house sounds cool! u know we have been talking so long yet we haven't meet.. it will be gd to meet up before u deliver! heehee... but its just me really...

Agree abt the stair railings too! i think the kids will do that cos they have nothing better to do.. so wat happened to ur hb in the end? how did they unstuck his head?

Avid, i can understand that! i still throw tantrums frequently! heehee... aiming for a baby pig eh?
 
Aiyoh Bear..ask your hubby don't worry so much..wait hair all turn white prematurely! Is he a Virgo?? I'm a Virgo, and we tend to worry alot, even at things that will nvr come to past...quite irritating actually :P My hubby's fren was telling him...hv girl more things to worry abt (like get preggers etc). My friend is way more cool. He and his wife just had a baby girl last Nov, and u know what he told me? Girl good! he can't wait till she's 16 and starts bringing her hot girl friends home! Walao.

Hv railing oso got problem, no railing oso got problem. Like I say, very hard to child proof homes. Just hafta live with it lor...nowadays seldom hv couples thinking of such things when planning their first home together. Can manage one lah.

I don't mind meeting up, but I'm starting to feel immobile already :P Sometimes her head is pressing into my pelvic area..pain man. Now my butt aches so much ... and last nite I had bad cramps in my calf again. Hubby panicked coz I woke him up going 'ow ow ow!!!!!' He tot I going into labour or something..hehe. Where do you all stay btw? I live in Katong.
 
Alhana i live at Bedok! so we can meet somewhere near ur place and have a drink (non alcholic for u!!) and i can rub ur tummy! heehee...

My hb is an Aries..ya he worries a lot.. he did say if ever have a gal, he will be afraid of his frens' reaction when she grows up to be a hot babe! his hair is starting to turn white liao but he still thinks very hard.. cos he works with teenagers and he sees how easy it is for them to slip down the wrong path. so i guess that's why he worries so much...

Ya lor i think i need to nail some wooden board in btw the railings!! heehee.. i think sometimes we worry too much.. like the window grills, i dun intend to instal them until the kid can start to climb.
 
Hi Bear!

Cool...we can actually meet up in Siglap (since it's a midway-pt) one of these days
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Your hubby's like my hubby's fren. He's a lawyer and handles many divorce cases. After having done too many, he's starting to get phobia of marriage..hehe. Anyway, for every bad egg, there are many others who turn out fine..so don't worry too much lah. No pt worrying abt something that may nvr happen
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Hehe..my hubby will laff when he sees this...he'll tell me to practice what I preach!
 
Hi ladies,
It was hilarious reading all those posts above....my future MIL was also like tat when she saw our flat,she was commenting so much,i wanna tell her to shut up!She was telling us,we shd not hack walls la..shd not do this n tat la...was so fed up.
She even hinted she wanna come over to stay (cos she find our place very windy)..wah tat is when all my guards came up n took ALL precautions to make sure it did not happen. Told HTB tat if she really said tat one more time,i will sit her down n honestly tell her no.

As for worrying hubbies...Bear...ur hubby is a classic..so funny...but tat also show he "plan in advance" hee hee. My htb is also a worrier so i can understand...

Aiya...as for railings...i think we chinese are way too protective..see how the ang mohs have been livin in double storey houses...n there are hardly any incidents.We just have to take the neccessary precautions..
 
I guess I'm very lucky coz we're living with my parents now. So there was no chance for my MIL & FIL to make any comments..hehe. And they can forget abt asking to stay over..ha ha. But we won't be able to stay in this place forever coz there won't be extra room for the kid. My dad has dreams of owning landed property...guess we all hafta work harder and earn more money!!

slgerman,

Exactly! I see all my overseas friends all staying in big houses...don't see them fussing abt whether stairs are dangerous etc. Of coz they can be dangerous lah, but it's the parents' responsibility to minimise risks lor. That's where stair guards etc all come in. But I think they can be as protective..they take baby proofing much more seriously than us. I guess prevention is always better than cure. They will baby proof their fridge, drawers, table corners etc..in case baby knock table, open drawers etc.

Hey, I remember you mentioning abt Ann rule and her crime novels. I was watching Hallmark the other nite, and there was this TV movie about Ted Bundy, the notorious serial killer. And I think the title of the TV movie was 'Ann Rule something' (Can't remember the exact title). Think she personally knew Ted Bundy! I didn't finish watching it tho, coz when I started it was already almost ending. Maybe will catch the re-run.
 
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Alhana, i m game... How abt Serene, Avid, Levynn and Slgerman? keen for a wormie discussion? heehee... i feel the more u see the more jaded u are... i always say, our grandparents and parents din have much trouble bringing us up.. why should we worry so much?

Slgerman, ya some guys worry too much while others dun have a care in the world.. heh... u know my MIL said that walking up and down the EM stairs not gd.. i mean how can it be? then why do we all hanker to stay in a landed property? a lot of ppl give up staying in EM cos they say climb stairs not gd for preggie women, not gd for kids not gd for old ppl.. wat nonsense!
 
bear bear sureeee i'm ok 2 meet up but when's the proposed date? keke

n hor..i'm not as cheem as u all where reading is concerned lol
 
Erm any fri will be gd for me... Serene where u stay ah? must near Alhana mummy's home.. she preggie leh... heehee.. most impt member..

aiyah dun need to talk abt books lah... OR we can do what Avid said the last time.. we all read one book and then discuss abt it! heehee...
 
bear bear i stay in punggol.......err if u all intend 2 meet in the east..i'm fine as long as its near the mrt hahaha coz i work in bugis mah so wun get lost :P
 
Gd morning!

Serene, wah erm... the place we meeting is not near MRT leh... u need to take bus i think.. i m not so sure myself.. must ask Alhana cos i dun take buses liao...
 
Hiya all

Hmm..MRT...unless we meet in Bedok lor..but Bedok not many places to chit chat and lim kopi/teh. Tot Siglap wld be nice :P Lotsa cafes/dessert shops and quieter too. But not so accessible lah. I think 12, 10 and 14 go to Siglap from the city area. Must check.

Bear, only Fridays? We sometimes hv dinner w the ILs on Fridays. Think this Friday will hv to meet them for dinner. But we can tell them next Friday boh eng to meet them.

Don't need to just talk abt books..we can gossip abt our MILs, hubbies, movies, TV, anything under the sun lah! Now I also don't hv much mood to read. Unless you ask me to read trashy magazines..hehehe.
 
Good morning ladies!

I stay in Hougang.. near Serene who stays in Punggol. Come to think about it, mid-pt of Katong and Hougang is Bedok right?! :P Meet anywhere is fine. Must be convenient for mummy Alhana though..
 
Hi!

Alhana, i m only in Bedok on Fri cos i have not 'officially' married so only staying at my new place over the wkends. sorry... if not Sat nites also can but i believe our hbs will be home alone...

Hahaha i dun read thrashy mags leh.. heehee.. dun read much nowadays...

Avid, i m happy if u are coming to bedok man... heehee.. the mid point btw Katong and Hougang should be Jalan Kayu i think.. heehee...
 
fri mostly i got chill outs wif my frens :P but juz gif advance notice

siglap is nice n i haven been there 4 a long time keke but i dun go there unless i'm driven lah so i'm pretty spoilt in dat sense keke so u gals pls go ahead if u all decide 2 meet there
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Has anyone seen the movie The Lake House? Not a fan of Keanu Reeves or Sandra Bullock but I like the original Korean version of the movie. It was called Il Mare or something like that.
 
Hi Bear

Maybe we can meet in Siglap one of these Fridays, and meet Serene and Avid at another location another time :P Or what about Singpost..the one at Paya Lebar MRT? That's sorta in the middle too..but not a nice place to hang out lah.

Serene, ask your ah lao to drive you there lor..hehe.

Avid, think the hollywood version didn't get v good reviews. I didn't watch Il Mare but I heard it's nice. Hv you been watching LasVegas lately? So funny how they killed off Lara Flynn Boyle's character.
 
hi alhana mummy hehe

my ah lao works on shifts plus i dun like him 2 drive me ard unless its sending/picking me from work if he's not part of my programme (he dun like 2 b part of my programmes anyway lol) kekeke
 
Singpost? That's a very convenient location for me! There's a coffeebean there I think. Definitely not a crowded place.

Alhana I will probably wait to rent the movie at Video Ezy. Not worth going to the movies then.

Oh I just watched some old episodes of LasVegas recently! Only watched up to the episode where Ed Deline's car got stolen by the girl whom Mike was trying to impress. Lara Flynn Boyle's character got killed off? hahahaa that's great. Don't really like her character in the show!
 
i haven been reading since i started work man..everyday reach home oreadi like zombie! n i feel like picking up sumting light n farni 2 read...any recommendations?
 
U guys suggest a place lor.. Where do u work Alhana mummy? may be i can drive u back aft that..

Serene.. something light ah? heehee.. comics! to me they are the lighest thing possible. get some chick flick to read? think got new one by Marian Keyes... not too bad.. i read a bit at the book store....
 
Hi Bear

I work in Upper Paya Lebar...quite ulu. I'm ok w Singpost...can actually walk home from there :P

Serene..have you read the Bridget Jones books? They're both very funny, much more so than the movies.
 
bear bear wads the title? hehehe

alhana oh i've nv tried! its gd huh? yayyy gonna go SAN 2 find them kekekeke how many is there anyway? 2?

thanx 4 both ur recommendations!
 
Serene, Mike Gayle's earlier books like My Legendary Girlfriend, Mr Committment and Turning Thirty are all quite fun reads too. Check them out at SAN ok?

Alhana thanks for the link... interesting indeed!
 
Serene, yup there are 2 Bridget Jones books. San should have stock as well. Very easy reading, very funny. Think Helen Fielding (who's the author) has another book as well based on a different character, but I've not read it.
 
Hi Serene, sorry i forgot the title of the book liao... heh.. i dun usually rem the book's title.. i rem the storyline. this new book is abt a spoilt gal who ruin's her father's marriage to another lady (the dad is a windower) and in return her dad punished her by cutting her allowances. so she has no choice but to start working to get some money etc etc...

Alhana, walk home from Paya Lebar?! to Katong?! u sure or not?!! how to walk? very far leh...
 
Hi Bear

Actually, it's not v far. My home's at Haig Rd. Maybe take ard 15-20 min if I walk slowly. We usually walk to Parkway from our home too. Good exercise for me coz I don't do any other exercise now :P Wanted to go swimming but find it damn ley chey (must bring clothes to change, shower etc) Trying to do some prenatal yoga at home, but damn lazy. Find that my muscles are not so flexible now, so doing yoga is becoming a pain, literally. Used to be quite ok at it. Now just do one sit and reach oso cannot..hehe.

Serene, how? Managed to go to San last nite?

Avid, I watched Project Runway on Discovery Travel & Living last nite (think they are 2 eps in front of CH5)...down to 4 last nite. Did u watch it? They had to do evening gowns, and I must say the end results were quite disappointing. Tot couture gowns should be quite fun to watch them make...but then again, they only had 2 days to do a dress :P
 
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bear bear no worries i will go chk it out nevertheless heheh thanx

alhana no lehh laz nite my ah lao picked me up liao then we went east coast 4 dinner then went parkway walk abit...mayb tis weekend when i'm in town hehe
 
gooooooood FRIDAY morning all!!! hehe...

alhana... u watched Project Runway last nite?? who was out ah?? i quite like Chloe. i only caught a few middle episodes then missed out some n suddenly it was going to b fashion week liao...
 
Alhana I didn't watch last nite. Sounds interesting... cos couture gowns should be the category which they would want to impress upon the judges. Was watching LOST on Ch5 and then followed by 2 episodes of Seinfeld on DVD.
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So glad it's the weekends again!
 
Hi levynn!

This could be a spoiler for those who follow PR on Ch5 (coz it's slower). So..SPOILER ALERT...




Kara was the one eliminated. Her gown was very plain, and poorly made. Daniel's was plain too, but at least his gown was well made. Chloe's gown was promising, but the finishing wasn't good..so it rumpled at the seams, and the cutting didn't suit the model's figure. Santino's gown was the flashiest..but it looked like a mess to me. All in all, not impressive!! They've done better in the past. I liked the ep where they used plants and flowers to design their outfits. Some were really nice, like Chloe's, Daniel's and Kara's.

Avid

U still follow Lost? I gave up after season 1. Did watch Seinfeld on Starworld last nite. What season are you at on your DVDs?
 
Alhana, it's a bit frustrating + confusing watching Lost cos they keep adding NEW characters.. Happened to catch last nite's episode because it's about Lock. My fav character in Lost.

Already at season 6 of Seinfeld. George is such a superficial loser. He bought a convertible just because the sales guy told him some actor used to drive it. I think among all of them, Kramer has more style!

Oh I did watch that ep of PR where they used plants & flowers for their outfits. So creative!
 


alhana... Daniel is really a black sheep, i feel. he's always like so quiet in a corner but he managed to get into fashion week. but i can't stand Santino. he's already thinking like he's a big-name fashion designer, always coming up wif those funny looking outfits... which i only see on TV Mobile fr the Christian Dior fashion shows.

avid... sorry to say i haven't been reading much lately, unless u count in Reader's Digest. heh. couldn't find the time to go to a bookshop juz to browse thru. but i'm looking for Jeffery Deaver's lastest book, "The Cold Moon".
 
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