Sorry for disappearing....

Hi ppl,

sorry for disappearing for the last couple of days,... truth is, it has been really tiring, the little rascal is up and demanding for milk every hour...
He is also what I would call "full of shit"...(pauline says just like me!!)..

the past few sleepless nights, we both have been doing the routine:
step1: Zayne wakes up and make a few "quacks" (he he no kidding)
Step2: I get up and carry him to mommy
Step3: Mommy opens her Yukata and shows her boobies!
step4: Zayne with 1 loud quack, latch on to mommy's breast like a hungry wolf
step5: I curl up into "Donut" and wrap round the back of Pauline's back, so she can
lean on me for back support.
Step6: Zayne drinks milk and POOP... really LOud, that's why we know he poops while
he feeds.
Step7: Finish feeding him, Change diapers
Step8: Zayne is shiok now, he sleeps...

Cycle repeats... EVERY HOUR...

BUT CONTRARY to what most new dad said, I found it quite an eye-opening experience,... this is what my parents had to go through when I was born...
hmmmmm.... without complain.. Will update more and post more picture this weekend ..

so Stay Tune!

Now with Zayne in my arms...

besides all the bruises, wound and pain !!!
( I feel like I was ran over by a damn big truck lo)

Yes, I've never experienced so much physical pain and being so helpless before. I couldn't move, couldn't even bath myself. But my husband has been so readily and patient here for zayne and me.... from changing diapers to helping to sponge bathing me. I have no words to describe how grateful and fortunate to have him in my life and now together with Zayne to make it all complete!! ..

Surprised!!

Thanks Julie & PeiLin!..
Pauline was quite surprise by the gift and really touched!... and it came at a perfect timing when i went out to pack my dinner!!!....

I need Suggestions

Sigh... after the pride comes the headache....

HOW should I register his name?? Comments PLease??!!!
Fyi, his chinese name is 潘朕毅 (Pinyin - Pan1 Zhen4 Yi1)

1. ZAYNE PUA
2. ZAYNE PUA ZAN-E
3. ZAYNE PUA ZHEN YI

He got japanese name too !! 毅 (たけし)= Takeshi (Ta-Ke-Shi)
Same pronuonciation as 金城武， 武 = Takeshi ha ha ha

thanks!

Day 2 Itinery Saga Cont....

12.30pm Silence of the Lamb

with clockwork precision, the nurses came at 12.25 to wheel pauline to the Op room, and she was push into the op room at exactly 12.30pm..... I was only able to catch this short clip... can't really hear very well .. but you get to see Pauline's pre-op expression..


1.10pm Shattering wailing

was sitting outside the op room waiting... and I see doctors and nurses walking into the op room..

hmmm.. saw ppl going in but none came out.... and looks like its ALMOST ALL the senior doctors and nurses working on Pauline... WOW... that really put me at ease...

As I was waiting, the lull in adrenalin, plus the fact that I have not had a single bite yet, kind of got me a little drowsy ... think I actually doze off... but was awoken but a REALLY LOUD ... WEEEEEHHHHHH..... that got me immediately up on my feet !! with a renewed rush of adrenalin, I was looking left and right .... trying to make sure i wasn't dreaming and there was no other baby in sight...

I checked my watch 1.17pm ... the next few series of baby wails got louder .... DAMN!..(pardon my language) .. this boy really have some lungs!!!


1.40pm First meeting!

I stood right outside the door .. .waited... 1.20pm waited... 1.30pm... waited.
The radiologist came out from the X-ray room round the corner,.. heard Zayne's powerful stereo, smile and congratulated me in Japanese "Omedetto ne", and went back into his room..

I smile back .. and continue to hold that beaming smile.... till the door to the Op room open...and the Nurse came out with my pride in her arms... congratulating me, while Zayne continued to exhibit his full stereos!! I replied thank you and instinctively reached out for MY SON...

yes..my son... ..ah... never thought these 2 words can bring out so much emotion in me....MY SON....

I guess its all the talking to him while he is still in his mum's womb... the moment I held him and called out his name.... he open 1 eye.. took a look at me.. and calm down immediately... wriggled and nestled into my arms peacefully.. .. that left me ..proud n speechless, for lack of a better word to describe my feelings.

2.15pm Return of the Mummy

Pauline is wheel back ... and required 5 nurse to carry/transfer her from the Op bed to room bed... if any of you watched 200pound beauty... the scene is a little similar to the doctor n nurse trying to shift the actress from the ambulance stretcher to hospital bed , but of coz Pauline is notthing close to 200 pound lah.. :P


THe rest of the day is a Blur of events...

- handphone, MSN, SKype, sms, MMS.. beeping non-stop... calling dad, mum, sis, brother... ,

- running to get the nurse when pauline's drip almost runs out, ..

- carrying zayne when he cries ( I only had to do that twice... very well behave...)..

- helping to support zayne while pauline breast fed him.. (success.. fed him 3 times today)..

- I got to wipe his POO-wy butt and change diaper when he crapped the second time....
the little rascal gave me the golden shower just as I was about to Tape his pampers down!!....

- help pauline shift when the wound hurts.. pains me to see her pain look... sorry darling...

- oh yes, and busy taking pictures and videos.. when possible...

Let there be ZAYNE....

World !!!.... meet Zayne Pua! born at 13:17pm japan time, 12:17pm singapore time, and weighing at 3.3kg ...

THE WAITING GAME

like precision clock-work, the nurses came and wheel pauline to the operation room. I am now sitting outside... waiting, anxious and expectant... no word to describe the actual feeling

Day 2 Itinery - THE BIG DAY!!

7.30am Rise & Shine

we both woke up at 7.30am, surprisingly... we slept very well last night... no panic stricken sleepless night ... Phew...

7.45am Baby heartrate Monitor..

Mai-san came in to check on baby's heartrate again... as usual, smiley and friendly..

8.30am Showertime...

Since there is only 1 shower room on this floor, the 8 mommies living on this floor has to follow a shower roster... :p

10.30am Pre-op Preparation

2 nurse came in with glucose drip. Pauline has been put on a "no food and water" restriction since 12 midnight last night... can see she is pouting from hunger...

I have a video of the whole process the nurse sticking the needle into her arm.. but need to edit it first before I put it up...

10.45am COSPLAY ??!!

A nurse came in and helped Pauline put on supertight stockings!!..

ke ke ke

div

12.15pm Baby heart rate check again

1 more heart rate check and 1 additional drip supposedly to keep baby happy??

okay.. now i'm starting to get just a little nervous.. can feel my feet slowly gettting cold... hmmm...so this is what cold feet means literally!!

Day 1 Itinery - 18 June 2008

2:00pm Check-in

with my broken japanese and the staff's machine-gun japanese, we smoothly fill-out the forms and went was told to go to level 3
Pauline complain my sofa looks more comfortable than her bed..


2:10pm In the Room.

Once shown into our room, we were given a quick explaination of the SOP. then we were presented with her Welcome Pack Pauline gets strap with the baby heartbeat monitor... she has to be monitored for 30 minutes...



3.10pm Free n Easy

After the staff are done, pauline was told that she can change into her own relax gown... the rest of the Day is Free for us.. Oh they did offer to give her a Brazilian bikini waxing..(shaving in her case)... but he he he... we were way ahead of them.. the staff thanked us for saving them that service... interesting.

4.10pm Rotting

lucky got TV.... but still rotting... but for the first time .. I see pauline pick up a japanese language book to practice ..:p I went out to buy some afternoon Tea snacks... my dear wife is hungry again :p


5:00pm Briefing From Doctor

was called down to the Doctor's room to have a briefing by him. .. up till this point, Pauline was still quite calm... until the Doctor said he will be performing the operation so don't worry...

I looked sideways at Pauline and saw a glimmer of worry..... HA HA HA... Anyway.. she is in good hands...


6:00pm Dinner time!

Pauline devoured the delicious meal... it smells really good... hmmm... i'll have to go out and grab my own dinner... and guess what?? pauline ask me to pack her some more food when I come back. ?????? i'm not surprise though :P

She cannot have any food or water from 12 midnight onwards... dunno if she can tahan leh ...hmmm

8:18pm Smuggle 2nd Dinner *GASP*!

Went out to buy my bento box.. and grabbed a Sweet Chilli pork sandwhich for Pauline for later... well.. later was what I thought... but Pauline swallowed it in 5 mins as I am writing this... AIYO.. really dunno how she is going to get through the night...

9:00pm Monitor Baby's heartbeat again

The youngest and energetic nurse, Mai-san (hope I didn't get it wrong) on this floor came in to measure Zayne's heartbeat again... as we are making small talk to her in both japanese and english while laughing at my funny Japanese (おかしい　にほんご) we showed her this blog. Mai-san was pleasantly surprise :) and she asked if this blog is only restricted to certain people?..

Told her anyone is welcome to view our blog... and we happily wrote down the blog address for her :) She was Alll smiles and happy and bade us good night...

麻衣さん、私たちのブロッグようこそ！(mai-san, welcome to our blog!)

11.40pm Nite Nite

For the first time since we are in Tokyo, we slept before 12 midnight...

On the way to hospital

just an update to everyone... we are on the train now going to the hospital. will post update...

Errrrr.... Anxiety??

I'm behaving a little strange, but I can't exactly pinpoint exactly what is not right... take for example, i walked up and down between kitchen n living room 3 times .... to finally remember why exactly did i walk asway from my laptop....

my wife says i seem super hyper tonight with me blabbering non-stop about this and that....hmmmmm is this Anxiety?..

oh yah, by the way, pauline is checking in to her "5 star hotel" tomorrow....
i'll try to post a video recording (if I know how) of our long awaited "long term" special guest once he arrives...

so stay tune to this blog...

On wifey's request...

My wife's complaining that we have only been putting up food pictures, but we did not share any pictures of our house.... :p

ha ha I had thought of doing that only after I take shots of the house in the same angle for that Before n After effect, .. but I guess not... What woman wants, Woman gets.. (applies to my woman only). so here goes



these 2 shots were taken when we came for the house inspection and measurement prior to moving in .



Here's my lame try at the before and after.... at least you see sofa, coffee table, Tv Console, TV, and a pot of plant.... ke ke ke... so any comments?

Happy Father's Day

To all the father's in the world, Happy Father's day!...

Today for the first time... I feel ... left out. Nobody from my family is online, and no one told me where they are going for dinner... .hmmm.. .. no doubt, i am in tokyo.. .. but that doesn't mean I can't know what they will be eating .... somehow just knowing where my family is going and what they will be eating, makes me feel like I am sharing in that same meal too...

Weird sort of feeling to be left out.... guess, I have taken the frequent family dinner gatherings for granted as well... ...

Just sent a sms to my Dad : 老爸， 父亲节快乐！ .... and got a reply from him: 你们也快乐。
.. now i don't feel so "empty" ...

That also reminds me... 4 more days for myself to be a dad!

You only appreciate ....

what you have when you lose it... Finally experiencing the full effect of those words while having dinner with my wife earlier... Both of us swallowing down our rice and the yummy curry chicken my wife made.

Another realisation ... only after we've moved up to japan, we have been cooking quite a few singapore dishes for the first time in our lives...

Both of us can cook, but we have never really bother to cook Bak Kut Teh, Curry chicken, stew chicken, garlic stir fried prawns... Thinking back, I guess we've always taken for granted that we can always just walk out to anywhere in singapore and just order it...

It has never cross my mind that we will one day crave for all these mouth-watering dishes and not be able to "just walk out and have them"

So What else have I taken for granted all this time ?

I can only hope that I will be more aware and appreciative of all the simple little things in my life going forward....

I guess i'll start with appreciating my wife and our soon to be delivered son!

.... have you been taking ppl or simple things around you for granted ?? :)

Thanks Wendy!!

A lazy sunday, gloomy and raining, we decided to just stay at home and just be couch-potatoes...

The front gate buzzer got me off my butt to answer to the postman .... Parcel delivery on a rainy Sunday?!! Singapore Postal office services,... you should feel ashame ...

Looking at the stamps, parcel from Singapore?..
hmmmm ... and then I remembered pauline mentioned that Wendy has sent a parcel a few days before...

$42.85 for postage.?! ouch...

but after we open the parcel.. we forgot about the postage cost...

REALLY,.. you shouldn't have.. but we both love you for being so sweet...

a big THANK YOU!!! ..

Counting Blessings...

I hope I dun use up my blessings.... just suddenly realise that I have been having a streak of blessings since last Nov..

New job offer; Relocation; a miracle Pregnancy; be an expat in my own country; sold my HDB at all time high; get married; smooth relocation; my wife having a fairly symptom-less pregnancy; Able to Find a hospital for delivery; finding a great apartment for our new home; and getting promoted ...

I really hope I still have more blessings to use till my ripe old age...
To elaborate on the string of events listed above will probably be like writing an essay, but I guess I am truly grateful to all the good friends both mine and pauline's, that have helped, encouraged and having us as their friends :)

!!

Miss BAK KUT TEH no more!

The Weather is wierd these few days... its summer but temperature is 14 - 17 degrees today ...

Would be nice for a warm soupy meal... steam boat or "nabe", mmmm ....nice..
but haven't bought a big pot yet... Suddenly Pauline showed me something that
lit up my eyes!!! BAK KUT TEH mix !! now where the Hell did that come from???

Apparently, my buddy "IS" had not only "smuggled" pork floss in, but also Bak kut teh mix ... Good one, Bro!!... next trip up, let you try "Ah Hock Bak Kut Teh"..