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Check out this old tech animated gif. Cool!

Poem: I Took His Hand and Followed

I Took His Hand and Followed

My dishes went unwashed today,
I didn't make the bed,
I took his hand and followed
Where his eager footsteps led.

Oh yes, we went adventuring,
My little son and I...
Exploring all the great outdoors
Beneath the summer sky

We waded in a crystal stream,
We wandered through a wood...
My kitchen wasn't swept today
But life was gay and good.

We found a cool, sun-dappled glade
And now my small son knows
How Mother Bunny hides her nest,
Where jack-in-the-pulpit grows.

We watched a robin feed her young,
We climbed a sunlit hill...
Saw cloud-sheep scamper through the sky,
We plucked a daffodil.

That my house was neglected,
That I didn't brush the stairs,
In twenty years, no one on earth
Will know, or even care.

But that I've helped my little boy
To noble manhood grow,
In twenty years, the whole wide world
May look and see and know.

Emotional Bank Account

Have you banked in? Are you getting more and more wealthy or are you getting poorer and poorer?

The Emotional Bank Account is a metaphor describing relationships and the P/PC (Production versus building Production Capacity) balance for interdependence. It describes how trust is built on a relationship.

Positive behaviors are deposits building a reserve. Negative behaviors are withdrawals. A high reserve balance results in higher tolerance for our mistakes and more open communication.

There are six major deposits we can make to the emotional bank account:

1. Understanding the individual. An individual's values determine what actions will result in a deposit or a withdrawal for that individual. To build a relationship, you must learn what is important to the other person and make it as important to you as the other person is to you. Understand others deeply as individuals and then treat them in terms of that understanding.


2. Attend to the little things, which are the big things in relationships.


3. Keep commitments. Breaking a promise is a major withdrawal.


4. Clarify expectations. The cause of almost all relationship difficulties is rooted in ambiguous, conflicting expectations around roles and goals. Making an investment of time and effort up front saves time, effort and a major withdrawal later.


5. Show personal integrity. A lack of integrity can undermine almost any effort to create a high trust reserve. Honesty requires conforming our words to reality. Integrity requires conforming reality to our words, keeping promises and fulfilling expectations. The key to the many is the one, especially the one that tests the patience and good humor of the many. How you treat the one reveals how you regard the many, because everyone is ultimately a one.


6. Apologize sincerely when you make a withdrawal. Sincere apologies are deposits, but repeated apologies are interpreted as insincere, resulting in withdrawals.

Abstract from The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People

Making Marriage Last...

Happy 2008

The Yip family wishes all....
a Happy and Prosperous New Year!

My Business

Fianally, my toy rental biz is up and running! I spent a lot of time and efforts creating the website and I am so glad I pull it through. Introducing ....

GoGoMummy!

Am I in the right career?

Your Career Personality: Detail-Oriented, Observant, and Hard-Working

Your Ideal Careers: Designer Family counselor Independent store owner Interior decorator Museum curator Nurse Preschool teachers Social worker Stay at home parent Teacher

The Quick and Dirty Career Test

Miss Little Piggy

Having fun in the car taking silly pictures with Ken's Sony Ericsson phone. Ha! With a pig nose, I still look so cute! Is that a smile on your face? GOOD! Keep smiling and have a beautiful day and pig out just like me! Oink Oink!

一人一半 (From Movie 881)

Ken has been singing this song the whole week. He may sound off-key not even knowing Hokkien himself but I find him so cute singing it. Nice lyrics and nice song. Enjoy!



演唱： 伍家辉 云美鑫
词： 小寒曲： 范俊福

一人一半 感情不散
一人一素故 感情才会久

时光累积 安静的泪滴
一心去追 爱那么可贵

这样的人 这样地等无
非是 等个回应眼神
为爱反滚 不及伤痕
甘心为你一身都浮沉

这样的人 别笑我蠢
傻傻的 心痛也不觉疼
就算天冷 就算难残忍
等你想起这没用的人

一人一半 感情不散
已经找到爱 为何要离开

已经找到爱 为何要离开

Mitsubishi Lancer EX 2.0 2008

Ken and I went to the launch of the Mitsubishi EX sedan at the Civic Plaza, Ngee Ann City and guess what, we've got our first family car! Introducing All-new EX 1.5 litre hunk!

YX got his first car seat too. We bought it during the John Little Sale at a group discount of $140 off the retail price $359. It's definitely a good deal! Introducing Maxi Cosi Priori SPS Bobby!

Who's That Baby?

Who are you, baby
newly born

What are you thinking
inside that head
and what do you dream
when you go to bed?

And what will you look like
and will you have hair
and will you be tall
or dark or fair?

And what will you wonder
and what will you cause tears
and what will you feel
and think and fear?

Who are you, baby
newly born
who are you?

Baby has his own blog now!

Hello, Aunties and Uncles of YX and friends of Lynn and Ken. YX has his own blog column now! Happy happy ! The URL: http://www.babyyx.blogspot.com

Gathering at Sketches

This is the first gathering of all the mummies in the SMH forum's May thread since we gave birth. We had a good lunch at Sketches at Bugis Junction thanks to Kris the organiser of the event. I had a lot of fun meeting and making friends. All the babies are so sweet and chubby!

Studio Shot

These are taken just 3 days before baby Yu Xiang was born. Phew! JIT.

My Birth Story

As for my birth story, nothing much leh. Super fast! 1 hour?!

9.30am:
Big breaskfast before going for CTG
10.00am:
On CTG for half an hour.
10.30am:
Gynae checked the chart with a worried look and there's a dip in baby's heartbeat for 3 min when there's a contraction (I din even realise I had one lei) Gynae said baby destress inside, must carry him out immediately. He then asked me to call hubby and he informed him what happened. I then ask hubby to meet me direct at TMC.
10.40am:
Issued a admission letter and wants me to admit myself directly to the labour ward.
10.50am:
Reached TMC and hubby just reached from office. I was sent to the labour ward while he did the admission work.
11.00am:
Changed into hospital gown and put on CTG again. Was administered antibiotics becos of Strep B positive. I was then shaved and given enema to go loo followed by insertion of a super long tube into the bladder? It hurts, man!
11.30am:
Pushed into delivery ward.
11.40am:
Was administered GA when gynae arrives and conked out after hearing a "Hello" from him.
12pm:
Baby boy was delivered!!

Baby 宇翔

Photo of Baby Yu Xiang taken on day 2, day 8 and day 10.

Hospital Bill

My TMC hospital bill:

Mother's Bill
Caesarean Section (Mother) 2 bedded 4 days: $2197
Use of Labour Ward Services (<=2 hrs): $70
Operating Theatre Charges: $80
Drugs/Medicine: $285.40
Medical Supplies: $105.30
Medical Laboratory Fee (blood test Haemoglobin): $16
Procedure (includes Fleet enema, I/V setup, urine test and shaving): $75
Use of Equipment (foetal monitoring 1st hr etc): $73
Total Hospital Charge: $2901.70
Less FBI Membership Discount: - $80
Total Hospital Charge inclusive of GST: $2962.83
Doctor Charges - GA (non-medisave claimable): $430
Doctor Charges - GA Gynae (medisave claimable): $1125
Grand Total: $4517.83
After Medisave and Medishield Deduction: -$3450
Balance after Deduction: $1067.85

Baby's Bill
Baby Package 3 days: $358
Accomodation (nursery cot bed): $100
Medical Supplies (ID band and baby admission package): $34.60
Medical Laboratory Fee: $241
Resident Doctor Services: $25
Procedure (newborn hearing test $60 & daily treatment fee): $130
Use of Equipment (phototherapy per day): $125
Total Hospital Charge: $1013.60
Less FBI Membership Discount: - $32.78
Total Hospital Charge inclusive of GST: $1029.86
Doctor Charges - PD (medisave claimable): $200
Doctor Charges - PD (non-medisave claimable): $304
Less FBI Membership Discount: - $50.40
Grand Total: $1483.46
After Medisave and Medishield Deduction: -$1170.01
Balance after Deduction: $313.45

Grand Total Bill: $6001.29

Total payment in cash: $1381.30

Ah boy's cousin Lin Lin at 22 months

False Alarm

I had a fright this morning at 3am, I woke up having some stomach pain thinking maybe got to poo but went 3 times to no avail. The pain made me so scared and worried and I can't tell if it's contractions or not. Luckily, it lasted 3 hours and subsided at 5 plus. I'm so at a loss. Funny thing is I woke up to search for the topic Labour Pain in "What to expect when you are expecting?" yet still can't figure it out. Woke Ken up at 4.15am and told him I've been having stomachache for an hour plus now, he too went to search for the book and read to me what contractions feel like. I even read the contents to him before he reads out to me. Ha ha. We are so funny. Two silly parents. Late afternoon till evening, I've been feeling braxton hicks a few times. But I told baby to bear another 3 weeks if he really wants to pop out lor. Mummy wants him to pump more fats first.

Reading up

What have I been doing these few weeks? I'm reading some books I borrowed from the library that I would like to recommend. New Pregnancy and Birth Book by Dr. Miriam Stoppard and Your Pregnancy Week by Week by by Hamlyn