5 Months!

It feels like a yesterday when I was first found out that I am pregnant. 

Shocked and unbelievable were my first reaction!

Totally didn't expected it. My hubby was even more shocked when I broke the news to him. 

Whole night pestering me, asking me "Is it true? Is it real? Really that I am pregnant? No joke and bla bla..."

I shoved him the picture of ultrasound scan and pregnancy test stick in his face to tell him that it was real and no joke! 

Okay, my worries started. I started to worry this and that. But now, I am more calm and started to enjoy the every stages of my pregnancy although I was struck with morning sickness like bloating, vomiting, sleepy and tiredness in the first trimester. It's not that serious till need to be hospitalized but all those morning sickness really makes me felt 'sick' and 'weak' for whole day. After entering the 2nd trimester, it is a relieve that finally, all those sickness have subsided. I feel like the old me. Sometimes even forget that I am pregnant. 

Everything is normal except that I have gained some kilos. Even the doctor advised me to control my weight and to have a balance diet. I totally understand and I have been doing that since the first day I found out I am pregnant but the weight just keep on rising. Is out of my control. Unless I stopped eating but that's not the solution, right. Hmph! 

We decided to name the fetus, "Little Star" first as we can't give him name yet. In Chinese, 'Little' is pronounce as 'Xiao', also known as small and 'Star' is pronounce as 'Xing', almost the same pronunciation of my hubby's last name. Besides, it is like a wishing star which has makes our wish comes true. So we called the fetus, "Xiao Xing Xing". Hello, my little star~

Sea Woman In Jeju

'Haenyo', literally meaning sea woman or female diver is famously found in Jeju, Korea. As told by the tour guide, there are only two countries have haenyo today. One is in Korea and another in Japan. However, the sea woman in Japan tends to retire earlier in the age while the average age of sea woman in Korea is around 90 years old and only the elderly woman in Jeju becomes a sea woman to earn for their living. The sea woman becomes a breadwinner on the island while their man would stay at home, taking care of the house and children. Because of the hard work and feeding on the horse's meat/bones, the sea woman in Jeju tends to live longer and healthier than the sea woman in Japan.

The elderly woman plunges into the cold sea, disappear for minutes and return to the surface with their captures such as octopus, sea urchin, seaweed and shellfish. Quite interesting to learn the fact on sea woman.

We bought some of their captures for an amount of 50,000 won, estimated around RM200 and ate freshly on the spot. My dad and brother said that it was considered cheap already. If ate in Malaysia, it will cost more than that.

 This plate cost 50,000 won

 Pretty scenery 

Sleep Like a Korean

Annyeong!

Visiting to Korea is like a dream comes true to me. 

Korea is in my list of 'Must-Visit' Countries in this lifetime. 

If there is a chance, I would like to go to Korea again. I love their country, people as well as their culture and food. 

Anyway, one of the experience I tried when in Korea was slept like the Korean - 'Ondol' which is a underfloor heating. Often saw in the K-drama but now I had the chance to sleep like them. Pretty cool! Honestly, it was not comfortable at all. I still prefer to sleep on the bed with a thick mattress. Getting up from the mattress on the floor is another problem even for a young people like us, not to mention the elders.

Waiting

Waiting for your call and message.

Kept looking at the phone every 5 seconds.

Praying and hoping that you’ll call in any minute now.

My phone still in a place, without a sound.

Thought my phone was malfunctioning.

Too busy for a call?

What are you doing now?
Have you forgotten about me?
Why you never call?

Questions whirled inside my brain.

The waiting process was torturing.

Swore that would never waited for your call anymore
It's hard being left behind...but it's hard to be the one who stays.

But still I am waiting….and waiting.

Waiting is one of the most miserable occupation.
Waiting for that life I thought I would have.
Waiting to become something else.
Waiting to be that person I always thought I was on the verge of becoming...one day.
And God knows when is that one day coming or maybe there's never have that one day.

D-Lite - I Love You

Songs I Like

Passenger - Let Her Go

Dido - End of Night

Fuying & Sam - 分開以後

Songs I like and listening to currently.

Would like to share with you.

Fuying & Sam are the local singer. I never knew that they can sing well until I came across this song.

Picking the sentences I love from Passenger - Let Her Go lyrics:

Staring at the ceiling in the dark
Same old empty feeling in your heart
'Cause love comes slow and it goes so fast

Describe my feelings at times when I felt lonely.

Okay, not letting the dark emotion kick in, let's listen to a lively dance K-pop song.

EvoL - Get Up

  

I listened to this song while doing my 'belly & cardio' exercise.

 

CL - The Baddest Female

A cool MV from CL. She is a member from my favourite korean female group - 2NE1.

Personally I love Sandara more.

I like their fashion style & personality. Nonetheless, their performance are great too.

Super cool female group.

-Cheers-

mY Home tOwn

I love to take photos of sunset and scenery.
Isn't it looks pretty with the orange and purplish sky?

My hometown, Sibu is consider a small town but geographical wise, it is big.
Not much attractions. No mega mall. No theme parks. No GSC.
However, we have the varieties of scrumptious local food and interesting local natives, Iban.
The long houses. Rejang River. Their traditions and culture.

Many people says Sibu is going to become a 'retirement' town. Why?
Because most of the youngsters have left the town to explore the world out there, hoping to look for a better opportunities.  

Troubled with My Acne

My skin condition is getting worse in these recent 2 years. It changed from flawless skin to combination + acne prone + sensitive skin condition. What's going on??!!! Till today, I still couldn't find the answer to my problematic and sudden change of skin condition. I just could only blame it on my growing age as in a form of consoling myself.

I have been trying all the methods and skincare products and even listened to the advices given, hoping to improve my acne prone skin but to no avail. Some products did slightly healed my acne and rejuvenated my skin just a little bit. But when I was hoping for a better result after weeks or months of using, the acne sprung back again and sometimes they got worse with redness/rash on my face and the acne scars just won't fade away. Frustrating!!! Even the skin specialist doctor could not explained to me on my problematic skin and he just gave me the medical lotion for me to apply before sleep. Well, it did soothes my redness and pimples but it could not control the break out.

Okay, after trying so many methods without effect, I assumed that something must gone wrong inside my body or hormones or some woman's sickness. I decided to go for the body check up. Some people even advised me to conceive because they say pregnancy and during the confinement period,  it will help to improve my body, change my hormones and gradually improve my skin condition. So is it true? I doubted on that. I will give it a try if there's no other way to solve my skin troubles.

See, how serious it is!!! The photos were taken somewhere in March 2013. Now getting better already and would take photos again to show the improvement. Oh yeah, I am using 'Cetaphil' cleanser currently and I find it really good. It did soothes my acne and the scar is less visible already. *Cross fingers* Hope that there won't be any break out.