18th Week

Tiring weekend.

I'm amazed..I always thought physical tiredness is more tiring than emotional/mental tiredness, but i guess I'm wrong. I'm drained. Though hubby did a great job albeit the lack of sleep, moving all on his own on friday with of course the help of the movers and the lorry, I just couldn't be of much help at all. AIR needed to be attended to.

I think it was easier running 21km than tending to AIR for 4-5hours on saturday. I told hubby to go ahead with what he had to do, and I will try my best to unpack and tend to AIR while he's gone. After 4 hours, all I did was iron my kebaya top and 1 small load of laundry. Aiyo...AIR was in a please-don't-get-out-of -my-sight mood.

At about 4-ish when hubby got back, he saw the hall still cluttered and he knew I just couldn't break away from AIR. hehehe all he did was 2x30mins nap. And what can you accomplish in 30mins? Practically nothing. I felt bad leaving so many things to hubby.

So last night, finally when AIR was fast asleep, I did my portion of unpakcing and rearranging some small stuff. That too, took ages and my feet were tired..hahaha 21km in proper running shoes IS easier...we're both now suffering aching feet cos of walking around too much packing and unpakcing.

BUt to end the day of the week (ok, not literaly end la, cos this was in the evening), we took AIR for a dip in the pool and it was also mummy's 1st dip in I think more than 1.5years. AIR took sometime to realise what was going on around him and then he enjoyed paddling around in the water. Only a short dip as it was evening already and we didn't want him to get a chill. SO his 1st water experience at 4 months 10days old. Mummy forgot the goggles so it was just breast-stroke for 1 lap and that was it.

NOw I have something to do tonight...swim!! Yipee!!
I'm so looking forward to it.
And that lil' gym at our new place has 2 treadmills, 1 stationary bike and 1 multi-station. OK la...no crowd..BUT they close at 9pm...hmmm...nvrmnd, I'll see what can be done after AIR goes to bed!

OK, OK back to the actual story - yeah, abit more unpacking...and u know what, abit more to cart over from the old place though. hahaha, so can u imagine the amount of things we have?? The movers were smart enough to bring a 5ton lorry instead of the 3ton we booked. PLus they had really efficient workers and really did well in arranging them on the lorry. Imagine, a 5 ton lorry packed to the brim, and we thought 3 ton was enough. AIyo...and it took them 3 people to carry the piano...which was really heavy.

And so it's the start of a new 'journey' for all of us.

We had our 1st visitor too - yesterday, AIR's babysitter came over. She missed AIR so much, that she was willing to come all the way from DAmansara to Cheras to visit him...awwwww..... so touched....

MOre to come!!

Let's Move It, MOve it, Move it...

It’s amazing! One day I was thinking ‘its never going to get done’ and the next moment we were pushing the date forward a day earlier.

Gosh!

HAaa, I’m referring to the fact that we were supposed to move! Yes, move tomorrow. But somehow we have moved!! Hehehe it happened today, and all when I was at work.

Yesterday as I approached our car park, I noticed the SYABAS water tanker outside the surau. Bad thoughts already creped into my mind. Then as I reached the carpark, hubby called.

‘Where are you? When you get home, please wash up fast, clear everything necessary or wash everything that u need to fast.’

‘Why?, no water?’

‘Yup, the guy downstairs even told me to store water. The tanker is downstairs’

‘And I presume this will be for a while, right?’

‘yala, the management didn’t pay them the outstanding yet.’

Ah ha, there you have it. And its happening again in less than one month. And so, with the water cut (our water is via the bulk meter, i.e. once cut, all affected, not individual meter like for landed property), in less than 2 hours later, we were ‘dry’. As we were packing, the idea of moving immediately crossed our minds.

‘Why not we move tomorrow instead of Saturday?’

‘Can... Confirm ka? If confirm, then I’ll call the mover to check lorry availability. OK?’

‘OK’ and so Friday, May 22, 2009 it was.

But, the nursery (the next block) still had water and apparently was to be cut at 10am today only. Neways, the poly-tanks have yet to be set up at every block except in front of the surau. So I think people will be water-less for some time...again...

Oh well..I’m now thinking of the inviting pool at the new place…. Care for a dip?

Astro-NOT

I've always had the impression that Astro, yeah our paid-TV, is easy to install. I didn't know that its dish (outdoor unit, to be technically correct, DTU), has to face a certain direction...until last Saturday.

So, we're now all geared to watch Astro after the guys come and install it at our new place. TV and everything else in place. And when the guy came, his first reaction was, 'Alamak, rumah kat belakang ni ke?' i.e. your house is not facing the 'right' direction. Oops!

Errr, so how?

Option 1 - we place the DTU at the supposedly 'strategic' location and wire it back to the house. Long cable, poor signal, so need to add booster. (Hmm, i'm expecting this to be very costly too)
Option 2 - looking upwards from my balcony I saw 2 units which had the DTUs on a 7" extension (arm). So I wanted to use that also. OK, they'll call when the 'arm' is available. Shorter distance, better quality, no need booster, price is slightly cheaper, RM170 (as I expect) or almost the same as Option 1.

So, the day came and everyone was prepared to have the DTU installed from the balcony, outside the 3rd room. Installation took only about 15 minutes. Setting and searching for the signal - after half an hour, almost, nothing...still below the 60% mark. SO looks like Option 2 has failed.

hmmmm guess if we really want to watch PAID TV, then Option 1 it has to be. Aiya.....

So off they went to work again, after charges were discussed.

Finally, after completion, we've now got a 55+metre cable from the DTU to our decoder. And the charges? More expensive than that 'arm'.....What to do....

I'm inspired

Am I? By what? Somehow I just woke up and felt inspired. Inspired to take my training to another level (errr though it's no where at whatever level it is now).

I just want to do something but I have to manage it well this time. It's been raining on and off and this doesn't really help but I hope that perhaps I could put in some time during the weekends. PD tri in July looks do-able. But I have to remind myself that my fitness level is at 'zilch' at the moment.

SLOW and steady will do it! hehe

I'm also excited. Excited at the prospects that we'll be moving. To a place we can call our own. Despite the distance, more so further for hubby, but I guess it's a different feeling that you have a place you can renovate (now I understand this excitement) and then go back and lie back and not worry if the water supply will be cut off that night. PLus there'll be a pool that I can take baby out when time permits.

Aiyo, super sian you know...I wanna run!!! hehehehe

Looking back, ever since starting to be involved in sports, I don't think I've ever had a 11-month break...even though I was down injured, somehow I was always doing something. Looks like I better be slotting some gym work at home. 6kg makes ideal weight for lifting and additional weight for sit ups, no? :D