Oh boy! Oh boy!

Contrary to practically everyone's guess, we are having a boy! Yipee!

While it really does not matter whether it's a boy or girl as long as it's normal and healthy, truth be told, all parents have gender preferences, especially for their first born. Thank God, He granted my preference. Wohoo!

As our first gift for our baby boy, we got him a Wii!!!!! Wheeeeee!!!!! Okay. Okay. It's really for me and my hubby -- something we've been holding-off buying for about a year now. So, to our unborn child, you might have to sleep on a banig or on our bed (whichever is more comfortable). Hahahaha!

Back to our baby boy. I remember our excitement when we found out we were pregnant (24-hour morning sickness aside). An excitement you can't explain. However, it's a different kind of excitement when you find out the gender of your child, seeing "it" on the ultrasound monitor, plus the bonus of seeing the baby move inside your tummy for the first time! It's thrilling, exhilarating.

I can only imagine what kind of feeling I'd get when I finally give birth. I can't wait.

Wii

I WANT.

Discoveries

Fresh Cherries -- call me ignorant, shallow or even pathetic, but I am raving about fresh cherries! I had a taste of them, for the first time, last weekend. They're soooo good! It tastes nothing like those preserved ones in bottles that you use to garnish a cocktail drink, nor does it taste anything like those mixed in canned fruit cocktail. It's like a mix of plum, grape & duhat. Delish! Now I wonder where they based the flavor of those psuedo cherries (including cherry-flavor cough syrup) because it's really far from the real deal. Oh, and whoever said you can "pop your cherry"? There is a pea-sized seed inside!

TimeZone Videoke Machine -- never mind that you need to swipe your card before each song. Never mind that the sound system doesn't make you sound like a pro. Never mind that you pick you songs from a song book. Never mind that they only allow a ratio of 5:1 (5 people per machine). It has High School Musical songs in it! That's good enough for me.

My Goodies (aka Bribe) from Singapore

My hubby flew to Singapore last Monday (2 Mondays ago, I mean) and as he landed, so did some bacteria in my system that has left me sick for almost 2 weeks now. I've been so sick that I'd be in the hospital if not for the appetite I managed to keep (which is very rare when I'm under the weather). To give you an idea of how sick I've been, I'm actually on my second round of antibiotics! Today is actually the first time I'm able to get out of bed and stay up for a long time (boy, my back hurts from all the lying down!).

To those who live alone, you can empathize with the feeling of being sick and alone. That's what happened to me the first few days of being sick. Pathetic but I tried to manage on my own without anyone's care and help until I decided to call my Mom already because it came to a point that I could barely get out of bed. (Thank God for mothers! I swear! No offense to my hubby, but nothing beats a mother's touch.)

While all this is happening, my poor helpless husband is in another country attending a seminar, partying every night (not to his liking, he claims.), calling every minute he can, calling every friend to check on me. I told him to come home only if I get confined. But at the back of my mind I was yearning for his presence.

To cut the long story short, after a looong week, he came home with all these goodies, to make up for his absence (yes bribes, hahaha!), that admittedly got me all excited, and to a certain extent made me glad he left. Hehehe.

And the goodies are:

New movies to enjoy at home!

My favorite instant Singapore dishes.

The best chocolate conconction, ever! HEAVEN!

And last but DEFINITELY not least.....

Yes! My own Canon EOS DSLR!!! Woohoo!

I can't wait to get well and start enjoying these goodies!!! Getting sick isn't so bad after all. Hehehe.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to take my drugs now. Oh, of course I'm glad I'm starting to feel better and that my hubby is back home. ;-)

Look! Look!

I can't wait to wear it!

Oh, and I can't wait for episode 19!!!

Addicted to...

(click on the photo to go to the website.)

I'm a self-confessed TV addict. Despite the widespread of pirated TV series on DVD like House (Oh I LOVE House!), Grey's Anatomy (Love it too!), CSI (My first love in TV series), Lost (still waiting for the next season. calling on AXN!) etc., I still prefer catching each episode on the boob tube. Aside from the fact that I restrain myself from buying pirated copies, I enjoy looking forward to each and every episode every week. I get a certain rush from making sure that I am home to catch my favorite TV program. Until HEROES came into my life.

I have heard and read about Heroes since the beginning of the year. Everyone who's seen it, seemed to rave about it. Save the cheerleader, save the world. What's that?! I became interested. So, my friend Agnes, who excitedly gave me her (pirated) copy of episodes 1-9, just to satisfy my curiousity. I am soooo glad that she did! I can't get enough of it!

After my husband (whose geekiness was aroused by this series) and I did a marathon of all 9 episodes (Believe me, each episode will leave you anxiously anticipating what will happen next!), I immediately went out to get a copy of the rest of season 1 (episodes 10-12). Didn't care if it was pirated. Much to my disappointment, there was none available yet! Waaahhh! Bitin!

We searched and searched, but it wasn't really available in the market just yet. Desperate, I was already thinking of downloading the next episodes from the net. Who cares if I leave the computer running overnight?! But thank God (really. thank you God!), my hubby found out that his officemate is also a Heroes fan, who, religiously downloads each episode as soon as it's available on the net! Woohoo!!! We not only have the entire season 1, we also have season 2's episodes 1-5!

I SO wanted to do a marathon of all 5 episodes, but I am trying hard to resist the temptation, so I don't run out of episodes to watch and get bitin again. I make sure that I have 2 episodes in the can before watching one. We are to watch episode 3 of season 2, and waiting for our copy of episode 6, so we can move on to episode 4. Can't wait!

(I hear that they started showing in on Star World, but I have really seen it yet.)