Searching for Utopia

Guys always seemed to complain about girls’ preference for bad guys. Is it true? Take a look at this pie chart that Zsolt tipped me off.

Actually, I prefer a wizard.

I’ve been receiving this notice several times this week. The spaminator is so good that it doesn’t even allow me to write comment on my own blog.

What’s a girl to do?

I’m thinking of getting my hair done very soon — that is like er, tomorrow or the day after. Unfortunately, I still can’t make up my mind about what I want to do with it.

Since I was still expecting Adam, I had actually planned to perm my hair again after a satisfactory visit to Jean Yip at Bugis Junction.

However, I then went to Jean Yip Tampines, and the hairdresser could convince me that I should rebond my hair instead. Perm definitely needs lots of extra attention, and she said once I had a baby, there would be no time for that. Good point. Sadly, I’ve been obsessed with Angela Zhang’s permed hair as you could see on the picture .

So now I’m torn between the two. What do you think, what should I do?

Rebonding:
- Expensive
- Easy to maintain
- Pretty

Perm:
- Very expensive
- Very high maintenance
- Very pretty

Zsolt has been having back pain for over a year now. After doing some reading online, it turned out to be quite common problem for those with similar jobs — geeks, that is.

Heaven knows how he can be stubborn sometimes. I’ve been telling him to talk to doctors about this problem, but he just shrugged it off. He said nothing could help.

Honestly I don’t know much about such problems. But today I read about chiropractic, and I came across this site, San Antonio Chiropractor. It seems like this might be a good solution for him. Researches said it’s generally safe, unless if
you have osteoporosis.

The only problem is that we are not living in San Antonio, so we’d need to get another chiropractor somewhere closer. Anyone familiar with this treatment in Singapore?

Happy new year, folks! Got new year resolutions?

Many girls see models like Kate Moss or Heidi Klum as fashion goddesses. I bet they’d kill to look like them. Funnily enough, I think Kate Moss’ look is average at best. Heidi Klum is better, but I wouldn’t consider her a goddess still.

I don’t have any specific celeb whose fashion sense I wanted to follow. I do drool over those Korean girls on tv though. They have the cutest dresses and the most gorgeous hairdos.

Korean outfit is not really very expensive. For $40 you can already purchase a very good trench coat, which can be $200 in Europe. But Korean hairdo is a different story. Check this girl’s permed hair, for example. Isn’t it simply gorgeous? I’ll certainly go for this look one day. Of course, in Singapore it doesn’t come cheap. Last year I had my hair permed and the total damage was more than $400 :p

What do you think, is it worth it?

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At last, our bundle of joy has arrived. His name is Adam Sebastian Petreny, born exactly two weeks ago. My apologies for taking so long to update. We all stayed in the hospital for 4 days after the operation, and I’ve been in confinement since then.

Adam was born 3.2 kg and 51.6 cm at birth. He looks more like his daddy, and acts like him too. He rarely cries, only when he’s hungry

The first week was a bit scare for us. He had a little jaundice, and infection–and then had allergic reaction to amoxicillin. Thank God he is fine now, and has gained weight quite a lot.

The surgery wasn’t actually half as painful as I expected it to be. I could already walked on the second day (with lots of assistance, of course!), and I’m recovering well. In fact, I’ve taken off my plaster yesterday. It’s more like pigmentation rather than scar.

I’ll have to cut short here, but I’ll be back with more updates soon.

Yesterday I received an email from Indonesian Abroad, saying that they’ve included this blog on their listing. Thank you very much. It’s good to be a part of the community. Hopefully I can contribute with more posts in the future.

A study conducted by Harris Interractive found that female office workers in the US spend an average of 9.3 hours a day with their computers — compared with 3.6 hours with their partners.

The poll involved almost 3,000 respondents, and only one in five of them wished she would have more quality time with her partner.

The result proves that adult American work more than ding any other activity with 8.2 hours in office, and only 7.6 hours sleep.

How about you?

For me, my home is my office, and in normal circumstances I would spend at least 10 hours per day with my computer, compared to 8 hours of sleeping. But spending time in front of computer doesn’t always mean work. I bet many of those office workers spending some time (apart from their lunch breaks) to edit their Facebook or something. Well, at least that’s what I saw in my time as an office worker.

And at least for us, playing MMORPG together with my other half doesn’t really count as work, although both of us are actually sitting in front of our computers. Doing a quest together can help you to bond better.

I just read today on My Paper that a house crow found dead in Hong Kong was infected with the H5N1 bird flu virus, which is deadly for humans.

I’m not usually overly concerned about issues happened in other places. I know, that makes me sound a bit ignorant — and that’s bad. But now I am concerned. Who could’ve told that the bird carried the virus, unless it was found dead? And who could guarantee that all those birds we have here in Singapore are safe? It’s worrying, because the hubby has to deal with their droppings at least once a week, whenever he parks on an open car park.

The least we can do is to make sure that we wash our hands often. Three years ago I was once criticized by an American doctor for saying that. But hey, now it’s a common knowledge to prevent bird flu. Anyways, bird flu is still flu, after all.

Now I just wonder whether women would still be after bird poo facials after reading this kind of news. What does Victoria Beckham think? I wrote this article a while ago. It seems that she’s too a fan of this treatment. I hope she washes her face often after each session.

I’m ballooned to the max now with 54.6 kg. Wonder if I could ever get back to 38?

The baby’s HC is too big, the gynae said. It’s now as if it already hit week 39, while his body is rather small — around 2.3 kg. And he hasn’t turned. Oh well, at least he’s healthy. We’ll wait until the end of this month, and after that we’ll have to schedule for a C-section.

Before that, I’ll be doing my CTG on Friday, and have another series of blood test with my gastroenterologist on Tuesday.

Can’t wait for our baby’s grand arrival. Hopefully nothing will go wrong.

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