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I was preparing for work this morning, put my phone to charge and at the same time open up facebook app to check out any updates i have might have missed. Besides reading that Sis wanted to find companion to drink with her tonight, i also saw that Eve had just updated a pic on the preparation of her wedding.
I thought to myself, "Oh, she is preparing for her wedding."
Wait! When is her wedding banquet again? I remembered our sms conversation and my RSVP.

After checking, Whoops! Its tomorrow!
Yes, exactly what i mentioned in my sms to her: " Although I  already have a wedding dinner that day but yours is wedding lunch, so i will be there."
Suddenly i was slapped with two wedding to attend tomorrow!
I immediately texted Julian to remind him, and of course he forgot about it as well.
Eve was our poly classmate and we are sure to see other NYP classmates as well. We will bring faith along.

By night, I will need to be at M Hotel to attend the wedding banquet of Minxian and her hubby. Minxian is my primary schoolmate. I thought little of that dinner because i thought i had a whole Saturday to prepare for it. Now i think i have limited time.
Most likely we need to be home by 4pm so can put Faith to nap cos she would have skipped her morning nap. Then, I hope mum and Jul can stay at home to help me with her while i go attend this dinner.
Will be meeting all the other JPS people, like Razean, Jiahui, Yonghui, Xiaoling. Much stress-less compared to the other one, i feel more at ease with these old pals.

I freaked out.  Damn! What do i have left to wear for wedding?
I only have left that swan lake tulle dress fit for a Fullerton event. The rest.. are all too informal, cannot fit me, makes me fat or they are black. I might need a red ribbon to tie around my waist to colour things up a bit.
Felt so unprepared.
So my mind raced through for a list of things i need to prepare by today so that I can be ready tomorrow morning to leave house with Julian, Faith plus her barangs and my bag - and still appear pretty and presentable for the wedding lunch banquet.
So during lunch, popped by That Purple Place and did my nails and feet. They are in hot pinks now..
And tonight i will try to see if I can get any dress from Raffles Exchange on my way home...
Cross my fingers!

Presentable is my main concern. For me, it is a form of respect back to the host who have invited me to that important occassion and event.
I am no longer "feeling" pretty.
And I have stopped feeling pretty ever since i removed my colours from my hair and started noticing the toil this pregnancy is leaving on my tired face.
Extra capilaries creeping on the cheeks and red marks.
I cannot leave without my bb cream. And i cannot help looking whitish - on days when i might have accidentally slapped on too much layer of the cream on some stubborn areas.  =(
Green veins growing on my chest and arms like the morning glories' vine on the fences.
bleh!

Maybe its my hair too, cos i have given up trying to straighten those curly ends in the morning and i just try to take them up as naturally as i can - but most of the time i find them messy.
But i cannot do anything at this point of time except to pray the hair grow faster.
With this mess, i am also stopping myself from "banging" my fringe for the time being. So just gotta live with my side fringe. (I have "supporters" for both types of fringe).
I will 'bang' them once my hair end is straightened! That will be neat.

So i wouldn't be surprised if i was bearing a boy. Becos' many believe that when the mother is bearing a son, her complexion would not be a good as another mother bearing a daughter.
For mothers bearing daughters - there will be the glow and they will continue to be pleasing to the eyes.
There was also saying that mothers who are bearing son will have bigger nose. I definitely do not know how this would come about - but i have a poly classmate who just gave birth to a son and she seemed to have a bigger nose then! =P
I can't help but believe this old tale/saying...
Becos i have been feeling lousy and have lost my confidences as well, since pregnancy.
Been just feeling 'monotonous'.
Its okay even if my speculation is wrong - a girl will be just right to take over all the old clothings that Faith have to pass down to her =) and Faith will have more pre-loved clothes from other people, so I will not need to fret on their attires.
If boy - I can take clothes from Weihan, just right for his boy to pass on his hand-me-downs.
Will be a bit troublesome cos I need to look at boys and girls' clothes next time when i spree online.
Anyway, leaving this to God.

This is also a difficult time because the baby bump is yet showing, but i know im losing my waist line and anything tighter will appear like I am fat. My bust are larger too. Its like not there yet but loking preggie. Haha!  I cannot wear those belts anymore as they restricts my waist/stomach - bad for digestion. I shall have to stop heels too...But will wear them one last time tomorrow for both events.

Today is the last day HQ have no "government". By next week, the conference people & the bosses will be back!! SO i did not feel like working today (since coming back from my nail session) and i think Cheris can feel it too. (But i can see her working hard at the volume reports)
I have informed her about my pregnancy, also added that she is the first to know.
Because she needs to know as she will be covering me when i am not around .Anyway, she have blocked some leaves after chinese new year period cos she is going back to home town. So i hope that rest would be enough. Otherwise she can go back to Penang again in early March.
My Edd would be in early April.

By next week, I guess i have to inform Andrew (my boss) so that he is prepared for my 4 months "disappearance" next year too. But i would prefer making the announcement over facebook after i know this baby's gender, then i will tell people that "We are giving Faith a little brother/sister next year!" Something liddat.
Short and sweet. And then i can answer any questions later.
So gotta wait till early November. Cos Ah Heng was quite sure she would be able to tell by next appointment! Haha.. Well. by then the baby will be 4 months old!

Ok, shall update again.. Happy weekend, peeps!
Have a great weekend ahead!

Love, me.