Grubbs n Critters

May 10, 2011

Post Election Day

Category: Random

So.

The election is over, and to quote from a friends’s status update on FB (you know who you are!):

“After all that hoo-ha, wayangs, song and dance, drama and tears, its finally over and the dust has settled. The sun still rises in the east and life goes on”

Apparently she has gone back to her couch to catch up with her Korean drama series. With the election over, I still have to wait for a month or so to get my name re-registered. If ever.

And as for Singapore, there is no change of the ruling party, which is of no surprise to me.
Anyhow, I came across this interesting blog post of someone who has had a first hand experience of being one of the counting agents at the pollign stations. I thought it to be a very insightful and a well-written post.

While it is very interesting to be able to understand the type of votes which people had cast, but in the same breath, I find it really disturbing to know on how the decision on whether or not to validate the vote was being made!

I especially liked the “Go to Hell” voting piece. Hilarious to encounter if you are the counting staff, but scary to know that at some places, it can be considered as a valid vote.

Source: Yawning Bread dot wordpress dot com

You really have to read this post here to get what I mean.

From bottle to sippys

Category: Being Parents

Earlier this month, I realised that we may need to seriously start thinking about weaning Spud off the bottle. Apparently, it is best to do so before she turns one.

I honestly did not think that it is something I should be worried about. After all, we started introducing the Sippy to her when she was about 5 months old. And, in the last four months, she has had some “play” time with the sippy in our bid to get her familiar with the thing, so it was a fun thing for her to learn how to use it, especially when she has some sort of schedule when it comes to feeding time.

I should have seen the signs…all this while, she was not too interested with the sippy. And all this while, I thought it is OK and that she’ll get round to it as she refines her motor skills. Then when I started googling on the subject of Sippys recently, I realised that I may be in for another bumpy ride.

Apparently, as one website puts it, moving on from a bottle to a sippy cup is one of the hardest stepping stones for the mother and the baby. Who would have thought!

Having done a little research, I decided to do a small test run by rigorously introducing the current Sippy which we have been using. Spud refuses it flat out, and at this stage, refuses to have anything to do with it. I then decided that I should buy a few types of the different Sippys, just to gauge how receptive she will be to it.

Verdict: My initial attempts at the first few types of Sippys are not looking too good.

Right now, I foresee a repeat of another similar episode with the battle of the bottle we had more than 7 months ago if I have to start taking the bottles away. At the back of my mind, I wonder if it will be worth to risk baby led weaning instead when it comes to get her off the bottles. Or is this just me being kiasu?

Honestly, just thinking about having to do this bottle to Sippy transition gives me the shudder…I wonder if I have the will to go through the cold turkey method again.

Porridge for Breakfast

Category: Food

I had one of this today. In fact, I have been having this McD chicken Porridge every day for the past one week for breakfast. Every.single.day.

Certainly very unlike me to be having porridge for breakfast, let alone having it everyday.

So, what sparked this behavior was the fact that I had felt rather unwell the day after we came back from Holland. I felt ill, and for a few days I could not stomach any food. Everything that came in, went out the same way almost immediately. The sight of food made me nauseous. Except for some water, I did not eat anything at all for a good 3-4 days.

By the third day, despite feeling dizzy and nauseous still, I knew I just had to battle it out and eat something. That was when I remembered that the MCD here sells porridge for breakfast…and at that time it was just what I needed. Good old porridge as a good ole sick food.For a whole 29 Baht.

For a few days more after that, I only had breakfast and not much else after that. I don’t know what happened. I suspect there must have been a stomach bug I caught somehow.

And in case you are wondering, no, I am not pregnant. I cannot be because the time when I first started feeling like crap, my menses had made an appearance after a long hiatus. That being said, it makes me wonder if they were related, because the day my menses was over, I felt better.

And that was when I decided that I actually like the McD Porridge, and since then I have been making a stop-over to buy it as a take-out for my breakfast. I’m sure this is just a phase; as with any other food craze that I have at one point in time, I’m sure that I’ll OD on it soon enough or that they will decide to take it off the shelf! I’m sure this one is no exception.

Such is the story of my life.