fibrate on June 6th, 2010

We shall call this the Great Gawai Cookout.
Armed with a big resolve NOT to ever have my girl eating processed food from jars again, a roadkill of a shopping trolley, a shopping list of superfood for babies and a tingle of excitement over my noble little project, I prowled the aisles of a supermarket, leaving [...]

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fibrate on May 21st, 2010

This is a tale of MY perfect weekend.

Of waking up to baby babble,
followed by cuddles and giggles under the duvet.
Of delightful roti-banana-and-jackfruit,
and potato masala breakfasts.
Of walks by the Riverside,
watching trawlers and barges cruise by.
Of  drizzles and gloomy skies,
and rolling in bed, doing nothin’.
Of dinners on the balcony,
breeze and setting sun for company.
Of chill-out times in [...]

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fibrate on May 11th, 2010

As far as firsts go, this has got to be the most ho-hum by conventional standards.
Happy Mother’s Day to me *smirk*
My day began with “Mummy, baby wants milk”, delivered NOT by an adorably chubby bub but a sleepy male next to me. It was 7am.
7.30 am - 7.50 am : Saw hubby out the house. [...]

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fibrate on March 7th, 2010

Shoes…while you once stirred desires and quickened heartbeats you now merit only a passing glance, as I breeze past you on my sensibly-shod feet on the way to the baby’s department. Somewhere between the acquisition of a pair of hot pink sandals (which I wore to work when I ballooned up during pregnancy) and then [...]

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fibrate on December 28th, 2009

In my never-ending list of motherhood anxieties, flying with an infant ranks among the top 5. I see women traveling solo with their babies and wonder how they do it so effortlessly (AM, care to enlighten us?). You know, the sort that looks so damn good with child in one arm and diaper bag in [...]

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