Second Documentary

I was looking forward to watching the second documentary made by our documentary group. Of course, we already made more than just two films but the two documentaries I mentioned here are important work and they both are published and played in public. The short documentary they made this time is about Weaving Craft Museum. I had no chance to participate making this documentary because I was in the UK most of time. Luckily, I was back Taiwan for three months last year and had chance to join the shooting and discussion once. Today is the first time this documentary played in public. I therefore went to watch it and was surprised how good the new members are.

Today when the curator of the library where we start our documentary group saw me, the first thing he said is that you are finally back and you gained some weight. lol... I was smiling and I told him that I ate more these days. I let the curator know that me and Richie are going to marry next year and are going to have a baby as well. He therefore told me that our documentary team can support us and shoot our wedding for free. I was very happy but I told him that I might not have a big wedding because I am actually very afraid of meeting many strangers.

Most of group members are not available today and couldn't go to the museum and see their documentary played in public but just few members. However, they are all very happy to see me again and told me they already discussed about when I'll be back and share my experience in Edinburgh and also my photography work. I asked them when is the next meeting and they told me it's tomorrow. I then promised them that I'll definately go tomorrow to see everybody. I miss everyone already. Besides, I have to return the DV tapes to the curator. Since I didn't do my documentary in Edinburgh, I shouldn't keep the rest of the DV tapes. Though the curator told me that I can just keep them.

Before we left Weaving Craft Museum, the curator of Weaving Craft Museum saw me and asked our curator, Mr. Chen, who I am. Mr. Chen told her that I'm one of the volunteers from the documentary group so she brought me a paper bag with souvenirs whicn are a booklet of the museum and also a box of butter cookies. :)

I showed my mom the famous butter cookies I got from the curator. Also, I told her that I will go to the group meeting tomorrow. As what I guess, she doesn't feel like to let me go because it's too far. She told me it's really far and not safe since I'm having baby now. I told her it's the fastest way to go there by scooter and I promised not to ride that fast. sigh... I guess if I still want to go to the group meeting, I might have to spend lots of time taking bus instead.

Back to Normal Schedule

My sleeping schedule had been very weird for a while since I came back from Edinburgh. I tried my best to adjust but once things happened and bothered me, I couldn't help but just couldn't sleep. Everything is getting better and most of my problems are sorted so I finally feel carefree and can sleep better. These few days I tried to sleep before 12 pm no matter if I was sleepy or not, I told myself that I should just stay on my bed reading until my eyes getting heavy. It works well. Besides, I didn't have to go to the toilet that often so I would be able to sleep longer and these days I usually sleep until 7 am. I then have breakfast and get prepared to go to the hospital.

Since I didn't sleep long enough at night, I needed to have a nap in the afternoon. My mom told me it's alright to take a nap but not too long or it won't be good for healthy and will also influence my sleep at night. I therefore decided I wouldn't have a nap longer than 2 hours.

We didn't really plan it but these few days my sister and me usually went somewhere together. We did some shopping and had nice lunch outside. I bought some stuff and two books. One of the book is about yoga for mother-to-be. I didn't do exercise for a long while and I think it's time to start exercise. According to all the books I've read about pregency, they all mention that exercise is really good. I therefore did some kicking today and my sister told me that it's dangerous. I showed her how good I am and she told me she is going to repot to Richie on facebook how I behave here. =.= She thinks I might lose my balance and end hurting myself.

Something spuprised me is that tonight my kungfu brother asked me if I would like to practice kungfu with them. I told him I couldn't because of several reasons but I would like to see all my kungfu brothers and sisters. :)

Ok! That's all for today.

2010.11.13

It's another good day today. Though I didn't sleep that long but not too bad and I had a nap in the afternoon. I felt quite good. However, my belly acted weird after I gave my father massage. I didn't know what's wrong with me but just didn't feel well. I quickly had a shower and came back my room. I didn't feel sore stomach but somehow I felt like to vomit. I therefore decided to lie on my bed relaxing. I felt a wee bit better when I lie down. I tried to figure out what happened on me. I then found out that I didn't have dinner tonight and I felt hungry when I arrived the hospital. Luckily, my mum bought some steamed meat buns on the way to the hospital. I had two and half because I was too hungry. I guess it's probably because I ate too much. Ever since I come back Taiwan, I couldn't eat as much as before. The amount of food I can eat is less than before and if I had more then what I'm supposed to have, I might throw up when I'm coughing. It seems what I read from book and what my dad told me is true that the space of my stomach will be smaller when the baby grows bigger and bigger.

I was watching some Chinese episode and in one of the episode the queen delivered a baby. I then started thinking about my baby. Baby is still too small to feel though after few weeks I will start being able to feel the movement of the baby. I was wondering what is the baby doing in my womb now. Is he doing exercising now, sucking his thumb or sleeping? I'm really curious now.

I never thought about having a baby but always felt like to adopt children. Now I'm having my own baby. I feel really cool. It's good to have a baby with someone I love very much. It's a very special gift from God. Though I still don't know much about the baby but I think he is probably a good child because so far I don't really suffer much being pregent. I'm looking forward to the scan in December. I will ask the doctor the gender of the baby and see if it's just like my guess, a boy, alright to have a baby girl or a baby boy is all alright for me.

The Indonesian Caretaker

I slept longer compared the day before though it's just around 5 hours. I guess the reason why I couldn't sleep long is probably because I wake up often to use toilet at night. It's difficult for me to understand that my baby is still very small and how come my bladders can't take much urine anymore.

I went to the hospital with my mum at around 8am. For letting my brother, Simple, to have longer sleep, I decided to go to the hospital in the morning since I can't sleep long. He can go to the hospital later in the morning and I'll be able to take a nap in the afternoon. I think it's the best way for us.

This morning the Indonesia caretaker and I didn't have much to do but just wait for my little brother to do High Oxygen Therapy at 10:50. We tried to help him stretch his muscle on the bed, let him to practice correct pronunciation and get prepared for the therapy. Once I asked my little brother and the caretaker what they would like to have for lunch, and I know the caretaker likes to have oyster noodles and beef noodle soup with chili sauce. I therefore decided to buy her beef noodles soup for her lunch. She is a very nice young lady (2 years youngers than I am). Through the time I stay in the hospital with her, I know she is very considerate and she works hard. The other day when I was tired and leaned against the bar of my little brother's bed, she noticed and asked me if I would like to lie on the chair and have some nap. Anyway, I like her a lot. Since I couldn't do much for her, I would like to satisfy her with nice food. I bought the beef noodle soup from my favorite store. I hope she would like it as well.

I had long nap in the afternoon. Around 3 or 4 hours. I felt much better. After the nap, I tidied all my stuff in the flat and finally put all my stuff in the wardrobe.

Tonight I gave my dad massage again. It seems the massage did help him. I will keep doing it and hopefully it will cure his problems.

First Scan in Taiwan

Again, I didn't sleep well at night. I just had around 2 hours sleep and I just couldn't sleep so I started to watch some Chinese episodes. I guess it's a stupid idea. Normally if I couldn't sleep in my bed, I would read a book and usually it could make me sleepy again. Anyway, I got up early for breakfast and then came back my room. I slept again late morning and felt better after the sleep. I then went to the hospital in the afternoon. It seems I need more sleep. I was sleepy when I was in the hospital and I nearly fell into sleep when I was sitting on the chair waiting for my brother having a shower.

I always think I need to go to hospital to see a doctor for having a baby and know more about the system in Taiwan. Also, I would like to have another scan to see the baby again. I decided to go seeing a doctor in the evening. It's strange for me to go myself while I saw all the other pregent women went to see a doctor with their partners. The doctor didn't ask me much and just asked me to go to a small room. I didn't know why I should go there waiting but once the nurse let me lie on the bed I know I'm going to have another scan. I was happy that I could see my baby again. It's' funny that baby was up side down this time. The doctor pointed to me his (We feel the baby is a he.) big head, his jumping heart and his spine. It's more clear than the last time I had my scan in Edinburgh. I can even see his five fingers. He raised one of his hand above his head. I don't know what he's doing. And he moved another hand and then put into his mouth. I suppose he is sucking his finger. It's cool for me to see baby is alright. The only thing not cool is that this time Richie is not here and he couldn't share all what I see with me.

After the scan, the doctor gave me a brochur about pregancy and arranged another appointment after one month. Then the nurse brought me to a lady and the lady told me all what I know about pregency so far. Then I had blood and urine test and the report will be delivered in the next appointment.

That's all for today. I'm sleepy now... zzZZZ Hopefully, I will sleep well tonight. :)

Sick :(

It's been around one week since the day I left Edinburgh, I haven't had enough sleep. I slept short at night and even though I tried to take a nap sometimes, I just couldn't. Because I didn't have enough rest and I'm not used to the weather, I finally catch a cold. I felt my sore throat during the night so I woke up early and I decided to have early breakfast. When I came back from the store, I photoshopped the photo I took yesterday and then I talked to Richie for a while and showed him the new curtains in our room. My eyes was getting heavier while I was talking to Richie so I decided to go to bed.

I slept until my sister came and asked if she could see my room. She noticed that I'm very sick so she helped me with traditional therapy, scrapping. She scrapped my arms, my shoulders and my back. It was really sore so I couldn't help but I was scraming and crying. However, it does make me feel better. I fell into sleep later when she left. I spent all the afternoon sleep. I work up at around 5pm and I decided to go to my parents' to take a shower. When I walked downstair, I saw my mom standing outside my flat and tried to open the door. She came to see if I'm alright. She thought I have pregnancy sickness but I told her I just simply catch a cold and need some rest. I felt a wee bit better after long sleep.

I went to my parents' and I decided to help my mom make dinner and then I had dinner with my mom, dad and my sister's husband. Then I helped to do some housework and finally took a shower.

There are always many fruit at home and most of time if we don't help eat the fruit, they will end into bin so I decided to prepare some fruit and wait my sister's husband (he went to the hospital to with my sister and also to pick my brother home) and my brother home to have fruit together. I learn this from my sister's husband. He is a really nice guy. The other night when I was up stair doing something, my sister told me he already prepared some fruit and was waiting for us to eat together. Now it's my turn to prepare and wait for them. I prepared 4 different kinds of fruit and since my brother didn't feel well so my sister's husband and I finished all the fruit together.

I felt much better after long sleep, hot shower and delicious food though my nose is still running. Hopefully, I will recover very soon.