Went to The Pump Room at Clarke Quay with some of my colleagues yesterday night. Jive Talkin’ was playing as usual but Tuesday is also Open Mic Night so Adrian Tay went up and sang with the band! He did Jason Mraz’s I’m Yours and was really good. Not many people had the guts to go up and perform. One girl went up and played the drums for Jet’s Are You Gonna Be My Girl? and another guy went up and tried to sing Michael Buble’s Swing but was practically booed off the stage because he was not good at all. Some of us left about 1am so we weren’t around to watch Adrian get invited up by the band to sing Snow Patrol’s Chasing Cars but those who stayed behind assured us that he was very good. It was a bit weird being there and not being to dance or get a proper drink but I’d love to attend another Open Mic Night and watch Adrian perform again before I pop!

Went to see Dr Soong on Monday and all is well. Despite the Christmas feasting, I haven’t put on more weight than I should, which is good. I don’t have gestational diabetes so that’s great too. Baby is about 1.1kg now and Dr Soong thinks I may pop mid-March instead of end-March. We talked about pain control options and she also asked if I had any special requests for the birth and was obviously relieved that I didn’t have any strange demands like needing to give birth in total darkness or wanting the umbilical cord to pulsate a specific number of times before she cuts it, etc.

Received my results for my last two MA courses and I got an A and a B. I’m pretty satisfied. My next course starts 7 Jan and ends 1 Apr so I’m probably going to miss the last one or two sessions! Will have to finish any assignment given before I go into labour! School starts again on Friday and I hope the heat in the classroom won’t overwhelm me. It’s been really hot these couple of days and I just feel overheated all the time!

Went to Thomson for my Glucose Tolerance Test today which is done to check for gestational diabetes. I had to fast from midnight so I decided to go for my appointment as early as possible before I starved to death since the entire process takes about 3 hours. I had to give them a urine sample and they took some blood as well. Then, I had to drink this super sweet glucose solution within 5 minutes. The lab person actually sits there, watches you and times you while you drink it. It was orange-flavoured and gassy so it reminded me of extremely concentrated Fanta orange. It wasn’t too bad and didn’t make me feel like throwing up or anything but it did give me a bit of a headache. After drinking that, I had to sit around for an hour before going back and giving another urine sample and more blood. And then sit around some more and repeat the urine and blood samples again after another hour.

I was trying to while away some of the time in between by strolling around the centre and I came across this couple. The woman looked very young, like a teenager, and she was sitting on the floor crying loudly. The man, who also looked very young, was just sitting in a chair looking helpless. When I strolled by them again later, the young woman was still wailing but there was another woman there who was gently scolding her, saying in Mandarin, “Mei mei, you are going to be somebody’s mother soon. You can’t get so worked up over such a small matter! Don’t be so upset just because your handphone is spoilt!” Argh. Teenage mother-to-be! So much drama! I quickly walked away, of course.

All in all, the test didn’t take that long and I just hope that the test results will be ok when I see Dr Soong next week!

Our prenatal class on Sunday was on bathing the baby. It’s scary how serious some of the other couples are! They were taking notes and asking a million questions. The husband and I were a lot less serious and were busy dressing the baby up instead. Heh.