As my car was still in the workshop, we decided it was best for us to just cook lunch instead of going out to eat. Mrs Tai usually does all the cooking and that means very healthy food - very little salt, very little sugar. I was in the mood for a tasty meal and told Mrs Tai that I would prepare lunch instead.

Checked the cupboard and found we had a can of Campbell’s Cream of Mushroom soup, a can of button mushrooms, a packet of Cintan Cup-A-Mi instant noodles and some dried mushrooms. In the refrigerator, we had a lemon, an orange, a bottle of mayonnaise and yesterday’s leftover potato wedges from Kiwi Express.

One hour later…

Potato wedges with home made sauce

I have to clarify… The potato wedges were done this way in Kiwi Express. I merely reheated it. Yes, I think the potatoes were over-done/ over fried. It’s dark brownish in colour. I mixed 2 tablespoons oh mayonnaise with 1/3 of lemon juice and a slice of orange (together with the orange bits). It was a bit too watery (too much lemon) but it gave the slightly burnt potato wedges a tangy taste.

Next two dishes…

Noodles and soup

Cintan Cup-A-Mi instant dried noodles with a dash of lemon

Cream of mushroom

The noodles is nothing really special. It is Cintan’s Cup-A-Mi instant dried noodles - ala Thai flavour. Since I had quite a bit of lemon juice from the 1/3 of lemon, I used some on this noodle. It brings out the noodles taste. As for the soup, I got the inspiration from Soup Spoon’s thick mushroom soup as well as from my wife. She had prepared something similar (as paste sauce) for my colleagues about two weeks ago. I basically chopped a can of button mushrooms and about 4 pieces of dried mushrooms and added them into a can of Campbell’s Cream of Mushroom. Then added some pepper and water.

It has been an ‘eventful’ week for us. Over the past few days, everything had been like a roller coaster ride for us. It gave us lots of scare. But I guess both of us have settled down and have a better understanding now.

Over the past week, we found out about 2 other people who had gone through what we are going through with our baby now. One is a colleague of mine who has a 7 year old daughter. According to my colleague, her 7 year old daughter turned out fine.
They had diagnosed her daughters condition only after she was delivered. Her daughter went for surgery on the third day and all’s well now. Another is my cousin’s cousin brother. According to my cousin, this cousin is now 21 years old and is doing National Service (this cousin of his lives in Singapore). My cousin told me everything should be OK for us as well.

All these have made us more calm now and as we go along, we will share what other things we find out about Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia.

We still have many things to prepare for our baby. Since there is a warehouse sale in Setia Alam, both of us decided to check out the things available there. The morning was spend checking out Babyland in SS2 (just to compare prices). Then we went to Little Whiz’s warehouse sale in Setia Alam. There were quite number of things on sale - baby cot, breast pump, toys, baby chairs, etc… We stared at each other… Are all these necessary? I guess we didn’t do enough ‘research’ on what is necessity and what is luxury. If you ask the people at Little Whiz, they would of course tell you we need everything!

We also took the opportunity to check out our house. There’s nothing new from out last visit except that they have even locked up the houses now. So there’s no way we could go in and check out our unit. So we just took a photo from the outside.

We took photo of this unit as it has got flowers blooming on the tree outside

On our way home…

Car breaks down again… 6 times in 6 months

While waiting for the mechanic, Mrs Tai and myself checked out the Central Park. Luckily for us, the car broke down just in front of the park. But we didn’t explore the whole place. We just tried out some of the equipments nearby…

The ‘walker’ is very fun

We also managed to meet up with a forum member and Setia Alam resident while waiting. Kelvin was nice enough to drop by and keep us company. He even offered to help me get some mechanics from nearby but I told him that our mechanic is on his way over. Derrell and Su Fei also popped by to keep us company. They were on their way to their own home in Aman Perdana. I think they didn’t actually have any plans to go to Aman Perdana (they were at his parent’s place in Petaling Jaya) but when I told Derrell my car broke down, they decided to drop by. So nice of them… Kelvin, Derrell and Su Fei.

After about 2 hours of waiting, mechanic told me he lost his way and will arrange a tow truck instead. I told him that I’ll try to start my car again and then if still necessary, will call him back and ask him to send the tow truck over instead. Luckily, the car could start and we were on our way back to PJ again.

Got back to PJ and sent the car to workshop… Again. Very good record (being sarcastic here). See… And it’s just the first day of March!