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PRODUCTS REVIEW - PANDORA

1. Pandora Silver Blue Sparkling Crown Solitaire Ring
💡DETAILS: 925 sterling silver. Mixed stones and Cubic Zirconia. Crystal.

2. Pandora Exotic Stones & Stripes Ring
💡DETAILS: Let the cool blues rule your style with this sparkling ring in Pandora Shine. The ring detailed with alternating lines of hand-applied blue enamel and cubic zirconia and engraved on the inside with a single heart. The ring is hand-finished in 18k gold-plated unique metal blend and looks equally good worn alone or together with other band styles as part of a personal ring stack.

3. Pandora Moments Snake Chain Bracelet [Metal Color: Pandora Rose]
💡DETAILS: Start your very own Pandora story with this sleek snake chain bracelet in Pandora Rose, a 14k rose gold-plated unique metal blend. The perfect canvas for your creativity, this hand-finished bracelet can be styled in countless ways. Fill it with your desired charms and clips, wear it on its own for a simple, understated look, or stack it with contrasting bracelets for a fun play on textures – the only limit is your imagination!

4. Pandora Moments Snake Chain Bracelet [Metal Color: Silver]
💡DETAILS: This bestselling charm bracelet is the perfect foundation for your Pandora collection. Crafted in sleek sterling silver, this snake chain bracelet features Pandora's iconic barrel clasp for a secure fit while the innovative threading system makes it easy to screw charms onto your bracelet. Simply add a couple of clips to divide the bracelet into three sections, then choose your favourite Pandora charms to express your unique style.

5. Pandora Moments Winged Heart Bangle
💡DETAILS: Present your loved one with the Pandora Moments Winged Heart Bangle. Hand-finished in sterling silver, this design features a heart-shaped clasp. The engraving on the front reads “Always by your side” with a small indented heart beneath it. Two moving angel wings feature on the back of the clasp. Gift this piece to your family member alongside a pair of heart-shaped sterling silver earrings to make them feel extra special.

6. Pandora Pavé Modern LovePods Bracelet
💡DETAILS: This timeless bracelet is hand-finished from radiant PANDORA Shine, 18k gold-plated sterling silver. Its three pods are encrusted with pavé-set stones that lend subtle sparkle to day or night looks.

7. Pandora Heart of Infinity Charm
💡DETAILS: This refined dangle is exquisitely detailed with a 14k gold heart and a sterling silver infinity sign, evoking feelings of endless love. Wear it on bracelets or necklaces, and style it in many ways.

8. Pandora Sparkling Beehive Dangle Charm
💡DETAILS: Show you are sweet as honey with this PANDORA Shine dangle in 18k gold-plated sterling silver. The beehive design holds a tiger eye stone and is adorned with glittering stones and a buzzing bee.

9. Pandora Oversized Sparkling Bow Charm
💡DETAILS: This sterling silver bow charm is designed to make a statement. With its larger-than-life appearance and sparkling stone embellishments, it ties stylings together with sophistication.

10. Pandora Red Pavé Tilted Heart Dangle Charm
💡DETAILS: Add a pop of colour to your look with the Red Pavé Tilted Heart Dangle Charm. Hand-finished in Pandora Rose (14k rose gold-plated unique metal blend), this titled heart-shaped design is decorated with different-sized red cubic zirconia on the front. The polished back side includes cut-out circles and hearts. Style with sterling silver charms on your favourite bracelet to make this piece stand out or team with other colourful symbols for a vibrant finish.

11. Pandora Stellar Blue Pavé Tilted Heart Dangle Charm
💡DETAILS: Add a pop of colour to your look with the Stellar Blue Pavé Tilted Heart Dangle Charm. Hand-finished in sterling silver, this titled heart-shaped design is decorated with different-sized blue crystals on the front. The polished back side includes cut-out circles and hearts. Style with sterling silver charms on your favourite bracelet to make this piece stand out or team with other colourful symbols for a vibrant finish.

12. Pandora Curb Chain Necklace [Metal: Rose gold plated]
💡DETAILS: No jewellery collection is complete without a simple versatile necklace that can be worn by itself or accessorised with your favourite pendants. One of the most essential pieces for any wardrobe, Pandora Rose necklace features a sliding clasp, flat interlocking chain links and a dangling curb chain. Wear the slider necklace on its own or layer it for a fashion-forward look and adjust to suit your desired length.

13. Pandora Rolo Chain Necklace
💡DETAILS: Discover a new way to wear your go-to charms with the Rolo Chain Necklace. Hand-finished in sterling silver, this simple design is adjustable to three different lengths. This piece can only be worn with small and medium-sized Pandora O Pendants. Attach a pendant with a sparkling ball clasp to make a statement. Team with sterling silver earrings decorated with stones for a uniform look with added shine.

14. Pandora Moments Small O Pendant [Metal: Rose gold plated]
💡DETAILS: There’s nothing like the feeling of adding a new charm to a collection, except maybe adding two! Discover a whole new way of collecting, displaying and showing off your new charms with this Pandora Moments O pendant. Hand-crafted in Pandora Rose (14ct rose gold-plated unique metal blend), the design is inspired by the Pandora crown O and features a snake chain look. You can elevate your look by adding up to five charms, dangles or pendants to your O Pendant.

15. Pandora Moments Heart Charm Pendant
💡DETAILS: Switch up your style with the Pandora Moments Heart Charm Pendant. Hand-finished in sterling silver, this design features our popular snake chain texture. The heart-shaped pendant hangs at an angle on the bail and includes a ball-shaped clasp featuring the Pandora logo. Press the heart-shaped button on the clasp to open. Style this piece with up to three charms, dangles or pendants on a thick cable chain necklace and go for designs in contrasting metal tones for a varied look. Please note, select wide charm styles cannot be worn on this Heart Charm Pendant.

✅OVERALL RATING: 10/10
🔴MY REVIEW: I like the brand PANDORA derived from the brand's positioning as an "affordable luxury brand". The original intention of this brand was to encourage girls to be themselves and show their true self in their own way. How interesting! The advantage of PANDORA is that you can buy it according to your own budget. Even if you only buy a necklace, you can wear it with a simple and elegant unique style. Another special feature of PANDORA is that each bracelet can be matched and interchanged with a variety of gold or silver charms. Everyone's collocation is unique. Speaking of my favorite, it is none other than the Pandora Moments Snake Chain Bracelet. The material is soft and fits the curvature of the wrist better. It is also one of the most classic styles in the brand. I especially like PANDORA charms. Each charm represents a memory and has a special meaning. And you can mix and match according to your own preferences. In my opinion, Pandora is a very story-telling brand, allowing consumers to wear a unique bracelet based on their imagination, and let the bracelet tell our own story. What an incredible thing this is.

📌Disclaimer: The above review is purely personal opinion. Not everyone likes what I like. Please note that what may work for me, may not work for anyone else. Results may vary from person to person, so please take this into consideration if you decide to try those products.

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【別以爲孩子不完美就不能有自己的成功】
Don't Assume That An Imperfect Child Will Never Have His Own Success

我教書，從小學到中學級別，斷斷續續有十年。

我學命理堪輿超過十五年。

在我家族裡的孩子，還未到十歲，每個幾乎都有十八般武藝，生活能力特別強，就算是女生也特別獨立。

因為這幾種經驗的結合，對於如何栽培孩子的潛能我特別有心得。

在我眼裡，每個人都是佛，所以有無限的可能，孩子也一樣。

但諷刺的是，有時父母反而成為孩子的絆腳石。他們會把自己思維的侷限套在孩子的身上，斷了孩子未激發出來的潛能。

怎麼會這樣？

因為父母本身的八字潛能，也從來沒有被他們的父母激發過，因此成了這惡性循環。在忙於工作和兼顧家庭的無頭蒼蠅日子裡，他們又有何能耐和知識去做這些看似吃力不討好的事呢？

我批的孩童八字當中，有自閉兒、過動兒，有先天缺陷如聽力障礙、語言障礙等，學習過程會比一般孩子來得艱辛。

孩子還未進小學，要嘛就是父母因為這孩子而影響了婚姻，要嘛就父母覺得這孩子不行了，將來做什麼工作就將就吧！

今世的先天缺陷是前世惡因結的果，不該代表孩子的這一世就是死刑。

六歲前為孩子看八字和風水，對孩子的學習人生有很大的補助。三歲前，更佳。

破繭而出的蝴蝶，才能展翅高飛，而不是你打著真愛的口號，拿把剪刀去剪破毛毛蟲的繭。

父母是孩子的第一任老師，如果你們不懂得改善自己的命，你的孩子也會很容易向命運低頭。

愛孩子，就請告訴他們，人生的選項沒有必要鎖在ABCD，我們可以自己創造XYZ。

成功不只是有一種定義。

無論您是一位老師還是一位家長，我大力推薦大家去看這部適合一家大小一起看，由鄧超主演，挑戰我們華人社會對教育和親情習以為常的觀念的大陸電影《銀河補習班》。

看了之後，深入的去思考：我們追求有個孩子真正的意義應該是什麼？

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I have ten years of intermittent teaching experience, from primary school level to secondary school level.

I have also learnt Chinese Metaphysics for over 15 years.

In my family, before the age of ten, almost every child would have acquired a lot of life skills. Even the girls in our family are especially independent.

Because of these myriad experiences, I have my unique insight on how to cultivate the potential of children.

I see everyone as a Buddha, thus having infinite potential. The same goes for children.

Yet ironically, sometimes parents, the people who proclaimed the loudest that they love their children, are the exact ones who tripped their children in Life. They impose their limiting mindset on their children, disrupting the undiscovered potential of their children.

Why so?

Because the potential in the adults' Bazi was also never unearthed by their parents, thus forming a vicious cycle. In the daily grind of juggling family and work, running around like a headless chicken, how will they have the patience and knowledge to do such seemingly thankless acts?

In the children's Bazi I have analysed, some have autism, ADHD, listening or speech disabilities etc. Their learning process will understandably be more difficult than normal children.

Thus even before the child enters primary school, the parents would either face marriage disharmony or think that the child should just settle for any decent job in the future.

Born disabilities of this life are the fruits of our past-life karmic deeds, but this should not mark a death penalty in the child's destiny this lifetime.

To get the child's Bazi analysed and Feng Shui audited before age 6 can have enormous positive effects on the child's learning path. Even better if before age 3.

The butterfly that breaks out of its cocoon on its own is able to take flight, but will be crippled when you cut the caterpillar's cocoon with a scissors in the name of supposed true love.

Parents are the first teachers in a child's life. If you do not know how to change your destiny, your child will bow down to Life easily.

If you love them, please let them know life does not have to be restricted to ABCD options. We can create our own XYZ choices.

Success has more than one definition.

Whether you are a teacher or a parent, I recommend you and your children to watch this inspirational China movie on challenging Chinese societal norms in parenting and education, Looking Up (銀河補習班), starring Deng Chao.

And think in depth, what should be the real meaning in having children?

My sister, Michelle-Ann Iking's 3% chance of conceiving naturally was a success! Here's her story:

(My apologies as I've been overwhelmed with personal matters. I've only managed to get to my desk. So finally got around posting this).

This is the story behind my sister's pregnancy struggle and how she shared her journey over her Facebook page.

Because some may have not caught her LIVE session chat with me (https://www.facebook.com/daphneiking/videos/687743128744960/) , or read her lengthy post (as it's a private page);
she's allowed me to copy and paste it over my wall, in case you need to know more about her thought process on how AND why she focused on the 3% success probability. Read on.

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Posted 10th May 2020.
FB Credit: Michelle-Ann Iking

A week ago today I celebrated becoming a mother to our second, long awaited child.

Please forgive this mother's LONG (self-indulgent) post, journalling what this significant milestone has meant for her personally, for her own fallible memory's sake as well as maybe to share one day with her son.

If all you were wondering was whether I had delivered and if mum and bub are OK, please be assured the whole KkLM family are thriving tremendously, and continue scrolling right along your Newsfeed 😁.

OUR 3% MIRACLE

All babies are miracles... and none more so than our precious Kiaen Aaryan (pronounced KEY-n AR-yen), whose name derives from Sanskrit origins meaning:

Grace of God
Spiritual
Kind
Benevolent

...words espousing the gratitude Kishore and I feel for Kiaen's arrival as our "3% miracle".

He was conceived, naturally, after 3 years of Kishore and I hoping, praying and 'endeavoring'... and only couples for whom the objective switches from pure recreation to (elusive) procreation will understand how this is less fun than it sounds ...

3 years during which time we had consensus from 3 different doctors that we, particularly I (with my advancing age etc etc) had only a 3% chance of natural conception and that our best hope for a sibling for our firstborn, Lara Anoushka, was via IVF.

Lara herself was an 'intervention baby', being one of the 20% of babies successfully conceived through the less intrusive IUI process, after a year and a half of trying naturally and already being told then my age was a debilitating factor.

We had tried another round of IUI for her sibling in 2017 when Lara was a year old. And that time we fell into the ranks of the 80% of would-be parents for whom it would be an exercise in futility... who would go home, comfort each other as best they could, while individually masking their own personal disappointment... hoping for the best, 'the next time around'...

So the improbability ratio of 97% against natural conception of our second baby, as concurred by the combined opinion of 3 medical professionals, was a very real, very daunting figure for us to have to mentally deal with.

Deep, DEEP, down in my heart however, though I had many a day of doubt... I kept a core kernel of faith that somehow, I would again experience the privilege of pregnancy, and again, have a chance at childbirth.

And so, the optimist in me would tell myself, "Well, there have to be people who fall in the 3% bucket... why shouldn't WE be part of the 3%?"

Those who know me well, understand my belief in the Law of Attraction, the philosophy of focusing your mind only on what you want to attract, not on what you don't want, and so even as Kishore and I prepared to go into significant personal debt to attempt IVF in the 2nd half of 2019, I marshalled a last ditch effort to hone in on that 3% chance of natural conception... through research coming across fertility supplements that I ordered from the US and sent to a friend in Singapore to redirect to me because the supplier would not deliver to Malaysia.

I made us as a couple take the supplements in the 3 month 'priming period' in the lead up to the IVF procedure - preconditioning our bodies for optimum results, if you will.

At the same time, I had invested in a sophisticated fertility monitor, with probes and digital sensors for daily tracking of saliva and other unmentionable fluid samples, designed to pinpoint with chemical accuracy my state of fertility on any given day.

(UPDATE: For those interested - I obtained the supplements and Ovacue Fertility Monitor from https://www.fairhavenhealth.com/. Though I had my supplies delivered to a friend in Singapore, and redirected to me here since the US site does not deliver to Malaysia, there are local distributors for these products, you will just have to research the trustworthiness of the vendors yourself...)

I had set an intention - in the 3 months of pre-IVF priming, I would consume what seemed like a pharmacy's worth of supplements, and track fertility religiously... in hopes that somehow, within the 3 month priming period, we would conceive naturally and potentially save ourselves a down payment on a new property... and this was just a projection on financial costs of IVF, not even considering the physical, emotional and mental toll it involves, with no guarantee of a baby at the end of it all...

It was a continuation of an intention embedded even with my first pregnancy, where all the big ticket baby items were consciously purchased for use by a future sibling, in gender neutral colours, in hopes that sibling would be a brother "for a balanced pair", though of course any healthy child would be a welcome blessing.

It was a very conscious determination to always skew my thoughts in service of what the end objective was. For example, when 3+year old Lara would innocently express impatience at not yet having a sibling, at one point suggesting that since we were "taking too long to give her a baby brother/sister", perhaps we should just "go buy a baby from a shop", instead of getting defensive or berating the baby that she herself was, we enlisted Lara's help to pray for her sibling... so in any place of worship, or sacred ground of any kind that we passed thereon, Lara would stop, close her eyes, bow her small head and place her tiny hands together in prayer, reciting earnestly, "Please God, please give me a baby brother or baby sister."

After months and months of watching Lara do this, in the constancy of her childlike chant, Kishore started feeling the pressure of possibly disappointing Lara if her prayer was not answered. Whereas for me, Lara's recitation of her simple wish became like a strengthening mantra, our collective intention imbued with greater power with each repetition, and the goal of a sibling kept very much in the forefront of our minds (hence our calling Lara our 'project manager' in this endeavour).

And somehow in the 2nd month of that 3 month period, a positive + sign appeared on one of the home pregnancy tests I had grown accustomed to taking - my version of the lottery tickets others keep buying in hopes of hitting the jackpot, with all the cyclical anticipation and more often than not, disappointment, that entails...

This time however I was not disappointed.

With God's Grace, (hence 'Kiaen', a variation of 'Kiaan' which means 'Grace of God'), my focus on our joining the ranks of the 3% had materialised.

It seems poetic then, that Kiaen chose to make his appearance on the 3rd May, ironically the same date that his paternal great-grandfather departed this world for the next... such that in the combined words of Kishore and his father Kai Vello Suppiah,

"The 1st generation Suppiah left on 3rd May and the 4th generation Suppiah arrived on 3rd May after 41yrs...
One leaves, another comes, the legacy lives on..."

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KIAEN AARYAN SUPPIAH'S BIRTH STORY

On Sunday 3rd May, I was 40 weeks and 5 days pregnant.

The baby was, in my mind, very UN-fashionably late past his due date of 29th April, so as much as I had willed and 'manifested' the privilege of pregnancy, to say I was keen to be done with it all was an understatement.

In the weeks leading to up to my full term, I had experienced increasingly intense Braxton-Hicks 'practice contractions' - annoying for me for the discomfort involved, stressful for Kishore who was on tenterhooks with the false alarms, on constant alert for when we would actually need to leave home for the hospital.

Having become a Hypnobirthing student and advocate from my first pregnancy with Lara, and thus being equipped with
(1) a lack of fear about childbirth in general and
(2) a basic understanding of how all the sensations I would experience fit into the big picture of my body bringing our baby closer to us,
I was less stressed - content to wait for the baby to be "fully cooked" and come out whenever he was ready... though I wouldn't have minded at all if the cooking time ended sooner, rather than later.

With Lara, I had been somewhat 'forced' into an induced labour, even though she was not yet due, and that had resulted in a 5 DAY LABOUR, a Birth Story for another post, so I was not inclined to chemically induce labour, even though I was assured that for second time mothers, it would be 'much faster and easier'...

That morning, I had a hunch *maybe* that day was the day, because in contrast to previous weeks' sensations of tightening, pressure and even spasms that were concentrated in the front of my abdomen and occasionally shot through my sides and legs, I felt period - like cramping in my lower back which I had not felt before throughout the pregnancy.

It was about 8am in the morning then, and my 'surges' were still relatively mild ('surges' being Hypnobirthing - speak for 'contractions', designed to frame them with the more positive connotations needed to counteract common language in which childbirth is presented as something that is unequivocally painful and traumatic, instead of the miraculous, powerful and natural phenomenon it actually is).

I recall (masochistically?) entertaining the thought of opting NOT to have an epidural JUST TO SEE WHAT IT WOULD BE LIKE...

I figured this would be the last time I would be pregnant and so it would be my 'last chance' to experience 'drug free labour' which, apart from the health benefits for baby and mother, might be *interesting* in a way that people who are curious about what getting a tattoo and skydiving and bungee jumping are like, might find these *interesting*...even knowing there will be pain and risk involved...

Since I have tried tattoos and skydiving (unfortunately not being able to squeeze in bungee-jumping while my life was purely my own to risk at no dependents' possible detriment) a similar curiousity about a no-epidural labour was on my mind...

In the absence of other signs of the onset of labour (like 'bloody show' or my waters breaking), I wanted to wait until the surges were coming every few minutes before we actually left the house for the hospital, not wanting to be one of those couples who rushed in too early and had interminable waits for the next stage in unfamiliar, clinical surroundings and/or were made to go home in an anti-climatic manner.

I was even calm enough through my surges to have the presence of mind to wash and blowdry my hair, knowing if I did deliver soon I would not be allowed this luxury for a while.

Around 9am I asked Kishore to prep for Lara and himself to be dressed and breakfasted so we could head to hospital soon, while I sent messages to family members on both sides informing them 'today might be the day.'

My mother, who had briefly served as a midwife before going back into general nursing and then becoming a nursing tutor, prophetically stated that if what I was experiencing was true labour, "the baby would be out by noon".

The pace in which my surges grew closer together was surprisingly quicker than I expected; and while I asked Lara to "Hurry up with breakfast" with only a tad more urgency than we normally tell her to do, little Missy being prone to dilly-dallying at meals, I probably freaked Kishore out when about 930am onwards, I had to instinctively get on my hands and knees a couple of times, eyes closed, trying to practice the Hypnobirthing breathing techniques I had revised to help along the process of my body birthing our child into the world.

I recall him saying a bit frantically as I knelt at our front door, doubled over as he waited for Lara to complete something or other, "Lara hurry up! Can't you see Mama is in so much pain and you are taking your own sweet time??!!"

SIDETRACK: Just the night before, Lara and I had watched a TV show in which a woman gave birth with the usual histrionics accompanying pop culture depictions of labour.

Lara watched the scene, transfixed.

I told her, simply and matter-of-factly, "That's what Mama has to do to get baby brother out Lara, and that's what I had to do for you also."

In most of interactions with my daughter, I have sought to equip her to face life's situations with calmness, truthful common sense, and ideally a minimum of drama.

Those who know the dramatic diva that Lara can be will know that this is a work-in-progress, but her response to me that night showed me some of my 'teachings' were sinking in:

She looked at me unfazed, "But Mama," she said. "You won't cry and scream like that lady, right? You will be BRAVE and stay calm, right?"
#nopressure.

So as we prepped to leave for the hospital I did indeed attempt to be that role model of calm for her, asking her only for her help in keeping very quiet,
"Because Mama needs to focus on bringing baby brother out and she needs quiet to concentrate...".

As we left the house at 10.11am, I texted Kishore's sister Geetha to please prep to pick up Lara from the hospital, and was grateful Kishore had the foresight to ask our gynae to prepare a letter for Geetha to show any police roadblocks between my in-laws' home in Subang Jaya and the hospital in Bangsar, this all happening under the Movement Control Order (MCO).

To Lara's credit, in the journey over to the hospital, she - probably sensing the gravity of the situation, sat very quietly in her seat at the back, and the silence was punctuated only by my occasional deep intakes of breath and some variation of my Ohmmm-like moans when the sensations were at their height.

By the time we got to Pantai Hospital at around 10.30am, my surges were strong enough I requested a wheelchair to assist me in getting to the labour ward, as I did not trust my own legs to support me... and Kishore would have to wait until Geetha had arrived to take Lara back to my in-laws' house before he himself could go up.

I slumped in the wheelchair and was wheeled up to the labour room with my eyes closed the whole time, trying to handle my surges.

I didn't even look up to see the attendant who pushed me... but did make the effort to thank him sincerely when he handed me over, with what seemed like a palpable sense of relief on his part, to the labour ward nurses.

The nurse attending me at Pantai was calm, steady and efficient. I answered some questions and changed into my labour gown while waiting for Kishore to come up, all the while managing the increasingly intense surges with my rusty Hypnobirthing breathing techniques.

By the time Kishore joined me at around 11am (I know these timings based on the timestamps of the 'WhatsApp live feed' of messages Kishore sent to his family), I was asking the nurse on duty, "How soon can I get an epidural??" thinking what crazy woman thought she could do this without drugs???!!!

The nurse checked my cervix dilation, I saw her bloodied glove indicating my mucous plug had dislodged, and she told me, "Well you are already at 7cm (which, for the uninitiated, is 70% of the way to the 10cm dilation needed for birthing), you are really doing well, if you made it this far without any drugs, if can you try and manage without it... I suspect within 2 hours or less you will deliver your baby and since it will take about that time for the anaesthesiologist to be called, epidural to be administered and kick in... it might all be for nothing... but of course the decision is completely up to you... "

So there I was, super torn, should I risk the sensations becoming worse... or risk the epidural becoming a waste?? And of course I was trying to decide this as my labour surges were coming at me stronger and stronger...

I was in such a dilemma...because as a 'recovering approval junkie' there was also a silly element of approval-seeking involved, ("The nurse thinks I can do this without drugs... maybe I CAN do this without drugs... Yay me!") mixed with that element of curiosity I mentioned earlier ("What if I actually CAN do this without drugs... plenty of other women have done it all over the world since time immemorial.. no big deal, how bad can it be...??") so then I thought I would use the financial aspect to be the 'tiebreaker' in my decision making...

I asked the nurse how much an epidural would cost and when she replied "Around MYR1.5k", I still remember Kishore's incredulous face as I asked the question, i.e."Seriously babe, you are gonna think about money right now? If you need the epidural TAKE IT, don't worry about the money!!!"... and while we are not rich by any stretch of the imagination, thankfully RM1.5k is not a quantum that made me swing towards a decision to "better save the money"...

So in the end, I guess my curiosity won out, and I turned down the epidural "just to see what it would be like and if I had it in me" (in addition of course to avoiding the side effects of any drugs introduced into my and the baby's body).

My labour occuring in the time of coronavirus, it was protocol for me to have a COVID19 test done, so the medical staff could apply the necessary precautions. I had heard from a friend Sharon Ruba that the test procedure was uncomfortable, so when the nurse came with the test kit as I was starting another surge, I asked, "Please can I just finish this surge before I do the test?" as I really didn't think I could multitask tackling multiple uncomfortable sensations in one go.

The COVID19 test involved what felt like a looong, skinny cotton bud being inserted into one nostril... I definitely felt more than a tickle as it went in and up, being told to take deep breaths by the nurse. Then she asked me to "Try to swallow" and I felt it go into my nasal cavities where I didn't think anything could go any further, but was proven wrong when she asked me to swallow again and the swab was probed even deeper. Then she warned me there would be some slight discomfort as she prepared to collect a sample... but at that point all I could think about was:

(i) I really don't have much of a choice
(ii) please let this be over before my next surge kicks in
(iii) if all the people breaking the MCO rules knew what it feels like to do this test maybe they won't put themselves at risk of the need to perform one...

In full disclosure as I was transferred into the actual delivery room at some point after 11am, another nurse offered me 'laughing gas' to ostensibly take some of the edge off... I took the self-operated breathing nozzle passed to me but don't recall it making any difference to my sensations..so didn't use it much as it seemed pretty pointless.

I recall some measure of relief when I heard my gynae Dr. Paul entering the room, greeting Kishore and me, and telling us it was going well and it wouldn't be long now and he would see us again shortly.

From my previous labour with Lara I knew the midwives pretty much take you 90% of the way through the labour and when the Dr is called in you are really at the home stretch, so was very relieved to hear his voice though knowing he would leave and come back later meant it wasn't quite over yet.

I do remember realising when I had crossed the Thinning and Opening Phase of labour to the Birthing Phase, by the change in sensations... it is still amazing to me that as the Hypnobirthing book mentioned, having this knowledge I was instinctively able to switch breathing techniques for the next stage of labour .

Was my opting against epidural the right choice for me?

Overall? Yes.

Don't get me wrong.

I *almost* regretted the decision several times during active labour... especially when I felt my body being taken over by an overwhelming compulsion to push that did not seem conscious and was accompanied by involuntary gutteral moans where I literally just thought to myself, "I surrender, God do with me what you will..." (super dramatic I know but VERY real at the time...).

I think I experienced 3-4 such natural explusive reflexes (?), rhythmically pushing the baby down the birth path, one of which was accompanied by what felt like a swoosh of water coming out of a hose with a diameter the size of a golf ball... this was when I realised my water had finally broken...

The nurses kept instructing me to do different things, to keep breathing, to move to my side, then to move to the middle, to raise my feet... and when I didn't comply, Kishore (who was with me throughout both my labours) tried to help them by repeating the instructions prefaced with "Sayang..." but I basically ignored all the intructions because I felt I had no capacity to direct any part of my body to do anything and someone else would have to physically manoeuvre that body part themselves.

When I heard Dr. Paul's voice again and the flurry of commotion surrounding his presence, I knew the time was close... and when I heard the nurse say to Kishore, "Sir, these are your gloves, for when you cut the baby's cord", it was music to my ears...

I'm very, VERY grateful Kiaen slid out after maybe the 4th of those involuntary pushes... the wave of RELIEF when he came out so quickly... it still boggles my mind that my mother was essentially right and as his birth time was 12.02pm, it was *only* about 1.5 hours between our arrival at the hospital and his arrival into the world.

Kiaen was placed on my chest for skin to skin bonding and remained there for a considerable time.

For our short stay in the hospital he would be with us in my maternity ward number C327... another trivially serendipitous sign for me because he was born on the 3rd (May) and our wedding anniversary is 27th (July).

I was discharged the following day 4th May at about 5.30pm, after I got an all clear on COVID19 and a paediatric surgeon did a small procedure on Kiaen to address a tongue-tie that would affect his breastfeeding latch... making the entire duration of our stay about 31 hours.

I have taken the time and effort to record all this down so that whenever life's challenges threaten to get me down I can remind myself, "Ignore the 97% failure probability, focus on the 3% success probability".

Also that the human condition is miraculous and it is such a privilege to experience it.

To our son Kiaen Aaryan, thank you for coming into our lives and choosing us as your parents.

Even though Papa and I are both zombies trying to settle into a night time feeding routine with you, I look forward to spending not only all future Mother's Days, but every day, with you and your Akka...

And last but not least, to my husband Kishore...without whom none of this would be possible - we did it sayang, I love you ❤️

Photo credit: Stayhome session with Samantha Yong Photography (http://samanthayong.com/)

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Hi, everyone. :) Today we'll show you how to make a terrific Classic BLT Sandwich!

BLT is the most famous Sandwich in US and UK, the name “BLT” comes from the initials of its primary ingredients, they are Bacon, Lettuce and Tomato. It’s the basic sandwich, but can be created and mixed up different ingredients to be more variety. Like add avocado, it’s BLAT, add cheese to be BLCT. Also you can use chicken instead of bacon to make a Club Sandwich.

The basic ingredients of BLT sandwich are bacon, tomatoes, lettuce and mayonnaise between two slices of toasted bread. You can use any kind of bread or toast you like. This recipe will share with you a simple way to make a classic BLT. Of course includes many yummy tips. Hope you like. Happy cooking! :)

This is an #ASMR ver, you can check out the other v er that with BGM and Voices in Chinese if you like:
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Classic BLT Sandwich Recipe

✎ Ingredients
bread 2 slices
bacon 3 strips
lettuce 1-2 pieces
tomato 2 slices (8~10mm thick)
black pepper a pinch
butter 10g
mayonnaise 20g
ketchup 10g
dijon mustard 5g

✎ Instructions
1. Preheat the oven to 200°C. Line a parchment and rack on baking sheet.
2. Place the bacon strips in a single layer and bake for 12-15 minutes until the bacon is crispy.
3. Soak up the extra bacon grease, and season with some black pepper.
4. Cut the tomato into 1cm slice, then place them on a paper towel, use another paper to remove the extra juice. Set aside.
5. Combine the mayonnaise, ketchup and dijon mustard, mix well.
6. Add a little butter in the frying pan, swirl it to coat the bottom. Put 2 slices of bread in the pan, and toast them on each side until golden brown.
7. To assemble the sandwiches, spread a thin butter layer on one side of two breads, then layer the bacon strips, tomato slices, mayo dressing and folding lettuce. Top with the remaining slice of bread.
8. Cut the sandwich in half and serve, enjoy.
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