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I’ll try to change the photo above every week.
This week is a unique yellow ladybug which I happened to come across resting on one of our plants outside our home.

Last night, we finally make used of our birthday presents from Joyce & Albert – Expresso Coffe Maker & a Special Blended Coffee Powder.

This is the Gold Special Blended Coffee – Made in Japan (Irene’s present)

Here you can see the Expresso Coffee Maker in action – hot coffee is slowly flowing into the glass jar (My present – the bigger one)

Wow! look at that hot steam rising……………Stand back!

Is it done yet, can I come near now? OK! all ready to be served

As I’m not really a coffee drinker…..the coffee tasted OK lah, but Irene finds it not bad leh.
Of course lah! now I kena make for her whenever she feels like having a cuppa.
Next time I better not grab for the bigger present

Alright, enough of coffee……here is our weekly update:

Week 1: 1 Jan 2006 : 93.7 kg (Ed)
Week 2: 8 Jan 2006 : 92.5 kg (Ed)
Week 3: 15 Jan 2006 : 92.3 kg (Ed)
Week 4: 22 Jan 2006 : 91.8 kg (Ed) – 66.5 kg (Irene) – 55.6 kg (Grace)
Week 5: 29 Jan 2006 : 91.5 kg (Ed) – 66.0 kg (Irene) – 55.9 kg (Grace)
Week 6: 5 Feb 2006 : 91.0 kg (Ed) – 65.8 kg (Irene) – 55.0 kg (Grace)
Week 7: 12 Feb’06 : 90.8 kg (Ed) – 66.0 kg (Irene) – 56.5 kg (Grace)
Week 8: 19 Feb’06 : 90.3 kg (Ed) – 65.4 kg (Irene) – 55.2 kg (Grace)
Week 9: 26 Feb’06 : 90.4 kg (Ed) – 64.3 kg (Irene) – 55.2 kg (Grace)
Week 10: 5 Mar’06 : 89.7 kg (Ed) – 65.2 kg (Irene) – 55.2 kg (Grace)
Week 11: 12 Mar’06 : Oops! forgotten leh!
Week 12: 19 Mar’06 : 90.3 kg (Ed) – 65.5 kg (Irene) – 55.3 kg (Grace)
Week 13: 26 Mar’06 : 89.3 kg (Ed) – 64.5 kg (Irene) – 55.5 kg (Grace)

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This morning was mama’s medical review at Changi Hospital after her accident last week.

I was supposed to drive her to the hospital but when I tried to start my car this morning the car battery was dead.
No wonder, when I was approaching my car, I noticed that the car alarm lights were blinking very slowly with a faint beeping sound, unlike cars where their alarms were continously blaring & lights blinking furiously when the alarm was set off.
I then recalled that last night I heard someone’s car alarm was making alot of irritating noise from the muti-story carpark. I was thinking that it must be some idiot who never bother to go down & disable his car alarm & annoying everyone in the neighbourhood throughout the night.
Never did I realise that the idiot was me!!……now when this things happen we never thought that it would be us but somebody else. I mean you don’t expect everyone to come rushing down from their home when a car alarm accidently set off, to check whether it belongs to them, right?…….right?
Now I feel like a fool & dare not approach my car when there are people around, or else they will know who the real idiot is!!
So that stupidity cost me $100 for not bothering to go down & check my car – cost of changing a new battery.

OK, now for mama’s story……sorry for the side track…….we then took a cab to the hospital & waited for about 2 hours before mama get to see the doctor, eventhough we were there at 9.00am & her appointment was 9.30am. Had to bring her down to the X-Ray department to check her hip bones after seeing the doctor, as mama was also complaining of pain at her side near the upper thigh/buttocks region. Thank God! there were no signs of any fracture at her hip & thigh bones. The doc said the pain could probably be due to the hard knocks when she fell down in the drain.

After reviewing the x-ray films, the doctor told us that surgery to heal her broken toes will be very complicated & so the best option was to just let her toes self-heal by itself. This also means that she will be going through chronic pain & she won’t be able to put any pressure on the front part of her foot for sometime. They did a different kind of foot casting for her so that she will be able to walk on her heel instead & this seems to help her. She is now able to walk slowly with the aid of the walking frame & this foot cast is more comfortable & not so heavy.

Mama’s new foot cast

Mama’s walking frame

Mama will need this for quite sometime to move her around before she can walk steadily again.

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I, Eddie Tan hereby confess that I cheated on my report for week 11, due to a sudden surge in my weight…….GUILTY! as charged.
I promise not to cheat again but dutifully report our weights every week without fail….rain or shine….up or down.

Now for my next excuse because of yesterday’s shiok dinner….chiak pa pa…ahem! our weight just went up by a whee bit.
No cause for alarm here, just more fruits & vegetables & more long walks should do the trick.
Please see below blog of our dinner last evening.

Week 1: 1 Jan 2006 : 93.7 kg (Ed)
Week 2: 8 Jan 2006 : 92.5 kg (Ed)
Week 3: 15 Jan 2006 : 92.3 kg (Ed)
Week 4: 22 Jan 2006 : 91.8 kg (Ed) – 66.5 kg (Irene) – 55.6 kg (Grace)
Week 5: 29 Jan 2006 : 91.5 kg (Ed) – 66.0 kg (Irene) – 55.9 kg (Grace)
Week 6: 5 Feb 2006 : 91.0 kg (Ed) – 65.8 kg (Irene) – 55.0 kg (Grace)
Week 7: 12 Feb’06 : 90.8 kg (Ed) – 66.0 kg (Irene) – 56.5 kg (Grace)
Week 8: 19 Feb’06 : 90.3 kg (Ed) – 65.4 kg (Irene) – 55.2 kg (Grace)
Week 9: 26 Feb’06 : 90.4 kg (Ed) – 64.3 kg (Irene) – 55.2 kg (Grace)
Week 10: 5 Mar’06 : 89.7 kg (Ed) – 65.2 kg (Irene) – 55.2 kg (Grace)
Week 11: 12 Mar’06 : Oops! forgotten leh!
Week 12: 19 Mar’06 : 90.3 kg (Ed) – 65.5 kg (Irene) – 55.3 kg (Grace)

Our 50th birthday lah….pangchan leh!

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