Rob shared with us snippets of progress of his sister's pregnancy over dinner at Chilis' last night. She's due in April, so we heard about the 20 kilos she gained so far, how big her tummy is right now, how bloated her entire body is from the pregnancy water retention; her fingers have become stubby and her ankles have completely disappeared under the swells - he even showed us a picture of her swollen ankle and oh my, it looks like one of those small balloons filled with water in it.
Why is it that such horrible things happen to their bodies when women go through pregnancy?! It makes the whole process sound so scary, and that's not even the scariest part yet (scariest award goes to the labour process itself)!
On a slightly more light-hearted note, maybe funny even, the shark tattoo on her ankle now resembles a whale more than the shark that it's supposed to be hur hur. And it was really cute when she said that she missed doing things like lying on her tummy/front. We tried to imagine what it'd be like if she did that, and came up with the following (bo liao) questions:
Would it be like lying face down on one of those ginormous exercise balls?
Can she rock back and forth on her tummy now?
Will the baby be crushed?
No pregnant woman in the right state of mind would attempt that, I guess?
Here's a picture of the sky when the sun was setting a couple of days back. I don't remember seeing the sky in such pretty shades of orange, pink and yellow in Singapore before so I thought it was something worth capturing.
Anyway, I've just attended the first (of five) day of the instructor course today. It feels a little like I've come one full round in this windsurf journey, though it's way too soon, and I definitely felt unqualified and undeserving of that seat in the class today.
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