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New Bento Box

Bought a new bento box from Parkson Gurney. It's Thermos brand. It's a two tier bento box. It comes with an insulated case, two containers, a pair of chopsticks and a bento strap.

Just started to pack lunch for my hubby in this new bento lunch box this morning. I find that the size is just right and it's easy to pack. It has one stainless steel container and a plastic container. The stainless steel container makes cleaning easier. However, it's not microwavable.

He Laughed At My Bento Draft!

This morning, I woke up at 6.45am because I needed to prepare breakfast and two bentos, one for lunch and another one for afternoon tea. That was a morning rush hour to me, having to prepare so many given with that short period of time.

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He has a small piece of grilled chicken, a bacon enoki roll, two shishamo fish, spinach, broccoli and some carrots and tomatoes. 

There are a number of crabs walking around on his rice :)

Boiled some spinach and mixed with some fruits and veggies sauce. Spinach has high nutritional value. Popeye also eats spinach to recharge his strength! He can be as strong as popeye after his lunch ^_^

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Prepared two chicken potato rolls and some kiwi for the afternoon tea.

And here’s the breakfast. A simple one and he poured himself a glass of soya bean milk. Bread with fish floss and a piece of homemade tiramisu cake that we baked on saturday!

My bento draft

This is a draft of the bento that I drew last night. I just worried that my mind will be blank when I woke up this morning, so I roughly decided on what I’m gonna prepare with the ingredients I have in my fridge before I went to bed last night. Hubby laughed at it when he saw my draft this morning :( 

I Will Follow You

Today's breakfast is bee hoon soup with shark's meat and veggies. The shark's meat wasn't nice, as hard as chicken breast. 

Lunch Bento

I made a lunch bento and a snack bento for hubby's lunch and afternoon tea. The lunch bento has a chicken drumstick and mushrooms cooked in soy sauce, a fish fillet, some veggies and baby carrots. I learnt to do the crab from some website. Then I came up with two crabs. Obviously the one with dimples is me and another crab is my hubby. The black sesame seeds represent our foot prints. ^_^ The roasted sesame seeds represent the soil that the plants grow on.

The female crab is singing:

I will follow you
Follow you wherever you may go
There isn't an ocean too deep
A mountain so high it can keep me away

I must follow you
Ever since you touched my hand I know
That near you I always must be
And nothing can keep you from me
You are my destiny

I love you, I love you, I love you
And where you go I'll follow, I'll follow, I'll follow
You'll always be my true love, my true love, my true love
From now untill forever, forever, forever

I will follow you
Follow you wherever you may go
There isn't an ocean too deep
A mountain so high it can keep
Keep me away, away from my love

I love you, I love you, I love you
And where you go I'll follow, I'll follow, I'll follow
You'll always be my true love, my true love, my true love
From now untill forever, forever, forever

I will follow you
Follow you wherever you may go
There isn't an ocean too deep
A mountain so high it can keep
Keep me away, away from my love

And where you go I'll follow

This was where the rest of the artificial crab meats went after I cut out the shapes I wanted. I made a hole in the rice, placed the crab meats and covered with the rice nicely.

There are peanut butter sandwiches cut into rabbit and love shapes, cincau, a cherry tomato and plum in the bento.

Bento No.10

It's the tenth bento today. I don't really have much idea to do the next bento. It's very hard to prepare food that he can easily nibble at and the food can be kept until afternoon tea at around 4pm.

I gave him a pandan mantou (chinese steamed bun) with butter spread today. The mantou has a fierce face with sharp teeth. I got this idea from a bento blog and thought I wanna try it out. So, no smiley face in his bento today.

I also gave him cincau (grass jelly) which are cut into aeroplane and car shapes. When I cut the cincau, I was thinking "hmm, next time I could use this way to teach my kids about the types of vehicles and other things like animals, numbers and alphabets. For example, if they learn A, B and C during that week, I will then cut the food into those alphabets to help them to refresh what they've learnt when they eat their food". Can this make learning more fun?

I also included a few edamame skewers for him. There isn't any fruits in his bento today because he finished all the fruits that I cut last night! I only had two bites on a piece of apple. This morning, I didn't have much time to cut him fruits because I woke a bit late >_< I wanted to give him more cincau because the weather is so hot and cincau is thought to have the cooling properties but I just don't have bigger food cup. I need to buy bigger food cups. I just realized the wheel on the car shaped cincau was misplaced a bit after i transferred the photo to my laptop :)

Bento No.9

Went to Cold Storage on Monday night with my hubby and he bought himself these croissants and hams. Toasted the croissant and heated the ham. The croissant was then topped with veggies, the ham, some mayonnaise and chilli sauce, and some tomatoes. So, this was his breakfast this morning with the ingredients he bought and a cup of honey drink.

Today's bento consists of three sushi with bacon, two bacon enoki roll, a piece of cheese, few pieces of oranges, a cup of blueberries, a tomato and a carrot. These are more than enough for an afternoon tea. I think he should have a light dinner tonight.

The cheese was cut into a teddy bear shape, added details on the ears and hair with cheddar cheese to make the face look more 2D. I also made three small flowers to add on the sushi and the flower shaped carrot to make the bento more colourful.

Pre-pregnancy Checkup

My hubby and I both feel that it's time for us to go to another stage, having a baby. We planned to conceive some time around June this year. As I remember that I have never been vaccinated against the rubella virus which is a very important immunity for a pregnant lady, we decided to consult a gynae and find out what other checkup we should do. I'm worried about it because if one is not immune to rubella, and the fetus happens to be exposed to the rubella virus during pregnancy, it can cause disabilities to the baby. 

So, after deciding on which gynae, we went for the checkup few weeks ago. Questions that the gynae asked include "Have you had the rubella vaccine?", "Did you have chicken pox before?”. Chicken pox is another concern. I never had chicken pox! If you catch chicken pox during your pregnancy, there're risks including chicken pox syndrome, to the baby.

My checkup includes breasts check, pap smear test, ultrasound on uterus, urine test and a blood test to detect my antibodies while hubby only need to do a urine and blood tests. The gynae said I probably need to get the rubella and chicken pox vaccines if I'm really not vaccinated against rubella and I never had chicken pox like I told him. However, he needs to see my blood test report before he gives me the vaccines. We're asked to go back in June for the blood test results. Also, we're told that we should wait for at least three months after those vaccines are taken before we try to conceive. Our initial plan to get conceived in June obviously have to be postponed to September or October, the earliest, as we only get the blood test reports end of June and then counting 3 months from June. :'( I can't wait to have a baby!

So, what is a pap smear test? It's a test where the gynae inserts a speculum to your vagina to help access to the cervix, and then a small brush is inserted to collect the cells. The gynae then put those cells on a glass slide to send for examination under the microscope. The whole procedure didn't cause any pain or discomfort to me. However, I felt a mild cramping afterward.