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New York New York

Am at my mum's house now, have been staying here while Husband is in NY for a work trip. Yes! A work trip when baby is only over two weeks?! Sadness. Even the mother of the baby is extra sad :( Can I blame it on post-natal hormones? Haha.

He flew last Sunday night, and for the whole day, Junior refused to sleep, only wanting to be cuddled and given attention especially by daddy dearest. It's like he knows daddy dearest is flying off. Heart wrenching. But since Sunday, Junior's been a good boy behaving himself. But sometimes he still wants attention and to be cradled. I guess that's normal for newborns.

Five more days till Other Half is home! :) I miss him. Somehow I'm reminded of days of London, cos he's very very far away. If he were to go, say, Brunei, it won't be as bad. New York is just so, scary. Watching too much crime dramas like CSI New York and my favourite Bones makes US sound dangerous with their small, dark alleys and guns!! Guns! Is it really safe to walk about at night there? Anyways, it is kinda cool to be in a city where you've seen so much on TV. You can go like, eh I was there before! Hahaha. That said, I don't really have much interest to go NY. The only place I wanna go in US is Disneyland.

Another thing I miss is my home haha. Even though I've lived here for like half my life, it's just different when you've gotten used to your own living space, your own home you set up. Plus my house is bigger and cooler, temperature-wise. It's kinda advantageous to have a house near the forest, the overall temperature is lower and it's more windy!

Managed to bake banana cake yesterday hurhur!! Reealllyy ripe bananas, about nine of them. But because they're too ripe, there were maggots. Or some white insect thingy gross. Managed to salvage four bananas that weren't infected yet. As if THAT'S not enough to disgust me, the flour (long time no use) had tiny weevils too! Like omg! No salvaging for this one, bought a new pack. Haha. But the cake turned out well, and by today it'll be finished. Too many cake monsters in this house.

Today Junior is three weeks old. He's been such a charmer. Haha! You can say I'm just like a typical biased mom who thinks her child is the handsomest and smartest, but I think my baby's awesomely cute, even his weird old man expressions :D

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