ryan's prebirth journey :: Nov 13 2005, 02:57 PM ::

and now for the much awaited results of the gender for our precious lil one!!!! .................................. its gona be RYAN CHUA!!!!!!!!!! melvin has also confirmed that h's is also a BOY, MARCUS NG! we agreed that both will go to St Joseph's Junior and then SJI! future Josephians!!! ORA ET LABORA!we reached TMC at about 1045am on friday, 11 nov and waited quite long for the detailed scan. while waiting, i went Delifrance to buy 02 chicken curry puffs for veron and myself. while waiting, we met victor's mum, who was sitting just behind us. she called me and then we started chatting. told her that melvin's baby is a boy and we are about to find out. finally, our turn came and we were led to this room with warm lighting. a lady by the name of dawn came in and start scanning our baby. veron cant see the monitor, but i can! hehehe... baby was in a squatting position and thus cant tell the gender as yet. we were quite disappointed at first. the lady scanned and measured the baby's head, kidneys, hands and by the time she got to measure the legs, she commented that our baby's legs are quite long and asked me for my height. i was thinking "a tall gal? hmmm.....", just then, she said that the baby suddenly opened his legs and she zoomed in to try to deduce the gender and she announced "i think i saw something" and i was like "serious!, please zoom in further to confirm, sure its not the cord or something else?" she zoomed in and confirmed that it was "soft tissue" and i was quite disappointed that we are not gona have a princess this time round. veron kept on saying its fine and she had secretly prayed for a boy cos she wants to fulfill her daughter-in-law duties for my grandma and parents. but i told her my parents never had any preference, as long as the baby is healthy and is GOD's gift to us. veron was smiling away and she kept reassuring me, seeing my disappointed look.the lady then showed us that our boy was in a very relaxed position! left hand was behind his head while right hand was playing with his toes which was curled up infront of him. just like me when i sleep sometimes...heheheh.....just like baby is in a vacation! all results showed that baby was growing well and normal. PRAISE THE LORD!upon leaving the room, i immediately switched on my phone and called my dad and tell him the good news. he said "oh, very good! must take care huh?!" then we went down to LC CHENG's clinic. nurse told us to come back later and we went to the cafe for lunch. i didnt feel like eating and veron ordered a plate of beef kway teow while i drank a cuppa coffee. kind of disappointed still....hahahaha.... no polo ralph white dress for my princess!! veron said boy better, next time teenage period no need to worry and be paranoid about where and who she goes out with and all that crap! i was drinking my coffee and re-orientating myself to having a baby BOY, RYAN CHUA!back in the clinic, it was our turn and LC CHENG told us that everything was fine for veron's detailed blood test, except she needs to drink abit more water and that she will need to take the hep-B vaccination jab after the pregnancy. told us to come back in a month's time. veron is not very happy with LC CHENG cos she said he is not very personal and warm enough, compared to other gynaes she had heard about and kept blaming me for deciding to go with him. sigh...prob being the best fertility doc in TMC doesnt mean that he will be very warm and caring like the others.i went to get the car and on the way there, tried to call my mum, but her mobile phone was switched off and my grandma was out at sentosa with the kids. i called melvin and told him the good news. he kept saying, "it's ok bro, boy good, u will like him, can go SJI next time, we can apply together! lets go polo ralph and get them clothes together!" on the way to pick veron, i convinced myself that a boy is great afterall, just need to discipline more and easier to dress up and can play tennis and golf with me next time! more stress to make sure he goes to SJI and NUS! hahaha....guess it's really up to me then!we went back to my office to settle some stuff and send some emails before goin to the printer to do presscheck and return home. back home, told my mum the great news and she said she also secretly prayed for a boy!! hahahaha....my parents' prayers are really powerful! veron and i have to be model catholic parents for ryan so that he will grow up with the right catholic values and morals! i then sent veron to her staff dinner at chevrons and then went to pick derek up for dinner. we had all planned to go out for drinks to celebrate the good news and also derek's belated and mine be-early birthday! we went over to aunt anna's place first to pick up some toys for baby ryan and then alex met us downstairs and we all went for dinner in my car. ate ke ai ji at clementi and then went home to put the stuff. gave them a bottle of beer each and then we left to pick veron at 10pm. after that, the guys told me not to drive so that i can drink also and we took a cab to O-bar at mohd sultan! yang, don, avin and his galfren were late, so we decided to go in first and get a table. we opened 2 bottles of bombay saphire in order to get a table for 7 of us. they all came later and we thoroughly enjoyed ourselves! every toast was "TO RYAN CHUA!!", "FOR RYAN!!", and that went on several times till each of us was almost drunk! avin was the first to drop and he was outside puking like mad on the pavement and his galfren had to send him back first! saw jeremy koek and jeraldine together with their frens in O-bar also and i offered jeremy a drink and said "to my baby boy!" he also bought me a bacardi breezer and said "to your baby boy!" the night was great and we had a few other shots of tequila and sabokar. alex then left first cos he needed to serve the country the next day at 1pm. it was down to derek, don, yang and myself, as usual, the 4 musketeers! we went to eat prata and mee goreng at the nearby indian shop and then derek and i left in a cab and he dropped me off first. yesterday had a bit of hangover and then we went to eat bfast at my parents' place and then they came over to help us paint the boy's room! dropped veron off at her mum's plce, cant let her smell the fumes. i sent an sms telling everyone of the good news and asked them to pray for us and our baby boy! everyone replied with good wishes!