Sunday, January 31, 2010

Bobby's Sunday Morning Trip to the Beach


Sunday morning, we decided to bring Bobby to East Cost beach - as you can see he looks pretty excited, and he knows he is heading out for some leisure fun. He is 11 years old, which equates to 77 years human age currently. Yes, he still displays child like excitment and happiness.

Yesterday morning we went to the gynae for our routine check-up. Baby G is now 32 weeks old and weighs 1.6kg. The past few weekends have been about sourcing and buying Baby G's products. We are more or less settled with the purchase of big items, and now moving on to shifting the furnitures in the baby's room. Other than that, its been peaceful reading up on labour and delivery, breastfeeding and how to soothe a crying baby. I feel rather heavy to be walking around anyway, so Mr Gui and I have found peaceful contentment in reading from our room. Surprisingly, Mr Gui is now proactive about picking up such resources to read up. Yeah!

I have not been praying daily as some days I have excessive saliva building up especially when I speak - well its supposed to be one of the symptoms some preggy ladies would get. But yesterday after my reading, I felt well enough and needed some prayers to soothe my own pockets of worry or anxiety that pop up from time to time...Yesterday I did the Four-Armed Avalokiteshvara recitation 108 times, which represents loving kindness, joy, equanimity and compassion.

Thursday, January 14, 2010

Pregnancy Poem: Catchy and Charming and Oh-So-True



I'm a pregnant lady
Short and stout,
I'm cranky and irritable,
You better watch out!

Six weeks and counting,
I just can't wait.
This baby had better
Not be late.

When I go to sleep
And try and dream,
My hips and legs hurt
Enough to make me scream.

Just when I think
I can catch some Zzzz,
My bladder yells,
So I get up to pee.

My heat index has risen,
Don't smell my bits,
I need to bathe thrice daily
It's really the pits.

Cleaning up my house
Is more than a chore,
Cos I can't bend over
Or get on the floor!

But since my baby will be
In my arms in just a few days,
Makes me happy and comfortable,
Helps me handle in so many ways.

[Mother & Baby, Neha Sharma, West Coast Road, Singapore]

Thursday, January 07, 2010

The Extremely Precious Human Life

Thats my friend's kiddo - David, at nine months old. I realised its rather difficult to take photographs of children as they are so active. Is it about the shutter speed? Still trying to figure it out.

A friend living in Washington wrote to me today. I was rather surprised by his statement though he is not a father yet - planning to next year spring. "Being a parent is what life is all about in the end."

In Buddhism, it is believed that the human life is extremely precious and it is only achieved once in a long time. Thus, it is extremely important that one does not waste this precious human life. Make it as meaningful as possible by following the Dharma and by not commiting the non-virtuous deeds.