Now a Mummy!

I’m back!

I have yet to unpack my suitcase, although my BMs are now in the fridge.

I expressed about 40oz a day whilst I was in Seoul for 6 days. When Room Service came to send my frozen EBMs before checking out- it was in a huge container! Will post up the picture soon. I could only bring back half as I couldn’t fit in all of them in my 9l cooler box! I already had 2 techni ice sheets (luckily, as I couldn’t find dry ice there although the hotel tried to assist me). All of them thawed, which means I need to feed Baby AH those milk this week and freeze any BMs I shall express this week.

Incheon and Changi Airport didn’t even bat an eyelash when I had to bring in my EBMs, which I expressed yesterday morning and evening.

So many experiences to share but I will save that for another post.

The husband has unlocked the suitcases- time to unpack. *sigh*.

The program ended last night with a quick city tour and a dinner at an Italian Restaurant at the foot of Namsan. Went to Dongdaemun at 11pm and didn’t get back till amost 2am.

I am now glad that we’re heading home today, can’t wait to see baby AH, of course!

C, you asked what I got that I shouldn’t have, right? Hehe. I got what I mentioned at work before. The one I wanted for my birthday. Hehe. Finally got it when I was in Singapore on the way here, last week.

I’m knackered but yes, I can’t wait to go back.

I’m having problems trying to get dry ice but I brought with me 2 sheets of techni ice for my cooler box. I hope that will be enough. There was a miscommunication with Singapore Airline as well and I am now deeply upset. I hate language barrier!

Now, I am going to pray and hope for the best- Ameen!

…or something like that. hehe.

greetings from seoul.

it has been a tiring day with me and few other participants falling asleep during the presentations (yes, i have to add other participants too so my boss doesn’t think i’m lazy. lol.). we finished with a dinner on the top floor of this hotel. the rep from BOK was kind enough to sit next to me to make sure that the food that was being served to me was the correct one as were of ‘no meat, no meat derivatives, no alcohol and no alcohol derivatives’.

but what impressed me more was that BOK’s main building has a nursing room complete with an electric pump, freezer/ fridge, steriliser, bottle & pump cleaning things, a big sink, comfy sofas and to top it off, a good view of the buildings around them. haha! obviously, the staff had to bring in their own bottles and what not to connect to the pump.

but seriously i was impressed! no wonder they kept on asking me, ‘do you really need to go back to the seminar room to take your things?’ and there i was thinking, ‘how the hell are you expecting me to express?’ har har har. rupanya! hmm, maybe the offices in brunei should do this. hehe. starting from MOH. sponsor an electric breast pump to be used in the office.

you are encouraging breastfeeding AND it will cut the expressing time!

pictures of the nursing room and many, many other pictures will be updated when i have the time. either here or on facebook. hehe. (oh, i did something naughty and bought something i shouldn’t have but have been longing to. har har.)

i’m off to bed before another loooong day tomorrow, ending with another dinner to some place an hour from the hotel. erk.

p.s. will reply comments another time ya.

*I just realised I didn’t publish the whole post. The other half of this post is missing!*

Rest assure (RBA- not you Jat ah! hehe), I will complete writing out this post when I have the time. I just hope I will still be miffed (to put it politely) and rant on how their ‘miscommunication’ was a LAME excuse and their service plainly sucked.

It was Baby AH’s first plane ride today

We’re in KL till Thursday as I have to attend a seminar while Baby AH will be looked after by his Nini Babu. Alhamdullilah, Baby AH wasn’t really fussy on the plane. Fed him on take off and landing until he was too full! He even had a good nap whilst we had our lunch.

However, he had to nap on my lap because our local airline- Royal Brunei Airline didn’t get us our front row with bassinette!

Urgh. If I remember what we had to go through during check in, I get fired up and just couldn’t believe it!

I bought Baby AH’s ticket last weekend at a travel agent in Manggis Mall and had them book front row seat with bassinette for me. On Tuesday morning, I called RBA’s reservation line and was on hold forever- 10-15 mins, I think before I decided to call their ticketing online. After being transferred twice, I was finally answered by a lady called Siti (I don’t know if this is her real name or not because I just realised that most ladies I talk to on any customer service calls are called Siti!) who told me that she was engaged and asked me to call their reservation line.

I explained to her that I called that line previously and was put on hold for a long time and have then be transfrerred twice on this line and she was telling me she was engaged and I had to call another line???? (I thought she shouldn’t have answered my call if she was engaged anyways!). Nevertheless, she said she would call me back and asked for my number.

When she called, she said that my travel agent had booked for me front row seat with bassinette for my baby. I insisted that I needed this for both trips. She then said that she has reserved for me, however, I have to come early as if there are many babies on board, it will be based on first come first serve basis