Bria's full month celebration was quite a nightmare for me.. There were good sides as well, all the presents and ang baos, and the few times where i actually enjoyed the company. But most of it were just pure tiredness.
Plus the fact that the celebrations lasted 2 days over the weekend. First of all, the caterer screwed up on both days. Stupid lady just changed some of my dishes without telling me... She didn't even apologize but just told me that the dishes i ordered weren't available, and that the dishes she gave are much better.. We ended up with half the dishes changed. Don't even know why i bothered to place an order and chose the dishes of my preference. Then on the second day, they gave me one dish less.. Drinks were also totally wrong on both days. I specifically asked for lime juice on sunday, and barley on saturday, but she gave me fruit punch for both days. Plus, their teriyaki chicken turned sour barely 3 hours after the food arrived. K had diarrhea eating the chicken that night. When i told the caterer about it, she didn't apologize, but just told me she would inform the kitchen about it.. Wah kau!
Secondly, half the relatives i invited weren't close to me nor K. We invited them because of our parents. So it was like half a day of "fakeness", which is super exhausting. I still can't believe one of my cousins gave me $20 ang bao when she brought along her 16 year old daughter. My buffet already cost $10 per head loh! Sigh..
Thirdly, the stitch like pain in the left side of my tummy got really bad on Saturday cause i walked around alot as a host. It got so bad i had to sit down while K did the hosting and walking. Until now, it's still a bit painful, will go and ask Ah Lim tomorrow during my check up.
And lastly, i lost my temper for like 3 minutes on Sunday because of all the little requests i was getting from K's family. I ended up locking myself up in the bedroom, with the excuse that i was not feeling well and wanted to rest. I had wanted to let C rest as much as possible, because she didn't sleep at night (as usual), and we had another maid to help out, so i thought that was sufficient.
But there were so many requests that day C had no choice to help out and couldn't sleep. There were requests to make tea la, wash the corridor floor la, make syrup to mix into the lime juice cause it's too sour la.. make sandwiches for the guests cause they are hungry la (even though there were still plenty of food left).. I also had to walk around so much even though K asked me to sit down cause of all these requests! Naturally, people would come to me first instead of going to C directly. So in the end, i still had to do a bit of walking around to get things done! Plus, I had to suffer through the countless contradictory babycare advice i got from all the aunties. Poor C was also a victim. One auntie would advise that i should put the bean bag on Bria while she sleeps, then another one would come in and ask me to take it away. Or one auntie would ask C to put pacifier, then my mom in law would come in and pull the pacifier from Bria's mouth and make her cry until her face turns red. My poor baby must have been so tired and confused from all the fussing and noise over the past 2 days.. Sigh..So glad it's over now!
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