3D Ultrasound of Our Baby

Here are some of the photos (3D Ultrasound) of our baby. Scan was done at In My Womb Mall of Asia.

See more of 3D/4D ultrasound in my I Just Opine post.

Till then,

A Glimpse of What's In My Womb

And here's the first glimpse of what's inside my womb, our baby girl - the greatest gift we've ever received.

The ultrasound and scanning was done at In My Womb Mall of Asia - Pearl package. It consists of 5 colored printed pictures of the baby and 5 black and white (film). There is also a cd of still pictures. The price is worth it. I was 6 months pregnant here. See more details of In My Womb here.

Till then,
 

ACS Accounting Held Christmas Fishbone Decoration Contest

ACS Accounting held a Christmas Fishbone Decoration Contest - and last Thursday December 15, 2011, the winners were announced during the Christmas Party. The first prize received Php10,000.00

Here are some of the pictures of the winners. But before that, let me first give you the list of winners;

• 3rd Place - TMS
• 2nd Place - CSG Billing and TSG Admin
• 1st Place - CSG General Accounting (the team where I belong, we won!)

Here are the pictures of our decoration - Star ng Pasko theme.

Lantern made of coke litro bottoms

The Sabsaban

Keith Lang together with the other judges judging our work

Members of team - kulang pa yan

And here are the pictures of one of the second place - CSG Billing

Enjoy watching :)

Till then,

We're Having A Girl!

Finally, after 6 months of waiting, our baby revealed her gender. On 11th day of December 2011, my 24th week and 5/7 days, I had my 3D ultrasound at In My Womb located in SM Mall of Asia. It's a Pearl package which includes 15 colored pictures of your baby and a CD of still pictures. The procedure lasted for an hour as our baby was covering her face when we were doing the scanning. I am happy seeing her touched and covered her face, but baby, please show us your beauty next time I have my scan ha? In My Womb by the way is offering a 4 time repeated scan if the baby does not cooperate. So since I am not satisfied yet, I will go back for re-scanning on Friday 16th of December.

And here's the 2D picture of our baby's gender. It will be hard for you to recognize because it's black and white, but the two arrows are pointing to the female gender part which is lavia.

Our baby girl - barely three months and we can see you na! We love you so much. 

Till then,

We'll Be Having a Girl!!!

People around me say I will be having a girl :) they predict based on my outlook and appearance haha. Hmmm.... And because I am too excited to know our baby's gender, I searched on pregnancy tool to predict what the gender of our baby will be. And I found one that really says I will be having a girl, it's from babycenter.com - a Chinese Gender Predictor. See it below :)

If you are pregnant and would like to predict the gender of your baby, just hover over the picture and click on it, it will lead you to the babycenter chinese gender predictor. What are the steps? Step 1, you have to tick your conception date or due date and the tool will automatically calculate the Chinese lunar month in which you got pregnant. Step 2, enter your birth date and it automatically calculates your Chinese lunar age the time you conceived  and hit Calculate. My result; I conceived on November and my Chinese lunar age at pregnancy is 32 (hmmm too old for my current age).

Let us see if this is correct, if we really be having a girl through ultrasound. Let's see if their prediction is correct. But it doesn't matter, boy or girl - we are really proud and happy that we will be having one. We're both excited to be parents.

Till then,

On Being Pregnant - 23rd Week

And so yesterday marked may 23rd week of pregnancy. So many happiness and excitement was felt prior to that. This is really the feeling of being a mom, mixed emotions but excitement and happiness top it all. On my fifth month, I felt our baby move, and now on his/her 23rd week inside, I can feel him/her squirming. I see my tummy move as he/she moves inside me.

A little sacrifice now, I cannot sit with my feet alone, I need to have some chair otherwise, my tummy is pressed. I am also starting to feel the backache, that is why I wanted to lie down to avoid it. But those were nothing, those were just a wee sacrifice compared to other pregnant women who really suffered and felt the sign of pregnancy, especially during the first trimester. I am very lucky for not experiencing them.

I am not big as other pregnant woman, in fact on my 22nd week, I still weighed 110 pounds (50 kgs), same with what was my weight when I was in my 16th week. I eat healthy foods, but I do not eat a lot. I take vitamins as prescribed by my OB.

The only thing that saddened me is having a urinary tract infection (UTI) which according to them, pregnants are really prone to having a UTI. On my last visit last November 24, 2011, my OB prescribed me an anti-biotic to treat it, a cefulex I think to take for a week. twice a day, with 12 hours interval. And my oral taking ended yesterday, I will be having another urinalysis tomorrow to check whether my UTI has gone - and hopefully it's gone, otherwise, treatment continues.

I also had my first anti-tetanu vaccine, I visited our barangay midwife's house (supposedly in a helath center but it was Saturday) and she had me vaccinated by a tetanus toxoid. Next injection will be a month after - I am planning to go back on December 23, 2011.

Until now, I have no clue what our baby's gender is. All of them are telling me that I will be having a girl. I also checked the babycenter.com pregnancy tool - and it said, I will be having a girl. Me and my husband wanted to know our baby's gender, and on my return to my OB, I will request an ultrasound referral so we can know by then. December 7 will be my 6th month of pregnancy, konti na lang and our baby will be here. Yipee!!! Love you baby, mama and daddy love you so much!

Till then,

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Happy Halloween Working!

November 01, 2011 was my first time to spend All Saint's Day alone and working in the office. I decided to go to work to finish some tasks. I regularly go home during this holiday, and sadly, this was my first time of being alone. My longings suddenly increased when I heard my mother's phone on the other line, informing me that they will be going to visit our relatives in cemetery. Too bad of me, I wanted to go home, it was 11am when my heart says, "go home"! :(

I am no longer a single lady that I used to 29 years ago. I have now a loving husband that should be asked permission to whenever I want to go to somewhere. Things have changed a lot now. Someone has to listen and talk to even in any small and petty things. And whether to visit home or not, is part of this so called "married life." 

Next year, where will I be on 11.01.12? 

Till then,

My Second Ultrasound

I was able to see our baby during my ultrasound last Saturday. I was again in deep happiness when I see him/her grown. His/her right hand was holding his/her nape and his/her long legs were kicking and stretching. I'm on my 17 week and 3/7 when I had my second ultrasound and from that time, our baby is still in the process of developing the skin, that is why we saw almost the bones, spinal cord specifically. Our baby did not reveal what his/her gender is, it's hiding still, my baby is in foot breech position. Cute cute, can't wait to see, hug and kiss you our baby.

My OB told me that I was having a contraction, I wonder why, I din't even feel it, I am not aware that I was having a contraction. Upon reading and surfing the net, I discovered that it happens to many mother-to-be, according to them, it sporadically happens as the uterus is adjusting. Sigh, relieved!

We love you baby <3 can't wait really! A long way to go.. March, I want to pull you :)

Till then,

My Pregnancy Countdown Ticker

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This is how grown my baby inside my tummy is. Long way to go, but feels like it's so near. I am expecting to deliver on March 30, 2012. Really really excited for my first baby. We love you!

Till then,

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Page.ph - Disappointing

Last Sunday, while I was bored and found nothing to do, I decided to surf. I opened my mozilla which homepage was set to my blog http://dhina-lieva.com/. I was shocked, I cannot view it, it led to OpenDNS, sometimes, cannot be displayed. I hastily emailed page.ph - the host of my domain. I asked them why I cannot view my blog. I got no reply from them until Monday. I first thought they were having a maintenance or something that is why my blog was down. My doubt eked when I asked my officemate to try viewing her blog which is also under page.ph, and viloa, she was able to view it. Why only me?

Here is the reply I've got :(

The time I read this, I really really really was mad, because in fact, I paid them 20 days in advance. And I am not expecting this to happen. I replied them with words fuul of anger I want them to feel how disppointing it is. Until now, my disppointment remains.

What more disppointing is again the another reply I received, that it will take 30-50 days to recover the domain dhina-lieva.com, imagine the problem it will cause me. It is very important as I already earning from it and there are pending posts to be reviewed and paid. And if the advertisers do not see my posts because my blog is down, I will be rejected and I will be having a bad record to them. Arggghhhhh......

I hope page.ph will reclaim and recover it the soonest!! Soooo disppointing!

What's in Corregidor?

In helping out promote some of the historical places in the Philippines, I am here again writing something about the Corregidor. Not more than two years ago, August 2009 to be exact :) we together with one of our expats from Utah named Kevin Matthews went to this place, rainshower greeted us as we left our tryst and dark sky of Manila helped us reached the place. Opposite of Manila, we were waved hi by Corregidor on a sunny bright sky, o wow.

Here are the photos, hover over and click to see my original post.

Ours was a day package which I mentioned in my older post, archived August 2009 :) . Stepping on the area of Corregidor, we were toured by the bus to different areas of the historical place, from Mc. Arthur statue to Barracks, to some of guns and bombs and museum.

I became darker on this tour, but was educational and fun. I rediscovered Philippine history as well as Corregidor, how the Americans helped Filipinos fought the Japanese. Bloody but showed how we were loved by them. Today is different, we are now making good relationship with the Japanese, in fact, they are one of the countries who have invested much in our country. Those bloddy days are gone, what remains is just a part of the history, a tale to tell to our children and grandchildren. I love our country, I treasure our Philippine history.

Till then,

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The Untold Love Story

Every woman dreams of having a partner in life, a partner not just to lean on in times of burden but a partner that will share the rest of  his life with the woman no matter what happens, in sickness or in health, in poorness or in wealth. Perhaps you could surmise now what I am trying to speak for, you got it! I am speaking for a partner - a husband.  I believe we are all created by God with planned partner - He planned who will our partner be in future. And I don't believe in searching for your someone, I believe more in waiting than searching. It happened to me, I just prayed, believed, sat, and he found me, oh yes, he is the one who found me. :) This is a tell all untold story.

I think it's time for me to share my own story in my own blog, I have featured the wedding of my three friends here and I believe now that my turn had happened, it's worth to be featured too. I've been single for 29 years, single means no boyfriend, all I did was praying that someday, at His right time, the right guy will be sent by Him. I trusted Him that much, I kept on praying and asked for a guy that would court me, be my boyfriend and be my husband, and He did not fail me, He heard my prayer, indeed at His time. The time that I knew I have fulfilled my aims for my family, He gave me my husband, my Jay David, my first and last boyfriend and my husband.

How the love story begun:

On a Sunday afternoon, I was browsing the updates on facebook, it was May 30, 2010 and already hooked up to that social networking site as if it is a newspaper that I need to get updated for. As I was reading my friend's updates, I received a friend invite from a guy I did not know of, I saw we have one mutual friend, Marivic Colarina, luckily, she's online, I chatted her first and asked who this guy was, a guy named Jay David who resembles one of my schoolmates because of his nice eyes. Those eyes caught me, I loved his smiling eyes. My friend Marivic said positive things to me, made me decide to accept the friend request, and right after I accepted, he chatted me, "Hi po, kumusta po?" And the story begins.

I begun to enjoy conversing with him in facebook chat, until we decided to exchange numbers. On jUne 1, I received a message all the way from Dubai at 8am , "Good morning po, kumusta tulog? Ako okay lang, prepare na din pagpasok." From facebook, to text, to ym, to call finally between our hearts. I felt sad everytime he did not send me text messages, I felt bad when he did not chat me, until I found that the reason behind those, I was beginning to fall in love with him, weeeee, a single lady now in love. He called me bhe - I asked him why, sabi nya, yun daw kasi tawag nya sa mga kaibigan nya, I replied, hindi ba ang bhe is tawagan ng mga lovers? But he insisted me calling me that way. And after just ten days June 11, 2010, when he told me "I love you", I replied, "I love you too." cheezzzyyy :) It all happens with a chat in ym with a webcam. I undoubtedly accepted his love despite the fact that I did not ever meet him nor know him personally. My mother even daunted that I might get hurt with this relationship, baka daw he's married and has kids. But my heart believed that my mother's worries were all falsity. Furthermore, his sister sent me facebook message confirming and asking if it's true that I am his brother's girlfriend. That message made me feel that I was not wrong loving my Jay David.

The long distance relationship lasts until and counting, communicating through the internet. He also proposed online ^_^, I replied online too. But of course, before I do so, I thought of it for several months, I looked deeply within me if I am ready to get married, I am still studying and I wanted to finish my masteral before I get married, but this thoughts vanished when he again asked and proposed the second time, he got my YES, just can't remember when that was.

But before that, her sister and four nieces came in Mall of Asia to visit and meet me, that was last December 29, 2010, a day full of fun and getting to know each other. The same way, on February 4, 2011, I went in Mexico Pampanga to visit his family with my close friend Anna Salonga. Again, it made my feelings for him to get stronger and stronger each day. And on May 11, 2011 he arrived in the Philippines from Dubai - our first meeting in the airport with his family. He went with me in Tiaong Quezon on May 14 and on May 15, his family went over to do the traditional pamamanhikan, just for formality although everything was settled. I was very happy then, I knew he felt the same way too.

God gave me a man in an unexpected time, a man that I will forever love and be the father of our kids to be. Would you believe that we got married on our boyfriend-girlfriend anniversary, June 11, 2011, it wasn't planned, it's just that God's timing is perfect! In a matter of one month, we got everything ready and settled, I was on my school vacation too that it did not hamper my schooling, really God's perfect time!

Just to share, here are some of the photos of our simple and traditional wedding blessed in Blessed Virgin Mary Queen of the World Parish in Lusacan Tiaong, Quezon.

Catherine Loria the 2008 WCOPA grand champion sings our favorite wedding songs. Thanks much Cath!

Some laughed, some scorned, some was happy that I finally found my one and only. And so there we are in front of Him to exchange vows and I Do's. A day that we can never forget, a day that we became one and promised to be forever - RIGHT THERE, to build a family of our own, to be God's co-creator.

Today, we may not be physically together, but we are emotionally and heartily binded as one forever.

I truly thank God for giving me a man to love and marry, a man to live my life with forever and a man that I will share everything with. Thank you Lord for giving me Jay David.

I believe that our love story is unique and incredible :) , presence isn't that important to be loved, what matters most is the heart between the two of you assuring the long lasting love. Long distance relationship on the other hand is possible, you should just believe it will work. Trust, love and understanding should prevail along the way.

And may I add, I was asking God that to give me the right man to marry at the age of 29 or 30, I always included it in my prayer, and again God did not fail me. Thank you God for blessing and hearing my prayers. You are so good enough.

Till then,