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"อีกห้าปี มันจะต่างจากตอนนี้มากเลย"

เมื่อวานบอกคนใกล้ตัวไปแบบนั้น, ห้าปีเป็นช่วงเวลาสั้นๆ เท่านั้น แป๊บเดียวก็ผ่านไปแล้ว แต่ถ้าเทียบกับเวลาในชีวิต หากใครอยู่ถึง 80 ปี ห้าปีก็จะเท่ากับหนึ่งในสิบหกของชีวิตเขา ถ้าใครมีอายุขัย 60 ปี ห้าปีก็จะเท่ากับหนึ่งในสิบสองของชีวิต

แปลว่าเราจะมี "ห้าปี" ได้ไม่เกินยี่สิบครั้ง
...Continue Reading" In five years, it will be very different from now

Yesterday, I told someone close to me that, five years is a short time. It will pass. But compared to the time in life. If anyone lives 80 years, five years, it will be equal to one of his sixteen of his life if anyone has age. 60 years and five years is equal to one of the twelve of life.

It means we can have "five years" no more than twenty times.

But the upcoming " five years " looks like five years that should be full of changes in each " five years " is different and unequal.

The last "five years" was 35-40 years. It was a time to see the change in the lives of the same generation. Think for yourself that it was the time when life started walking down from the top. We have passed the top of life. (that's 31-35 ), and in this moment, our lives slowly recession, both body, creativity, and power that we want to do things, so it's a time when people in the same age, confused and change in life.

Meanwhile, the age of 35-40 years old is a time of " starting over " like we are entering a " new part " of life. Some people may feel like starting over with something.

So I found a death from one to be reborn. It's a lot of people.

Died from being an office worker, born, being a business owner, dead from being a subordinate, being a responsible boss, died from being a nonsense, born, a father who needs to take care of the child.

If you notice well, you will find that we change the status from those who depend on other people to be independent (independent) and going back to become someone who let others.

Our new role. Besides relying on ourselves, we are also responsible for others.

Like a tree that is old enough and moving closer to death.

Some people enjoy new roles. Some people are tired of obstacles. Some people are tired of change. This is a very mischievous time.

Because even if we don't want to change, we will be forced to change at work. We may not be able to pay "adults" anymore. My boyfriend's family may rush to get married and want to get married and need to spend money to build a house or buy a house including sickness. For parents who have arrived at the age of hospital. There are many new changes that happen outside of plans.

35-40 years is very different than 31-35 years. If you watch it with time frame, it's not far away.

...

41-45 years, the body should be more broken. We should step into the disease in our body. It's not strange if some friends leave during this time or someone may encounter a disease that changed his life.

Inner soul should be more peace and boredom. This should bring change in terms of life, goals and meaning of living.

Some mental conditions may be more stressed with new burden to take care of and never used to the company that founded children, including parents with some people - change of work and family may be a new time to deal with.

All we have now. Nothing guarantees that we will stay the same when we are 45 years old. Our ability with the world. The work that we do. Parents, friends who may disband may disband because life changes including The baby that will slowly change, which will hit our lives too.

It's a " five year " that connects with people. We depend on them. We depend on us. We don't leave each other easily and we are not " Indy " like young anymore. We are not that free.

During the age of 45 years, there may be some people who feel like "leaving" all of these and walk on an empty path, but they can't leave because this is the world around us. We create. We live in it. It lives in us.

"Freedom" may be a longing again and realizing - not easy.

Of course, this is not everyone's life. If it's a rough overview that there may be some of the same point of those in the same age. Some people choose to walk different paths.

It's easy. Five years from now. Some friends will have kids. Some friends will be dealing with the change. Some friends may lose parents. Some friends may find a disease. Some friends may find that they do are done. Some friends may need to lay their hands on. Something and start over with something etc etc etc.

That friend may be me too, no one knows.

If things haven't happened in 41-50 years, it will happen in 45-50 years, our lives will look very different from now.

...

We have traveled over half way of life and have passed the bright time, full of power, including the highs of life. Yes, we can live as cheerful as young children. Teenagers won't get old, dye the head, climbing the helicopter to conquer. Ron man, things have been in another corner. We have to admit that we have traveled for a long time and others in our lives have been traveling for a long time too.

We will learn to leave and deal with it better as much as learning to start again, we will get used to the cuddle rules of feeling of happiness - suffering that happens and the rules of everything is getting better and better. I will have to go through that day. I have to go through a bit of confusing time.

Five more years, it won't look like now.

Hugging parents while they are still playing with kids when they still want to play with us. Use our body as they still allow us to use our body to take ourselves where we want to go when they can still have a conversation with Friends, when you have a chance, because someone may disappear. One day for a reason that no one knows how to take care of the lover, kiss, play jokes in the moment together. Experience the change that happens all the time and we will know what to do with ourselves and with ourselves and with people. Around the surrounding area.

It's not us who change, people around you keep changing. The world keeps changing.

Five more years, it won't look like now.

But even then, we will grow up and find the answer that all the changes are left of all the changes that we will continue to build a small one to live.

Something that I think will change big may not happen while things that I don't think will change, it may change until we can't stand up.

41-50 years. This is the moment we live in a world full of changes that we cannot control.

It all makes us realize how we should live in the midst of all this uncertainty.

I suddenly saw a melting ice cream.

So delicious. Heart is broken.

Then I put a spoon in my mouth

Not in a hurry that I didn't taste it, but it's not too slow that it's not

We will get some taste and have to let some melt away

41-50 years, a life span like ice creamTranslated

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ที่สำคัญท้องฟ้าจะต้องไม่มีเมฆมาบังดวงดาว

ตารางที่ลงผมได้สรุปเวลาถ่ายไว้ให้แล้วว่าสามารถถ่ายได้ช่วงไหนบ้าง
ถ้าพระจันทร์สว่างมากๆ ต้องรอพระจันทร์ตกไปซักพักนะ
เราจะเริ่มถ่ายกันตั้งแต่ปลายเดือนมกราคม(ทางช้างเผือกจะเริ่มขึ้นใกล้จะเช้า) ไปจนถึงเดือนพฤศจิกายน(ช่วงนั้นก็เห็นแค่เกือบหางๆแล้ว)
ช่วงไหนพระจันทร์ยังไม่ขึ้นหรือตกลงไปแล้วก็ถ่ายได้เลยแต่ดุช่วงเวลาทางช้างเผือกด้วยนะแต่ละเดือนขึ้นและตกไม่เหมือนกัน

เลนส์ที่ใช้
ควรจะเป็น F กว้างๆเช่น f1.8 f2 หรือ f2.8 จะดีมากๆ f4 ก็ยังใช้ได้นะไม่ต้องห่วง
ระยะเลนส์ควรใช้ควรเป็นมุมกว้างๆเช่นถ้าบนกล้องAPS-C 8mm, 12mm หรือ 16mm ก็ยังพอไหวแต่อาจจะเริ่มแคบไปนิดนึงแล้ว
หรือ บนกล้อง Full frame 14mm - 16 mm หรือ 24mm
การตั้งค่าการถ่ายภาพ Speedshutter ควรจะอยู่ที่ 10s-30s ตามค่า f และ iso ที่ใช้ f1.8 - f2.8, iso1200 - iso3200 จะ iso 6400 ก็ได้แล้วแต่ความเข้มของดาวที่เราเห็น
อย่าลืมพกขาตั้งกล้องไปกันด้วยนะไม่งั้นลำบากหาที่วางกันแน่นอน

อธิบายตาราง
ตัวเลขวงกลมแถวบนสุดข้างหลังเดือนจะเป็นวันที่ ส่วนวงกลมทีมีสีน้ำเงินหมายถึงช่วงเวลา 18.00น(เย็นวันนั้น)-06.00น(เช้าอีกวัน) ให้ดูแบบข้ามคืนเป็นวันนั้นๆได้เลย เช่นวันที่ อังคารที่ 21 มกราคม 2563 จะถ่ายได้ในคืนของ 21 เวลา 04.30-06.00
(ความหมายในคืนของ 21 คือเริ่มตั้งแต่ 18.00-00.00 และคร่อมเช้า 22 คือ 00.00-06.00)
ส่วนแถวถัดมาเป็นเวลาถ่ายจะบอกไว้ว่าเริ่มถ่ายได้ช่วงไหนถึงตอนไหนในคืนนั้น
และวงกลมแถวล่างสุดคือภาพความมืดและสว่างในแต่ละวันของพระจันทร์
(ตารางพระจันทร์และเวลาของทางช้างเผือกนี้ใช้ได้เฉพาะในประเทศไทยและแถบประเทศเพื่อนบ้านของไทยเท่านั้น ภาพที่ลงบางสถานที่จะเป็นภาพของต่างประเทศที่ผมได้ไปถ่ายมาเนื่อจากผมมีภาพในประเทศไทยไม่เพียงพอ)

ถึงเวลาก็ไปดูตารางแต่ละเดือนกันเลย :)

ภาพทั้งหมดถ่ายโดยใช้กล้อง และเลนส์
Sony A7III
Sony A7RIII
Sony FE 16-35mm F2.8 GM
Sony FE 24mm F1.4 GM

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Let's meet again with Page: A Picture x Milky Way. Today, I have a schedule to hunt for the milky way in year 2563 or 2563 2020

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This time, A Picture has concluded the time to take photos. Let's see. No need to sit and have headache. Check it out again. Share and keep it to watch.

It's easy to go hunting for the milky way. Just look at the schedule that the page has made. It has been written in the milky way and it has fallen.
Can shake a night of dark months or a night when the moon hasn't risen yet and go in a dark place. Out of a far city. No city light. Disturbing.
Most importantly, the sky won't cover the stars.

The schedule that I posted. I have concluded the time to take photos for me. When I can take photos.
If the moon is very bright, I have to wait for the moon to fall for a while.
We will start filming from the end of January (the milky way begins near morning) to November (almost tailed at that time)
When the moon hasn't risen or agreed, you can take photos. But it's like the milky way. Each month is up and falling different.

The lens used
Should be a wide F like f1. 8 f2 or f2. 8 It will be very good. f4 is still available. Don't worry.
The lens range should be used. It should be a wide angle. Such as if it's on APS-C 8 mm, 12 mm, 12 mm or 16 mm. It's still enough, but it may start to
Or on camera Full frame 14 mm-16 mm or 24 mm
Speedshutter shooting settings should be at 10 s-30 s according to f and iso using f1. 8-f2. 8, iso1200 - iso3200 to iso 6400 It's up to the intensity of stars we see.
Don't forget to bring a tripod with you. Otherwise, it's difficult to find a place to put together.

Describe the table
The number of the top row circle behind the month will be the day when the circle with watercolor means 18.00 pm (that evening)-06.00 am (another morning). Let's watch overnight. It's like Tuesday 21 January 2563 will be filmed on the night of 21 at 04.30-06.00
(The meaning of the night of 21 is starting from 18.00-00.00 and the morning straddle is 22)
The next row is time for shooting. I will tell you when I start filming. When it comes to the night.
And the bottom row circle is the darkness and light each day of the moon.
(The moon and time schedule of the Milky Way is only available in Thailand and Thailand's neighboring countries. Some photos posted will be photos of foreign countries that I have taken from me. There are not enough photos in Thailand)

It's time. Let's go to schedule each month. :)

All pics taken using camera and lens
Sony A7III
Sony A7RIII
Sony FAITH 16-35 mm F2. 8 GM
Sony FE 24 mm F1. 4 GM

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My sister, Michelle-Ann Iking's 3% chance of conceiving naturally was a success! Here's her story:

(My apologies as I've been overwhelmed with personal matters. I've only managed to get to my desk. So finally got around posting this).

This is the story behind my sister's pregnancy struggle and how she shared her journey over her Facebook page.

Because some may have not caught her LIVE session chat with me (https://www.facebook.com/daphneiking/videos/687743128744960/) , or read her lengthy post (as it's a private page);
she's allowed me to copy and paste it over my wall, in case you need to know more about her thought process on how AND why she focused on the 3% success probability. Read on.

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Posted 10th May 2020.
FB Credit: Michelle-Ann Iking

A week ago today I celebrated becoming a mother to our second, long awaited child.

Please forgive this mother's LONG (self-indulgent) post, journalling what this significant milestone has meant for her personally, for her own fallible memory's sake as well as maybe to share one day with her son.

If all you were wondering was whether I had delivered and if mum and bub are OK, please be assured the whole KkLM family are thriving tremendously, and continue scrolling right along your Newsfeed 😁.

OUR 3% MIRACLE

All babies are miracles... and none more so than our precious Kiaen Aaryan (pronounced KEY-n AR-yen), whose name derives from Sanskrit origins meaning:

Grace of God
Spiritual
Kind
Benevolent

...words espousing the gratitude Kishore and I feel for Kiaen's arrival as our "3% miracle".

He was conceived, naturally, after 3 years of Kishore and I hoping, praying and 'endeavoring'... and only couples for whom the objective switches from pure recreation to (elusive) procreation will understand how this is less fun than it sounds ...

3 years during which time we had consensus from 3 different doctors that we, particularly I (with my advancing age etc etc) had only a 3% chance of natural conception and that our best hope for a sibling for our firstborn, Lara Anoushka, was via IVF.

Lara herself was an 'intervention baby', being one of the 20% of babies successfully conceived through the less intrusive IUI process, after a year and a half of trying naturally and already being told then my age was a debilitating factor.

We had tried another round of IUI for her sibling in 2017 when Lara was a year old. And that time we fell into the ranks of the 80% of would-be parents for whom it would be an exercise in futility... who would go home, comfort each other as best they could, while individually masking their own personal disappointment... hoping for the best, 'the next time around'...

So the improbability ratio of 97% against natural conception of our second baby, as concurred by the combined opinion of 3 medical professionals, was a very real, very daunting figure for us to have to mentally deal with.

Deep, DEEP, down in my heart however, though I had many a day of doubt... I kept a core kernel of faith that somehow, I would again experience the privilege of pregnancy, and again, have a chance at childbirth.

And so, the optimist in me would tell myself, "Well, there have to be people who fall in the 3% bucket... why shouldn't WE be part of the 3%?"

Those who know me well, understand my belief in the Law of Attraction, the philosophy of focusing your mind only on what you want to attract, not on what you don't want, and so even as Kishore and I prepared to go into significant personal debt to attempt IVF in the 2nd half of 2019, I marshalled a last ditch effort to hone in on that 3% chance of natural conception... through research coming across fertility supplements that I ordered from the US and sent to a friend in Singapore to redirect to me because the supplier would not deliver to Malaysia.

I made us as a couple take the supplements in the 3 month 'priming period' in the lead up to the IVF procedure - preconditioning our bodies for optimum results, if you will.

At the same time, I had invested in a sophisticated fertility monitor, with probes and digital sensors for daily tracking of saliva and other unmentionable fluid samples, designed to pinpoint with chemical accuracy my state of fertility on any given day.

(UPDATE: For those interested - I obtained the supplements and Ovacue Fertility Monitor from https://www.fairhavenhealth.com/. Though I had my supplies delivered to a friend in Singapore, and redirected to me here since the US site does not deliver to Malaysia, there are local distributors for these products, you will just have to research the trustworthiness of the vendors yourself...)

I had set an intention - in the 3 months of pre-IVF priming, I would consume what seemed like a pharmacy's worth of supplements, and track fertility religiously... in hopes that somehow, within the 3 month priming period, we would conceive naturally and potentially save ourselves a down payment on a new property... and this was just a projection on financial costs of IVF, not even considering the physical, emotional and mental toll it involves, with no guarantee of a baby at the end of it all...

It was a continuation of an intention embedded even with my first pregnancy, where all the big ticket baby items were consciously purchased for use by a future sibling, in gender neutral colours, in hopes that sibling would be a brother "for a balanced pair", though of course any healthy child would be a welcome blessing.

It was a very conscious determination to always skew my thoughts in service of what the end objective was. For example, when 3+year old Lara would innocently express impatience at not yet having a sibling, at one point suggesting that since we were "taking too long to give her a baby brother/sister", perhaps we should just "go buy a baby from a shop", instead of getting defensive or berating the baby that she herself was, we enlisted Lara's help to pray for her sibling... so in any place of worship, or sacred ground of any kind that we passed thereon, Lara would stop, close her eyes, bow her small head and place her tiny hands together in prayer, reciting earnestly, "Please God, please give me a baby brother or baby sister."

After months and months of watching Lara do this, in the constancy of her childlike chant, Kishore started feeling the pressure of possibly disappointing Lara if her prayer was not answered. Whereas for me, Lara's recitation of her simple wish became like a strengthening mantra, our collective intention imbued with greater power with each repetition, and the goal of a sibling kept very much in the forefront of our minds (hence our calling Lara our 'project manager' in this endeavour).

And somehow in the 2nd month of that 3 month period, a positive + sign appeared on one of the home pregnancy tests I had grown accustomed to taking - my version of the lottery tickets others keep buying in hopes of hitting the jackpot, with all the cyclical anticipation and more often than not, disappointment, that entails...

This time however I was not disappointed.

With God's Grace, (hence 'Kiaen', a variation of 'Kiaan' which means 'Grace of God'), my focus on our joining the ranks of the 3% had materialised.

It seems poetic then, that Kiaen chose to make his appearance on the 3rd May, ironically the same date that his paternal great-grandfather departed this world for the next... such that in the combined words of Kishore and his father Kai Vello Suppiah,

"The 1st generation Suppiah left on 3rd May and the 4th generation Suppiah arrived on 3rd May after 41yrs...
One leaves, another comes, the legacy lives on..."

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KIAEN AARYAN SUPPIAH'S BIRTH STORY

On Sunday 3rd May, I was 40 weeks and 5 days pregnant.

The baby was, in my mind, very UN-fashionably late past his due date of 29th April, so as much as I had willed and 'manifested' the privilege of pregnancy, to say I was keen to be done with it all was an understatement.

In the weeks leading to up to my full term, I had experienced increasingly intense Braxton-Hicks 'practice contractions' - annoying for me for the discomfort involved, stressful for Kishore who was on tenterhooks with the false alarms, on constant alert for when we would actually need to leave home for the hospital.

Having become a Hypnobirthing student and advocate from my first pregnancy with Lara, and thus being equipped with
(1) a lack of fear about childbirth in general and
(2) a basic understanding of how all the sensations I would experience fit into the big picture of my body bringing our baby closer to us,
I was less stressed - content to wait for the baby to be "fully cooked" and come out whenever he was ready... though I wouldn't have minded at all if the cooking time ended sooner, rather than later.

With Lara, I had been somewhat 'forced' into an induced labour, even though she was not yet due, and that had resulted in a 5 DAY LABOUR, a Birth Story for another post, so I was not inclined to chemically induce labour, even though I was assured that for second time mothers, it would be 'much faster and easier'...

That morning, I had a hunch *maybe* that day was the day, because in contrast to previous weeks' sensations of tightening, pressure and even spasms that were concentrated in the front of my abdomen and occasionally shot through my sides and legs, I felt period - like cramping in my lower back which I had not felt before throughout the pregnancy.

It was about 8am in the morning then, and my 'surges' were still relatively mild ('surges' being Hypnobirthing - speak for 'contractions', designed to frame them with the more positive connotations needed to counteract common language in which childbirth is presented as something that is unequivocally painful and traumatic, instead of the miraculous, powerful and natural phenomenon it actually is).

I recall (masochistically?) entertaining the thought of opting NOT to have an epidural JUST TO SEE WHAT IT WOULD BE LIKE...

I figured this would be the last time I would be pregnant and so it would be my 'last chance' to experience 'drug free labour' which, apart from the health benefits for baby and mother, might be *interesting* in a way that people who are curious about what getting a tattoo and skydiving and bungee jumping are like, might find these *interesting*...even knowing there will be pain and risk involved...

Since I have tried tattoos and skydiving (unfortunately not being able to squeeze in bungee-jumping while my life was purely my own to risk at no dependents' possible detriment) a similar curiousity about a no-epidural labour was on my mind...

In the absence of other signs of the onset of labour (like 'bloody show' or my waters breaking), I wanted to wait until the surges were coming every few minutes before we actually left the house for the hospital, not wanting to be one of those couples who rushed in too early and had interminable waits for the next stage in unfamiliar, clinical surroundings and/or were made to go home in an anti-climatic manner.

I was even calm enough through my surges to have the presence of mind to wash and blowdry my hair, knowing if I did deliver soon I would not be allowed this luxury for a while.

Around 9am I asked Kishore to prep for Lara and himself to be dressed and breakfasted so we could head to hospital soon, while I sent messages to family members on both sides informing them 'today might be the day.'

My mother, who had briefly served as a midwife before going back into general nursing and then becoming a nursing tutor, prophetically stated that if what I was experiencing was true labour, "the baby would be out by noon".

The pace in which my surges grew closer together was surprisingly quicker than I expected; and while I asked Lara to "Hurry up with breakfast" with only a tad more urgency than we normally tell her to do, little Missy being prone to dilly-dallying at meals, I probably freaked Kishore out when about 930am onwards, I had to instinctively get on my hands and knees a couple of times, eyes closed, trying to practice the Hypnobirthing breathing techniques I had revised to help along the process of my body birthing our child into the world.

I recall him saying a bit frantically as I knelt at our front door, doubled over as he waited for Lara to complete something or other, "Lara hurry up! Can't you see Mama is in so much pain and you are taking your own sweet time??!!"

SIDETRACK: Just the night before, Lara and I had watched a TV show in which a woman gave birth with the usual histrionics accompanying pop culture depictions of labour.

Lara watched the scene, transfixed.

I told her, simply and matter-of-factly, "That's what Mama has to do to get baby brother out Lara, and that's what I had to do for you also."

In most of interactions with my daughter, I have sought to equip her to face life's situations with calmness, truthful common sense, and ideally a minimum of drama.

Those who know the dramatic diva that Lara can be will know that this is a work-in-progress, but her response to me that night showed me some of my 'teachings' were sinking in:

She looked at me unfazed, "But Mama," she said. "You won't cry and scream like that lady, right? You will be BRAVE and stay calm, right?"
#nopressure.

So as we prepped to leave for the hospital I did indeed attempt to be that role model of calm for her, asking her only for her help in keeping very quiet,
"Because Mama needs to focus on bringing baby brother out and she needs quiet to concentrate...".

As we left the house at 10.11am, I texted Kishore's sister Geetha to please prep to pick up Lara from the hospital, and was grateful Kishore had the foresight to ask our gynae to prepare a letter for Geetha to show any police roadblocks between my in-laws' home in Subang Jaya and the hospital in Bangsar, this all happening under the Movement Control Order (MCO).

To Lara's credit, in the journey over to the hospital, she - probably sensing the gravity of the situation, sat very quietly in her seat at the back, and the silence was punctuated only by my occasional deep intakes of breath and some variation of my Ohmmm-like moans when the sensations were at their height.

By the time we got to Pantai Hospital at around 10.30am, my surges were strong enough I requested a wheelchair to assist me in getting to the labour ward, as I did not trust my own legs to support me... and Kishore would have to wait until Geetha had arrived to take Lara back to my in-laws' house before he himself could go up.

I slumped in the wheelchair and was wheeled up to the labour room with my eyes closed the whole time, trying to handle my surges.

I didn't even look up to see the attendant who pushed me... but did make the effort to thank him sincerely when he handed me over, with what seemed like a palpable sense of relief on his part, to the labour ward nurses.

The nurse attending me at Pantai was calm, steady and efficient. I answered some questions and changed into my labour gown while waiting for Kishore to come up, all the while managing the increasingly intense surges with my rusty Hypnobirthing breathing techniques.

By the time Kishore joined me at around 11am (I know these timings based on the timestamps of the 'WhatsApp live feed' of messages Kishore sent to his family), I was asking the nurse on duty, "How soon can I get an epidural??" thinking what crazy woman thought she could do this without drugs???!!!

The nurse checked my cervix dilation, I saw her bloodied glove indicating my mucous plug had dislodged, and she told me, "Well you are already at 7cm (which, for the uninitiated, is 70% of the way to the 10cm dilation needed for birthing), you are really doing well, if you made it this far without any drugs, if can you try and manage without it... I suspect within 2 hours or less you will deliver your baby and since it will take about that time for the anaesthesiologist to be called, epidural to be administered and kick in... it might all be for nothing... but of course the decision is completely up to you... "

So there I was, super torn, should I risk the sensations becoming worse... or risk the epidural becoming a waste?? And of course I was trying to decide this as my labour surges were coming at me stronger and stronger...

I was in such a dilemma...because as a 'recovering approval junkie' there was also a silly element of approval-seeking involved, ("The nurse thinks I can do this without drugs... maybe I CAN do this without drugs... Yay me!") mixed with that element of curiosity I mentioned earlier ("What if I actually CAN do this without drugs... plenty of other women have done it all over the world since time immemorial.. no big deal, how bad can it be...??") so then I thought I would use the financial aspect to be the 'tiebreaker' in my decision making...

I asked the nurse how much an epidural would cost and when she replied "Around MYR1.5k", I still remember Kishore's incredulous face as I asked the question, i.e."Seriously babe, you are gonna think about money right now? If you need the epidural TAKE IT, don't worry about the money!!!"... and while we are not rich by any stretch of the imagination, thankfully RM1.5k is not a quantum that made me swing towards a decision to "better save the money"...

So in the end, I guess my curiosity won out, and I turned down the epidural "just to see what it would be like and if I had it in me" (in addition of course to avoiding the side effects of any drugs introduced into my and the baby's body).

My labour occuring in the time of coronavirus, it was protocol for me to have a COVID19 test done, so the medical staff could apply the necessary precautions. I had heard from a friend Sharon Ruba that the test procedure was uncomfortable, so when the nurse came with the test kit as I was starting another surge, I asked, "Please can I just finish this surge before I do the test?" as I really didn't think I could multitask tackling multiple uncomfortable sensations in one go.

The COVID19 test involved what felt like a looong, skinny cotton bud being inserted into one nostril... I definitely felt more than a tickle as it went in and up, being told to take deep breaths by the nurse. Then she asked me to "Try to swallow" and I felt it go into my nasal cavities where I didn't think anything could go any further, but was proven wrong when she asked me to swallow again and the swab was probed even deeper. Then she warned me there would be some slight discomfort as she prepared to collect a sample... but at that point all I could think about was:

(i) I really don't have much of a choice
(ii) please let this be over before my next surge kicks in
(iii) if all the people breaking the MCO rules knew what it feels like to do this test maybe they won't put themselves at risk of the need to perform one...

In full disclosure as I was transferred into the actual delivery room at some point after 11am, another nurse offered me 'laughing gas' to ostensibly take some of the edge off... I took the self-operated breathing nozzle passed to me but don't recall it making any difference to my sensations..so didn't use it much as it seemed pretty pointless.

I recall some measure of relief when I heard my gynae Dr. Paul entering the room, greeting Kishore and me, and telling us it was going well and it wouldn't be long now and he would see us again shortly.

From my previous labour with Lara I knew the midwives pretty much take you 90% of the way through the labour and when the Dr is called in you are really at the home stretch, so was very relieved to hear his voice though knowing he would leave and come back later meant it wasn't quite over yet.

I do remember realising when I had crossed the Thinning and Opening Phase of labour to the Birthing Phase, by the change in sensations... it is still amazing to me that as the Hypnobirthing book mentioned, having this knowledge I was instinctively able to switch breathing techniques for the next stage of labour .

Was my opting against epidural the right choice for me?

Overall? Yes.

Don't get me wrong.

I *almost* regretted the decision several times during active labour... especially when I felt my body being taken over by an overwhelming compulsion to push that did not seem conscious and was accompanied by involuntary gutteral moans where I literally just thought to myself, "I surrender, God do with me what you will..." (super dramatic I know but VERY real at the time...).

I think I experienced 3-4 such natural explusive reflexes (?), rhythmically pushing the baby down the birth path, one of which was accompanied by what felt like a swoosh of water coming out of a hose with a diameter the size of a golf ball... this was when I realised my water had finally broken...

The nurses kept instructing me to do different things, to keep breathing, to move to my side, then to move to the middle, to raise my feet... and when I didn't comply, Kishore (who was with me throughout both my labours) tried to help them by repeating the instructions prefaced with "Sayang..." but I basically ignored all the intructions because I felt I had no capacity to direct any part of my body to do anything and someone else would have to physically manoeuvre that body part themselves.

When I heard Dr. Paul's voice again and the flurry of commotion surrounding his presence, I knew the time was close... and when I heard the nurse say to Kishore, "Sir, these are your gloves, for when you cut the baby's cord", it was music to my ears...

I'm very, VERY grateful Kiaen slid out after maybe the 4th of those involuntary pushes... the wave of RELIEF when he came out so quickly... it still boggles my mind that my mother was essentially right and as his birth time was 12.02pm, it was *only* about 1.5 hours between our arrival at the hospital and his arrival into the world.

Kiaen was placed on my chest for skin to skin bonding and remained there for a considerable time.

For our short stay in the hospital he would be with us in my maternity ward number C327... another trivially serendipitous sign for me because he was born on the 3rd (May) and our wedding anniversary is 27th (July).

I was discharged the following day 4th May at about 5.30pm, after I got an all clear on COVID19 and a paediatric surgeon did a small procedure on Kiaen to address a tongue-tie that would affect his breastfeeding latch... making the entire duration of our stay about 31 hours.

I have taken the time and effort to record all this down so that whenever life's challenges threaten to get me down I can remind myself, "Ignore the 97% failure probability, focus on the 3% success probability".

Also that the human condition is miraculous and it is such a privilege to experience it.

To our son Kiaen Aaryan, thank you for coming into our lives and choosing us as your parents.

Even though Papa and I are both zombies trying to settle into a night time feeding routine with you, I look forward to spending not only all future Mother's Days, but every day, with you and your Akka...

And last but not least, to my husband Kishore...without whom none of this would be possible - we did it sayang, I love you ❤️

Photo credit: Stayhome session with Samantha Yong Photography (http://samanthayong.com/)

The Philadelphia 76ers played more like a playoff team than one mired in a miserable stretch of basketball.

Thaddeus Young had 26 points and 14 rebounds, Allen Iverson scored 20 points and the 76ers snapped a 12-game losing streak with a 117-101 victory over the Golden State Warriors on Monday night.

Iverson was a rookie the last time the Sixers lost 13 straight in the 1996-97 season. He played the best game of his four-game second stint in Philadelphia to help avoid another unlucky 13-game skid on his resume.

The Sixers had all five starters and two reserves score in double digits.

"We felt like once we did get a win, it was going to be extremely hard, one of the hardest games to win," Iverson said. "It was totally opposite."

Iverson hit the 20-point mark for the second straight game a day after his having his left knee drained of fluid. Young was sensational, using an 11-of-15 effort in the first half to give the Sixers a rare comfortable lead and easy win.

"It's been working for us, but we just couldn't get the win," Young said. "It really worked tonight."

Looking for a spark, 76ers coach Eddie Jordan benched power forward Elton Brand and paired rookie Jrue Holiday in the backcourt with Iverson. Jordan's move worked: Holiday had 15 points, seven rebounds and six assists.

"He just put us in a good rhythm tonight and had us flowing," Iverson said.

Brand, who was previously benched in some fourth quarters, said it was hard to complain about his role after a victory. He just can't believe he's considered a bench player early in the second year of an $80 million, five-year deal.

"When you look around at other teams, yeah," Brand said. "It's like, no disrespect, but [Golden State's] Mikki Moore gets the start and I don't. Not that he's not a good player, but, definitely."

Andre Iguodala left briefly with bruised ribs and scored 14 points on brutal 4-of-20 shooting. He's day-to-day and was not expected to practice Tuesday.

Corey Maggette led the Warriors with 24 points and Anthony Randolph had 15. Golden State lost its third straight in the finale of a five-game trip that started Dec. 7.

"You can't make excuses about a long trip," Maggette said.

Iverson's return generated a short burst of excitement, but not wins. His box office appeal is already lukewarm with only 12,795 fans listed to watch a slumping Sixers team.

Iverson joked at shootaround that after his ill-fated stint with Memphis, he sat home "trying to get fat." He wasn't in game shape and the Sixers came in with a bloated 18 losses.

He teamed with Young to make eight of 11 shots in the first quarter to help build a 12-point lead. Young really got rolling in the second quarter. He kept close to the basket and used a flurry of layups to score 14 points. He did hit a nice turnaround jumper that stretched the lead to 15.

Iverson capped the half by drawing a midair foul with 1 second left, hitting two free throws to make it 71-57.

Philadelphia won for only the third time in 19 games and its 12-game losing streak was the longest since 2006. Iverson was around for the start of that one three years ago before he was traded and the end of this one after his return.

Iverson acknowledges the years of banging down the lane and crashing the court have taken a severe toll on his 34-year-old frame. He's limited at shootarounds and practices -- by coaches decision, not complaint -- and no longer has the quickest first step in the league.

"I've been dealing with that the last 5, 6 years I've been playing," Iverson said. "I understand that when I fall or hit something that it flares up or gets irritated a lot faster than it used to. That comes from getting older."

By the time the fourth quarter rolled around, Iverson could rest. Willie Green's 3-pointer with 9:10 left in the fourth gave the Sixers 102 points, meaning free food at a fast-food restaurant for the few fans who bought tickets.

Always today though it is ZZR600
The seventh TOYOTA CROWN crown generation S130 SwperDeiaxe

..... CM good for prototype to be maintained
Impressive advertisement
* "It is a crown at one time. " (first term type and latter term type).
* "Royal twin cam" (first term type)
* "Royal performance" (latter term type)Outline

* The name is a meaning of "Crown", and it is used from the founder to a present type also for
the emblem of the front grille.
* It is a vehicle that gives priority to a Japanese market, and it is used for the state vehicle and a lot of enterprises as a company car. The position of a superlative degree model is borne long in fleet cars of Toyota, and, in general, it is acknowledged as a luxury car so that it is symbolized in the impressive advertisement of "It is a crown at one time". It is often still used from the height of reliability and durability as a business vehicle and special-purpose vehicles such as the taxi hired car, the instruction cars, and patrol cars.
* In the imported automobile of this class, there are Mercedes Benz C class, E class, BMW･5 series, and Audi and A6.
* The car-body shape also had had the estate car and the van before now though was only a sedan. It becomes a sedan with the sash with externals similar to the hardtop from the S170 faction though four Doapirardohardotopp that it gives priority to the bodice tile and the frame of the door is omitted was a main current before. The body is supplied in the frame of five number size and a medium taxi besides this based on X80 faction mark II, and there is a model of crown sedan that makes the crown comfort, equipment, and exterior and interior that values durability and the running cost enhancement. In the former, the model only for the business car and the latter such as taxis are chiefly for the state vehicle and the owner-driver taxi.

S120 the seventh generation faction(-1987 1983)
* It appears in September, 1983. It is famous that Koji Ishizaka recited impressive advertisement "It is a crown at one time" by the narration of CM 5. When putting it on the market, the full-page ad of the crown was serialized to the morning newspaper paper.
o The body variation is abolished two door hardtop, and becomes three bookstands of four door sedan, four door hardtop, and wagon/van.
o The feature of the styling is to process it the resin around C pillar where both the sedan four-door hardtops are called "Crystal pillar".
o "Royal salon G" of the highest class grade appeared, a royal salon and a super-salon of five numbers equipped with 2000DOHC were set, and the grade that took up various topics was developed. Moreover, "S package" with the chassis of a sporty type is set as a package option.
o ..independence.. ..rear wheel of the first crown.. was given to the DOHC engine car.
* The engine of a senior grade (royal salon G and royal salon) changes from 2800cc to 6M-GEU type of 3000cc in August, 1984.
o 2L-THE (automatic car) adds it to the diesel. The door mirror also changes to a
manual Catao type at the same time.
* In the minor change in September, 1985, the car (Became a car equipped with the first supercharger in Japan) equipped with 1G-GZEU type engine of 2000ccDOHC engine + supercharger joins, and the car equipped with the M-TEU type of the SOHC turbo abolishes it. The door mirror also changes to an electric Catao type at the same time.
o The face lift of exterior and interior is executed, and fog lamp 6 of five number car moves to the front grille. Three number car of four door hardtop moves the emblem of "Crown" from the top of the grill to the center.
* As the special edition, "Eclair" continues to the predecessor only as for the first term type and it sets it. The name of "Athlete (Athlete)" that becomes a sporty grade back the first appears at this time. 1G-GZEU is installed in the latter term type based on the super-selection though 1G-GEU was installed in the first term type based on a super-edition. It equips it with both reception desk spoilers and special suspensions.
* "Super-deluxe" adds the business car model of LPG specification to a superlative
degree grade.

The Philadelphia 76ers played more like a playoff team than one mired in a miserable stretch of basketball.


Thaddeus Young had 26 points and 14 rebounds, Allen Iverson scored 20 points and the 76ers snapped a 12-game losing streak with a 117-101 victory over the Golden State Warriors on Monday night.

Iverson was a rookie the last time the Sixers lost 13 straight in the 1996-97 season. He played the best game of his four-game second stint in Philadelphia to help avoid another unlucky 13-game skid on his resume.

The Sixers had all five starters and two reserves score in double digits.

"We felt like once we did get a win, it was going to be extremely hard, one of the hardest games to win," Iverson said. "It was totally opposite."

Iverson hit the 20-point mark for the second straight game a day after his having his left knee drained of fluid. Young was sensational, using an 11-of-15 effort in the first half to give the Sixers a rare comfortable lead and easy win.

"It's been working for us, but we just couldn't get the win," Young said. "It really worked tonight."

Looking for a spark, 76ers coach Eddie Jordan benched power forward Elton Brand and paired rookie Jrue Holiday in the backcourt with Iverson. Jordan's move worked: Holiday had 15 points, seven rebounds and six assists.

"He just put us in a good rhythm tonight and had us flowing," Iverson said.

Brand, who was previously benched in some fourth quarters, said it was hard to complain about his role after a victory. He just can't believe he's considered a bench player early in the second year of an $80 million, five-year deal.

"When you look around at other teams, yeah," Brand said. "It's like, no disrespect, but [Golden State's] Mikki Moore gets the start and I don't. Not that he's not a good player, but, definitely."

Andre Iguodala left briefly with bruised ribs and scored 14 points on brutal 4-of-20 shooting. He's day-to-day and was not expected to practice Tuesday.

Corey Maggette led the Warriors with 24 points and Anthony Randolph had 15. Golden State lost its third straight in the finale of a five-game trip that started Dec. 7.

"You can't make excuses about a long trip," Maggette said.

Iverson's return generated a short burst of excitement, but not wins. His box office appeal is already lukewarm with only 12,795 fans listed to watch a slumping Sixers team.

Iverson joked at shootaround that after his ill-fated stint with Memphis, he sat home "trying to get fat." He wasn't in game shape and the Sixers came in with a bloated 18 losses.

He teamed with Young to make eight of 11 shots in the first quarter to help build a 12-point lead. Young really got rolling in the second quarter. He kept close to the basket and used a flurry of layups to score 14 points. He did hit a nice turnaround jumper that stretched the lead to 15.

Iverson capped the half by drawing a midair foul with 1 second left, hitting two free throws to make it 71-57.

Philadelphia won for only the third time in 19 games and its 12-game losing streak was the longest since 2006. Iverson was around for the start of that one three years ago before he was traded and the end of this one after his return.

Iverson acknowledges the years of banging down the lane and crashing the court have taken a severe toll on his 34-year-old frame. He's limited at shootarounds and practices -- by coaches decision, not complaint -- and no longer has the quickest first step in the league.

"I've been dealing with that the last 5, 6 years I've been playing," Iverson said. "I understand that when I fall or hit something that it flares up or gets irritated a lot faster than it used to. That comes from getting older."

By the time the fourth quarter rolled around, Iverson could rest. Willie Green's 3-pointer with 9:10 left in the fourth gave the Sixers 102 points, meaning free food at a fast-food restaurant for the few fans who bought tickets.

The weary Warriors had three field goals and scored 11 points in the third quarter.

"I think we'll all be glad to get home, but you still want to play as well as you can on the road," interim Warriors coach Keith Smart said. "Unfortunately, we didn't manage to do that on this trip."