The Moonstruck Mystique...

All parents go through a whole lot for their children. Many many struggles.. some physical, some mental and some emotional. As a Mother of a soon-to-be 3 year old, my trials have only begun.  It all began for me the day I realised I conceived. The visit to the gynaecologist to confirm pregnancy was the last time I wore my prosthesis before I abandoned it for more than 10 months. As a hip disarticulate amputee, the socket of the prosthesis covers my abdomen and the pressure when I walk would be way too much on my tummy. Until then I was a very independent individual who has lived alone in a city, travelled alone and managed everything myself. I depended on my prosthesis for most of my work and had hardly ever used any other walking aid. I used to hop about at home if I didn't have my prosthesis on. I am so comfortable using it that I have gone many many days wearing my prosthesis all day and all night taking it off just to shower when I was a bystander for my parents/in-...

For the Easter long weekend at the end of March, we decided to visit Malacca, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. I've wanted to visit it for its history and food trail. We decided to brave the Easter crowd on the highway and visit anyway.:P Day 1 We took a luxury coach from Concorde Hotel at Orchard at 8am after having our tickets and visas verified at their office. The seats were very comfortable. They offered us a bottle of water each and they stopped for breakfast on the way. It was Maundy thursday but the coach had only 2 empty seats. They had free wifi and also an individual entertainment system with inbuilt speakers on the headrest. My 2 and half year old 'N' watched a bit of a movie familiar to her, 'Bahubali' after her nap. We got to the Tuas immigration pretty quickly. As we had a toddler, we had to stand in a longer queue for foreigners at the Singapore immigration. The Malaysia immigration was very quick despite us having to scan our luggage. From there,...