Month: November 2021

The Birth Story of Elena Nour Sofea

I can’t believe I’m writing a second birth story post in the span of a year. It’s insane how I was pregnant twice in this pandemic because that wasn’t easy at all and I was scared for my health the entire time that I basically spent every day of my pregnancy just cooped up at home. Anyway, I gave birth to a baby girl on October 1st via elective caesarean section. Since my first delivery was a C-section and the spacing between the first and second is just a year, the doctor advised me for a C-section to prevent any complication that would arise if I went for vaginal delivery. I straightaway gave an okay because I didn’t want to go through labour contraction haha. September 30th, 2021 (37 weeks 6 days pregnant) I checked into the hospital around 3 pm. My Covid PCR test came back negative and so did my husband’s RTK test. We left my son with my mother-in-law because obviously with Covid and everything you can only have one visitor/caretaker and …

New & Improved little sips of tea

Ever since the Pipdig scandal in 2019, I haven’t been quite satisfied with my blog theme. Pipdig themes were my favourite because they were so easy to customise and since then, I have purchased 10 more themes from various designers but none of them came close to Pipdig – until now. Welcome to the new and improved little sips of tea! This is the 15th iteration of my blog and I am hopeful that this will be the last for a long, long time. Let’s see what’s new! Quick reads Quick reads is a category I’m bringing to my blog consisting of posts that go as long as the length of the featured image, like this post! It’s quick – take 15 minutes to write, something that I can post and go. Currently… I’ve always wanted my blog to be a one stop centre for everything me where I can show what I’m reading, listening, and loving using widgets. Improved design I am in love with the layout and how everything just flow together. I …

4 Things I Use My iPad Air 4 For

Can I just say that the iPad is the greatest piece of technology created after the MacBook? It’s game-changing, life-saving, and for me it’s a hybrid between the iPhone and MacBook – larger than the iPhone but small enough to do some of the things I do on the MacBook. It can’t replace a laptop by any means but it sure is a luxury to have. I bought the iPad Air (4th generation) earlier this year and it has been my best friend ever since. I remember not touching my MacBook for a week because I was hooked on my iPad. Moreover, last month I splurged on an Apple Pencil after dropping the cheap stylus pen I got on Shopee and boy oh boy my iPad setup is done and I just love how easy it is to charge the pencil. It sticks to the side of my iPad to charge so I don’t have to worry about not having any charge on my pencil when I want to use it. Here’s some of the …