I was at the airport yesterday sending friends off. As we were there early, we had about 1 hour time to sit around and observed people. We saw a few interesting things.
First we heard two women talking about another friend of theirs who went back home to take her key lock for her luggage becasue she has forgotten to lock her bag and no one has spare key for her. One of them was saying that she should have just bought one at the airport. The other said that the friend who went back just did not want to waste money since she has one at home. Is this really going to save more than just buying one when she needs to rush home and return to airport by taxi again? We don't mean to be a peeping Tom but they were talking so loudy that everyone around them can hear. When the "fat aunty" (this is how the two ladies addressed her) arrived, she opened up her big luggage and began to start moving items out and put them into a smaller hand carry bag. She told them that she was afraid that it might get over weight. Her luggage was so messy with her clothes which were not packed properly and were all over the place. Guess what makes her luggage so heavy? She had so many detergents, soap powder and shampoo in bottle form in her luggage. Wonder where she is going? Maybe to do charity work somewhere. Then she proceed to do her check-in and came back with a smiling face and told her friends that the luggage weighed 26 kgs and was not overweight.
We sat nearby the weighing machine and saw a group of men who came in with big bags and alot of bulky boxes with electrical items. After weighing their items, they stood on the machine to weigh themselves. Are they including their weight too for check-in too? We tried to be mischeivous weigh ourselves after seeing so many of them doing the same. Haha, I am very happy that I have not put on weight. The most interesting part is we saw two men opening up a carton that weighed about 50 kgs with items like box fan, rice cooker, electric water flask, a small TV and some items that we could not see clearly. Both of them were trying to re-pack the carton by removing some items out. They managed to put a few items into a medium size backpack. However, they have nothing to put their box fan, rice cooker and electric water flask. We were wondering how they could bring these items with them. When they are done with the packing and strapping of their cartons and luggages, we were suprised that they just carry the three items in their hand and proceed to do their check-in. I have never seen people carrying items in this manner to fly and wonder if they are able to pass through. We guessed that they could be workers from village back in their hometown. On one hand, they are buying all these to provide their family with a better life but on the other hand, they do not want to pay for the access charge. Just cannot imagine how they would manage this throughout the whole journey.
The last one we saw was two men hugging each other. One of them was sobbing badly in the arm of the other man who was travelling. The man who was sobbing was so emotional that he just could not stopping crying and in the end it was kind of like a loud cry. He was holding on so tight to his "partner" that we wonder if they are lovers or maybe just received some bad news from home town.
Sunday, April 20, 2008
Being a housewife is not easy
Oh dear, I have almost forgotten my passwords to sign in. I better start writing again. I was so busy during the first week of my sabbatical trying to adjust myself to "housewife" style. Believe me it is not as easy as we think when we are always on "part-time" basis.
I still make it a point to wake up at 5am everyday. This is to ensure that I do not have to adjust my wake up time when I have to get back to work. When my son has boarded the school bus at 6am, I was kind of lost at my first Monday of my sabbatical as I usually would proceed to the hawker center to grab breakfast and catch the bus to office. At that moment, I did not know what I should do. I thought maybe I could get back to sleep again for another 2 hours. But I just could not get on to bed. I guess it is just a habit in me that once I wake up, I will not get back to sleep again. I had breakfast, read the newspaper, watched 1 or 2 disc of HK VCD till about 9am. This is relaxing for me.
Then I start running errands from 9am. Like going to the bank, supermakert, returning books for the kids etc. Don't think these are small issues, but it will take up alot of time since they may be a different locations. By the time I finished all these errands, it was almost lunch time.
I grab a quick lunch and mind you, I can have full one hour rest at the office. But when I am at home, I normally just rest for 30 minutes. The tough part for me is the afternoon schedule. My son has extra classes from Monday to Thursday. I usually have my father or neigbour aunty to pick him up. Since I am free during these periods, I just want to try and do it myself to spend more time with him. You know it was so diffcult for me as I am seldom out under the sun between 2-3pm. I felt like I would faint anytime during that 10 minutes while walking from the bus-stop to his school. The other thing that I could not take it is his school bag is so heavy that I had shoulder ache after picking him for 3 days. I cannot image how a kid can manage such a bag when adult find it a problem. He has packed according to his time-table but still it will not be any lighter. Sign....
Then it is time to run through his homework and revision. This is again something I realised that when we are with them for such a long time, we tend to loose patience easily. I keep telling myself to be calm as this 5 weeks will be my only opportunity to be full time with him. After dinner, spend a little chat time with him and have to get ready for him to go to bed.
When he has gone to bed, I have to start clearing my own emails and pending issues that I could not finish during the day. By the time I could take my shower, it would be almost 9pm which is no difference when I am at work.
In the office, I had a schedule of what I have to do each day. But at home, there is no fix schedule. Anything can happen anytime. I have to adjust accordingly to each situation. Honestly speaking, during the 1st week, physical and mentally, I was very tire, more tire than when I worked. By they time I was on bed, I just felt that I am half dead. Now I am adjusting better. We need to give credits to those who are staying home full time managing their role so well.
I still make it a point to wake up at 5am everyday. This is to ensure that I do not have to adjust my wake up time when I have to get back to work. When my son has boarded the school bus at 6am, I was kind of lost at my first Monday of my sabbatical as I usually would proceed to the hawker center to grab breakfast and catch the bus to office. At that moment, I did not know what I should do. I thought maybe I could get back to sleep again for another 2 hours. But I just could not get on to bed. I guess it is just a habit in me that once I wake up, I will not get back to sleep again. I had breakfast, read the newspaper, watched 1 or 2 disc of HK VCD till about 9am. This is relaxing for me.
Then I start running errands from 9am. Like going to the bank, supermakert, returning books for the kids etc. Don't think these are small issues, but it will take up alot of time since they may be a different locations. By the time I finished all these errands, it was almost lunch time.
I grab a quick lunch and mind you, I can have full one hour rest at the office. But when I am at home, I normally just rest for 30 minutes. The tough part for me is the afternoon schedule. My son has extra classes from Monday to Thursday. I usually have my father or neigbour aunty to pick him up. Since I am free during these periods, I just want to try and do it myself to spend more time with him. You know it was so diffcult for me as I am seldom out under the sun between 2-3pm. I felt like I would faint anytime during that 10 minutes while walking from the bus-stop to his school. The other thing that I could not take it is his school bag is so heavy that I had shoulder ache after picking him for 3 days. I cannot image how a kid can manage such a bag when adult find it a problem. He has packed according to his time-table but still it will not be any lighter. Sign....
Then it is time to run through his homework and revision. This is again something I realised that when we are with them for such a long time, we tend to loose patience easily. I keep telling myself to be calm as this 5 weeks will be my only opportunity to be full time with him. After dinner, spend a little chat time with him and have to get ready for him to go to bed.
When he has gone to bed, I have to start clearing my own emails and pending issues that I could not finish during the day. By the time I could take my shower, it would be almost 9pm which is no difference when I am at work.
In the office, I had a schedule of what I have to do each day. But at home, there is no fix schedule. Anything can happen anytime. I have to adjust accordingly to each situation. Honestly speaking, during the 1st week, physical and mentally, I was very tire, more tire than when I worked. By they time I was on bed, I just felt that I am half dead. Now I am adjusting better. We need to give credits to those who are staying home full time managing their role so well.
Thursday, April 10, 2008
A long tired day
I started my day with going to visit warehouse at Changi. As usual, the usual task of checking the layout, asking about headcounts, equipments, the whole operation plus the sweaty feel and look after the warehouse trip. I normally prefer to visit warehouse in the afternoon so that I can head home straight as I know I will feel dusty and dirty after the trip. But this time had to it in the morning as I had a meeting in the office at 3:30pm
Rushed back to office at 11am. Though I am under the cool Air-con, I just didn't feel comfortable and sticky all over. Yaki! But what can I do, I still have to make sure I clear my pending issues. I am in the count down mood to my sabbatical leave, so have to make sure I hand over work rightly to approriate parties. I am actually a little stressed as it will be samples season when I am gone. I hope things will just go smoothly and all samples will arrive on time. If there is any miss, it will mean no order for the factories and no sales for our company. Just hope not, cannot imagine less bonus. I need $$$$!!!!
Jennifer dropped by and joined me for lunch. She had fried Kway Tiao and I just had a bowl of hot red bean soup. I had a heavy breakfast and just could not eat anymore. We had a good chat for an hour. Very thankful that she came by, this 1 hour plus was my most relaxing time for the day. After lunch, it was hectic and I worked like crazy all the way.......
After 2:30pm, the email just flooded in suddenly as if the senders knew that I will be away soon. Oh my god, just when I thought that I have cleared almost everything, so many issues just popped up. Dealing with custom issue is the most challenging one. This particular country just keep changing rules and regulations every now and then. It is making things difficult for us to adjust. For goodness sake, can they just make up their mind and decide what they want.
Then, it came a long list requesting for internet access. It went well for about 20 minutes, and suddenly the system hung and there was this error message appearing on my screen. Oh no, whatever I have applied for the users were gone and I had to re-start everything again. When I have completed them, my inbox was full of auto generated confiramtions for all the applications. I had to spend time deleting them away. Why can't this process be simplified and go. Why must I be tortured this way?? Really no justice.
Arrived home, take a quick dinner and have to check Yi Ren's homework. He has 3 thinking sums that he cannot solve. You know these days, schools do not call it as "problem sum" anymore. The teachers told me that "thinking sum" is a better name. "Problem sum" will frighten the kids and they will switch off and not think anymore. Maybe that explained why I was bad at Math when I was a kid. When I looked at his questions, I was seeing ***** all over. I could not understand as he has to use the model method which I did not learn that in school. In the end, I had to give up and told him to check with his sister. Different generation uses different learning method, I am just lost sometimes. By the time I finished with all the school headache, it was 8:30pm. That was not all.
I still have one last final task to go, to meet my friend and passed her some items. We have not met for a while and spend some time catching up alot of things. When I began to feel sleepy, we realised that it was almost 11pm. Times just fly fast. Luckily we were just at a nearby fast food outlet which is 5 minutes from my house.
When I was at my "home sweet home", I was so tired that I just felt like jumping on to my bed right away. But I did not instead I was on bed an hour later. You know what happened? I just felt that my face was so tight and the skin was so dry and no moisture. I decided to do a simple facial treatment before I sleep. Spend extra time to do cleansing, scrubbing, putting toner etc. Finally the mask. The truth was I want to look great on Friday, 11 April in the office as this is the last day of work before I start my long leave.
I finally got on to bed at 00:15 am and doze off in my sweet dream. Heard any zzzzzzzzzzz snoring!!!!! Don't worry, I will not.
Rushed back to office at 11am. Though I am under the cool Air-con, I just didn't feel comfortable and sticky all over. Yaki! But what can I do, I still have to make sure I clear my pending issues. I am in the count down mood to my sabbatical leave, so have to make sure I hand over work rightly to approriate parties. I am actually a little stressed as it will be samples season when I am gone. I hope things will just go smoothly and all samples will arrive on time. If there is any miss, it will mean no order for the factories and no sales for our company. Just hope not, cannot imagine less bonus. I need $$$$!!!!
Jennifer dropped by and joined me for lunch. She had fried Kway Tiao and I just had a bowl of hot red bean soup. I had a heavy breakfast and just could not eat anymore. We had a good chat for an hour. Very thankful that she came by, this 1 hour plus was my most relaxing time for the day. After lunch, it was hectic and I worked like crazy all the way.......
After 2:30pm, the email just flooded in suddenly as if the senders knew that I will be away soon. Oh my god, just when I thought that I have cleared almost everything, so many issues just popped up. Dealing with custom issue is the most challenging one. This particular country just keep changing rules and regulations every now and then. It is making things difficult for us to adjust. For goodness sake, can they just make up their mind and decide what they want.
Then, it came a long list requesting for internet access. It went well for about 20 minutes, and suddenly the system hung and there was this error message appearing on my screen. Oh no, whatever I have applied for the users were gone and I had to re-start everything again. When I have completed them, my inbox was full of auto generated confiramtions for all the applications. I had to spend time deleting them away. Why can't this process be simplified and go. Why must I be tortured this way?? Really no justice.
Arrived home, take a quick dinner and have to check Yi Ren's homework. He has 3 thinking sums that he cannot solve. You know these days, schools do not call it as "problem sum" anymore. The teachers told me that "thinking sum" is a better name. "Problem sum" will frighten the kids and they will switch off and not think anymore. Maybe that explained why I was bad at Math when I was a kid. When I looked at his questions, I was seeing ***** all over. I could not understand as he has to use the model method which I did not learn that in school. In the end, I had to give up and told him to check with his sister. Different generation uses different learning method, I am just lost sometimes. By the time I finished with all the school headache, it was 8:30pm. That was not all.
I still have one last final task to go, to meet my friend and passed her some items. We have not met for a while and spend some time catching up alot of things. When I began to feel sleepy, we realised that it was almost 11pm. Times just fly fast. Luckily we were just at a nearby fast food outlet which is 5 minutes from my house.
When I was at my "home sweet home", I was so tired that I just felt like jumping on to my bed right away. But I did not instead I was on bed an hour later. You know what happened? I just felt that my face was so tight and the skin was so dry and no moisture. I decided to do a simple facial treatment before I sleep. Spend extra time to do cleansing, scrubbing, putting toner etc. Finally the mask. The truth was I want to look great on Friday, 11 April in the office as this is the last day of work before I start my long leave.
I finally got on to bed at 00:15 am and doze off in my sweet dream. Heard any zzzzzzzzzzz snoring!!!!! Don't worry, I will not.
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
童言
我的腿受伤三个月到现在都还没好，虽然好了很多，但走路还是有点不自然。 因为腿还有点肿，看了都觉得烦和难过。我逛街时最爱买鞋子, 而且是要不同的款式和颜色. 现在呢, 只能买平底鞋, 其他的款式只有看的份, 你知道有多痛苦吗?
有一天, 和小儿子奕润聊天时,我说: 妈妈好难过,我的左腿受伤后, 长得真丑,有点像猪腿.”
结果儿子说: “妈妈没关系,不管是猪腿还是美腿,只要是你的腿, 就是好腿”.
喔塞!!! 他说的话,好像还押韵呢!! 我听了, 都忍不住笑了起来. 我也觉得很安慰, 他才十岁, 已经会说好话来逗人开心. 希望在他的成长过程中, 他都能一直以乐观的心态去面对生活.
有一天, 和小儿子奕润聊天时,我说: 妈妈好难过,我的左腿受伤后, 长得真丑,有点像猪腿.”
结果儿子说: “妈妈没关系,不管是猪腿还是美腿,只要是你的腿, 就是好腿”.
喔塞!!! 他说的话,好像还押韵呢!! 我听了, 都忍不住笑了起来. 我也觉得很安慰, 他才十岁, 已经会说好话来逗人开心. 希望在他的成长过程中, 他都能一直以乐观的心态去面对生活.
Monday, April 7, 2008
惊险记
不要误会哦, 以为我做了什麽惊天动地的事。 阿姐我可没有那种勇气和胆量。 只是做了一件以前不会做的事，而让我思考了一些问题。
上个星期五有个朋友托我星期日去帮他拿一些东西。当他把地址给我时，我的第一个反应是”哎哟,我的妈, Chuan Hoe Avenue 这是哪里呀? 我听都没听过这路名”. 你们可能会觉得很奇怪,我怎麽会吓成这个样子!!. 新加坡那麽小, 哪有那麽难??
从小到大, 我算是一个听话的孩子, 父母都不会让我一个人到处去。也许因为这样,而造成我是一点冒险精神也没有. 也从来没想过试着自己闯一闯祸. 我来来去去都是走我熟悉的路线去同样的地方. 要是要我去一个没到过的地方, 我都要找个人陪. 朋友担心我这个路痴会迷路还帮我弄了张地图,也把巴士号码给我写清楚, 还解释了几遍给我听.
到了出发的当天, 心情其实是蛮紧张的, 我先研究了地图, 告诉自己,要有信心, 大概知道靠近Chuan Ho Avenue 的地铁站是Serangoon MRT. Philips Ave 是和Chuan Ho Avenue隔了一条街. 首先我上147 号的巴士, 也和司机先生说了麻烦他提醒我在Serangoon MRT下车. 我也顺利的下了车.
我把地图一对, 为甚麽路名好像都不对. 问了路人之后, 才发现, 我原来连地图都没看懂!!!. 以为是很近,其实是有一段距离. 你看我有多差劲!! 好心人告诉我要转70号 巴士, 途中会看到2个大的路标写着”Serangoon Garden Way”. 我必须在看到第2个大的路标时的第2个站下车.
结果我一时紧张,居然在第一个路标就下车. 天啊!! 我看到路标指示下个路口是Philips Avenue 时, 真的是没有了方向感, 东南西北都分不清了, 而且有点害怕. 没有办法之下,只好上了的士. 结果, 不到5分钟, 我已到达Chuan Hoe Avenue 的门口. 气死我了, 一时的失误, 浪费了多$4的车钱.
多丢脸啊！！！亏我还是物流部门的一分子， 却没法子把自己直接顺利的送到目的地。还好, 在工作上, 我还没胡涂到把客户的货给弄错地方. 不甘心下，我决定要走出大路外的车站，决不坐的士。 走了二十分钟, 我终于找到出路，虽然很累， 但我却是怀着愉快的心情回家。
人生其实也可以有不同的选择, 试着做不同的事和走不同的路. 人要试着改变自己去适应环境. 平时要多听,多看和多观察. 只要朝着目标前进, 不管路途有多遥远和辛苦, 都能走出一条光明大道. 学会了应变, 生存能力也会更强, 人生也会变更多姿多彩和有意义.
上个星期五有个朋友托我星期日去帮他拿一些东西。当他把地址给我时，我的第一个反应是”哎哟,我的妈, Chuan Hoe Avenue 这是哪里呀? 我听都没听过这路名”. 你们可能会觉得很奇怪,我怎麽会吓成这个样子!!. 新加坡那麽小, 哪有那麽难??
从小到大, 我算是一个听话的孩子, 父母都不会让我一个人到处去。也许因为这样,而造成我是一点冒险精神也没有. 也从来没想过试着自己闯一闯祸. 我来来去去都是走我熟悉的路线去同样的地方. 要是要我去一个没到过的地方, 我都要找个人陪. 朋友担心我这个路痴会迷路还帮我弄了张地图,也把巴士号码给我写清楚, 还解释了几遍给我听.
到了出发的当天, 心情其实是蛮紧张的, 我先研究了地图, 告诉自己,要有信心, 大概知道靠近Chuan Ho Avenue 的地铁站是Serangoon MRT. Philips Ave 是和Chuan Ho Avenue隔了一条街. 首先我上147 号的巴士, 也和司机先生说了麻烦他提醒我在Serangoon MRT下车. 我也顺利的下了车.
我把地图一对, 为甚麽路名好像都不对. 问了路人之后, 才发现, 我原来连地图都没看懂!!!. 以为是很近,其实是有一段距离. 你看我有多差劲!! 好心人告诉我要转70号 巴士, 途中会看到2个大的路标写着”Serangoon Garden Way”. 我必须在看到第2个大的路标时的第2个站下车.
结果我一时紧张,居然在第一个路标就下车. 天啊!! 我看到路标指示下个路口是Philips Avenue 时, 真的是没有了方向感, 东南西北都分不清了, 而且有点害怕. 没有办法之下,只好上了的士. 结果, 不到5分钟, 我已到达Chuan Hoe Avenue 的门口. 气死我了, 一时的失误, 浪费了多$4的车钱.
多丢脸啊！！！亏我还是物流部门的一分子， 却没法子把自己直接顺利的送到目的地。还好, 在工作上, 我还没胡涂到把客户的货给弄错地方. 不甘心下，我决定要走出大路外的车站，决不坐的士。 走了二十分钟, 我终于找到出路，虽然很累， 但我却是怀着愉快的心情回家。
人生其实也可以有不同的选择, 试着做不同的事和走不同的路. 人要试着改变自己去适应环境. 平时要多听,多看和多观察. 只要朝着目标前进, 不管路途有多遥远和辛苦, 都能走出一条光明大道. 学会了应变, 生存能力也会更强, 人生也会变更多姿多彩和有意义.
Saturday, April 5, 2008
Growing kids
Peng Kiam turns 18 today. Just feel that times really fly fast and looking at the 3 growing kids , I just feel that I am no longer young.
Till now, I am still amazed at how fast they have grown to be age 20, 18 and 10. While I am still trying to understand them and watch their developments, they have turn slowly away from me getting into their own busy schedule.
In fact I am a little sad that I have been trying to get Peng Kiam out for a birthday celebration but he has so many "interesting" program with his friends that he just have no time for me to do anything for him. It is just so difficult to "date" your kids when they have are in their teenage.
Like any other parents, I have also gone through the stage where I think my kids don't understand and appreciate me. I felt disappinted with their attitude sometimes and just feel like giving me and pretended that I had never had them. How can that ever happen? No way, no matter what happen, there is no way to cut tie with family members.
Come to think of it, not too bad for me. Though they gave me the common teenage problems like any other kids these days, argue with parents, show "black" face, sleeping late playing computers, but it is also a blessing that they do not get into big troubles. I have some others friends kids who just dropped out of school, get into wrong company and married as young as at the age of 17.
Most importantly is when I am down or sad, they are there to give me mental support epecially the eldest daughter. It is true that it is always good to have at least a daughter. It is not that the two boys don't bother about me, but just that they are not as caring as the girl in small details.
Putting myself in their shoes, everyone of us have gone through the stage of trying to get away from parents. I tell myself that it is ok not to celebrate it today, we have other days to do things together. Building up relationship does not take only a day to happen, it is a long term commitment. As long as we stay strong with our bond, there are may opportunities for us to explore and get closer. At the end of the day, I want all of them to grown up as a happy and positive person.
Till now, I am still amazed at how fast they have grown to be age 20, 18 and 10. While I am still trying to understand them and watch their developments, they have turn slowly away from me getting into their own busy schedule.
In fact I am a little sad that I have been trying to get Peng Kiam out for a birthday celebration but he has so many "interesting" program with his friends that he just have no time for me to do anything for him. It is just so difficult to "date" your kids when they have are in their teenage.
Like any other parents, I have also gone through the stage where I think my kids don't understand and appreciate me. I felt disappinted with their attitude sometimes and just feel like giving me and pretended that I had never had them. How can that ever happen? No way, no matter what happen, there is no way to cut tie with family members.
Come to think of it, not too bad for me. Though they gave me the common teenage problems like any other kids these days, argue with parents, show "black" face, sleeping late playing computers, but it is also a blessing that they do not get into big troubles. I have some others friends kids who just dropped out of school, get into wrong company and married as young as at the age of 17.
Most importantly is when I am down or sad, they are there to give me mental support epecially the eldest daughter. It is true that it is always good to have at least a daughter. It is not that the two boys don't bother about me, but just that they are not as caring as the girl in small details.
Putting myself in their shoes, everyone of us have gone through the stage of trying to get away from parents. I tell myself that it is ok not to celebrate it today, we have other days to do things together. Building up relationship does not take only a day to happen, it is a long term commitment. As long as we stay strong with our bond, there are may opportunities for us to explore and get closer. At the end of the day, I want all of them to grown up as a happy and positive person.
Sabbatical
One more week to go, I will be on 5 weeks sabbatical leave starting 14 April!!. Wonder what is sabbatical leave? It is one of the staff benefit from my company. We will get our 1st sabbatical when we hit our 10 years and we will get it again every subsequent 5 years. I am getting my second sabbatical.
I always have no luck in planning for a long holidays for the 5 weeks. There was sars breakout when I took my 1st sabbatical in April 2003. My plan to USA was ruin as there was almost a ban to travel everywhere. Even though the ticket and accomodation was so cheap, none of my family would want me to take the risk. I thought endinng up in Singapore might be boring and I would have nothing to do. But I was wrong. In fact it was wrong. I had a good time relaxing and ready get back to work fresh.
I plan to meet up with friends in Shanghai this time. Unfortorunately, it does not work out again due to my leg injury. I hurt myself in December 07 and still have to visit Chinese Doctor on weekly basis. Everyone is like asking me "So what are you going to do, so wasted". I tell myself it is ok. It is not a bad idea to laze around and just do whatever you want at your own convenience time. Travel can be quite fun but you can end up feeling tired when you are home.
Hmm, let me think of what I can do. Maybe it will be good to list out some of the items. I can try to hang out like "Tai Tai", in term of time but not in spending. hehehe
1) Spend quality time with my children. I always feel that I have not been a good and perfect mother in talking with children. Sometimes I just loose patient with them when I get home from a tired day work.
2) Stick to my normal sleeping time and still wake up at 5am to spend my 15 minutes chatting time with my little young son, Yi Ren while while waiting for his school bus. The reason why I would rather miss my sleep as this is the time that I can find out things that sometimes will surprise me.
3) Go around to look for delicious breakfast and be back to my home sweet home to watch my favourite DVD with my milo.
4) I have not been to parents coffee stall to help around since I hurt my leg. Mum told me that many customers miss me alot and are asking when I will be back. I will try to go there and hang around. You know I really miss them calling me "Xiao Mei" which make me feel I am very young and not mother of 3.
5) Catch up with friends during their lunch time and make them jealous and envy me. They have only 1 hour lunch break but I can stretch as long as I want. Don't know if anyone will scream at me??? I don't think so, I think I am quite confidence to say that I have always be very sincere with people and everyone whom I know really treasure each other friendship.
6) Continue to go the Chinese clince to get the "handsome" doctor to do my weekly treatment. Hopefully I will be fully recovered when I am back to work on 20 May.
Wow, so many things to do. Wonder if 5 weeks will be enough. I will also that this opportunity to do self-reflection and and improve myself. The only worry is that when I get back to work, I may become lazy and don't know where to start. My friends out, if you have good lobang to go out and enjoy between 14 April to 19 May, give me a ring or drop me an email. I have plenty of time to go happy hour with you.
I always have no luck in planning for a long holidays for the 5 weeks. There was sars breakout when I took my 1st sabbatical in April 2003. My plan to USA was ruin as there was almost a ban to travel everywhere. Even though the ticket and accomodation was so cheap, none of my family would want me to take the risk. I thought endinng up in Singapore might be boring and I would have nothing to do. But I was wrong. In fact it was wrong. I had a good time relaxing and ready get back to work fresh.
I plan to meet up with friends in Shanghai this time. Unfortorunately, it does not work out again due to my leg injury. I hurt myself in December 07 and still have to visit Chinese Doctor on weekly basis. Everyone is like asking me "So what are you going to do, so wasted". I tell myself it is ok. It is not a bad idea to laze around and just do whatever you want at your own convenience time. Travel can be quite fun but you can end up feeling tired when you are home.
Hmm, let me think of what I can do. Maybe it will be good to list out some of the items. I can try to hang out like "Tai Tai", in term of time but not in spending. hehehe
1) Spend quality time with my children. I always feel that I have not been a good and perfect mother in talking with children. Sometimes I just loose patient with them when I get home from a tired day work.
2) Stick to my normal sleeping time and still wake up at 5am to spend my 15 minutes chatting time with my little young son, Yi Ren while while waiting for his school bus. The reason why I would rather miss my sleep as this is the time that I can find out things that sometimes will surprise me.
3) Go around to look for delicious breakfast and be back to my home sweet home to watch my favourite DVD with my milo.
4) I have not been to parents coffee stall to help around since I hurt my leg. Mum told me that many customers miss me alot and are asking when I will be back. I will try to go there and hang around. You know I really miss them calling me "Xiao Mei" which make me feel I am very young and not mother of 3.
5) Catch up with friends during their lunch time and make them jealous and envy me. They have only 1 hour lunch break but I can stretch as long as I want. Don't know if anyone will scream at me??? I don't think so, I think I am quite confidence to say that I have always be very sincere with people and everyone whom I know really treasure each other friendship.
6) Continue to go the Chinese clince to get the "handsome" doctor to do my weekly treatment. Hopefully I will be fully recovered when I am back to work on 20 May.
Wow, so many things to do. Wonder if 5 weeks will be enough. I will also that this opportunity to do self-reflection and and improve myself. The only worry is that when I get back to work, I may become lazy and don't know where to start. My friends out, if you have good lobang to go out and enjoy between 14 April to 19 May, give me a ring or drop me an email. I have plenty of time to go happy hour with you.
Friday, April 4, 2008
Can't beleive I have created my Blog
I have read about Blog a long time but have no ideal at all what is this all about until I read my friend, Evelyn Blog this morning. I was really impressed by what she has written and all the pictures that she has posted. Who knows, one day she might become a famous writer. I should may be get her signature now..........
I always call myself as an IT idiot as I can only manage the basis usage of a computer. I envy people who can do so many tricks with their computer work. I thought hey, writing in blog is another form to de-stress and keep in touch with friends. I start asking myself if I should set up one.
And finally, I decided to give it a try. I had no confidence at all that I would be able to create it successful without someone helping me. I always think that instruction needs to come from a "Human" and not from system.
Oh, I can't believe it, I actually have created it somehow. How did it happen? I really have no clue. But........ this has made me believe that nothing is impossible as long as you make an effort to try.
I have long way to learn to make my blog looks more attractive with photos, background etc. At this moment, it just looks so plain and boring.
Oh no, I have headache now. I have to stop dragging my mouse here and there. Will figure out again next time. Anyone out there who wants to help me improve, please feel free to drop me a note.
I always call myself as an IT idiot as I can only manage the basis usage of a computer. I envy people who can do so many tricks with their computer work. I thought hey, writing in blog is another form to de-stress and keep in touch with friends. I start asking myself if I should set up one.
And finally, I decided to give it a try. I had no confidence at all that I would be able to create it successful without someone helping me. I always think that instruction needs to come from a "Human" and not from system.
Oh, I can't believe it, I actually have created it somehow. How did it happen? I really have no clue. But........ this has made me believe that nothing is impossible as long as you make an effort to try.
I have long way to learn to make my blog looks more attractive with photos, background etc. At this moment, it just looks so plain and boring.
Oh no, I have headache now. I have to stop dragging my mouse here and there. Will figure out again next time. Anyone out there who wants to help me improve, please feel free to drop me a note.
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