A Sunday Morning

On a usual Sunday, like everyday else, I'll start the day with preparing my son's breakfast, that's his milk and cereal and sometimes accompanied by fruit puree. This will be followed by feeding, washing up, poo-pooing, bathing, dressing up and etc.

Today, like everyday else, I repeated the same old chore, but I didn't head off to church with them. Because I have something important but rather boring to d0 --- working. Many days back when I just graduated from uni and still single, I don't mind working on Sundays because that's the time I can claim OT which equates to bigger paycheck at the end of the month. I guess that's quite a norm to many fresh graduates who don't mind trading off their time for money. After having a family with kids, our mindset started to change as well. It's really a drag to work on Sunday because that would simply mean you have less time together with your kids. That's also part but important reason why I quit my job in retail pharmacy. Yea, u r right, I'm now serving my 3 months notice, just endure for one more month and that's it, I won't be in retail anymore.

I'll be joining St Andrew Community Hospital which is located beside Changi General Hospital. It's very very far from home, it takes about 1/2 hour journey driving there from home when there's no traffic jam. Yes, without traffic jam. However, many people have warned me that there's heavy traffic jam at TPE every morning from the punggol exitall the way up to pasir ris exit. I guess that's due to the road construction near Lor Halus which closed one of the lanes. Many people wondered why I still join them bearing in mind the long journey from home and having to wake up early in the morning (cos I start work at 8.15am). Well, one of the striking reason is it's a christian hospital. I believe it's not easy to find a working environment with so many christians surrounding you, counting from the CEO to my direct boss, the pharmacy manager. And all of them make you feel so welcomed before and during the interview. Judging from their willingness to accomodate my worksing schedule in arranging the timing of the interview compared to some others who refused to adjust the timing at all, I was and am moved. I've attended a few interviews before this, this is the first time I saw the hiring manager sitting in the room preparing for the interview way before I arrived.

After joining the workforce for five years after graduating from school, this will be my first time enjoying five days week, no longer need to work on Sunday. Well, the CEO ever cautioned me that don't ever envision this as a perfect working environment, it bound to have certain flaws somewhere. Of course I don't, but comparing to other jobs elsewhere, I thought that would be the next best to me. Perhaps I can share with you more about it end of next month when I start work with them. Hopefull I can always wake up early and reach work on time. =)

Remembrance of March 12

Many people would wonder what's so special about March 12, it's neither Malaysia national day nor any big day in Singapore. Well, to Yit Soong and I, this is really a big day. Bingo! That's our wedding anniversary. Time really flies, I still vividly remember the day we tie our knot in Hakka Methodis Church on a bright saturday afternoon. Before we realize, a good three years time had passed.

We celebrated our first wedding anniversary in Bintan with our first baby (Yun Qi) still residing in my womb and second anniversary with Tristan's turn in my womb lunching at Song of India along Scotts Road. This year we celebrated at Shangrila---The Line restaurant, a buffet dinner, with the accompaniment of our 7.5 months old precious baby boy, Tristan. We really enjoyed ourselves with the sumptous meal.

What shall we be doing next year? Let me give a good thought about it. =)

My Clumsy Morning

I woke up late this morning cos I went to bed late last night. Furthermore, my little prince woke me up in the middle of the night because I attempted to make him sleep on his side rather than in his favourite sleeping posture -- prone. When I failed to console him and put him back to sleep, I decided to give him some milk. It's 2.45am. There I realized when I was in the kitchen, I've run out of hot water. After boiling water and finally prepared his milk, we went back to our bedroom. Thank God, after finishing his milk, he went back to sleep.

Few more hours later, the morning sun has risen and there my little prince woke up earlier than me and started making some noise. BUT I refused to wake up cos I was simply just too tired. Not for long, I finally dragged myself out of the bed and marched into my kitchen, I started preparing my prince's milk and cereal while washing up the leftover dish. When everything is ready, it's already 9am. Well, that's kinda late cos he normally takes his "breakfast" around 8am+ and I need to leave for work by 10am. Although the milk is abit hot, I still try my luck to feed him cos it's really getting late. As expected, it's too hot for him. Then I proceed on with the cereal first. He was rather co-operative, he finished them all. The milk was then at the right temperature. When I tried feeding him the milk, he started crying and yelling. I then spent half an hour to console him. Yes, it's HALF an Hour, before I can finally feed him milk successfully. In the end, I gathered that the very reason he threw such a big tantrum when seeing the bottle, was simply because the milk from the very same bottle was too hot and would have hurt him somehow. I spent great deal of time to reassure him the milk is no longer hot and mummy has done something to make it cool and etc.

From today's experience, I was quite amazed to find myself being so patient with him. I guess in the past, I would have shouted at the top of my lungs when dealing with "difficult" child. Isn't it amazing to know how much motherhood can change one's personality?

In Memorial

Again I start a new blog. The very last time I used to be very active in blogging was more than a year ago. Somehow with the arrival of my baby (who was still inside my womb) and embarkation on our business, I'm really left with little time to even do my house chores, not to talk about sharing my updates on my blog.

Well, after being more settled down and having more free time at work, that's when I decided to start blogging again on a new platform.

Though it doesn't seem to be a very good idea to start my new blog with a sad news, it just happened at the same time so coincidentally. I just received an email from Kok Chung, my ex-classmate, that our schoolmate, Liew Wen Sheng passed away early this week and the funeral was held yesterday. My heart really sank when I read the email. Such a young talented man who used to conduct the school band to die of an accident on his way to Kota Kinabalu from Tawau, it's really painful to see him go. Indeed life is so fragile. God's way is really higher than our way. Though we human being can never comprehend why such thing would happen, I firmly believe God surely have a better plan which is yet to be revealed. It is this belief that I hold on to that had help me get over the grievances on the departure of our first child. He is a gracious God. Amen.