PonyTales

Thank God I am able to post again today. For the past 2 days, a lot have happened unexpected. I felt like a series of unfortunate events just happen to me…

• After the last post, my laptop crash in the afternoon, I need to reformat and re-install everything…loose some mails and documents. The IT guy accidentally formatted my backup drive…arrrrgggghhh!!!
• Daddy got food poisoning on Tue nite, vomitting and purging like mad…poor Daddy looked so pale and tired…
• Zoe is teething and have been pooing too much. Babysitter did not realise she poo poo little by little and did not clean her up regularly…she got very bad rash at her bottom…it is very bad and this is the 2nd time over a week! It pains me to see her suffer and cry even when she pee. I gotta wash her up every now and then and put the soothing cream for her.
• My work is catching up and I don’t want to  apply any leave now as I think it is not appropriate.
• My phlegm and cough been continuing for a month ++ but I am feeling better now…I think I will…

I have two sick babies at home - 1 big and 1 small…

Anyway, I still thank God for these angels He sent me…

1. WY for standing by me when I needed a helping hand the most. I thank her and her 2 lovely helpful angels from the bottom of my heart. Thanks WY for your help and support! Thanks to my 2 favourite girls (A and H) for sharing your Mommy with Zoe and me for a while yea
2. Thanks to my colleague and also my neighbour for the free ride to work and home. He is really kind and considerate
3. Thanks to everyone else who know me for keeping us in their prayers…

Life goes on…one day at a time…

I keep my fingers crossed that everyone will be well and good as Christmas and New Year is approaching. We really don’t want to miss out all the fun rite!?

I am also in the midst of planning for Zoe’s 1st Birthday party. It will be at home by the pool. I hope everything turns out well and that everyone will have a good time and good food.

Ooh yea, I need to take out the Christmas tree also, to dust it and put it up…HaHaHa! I just love Christmas and everything that comes with it. I gotta have more stuff like this to cheer me up…hehehe

I’m dreaming of a white Christmas…

Today is my 3rd day of work at my new company. Everything is so new here…new floor, new cubicle, new carpet, new seat and a brand new spanking Dell Latitude D630. This is the first time I am given a laptop for work instead of a PC - it felt different as if I own the laptop. But now I understand that carrying this baby around is a heavy task….tsk tsk tsk…not complaining, just heavy la. Thank God I am no longer using the LRT to go to work, I might accidentally squashed a few poor school kids with this….hahaha!

The environment is good so far, colleagues are generally nice and friendly. I got a buddy with me, so he showed me all the stuff I need to know. A friendly and fun loving fella. Thank God for that as I have been praying for friendly and helpful colleagues. My boss is not back yet for his weeklong vacation back to his hometown. So, I will keep my fingers crossed. Pray for a good Boss.

As the company is expanding rapidly, they have acquired a new floor to place all the resources, including me. The new floor comes with a really nice lounge area and pantry with 3 dining tables, all furnised by Ikea. I have yet to have tea and laze there, maybe later once I am more settled down. I really don’t want to be seen as a "tan pok yau" (in Cantonese means lazy) so early into my employment rite!?

The funiture and fittings here are mostly in red color. I have been seeing quite a number of this sorta setting ever since Air Asia became so incredibly famous and indispensable (at least to me la). Red is bold and stunning and sexy…I am not complaining la…

Ooh, another plus point is they also pratice smart casual dressing here. So, it means it is okay to wear jeans and polo-T to work everyday, just like my previous company. I was thinking I gotta let go of that flexibility earlier and was taking out all my so called professional work attires and ironing all of them during my break…hahaha…so much for singing, "I’m gonna get dressed, for success!". I like the flexibility, another note to thank God for this, He see it thru for me even up to this small detail. God is Awesome!

Commuting to/fro work now is much better, no more LRT battles and hours long journey. However, hubby gotta chauffer me around until we get our new ride. I need to settle down and get steady here before we could decide to take on the new ride - new liability. Another 7 years!? **try not to think too hard again…**

Lunch hour is pretty okay, colleagues will hunt around for nice PJ food, so I tag along. Hope when I start driving, I can offer them a ride as well - to be fair lor. Anyway, there is a canteen in the building with simple food there. Definitely, I will not die of hunger here. To think positively, I can really save on lunch and my waistline…hehehe

That’s all I could say for now since I am barely a week here. While it is still a slow start and I have the time, I better just learn as much as I can before the wave of works drown me. Do all I could now and the rest, I will pray and seek for God’s hand to be with me. Amen!

Today is my last working day in my company located in KLCC. It has been 2 years plus - 2 years plus of ups and down.

Let’s forget about the downs and just focus on the good memories…hee hee

I must say working in KLCC is a luxury. These are the things I have enjoyed for the past 2 years plus:

• Working in a posh office located in the tallest building in the region!?
• Working above the most happening shopping complex (Suria KLCC)
• The never ending sales (Isetan sale!!)
• The food haven…you name it, they have it here
• Shopping during lunch hour (almost everyday)
• Toilet with automatic flush and automatic water tap. It never really run out of toilet rolls or paper napkins.
• Unlimited supply of soft drinks and a few varieties of biscuit to staff.
• Walking down 34 floors when there is a fire drill ….opps!!
• Abundant public transports with the fastest mode available too (P**** L**) - but that doesn’t mean it’ll get u where u wanna go…hahaha)
• Simple workload and I rarely have to stay back at work.

Hmm…at times, I still wonder whether I will ever regret leaving here but I got to move on. I have made the decision in the first place - for good or for bad, I will face it.

The song Take a bow by Madonna just keep going on in my brain as I sit at my cubicle for the last few hours…

Take a bow from YouTube

Take a bow, the night is over
This masquerade is getting older
Light are low, the curtains down
There’s no one here
[There’s no one here, there’s no one in the crowd]
Say your lines but do you feel them
Do you mean what you say when there’s no one around [no one around]
Watching you, watching me, one lonely star
[One lonely star you don’t know who you are]

Chorus:

I’ve always been in love with you [always with you]
I guess you’ve always known it’s true [you know it’s true]
You took my love for granted, why oh why
The show is over, say good-bye

Say good-bye [bye bye], say good-bye

Make them laugh, it comes so easy
When you get to the part
Where you’re breaking my heart [breaking my heart]
Hide behind your smile, all the world loves a clown
[Just make ‘em smile the whole world loves a clown]
Wish you well, I cannot stay
You deserve an award for the role that you played [role that you played]
No more masquerade, you’re one lonely star
[One lonely star and you don’t know who you are]

(chorus, repeat)

Say good-bye [bye bye], say good-bye

All the world is a stage [world is a stage]
And everyone has their part [has their part]
But how was I to know which way the story’d go
How was I to know you’d break
[You’d break, you’d break, you’d break]
You’d break my heart

I’ve always been in love with you
[I’ve always been in love with you]
Guess you’ve always known
You took my love for granted, why oh why
The show is over, say good-bye

(chorus)

Say good-bye [bye bye], say good-bye
Say good-bye

I’ll Miss the Shoppingggggg!!!!

I am kinda shocked!!!

I remember just about 1 month back, I told a colleague who is leaving that if this Assistant Manager that is seated in front of me leaves. It would really be a lost to the company. If she leaves, it is so sad…

It is her last day today! I just found out cause she was taking photos around with her team mates and I can see her sad face…

She will be missed!

I am moving on too…now I think I have made the right decision.

God be with me.

I have been very busy with work lately. After work, I am still busy travelling home and when I am at home, I will be busy taking care of Zoe and doing house chores. Busy, Busy, Busy….

Apologise for the lack of updates to all of you that read my blog.

I will try to write at home once my Streamyx is up and working. Maybe I can do it while I am doing toilet business   Ewwww!

Quote of the Day: Real-time Multitasking happens once you are a mother + wife + career woman that needs to rely on unreliable LRT to work + without a maid!

I am officially back to work on Friday, 2 Mar 07 - time flies. I am back to an office with lots of changes - I am seated at a new cubicle and my boss is no longer the boss of the dept he was heading and the dept has ceased to operate. Thank God I still have my job and a little increment, which is an added bonus. I guess this is the norm working in a MNC - things changes very fast.

I was taking care of Zoe by myself for the whole of February. It was challenging for me at first as I have no experience taking care of a baby before and I am kinda worried when confinement lady was leaving. Then, I thot to myself - if I cannot take care of Zoe and I am her mother, who else is in better position to take care of her? God has given Zoe to me and made me a mother, surely he has worked out all the details right!
Well! I will just bite the bullet and plunge in and I am sure things will worked out over time. Thankfully, it is really not that hard taking care of my little angel, she seems to understand when mommy need to take a bath or go to toilet and not make a fuss during those times. I would not say that there are no stress at all, there are stressful moments when she cried her lungs out because mommy just cannot understand what she wants - but all are still manageable. Thank you Lord!

Life is triple busier having a baby around and one thing for sure is - No More procastinating any work. Do it now! or baby will wake up soon and she will need me. Wow! I found that I have never been more efficient and effective in finishing all the household chores in the shortest time possible. No nonsense!

I guess this is life as a mother - no nonsense such as day dreaming of what to wear for tomorrow or what to eat so that I will not put on more weight. Just do it! Just eat it!
Speaking about weight - I am now lighter than my weight on my wedding day, which I thot is my best record already. I can now fit into any tight clothings that I had before and I bet I can now wear my Form 1 school uniform

Zoe is now with the baby sitter and I really had a lot of anxiety and worries before sending her over. I sent her there a few days earlier before I start work so that I can stay there with her to monitor the surroundings and people she will be in contact with. Looks pretty ok so far. Just pray hard every day for her that she will not be harm in any way.

I would say that now it is much easier taking care of her during the night only as compared to whole day. I really salute all the mothers who gave up their job for their babies - it is really hard work round the clock. It takes great love and passion to stay at home whole day tending to babies and not get a salary for it. Only a mother can do it! I am still learning to be a good one and so far is okay with the graveyard shift :p

Hmm…I will post more on Zoe soon, there are just so much about her that I want to write about. Oh boy! she can really take the extreme out of me - one moment I will be running around like mad making sure she is well fed and the next I will be sighing in contentment when she smiles at me while I fed her. Oh yea! by the way - it is really true that every mother thinks that their baby is the cutest one in the world - well, at least in the mother’s world. I think so too…

This morning at work comes with a pleasant surprise

I was given a nice watch (Timex indiglo) by my company, due to my contribution as part of the sports and recreation team member. I always feel happy to receive surprises! (especially those that I least expected!)
It make my day!

This is the second watch that I receive free from a company that I worked with - both also a Dutch company. Last year, I received a Swatch watch - cool one.

Personally, I think these watches does not cost much to the company but I believe that an employee would definitely feel appreciated to be given pleasant surprises like this.  Speaking about lifting employee morale - this is one of the many ways.

With the almost new management in my company, things are really starting to change - for the better. I am hoping that next year will be a good year for my career development - be it in current position or something that I have wanted to do for the longest time. Something that will give me the freedom I need and at the same time - give me great satisfaction with good income. Something I personally feel very passionate about