Learning to Write

Recently the learning bug has been biting Rachel. :) Last Saturday, she took her notebook and asked me how to spell and write her name. Wow! I was glad man! Bcos I don't have to force her to learn how to write her own name. And since then she just concentrated on writing her own name. By now, she already know how to spell and write. She even showed her teacher that she can write her own name. Teacher of cos, was impressed and even commented "Well Done!" which kept her happy and proud the whole day.

Her current hobby is blowing bubbles. Almost every weekend she will insist that I allow her to bring the bottle soap water downstairs to let her play after breakfast/ lunch / dinner. Sigh.. Well, I rather let her bring it downstairs to blow then blow in my house. :)

Welcome to this world.. Princess Faith...

This morning at 9.26am, received a sms from my best friend, Eve's SIL - Astee asking if I have heard the good news from Eve. I called her after I received the sms. Was told that Eve has given birth to her baby this early morning. I asked Astee what's the baby's gender but was told to make a guess.. My guess was Girl! Bingo! Ha..ha.. I was right! :) Asked Astee for Louis HP number and sent him a congratulatory sms. He called me shortly after and we spoke for a while. Eve was still drowsy after the C-section, baby was fine too. According to Louis, baby looks like him. Louis was really happy! Laughing while he was talking! So happy for the both of them! Congratulations again my dear friends! I was so happy the whole day after I heard the good news. :D

As for Princess Faith... Welcome to this world! A lot of people will be showering their love and care upon you.. including us, Auntie Eileen and Rachel jie jie. :) See you soon...

Growing Up...

Recently was browsing through pictures of Rachel when she was a baby till now.. Wow! Realised how much she has actually grown.

Finally.. time to blog..

Wow.. it's been "donkey years" since the last time I did any posting.

Recently just applied for Broadband access at home, cos my tenant wanted to use Internet, we agreed to share the cost equally. Well, there are pros and cons having this Internet access at home.. pros are you can go online to check anything you want, access emails 24/7 now and chat online.. cons.. boss will call you even on Sat and Sun.. to check this client's contact for me now and sms me.. :( then mum and Jon kept asking.. what new games to play online??? Never-ending...

Recently, Rachel has started to learn writing alphabets in school. Good thing is at least she will continue practicing writing the alphabets at home after school, though not everyday which I hoped. Instead of starting from A - Z, her teacher actually chose the easiest to start with.. F (down, side, side), E (down, side, side, side), B (Down, small tummy, big tummy),R (fastest alphabet learnt - cos it's for Rachel!) H (two friends holding hands),I, J, M, and latest is W. Tried getting books with dotted lines to guide her in writing.. after 2 rows of writing, Rachel started complaining... My hand very tired already. Don't want to write anymore.

Now, I'm starting her on numbers.. only write 1 and that's it. Tried writing 2 but after the dotted lines ended, she also ends the writing of 2. Brought her to library to borrow some books, DVDs and PC-Rom Discs. Not very interested in reading the books, mainly because she still doesn't know how to read. PC-Rom programmes/games are a bit too advance for her as she hasn't learnt all the alphabets yet. So still interested in just watching DVDs... now into Sesame Street.

Sometimes I felt that I'm quite a "kiasu" mum. Expecting Rachel to be able to read and write at the age of 3. But then on the other hand, there are already some children doing much more than Rachel. I brought her to Yamaha Music School, showing her children learning music. I asked her if she felt the children are playing very good? She said yes.. then I proceed with my next question.. Do you want to be like them? So clever? Can play so well? Answer : NO! I don't want! Well, was quite disappointed with her prompt and immediate answer then. :( But no worries, I will still try to get her to learn music.. Cos it was so-called proven scientifically that children who learnt music are much better in their studies next time. :)

New Desktop & War at Home

Got my desktop last Friday and it has been a nightmare since then. :(

I bought 2 games, Majong Solitaire and Crystallize (games is like Bejeweled 2) to download at home to play. Bought a Reading Program Disc for Rachel as well. Initially, first 2 days was still quite okay. But on Sunday nite when Jonathan came back from his dad's place, aiyoh! It's war time.

Rachel do not allow Jon to play and they were screaming at each other bcos both of them are snatching the mouse and pushing each other off the chair. Once, Rachel was so angry when Jon refused to let her play, she started boxing him till he cried. Poor boy!

Since Monday till now, every morning, Jon woke up very early, wash up and change into school uniform, next thing is he's at the desktop playing games. Best part was my mum, instead of getting Rachel ready for school, she was standing beside Jon, watching and telling Jon where to click etc. Sigh! So now, every morning, I got to rush them out of the house.

Then comes evening time, both kids will rush through their dinner and homework for JOn. After that quarrelling starts, over the PC again. Sigh..

Not too sure if it's a good thing to have a desktop at home now.. :(

9th day at Work..

I have been working here for 9 days.. but it seemed like I have been here for months. So tireeeeed..... :(

Now for the time being, (I think this week only, hopefully) I have to work from my boss' house in the morning, to setup his clients files, and in the afternoon, back in the office or out to meet clients.

For the past few days, I'm only in the office for like 2-3 hours! Running about like an adviser. I think I met more clients than my ex-colleagues. Some how, I missed the office desk-bound job.. but definitely not the FILINGS!

My First 2 Days @ Work

Started work in my new office yesterday. Was late on my first day! Reached office at 9.15am.. Phew! What a start!

Yesterday was a busy day.. since morning. Calling the insurers to find out clients' policies details etc. Lunch with my ex-agent, Linda Lee. She wanted to buy me my farewell lunch. After lunch went to Sim Lim Square to buy namecard scanner for my boss. Afternoon, doing the insurance summary for one of the clients. Took me around 1 hr to do it.. too slow for my standard. :( By the time I finished all the things, 6pm liao... Time to knock off liao.

At around 2pm, I received a call from my ex-boss. She said my replacement girl tendered her resignation. My God! Me here starting work first day, over there was my replacement's last day of work. New secretary claimed that she cant take the workload there. Too much work to do, and messy filings. Told my ex-boss that filings, cant be helped. It's not messy as files were all labelled.. Just that all the papers not filed in yet, so it's messy. ;P She said ya.. she understand. When I was there, I really got no time to do especially if she's running for her sales. So now, she has got to do all the things herself.

Today, second day at work.. Quite boring. Nothing much to do lei. My boss running in and out of the office. He's going for his reservist next week and therefore got to do his sales by this week. He told me:"Sorry hor.. this week you got to swim on your own here. I'm too busy to coach you." Good for me lor.. no government here! ;) But if this continues, I will be very, very bored.

My office environment here.. young agents but they dont seems to be very friendly type. Luckily I do have friends here. They will drop by and chat with me for a while, or if I do need some help, I can approach them. :) Cannot eat/munch in the office. So I'm going to lose more weight! Die lah! Cannot munch! Well, but i dont care.. anyway, munch only in the afternoon after the cleaning lady go home. Ha..ha..

Yesterday morning, I took a packet of biscuit at my desk, cos I didnt know about the rules yet. The cleaning lady came and told me that I cant even eat biscuits at my desk I was quite shocked! Well, since then, she has been watching me with her eagle eyes!

My boss room is located like 8 rooms away from where I'm sitting. He will intercom me as and when and I have to walk over to his room.. First day of work already got blister on my feet. Asked my boss if I can wear slippers here. He said ok, except when I'm meeting clients. No problem at all man! He..he..

My desk space is so small.. so miserable compared to the one that I used to have. Only got space to put a laptop and some papers.. that's it liao..

Overall here, it seems okay.. but a bit boring lor.. I miss my ex-colleagues!! :(