Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Mum & Working Mum
It's really difficult to be a mum and working mum...
That's why so many people nowadays rather be concentrating solely on their careers and chose not to have babies.. or have a baby, quit their job and be a full time housewife...
Reason is very simple.. because you can never be in between.. especially not at the beginning stages of your baby's life..
Juggling between work and family (parents, parents in law, baby, husband) plus not enough slp every night is enough to tire you out...
Government are giving out more baby bonus.. more maternity leaves... childcare leave... to try and encounter more babies... at the same time they are also encountering more females to join the working force... is it enough??? NO! The longer maternity leaves had the mum worrying that she might not lose her job now but she will lose her job when she get back... sure you can sue your employee but the end result will always be "sorry but your job is gone.. look for another one"... the money given is not enough to last till one year.... you have a few good companies with very good benefits for mums such as flexible working hours, work from home etc but can I ask.. how many mums actually get to work in such a firm... less than 50%... most worked for SMES... who ultimately cares about their day to day commercial operations than family.. ultimately the company need to survive.. bottom line period.. who cares about you wanting to spend more time with your family..
Is a balance between all affecting factors in my life achievable at all?
That's why so many people nowadays rather be concentrating solely on their careers and chose not to have babies.. or have a baby, quit their job and be a full time housewife...
Reason is very simple.. because you can never be in between.. especially not at the beginning stages of your baby's life..
Juggling between work and family (parents, parents in law, baby, husband) plus not enough slp every night is enough to tire you out...
Government are giving out more baby bonus.. more maternity leaves... childcare leave... to try and encounter more babies... at the same time they are also encountering more females to join the working force... is it enough??? NO! The longer maternity leaves had the mum worrying that she might not lose her job now but she will lose her job when she get back... sure you can sue your employee but the end result will always be "sorry but your job is gone.. look for another one"... the money given is not enough to last till one year.... you have a few good companies with very good benefits for mums such as flexible working hours, work from home etc but can I ask.. how many mums actually get to work in such a firm... less than 50%... most worked for SMES... who ultimately cares about their day to day commercial operations than family.. ultimately the company need to survive.. bottom line period.. who cares about you wanting to spend more time with your family..
Is a balance between all affecting factors in my life achievable at all?
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Updates...
Ok I havent been updating for quite some time..
I have a couple of videos I wanted to upload but I am just too lazy to transfer them from my mobile to my com.. and the videos are too big to upload straight to blogger from my mobile.. so those got to wait..
Gerald has reached a couple of new milestones... he can now hold his own water bottle.. (but not milk bottle because that's too big for him)...he can now roll over by himself (and he love doing that..).. he can now "walk" on the floor in his walker.. (previously we put a wooden board underneath to use as a floorboard as his feet cannot reach the ground then).... he cannot really walk properly.. but can move his own walker to and fro and backward by pushing his body to the side and back... he is now starting to observe stuffs and is very curious about the world around him.. and by doing so.. refuses to drink his milk properly.. we will have to shove and fight our way to get him to finish his bottle... if not he will just drink till he's ok (not full yet because less than 3 hours later he will start crying for milk again and the cycle repeat itself), push the teat out and refuses to drink anymore..and he is still drinking 120ml of milk.. (seem a little too little for me for a 5 mths old baby)..and he can go 4 - 6 hours withoout milk whenever we bring him out.. (woo hoo save milk powder but poor Gerald seem to have lose some weight because of that).. but when we are outside.. no matter how we push the milk bottle to him.. he just refused to drink it... what can we do? Because he is so curious about the world outside.. he love to go out..he love to sit car... which is good because I want him to see stuffs, mix around with crowds so he is not afraid of noises and strangers..
The previous Sunday 13th Sept, we took Gerald back to Batu Pahat, my mum hometown to visit my grandma and pray to my late grandpa... luckily he slept most of his way there.. however as he now recognises familiar faces.. he will cry when he see a unfamiliar face.. so he was crying whenever he see my mum, my dad and my grandma face and I have to carry him most of the times.. Quite sad that he cannot recognise my parents face because they are his grandparents too.. I tried to bring him over once every week but dun think that's enough... but he is just a baby.. so I hope when he grow older, he will know my parents as his grandparents too..
Got to prepare to go to work now.. update again..
I have a couple of videos I wanted to upload but I am just too lazy to transfer them from my mobile to my com.. and the videos are too big to upload straight to blogger from my mobile.. so those got to wait..
Gerald has reached a couple of new milestones... he can now hold his own water bottle.. (but not milk bottle because that's too big for him)...he can now roll over by himself (and he love doing that..).. he can now "walk" on the floor in his walker.. (previously we put a wooden board underneath to use as a floorboard as his feet cannot reach the ground then).... he cannot really walk properly.. but can move his own walker to and fro and backward by pushing his body to the side and back... he is now starting to observe stuffs and is very curious about the world around him.. and by doing so.. refuses to drink his milk properly.. we will have to shove and fight our way to get him to finish his bottle... if not he will just drink till he's ok (not full yet because less than 3 hours later he will start crying for milk again and the cycle repeat itself), push the teat out and refuses to drink anymore..and he is still drinking 120ml of milk.. (seem a little too little for me for a 5 mths old baby)..and he can go 4 - 6 hours withoout milk whenever we bring him out.. (woo hoo save milk powder but poor Gerald seem to have lose some weight because of that).. but when we are outside.. no matter how we push the milk bottle to him.. he just refused to drink it... what can we do? Because he is so curious about the world outside.. he love to go out..he love to sit car... which is good because I want him to see stuffs, mix around with crowds so he is not afraid of noises and strangers..
The previous Sunday 13th Sept, we took Gerald back to Batu Pahat, my mum hometown to visit my grandma and pray to my late grandpa... luckily he slept most of his way there.. however as he now recognises familiar faces.. he will cry when he see a unfamiliar face.. so he was crying whenever he see my mum, my dad and my grandma face and I have to carry him most of the times.. Quite sad that he cannot recognise my parents face because they are his grandparents too.. I tried to bring him over once every week but dun think that's enough... but he is just a baby.. so I hope when he grow older, he will know my parents as his grandparents too..
Got to prepare to go to work now.. update again..
Saturday, September 19, 2009
Sunday, September 06, 2009
Wednesday, September 02, 2009
Nikoi Island
Me and hubby are both thinking of going for a holiday during the New year period.. 1st Jan to 3rd Jan since it is a Fri - Sun long weekend.. and Nikoi Island is one of the destinations that we have been looking at for a long time and always didn't have a chance to go..
The previous time we checked availability one month ahead and it was fully booked.. can't remember when was that for.. and I was advised to book 3 months ahead... and now I am checking availability 4 months ahead and still it is fully booked!! ARGHHH...
This is soo unbelievable.. If you are interested to fight with me... visit www.nikoi.com
The previous time we checked availability one month ahead and it was fully booked.. can't remember when was that for.. and I was advised to book 3 months ahead... and now I am checking availability 4 months ahead and still it is fully booked!! ARGHHH...
This is soo unbelievable.. If you are interested to fight with me... visit www.nikoi.com
Tuesday, September 01, 2009
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