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Eight months ago, when I laid out my objectives for the year, things seemed to look pretty much achievable. Somehow I managed to keep them on track to a certain extent. Now, looking at my list again, it really saddens me that the things I had aimed for to get done (or at least still be doing) have not somehow materialized.
Let’s recap:
- I hope to better manage my monies as compared to previous years – FAIL! Cashflow management has been my biggest challenge so far this year. It has always been "my money is our money but never mine".
- I plan to cook more at home and try out new recipes/dishes, and probably try baking as well – again FAIL! How to, when the husband is more geared up to do so more than you? At least I did buy an electric oven. But no mixer machine, how to bake?
- I want to enrol Mika to the same childcare centre as his sister (towards end of the year) – A-ha! SUCCESS! This is more like "I better enrol him, by hook or by crook, or else…" Wouldn’t want to add more burden to my mum now that I have a third child, now would I?
- I would like to get new lenses for my digital slr, and explore outdoor photography during my free time – What…? Free time? Outdoor? Come again? FAIL! (also inter-related with first point on getting new lenses)
- I would like to have more family-bonding times – To a certain extent, SUCCESS! But we really have yet to go out together as a family after having given birth to Anaqi. With that I meant like to the beach for picnic, or to the zoo, etc…not to Giant supermarket to get groceries.
- I plan to improve my wadrobe (really! I think I’ve been wearing the same old clothes every week!) – somewhat FAIL! Again this is inter-related to point #1, but I do make it a point to sneak in some online purchases. Meh.
- And lastly, I really, really hope and pray that I will still have a job in 2009. – Okay, this one I really need to touch wood big time! In relation to first point, I cannot afford to *not* have a job at this stage. Also, I heard (while still on my maternity leave) from some of my colleagues that there has been some re-org happening at my workplace that’s affecting my team. I pray that I’m not too badly affected by it. Hence this one – IN PROGRESS!
So what would I make of that? 30% success, 10% In Progress and 60% FAILURE! Overall, FAIL WHALE!
Just configured email posting on LiveJournal and thought I’d give it a try from my blackberry.
(Let’s see if I can attach an image file too?)
Here goes…*post*
Sent via BlackBerry from SingTel!
Stumbled upon this while surfing the net today (LJ Mobile Posting) so thought I’d give it a try.
Post from mobile portal m.livejournal.com
03.08.2009 – The start of an enriching journey for my second-born, Mika’il Rusydi. It was his first day at childcare and itturned out to be a fun and interesting one. We arrived slightly after breakfast and headed straight to the music room. The music room was in the same ground unit as Toddler (Dewey) class, but in a totally different section from Nursery 2 (Eriksson) class. Therefore even though his sister, Misha, is in the same childcare centre, they are logistically separated.
So what did he do on his first day in an alienated place? Lots of exploring! He didn’t join some of the class activities conducted as he was busily helping himself to the vast number of toys there (especially huge lego blocks). By ‘helping himself’ I mean attempting to *eat* those toys!
The music room was spacious enough for the little tods to play ball and explore battery-operated bicycles (which was the theme lesson of that week). It appeals to me that Mika found great interest in these.
Just before lunch, his form teacher did some class reading, to which he consciously ignored (he’s still engaged with lego blocks). The children then headed back to Toddler (Dewey) class for some bottle-cap and finger painting. Again, I was amazed at his interest at this activity as this was his first attempt at handling paint as an art medium. What I totally wasn’t amazed at was his refusal to wear any bibs over his brand new uniform, that resulted in splashing (acrylic) paint on the fabric that cannot be removed! Bummer.
During lunch, he ate what looked like fried rice with mushroom (the teacher later confirmed that it’s rice with stewed chicken). He wanted to eat by himself and didn’t want anybody else (me included) to feed him. Which is great, of couse, to show his independent self, but ultimately things got a little messy when most of his food ended up on the table and floor instead. Once lunch is over, the children took their shower, and Mika was the last one to bathe. Normally the teacher-in-charge shower two children at a time, but since it was Mika’s first day, he was set to bathe alone (probably to see how easy or difficult it was to handle him, I suppose. Because he *loves* to play with water!).
Half a day gone, and he’s ready to take his 2-hour nap, with a bottle of milk to lull him to sleep. Seeing that he’s adapting well thus far, I left him in the good hands of his teachers.
