It’s exactly 7 more days to Princess EDD.
Mummy is starting to experience the squeezy feeling occasionally in the tummy. There are also occasional sudden painless contractions. Let’s see if she will pop on Children’s Day. Haaahaaa..
Both Daddy & Mummy are looking forward to meeting Princess Inez.
Finally, fulfilled my wish to take some shots in my preggie state on Sunday. Thanks to Gary who did it for us. It was tiring cos after service & it was a really hot day that afternoon. Good thing that it was done at home – very economical. All in all, we took about 50+ shots (to be edited & given to me) in about 1.5 hours.
Let’s see if baby will pop after this photo shoot. Gynae already said that high chance that she will pop since already engaged.
As the date draws closer, I’m excited and looking forward to the birth of our baby as I be very glad to “lighten” this burden on my tummy (backache, swollen feet la). I’m excited to see how she looks like, what’s her character going to be like and how she’s going to grow daily. But on the other hand, I think I’m going to miss the movements, kicks and how my tummy moves and shakes whenever baby moves too.
God is so amazing and the creation of life can truly be felt in every mother & father.
Of course,there will also be the concerns of whether I can cope up with this new role (considering the fact that I never had any niece or nephew) and whether I be able to manage my time between the different hats that I wear. There will also be concerns over the baby’s health, whether I can really bathe her when I’m alone, etc, etc, etc.
Well, I just gota have faith and trust God that He will provide for us financially and His wisdom and guidance will see me through.
When you hear the word – OUTSOURCING, what comes to your mind? Retrenchment? Cost-savings? Efficiency? Time to axe people? Rescheduling of work?
Well, different people sees his ‘forbidden’ word differently and it’s also dependent on which receiving end you are at. If you are the one whose at the receiving end where you run the risk that your job will be transferred to somewhere else where labor costs are cheaper and you probably lose your job, then you hate this word. If you have worked for the same company for you entire life and you can now receive the “Golden Handshake”, you probably rejoice over it. Whether is the first or second situation, the only consolation is that lumpsum of compensation that you are going to get.
There’s has been so much talk & rumors in my company that a lot of the back-end operations are going to be migrated to our “friendly neighbour” across the causeway since a few months ago. Finally, THE DAY has come where almost 80 – 90% of the operations staff received that dreaded “white envelope”. After that news has been released, you can sense that the whole atmosphere in the company seemed to be surrounded by a dark aura of gloominess and unhappiness.
Not only that, every department is ‘infested’ with the counterparts from Msia. They not only made our contract staff gave up their seats and we the perm staff are supposed to teach them our whole process from A-Z. What’s worse is some of the colleagues still has to go to KL and teach them for 3 months. What an irony it is – teaching them stuff you know & knowing in your heart that they are going to take over your job soon.
Indeed, gone are the days where they say so & so company can provide a “steel rice-bowl”. The thing about this whole thing is all the different departments in the location where I’m working knows their fate except my poor department (cos of the promotion and high volume we are currently facing). To the whole team, is as if your head is on the chopping board and you do not know what to do expect. The morale in the team is low. One by one, my fellow colleagues have to take turn to go KL in the next couple of weeks. Thank God that I’m going maternity, if not, I forsee that I will have to go also.
Frankly speaking, after working in this same company for the last 7+ years and being in 2 different departments, I have seen how cold and harsh the company can be, the different treatments that frontliners and back-end operations staff received. Sometimes, I’m utterly disgusted by the mgmt. What a joke it is sometimes when I see certain awards being given to the company.
Well, I was telling my hubby and parents that I would rather take the compensation and take a short break and look for a greener pasture. Though we learned about faithfulness and loyalty, but we also learned that we shift from a weaker power based to a stronger power base.
Now, I just want to enjoy and rest during this break & pray for God’s direction and doors of opportunity to be opened in the coming months.
Today is the first day that I’m officially free from my work. The start of my 3 weeks annual block leave and then followed by my 4 months of maternity leave. Usually, I only take 2 weeks annual block leave but I have not taken much leave this year due to the busy schedule at work. I might as well take a longer break to rest my physically & mentally tortured body and mind.
3 weeks seem long, while I was waiting eagerly for it to arrive, I also wondered what are the things that I can do during this break before I get busy with the little one that’s going to pop soon.
So, for the first week, I shall go meet some of my irregulars from CG for lunch. Pray that each meeting with them will be fruitful and I can deposit something into their lives. I shall also finish up the planning for CG since I won’t see my members during my confinement period.
Then I shall finish packing up the last minute items to dump into the hospital bag and for things to be shifted to MIL’s place for my confinement.
Oh, btw, I thought I will only wake up today at 12pm but I was already awake at 10am though I only slept at 130am last night. Anyway,a break from busy life sometimes do us good – give us more time to do some personal stuff & to reflect upon our life and the things that we ought to do & haven’t do or the things that we shouldn’t have done.
This week is both my MIL & FIL birthday, so my BIL organize a lunch today at one of the Chinese restaurant in Orchard Hotel. By the time we finish, is already slightly after 2pm. Dear has to go to work at Expo, so I thought might as well pop over to Taka to see the baby fair & get the final items and finish up the vouchers.
So, I went with my MIL & FIL cos they also want to shop, shop, see, see and look look. It’s my first outing with them without my hubby. It was quite pleasant, at least better than what I imagine. They accompanied me to the baby fair and bought the stuff that are needed. Just that I felt a little bad that my FIL carried the basket & eventually the shopping bag (cos it’s a little heavy).
So, we shop abit in Taka for around 2 hrs+. By then, both me & my FIL abit tired liao, so we parted ways & left for home. Both of them carried my shopping bag back to Dover since they said is heavy and we can just bring back next week when we go back for dinner.
For a first outing with them, that does not seem too bad. At least, I managed to talk more to my MIL.
