What Matters Most In My Life?

I have been asking myself the same question over and over again for the past month. I was offered a highly paid, flexitime home based job by my ex-colleague who now holds a key position in an international company.  As it is home based, I can practically work from home with my pyjamas on.  Sounds too good to be true, right, don't you think and I am sure any SAHM would sure jump at the chance. 

But then, I had to turn down the job offer mainly because the job scope requires me to travel overseas extensively.  If I were single, I would have taken up the offer without hesitation but now I'll have to give it a miss.  My family especially the boy still matters the most to me.  I hope I would not regret in the later part of my life for letting go such a golden opportunity.

I have seen and witnessed working mothers who still do a good job raising up their children despite having to juggle between work and family but not without supportive spouses who involve themselves actively in parenting their children.  As for my spouse, work keeps him away from home more often than not and he thinks that I can do a better parenting job than him. :( 

*To Be Continued*

How We Spent Our School Holidays

First week going in and out the hospital and the week after staying home looking after my dad in-law..  He suffered from a mild stroke two days before mid-term school holidays started.  There's a blood clot on the right side of his brain and thus affected his left body movement.  The parents in-law stay with us now as I will have to take dad in-law for occupational and physiotherapy sessions at the hospital once a week.  Apart from that, he also goes for accupuncture and home massage.   That explains why the long hiatus in updating my blog.

At the hospital

I only managed to take the boy out for "Kungfu Panda 2" movie throughout the two weeks' holidays.  The school reopens tomorrow and we parents will have to go back to our usual busy routine after today.   I don't look forward to the homework and revision part.. especially with the next term test coming in two months' time.. Argghhh..   

Lost And Found!

I had to send the boy to school this afternoon and only realised my car key wasn't with me when we were at the car park.  Gosh!  Went back up to the condo and searched through all possible places where I would have left it. Tarak.. Left me no choice but to call Supercab center for their taxi service but there was no available taxi at that moment.  We had to walk out to the roadside and were lucky to spot an empty taxi,  flagged down and jumped into it.  The boy arrived at his school just in time before class started. Phew!   While in the taxi, he was so worried that he would get punished by the discipline teacher. *poor boy*

I rushed back home and continued with my key search, rummaging through the whole house, walking back to the lift down to the car park trying to recollect.  Even the staircase wasn't spared as I have the habit of walking the staircase.  Hello, Mr CK (car key), I am not in the mood to play hide-n-seek with you, ok!  To make things worse, my spare key is kept at our Puchong house! Damn..

The management office was closed for lunch break.  I went down again at 2pm and the moment I asked the girl if by any chance she knew the whereabout of my key, she gave me a big and wide grin.. Yes, the cleaner found it in the lift. *so embarrased*  Guess it's time to go for a check-up for any possible symptoms of Alzheimer or Parkinson diseases. *ahem* 

Stay Calm..

I know.. I know.. but it's easier said than done..

Four Problems, Three down though I am still nursing my flu

Left with one.. A STICKY ONE! to deal with *sigh*

Have a Good Weekend, everyone..

Fuming Mad!!!

Ever since I came back from my hometown last Friday, I have been "welcomed" by waves of problems, one after another.  First, my paypal account got hacked followed by my apartment tenant who has been giving me tonnes of headaches throughout his seven years of tenancy and only when I asked him to move out did I realise that he had unsettled electricity bills of RM2k++ and that the account had been terminated since June last year!  Obviously he got the electricity on through illegimate sources. My mistake for not checking closely.. 

And nope.. my problems do not stop here.. my son told me he lost his Science Activity Book and his subject teacher wanted him to get a new one as replacement.  I had been calling up all bookshops (Popular, Pelangi, MPH, the publisher, Borders, Kinokuniya...Have I missed out any??) but but to no avail with all giving me same answer.. Sold Out and the publisher has stopped printing KBSR books in line wth the new KSSR syllabus. *Deng*

And and...that's not all..   Now I am here down with a bad flu trying to print out the TNB bills but but... BUT..  my printer just refuses to do its job!! *fainted*    

How Long Can The New Set Last?

His old set of coloured pencils

The brand new 24's jumbo size hexagonal coloured pencils

The Faber Castell that I bought for him just before the school started had worn out and in dire condition after just two weeks. He didn't actually do much colouring until yesterday when they had their first art lesson in school. He kept bugging me for a new set of colouring pencils when I went to pick him up. He dug his colour pencils out and pleaded how bad he needed a new set and blablabla. He can be very persistent when he is determined to have things his way. *shakes head*

We got the Stabilo 24's Jumbo hexagonal colored pencils from Tesco for slightly over RM20. The pencil body and lead are larger than the regular sized pencils and hopefully it sharpens well and doesn't break easily like the previous set. My boy says it's easy and fun to grip and it won't roll away because of its shape. Hmm.. Lets see..