Posts Tagged ‘Life’

I work 8 – 4 everyday. Right after work it’s parent duty. Until 8-9 pm (usually later than that). For this job I don’t get the reward in monetary form. I also tutor 3 times a week. Twice on weekdays and once on weekend. So far I’m grateful that I have the extra income coming in other than from my regular job.  However, it would really be nice if I can earn more. ( don’t we all think so too.. )

The only investment we have right now is insurance that is also a savings investment in case if we would surrender the policy after some years and forex. Hopefully one day we would get to check out annuity quote from some major companies out there and not to mention stocks as well. But gosh, does it seem a little far still. Until then, we need to save and save and slowly invest. That’s all we can do in our effort to get out of the rat race.

Hasn’t been feeling too well since the weekend. Runny nose, blocked at times and cough. It is something that is going around when the weather changes. Especially from cold to warm or vice versa. My little one is not at home for the rest of the week cause she said she is also feeling a little under the weather so we sent her to her grandma. So we are child free for 3 days at least. Not that it is a happy thing but at least we can relax a little.

Just for 3 days she packed a whole big bag of soft toys with her. Soft toy dogs complete with leashes that she made herself with ribbons. I bet if I can get her a toy version of a portable vari kennel she would be ecstatic. Kids and their imagination.

Well, at least I can take a little breather from mommy duties  as there are some big changes going on at my workplace.

Now that I am the head teacher of a group of children, I do a lot of singing with them everyday. There are times when I think that I really should get back to learning how to play the guitar. My Fender cd 60 acoustic is up on the cupboard for such a long time. I’ve only played it for some months when I got it as a Christmas present four years ago. I asked for one because I really like the sound of the guitar, be it acoustic, classical or electric.

I was really happy with it when I received it and thought that if I get to learn how to play an acoustic I would eventually move on to an electric one – a rickenbacker perhaps. But then, without a teacher I started to slack in my practice routine and in the end stopped. That’s how most people end up I know. Sad isn’t it?

But as long as I have the guitar there and I still have the intention to learn, I know I can always pick it up and start back again. I can only wish that I have more time for work, family, rest, blogging, Japanese studies and guitar practice. I just started working for a few months at the new place. Once I feel stable at the new job, and I have a daily routine with my Japanese studies (I study minimum an hour everyday ) I would definitely include guitar practice in my schedule. The children would really love to sing accompanied by the mellifluous tone of the guitar.

The problem working with local employers sometimes is that they do not like to follow ther rules when it comes to employing people. Or they take it for granted. They think that people are desperate enough for work that they can do anything they like thinking that employees won’t leave. Well, that is true here I know.  Not only speaking for myself but also for my previous colleagues whom I worked with before.

I love working in kindergartens and daycares but my morale is pretty low right now following the knowledge that my current employer was trying to cheat me on no paying my healthcare and tax – I still doubt that they pay even now. For that, I am not going to linger if I can help it. If I had the money I’d venture on my own, be it selling eyelash growth products online or open my own daycare! Well, but the thing is, I’ve no money to go on my own. But at least I can really try to look for a different job. I’m trying to go for multinational companies this time. I am not sure whether they are better than local employers, but from what I heard from friends and acquaintance, at least they do things professionally.

So yes, I’m going throught the job search all over again now. But I am much more determined after getting 2 employers that lack in credibility. God help me. I really need an employer who has  integrity and believes in fairness.

I went out with a friend today. She wanted to watch the 3 musketeers so I accompanied her. The movie was oookaayy… but not that good in my opinion. To me cool effects doesn’t mean a movie is good. Just okay. The storyline is too simple and predictable.

After movie we had lunch and did some shopping. I wanted to get some Fimo clay. Though we started out carrying a few things at the hobby shop, but ended up buying not even half of what we picked up because they had a little problem with their POS system as they could not key in the prices of some merchandise. Too bad really.

I was out with the friend for nearly 6 hours. The feeling of being single – child at her grandmother’s and husband at work. It felt good.

Halloween is just around the corner. Though we don’t really celebrate it here, but it sure is something fun thing to do with the children. I am thinking about the things we can do and make at the daycare. The arts & crafts with Halloween theme would be great fun to make and later use as decorations.

Despite the fact that this country does not officially celebrate Halloween, I see that there are more and more pumpkins being sold for halloween. I even bought one 3 days ago just to make a Jack-o-lantern with my little girl. Just for fun and the first time experience. We loved it so much that we are thinking of buying another pumpkin to make another lantern.

Well, although I think that we might have a Halloween celebration at the daycare, I am just not too sure about how to go about setting up the party for the toddlers. Decorations, costumes, Halloween party candy apples and pictures perhaps would be just fine.

There is still about 2 weeks for or less to go, so I hope the others would come up some ideas as well.

It’s red week at the daycare. Last week it was blue. Being a rather new daycare we still lack quite many teaching materials. Instead of the daycare management, I have to get the materials when ever I have the time. Materials like – craft paper, card paper, paints, and other craft materials. Well, to find where to buy at a good price that is the problem for me. Since I only have a certain amount of budget, I cannot buy materials in bulk.

At the moment I really need lots of colourful cards and a laminating machine. Saw a website called cut cardstock and wish that they would be able to send over to my part of the world. It would be really easy. This is the time when online shopping becomes handy. Instead of I do the walking around and visit from one art shop to another, I can just browse online and let my fingers do the walking as they say.

I work alone for now. But I will have someone to help starting from next week hopefully so maybe that person would be able to help me with material shopping as well. Then I can concentrate on just making teaching materials. Hopefully, the kids would enjoy the craft I am preparing for them to make tomorrow.

The internet has become such an important component in many peoples’ lives that it would be really hard to live without a good connection. I recall the days when we had to dial on to the internet and it would take ages just to connect, and slow loading of pages is not something uncommon. Yet we thought that was good enough.

Now that sort of connection would be unbearable. Exactly the sort of feeling I’m going through now. I’m only using my mobile phone as a modem to connect to the internet. Though it is extremely slow, but it is keeping me sane. We just moved to our new place, and there is no wifi internet yet. So I’m pretty much dependent on my mobile internet. I am thankful I got it. Though tomorrow the people are coming over to connect the internet. Too good to be true, but we still hope it is true. Compared to the current connection, browsing with wifi connection would be like driving a car with extremely good auto wheels – smooth.

Hopefully will be updating my blog with a better connection soon!

The day finally came for us to attend a houseparty hosted by one of my colleagues. I’m not into parties that I seldom go to one. But since I passed the last one I couldn’t think of an excuse not to go to this party. At least the idea that I’m going to the countryside makes me happier.

Hopefully next week we will be able to go to the countryside to relax. No loud traffic, no party. Just the sound of the birds, the sun and the hammock. We finally got ourselves a tent, just to try out camping (in the weekend house garden). Next we would like to get bicycles complete with a yakima bike rack so that we can transport them around with us.

Summer is indeed a good time to be spending the days out of the big city.

It’s middle of July and I’m at home relaxing the days away. Well, most days at least. There were changes at the Kindergarten and I was told only 4 people will be working for Summer camp. So I had my holiday a bit earlier. I don’t mind so much though.

I managed to read 3 books last week only and currently reading 2 books. In the day, I’d read ‘Mr. Darcy’s diary’ and in the evening before bed I’d read, ‘The civil contract’. I’m hoping to be able to squeeze in at least 12-15 books in four weeks. I’m in a reading frenzy.

Although I have a few more unread books on my shelves, I still go online to look around for more books to buy. For my birthday, I told myself. Some girls would rather have a pair of Black diamond earrings but I don’t mind having more and more good books as gifts. Well, at least that is how I feel at the moment as I’m in the mood for chain reading.