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In less than 2 months time my workplace will be closed for an entire month. Summer vacation. I have never worked in a school or kindergarten before so this is my first time getting one whole month compulsory summer vacation. Cool thing about being a teacher or in my case assistant teacher.

No real plans of going anywhere yet but we are quite sure to be going to the country side for a week or two and I’m planning to read one book after another for that 4 weeks. I’ve already ordered 3 classic books and I’ll be ordering a few more sometime next month. Other than that, maybe settle some official things both in Malaysia and here. Firstly,need to get address changed for the student loan matters, and the the other is to cancel the health insurance or Medicare plan from ING since I’ve already got the social medical care card.

After working for months now, 4 weeks of nothing much to do sure is a pleasant thought.

Our apartment search has been put on hold for a while as we are still considering in which part of the city we would like to stay in. As we are not quite sure which school to send our little girl to just yet. For now I’m just creating and recreating the dream home that we are going to move in.

I know a guy who actually would like to live in steel buildings. Or what I called ‘containers’. I thought he was joking at first but he was rather serious about it. Well, as a saying in my native language goes, ‘Different fields, yields different sort of grasshoppers’. Different people have different preferences. If you asked me, I’d like a small cottage like house to live in. 3 bedrooms with large enough livingroom, a comfortable kitchen, 2 bathrooms and a nice small garden. Living in a city like we are now, that would rather  rare and not to mention rather pricey.

But who knows… At least one can still dream about it.

My other half is suffering right now as the weather turned warm and more and more pollen flowing around freely in the air. We were in the countryside yesterday and the day before thinking that his allergy wouldn’t be so bad but it was. He was in bed most of the time we were there. So our short vacation was cut even shorter. So here we are back to the polluted city.

I don’t mind it much as I’m used to this kind of situation. I can understand his predicament as I too have some sort of allergy. In my case, I have aczema. Not so bad nowadays but I still have flare ups now and then. Oh the woes of having allergies. It sucks.

Only good thing about his allergy is that it is not at every location he would have to suffer a lot. Some areas do have high pollen density while others don’t. Where we are right now in the city, where there are barely many trees, it isn’t bad for him. Where as the weekend house is located, we would be surrounded by nature – trees and plants that produce pollen.

I do hope this August, when we are on our summer holidays, his allergy would subside. I just wish we can look out for rv loans and choose one and get a nice suitable rv that we can travel in so we can still enjoy our vacation without having to bother about pollen density. If he doesn’t feel good in an area, we just start the rv and move on to a better location.

I had the longest sleep that I can remember ever since I started working last night and yet I still feel tired, weak and irritated. These past few weeks, work has not only been physically demanding but also emotionally. Not the job that I hate, I still love it. Just how the negativity of other people around you just sucks your energy. Perhaps taking a new sort of supplement like hgh would help with the stamina. I don’t know…Anything positive would indeed really help a lot I think.

For now I need to collect myself and keep focus on what I should do. I won’t allow other people’s negativities and stupidities get to me and effect my life.

The last time we did a staff gathering it was when we went on a hike together. That was in April. Since we are supposed to do a staff gathering every month, it is time for another one soon. A colleague has invited all of us to her home village somewhere in the countryside.  I think it is one of those villages that even seasoned truck drivers who know the country roads like the back of their hands would need to buy truck gps just to go to that place. I’ve never heard of the village nor has anyone else I’ve asked.

I’m not sure yet whether I’d go. But it would be good experience I’m quite sure. So we will see.

When I was still expecting, I remember how excited I was when I starte to receive customized gift baskets for new mom which usually includes items for newborn babies. Looking at how cute the items were I looked forward to the day when my baby would finally use all those things. However, when the baby finally came and when I first realized that I had become a mommy, it was scary to be honest. Scary because I didn’t know a thing about being a mother. I didn’t even know how to hold a soft, tiny little baby, let alone raise it to become a healthy child.

Days passed and experience grew from trials and errors. It was not scary anymore – well, not as much as before at least. Every little development meant a lot. I recall the first time she had her solid food, the time she started making sounds, when she walk etc. 5 years had passed and when I watched her sang in front of her class a song for mother’s day, I felt that all the lack of sleep, the whinings, the cryings, the complaining I received from her seemed to be all worth it. No regrets at all. It’s wonderful feeling indeed to be a mother.

The boy whom I’ve been tutoring had had and accident not too long ago. Most probably it happened on Monday since it happened at school and that he was fine on Saturday. He broke his spine and in intensive care.

So we were told that he must not move as that may cause injury to his nerves. If that happens he may end up in a wheelchair for the rest of his life. That would be one sad story. I’m not sure how they are going to do that, but I know that they are keeping him sedated so that he would be sleeping most of the time. I know about neck braces, shoulder braces, arm immobilizers, but I’ve never seen how they immobilize the back. Whatever it is, for an 11 year old to keep still for more than a month, well… my heart goes out to him. And also his family for having to go through this.

I’ve been seeing him nearly every week since he was 7 years old and I sincerely care about him. I really do hope that he can overcome this.

Today was the last day of work before the Easter break starts. We have 1 week off from work. Hooray! I’m one happy person. When you work or study you always look forward to holidays such as this one.

It will be my second month of work when end of April comes. However only in September will I get a full contract – complete with tax, SSDI, etc. That’s not too long now though so I’m fine with that.

So after nearly two months of working here how do I feel? I still love the place and I still love the people I work with.

I had my wisdom tooth extracted this morning. Now my cheeks are swollen a little bit but thank goodness I feel no pain. I was looking forward to real puffy cheek and agonizing pain.

However, I do feel so tired though. As if I’ve been beaten up. Maybe the cutting and the drilling and the pulling out part of the body causes some sort of shock. I’m fine now though, relaxing and watching a movie while I’m typing this. Yeah, I’m the multi tasking sort. I haven’t been updating here much that’s why. Been too tired after work to do so.

I’m watching ‘Jodha Akbar’ for the 4th – 5th time. I love the songs, the actors, the settings the Indian bride costumes, even the plus size bridesmaid dresses looks real amazing. I even got the movie on my Ipod and am going to convert the video to a file watchable on my Samsung phone. I’m a big fan of the movie.

Well, glad the day went well so far.

Have you every had a day when everything went wrong? I suppose many of us go through that at least once in our lives. Well, instead of things going wrong in one day, I find it like it is a conspiracy when things one by one decided to stop working. The keyboard, my phone and then the speakers.

It’s okay to not replace the keyboards as I’m still okay with the built-in laptop keyboards. After weeks of consideration, I already bought a replacement phone. I still yet to get a pair of good sound quality and portable speakers for the laptop. Listening to music and watching movie through the laptop can be better with those. Perhaps an altec lansing speakers would be good, but I still would like to see what other options I can get. I don’t mind the wait since I still haven’t the time to listen to music and watching movies on my laptop.

As for now, I really, really do hope nothing else decides to cease to work properly.