Steamed Golden Pomfret

That's what we'll be having for dinner tonight! Yummy. I love steamed fish, something which my mom made a lot when I was younger. For tonight, mr fishy is going to be accompanied by thinly sliced ginger, garlic and shallots, and some wolfberries. A tablespoon of light soya sauce and generous toppings of tomatoes. Steam that for about 15 minutes (depends on the size of your fish) and serve immediately with warm rice. Delicious, to make your meal a little healthier, serve with veggies, like what I do, we're having spinach for company tonight :)

Nursery rhyme

I was filling out a job application form today and realise that I was born on Thursday! What's that rhyme that came to mind... :) Monday's child is fair of face??... I Googled it and see below. Well, I'm a child that has far to go.. well, at least I'm not Saturday's child. I'm going to try to 'interpret' it in a positive manner meaning I can GO far :P

Monday's child is fair of face

Tuesday's child is full of grace

Wednesday's child is full of woe

Thurday's child has far to go

Friday's child is loving and giving

Saturday's child has to work for its living

But a child that's born on the Lord's day

is fair and wise and good and gay.

Congrats if you're born on a Sunday.

Violin!

I shall focus on my violin practise every morning since I'm at home and bored.. I think I will do it after my trip to the wet-market.. I hope, I just need a lot of willpower. :)

Job hunt

I had another good week of dinner last week! Really enjoyed cooking! Made marmalade pork chops, salads etc. Cleaned the house a little bit more, organised stuff round the house and went out a couple of times - meeting job agents! Ya, the search continues.. I sent like almost 2 dozen applications out to companies and also to agents, still nothing solid back yet. I have had a couple of offers but not too good ones, so had rejected them.

You cannot believe how some big national healthcare companies can be such bad paymasters, trying to squeeze the most out of you with a whole long list of responsibilities and then offering to pay you peanuts! Sheesh... And you wonder why service is declining.... now you know.

I also lost a job opportunty in a big multinational company because I am 'over-qualified'. I have not heard that one yet, so that's a first. I hope I get a job soon coz I am tired of the stress of looking for a job.

Forgot today's dinner..

We had fried bee hoon with (garlic marinated) prawns, veg, eggs and red capsicum. Oooo another yummy night. It's really great to hear Sam singing praises for my cooking every night. Never had this when I was working. I love not working... but got to go back to work soon else, we'd be very poor using up our savings.

Nite.....

It's been a long! time.

I didn't notice that my last blog is almost one and half years ago!! That long. Latest update is this, I'm out of a job. Quit my last job as it's taking too much of my time away from Matt and Sam, making me feel too tired to spend time with them etc etc..

It's fun not having to work these past 2 weeks. I have been cooking really great dinners for the family. See what we had this week.

Monday: Beef burgers with cheese, fresh lettuce and tomatoes, sauteed onions and mushrooms. Followed by fruit salad:strawberry, honeydew and orange, topped with orange sauce.

Tuesday: Spaghetti with mushrooms and sausages. Followed by fruit salad: honeydew, pineapple, plum, topped with honey.

Wednesday: Egg bake: Layers of ingredients are bread crumbs as base, sausages, ham, broccoli. Add milk and eggs, then top it with cheese. Lots of it. Delicious. More fruit salad, apple and plum, ran out of ideas, topped with honey again.

Thursday: Corn and spare ribs soup and french beans. Followed by cut fruits, apples.

Friday: Yummy juicy sweet sour prawns and spinach.

Last week? Well, last week was major clean up week, vacuuming and picking up all the toys and stuff, so we had simple soup and veggie dinners on most evenings. Will keep you updated soon :).

Upset

I am so upset. I just returned to work on Tuesday this week, I was shocked that the Training Needs Analysis and Training Effective Report was still not done yet. The Training Plan was also waiting for my return. I feel so indispensable... not in a good way, I don't think it's good to make an employee feel this way. An employee should definitely not be made to feel that she alone doing a job. Sigh, I really hate the office politics bullshit too. Just four days at work and I'm dreading it already. Can I survive?

This is Matt at 13 weeks. He had a fever after his Hib/DPT jab. Poor thing. Don't you think he looks so cute with the cloth on his head? I was sponging him to keep the temperature down. The last picture is him after he has recovered from his fever :).

Worry wort!

I'm a worry wort. I worry about a lot of things, like if my little ones will be taken good care of when I go back to work. Sam will be in a student care and little Matt in infant care. I wonder if I've made the right decision to let them go to these places, I wonder if I should quit my job and stay at home and look after them instead.. I know that these should not be a big issue, after all, so many parents have their kids in student care and infant care that it's quite common in Singapore. And yet, I can't quite help but feel helpless and frustrated and maybe even a bit guilty, how can we just leave our children in the care of 'strangers'?

It's hard being a parent, surprisingly my hubby does not seem perturbed by these at all. Men are really wired differently!

Infant care and after school care

My sister-in-law, Karen, told me about baby sign language! I checked it out and found that it's rather interesting and fun. Most sites that I have visited give a few basic signs for free and will either teach you the rest for a fee or sell you a book on it. I'm still considering if I should buy one as I'll be sending Matt to infant care next month (when I go back to work), I'm wondering if it will help him or if it'll work in the first place since he'll only be exposed to it during weekends and a few hours every night...

I feel sad that I have to place Matt in an infant care but we have no other choice as this is certainly not a good time for me to quit my job. We need the income *sigh* Wish I didn't have to go back to work, I really enjoyed bringing Sam up myself and charting his developments week by week, month by month. Just thinking about what I'll miss with Matt makes me very sad. What's worse than putting your baby in infant care? It's having to put your other son in after school care as well. Somehow, I feel like we are doing something really wrong here. How is it that we are not coping as well now as our parents did long ago? Support! Family support that is, sadly we have none of it now. My mom is in Malaysia, so one half of the family support is unavailable, and as for Kelv's mom, well, she's not really into looking after kids.. so no support from there.