I stayed at home for the first two days of the week and went back to work after nearly 10 days. Felt like I was going back after a holiday!

I’ve decided to seriously start looking for a new position and in the meantime give my all here. I want them to seriously miss me when I leave….

On Monday, after lunch, I started having so much problems with my company issued laptop, so much that I was unable to send or receive emails. Apparently, my laptop no longer has space in the hard disk and this is a new laptop, which was issued to me less than six months back! The zinger is that because I had a similar problem in my previous laptop, I transferred all files into an external drive and so other than some random files in the desktop, there is nothing I have saved here…..

Since I was working from home, I could only take it to our IT on Wednesday. Turned out that it was actually not that big a problem. When the technician who took my call on Monday did something to my laptop’s email application, he didn’t delete the old stuff which resulted in all the problems I was having!

On Tuesday after the final PSLE paper ended, we decided to go to the library as BB & GG had not borrowed books in a while. What made this trip to the library special was that the National Library Board was celebrating 20 years this year and decided to let everyone borrow 20 books per card! We’re in book heaven now after borrowing loads of books! Happy 20th Birthday NLB! Also did some other non-clothes shopping. The kids had friends over our home on Friday. They’ve known these friends forever! They are also a pair of boy/girl twins like BB & GG, just a couple of months older. They used to stay in the same estate as us, in the opposite building. We met when BB & GG were around a year old and they’ve been playing together since then. It’s so much fun to see them grow together…

Then I made it a shopping day on Sunday! The three of us (S had to go to a temple with his mom, so joined us later) left home around 10ish and went to a few malls to have lunch and shop! It was great fun now that the kids are older. We should do this more often. We had dinner at our regular restaurant near our place and came home tired but happy 🙂

Another boring week where I worked on a bit of work-stuff and mostly on our post-PSLE trip!

I’ve also realised that there is no place for me in this organisation, atleast in the role I envision for myself. Thus the only alternative is to leave. The two days I am home this week and also moving on, I’ve decided to work on my CV more and start applying. Hopefully I will get something in my hands before my contract is due for renewal in the first quarter of 2016….

The rest of the week was mostly stressing over the PSLE exams and helping BB & GG with their work. Today is the penultimate paper and tomorrow is the last one…Then freedom for GG & BB!

After that, the worrying about the results start….Hopefully they do well enough that they get to choose their schools and not let the schools choose them. Meaning they do well enough that they have enough points to have choices rather than restrict options to schools that will take them in 😦

Boring….Boring…Boring!

This is my week in a word! Like I mentioned before, I don’t have any work to do, especially these weeks while I am working from home. So to keep myself busy, what I did the past two weeks (in between small bursts of work), was working on my blogs and planning for our trip during the PSLE marking week.

The haze was another topic this week, with the PSI (Pollution Standard Index) going beyond 300 which is in the hazardous range last week, especially during the Hari Raya Public Holiday which made the education ministry declare schools to be closed on Friday! After that day, the PSI index has been between 100 – 200 with some bursts of below 100…We all hope this sustains itself till the end of all exams!

The PSLE exams start this week. I’m torn – in a way I’m glad it’s finally going to get over, but on the other hand, wish we could have more time….

Please pray for us that we get through this first major exams well….

Have a great Monday folks!

A non happening week with all focus on the PSLE!

I have been working half day from home so it hardly felt as if I was at work last week. This will continue this week too and then next week till the end of the exams I will be working from home.

Actually working from home is a misnomer as I don’t have any work to do! Just before I got permission from my boss to work from home, I did mention that I don’t have anything on my plate now. His response was “So what will do at home?” I stared at him for a moment and mentioned some things I had been doing since last week to keep myself busy, but that’s not really something great. Aah well, in a way this is good as I don’t have deadlines while at home, but it becomes difficult to pretend to be busy at work! 😦

I have decided to start looking for new opportunities, I am starting this process now, so by the time the exams are done, I should be able to do this in all seriousness…

I am looking forward to the end of the exams so that we can go shopping!! I’ve planned some stuff with BB & GG and this is something to look forward to….

Have a great week folks!

A short work week while Singapore went to the polls on Friday. The outcome was not entirely surprising, given that elections had been called a year early to capitalise on the euphoria of SG50 and the death of Mr. Lee Kwan Yew. This was a historic elections with every one of the 89 parliamentary seats being contested. What was surprising was the level with which the ruling party thrashed the opposition!!

We’re down to 2.5 weeks now for PSLE with the Listening Comprehension later in the week. I am planning to speak to my boss later today to discuss working half day in office and the balance at home till the end of next week and then working from home for the week and half of the PSLE exams.I also need to speak to him about any new projects since I literally don’t have any work in hand right now…

I also need to start looking for opportunities outside the organisation, but I think I will wait out the weeks till the end of PSLE.

We also booked our tickets to India for the end of the year, so looking forward to that trip and meeting my parents!

Have a great week everyone…