2018 Week 13 Update

Another week is gone, with that, a new month is here!

Nothing really happens in my life, but as I get closer to a self-imposed deadline for taking some life decisions, I am feeling fearful. This decision may change the trajectory of my life and the little hope I have right now with one aspect of my life will be extinguished. Anyway, I still have a couple of months before this deadline, so until then, hope lives eternal!

I also had a nice Easter weekend with the children and S. Now off to make sure the children study and do well in their mid-year exams. These exams are important because if they want early admission next year for either Junior College or Polytechnic, then these results will make an impact in influencing the examiners.

Have a great week and an awesome April.

2018 Week 12 Update

Another week and we’re almost at the end of quarter 1!

I spent my weekend debating internally whether I should deactivate my Facebook account or not. With the Cambridge Analytica fallout, I am now rejoicing over my decision not to be all over social media and keeping a very low profile. While I did not deactivate my FB account, what I did was spend some time removing apps which had permission to access my account. I have a decent score of only 11 apps in the last 9-10 years, including WP, so yeah, I’ve gone and deleted everything from Facebook. I guess I am lucky that I am so paranoid that I almost never sign up with FB and always sign up to any apps or websites using email and this has, to a large extent protected me.

I’m also using this as a teaching opportunity to show GG & BB how social media can be dangerous, if not used properly. And also using this as an excuse to unsubscribe to all the newsletters and spam email that seem to proliferate and choke my inbox.

What steps are you taking to protect yourself online?

2018 Week 11 Update

Another week has gone by and I really don’t have much to update.

BB and I went to watch GG’s school choir perform at the Voices of Singapore festival. They performed along with five other secondary school choirs to a full house. It was an interesting and enjoyable afternoon.

I had wanted to plan something with the children over their holidays, but because they had hectic school and tuition schedules, we couldn’t do anything. Now, need to wait for the June holidays to do something fun with them.

Hope this week has some news for me! Have a great week folks!

2018 Week 10 Update

Another week has gone by, but I am still where I was a week back, a month back, heck, even a year back!

Because of this uncertainty with my job situation, I don’t want to commit to something because I am hoping that the most recent interview will result in a job offer.

I have had an unconventional, non-linear career track till now which makes me over qualified, over experienced and too expensive for junior and middle management roles and not enough specific experience for the more senior roles. This way, I am rejected by probably every role I apply because I am either over or under qualified! It will take a very special hiring manager to be able to see the value I bring to the table as most of them are very blinkered and don’t see the value of having a different and varied perspective. I guess I can also see things from their point of view, as they probably need  someone to hit the ground running, which I probably can’t because I need a couple of months to learn and understand the organisation and in many cases, the industry. Ok, enough of my rants, I just need to keep being positive and know that the universe has something special out there for me and I just need to wait to get to it.

This was my week, this week is all about being there for the children. I need to get them to start being serious about what they want out of life and start working towards it. Have a wonderful week people!

2018 Week 9 Update

The week flew by and before I knew it it’s a new week.

Nothing really happened this week, at least nothing that I can blog about. Something that I was expecting to come through didn’t come by and so I was quite disappointed with how the week fared.

How was your week? Did something nice happen to you? Hope I do have substantial updates next week. Have a wonderful week folks!