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2018 Week 35 Update

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August is done and dusted and it’s time for my favourite month of the year – September. I have huge hopes for this month and only this month will tell if this happens.

This week was a busy week for me as I had to go twice for my freelance work. The people I am working with are a bunch of wonderful women and I love interacting with them. I only don’t find a lot of solace in the kind of job I am doing (I feel I am coming across as someone spoilt and dissatisfied, but that’s not the case, really) because the work I am doing is not really cerebral and intellectual. I do hope this freelance business of mine takes off and I can then do work I really enjoy!

This week I got a call from a scammer but I couldn’t scam them back. When I picked it up, there was a recorded message with a non Singapore accent saying “This call is from the Singapore High Court about a pending summons against you. Press 9 to continue”. And then the same message perhaps in Chinese. I pressed 9 and a lady started to speak to me in Chinese. I told her to please speak in English and she cut the call. My chance to scam a scammer was foiled! I wanted to engage with the scammer and ask some questions, but since I spoke in English, they knew they couldn’t engage with me and cut the call!

Happy September folks!

2018 Secondary 3 Week 35 Update

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This was the last week before the September school holidays and so was a fairly quiet week. This was also a short school week since the Friday before the September holidays is designated as Teachers Day in Singapore. This is so both Teachers and students get an additional day of the holidays (just kidding, I am sure there’s a good reason behind this, I just need to find it out)

On Thursday which was the Teachers Day celebrations in school, I was at BB’s school. The parent support group in his school make DIY presents for the teachers each year and this year we made marbled mugs which looked so pretty! We also hosted all the teachers and non teaching staff for a buffet lunch and provided a cake for the Teachers to cut before they reaffirmed their pledge they took when they first entered the teaching profession. It was a fun day and I was exhausted by it!

BB also goes for his OBS camp tomorrow (finally) and We spent the weekend packing. I hope he has a great time there and makes new friends and learns something new.

Tomorrow GG and I are going to meet a Friend of my Cousin who is a history professor at a local university. GG is Super excited about this.

Have a great weekend everyone!

2018 Week 34 Update

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We’re in the last week of August and I am now settling in the new freelance project I have taken up. I am only doing one client now and will wait till the end of the year to learn the ropes before I start looking for new clients. I will also use this time to see if I do manage to secure a better paying position.

Other than that, we had a mid-week holiday on the occasion of Hari Raya Haji (or Eid Al-Adha as it’s also called). Mid-week public holidays are great for a reset and when Thursday rolled on, we all thought it was Monday all over again!

This week proves to be quite a busy one for me what with some duties relating to my freelance work and then also a school commitment in BB’s school for the upcoming Teachers Day, I will probably have more to update next week.

Till then, have a fantastic week…

2018 Secondary 3 Week 34

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Another school week and this was pretty much a normal one.

BB and GG are getting ready for their September school holidays which start in early September. BB’s school holidays will mostly be spent at his Outward Bound Singapore adventure camp. Last week we went and brought all the supplies and clothes needed for the camp.

GG is looking forward to the school holidays so she can chill with her friends.

Happy Sunday folks!

2018 Week 33 Update

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This was an interesting week, both in terms of work and my social life.

On the work front, as I mentioned last week, I have started freelancing and this week, I signed on my first client. This is not the role I would take if I had a choice, but it could be the start of something different, something I could be proud of. That time will only tell.

I also hosted a cousin this week at home. She had come to Singapore for an interview at a local university (she is an academic) and between her interviews and public lectures, it was fun catching up with her on family news and gossip. She hit off with GG and they’ve become quite close friends. If she gets the position she interviewed for and comes to live in Singapore for a period, she and GG have made plans to have sleepovers and holidays together. I really hope she gets the job, so it’ll be nice to have someone from my family close by.

This week will be a mid-week public holiday in Singapore due to the Eid-ul-Adha or Bakri Id as its called in India. It’s always nice to have mid-week holidays as it splits the week in half and so the work week does not seem so long!

Have a wonderful week folks!