Career change

Yup, after some time of thinking over it, I have finally took the step to change my career from being a project manager to becoming a full time homemaker :)

I left my job on the third week of March to take care of Jade. It was something I wished for since last year but I had to convince both myself and hubby that pursuing SAWM/SAHW-hood is for the benefit of the family. Of course, we had to study the pros and cons especially the financial side of it. It's not that easy to live on a single income basis thus financial management is one thing I got to learn better.

I'm currently working on my visa change (from economic to dependent type) and that entailed me needing to come home to process my papers here in Manila. I brought along Jade with me and hubby will be fetching us once I get my new visa. I'm lucky to have been given a free return ticket by my former employee while hubby got a free PAL return ticket (he got it by chance last year when he volunteered to take the afternoon flight since the planned trip got full packed - well, that's another story now)

I don't have regular access to internet, no connection at home and the summer heat is not conducive for me and Jade to go to town. I happened to pass by a shop here in Ayala MRT station on my way from the Taiwan Consular Office :) I'll be posting more stories about my new career soon.

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Merry Christmas

From my family to yours, Merry Christmas!
May the spirit of the season fill your homes.
And may the coming new year bring us all good luck.

Have a merry christmas and a blessed new year!

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Soupcon...

I am back online. I've been browsing here and there for quick check of latest posts but didn't really get the chance to leave marks on anyone's site as I didn't have the luxury of time. First week of December was quite hectic (huh???) - Somehow work demands were high at that time but on that weekend, we got the chance to take a nature trip in the mountains of Yangming on the first Saturday of the month. The family adventure story will follow soon. We were also able to set up our own Christmas tree (hurray!). However, 2nd Saturday was not a good one (sigh!). We brought Jade to the hospital and stayed there until Tuesday because of AGE (acute gastroenteritis) - details to follow soon too. She had her follow-up checkup this morning and we're glad she's better now and she can get back to her regular diet - that includes full milk strength. Tomorrow, we're set to attend a friend's party in Taipei City so we'll get the chance to go around Taipei 101 once again and see the huge Christmas tree installed somewhere around the Warner Village area before the party.

I have yet to do some quick Christmas shopping for the kids - Jade's friends and our friends' kids. No shopping plan for adults huh ??? I have yet to work on two memes (one from Lovelyn and same meme from Bill and Mari) and blog posts. Also, I saw Lovelyn published her 1st PPP article already, I have yet to work on mine otherwise all opportunities will be lost. Oh well, hang on for my stories everyone. Just wanted to let you know I'm still around.
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Postscript:
I'll list my comments to blog friends here:
Lovelyn, belated happy birthday to Dylan! What a nice party! I wish him good health and more blessings.
Bill/Mari, thanks for the tag. I'll work on that one of these days.
Joseans 92 online - thanks for the visit. I'll "chat" with you guys in multiply some time. Got a lot of catching up to do! See you around.
Mareng Jols - good to see Andi enjoying the colorful cupcake toppings. Wish we can bring Jade there.
To all - thanks for dropping by! Come again!

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When it rains

it pours… so don’t forget your umbrella! – quotable quote from my friend, Sheng.

I am taking a few minutes break from work and that break to me means scribbling down this post – I’ll take another break later to get a cup of hot drink from the cafeteria. Hay, I’ve been very busy since last week and my “system” is doing a total adjustment. It has been six months since the last time I was really busy at work. Wow, that’s two quarters! So what did I do all this time? Hmmnnn, two months was the official vacation leave while four months was spent at work but not really doing much. I even had to talk to my boss several times to ask for tasks to do. He did gave me some but weren’t that much to eat up the whole office hours so I still had chances to surf the net and update my blog/s.

Now that I am starting with a new project, I find it quite strange to see myself busy. But this is not even comparable to how busy I was for the past two years when even at the peak of my pregnancy, I got to work until 1am. Yes, I worked on more than 5 major projects by myself – that meant staying late at work almost everyday as I needed to collate and edit reports, update emails, generate my own reports, attend night telecons and do other things I shouldn’t really be responsible of. Good thing my Jade didn’t decide to come out while I was on a meeting.

If somebody gets back to me like this - I'm might not be able to control my temper and give him/her a punch (not the drinks, ok :) ).

I should be able to shrug off this kind of “new” working scheme yet I have to welcome the delight of not having to worry about overcoming a day-long or even worse, a week-long boredom that results from being idled. Gotta get that cup of drink now and finish my “to do’s” else I’ll end up dumped with more of it.

PS. I got several posts kept in my draft and I’m not sure when they’ll get published. Anyhow, I’ll get back on my regular blogging activities in no time.

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