Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Birthday over, and one week into my new job....

Celebrated birthday - on 13th... another year gone by so fast! Scary lah! Since it also happened to be my last day of being a tai-tai I decided to sleep late - so Husband got himself up and off to work. Heard the front door closing behind him, then 5 minutes later heard it open again. Wondered what he had forgotten this time, and the next thing I knew he charged into the room with this gorgeous BIG teddy bear, telling me "Teddy forgot to wish you Happy Birthday". All I can say is, I totally cracked up. Teddy now sits beside me on the sofa every day, and keeps me company when Husband is not around. What can I say? He is almost as gorgeous as Husband!!

Yep, have been at my new job since 17th Nov, and so far, so good. People are pretty nice, a lot to learn in terms of the WHO (the people I have to work with), the WHAT (what systems they support), the HOW (the processes to follow, and to make sure other people follow!). Only negative is the WHEN, as I am on call 24x7, and my first experience of that was on Saturday 22nd Nov, when I got pulled into a conf call, to oversee and track an issue, and that lasted from 2.50am to 7am. Kinda messed up the plans we had for that Sat, as I had to catch up on some sleep after that. Well, too bad, that is part of the job, and I will just have to get used to it.

On the home front in KL - Mum has made a few trips to the emergency ward at IJN, not for her chest or her bypass(!!!) but because the leg wound (where they took the blood vessel from) is not healing as well as it should. I think that is primarily because whoever sewed up the leg wound after extracting the blood vessel did not do a particularly neat job, and the way the flesh is just pulled together, there are too many folds where water can be trapped (say after having a shower) where the wound can fester. Anyway, after the third trip everything was pronounced safe and healthy.

Husband and I are back to KL this weekend - drive out of SG around 2pm, getting to KL around 6pm. Coming back on the Sunday.

No other exciting news to share, so, till next time.. have a good life.

1 comment:

FoggyDuo said...

Thank you Barbara... :-)
For some strange reason most of my friends who read this blog tend to send me emails directly with their comments, rather than posting their comments on the blog!

I hope you continue to enjoy my ramblings!