Chiong ah!

So post-covid, my company continues with partial WFH as they did not want to rent enough office space for everyone to come in. With my new boss, he wants us to be in office at least 3 times a week. Ok, it's still not THAT bad. And cos Deepavali was on Monday, today (i.e. Thursday) is the only day I actually WFH. Mainly because I wanted to help my son with his P3 final exams next week! So in between all the calls, I picked him up from school and I think for the 1st time this year (and maybe last year too), he ate lunch at home after school.

It's so difficult to get him to focus on work. He's always thinking about having a break, playing minecraft, doing SLS or eZhiShi (i.e. screentime) or whatever else. No, I didn't tell him my childhood life as a gamer... and therefore making sure he doesn't become one too. Took me a lot of pain to explain how he only has a few days left to complete all the assessment papers for the entire year that he only starts now and hence he needs to CHIONG AH!! At least until end of next week.

In the evening, it was condo council duties again. For whatever reason, I became secretary?? That's after throwing out my treasurer position from the previous year. Anyway, we are now in the 2nd stage of selecting a new MA to replace the existing CMI one. We interviewed the potential candidates and one of them is actually a single mum. Fortunately for her, her kids are rather old (> 21 years old). It kinda hit me that I'm also like a single mum but with really young kids. I mean, I have to work since I am the sole breadwinner paying for everything, get groceries, fix house stuffs (from aircon servicing to silicone to wallpaper), settle all kids stuff and plan routines / holidays etc. Oh well. Back to the candidates. We had a vote to determine who we preferred. The one who works PLUS talks a lot, or the one who works and is much quieter? I decided to go with the quieter one and am glad I'm one of the majority. Cos that guy's character is probably similar to me - Work more, talk less :)