1:27 AM | Thursday, October 28, 2010

One day of "mum" Experience 27 oct 2010

Today, i was asked to take over my mum's job at home in another word mean houseworks that my mum had to do daily. Reason is she got to go for her conpany's training which i had mentioned in the previous post. which means i got to settle everything on my own.

Embarassing to say that i had never woke up by myself, i alway had a "human like" alarm clock and that was my mum. However she went for her training in the early morning which means i got to wake myself and my sibling.

In case that i could not wake up i had set 5 alarm clocks, a bit too exaggerated but that the truth. i got to wake up in time so that my sibling and i myself would not late for school. How would i say? My sibling and i had a bad habit that is to continue lying on bed when my mum or the alarm clocks waking us up.

However the whole process of waking up people is not difficult, what difficult is i still got to prepare the breakfast for everyone. So i needed to walk back and forth from my kitchen and bedrooms. What more frustrating is you got someone keeps nagging to you for not following "her steps in preparing breakfast" that person is my grandma.

From the moment i started boiling the water for breakfast, her nag started even i came home from school which is two hours later the nag going on and on.( I got a short day for school) As i mentioned my sister having O-level so i needed to rush home straight with the lunch ready for my sister. So that she able to had her lunch before leaving the house for her o level.

After making sure that my sister had full prepared and sent her off, i started the "Daily housechores". I started sweeping, mopping and so on, like i say the nagging from my grandma did not stop. I was damn angry and i just finished off the housechores i was to doing and stopped doing the rest. Since she was so "Pro" i say i would leave the rest to her then she stopped her nagging and back to her bedroom. Not that wanted to be rude but when you were doing something and there is a sound that keeps on and on- This is frustrating and irritating.

In conclusion, Being the role of the mum in a family is not a simple task to do.

That's OUR days:3

12:57 AM |

Accompany my mum for her job interviewing 21 oct 2010

HAHAHA which mum would bring her daughter along for job interviewing and somemore is already 18 years old and which daughter will accompany her mum for job interviewing straight after school ended. I had never heard before so i think we are the first to do this.

After almost 10 years of being a housewife my mum decided to work again, her reason of not working is because she had to take care of my grandma who is physically weak at that periods of time. So i was there just to give her some moral support and be her Mrt and location guide because my mum did not know how to go there.

When i was there i think i was the only younger among the group of aunties and uncles. They were applying for the job of customer relation officer basically like cashiering job cause they were required to handle cash transaction. Well even though my mum did not work for years, she was still experienced in this servics industry as she used to be chief cashier for supermart and shopping mall. For those older days, is a job with quite a level of authority and responsiblity when things were still needed to be done manually. Well the basic principle of serving the customers would not change, it is still a customer oriented world.

Eventually she was accepted and asked to go for the company's training, happy for her. But the main thing, i wanted to say is she got high pride in herself and very confident when writing the application forms on the section of her characteristic and rated herself very high in areas such as confident, independent ,decisive etc. This was the first time in my life seeing my mum like this since she had not work, which was why i encouraging her to works because this is where her charms are.

I feel that i got a better understanding of my mum and i feel is great and we as children should spend sometime with our parent.

That's OUR days:3

12:14 AM |

Blog Incident on 22 oct 2010

Due to the school work , for the module family and youth work we were asked to set up a blog as our "daliy diary" for our ICA2 reports. To admit i am quite a computer dinosaur as compare to my sister, who is an "expert" in all setting up a blog, website or do a personal web page or use adobe photoshop to do all the nice and pretty pictures. So when i have the urge to set up my blog and design my own blogskin, i faced some problem of attach my family photos to the blogskin and i asked for help from my sister who is preparing for her o-level. She is quite "willing" to help me initially so that she also can find an excuse to escape her studies. However as her personality, i could say is a perfectionist she will only stop doing unless she think that the job is perfectly done. Therefore when i only asked the help for attaching the photo she did extra things and edit some of my design. Now her return to face some problems in designing but i told her it okay already cause my expectations is not very high.

As the old chinese saying say " disaster came out of the mouth"(translate), i totally agreed to it. My sister was super angry with me when i said that " it okay already" to her. She felt that i was wasting her time by asking her to help, but my initial thinking was since we unable to change much already why not leave it and so that she could carry on with her studies. However she just couldn't understand that, she blames me for wasting her precious time with my things.

After this incident i learned that never interrupt a perfectionist when he or she is doing their works. They will just think that you are not appreciated with their helps.

That's OUR days:3