SeEN - ThE bLoCk!

It had been a very busy week for me. A lot of things happened so fast.

On my last blog I shared to everyone that I am posted at our Mall of Asia branch. Last Monday, my trainer talked to me and informed me that I will be transferred the next day, whew! so fast!

And now I am posted here! The Block mall. It's in my convenience actually because it is only 15 minutes away from my house! I never experienced working in a place that is very near! Not in my 10 years of working! hahaha!

Below is a picture of my branch! Small but very nice! Very classy compared to other optical shop! Hopefully I will be staying here for good! I know I can work effectively and efficiently here as it is very convenient for me especially now that I am not yet fully recovered from my knee surgery! I am keeping my fingers crossed, hoping that I will be able to run this branch according to my superiors expectation!

PhoTogRapH!

I was looking at my facebook account when i saw this picture from Aqmar's photo! I was so happy to see an old photo with good friends! This photo was taken from a charity walk that we had on October 2007! It was at Bedok Reservoir Park! If I remeber it correctly, we had a 5km walk here! Whew! Very tiring but fun!

Oh my! This is really an old photo! See my hair still tied, not yet rebonded! hahaha!

PuNcHLiNe!

Last Friday, Feb 6 was not really a good day for me. I was having knee pains, slight fever, in short I am not really at my best. And knowing myself well, things will just smash in one corner if I am like this. Much as I continue smiling, the real feeling will just come out. And for people who knows me that well, they can easily tell if I am ok or not. And so I thought of sending message to Joey if we can go out after work, anyway it's a Friday, Thank God it's Friday! hahaha! But I was thinking Joey might be very busy at work so I put aside the idea first. Then suddenly I received a message from him asking me if I want to go out! Hahahaha! What a coincidence! We were thinking the same thing at the same time! So to cut the long story short, we went at PUNCHLINE! It's one of the funniest place that you can visit. A place where you can just laugh like no others business! hahaha!
We really had so much fun, watching the comediannes perform. We enjoyed listening to their songs as well. I miss going out with Joey. It's been quite sometime since we last went out because i was injured and he was busy at work. And of course not to forget that we have 2 kids waiting for us to be home on time always.

It was indeed a fun night with my friend, my boyfriend, my husband, JOEY! A pre-valentine date! I hope we can do it more often dad! It was indeed a great night to remember! Aside from the entertainment, they also have good food! Our favorite Nachos (Yellow Corn) with salsa and chilis, sizzling sisig ( ooops! it's pork! pardon me my Malay friends! but it's an all time favorite Filipino food! ) and a couple of beer! Wonderful night!

Truly it was a relief for me and a release of life's pressure and stress! I believe I am in so much stress this past few days, really I am. Look at the pictures, I have a pimple (between my lips and nose! nice spot ah!) How can a 31 year old woman have pimple, when pimples should be for young teens only! hahaha! A strong indication that I am stressed! hahaha! Well at least we were both able to find time going out again! "Joey, Dad, Babes, whatever terms of endearment that we use, thanks for the wonderful night! It made me realize how much I miss you!

eXecUtiVe OpTicAL

It's early blogging for me today! No work! Its my off day! Whew! my 2 days working were quite tiring. I suddenly felt that I need to study again the basics! Hahaha! I fel some adjustments in the first hour of my working day, but after that is back to normal! I miss talking to patients and answering their queries like I am one the doctors that we have in the branch! Most of the patients will also call me doctor! Wow! Instant doctor! hahaha! I will be posted in Mall of Asia for the whole month! I will try to fight with shopping temptations hoping that I will survive! hahaha. Oooops by the way, the pictures shows the optical shop that I am currently working. The first 2 pictures are the side entrances, and the bottom most is a part of the main entrance.

It's one of the biggest branch that the company has and in terms of traffic count, we serve a mix of Class A and B market. So my English skills are being practiced all the time! hahaha Sometimes, Sing-lish too!

This is a fun place to work with as the staffs here are so friendly! Tomorrow is another to work again. So I am taking the chance to rest the whole day today! I'll write more in my next blog in a little later!

iT's BeE-dAY toDaY!

It's my last weekend with my family because tomorrow is my first day to work. Reggie is back! Tomorrow I will be posted at the biggest mall in the continent, MALL OF ASIA. It's day 1 again for me to start all over! It's saving time again! After all the expenses that I had during my very long vacation! Whew! I really need to double the effort! It was the longest vacation that I had since I started working 11 years ago! Oh my God! Eleven years! Am I that really old?!?!?! There'll be a lot of things that I will miss once I start working again! I will miss the two kids of course, because for the 43 days of staying at home, I spent most of the time with them. I will miss Shine asking for milk almost every hour a day, I will miss him asking me to play his favorite dvd Barney, Backyardigans, Dora, Cars, and now Bolt! I will miss taking a bath with him! This is my favorite bonding time with my kids! Bathing together! I will miss Rain saying "Hello! I am home! What do we have for lunch Mommy?" everytime she come's back from school! I will miss sleeping with them in the afternoon, and then we will wake up together and buy our favorite afternoon snack, squid balls with sweet and spicy sauce and coke! I will miss them dancing "LOW" together, full of energy and glow! I will miss a lot of things that we often do. You might be wondering that the way I'll be missing them is like I am leaving again but don't get me wrong, it's just that the vacation really helped me to patch up the lost time with my kids when I was away, and now that I need to be busy again, I am guilty that surely there are a lot things that we cannot do that often again. I will miss you Rain and Shine! Thanks for making me feel that I am really a mom! Sorry for my mood swings anak! Mommy loves you both so much!

And since it's my last full day with the kids, after going to church this morning, my whole family went out. Do u know were we went?!? The picture says it all! It's my kids favorite restaurant! JOLLIBEE. It always give a different feeling to my kids everytime we dine in at Jollibee. My kids just love to visit this place. The most special kiddie parties that they had were always with JOLLIBEE. My kids just adore this BEE! Today we decided to have breakfast at the nearest Jollibee restaurant in our house (fyi, there are 6o0 over Jollibee restaurants in the Philippines alone. There are still some in United States and some parts of Asia and the globe! Well, just a trivia to my foreign friends! lolz!) Joey had "Breakfast Steak with garlic rice" Rain and Shine ate "Hotdog Meal" and for myself I had "Crispy Chicken Burger and fries" It was a fun bonding moment with the kids as they were all at glee while eating!

Thanks Jollibee for bringing smile to my kid's face! It's been a great BEE day with you!

GoOd TaLkS!

Just this morning, when I was munching my favorite chips ( Clover Chips! ) while surfing the net I was so surprised that my cell phone rang. The caller ID reads, +6584209681, then my heart started to beat so fast. The country code looks so familiar, it's a call from SINGAPORE! It was Lava a good friend who gave me a call and he was on his way to work - Pizza Hut. I miss talking to this guy, really I must admit. He was about to take a cab then when he called me. Then he suddenly uttered, "Uncle, JurongPoint please, the 7-11 there! Thank you!" Wow! I miss those lines! Those were the exact words that I use before whenever I need to go to work via cab! I can't help but tell Lava about it! He was just 5 minutes away from his workplace as he lived very near Jurong Point, Boon Lay Place.

As soon as he reached JP he passed the phone to Poy ( my boss, my friend! ) I did paused for a while because I am so surprise having been talking to him. I remember the last time I talked to him was before his birthday and that was October last year, from then on, I would seldom hear from him too because of his busy schedule at work, school and lately, reservist. It was a good feeling while talking to him! It gave me hope that I am not forgotten! hahaha! Then after asking each other how do we do, Poy told me that he will drop by HQ on Tuesday and ask if it's possible for me to go backSingapore and work with Pizza Hut again. Well I don't exactly know what will be the outcome of his inquiry but whatever it is I know it has it's reasons!

After talking with Poy I get to talk to Ina as well. As usual, girly talks! I miss talking to Ina so much. I also miss the days when I do morning shift with her and there's only 4 of us running the shift, Uncle Ong, Ina, myself and Auntie Tan! It was a struggle but of course we can! Right Ina?!?!? And tears just started to fell in my eyes. I don;t know why maybe i just really miss her! She's one of my very good friend in Singapore! She knows exactly how I started, from house searching, my family, my life in Singapore. I miss our chit-chats!

It was indeed a good feeling after talking to them. 3 very special people in the life that I had in Singapore, 3 different people that I adore and I miss, different folks, different strokes but one special feeling, for special people! I miss you guys and I know I will be seeing you soon!

LeT's gEt PhYsiCaL!

Its another therapy day for me. My fourth session already. Few sessions more and hopefully everything will be back to normal, walking will be fine,

NEW YEAR, NEW KNEE!

3 days to go and I will be back to work.

Talking about my therapy today, well I did a lot of exercises! Some are very painful for me, but I tried my best to finish all those, as they always say

NO PAIN, NO GAIN!

I did several exercises like leg press, treadmill, knee liftings, balancing and hudreds of stretching. My therapist Charles said that I am doing A-OK and he told me that I am one of his favorite patient. He told me that I seldom complain about pain and he told me that is the reason why I am recovering well!

BIG BRAVE MOMMA!

After seeing my therapist, I went to see my physician to have my final check up just to make sure that I am fit to work on Monday. There are some breathe checking, blood pressure and other routinary checks. And she told me that I am ready to kick off for work! Yahoo!

Then after being checked by my physician, I went to see my surgeon, Dr. Wee. He did check my knee surgery scar and he said that it looks ok. I just need to take extra good care once I started working. He wanted to suggest that I need to rest for 12 weeks more to have the bone completely healed but that would mean three months or staying home again. It will only be after 3 months that everything will be 100% ok, knee will be good as new! But of course I have a family to feed and I can't stay that long without any income at all. I need to help my husband. After all the big expenses that we had during my illness, I think it's about time for me to do something to help the family! Well, that's life is all about!

After what I went through I promise myself to live a life of wellness!

What happened to me is no joke at all. I witnessed how much everyone struggled, I saw them cry when I cried.

I don't want this to happen again and I swear I will not let them feel the pain again!