redundant

the last couple of years have been really bad for the O&G sectors.

you heard, here and there, people being laid off, sometimes compensated, sometimes they don’t, and you prayed really hard that it will not happen to you.

it did not happened to me. or my husband.

it happened to a very close person to me and i am terribly sad to hear the news.

it was my 31st birthday on Tuesday. the person received his letter on Thursday. we received ours on Friday.

i was so upset when i knew. the person who was manning the booth noticed that i looked down and no longer cheerful.

so i secured my position, most probably for another year. i foresee another round of laying off in the future.

but no point celebrating…….

 

 

 

redundant

Home Alone (sort of)

My parents moved to another state last week. Dad wants to be closer to their retirement home project hence why they are renting a single storey terrace house in a town 1 hour away from Gombak. 

My brother bought over mom old house so I decided to just stay at our home. 

They had never live just by themselves since they gotten married and with a baby due in a month or so, i would like to give them the opportunity. 

It’s only been 1 1/2 weeks since I stayed by myself with 2 kids. 

No help whatsoever. 

Sometimes i think i am stupid. 

I don’t know what I’m trying to prove here. I’m always sleepy when driving to and fro work i just hope I won’t doze off. 

Penat takyah cakaplah. 

Last week, Kakak was vomitting due to empty stomach. It was just me and the kiddos. I was up a few times that night because she was vomitting throughout the night. 

Thought that her tummy had settled down that morning so i still went to work cause i had a meeting with my big boss that day. 

Imagine me, wearing Amani on a sling, pushing stroller with Kakak on it, with their daycare bags and whatnot went down ftom 4th to mezzanine floor.

Then tucked them in their car seats (seriously, i am glad we trained them) and drove to the daycare.

10 mins later, Kakak vomitted in the car. Totally my fault for giving her milk when her tummy was still recovering. I sighed, turned around and strategising on how am i gonna clean the car seat and Kakak and looking after Adik as well. 

Texted my boss said i had to take the day off. Reached our parking lot and attempted to remove the car seat cover. 

I really cannot stand the smell of vomit. Sigh. 

Took off Kakak’s clothes and wrapped her in her towel. Saw a neighbour going to work while i was attempting to take off the cover while Kakak was standing nearby wrapped in a towel.  He must be thinking “apa minah ni cuba buat”. 

Adik was still seating in her car seat but I guess the smell of vomit / sour milk was too overpowering that she vomitted too!

Now i had 2 car seats needed to be cleaned. 

So i effed it, took both kids home and i just had to call my youngest brother to come look after the kiddos while I cleaned their seats.  

Brought Kakak’s seat up since hers was really bad and we had never washed hers since we bought it šŸ˜ Kakak still vomitting but lesser amount but i decided to just give her ubat tahan muntah to stop the vomitting. Thankfully it worked.

And i feel like i never really recover from that day. It’s a compounding effect and I am just so tired now. Sigh.  

Home Alone (sort of)

more kids?

the other day, i went to onebabyworld shop to find nasal aspirator for my niece. i got in there, i looked at all the bottles, bags, teats etc. and that made me missed having a baby.

adik is approaching 18 months and she’s slowly turning into a toddler.

but as much fun as it is having a baby, i seriously do not missed all the exhaustion that comes with it.

sure, it’s fun having a baby coo when you play with them. haha.

if i missed playing with babies, i have 2 more babies that will be born this year, insha Allah.Ā Ā i can play with them without having the responsibilities that comes with it. hahaha.

on a more serious note, i still haven’t made up my mind when i’m going for number three, or even if i want to have a number three.

i know DH would love a bigger family but if he has to spend a spell away from home like this time around, i don’t think i’d be able to handle 3 little humans by myself. i’ll be bitter, tired and angry all the time, i know i will.

especially when i get sick yet i cannot be resting much for the kids only have me. at time like these, my mind will always turn to my friends who have lost their husbands. how are they coping, i wonder. i pray that Allah eases their suffering and give them strength to move on.

more kids?

commercialisations

i work in the commercialisation line. job scopeĀ is initially is not about capturing sales. commercialisation management covers Intellectual Properties management and exploitation. how can you exploit an IP that you have to (1) recover the cost your company spent to develop that IP and (2) generate more income for your company. we are the only group in the whole corporation that looks after the corporation’s IP. we are basically a unique team in the whole big corporation.

basically, we look after the licensing/commercialisation arrangement to commercialise or sell the product.

my job involves looking after various commercialisation agreements, propose or recommend strategies for licensing of our IP to our Partner to recover the development cost and/or generate income through royalties or license fees.

i’m responsible in selling the Technologies as well. and my KPI last year was to achieve RM 3.5 million in revenue (of which i did, but it was truly not an easy work and i keep bitching about our bosses to my colleagues).

this deviates so much from my training as chemical engineer! LMAO! and how i’ve been telling myself i will never go into sales šŸ˜…

oh but i never truly abandon my chemical engineering trainings. i still do technical support and i kind of the only process engineer at the E1/E2 level 😳 kind of odd because most of our technologies are process-related. haha.

RM 3.5 million is minuscule, i know. it’s like a drop in the ocean hehe if looking at the big ppicture Ā but the thing i had to go through to get that revenue. Subhanallah.

OK this feels like writing my CV. hahahahha

 

commercialisations

DeterminationĀ 

I’ve been potty training Kakak for a few weeks. I’m not following any kind of schedule or guidelines. 

It’s been 3 weekends since we started and we have our ups and downs. 

I can be very determined. I can let my daughters cry it out for quite some time. Hati kering. 

I did it when i was weaning Kakak from bottles. 

At 2.5 years old, she’s fully weaned off. She’s drinking milk straight from the pack now. 

She screamed and cried it out for almost an hour the first time I refused her request for bottle. 

Hubs on the other hand is a bit soft when it comes to his daughters. 

The first time i tried potty trained Kakak, she had 2 accidents and DH straight away halted the training. The weekend afterward, when DH didn’t come back, i tried again. 

Again she cried, she tantruming in the toilet  and plainly refused to use the potty. I even let her screamed in the toilet for 10 minutes. 

She had 2 accidents before she finally managed to pee in the potty. Even then, i tricked her to go by lining her potty with her diapers. 

The next weekend, i tried again. I really want this to work so i let her wear her dresses and left her bottom free of pants. 

There’s no longer any accidents until this weekend when I started putting on pants on her. She peed in the potty but she didn’t take off her pants. I wasn’t angry. It was truly really funny šŸ˜‚

Since then, she suddenly been holding her pee. For hours! She’ll go when i put her diapers on again but she started screaming and crying again if I asked her to pee in the potty. One step forward, two steps back.

Sigh. 

She had a fever just now and I’m kind of scared that i gave her UTI for forcing toilet training on her. 

I think I’m gonna have to do it completely, cold-turkey kind of thing rather than in stages like this. Probably gonna hold the training until i’m sure she’s not getting any infections. 

DeterminationĀ