Fabian Passed His Exams!

Hubby called from offshore earlier this afternoon and told me the good news that he passed his Round 1 Well Engineering exams. After all those weeks of studying (and myself partially giving up TV surfing), he got his well-deserved results at last.

Congratulations my dear :)

Weekend Plans - Failed So Far...

Of all the 10 things that I said I had wanted to do for this long weekend, I achieved none. Instead I woke up early for breakfast with John (my colleague), went for a facial treat (to clear off the breakouts from the pregnancy), had a late lunch with Bernice (my ex-Miri friend who is now in KL but back for the weekend) and went shopping for a new orchid plant (and bought 2). It is now past five in the evening and starting to rain. I might as well get started with dinner.

My Orchid Plant Has Flowers!

I took the plunge into the unknown and scary realm of orchid planting six months ago. I saw how mom could keep hers alive with minimal care and I did some research on it for a while before buying my first plant. So I got myself some and kept my fingers crossed. Dad even made me a nice little orchid hanging corner beside our main door.At long last, one of them plants bloomed! There are now 3 sprays of purple flowers and 2 on the way. I am very happy!

Making the Change

I have been thinking of asking my boss for a change of in my duties at work for some time now. I have been doing this traveling job for 5 years now and it's been on my mind for a while that I would like to take a break from it for a while to give time for other priorities, namely to start a family and spend more time at home with hubby while he is onshore. But I never did work up enough guts to walk up to the boss to discuss this. In addition to that, pride got in the way. I could never bring myself to put work aside, and admit I cannot be the superwoman who can do it all.

After two weeks of deep thought following the incident, it just hit me. There is no reason to be embarrassed of wanting to put personal reasons ahead of a career. My thoughts are suddenly clear of what I want and how I would like to see my near future commitments to be. If nothing else, at least I broke free of my previous confines of feminist pride.

Filling in the Blanks

I get back to work tomorrow. But only for a day though, as Friday is a public holiday. I am dreading the long weekend, this time. So I think I will make a list of things I will do to make the hours go by faster:

1.) Put away all the travel things from last weekend's wedding trip
2.) Weed the garden
3.) Get a haircut
4.) Shower the dogs
5.) Clean the aquarium
6.) Research for Paris trip next year
7.) Clean the dust off shoes
8.) Make a list of things to buy for next year
9.) Get groceries for meals over the next 5 days
10.) Search for missing portable disk drive

There, ten tasks for the long weekend. That should keep me busy enough, hopefully.

Plastic is Spastic

Health, Safety and Environment (HSE) Week for our company this year decided to bring the attention of staff to focus on little things that we can do for the environment. One of it is to try to reduce our use of plastic bags. Now, I wrote 'reduce' as I know it is not so easy to stop using plastic bags altogether as we still require them for purposes such as the function as garbage bags. But we can always start with declining to use plastic bags when all we need to get from the store is a loaf of bread or a carton of milk. We can do without those small bags.
So how do we carry those little bits of shopping when we need to? Well, this year's HSE Week gift is no longer a theme T-Shirt (thank goodness!!!). It is a reusable shopping bag. Not a bad idea....as the company HSE slogan goes..."Little things....big changes"

Moving the TV

It gets a little scary sometimes when I am home alone in this big house and Fabian is offshore (which is quite often nowdays). So after dinner, I rarely remain downstairs unless there is something good on telly. So Fabian decided I should have the TV upstairs in our bedroom so I will have the best of both - the comfort (and sense of security) of being in the bedroom and entertainment. We moved the TV upstairs, fixed a separate ASTRO connection there and voila!Only thing is now, on weekends when I spend most of the day at home and in the living room, there is no TV to watch. Hmmm...well, I can't have everything, can I?