Year 2009 - year of change.
We've finally got ourselves a landed house :) At last I don't have to climb up the stairs when the lift breaks down for the umpteenth time, and I don't have to go 2-3 rounds to carry the luggage when we travel . The best thing is my poor dogs will not have to be 'fugitives' anymore and will alas be able to roam freely in the garden. Yes, we're gonna have a garden too..yippee. Well a small garden but nevertheless still a garden. Of course I'll also miss the swimming pool which Zaydeen is beginning to enjoy. But it'll be a good change definitely as the current apartment has started to feel too crampy with the growing kid and additional maid. Purchasing the house was easy (not so much on the wallet though), but now comes the biggest headache of renovating it. Because of budget constraint, there are a lot of 'wish to have' that simply has to remain just that - wishes only. And to add to my headache, hubby insisted on getting a Feng Shui master to check out the house and ended up we need to do some not so conventional modification to the house which also cost another bomb. Anyway that's a story for another day.
As for little Zaydeen, she's going to nursery next week!!! She's so excited about it and keep mentioning she wants to go to school though I don't really think she knows what school actually is. I'm just as excited as her actually coz I think she will really love playing with the other kids and learning new thing. But yet I'm also fearful if she'll be alright by herself with strangers. Worried if she'll be taken good care of. Will the other kids bully her. Worried if the caretaker will beat her since she's really naughty at times. Don't even know why I'm so worried since she did go to daycare since she was 2 months. But somehow feel different now. Well, shall just have to pray for God to watch over her.
This is also year of promotion for me. Nothing much to shout about since it's a promotion without a raise! Just means added responsibility and added input required. When I was young I used to be ambitious and had a dream of being some powerful career lady. BUT marriage and motherhood has mellowed me a lot, and honestly nowadays all I really want is a boring mundane 9-5 job with no stress and no challenge and that allows me to go home early to the family.
Next hubby got a new job and his office is just 2 blocks behind my office! Haha talk about close proximity. And now both our office is gonna be really near our new house. Perfect! No more 1 hour jam on the LDP to get home. No more having to pay the exorbitant tols. By the way, why the heck do we need to pay to get caught in a jam? Anyway, hubby's new job means an increase in our family income. Yahoo....one tiny little step towards my dreams of retiring early....YA RIGHT!
And the final change, Sis is getting married! Sis is going to be 40 next year, and we really thought she was gonna be an old maid the rest of her life :-p It wasn't because she lacked choices, but she just didn't have much fate to remain with the guys. So thank God she finally found her perfect man and we don't have to worry about her anymore..hahaha.
So let's hope that the rest of the year will bring more good changes :)
