Our Story 06-08

Part 06 : Winter ver2
Winter was not too cold, nothing lower than -1C, but it was wet where we didn't get enough of sun light everyday. I was asked by GP to take Vitamin D as I was diagnose with Vit D deficiency, which was a surprise to me! We didn't have this problem back in Malaysia and never heard of such thing!
So I was loading up myself with Vitamin D supplements and feel a bit better overall, not so depressed, through the winter. Whenever there's sun shine, we'll try to go out and stay under the sun, a bit like solar panel :)

I was trying to set up a website using WIX and FB for the music school that I plan to start, and the name for it is AutumnGreen, which I thought it's suitable to our situation at that time, where we still have hope in the midst of trouble. Green - surviving, like grass in the autumn/winter. I even ordered some name card for this class to be distributed to the surrounding neighbours.

Out of those months, two students turned out, one for guitar and one for keyboard. The guitar class was short lived as we only manage to go through 3 classes and the keyboard class was a bit better, which lasted around 6 classes.

The website design and music class marketing was on hold after September as I was involved in an off campus training course on Certificate IV in Training and Assessment (TAE). Certificate IV is something lower than diploma level and this cert is recognized by the workplace here in Australia. Having this additional certificate will eventually put some plus points to the resume.

The whole course was not that hard, just that it's routine to read and answers, get involve in group meeting ... blah blah blah....

Part 07 : My little kiddos
We celebrated her birthday here in Melbourne and few months after that she's enrolled to a local kinder. I had the privilege to fetch her to kinder 4 days in a week and when I looked back now, I'm glad that I was there during her kinder time in school to send her off and fetch her back. Get to talk to the teacher about her progress in kinder, getting along with friends, eating her own lunch, borrow books from library, talk about her friends, had a talent show night for Christmas.... It's really a privilege for me....

As for our little bear, he started walking right after we got here. I had the privilege to take care of them during the jobless period and see how my boy growing up. There were time that they drove me crazy and there were time they brought joy and smile to me at home. He came with not much hair, but now, I'm proud of the amount of hair that he has :)

We tried to have a set of routine for the kids such as wake up, brush teeth, dress up, send to school, play at home, learn something, go to the park, short nap, do home work (for myself), cook for the kids, cook for dinner, fetch the kids, bring them out walking, let them play at the backyard... so many things to do in so limited time. Many time the kids beat me in the amount of energy they have especially Shanna. She started not taking afternoon nap, and that's something hard for me, coz normally I'll be doing my own personal things during her afternoon nap and now I'll need to prepare something for her to keep her occupied.

So we came out with something that she enjoyed playing, such as snap using uno cards, building blocks, count the cards number in mandarin, reading, coloring in the backyard....

Then the kids get a treat on Friday! afternoon they'll get to watch Mickey mouse club house cartoon while i was  preparing their lunch and watch planet earth documentary while I was preparing the dinner.

Part 08 : 6 months probation
There's a 6 months probation period for most of the new employment here and they really take it seriously as compared to what we have in penang. Thank God that Audrey gone through the first 6 months without problem and she was converted to permanent workforce. Through out the six months period, we had food catering for ourself, 3 days a week so to off load myself from having to cook every meals every day.  The food was all right, cooked by singaporean cook. After a while, we hit the max variation of choice and we had a lot of repeat choice by the end of the 6 months. The food is not bad, something similar to our home cook food, only with additional ajinomoto.

By the end of Oct, there was an opening in the company where Audrey was working which was suitable to my experience as test engineer in manufacturing field. I applied for that job and got a face to face interview when my family was here with us in Melbourne. Finally, there's a change in my situation after a long 8 months of waiting for a job. My mom just came on time and she stayed up late just to pray for me when she knew that I was going for the interview the next day.

more to come....