Was wondering about this as I was putting Aaron to sleep....
There are several references to the 'Chinaman Company' on this blog. Its a common enough word amongst chinese Malaysian and Singaporeans but it occured to me that it could come across as racist to other people in this world. I'm chinese so obviously I'm not using it in the racist way but I can't think of what the term is for this type of company.
Does anybody know the politically correct term? I've turned the comments back on so let me know.
Sunday, June 3, 2007
Aaron eats toast
I love watching him eat. He LOVES eating. He eats anything and everything. Up until now, most of his food have been mashed up so this is the first time he is eating something that is hard.
Saturday, June 2, 2007
Guest Writer - My husband
He doesn't have time to maintain his own blog so he wanted to borrow mine. Lets see what he has to say....
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I have always wondered how to have balanced work/life? Large western style corporations urge employees to have a balanced work/life but I really wonder how many achieve it. I hear most of them are slogging it out at home on their laptops! Well I don't work in on of those corporations and instead spend my days in a sweatshop...I mean Chinaman Company.
Since Aaron was born 10 months ago, my life changed....I have to play 3 different roles, that is being a husband and father at home and a manager at work. Life became more complicated after I accepted a job offer to work in Palembang, Indonesia.
Managing people of a different culture. Learning to nurture a high need baby. Helping my wife adjust to life as a new mom here.
No doubt life is full of stress but 3x the stress might have caused more greys on my head. On top of all that, those Chinamen equate a good employee with one who lives at the workplace. But....we don't give a heck about them ;)
After 5 months of adjustments to parenthood and the new environment, the baby is now giving us blocks of 3hr stretches at night and I've adjusted to the Indonesian work culture. Although working in Indonesia still takes up more than 50 hours a week, I have managed to throw in 2 to 3 hours of workout a week in the gym and at least 6 hours of SLINGING Aaron time for walks around the neighborhood.
GEEZ! I never realised how good it was to vent on a blog!
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I have always wondered how to have balanced work/life? Large western style corporations urge employees to have a balanced work/life but I really wonder how many achieve it. I hear most of them are slogging it out at home on their laptops! Well I don't work in on of those corporations and instead spend my days in a sweatshop...I mean Chinaman Company.
Since Aaron was born 10 months ago, my life changed....I have to play 3 different roles, that is being a husband and father at home and a manager at work. Life became more complicated after I accepted a job offer to work in Palembang, Indonesia.
Managing people of a different culture. Learning to nurture a high need baby. Helping my wife adjust to life as a new mom here.
No doubt life is full of stress but 3x the stress might have caused more greys on my head. On top of all that, those Chinamen equate a good employee with one who lives at the workplace. But....we don't give a heck about them ;)
After 5 months of adjustments to parenthood and the new environment, the baby is now giving us blocks of 3hr stretches at night and I've adjusted to the Indonesian work culture. Although working in Indonesia still takes up more than 50 hours a week, I have managed to throw in 2 to 3 hours of workout a week in the gym and at least 6 hours of SLINGING Aaron time for walks around the neighborhood.
GEEZ! I never realised how good it was to vent on a blog!
How does your baby greet you?
Aaron is still not talking yet so he doesn't yell out 'Mama'. Instead, he licks his lips, waves his arms around and then sticks two fingers in his mouth. I'm really starting to think that latching on is his way of saying 'Hi'. He's not really feeding, and is only on for maybe 30 seconds to a minute and he's off again. It seems to happen after his morning walk, evening walk, when I get out of the gym, when he comes out of his room and sees me....the list goes on. Strange...yet adorable.
Picture Perfect
A picture perfect day is:
A sunny day by the beach.
A picture perfect dinner is:
Any dinner with my whole family. Unfortunately Richard is missing from this photo.
A picture perfect evening is:
Sunset at Noosaville, Queensland, Australia.
A picture perfect vacation is:
My last one in Bali.
I got this meme from The Saturday Special.
A sunny day by the beach.
A picture perfect dinner is:
Any dinner with my whole family. Unfortunately Richard is missing from this photo.
A picture perfect evening is:
Sunset at Noosaville, Queensland, Australia.
A picture perfect vacation is:
My last one in Bali.
I got this meme from The Saturday Special.
Meme
This is my new word of the day. When I initially came across it, I thought it read MI MI. Its actually pronounced like the 'mem' from memory or supposedly sometimes it rhymes with dream.
Its original meaning is something along the lines of 'chinese whispers' where one person's post on their blog is written about by somebody else and then again but yet another person. Get it?
Now, there are websites out there that create daily, weekly or monthly questions/ideas/topics (called the memes) and post them for other people to go write about. Sometimes it is suggested that you get several of your friends to write about the same meme. And then, each of them goes and gets several other people. ETC ETC ETC
The Daily Meme is an interesting place to start. I think I'll give it a go one of these days.
Its original meaning is something along the lines of 'chinese whispers' where one person's post on their blog is written about by somebody else and then again but yet another person. Get it?
Now, there are websites out there that create daily, weekly or monthly questions/ideas/topics (called the memes) and post them for other people to go write about. Sometimes it is suggested that you get several of your friends to write about the same meme. And then, each of them goes and gets several other people. ETC ETC ETC
The Daily Meme is an interesting place to start. I think I'll give it a go one of these days.
Friday, June 1, 2007
Does your local mall get this crowded?
This is PTC mall on the first sunday of ANY month. Most people have just received their salaries.
Population of the places where I've lived:
Indonesia : 222,781,500 (density 117 per square kilometer)
Malaysia : 25,347,370 (density 77 per square kilometer)
Australia : 20,155,130 (density 2.6 per square kilometer)
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