Love, Family & Food

Love, Family & Food

Friday, November 18, 2016

Working Life

Hi Readers,

Today I just want to drop down something here about my working life here in Hospital Fatimah. I've never written anything in my blog about my working life. Today, I'm going to do so! I've been working here for nearly 3 years. I joined the Hospital somewhere early March 2014. Back then, I had a very good boss. She had been a really good mentor and also a nice friend to talk to. Besides that, I had a close colleague and friend. She was the Customer Service Officer back then. Yea I was using 'past tense' as both my boss and friend had left the Hospital - one retired and one got a better job elsewhere.

I have little real friends here. Mainly because I work from office most of the time and very seldom walk to the main building to mingle around. I think people do label me as anti-socialist. Well, I feel like socializing here is more to the 'gossiping' side so, I reluctant to join the rest.

Most of the time I spent with my friend, P who's been someone that I can talk secret with because she's very outgoing and a good listener. My own boss also pretty easy to talk to so we can click as well. My working life was OK when both of them are around as I still have someone to talk to. But after they both left the Hospital, my working life here is really dull. Work only, no talk to my own department's colleague as well. Everyday wait for time to pass and go home. How pathetic!

It's scary to talk to the people working there because, you never know what they really are. Some of them can smile and be nice to you in front of you, but behind you, you never know what they say about you. I rather being said anti-socialist than mingling with those gossipers

My own department's colleague, O is a very difficult person. Previously, there was only she and my boss in a department. When I first joined the department, it was a difficult time for me because she dislikes everything i did and said. (Till date, she still is like that). She's a senior and I respect her for her experience. By hierachy, she's below me, but she had NEVER respected me as a person. I'm not saying respecting me as her superior in terms of hierachy, because she will never never wants to report to me. Maybe because she feels that she's senior so she should not report to a young girl like me. Because of her seniority, she was very rude and never respect me at all.

My boss had asked me what is my biggest challenge when she retires, and I said, to be working together with O only. My boss said O has to report to me after she left, but I can be with you, she will never ever do that. What happened during the last two days had proven everything to me.

This lady, O, she's a weird person. Whatever she said is very contradicting. Previously, she was not happy that I said 'Let Me Help You'. To her, she said that these words mean that the work she's doing is only her duty and cannot be done by me. She said our department's work can be done by both of us. I remembered everything she said. Remembering this, I tried not to say it anymore. On Tuesday 15th Nov, there was a Customer Service Workshop and she told me not to do anything as she had arranged everything with the Security Manager to move the tables and chairs for the event. Until a day before the event, she was still on leave. She had planned to come early on Tuesday at 7.30 am to make the table arrangements.

A day before, there was some changes as the Conference Room was vacant for use despite the room was booked. Seeing that, I checked with my new boss whether to proceed with arrangements or wait till O is back. She told me to proceed and get help from the Security Manager. Without any issue, the tables and chairs were arranged. I knew O does not like to be disturbed during her leave, and thus, I asked a colleague just drop her a message that the arrangements are done and told her not to worry. She does not need to rush on that morning as well. My intention was good so that my colleague does not need to rush to do so many arrangements.

The event went well on that day. I was happy because everything went smoothly. I never think about her not saying TQ at all. Because to me, getting things done properly like what she planned was good enough although it was earlier by one day. The next day after the event, on 16th Nov, she blurted out to me that she wanted to say TQ for the help and she 'appreciated' the help with the arrangements. She added, "But I was not happy that you have interfered with my plannings. Why did you do the arrangements when I told you that I have arranged everything with the Security Manager?"

I told her that I had checked with boss first before proceeding as she asked to do it a day earlier as well. She said, "Why did you go to boss to ask these? It has nothing to do with you because you are pregnant. You don't have to do it." She also added, "I did not say TQ yesterday because I was not happy at all with these. Now I say TQ and I appreciated it."

I was like?! Huh?! "I'm not happy also with what you are saying now. You don't say TQ because to me, you don't sound like you appreciating at all. My intention is to do it because we are a team. And I don't want you to rush to work also".

She then said, "Yea, I know you are kind, but I don't like it because you have interfered my planning. Also, you know I don't like people call during my leave, and you asked another colleague to Whatsapp me. I was so angry. I told you already, after our boss left, I want to work peacefully and everything go smoothly"

That's when my nerve went boiling. "I know you don't like people call, that's why I just message to inform you that things are done. My intention was to help out as a team member. Next time, when you are on leave, I'm not calling you or messaging you, irrespective the issue is an emergency or someone died or the building collapses, OK? "If you are not happy when people have done something to help out, then I have no words to say!"

After that, I turned my back at her. I was so angry because what she's not happy about was ridiculous. I shot back at her because I did not do anything wrong with my job. But I was sad also for this. I could not breathe and I ended up walking to another department at the other side to burst out my tears. I felt very hurt and sad. I did not even expect a TQ from O because it is difficult to come out from her mouth. I just want her to acknowledge my contribution as a team to the program and treat me as a person, as her colleague. (not by hierachy). But in return, those hurtful words were what I had received. I felt so hurt by that.

That's why I said, whatever she said were very contradicting. At one point she said I need to do the work as we are from the same department, and it's not her responsibility only. Now, when I have willingly done it without saying 'I help you', she said I had interfered her work and plans. Don't understand what she was thinking.

I spoke to my new boss and she supported me. She said O has no rights to be unhappy because I have helped out and things did not go haywire. And it went on well. There's nothing wrong with that. Additionally, my boss added that she had asked if we can call her when she's on leave if suddenly there is any changes to the arrangements or any emergencies - and she said, OK! Oh my God. Such a big fat liar!

Anyway, it's good that I have let out the emotions. I think she got the point of my being unhappy because on actual fact, I did nothing wrong. Only herself feeling not happy based on her own perception.  She did not apologise and the next day, she talked back to me like nothing happened.

Scarry!

Thx for reading!





 

Tuesday, September 13, 2016

I'm Expecting Our Second Jewel

Hello Peeps!

It's been some time since my last entry in this blog. I've been reluctant to write a post because for the past one month, I was not feeling so well, weak and dehydrated. Remember I posted about my post-contraception side effect on my facial acne? Well, my period had been very irregular and it was difficult for me to conceive. In fact, it took me 1 year of trying to conceive until I recently found myself missing my period. I did not suspect myself pregnant as I thought my period probably delayed again. I gave up because my pregnancy test was negative. But when my period was still not coming a week later, I gave myself a try to test again. I almost burst into tears when I saw two lines - meaning positive pregnancy!

I quickly booked my first appointment with the gynae doctor. As stated by the doctor, my period was irregular and the dates were all wrong. From the scan, baby's size was about 5 weeks only. Meaning, I was pregnant somewhere in July. I was praying that I don't have to go through the same pregnancy symptoms that I had last time during my first pregnancy. But, unfortunately, the symptoms came even earlier this round. I started experiencing nausea and excessive vomiting since the 6th weeks. I vomited about more than 10 times a day when I decided to annouce my pregnancy news to my family on my husband's birthday on 25th August.

I was so sick that day and the next day, I was admitted for drips to rehydrate myself. Seriously, this is the worst symptom of pregnancy ever! People concerned about eating too much during pregnancy, but I'm worried that I'm not eating and drinking enough because almost everything make me nauseous - especially plain water. OMG! And, whatever I took, my body will know what to reject. From my few times experiment, my stomach rejects cocoa (chocolate), acidic fruits like orange, curry and dhal and sunflower seeds. It's surprising because my stomach only rejects certain food because when I vomitted, only certain food came out.

And, the pregnancy hormones make my stomach over-producing acid. I felt uncomfortable all day long. I'm not experiencing morning sickness but all-day-long sickness. Horrible feeling. Now, I had to rely on anti-nausea drug especially early morning because I just can't tolerate anything without medication. Early morning, after waking up, I will definitely throw up the acid collected in my stomach overnight after I drank some water.

I'm so worried of dehydration. I can't escape from this because the last pregnancy I was dehydrated as well due to excessive vomitting. Poor thing. My husband also got used to this as compared to my first pregnancy. He said, he doesn't know what to do. Haha!

Anyway, I hope one day both my son and ?son/daughter will be able to read this. So that they know how much sufferings and difficulties their mum went through to bring them to this world. Haha

Cheers

Grace

Friday, July 8, 2016

Short Raya Getaway to Johor Bahru : Desaru Beach Holiday

We just came back from our recent Hari Raya trip to Johor Bahru, my hubby's hometown. Every year we will go back there for twice a year to visit my mother-in-law. She's old and refused to come to stay with us, so we will plan long leave to go back there twice a year. It's far from Ipoh so we cannot go back very often unless it's long holiday like Raya or Christmas. This trip, hubby brought me and our mochi Biri to Desaru beach. We went on 5th July (Tuesday) early morning around 8am. We reached there after around 1 hour drive there. This beach is really clean and quiet. Though the water is not crystal clear like those Islands in the East Coast, but the water is clear though. 
 

Hi Welcome to Desaru, Johor
 Like I said just now, the beach was very quiet, not many people there that time, probably because it was eve of Hari Raya. So we were one of those few families there. In addition, it was very hot and sunny that day. People mostly will choose to stay in-door than coming out to the beach. But hubby had promised to bring us here so he kept his promise. 

Desaru beach is a long stretch of sandy beach, with some sections of it belonging to the private resorts. There were many resorts there so, you can only access to certain part of the beach if you are not staying in the resorts. We went to the public beach and for each public beach, we need to pay RM4 parking fee per entry. 

BBQ area and resting area before the beach
After passing by the walkway and BBQ area, we reached the beautiful beach. I like Desaru more than Langkawi. The beach is clean with no rubbish. Well-maintained.
Soft sands with calm beach on our right side

Another side of the beach - see how little people were there
I said this place is well-maintained because there was a large tractor moving along the beach to smoothen the sand and make the beach smooth and tidy. See below picture

Tractor trails on the beach

Mochi Biri and daddy choose to stay at the beach to play sand.....To be continued

Hello mummy, I'm playing sand! I love sand, and I HATE water!!!

... while I, ran to the water to capture some pictures. I love hanging around the beach because it gave me a very relaxing feel of a retreat.
Can you see the clear water?
Sunny day with clear water
Hello from Desaru!
 
We're happy family by the beach

 Continue to share more lovely pictures that I had captured at the beach!

Can you see clearly the clear water???
 
Great photography skill!

We hang out at the beach till around 11.30am and the sun began to burn our skin. We stayed by the beach instead of going down the water. We did not swim as our son was very afraid to go down the water.

The hubby and wifey


Yes, hubby captured this stupid photo of me trying to 'climb' and sit on the tree.


Lastly, TQ to hubby for bringing us to this beautiful beach. My JB holiday is not the same as before this round. Muacks

Love,
Wifey


Wednesday, June 22, 2016

Cameron Highland Family Trip 2016 - Day 2

Hi! Have you read my Day 1 post? If not, check it out HERE. Very quickly, it's Day 2 of our short family trip. Mum woke up early to prepare a simple breakfast for us all. Sunshine eggs, and noodles!. YummY!
Delicious breakfast

 Before leaving the beautiful penthouse, we all took a wefie of the whole family! Nice right!



Welcome to Leong, Woo & Lee family!
After breakfast, we headed south to The Lakehouse Cameron Highland at Ringlet. But on the way, we stopped by at Cameron Tea Valley. Green tea valley, made us felt so relaxed.



Hello from me and Hugo (the nurse)
Another angle

We all walked down to the tea valley for a picture down there. Very lovely place to take awesome pictures!




We all then drove to The Lakehouse Cameron Highland.

Lets continue our journey to The Lakehouse


 We were awed the moment we saw this beautiful English LakeHouse!

Walked up the ramp at the back of the Lakehouse. Took this beautiful picture of my mum

After turning around, you can see this beautiful side of the Lakehouse with a small garden.

Chibi photo bombed my picture with mum
 
Me and mum

Mum and aunt with my cute son
Happy Father's Day to the Daddies

 When we saw the Lakehouse, we were really awed. Never knew such beautiful places existed in Malaysia! So beautiful!

The Lakehouse Cameron Highland
We all took many photos around this place as this is such a lovely place and our first visit here. 

It's cool to have a model with us to take such nice picture with the Lakehouse
Family picture!
 Now, lets check out a series of modeling pictures at the Lakehouse!

We have a baby model here! Presenting Chibi Biri posing around with his strawberry balloon
 



We have 3 models here too!


We ended the visit at Lakehouse with a family picture
We then move on to the next stop 'Strawberry Corner'. Our all time favourite to visit at Cameron Highland.
 Hello everyone! Here's the baby with the uncle!

Ultimately, this is my son's favourite place to visit too!
This place is always our best stop for lovely tea break in the garden
Strawberry Corner is the best place for flowers, and cactus purchase. Too many varieties!
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Then, we visited Kea Farm for short shopping of strawberries, vegetables and other things. Kea Farm has changed a lot too. Now, there's Kea Garden within Kea Farm Market.


My son and I with lovely flowers

Kea Garden




I end this holiday post with one statement : Serene, breathtaking and relaxing family holiday!

This place is a definete worth to visit! 

Love,

Grace









Cameron Highland Family Trip 2016 - Day 1

Hello and wishing everyone happy always. I don't know if my blog has any readers or not! Haha! If there is, hope you all are well. I had just came back from my recent holiday with my family. Yep, I know, I went to a lot of holidays this year and I take note of that! Well this holiday was planned last month, last minute to go with my youngest brother before he leaves Ipoh to Assunta Nursing College for his Diploma in Nursing. Yes! We're going to have a male nurse in the family. I'm so proud of this. 

Ok. We all departed from Ipoh around 7.30 am and reached Cameron Highland around 10.15 am. My brothers and I had made a promise to take a new picture of us 6 years after our first Cameron Highland trip. And here's the difference. 

Haha. My brother Lawrence had gained some weight obviously, and Hugo grew taller. I myself, have less hair after delivering my son! And, 3 of us became fairer obviously.

Ok, let's continue on our holiday journey. We had a small hiccup between the journey as we all went all the way to Gopeng through the highway, and missed the Simpang Pulai tol to Cameron Highland. We quickly made a U-turn at the Gopeng tol and made our way back to Cameron Highland. The journey was smooth and we reached there safely. We stopped at the first stop - Garden View Cafe. This stop has developed a lot since our last visit last year! BTW, this garden is free admission. It's located beside the Avant Chocolate, and it's on your left side if you come from Simpang Pulai direction.

Hello from us!
This is the new garden with lights and wishing bottles

Mum and aunty took this beautiful picture in the garden

There is also new 'paddle boat pool' for kids to play. RM8 for 15 minutes boat paddling
We all took this opportunity to take lots of pictures here - selfies, wefies and pictures of the sceneries.

Wefies

Another wefie of the siblings and the GF

Not forgetting, family photo. Hello, here's a beautiful picture of my small family. See the lovely flowers behind us?

Small family!

My chibi biri and myself
This place is special for the petting zoo in it. It has rabbit farm and duck farm. Admission is RM3 if I'm not mistaken.

Rabbits!
Walking further into the garden, you can see sea of hydroponic vegetables.

Green vegetables

Another side of the garden is this iconic windmill. It's not functioning so it's great for photographs. We had some pictures taken here as well.

Me and my man! If you take a close look, you can see a photo bomber behind the windmill!

Me and the GF!

The garden's flowers are so colorful, making our morning feels great

We then quickly stopped to grab our tea in the cafe. We ordered cakes and soups! Cameron Highlands is a place for delicious cakes, coffee and tea. Each place we go, we will grab some drinks and food! I made a picture collage of the food there!

Yummy cakes and breads
 After our tea, we drove all the way to Brinchang to meet with Dave to get our apartment's key. I'd booked a penthouse from Dave at Desa Anthurium. Desa Anthurium is located between Brinchang and Kea Farm. This penthouse is really spacious, well maintained, clean and comfortable. Nothing to complain of.
The living room, kitchen, mini bar and dinind area

It has two balconies and the rooms are all located upstairs as compared to usual apartment.
 After reaching, we all quickly put down our luggage, had our steambot lunch by the balcony! Really fun and cool!

Homemade steambot by the balcony

First day was a simple day. We stayed indoor to rest during the afternoon and watched Astro. We went out around 6pm to Brinchang night market. Sorry no photos taken as we rushed home due to rain. We had to dine in at our penthouse that night.

Yummylicious food. Not very healthy though
After dinner, we all played cards while watching Fast and Furious 7. Later around 9.30pm, we all drove to Tanah Rata for a simple mamak sytle supper and reach home around 11pm to sleep. First day just ends like that!


Stay tuned for my 2nd day post HERE!

Love,
Grace
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