Showing posts with label Stress. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Stress. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 20, 2013

New CEO at Home

My other half have been working from home whenever possible. With today's technology, office can literally be anywhere as long as you have a good or reasonably good internet connection. Well, this technology is a double edged sword. While on one hand, one can be almost be kept updated with the rhythm and pulse of the business, on the down side is that, it is extremely difficult to segregate or differentiate home life and work life. One can actually be working almost round the clock if you are working and reporting to different bosses globally with different time zones or bosses who do not seemed to bloody understand that it is actually midnight half way around the world from where they are.

The challenge for me of course is how to keep two hyper active `monsters' who are now constantly bickering and fighting and yelling over who get which toy, as quiet as I positively can, while my `CEO' at home is having her conference call with her colleagues. Or, how to you prevent especially Chenya from climbing all over her mommy while she is half way, presenting a proposal to her bosses. Wifi at home in the rooms are far from fair and hence, getting her to work in the rooms is still `work in progress' until I find a solution to boost up the signals. Meanwhile, everytime, she has conference call at home, me, the `personal assistant' get stressed to the max, trying to ensure that both the little ones are kept in check.


Today, I have an extra CEO `working' from home. Chenya has started imitating her mommy to set up her work desk at the dining table to `work', complete with her bag, laptop, handphone, notepad and pen, pretending to be making calls and replying emails.


Now, I have two CEOs at home working and I must said that I have my work cut out for me as their `personal assistant'. Now I have two bosses at home and both equally demanding, fiery and a perfectionist in every sense of the word.



I seriously need to hire a assistant to this assistant!

Tuesday, July 16, 2013

A break after this break

I was looking forward to come back to Malaysia this round for a short break because I needed one. I last came back in March 2013 to sort out the rental of our house and the sale of our cars. Well, you could say that I have only been away for a short 4 months. It is true but  4 months in a foreign land with no true friends to `lepak', 'minum' and chit chat can be rather lonely and stressful. I honestly desperately needed a break from my Beijing daily routine and monotony and I needed to be away, hopefully with a couple of days away from the kids (not that I don't love them any less) but to have some space to breathe, so to speak.
 
I thought I had that when Chenya, as arranged earlier will be with my in-laws for a week, while Ryan would be away for several days with them as well. At last, I thought I could go out to my usual hangouts back home in Malaysia for my coffee and hangout with some of my buddies of a couple of beers before heading back to Beijing for another couple of months.
 
 
However, I seriously do not think that that is going to happen this round.
 
 
Chenya has developed mild fever for a couple of days now and was told yesterday by my in-laws that she was having some dry cough. Ryan apparently missed me so much that he wants to come home.
 
 
So, I had both of them coming back to me last night and to make my task taking care of them harder, Ryan woke up this morning and told me that his cheek behind the ear is painful. I took one look and saw that it was swollen. My fear was that he has contacted mumps.
 
 
 
I took both of them to see my good old friend, Dr Liew and his diagnosis was Ryan has contacted mumps which will probably take a week to run it's course while Chenya has acute bronchitis and several medication to take. I need to bring her back to the clinic on Friday for a follow up.
 
 
So, there you have it. My next couple of days would be to take care of them, both down with something and Chenya, not feeling well, is becoming very clingy and `sticky'. This is definitely NOT the break that I was looking for.
 
Right now, my only thoughts and wish is that both would get well as soon as possible and that Chenya would not come down with mumps in the next couple of weeks.
 
 
I really need a BREAK after this BREAK!