I'm stuck in the office!

It's weekend, but I'm stuck in my office.

We were forced to attend a 2-day course held on Saturday and Sunday. It was supposed to be done in Bukit Tinggi, but due to unforeseen circumstances, we have to do it at Level 26 in the same good old office building instead.

Now, what am I doing here blogging instead?

First, the whole course has a bunch of boring topics.
Secondly, it is not related to any of my job.
Thirdly, the handout given are a jumbled up.
Fourthly, the sound system is crap. Orang duduk belakang tak boleh dengar so they start having their own conversation. Macam pasar!
Fifthly, there are too many attendees cramped up in a small training hall sampai nak bukak handout pun tak boleh.
Need I say more?

Oh, you get my point on why I leave the course and choose to blog, right?

Despite that, I managed to drag my feet to be in the office eventhough it's weekend. Why? Because attendance is compulsory. So what I did was to come, signed the attendance sheet, and during the first break, took my pen and notebook, and chiow!

But I don't think going back home is appropriate..that's a bit too drastic.
Instead, I chose to sit at my work station..and surf the Net, blogging, bloghopping.
Jahatkan?

Well, I'm not the type yang curi tulang macam ni...but if the course is so not related to my job, I feel like I'm just wasting my time. Actually, if it's not related but you could still gain knowledge, that wouldn't be such a waste of time, but if you can't hear a thing the speaker is saying, then that is definitely wasting my precious time! My family time, for God's sake!

I'm not the only "mengular" employee here. Let me see, on the floor itself, I can see..emmm...1, 2, 3,4,5...errr like 6 people excluding me...hehe...

Enough of the topic.

Now, Monday and Tuesday, I'm taking a leave.

On Monday, I've planned made for Ashraff. In the morning, I'm going to send him to his first LittleKhalifah's playgroup. The playgroup is to be held twice a week, and each session lasted for 1 1/2 hours. One month cost us only RM100.00, way cheaper than the current playgroup that we sent Ashraff too. Since it's going to be on Monday and Thursday morn, and I'm working, we shall be paying for the transportation as well which is like additional RM20.00. The owner of the centre will fetch Ashraff at our house.

But for the first session, I'll send him to the center. Our plan is basically to stop the Sunday playgroup that Ashraff attended at LOrnaWh1ston. Reason being, it's too expensive! Now that we are going to start paying for our new house, we can no longer afford to pay Ashraff's fees. I know it's bad planning and budgetting...Despite that, we still think LW is good if you can afford it.

So on this new playgroup, from the conversation I had with the owner, they will have activities like swimming, horse riding and trip to supermarket, just to let the children learn in a fun way. Oh, I'm so excited! It also teaches children Islamic value...which is not available at LW. As for English (as we both are very concern on English), I believe Ashraff can learn to master the language by watching good educational CDs.

For example, this new CD I bought for him. It's called Adventures with GOGO (something like that!), suitable for children age 3 to 9. The series are not highly publisize like BabyEinstein for e.g., but I found it's really good to teach children simple English sentences. I mean I saw significant improvement in Ashraff. In this series, the character will say a clear and repetitious English sentences, for instance, a character will ask Gogo "What's your name?" and then Gogo will answer "My name's Gogo". Then Gogo will counter-ask "What's your name?"..then the character will answer "My name is Jenny." Then Jenny will ask "How are you?"...Gogo will answer "I'm fine, thank you". Later they will sing a song using the same sentences, over and over again.

In one CD, you'll have like about 7 topics. Like in the CD I bought Ashraff, it has the following topics:-
What's you name?
What's his name?
What colour is this?
Is this your mother?
etc..(can't really recall..hehe..)

So now I can see that Ashraff knows how to ask questions in full English sentence, like the other day he asked me "What colour is this?" while pointing to his jammies...I asked him back because I know he knows and he just want to test me. He answered "It's red and blue". No longer he answered "Red dengan blue" macam dulu...

And now he knows how to answer "I'm fine, thank you" when his teacher asked him "How are you?". Although he got confused with "How old are you?". If you ask him this, he'll answer "I'm fine, thank you"...hehehe. And now dia lagi pandai. Whenever you ask him "how old are you?" or "how are you?", he'll answer "I'm fine, thank you. 3 years old". Belasah bagi dua2 answer! Hahaha...

Now, back to my plan for the 2-days leave.

Actually on Tuesday, I don't have specific plan. Maybe siapkan few newspaper orders and then that's it. The rest of the day, I nak main-main dengan the two boys. Maybe bring them for a walk or something. Lazing around...Just to compensate the time I lost for not being with them during the weekend. And maybe to give my body a rest after having to come to the office like 7 days a week...

Oh, oh, I not only update this blog. I've also updated my next door window. I've posted an entry on how to make personalized T-Shirt...and also to introduce our new product which is Personalized Printed Ribbon. You might need it for that special occassion, who knows? Just check it out, alright?!