Author: Doris

Me and Edda hiking in Bowdoin park.

I guess the company is in the period of “slow time”. Not much going on. But, I am spending my days right now with several finite element analysis computer programs, which are available in the company’s computer system, by following the tutorials that later may be proven to be useful. Maybe not. Who knows? But, instead of just sitting here, this way it is good for me and the company. Later, they may need those skills. I certainly do. IT is interesting if they work closely with company’s main business. To be just a working bee, engineering is much easier for me right now because I don’t think I can get on the keyboard too often. It is bad for my hands, shoulders, neck and eyes. Besides, drawing too much brain power. Sometimes, to be just a working bee, at the bottom of the totem pole, is really bad. One cannot use talents as broad as possible. Just looking at small things but not the big pictures. Especially, there are a lot of things on which you are sure that you can excel. Well, of course the merit of it, is just working on what is assignment and there is no “why & what”.

I guess the best, at my stage of life, is to have outside business of my own – any kind 🙂

Mom went fishing yesterday after work. Caught a half. The fish was on the hook but managed to get away. So, we can postpone the idea to buy a freezer just for the fish 🙂 But she enjoyed herself. She got home around 9:30 PM at her time and called. Very glad to hear from her after her fishing trip. Just would like to know that she was okay 🙂

Mom never answers call back messages. I mean “NEVER”. She does not know how to retrieve them. It is more difficult to contact her after she got the cell phone 🙂 “Call or Miss” 🙂

I got my washed cell phone working again. Evidently, it completely dried up after several months. It sat there for a long time. This time, the charger of other one has problem, so I had to bring this one back to life. It is working fine, so far so good. Until next time, I put it into the washer again 🙂

So today I went to work and also checked out another condo and a Montessori school. We have settled on a 4 bedroom place in this condo complex called the Warren. It is in Chua Chu Kang, about 1 minute from the MRT station. The complex has three pools, one with slides and fountains for kids, a huge one for general lounging, a hot tub and another rectangular one for swimming laps. I also looked at the Modern Montessori Preschool Center at Graceland, which is nearby the Condo.

Mom has very bad allergy. But, yesterday, she was the first one to pick fruits in a nearby farm. I asked her to stay inside but she always likes fresh fruits. What a contradictory picture she was painting herself into. Afterward, I could tell that she enjoyed her fruits very much but not the allergy.

Well, in Washougal, her allergy is okay. Maybe, that is the good place she can stay during the allergy season.

The kids are asleep and I’m trying to convince myself that the house isn’t too much of a disaster area. Oh well. There was a tornado warning in our area today – the morning was hot and sunny and then at about 3:30, the skies went very dark and torrential rain fell for about 15 minutes and then nothing… The picture below is of rain. Can you tell? Hmmm, because of the warning and also because I am a lazy person, we didn’t do anything this afternoon except for baking this pound cake for Jeremy.

Pound cake that Vince made for Jeremy.

It poured today – tornado watch and everything.