Revisiting old work, CNY

Last week, an old friend from Anaesthesia/ GDFM days emailed me regarding going back to SGH to locum for the anaesthesia department.

I was torn.

Part of me was definitely interested, to see if I could still do the stuff I used to do. Maybe even (horrors..) consider a change in career (again!)

Of course the other part immediately quashed all that. What about the clinic! what about the kids!

and the first part started thinking, why is it my problem again? How come I can't be the one to leave for work everyday at 7, 7.30am, and let other people feed/change/ferry my kids around and plan their schedules every day?

So initially I thought I could just ignore it and hope that I didn't have to decide so quickly if I wanted to do it.

Then another message: he was going to start Friday 27th! So soon! So I said, no thanks, Madison has music that day, can't make it!

Then guess what? Just at that very moment, after I replied his message, I got one from the music teacher, saying she was away Friday 27th, no music class!

So I took that as A SIGN. Guess I should give it a shot. The universe has aligned for me to do this.

Once I made that decision, things happened really quickly. Emails, phone calls and text messages fired away from various directions. Finally my BCLS recertification was organised, and we were booked to come in on Friday morning at 8am!

I'm not really sure what to expect or what to think, but I guess after having 2 kids, I've learnt to let go a little and just go with the flow. See where and if it'll take me anywhere.

CNY 2012

Our first Chinese New Year in Singapore. Turned out pretty good actually. Since all the family was away, we didn't have to do anything special. We did have dinner at home and the kids got to toss Yusheng(twice!). We were also kindly invited to New years' lunch at our neighbour's place.

And was it a good thing we opted out of travelling this year. Apparently it was a nightmare getting to KL!