after watching pm lee's speech in the national day rally last nite, and after the excitement the girls in my office is stirring up, i can't help but to blog about it...
i guess the hottest topic now is the new baby bonus scheme that is yet to be announced officially... everyone is talking about it, and expressing their excitement over it... i guess, our govt's plan is working... maybe able to push the birth rate to new heights (that needs to magnified and magnified again in order to see the tiny winy increase on the birthrate graph next year bah)...
but i feel, its not about the amount of money and leave entitlements offered to the parents... it still come down to the mindset... i meant, it would sound pretty stupid for someone to actually wanna have baby for the sake of money and the leave entitlement bah... its still not answering the problem faced by parents in the workforce lor...
what really put off people to having children is mainly coming from the employers bah... i meant with interview questions like "are you planning to have kids in near future?" tell you pretty much about the company policy... maybe our govt can work on a new iso standard that certify companies that are pro-family, and you know, give corporate tax rebates to companies that excel in doing so... we can have so many iso standards, having this additional one doesn't hurt right?
ok, i'm sprouting nonsense again...
this morning, i met ys (my colleague) on the way to work... he just became a proud father again (2nd child)... we were discussing about our babies and were describing how tiring it was to nite feed babies, to change diapers in the nite, to have no time for ourselves and devoting most time on our babies... thru-out the conversation, it sounds like 2 fathers griping about the hardship of being parents, but as we are about to be parted (ys stationed at gmt, whereas me at concourse), we ended the conversation about how fulfilling it was doing all these things for our babies...
that fulfillment, is something that cannot be shown or described... i was so against having children when we were younger... we then decided to have kids due to the fact that we are getting old liao... and its now or never... then we started to have this tot, lets have a fruit of our love... and really! we got a fruit!! 小木瓜 wor!!!
from the moment the pregnancy test kit shown positive, till this very moment, my life changed... its more meaningful and complete now... it seems pretty amazing how tiny little things can satisfy me nowadays... things like, megan burp after she drank her milk, that happy look after changing her diapers... even being able to make her smile is so satisfying...
like i said, i can't describe to you lor...
oh ya, last nite, this morning actually, its my turn to nite shift... megan woke up at 1am feeling hungry... as usual, i put her on her pinky chair, went to kitchen to make milk milk, came out and once again, she is happy and excited to see me coming back with her milk bottle in my hand... this time, i decided to snap a shot to post here... and i missed the happier look of her...
so i tried to get another shot... and it turned out...
my bad... she is really really hungry... haha~~~ bad papa, i presume some readers would say... :P
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