Day 38 of the 60DWCC - Another Unproductive Day

RK comes home early every Thursday thus I am essentially left with only 4 hours of working time after I am done with my morning run and washing up activities.

While it is convenient to let RK attach himself to the Internet or Youtube for the entire afternoon when he is home, I do not feel comfortable with it at all. First of all, he may spoil his eyesight over prolong exposure to computer screen.

There is also a high tendency for him to get addicted (which I suspect he already is) and lastly God know what else he may get exposed to other than watching Mr Bean and some animated cartoons. There is a high chance he may get exposed to "X Rated" stuff unknowingly.

The adult filtering feature is not foolproof and let's not forget RK is an extremely smart kid. I suspect he may already know his way around all the Youtube settings. Moreover cyber crimes are at its all time high now hence I definitely want to ensure that RK is clear from such stuff at his current age.

Therefore whenever he is with the computer, I will have to occasionally check on him to see how he is up to. Apart from that, I will usually talk to him about what he learns in school and allowing him to tell me some of the interesting stuff in school. As THL has a dinner date with her colleagues this evening, I spent the entire evening with RK. We had dinner together, played some online games together, remember the Fireboy and Watergirl game that I told you about. Well, we did play a little bit of that. And of course we did watch some of the Mr Bean animated series too.

Although it was a unproductive day for me, it is well worth it as I was able to spent some quality time with RK. He is at the age where he needs a lot of attention from the parents and I will try my very best to spend as much time with him so as to add in some memorable memories to his childhood. :)

Transport Expenses: $2.99

Home to Boon Lay Interchange (THL) => $0.83
Bus to Taman Jurong Food Centre => $0.73
Taman Jurong to Home (THL) => $1.43

Daily Afterthoughts:

Ever since we sold away the SUV, the amount of outdoor activities with RK has gone down dramatically. I used to bring RK down to West Coast Park or Chinese Garden to play Frisbee or soccer and ever since we went car-less, such activities have been shelved. In view of that, I already have plans to bring RK out for more running or hiking activities whenever my schedules allow.

Day 21 of the 60DWCC - Busy Day Working From Home

The best part about working from home is the fact that you have absolute freedom on how you want to plan out the day. You can have a short break every 15 minutes, or have a 3 hours lunch break, no one really cares. :D But there are times when I have to rush out some work for my clients and yet have RK jumping and breathing down on me every 10 minutes or so.

Sigh.

That's life, isn't it?

At long last, after I was done with my work, I compensated RK by playing some online games with him. One of his all time favorite games is the Fire Boy and Water Girl series from Miniclip site. The series consists of 3 worlds namely Crystal, Light and Forest Temple. Each of the Temples has huge number of levels where the 2 players will need to work in unity (team work) to solves complex puzzles while collecting diamonds at the same time. It was really a fun game to play with the young ones.

Warning: The game can be addictive and never let your child play alone or he or she could easily spent 3 to 4 hours on it. You have been warned. :P

There are many other games over at the Miniclip sites and most of them are really great for training up your child's reflexes and creative mind.

At about 5.30pm, I went down to packet dinner back from coffee-shop and we had dinner together when THL reached home at 7pm.

Transport Expenses: $1.66

Bus to Work (THL) -> $0.83
Boon Lay Interchange to Home (THL) -> $0.83

Week 3 transport expenses stand at $174.85. That's like less than $60 a week so far, can't wait for see the figures for week 4.

Daily Afterthoughts:

It has been 3 weeks since we sold our car and to my surprise our lives have not gone upside down and in fact, I feel that I get to enjoy more quality family time with both THL and RK - something that would otherwise not be possible if I still have to drive the car and focus on the road most of the time. My attention would have been mostly devoted to the road and traffic and I would not be able to pay 100% attention to what they have to tell me. 

Ever since the car is gone, I have not had the chance to hear THL's "I told you" comments - THL loves to tell me things whenever I was driving. I have always hope that she can understand the fact that I could not possibly remember everything she said while I am on the wheel. Well, women are wired differently, aren't they? That's life again. :D