Multi-tasking

Its not easy being a mum, maid and musician wanna be all rolled into one. 3M. Recently I had become even more organised and efficient as ever. Ever since I was in my pre-teens may be from 7 onwards I became rather conscious of TIME. I started multi-tasking so that I could DO more and play more. I am forever PLANNING my week ahead and day ahead so the less idle time is lost. I remembered I would read on the buses, usually magazines and study when I was most alert 11pm to 1am.

My family sleeps late. Anyway I felt more secure knowing my parents were home safe and sound after closing their food stall for the night. Most days they would be home around 2 am. So while studying I would pray for their safe return, the prosperity of their business and many others. In fact, I enjoyed my time with God, reading the bible and praying alongside solving math problems. Thankfully I did very well in school.

I am also a checklist person. Till this day, before i shut eye and drift into blissful sleep, I would consciously or sometimes sub consciously go through my mental checklist. Homework? check Bible? check Exercise? check Beauty? check etc. As a result,I seldom forget and yet i often finished what I planned to do efficiently with little hiccups. I am one efficient worker and I enjoyed the sense of achieving what I set out to do. Of course there are days of unexpected interruption which God allows to show me that HE is BOSS and I need to depend on him to get through the terrible chaotic messy day.

Now as a mum, i thank God for the experience in work scheduling and planning. It is why I managed to clean the house, prepare the meals, care and coach my child and yet have time for music theory, bible reading and violin practice. Now I am adding to all these my long missed French.

Someday I pray our family will live in Paris. Coincidentally Yan loves french too and had studied the language at A levels. I believe one day our family will visit Europe for a long long long vacation and best that we make it our second home country. ha

Btw, young rachel loves Ratatoullie. She is capable of pronouncing the rat.tat.too.ee so well its really French. I would prefer she study French than Mandarin as a second language. Wait a minute, we should be able to teach her some basic french ourselves. Hee