The Housewifey Me on Christmas Day!

Maybe simplicity is really bliss. Staying at home these days and doing nothing apart from mundane housechores, watching tv and eating home-cooked food has reduced me into a contented, housewifey , domesticated gal that never managed to surface herself over there in S'pore.

Staying at home also means less brain activity. The comfort at home induces lethargy all over your body, including your brain,rendering it decapitated for any form of rigorous analysis. Instead, another form of judgement and intelligence takes over: how to enhance the flavour of the soup? What kinda stitch to use to mend that hole in Mom's working suit so that people won't notice it? When u realise u r watching at a Taiwanese variety show teaching housewives at home how to toss an omelette without ruining it, u know,u r indeed in a 'homely, housewifey' mode.

Two modes: a domesticated me, or a competitive studious me. Some people have to cope with the dual roles: studying and helping out at home at the same time, but for me, these two never mix. They take place in me at different time and places : I am a full-time housewifey me now, and when i go bk to S'pore, cooking becomes really a PITA. It makes me realise how difficult it is for a career woman who at the same time has to make time for her family. The two separate arenas of home and the office require two different sets of intelligence as well as characteristics. Demanding effeciency in performance in your subordinates is different from expecting good grades from your children. Persuading your client to sign a deal with u is sometimes easier than coaxing your stubborn child to eat his greens. Alot of women make the mistakes of carrying their working-selves back home and face alot of challenges and frustrations; they can't understand why they can handle a corporation of few thousand employees but not a few rascals wrecking havoc at home.

The ability to 'switch mode' interchangeably as circumstance requires is the answer to the above problem. One must learn how to relinquish one role and jumps into the next seamlessly. To be versatile and adaptable, just like a monologue actress who can take on several characters within one stage performance.

At this point in time, I am not good enough to pull off a monologue show by myself.

PS: Today is Christmas, it just doesn't feel right not to wish everybody a Merry Christmas here today. So here goes:" MERRYYYYYY CHRISTMASSS!!!"