Back from Dead

Salam and greetings

I have a hunch that no one was missing me since my last post. Well not missing 'me' but my rantings. A lot has happened since. My eldest has started pre-school and now he is entering his second 'year' although his first 'year' wasn't really a year. It was about 3-4 months. Nonetheless he is now in five-year old class instead of the four-year old class. He is now a 'senior' as we call it in most boarding school.
My girls Natrah and Sofea are growing up well. Natrah could not stop speaking. The only way to shut her mouth is to make her go to sleep. But opposite to Sofea who until now is unable to say a meaningful word. She can understand and if she wants something she will point it but despite me and wife's best efforts she refuses to speak. I coaxed her with things that she want and I will only give it if she can say the name of the thing but still no success. The only progress she has achieved is she can mouth the word Ma-ma but no sound will come out from her mouth. Strange....I'm beginning to worry a bit but all of her milestones are perfectly normal. I need to start reading on isolated speech delay. If she can't say anything after 18 months I will refer her to a speech and language therapist. Her ears are ok now. She used to have ear discharges and upon consulting the Ear,Nose and Throat people now the problem has resolved but I think her speech delay was because of the ear problem she had earlier. I hope she will improve on her speech from now on.
How about my wife? Sri still a full-time housewife. This is no ordinary housewife. This is a housewife with an MD. That's rare. Heheheh....she said she will start working once my sister got married. Which brings me to my sister. She just got engaged on the 1st of January 2009 to a Kelantanese. At last. Everybody was worked up for this. My sister in law just came back from Sudan and my god she went on a shopping spree that could last me a year of groceries.Me and my family! But I suppose she is the youngest, the last of my siblings to get married and being the only girl so I suppose it justifies the spending...My parents were really excited about this..I can sense that so I hope everything will move smoothly until she is safely married.
So what about me? I'm still with UiTM. In my 7th month and settling in ok. Getting to know people in the hospital. Started to work in wards. Only thing I have to do MOship before I can do specialist calls. Agreed term was 6 months but I do not know if the Paeds Dpmt boss wanted to extend it. My boss was certainly against it. I really feel discouraged if I had to do another extra month of MO calls. Certainly my hospital colleagues have treated me very well but to be honest who wants to do MO calls if they can do Specialist calls? I don't know...I don't know whether this is just politics or I'm just being bullied or is it really for my own good?...Certainly the calls in NICU helped me a lot to boost my confidence in managing neonates...I don't know...I just do the best that I can and leave it to my boss to sort it out...I think politics plays a part....
I think that is enough for now....I will update more since my blogging 'semangat' has been revived...(by what I dont know tetiba saja bersemangat).....heh...Au revoir

Salam
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