Your Asian mom

 Source: Maoistrebelnews As a mom in 30s, I resent my ancestors evertime the weather is damn hot and intolerable. I blame them for keeping on destroying all the greens and polluting rivers in their days so call to give better lives for the next generation. The previous generations or so called the "modern" people kept on implying that using plastic is cool, buying is sort of a symbol of status, in contrary to reusing or upcycling is only meant for those who have no money and etc. Recently, I attended a seminar on Environmental issues. One of them is on waste.  Here I share the statistic from Journal of Science 2015. 1. In 2010, 99.5 million tonnes plastic were produced from 192 countries bordering the sea and led about 12.7 million tonnes went into the ocean. 2. It is estimated that each person on average consume 18gramme, or a size of credit card, in their daily food intake ie the fish, the sea salt which contain microplastic. 2. As for e-waste collection in

A circular has been issued to notify staff that possible retrenchment would be done due to the company's poor financial situation.  Working in that "dying" nature of business, it is inevitable to lose the job. It is sooner or later. The list would be out by end of December. It means that Christmas would not be the same celebration as years before as I need to be emotionally ready, in case my name would be in the list.  Before this, I was hoping to have a change of career that I could have fixed working hours to look after my kid on weekends and public holiday, or spend some time to experience the "full time housewife" work doing some good cooking, sewing and gardening.  In fact, all this while, I do hope to open a daycare or tuition center as I know there is demand of this services.   But strange...that I am quite afraid to lose my job, which somehow defines who I am. Worse, to lose the freedom to earn and spend own money. To make it clear