Corono, Covid-19, Circuit Breaker

Assalammu'alaikum family, friends, readers and followers of this blog. I know and well aware that I've haven't blogged in the longest time ever! Well a lot of things happened since my last entry which was in September 2019🤯!! 8 months had gone eh.. 8 long months...

Well, since being a full pledged educarer, I became the main teacher in charge of little children aged 19 to 30 months. I got myself a great partner who had her methods, priorities and mindset in line with mine, making our work seamless and smooth.

Just as we were doing great with awesome plans, all hyped and ready to do observations and write up for their upcoming Parents-Teachers-Conference, the world got invaded by a virus. Started from Wuhan, and it travelled and soon it became a world pandemic. Country after country went into lockdown to contain the virus.

Being a small country with only its people as its resources, Singapore could not afford to go on total lockdown. We tried social distancing, have some measures in place. The cases keep going up and the government decide act on it and call it Circuit Breaker and put in stricter measures so its citizens could abide with social distancing and protect themselves. Non-essential companies had to arrange for its staff to work from home, schools had to close and only be open for limited services. Everyone had to adapt quickly to new arrangements, everything was new to everyone. The circuit breaker was in place from 8th April to 4th May, but on April 21st the government decide to extend it for another 4 weeks till 1st June 2020. Stricter measures were put in place.

Business wise, I got into mask making mode. I wanted to give back to the community so I charge very minimally so everyone is able to afford to own multiple fabric masks so they can wash and have another one in hand. I have so far churned out 3 batches. The first batch has 51pcs, the second has 54pcs and the third batch has 51pcs. I will be stopping at Batch 4. I keep running out of notions, and my fingers get sore fitting the cord stoppers. Alhamdulillah, some customers pay more than my below-cost price, and this enable me to get more notions, make more for those who needs and insyaAllah, my niat grants us both good deeds.

Oh this circuit breaker brings our neighbours closer. It is during this trying times that we will see the good, the bad and ugly. Alhamdulillah, my neighbours are mostly nice people. Food brings us together, we join each other's orders and we began to know each other virtually (because we cannot meet and mingle during this time) but we promised to do a get-together when the situation is much better and when it is allowed again to meet and mingle with people from different households.

It also brings our families together, we teach our mom how to videocall and we would video call each other every other week to catch up. And I am grateful too that we celebrate Ramadhan during this pandemic, it enables us to reflect on how our past Ramadhan had been. We never truly bother about our neighbours in the past year, this year, we got united regardless of race, language and religion. When we know of someone restricted to the four walls but needed something, we jumped in to help. MasyaAllah, I am so grateful to know that I am in a good group of neighbours who I can rely on in dire situations. Alhamdulillah.

I hope we will find a vaccine to help tame the virus and can protect us from it soon. As much as I love how the situations brings the basics back to us, I do hope we can resume back to a more normal. As much as I hope this would be our normal, being home, working from home, staying at home and only leaving home for essential duties and needs, I do hope we can go back to being able to head out and enjoy the air without worrying about catching a deadly virus. As much as I love the fact that the world is healing with all the humans being cooped in their homes, I do hope we can go back to nature to enjoy it.

Let's pray for a better tomorrow.

Until I blog again,
Jun

Wassalam