News from the Muse

I know, I know… I’ve been a terrible excuse for a blogger. But if you allow me a couple of minutes to explain what has been going on in my life, you’ll understand why.

The last you heard from me, I was off on mini-holidays with my husband and living the life of luxury (read: laziness) at home.

Well, I’ve got updated news for you.

I’ve started on my new career at PWC. My first day of work was on Monday, 10th April 2006. I like it here. In a nutshell, work has been very satisfying. I get to use my legal training and at the same time, I’m learning all about the nitty-gritty lifestyle of a corporate player. The work environment here is also vastly different from that of a legal firm. Not less work, but less stress, less pressure, less demands. An American firm ran by Chinese, imagine the efficiency! I don’t want to gush so much; its way too soon for that. Suffice to say, I’m glad I made the leap. And the biggest reason I’m glad I’m no longer a litigator, is because of the other news I have to share.

Wan & I are expecting our firstborn on 17th November 2006.

We made the decision to start a family early this year; call it a New Year’s Resolution. It was never a dispute that both of us love children and want our own. We even had the names all planned out. It’s just that this year, we felt that we were ready – and it looks like God concurred :)
How do I feel?
Physically?
Nauseous.
Hehe. For the first time in my life, I know what nausea feels like. I’ve never gotten car-sickness or sea-sick or any kind of sickness that makes me feel like vomiting all the time. So this yucky, icky taste of nausea I’m faced with now is very new to me, and leaves me rather weak. And no, asam does not help me.
Emotionally?
Thrilled, excited, nervous, anxious, elated – an amalgamation of emotions, really. In one minute, we’re worried that maybe we’re not sufficiently equipped with the trappings of parenthood. The next minute, we’re eagerly counting the days for the arrival of our firstborn. We talk about our child all the time. Imagine how we’ll be when the child is actually born!

So there you go.
I, Mediha Mahmood, am pregnant.

Pray it all goes well, insyaAllah…

A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
Carl Sandburg (1878 - 1967)