Every year, in August, the PM will make a 3-hour long speech during the National Day Rally. Guess this is what every Singaporean will look forward and pay attention to, as it is during this Rally that new policies or measures will be announced.
For this year, guess every female (including moi), is looking forward to what the government is going to offer, to help improve the birth rate in Singapore.
6 months paid maternity leave? 1 month of paid paternity leave (Fathers do have to play a part in bringing up the children too!!)? Cheaper and better child care facilities? More understanding and pro-family employers?
Needless to say, every one knows that raising a kid in Singapore is definitely not easy. Stressful educational system, increasing living costs - almost every couple will stop at 2!
On top of that, it is definitely not easy for women to be a multi-tasker - employee at work during the day, mother/wife/daughter-in-law at home during the night and for those without a maid, we have to take on the additional role to do the household chores with whatever spare time and energy that we have, after a hard day at work in the office.
Lots of people have asked me why I stopped at one. Isn't your daughter lonely?
Well, at this moment, I definitely do not have much motivation nor energy to consider having a 2nd one with the current lifestyle and living conditions...unless there is a carrot, dangling in front of me, that is simply hard to resist!!!
