Thursday, April 28, 2011

Will Power


DEAR my daughter,

TODAY your mum submit her resignation letter to current employer. This is first time for her to change job since she get here on November 2007. I also anchoring at the same job since I join my current company in early 2008. Our companies are not either good or bad. It's just moderate and being migrant workers, we can't expect a perfect job like locals do. Moreover it's always risk to change job unless we are at least SPRs. Unfortunately our first time application for PRs had been rejected on couple years ago and recent application is under processing. We both are trying to get PRs so that we can afford to bring you here and enjoy a life of family.

Since your mother come back here for work by leaving you there alone with my elder sisters to survive, she is always desperate to get a chance living together again. She won't accept the option of full time housewife by retire from current job. The problem is she can't stay here without working a job as we are foreigner here. In order to bring you here, there would be several steps to be taken in preparation such as renting an entire flat, raising household income, getting higher employment pass, having flexible job, finding a place where you can enjoy while we are on work and so on. Getting PR is like a mission impossible at the moment because island state is busy with political campaign and the ruling party is likely to avoid on things that their people don't like. Influx of foreign workers has been hot button and top of agenda for long time and people's voice become louder day after day. Their GE is going to hold on coming May 7 and people are exciting to see new political landscape of their country.

I have to accept their saying that "Nothing is impossible to a willing mind" because of your mother's successful mission. She is optimistic and pragmatic in fact. I am a bit conservative person despite a leader of our household. Your mum always find a way to close the gap between us. She realizes that we can't rely on getting PRs option and she try to use plan B that is she hunted a job. After effort of few months, your mum finally received a good offer and accepted. Her new employer applied her pass on Tuesday and it was surprisingly approved on Thursday. In fact, it's not easy to get work pass approve especially this time. I heard a lot of application rejected news from my friends and I thought your mum also will get the same unwanted result. But luckily, the result come out in favor of her will. She even don't believe to see the approval result through online checking website from MOM.

In view of above, she gains confident and firmly believe it is because of your luck. Because your mum and I were not a lucky person and this time it favor us due to our willing of living together with you. Beside this is double gain for your mum because she is not happy with the current employer as they, Myanmar workers, are treated as different category despite they are working leading and complicated jobs with the less salary. They have served for more than 3 years and get only junior worker salary. The company bigger by time and the bigger the organization the dwarf they feel because they never receive enough credit. With the newest salary, your mum earn more than me and I am under pressure to pursue a better paid job from this day onwards.

In brief, please do understand that your parent are fighting challenges here with the prospect of reuniting our family. Whatever we gain from our jobs will impact on you. We always want to give you the best ever we can provide, living standard, education, wealth, health, etc. In order to fulfill our aim, we must have a strong financial status. So first thing first, we are saving money as much as possible and approaching the way we are able to unite. There will be sometime discomfort for you being stay away from parent. We'll love each other by the time we are able to live together. For the moment, please patient and maintain your health at optimum so we can have less pressure for you here. I promise you, it's just a matter of time and we are going to build a nice family sooner than later.

We love you and you are always in our minds, baby.

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