Mamaku CEO - A Beginning

Let me start with a disclaimer. I am not a CEO - at least not yet. I do aspire to be one some day - if not of a public company, of my own.

I'm just the normal working mom trying to make it in the Big Durian while managing 2 boys- a 4 year old and 2 year old. My typical weekday will start at 5am with my 2 year old singing to the tune of "Never Give Up" from Thomas or my 4 year old knocking on my bedroom door looking for my tablet.
Then it continues with the usual rush of morning routines - getting them to eat breakfast, to take a bath while taking a 5 minute shower and a 5 minute breakfast for myself. After which we will spend about 1-1.5 hours on the road commuting from home to office.
I will leave by office by around 6-7pm, again spend 1-1,5 hours in traffic and usually come home to my kids asleep in bed. When I am lucky, my older son will still be awake and I can spend time talking to him about his day, say his prayers and then close with a bedtime story or a lullaby before I kiss him good night.

So in that sense I am not at all special or extraordinary. I'm just like most of you working moms out there who are battling every day with guilt and the feeling that you are not doing enough for your kids, while at the same time feeling inadequate in the office where you need to compete with all the men with less child care expectations or the single women in the office who have more freedom in their life on how they use their time.

So just consider this as a sharing place for us.
A place where I will share my thoughts, my methods, my ideas on how to make it a little bit easier in all fronts. Whether its teaching my 4 year old how to read, potty training my 2 year old or how to prepare for a major presentation in front of the leadership team, I will share what I know and have tried.
It is also a place where you can share with me and every other working mom out there your methods to madness, your magic in balancing this whole act we call our lives.

My only hope is that it will at the very least make you feel like somebody understands you, that somebody is going through the madness you go through each and every day. And perhaps, find some use in whichever thought or idea that I or other moms share here.

And maybe, just maybe, with this, we will have more working moms become CEOs in this world, in this country, in this city.