Hello

It’s been so long since I’ve written an entry and it’s really hard to get it started again.

So, hello there. To anyone who still bothers to visit this blog.

It has been a four good weeks since I last traveled, and I’m so happy that I don’t even bother to mask my happiness. Not even to my boss.
But of course, what goes around comes around. I know all the crazy traveling would come very soon.. this month.

I guess I should be glad, for I have once thought that only celebrities get to wake up in shock and spend seconds trying to recall where they are.
I did that every time, for the past business trips – dreaming I was in my own bed at home with the hb sleeping beside me and then waking up to discover I was not in my own bed after all.

The not-so-new assignment remains challenging and I’m learning a lot everyday.
My boss is demanding but extremely smart. Before I joined, someone told me he can read people very well and that he knows her better than she knows herself. That, to me, is extremely scary. I hate to be read.

Four months later, we did our first review and he told me I strike him as someone who is very confident and he’s telling me this because it is not a common trait. And because I am confident, I am not afraid to take on new projects, enter new territories and look at massive amount of data.

Well, I’m glad he read that as “confident” and it makes him seem less formidable. The reason why I take on new projects, enter new territories and look at massive amount of data is because.. I have no choice.
To be very honest, I think I’ve struggled quite a bit in this assignment.

He has really high expectations, and I’m not too optimistic about my next rating.

Nevertheless, he is someone I really respect and I’m lucky to always get pretty good bosses.
I’d always remember how he ‘debriefed’ me after a meeting with all the heads of different functions – instead of talking about next steps (He said I’d know anyway), we did some sort of a psychoanalysis of the different characters in the meeting. He made me analyze what each person’s agenda and drivers were. I got the VP’s right but got my own boss’ wrong. Haha. I’ve given up trying to give him the right answers.

It brought my respect for him to a new level.

Other than work, life is pretty good. No complaints whatsoever.
I have so many friends expecting their first or second child in the next few months.
It has been quite a long wait for some of them, and I am really happy for them.

I still shudder at the thought of having kids because I am so afraid of changes. Which is ironic for someone who is in a constantly changing work environment.
I still get pissed off when kaypo relatives and mere acquaintances ask me when we are going to have kids. Why? You want to sponsor me?
I think of the craziest things, like what if I have a boy and he’s as short as I am? What if I have a girl and she looks like the hb? *LOL

I guess I’d just leave it to fate.

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