If you have been disappointed three times in a row because something you highly anticipated or looked forward didn't work out time and again... would you... a) still continue to hope at the next given opportunity?b) secretly hope but outwardly show no excitement?c) kill all ideas of hope, excitement, or anticipation because you don't ever want to get disappointed in that way again? **She has one last day to push up her Personal Best record**
So I'm sitting at a little Mediterranean cafe along Telok Ayer Street.
I've ordered the lunch set on the menu(half of which I don't even know how to eat!) and have my laptop open in front of me for working purposes (and so on and so forth).
It's the PERFECT spot.
It's quiet, it's cosy, and - wonder of wonders, it even has WI-FI!!!
Which means I can surf the net for my work. And-and...yeah, for my work.
So. Now that I finally have a chance to update my blog after being virtually MIA online for the last two months or so, let me give a brief recap of what's been going on. Despite all the changes that has been taking place in and around me, of the following three things you can be certain:
1) I am still very much alive (and healthy? well, I'm currently on a 7-day course of antibiotics for a bad flu, if that's what you're asking. But other than that, I'm doing perfectly fine:)
2) I am enjoying my job. (Yes, enjoying. Not the stress to close orders, not the ache in the legs after a whole day of walking around in heels, not the hole in the pocket after forking out $20 cab fare upon reaching a customer's ulu location. But yes, I'm enjoying the challenges, the dynamics of a job that allows you to grow in mind and spirit, and of course - last but DEFINITELY not least, the monetary fruits I can reap from the labour that is put into my work.)
3) The days are still passing WAY too fast for my liking. (Think weekdays rushing around from appointment to appointment, weekday evenings burnt in office, weekends spent physically busy with family activities while mentally still thinking about how to tackle objections from a particular customer or how to present a case to another customer, and weekend nights waking up in the middle of the night thinking it is already Monday morning!)
Deadlines, weekly and monthly targets, phone calls and appointments all tossing around in my head like a pile of laundry in the dryer...so, yup.
It's not been all work alone, though. In just the last two months or so, there's also been the addition of another darling little niece, two 'almost-family' members, and a whole bunch of new friends and acquaintances to my life! Oh, and homecooked food has recently tasted even better than usual, because I rarely get it anymore due to an unpredictable work schedule.
Anyway, here's a quote I found which seems to sum up this post pretty well:
Life is too short to wake up in the morning with regrets.
So love the people who treat you right, and forget the people who don't.
And believe that everything happens for a reason.
If you get a chance, take it.
If it changes your life, let it.
No one said it would be easy, just that it would be worth it.
**She needs some salt water. Badly. It's been way. too. long.**
