I ended the month of October, which was a weekend, at work.
Friday went training. Saturday went training. Sunday went to work.
What a shit way to end October.
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Back in my hotel room, at a rather less populated area near Tokyo called Ochanomizu, I noticed the Internet speed here was rather fast.
First I thought it was the new Google Chrome browser which made the difference. Then I noticed BT was working silently in the background. I opened it up and these were the figures at the time:
I have been using dial up back in Taiwan? This speed is incredible! The upload speed is faster than my average download speed in Taiwan, it’s just amazing.
This 2gb file suddenly finished downloading in a mere 15 minutes. Looks like I have something else to do tonight.
This morning boss came looking for me and informed me this:
You have been reassigned to another department.
The notice came very suddenly, and I was indeed surprised by the decision. Not that it wasn’t expected, but I just didn’t know the decision would be made so soon.
The change was a top-down decision, by big boss obviously. Boss told me it is a good thing, it is like a small promotion, but somehow I just cannot feel it. All I can see is more stress and more overtime work, and I do not see any additional benefits such as pay increase.
So here, I will be leaving the team that worked with me so closely for the last four years, and its hard not to feel sad. Not that I do not want to move on, but I just did not have much of a choice.
The only good thing I see in this change is challenge, and learn new things. I like challenge, but at least inform me earlier so I could get prepared!
A lot of changes are happening to me. Getting a car, getting married, and now new department and new objectives. Everything just seem so new to me.
Then again, I just hope everything can move on just fine.
Suddenly I don’t find taking days off anything to be happy about.
After spending three days in Hong Kong, what I got in return was a two full weeks of overtime work. I could not believe just how many things just became pending after only two days away from work!! First was 350 unread emails, then about 10 unanswered calls, and different people came looking for me first day back in office.
I still have more than 20 days of paid holiday this year, and it really makes me think twice if I should take them.
I am back from Turkey.
It was fun walking under the snow.
Ten below zero in Ankara, under the snow, outside the hotel entrance, I had a quick reflection of my life over the last three years.
Sometimes, coming out of a meeting with some potential customers, whether I was in Bangkok, Hanoi, Manila, Sydney or Istanbul, I would catch my reflection in the elevator doors, in a shirt, and a briefcase in hand. In a blink of a second, I would imagine myself as leader of this industry, shouting out orders, closing the deals, before I remembered who it was that I really wanted myself to be.
People often say, Why Simply Win When You Can Dominate?
I don’t want to just be better than someone, I want to be the best as who I can be.
I am happy to be back in Taipei.
I was told at this time of the year, Turkey is cold.
While I was packing my stuff, I asked myself, just how cold?
Therefore, I checked The Weather Channel, and this is what it tells me.
Istanbul
Ankara
This is really really cold. Much colder than Taipei, and even Melbourne too. Istanbul might be OK, but Ankara is really going to kill me.
I really don’t feel like going anymore.
Interesting, just like the start of this year, I will be sent off to another country right after new year.
I went to Vietnam on the 3rd of January this year.
This time I will be in Turkey on the 6th of January.
Wow, Turkey, sounds like a fun place? Well, yes and no. Just yesterday a letter bomb exploded in the central of Istanbul, killing one.
I will be in Istanbul too.
I will bring my DSLR with me this time, just in case I get to visit some interesting historic places like some of the famous mosques, museums, castles, churches or towers. Maybe the ruins of Troy or the Trojan Horse too!
Anyway, anything is good, just don’t give me another letter bomb.
I am back from Philippines!
The schedule was so shit I had to buy dried mangos at the airport…fuck.
Got to Taoyuan airport yesterday at 6:30am.
Took 7:30am flight.
Delayed and arrived in Manila at 10:00am.
Met customer and had lunch at 12:00pm.
Finished presentation at 5:00pm.
Finally checked into hotel at 6:00pm
Meet potential customer at 7:00pm.
Aat, drank and massaged with customer till 12:00am.
Went to bed at 1:30am.
Had shit all sleep and woke up with headache at 7:30am.
Met customer at 9:00am.
Finished discussion at 12:00pm.
Had lunch at 12:30pm.
Arrived at the airport at 3:00pm.
Brought dried mangos at 3:40pm.
Plane took off at 4:30pm.
Arrived in Taoyuan airport at 7:20pm.
Arrived home at 8:30pm.
What a shit trip. I am tired, I need to sleep.
I have been real busy, at work, as usual. Nothing new.
Drank a lot last night and came back home at twelve.
I had mega bad sleep and still got up and went to work.
I just arrived back home again almost two hours ago.
Right now is 12:10am.
I need to wake up in five hours time and jet off to Philippines.
Yah well, nothing new, work is still work.
My work.
Wake up 6:30am, get home 11:00pm. I think my life is getting turned upside down.