Memo ~ Good time comes after hard time

Over the course of the past few weeks, things were quite harsh on me. I was busy with my increasing workload in the new D, looking for a condo unit to buy, looking for a room to rent in (ya, it's different from finding a place to buy), and having all this balanced with my life.

But this time, though I was surrounded with all these setbacks altogether, I was still able to resolve all of them (to a certain extent of happy ending) in the end. Well, to me I would usually prefer to settle things one at a time and only one after another. Oh hell ya, I didn't go into detail about the sub-setbacks in those major setbacks yet. But sometimes life could go against your wish (not a perfect world?).

The last 2 days were quite inspirational and fruitful to me. In the 1st day morning, I did an enterprise solution demo in front of the most-ever number of prospects along with my fellow teammates. And the day before I was still stuck with another project task right until 3a.m. midnight. I wasn't able to complete that task but I think I DID IT RIGHT. Ofttimes when there are a few things for you to do, pick those which you're confident to finish first and get the best result; don't do all at the same and in the end never finished any of them and yet try to find an excuse for it. So the demo? I felt exhausted but was impressed by what I was able to accomplish as the result. It's the best among the 3 demos I've done so far.

Then in the 2nd day, it was the appraisal done by our boss. Well, all I can say is it turned out to be better than what I had expected. And also, I felt like having been helped by some (the following words failed to be translated) 'expensive persons' (wuahaha :D) to get things go smooth that way too.

So in the coming year, I can foresee things are coming tough and tougher again (and it's gonna be tough to most people in Asia). But I'll just continue to take them heads on until I otherwise give up. I told one of my colleagues the other day that as long as we have the people inside (colleagues and bosses) to help us (in most cases, that's the most we can hope for la), then we can rest assured that things are going to get done no matter how (someone told me before company won't fail because of you right?). We're feeling pressured now is also because we have put in expectations and responsibilities onto ourselves but simply not aware of it.

So, well done to myself for this year 2008. Hope to see you get it going and going and going... in year 2009! And best wish to the nation!

(If I believe I can do it, I CANnnn! Behh~~~)