Happy New Year!!!!

Mich~
Today marks the last day of 2006. Time really flies....
Very soon, we would welcome 2007! Here's wishing all my families and friends a happy and healthy new year ahead!
In another 6 days, it would be my big day....so I'm also praying for myself that things would go smoothly & happily on the wedding day..... :)
Till we meet next year, dear friends!

On my!!

Mich~

On my!! It is unbelievable!

This was what happened......

Someone in my office passed me a gift for my wedding dinner, as I had invited this person to my dinner...(yes, I gave out invitation card to this person). This person was not able to attend (shall call this person xyz), xyz passed me the gift!! My shock when I opened xyz voucher!! OMG! This person is misery, right to the core!! Is the person totally oblivious to inflation, the current consumer price index, etc? Certainly not so...I was disgusted..

On a light-hearted moment, I was sharing with another group of people on their seating arrangments during my wedding dinner....To my pleasant surprise, they appeared cheery and did not mind who they were seated with... Nice to share my special day with these people, and I was grateful to them for being understanding....Thank you!

I guess sometimes, in the midst of planning for certain things, you can learn a lot.....

Anger Management

Mich~

I think I'm in need of some anger management theraphy, would anyone care to help? Over the past 2 days, I am sure my blood pressure would have shot up....maybe it is time to take the BP kit in my cupboard and start using it.

Provoked!!! This is the exact word to describe my feelings....

Worst of all, I was provoked by somebody whom I would need to see frequently in future.....yucks....

I need to manage my anger, otherwise words and ill feelings would start swelling in my head, and I would be uncontrollable. This was what happened to me since Fri evening. Though my feelings have somewhat subsided (by now - yes, only after 2 days..so u can imagine the depth of anger), the event was something which I would never be able to erase from my memory. And I hate it.....

Budget

Mich~

My budget paper was approved today!! Even though it did not went through like a breeze, but there were no major hiccups. For me, as I reflect on the process at the end of the day, I must admit that there was a sense of satisfaction within me. No doubt about it, as I have been toiling and spending sleepless nights on the budget process recently. Sleepless nights, worrying about the outcome and meeting the dateline. Alas, we could heave a sigh of relief and breathe easier now....My colleagues and I had spent about 1.5 months on it, and the process was particularly frantic as we were all first-timers running the show. Countless discussions, meetings with the business units, clarifications to and fro, phones ringing incessantly, preparing for Q&A...etc. All these efforts finally reap a little result...hahaha. Although the process is not over yet (still a final leg to it), at least we managed to achieve a milestone on time. Hopefully, we gained experience along the way, and could start to probe further and ask questions a little more inquisitively from this learning process.

One thing was for sure, the 3 of us had fostered stronger relationships from now on.......