orlando and miami trip

Skipping the trip to seoul in may and the bangkok trip in sept...

The orlando trip has been planned long ago.. and when it was counting down to last one month,  I suddenly felt that there was nothing left to look forward to and there's many things to be done as well.

The itinerary was as planned.. theme parks for first week. Four disney parks and two universal parks including the long awaited harry potter land.  Love the butter beer drink and soft serve. Super yummy.

There were some slight unhappiness during the trip.. more so when my parents arrived on the second week.

Especially my father is insistent on his way so we did argue quite a bit during the second week. In any case I do realised that he's old aged so then go want things the way he thinks.

The thing I missed most abt this trip was the Christmas spirit in the states.. stores selling Xmas stuff, broadcasting the festive songs and all the sale going on.. i never knew nov is such a great period to travel in US. I had always traveled in Mar or Apr to avoid the cold..

I still can't get over the festive feel of US.. i need to immerse myself more in such places if there is in Singapore.  

Fastest decided ever trip

Today booked, tomorrow flying... 

Okinawa... Southern island in Japan... Heard that it's slightly different from mainland Japan. In terms of language, food and people. 

I had always wanted to make another Japan trip within these few months... Missed out the Seoul trip with Wendy and Winine two weeks ago because of a meeting.. So this is my compensation.. 

I hope there's nice cuisine there.. And some shopping. 

Cruelty of the corporate world

We had the AO CEP discussion with HR yesterday as a division. 

Staff are being ranked and talked about like they are commodities... Bad, good things being said abt everyone being assessed... And to imagine I used to be part of the commodities...

The things I said to support my staff were being joked abt by the senior management. The staff that I proposed a SM ranking was downgraded because she's still new.. And I can't even defend her...

I felt so yucky. Imagine how would others look at those being assessed again after that session.. Differently! 

The cruelty and reality of the corporate world have hit me badly... 

I just wanna do my work. 

Feeling of loss

I was busy preparing and planning for our division's annual get together event. The event ended last fri. There were a few hiccups but overall it went well. The staff are rather happy with the event, the games, lucky draw and food. 

Thanks to the committee for giving me a great help. After the event ended, I felt relieved but at the same time a strange feeling of loss... Haaaa weird me.