tornado thoughts

Farewell...

Yesterday was really a very terrible day. Terrible is an understatement.

First, a Malaysian colleague of mine just confirmed her resignation. Due to several factors (including office politics), she decided to call it a day after working for 8 years. She came from Malaysia at age of 22. Having a teachable spirit and loyalty, my dad patiently taught her the ropes and raised her to from company clerk to sales coordinator after 4 years. A capable lady as she do things fast and accurate. She has good PR with the customers and is a mother of 2 too. Now that she's leaving, can feel my dad's lost of a capable worker. Never in his 30 years as a boss did he try to persuade a worker to stay and he made the exception this time round. However, no matter what we say, she has promised her cousin that she's going over to help out and she cannot back out from her word (a totally non related field - a great loss for a fine talent).
Now that she's leaving, i'll definitely be at a loss with the big project i'm handling. She does the administration, paperwork and orders while I'm in charge of liasing with the customer, cutting cables and meeting the customer if there's any problems with the cables. But things have to go on now, I have to be more detailed, work faster, multi task better and DELEGATE easy jobs to the admin ppl. God, give me wisdom and patience.

Secondly, I made a mistake in purchasing some boxes for my customer. I ordered an additional box which cannot be returned nor sold (very difficult because they are of some unique specifications). That mistake cost me 800 bucks and there goes the profits I made from the order. It's like selling cost to cost. Boss told me to be more careful the next time but I couldn't forgive myself the whole afternoon and didn't have the mood to continue with my work. I asked God why and He told me that," so that I will be more careful when bigger orders come in the future." God, give me alertness and less carelessness.

Last but not least, I dropped my phone at my dear dear's poolside table when I went to see her on her condition because she is still sick. When I realised my phone was not in my pocket and went back to search it, it's no longer there. When my dear called my phone, it was switched off. Then I know that there is almost no glimpse of hope of getting it back. When I went back home, I called my operator and terminated my line to prevent anyone from using my line to make any prank calls or whatever stuff. Was really down the whole night. Reactivated my line this afternoon and thank God that I still have my old nokia phone with me and it's filled with most of my contacts. Well, this loss wasn't as much as the previous 2 cases because the new phone has been giving me problems. It gets heated up for no reason and drains away the battery life, my calls will be cut halfway sometimes (& it happened several times) and there are times that my sms doesn't get sent through and I didn't realise it until I looked at my phone (I seldom look at my phone unless it rings or receive an sms). God, give me awareness of surroundings.

After reflecting these 3 incidents, I realised that money and kinds cannot match to the loss of a person. Probably or should I say God made us to have feelings and relationships is what matters most. Coincidentally, all these 3 incidents fall under the title of today. Sigh, farewell and we have to move on. The latter shall be greater!

Ending with a light note, here is one of the last pics i took with my lost phone. I painted and panel lined my bumblebee if you realised. Hee.

posted by tornado @ 5:12 AM