Month: December 2002

Our new addition cliépan arrived in the evening of 12 Dec 2002 and weighs 2.9kg.

A huge thank you to all that have sms-ed, email-ed, commented on the blog, icq-ed, irc-ed, called, visited and prayed. Pearl and I are very grateful to have a group of friends like all of you that had given us the kind of love for the pass several months. I’ll be adding more updates soon, now Pearl and I are busy playing with her… ;D

I’ll be taking a short break away from everything and will be spending the next 3 days and 2 nights with Pearl at the hospital. Will post pictures when i get back. ;D

I think most of us are familiar with the term “Fire Fighting” and I think I can safely say businesses with old ways of doing things have a lot of inefficiencies in them and its not surprising that things are done in a clearly silly way. The fight against fire fighting has been in my work place for quite a while now and its unavoidable.

The strategy I’m adopting is first not to get burnt while at the same time not letting the fire spread. Our men are in there fire-fighting and we want to save them out from there, but if I can’t protect myself how can I then save others? So I think its better to lose some fire-fighters and let some of the place burn then to let the fire spread or even sending more fire-fighters into the fire. And I’ll never count on a rain.

Nick you’re cold an inconsiderate. No i’m just looking at the bigger picture.

The burden is getting stronger and stronger. Day in day out, I’m thinking of how to increase sales and fast, how to make the business more profitable, what strategies can I come up with such little resources. I’m trying to think out of the box, trying to create a miracle, trying to prove that the impossible is possible, trying to beat them at their game with their rules.

Even when I’m out of office, it still feels the same, the physical location of my person no longer make any difference when my mind is fixed onto what I have to do in the office. I started out telling myself “although this is a family business, but don’t get yourself too personally involve as that is not professional”, “don’t let your feelings affect your decision making”.

Its difficult, I want to do more, I want to put in more hours, I want to see results then rest, I don’t want to look at the rewards, I want to take the risk. But practically, I can’t, at least at this point in time. We all have got to set our priorities right and juggle the very little time we have.

In the office, I keep looking at my watch. “When?” I ask myself, “When?”, “Soon” I answer myself “Soon”. The phone will ring and off i will go.