The Wake Up Call

I've been wanting to update this blog for so long now! But every time I find something I wanna write about, the inconvenience of stress and weariness stops me from having the discipline to sit down, not think of work and just write... and I go to the common alternative which is to sleep :)

But there's one wake up call which I really don't wanna miss to record so even though it's a Friday night tonight, while almost everybody is somewhere else but home, I'm in front of my laptop not to work, but to write :)

The Wake Up Call

Disclaimer: I'm not ranting about my work. I find it really challenging every single day and I love being molded into a more mature lady as I encounter different circumstances and people. There's just some things that need fixing :)

Have you tried staying at the office at extended number of hours (even though not paid) and as you reach your destination, probably your house or some chill-time place, you open up your mobile device and still check your work email? That's me recently! From the course of my 10 months at my new work environment, I've met way too many people and one of those with great marks are my principals from Citrix. Principal means the root company (or employees thereof) of the solution we are offering, and for Citrix's case, they're not Filipino locals. I'm a lot of times interacting with people who are Singapore-based but mixed Nationalities---SG natives, Malaysian, Indonesian, Indian, Australian, Korean and New Zealand(er?). That's one of the things I enjoy a lot---the experience of meeting someone "new" as in not a Filipino. Since they don't currently have local presence in Ph, they would schedule trips to Manila monthly (sometimes semimonthly) to meet my clients and partners... of course to chase deals. And so when they're here, I would join them in the meetings and even in transit to and fro.

You should know I'm not a good conversation-starter unless I'm very passionate about what I'm going to talk about. But since I'm a businesswoman now, in other terms Sales, I have to practice speaking!!! So opposite of who I am! But anyway, one time one of my principals who was Korean broke the silence and asked me what I do during the weekends and it was a struggle to answer it enthusiastically because while his answer to the same question is sports and leisure, my take was... I can't even remember what I made up! :D Maybe I said "working out" and of course, church on Sundays. But the reality is that I was a bit not proud to say "I still work on Saturdays... either doing something pending or preparing for the week ahead, or studying (which is rare now). That part of our conversation didn't bother me a lot until I was asked again of the same question by another principal, this time Australian.. and I said, "Well I used to go to the gym... and then church on Sundays." Of course I started to feel that my life is boring until I made sure it is when I got asked a third time by a third principal and I wasn't so happy with my answer anymore, although I added "travel" which is rare for my weekends because usually, I'm in a coffee/milktea shop blogging, working or FBing (the worst in the list).

So the lighting struck the 3rd time and I believe I can have something more than just to work! I don't wanna get myself overreacting because I enjoy writing and working and churching, and RESTING most especially... but if my weeks is just about that, maybe one day I would run out of reasons to write and reasons to work.

Now I'm thinking of something else I can do over the weekend. Go back to teaching a couple of units every Saturday? Start a new sports? Consume the rest of my 1-year gym membership? Although I still prefer that I can be free on Saturdays without any obligation so it can be my Spontaneous day. Or am I just wanting to tweak my weekend routine because I want it to become more appealing to others? I don't know. Tweak or not, I'm sure I will enjoy whatever I'd do. :)