So we packed the kids off to swim/soccer camp. June and December are months where the equivalent amount of a third world country’s GDP is spent on camps, holiday activities and what nots for the children. This June we are not going away on a long holiday… as… we will be moving to a new place.
The.packing.and.moving.is.stressing.me.out.
I don’t know about you, but I hate moving. Sure, I love the moving to a bigger and nicer place part, but I dread the packing, wrapping, labelling, unpacking and sorting. It’s only with the …

I seem to have settled down and eased into the work flow with nary a hiccup. And that’s with a crappy handover. Guess it comes when you have been used to a punishing pace and anything less is simply… a breeze.
And even Big can tell. He says I am not as stretched as I was at previous employer, and am relaxed on Sundays too. Thinking back, I would get rather preoccupied and even jumpy on Sundays, because I knew I would have a punishing week ahead of me.
So, it’s good. …

Article via TK:
Shell’s profit soars to record $9 billion
Story Highlights
Shell’s profit soars 25 percent in the first quarter thanks to crude oil prices
Company’s average selling price for crude leapt 66 percent to $90 a barrel
Sales up 55 percent as net profit climbs to $9.08 billion, impressing analysts
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) — Royal Dutch Shell’s has reported a 25 percent rise in first-quarter earnings, crediting strong increases in energy prices.
Europe’s largest oil company said Tuesday its average selling price of crude oil leaped by 66 percent to over $90 per barrel from …

..when I will be starting work with the private equities group.
Sometimes, I will wonder out loud to Big about the absurdness of the headhunter’s increasing offers and
how I think it’s all a ridiculous dream where I will wake up and then tell him about the ridiculous dream I just had about a headhunter calling me and throwing money in my face.
But it is.
And each time they called me and made an increment, I would immediately inform Big in the hope of finding the voice of reason in such incredulity. With …

Ruok linked this article on nomads and I found it very interesting. I do it all the time but I did not even know the term was so fashionable known as being nomadic. I have my books, videos and music in my iphone. My documents are stored online. My business is online; the records, reports and correspondences are online. I am technophobic but now I am officially “nomadic”. What an irony.
Big had been headhunted to join another company in a senior management role. He will also be free to adapt …

I started 2008 thinking it would be another challenging year with my “Rachel can do it” boss and even set my mind towards conquering his son’s ginormous Bar Mitzvah. In fact, the most exhausting tasks of gathering all the Jewish and non Jewish people from all over the world, getting their mobile numbers, email addresses and land addresses, smsing them, emailing them compiling replies, gathering different travel routes, flight times, fares, upgrades, hotel booking with the agent, booking all the air tickets and doing upgrades had all been done. I …

.. despite having MC till next Monday. The smses, emails and calls coming in were driving me crazy I guess. Sometimes, I feel that this is not a job anymore. It’s like a chain and balls around my legs, shackling me to salaried locks.
I want to rest at home till next Monday, almost rebelliously, but strangely I still find myself dragging myself out of bed, showering with an aching body and prepare to go to work.
If only you could see me today, you would have been shocked. None of my …

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Hehe. As a joke, my colleague bought this HUGE ASS ring for me from Paris. It’s a HUGE paperweight ring. He made a joke that it must be the biggest ring that anyone had bought and will have bought for me in my life. Yes indeed… Must be at least 100 carats. *chuckles*
The sweet man bought it for me because I assisted him with his travel arrangements. Don’t ask me why he did not ask the secretary who was supposed to do so to do it…  Indeed I would never …

I am so pissed off at work today I feel the NEED to list out some of the blessings that I should be grateful for, namely:

My Boss. He’s a tough nut to crack, works my fingers to the grind, makes me jump hoops to get his things done, but he’s always fair to me and he takes good care of me at work. He does not allow me to get overwhelmed at work (eg. unreasonably loaded with an impossible portfolio). I am handling his and his family’s personal issues and …