Christmas is coming!

I think I used that title? Well, I heard that in London the Christmas decors are already installed. It's early November and Orchard road in Singapore is not yet decorated. Raffles City has started to install its traditional huge Christmas tree.

This week is a shorter one - deepavali. Might plan for a driving trip to Melaka, stay overnight and come back.

At work, things are getting better now that we are back to full strength. Save for that "one mistake" (who left the company after a few weeks and is not even worth my time mentioning), all the 4 new colleagues are absolutely fantastic. No regrets. I think they are hard working and have the brains. And more importantly, they are "new" and that allows us to really move up a notch. It also gives me an opportunity to drive changes as new-comers are generally more opened to changes because for them, they don't know whether it's a change or not: everything is new.

Business might get better with our front office driving hard at getting new partners and we just need to make sure that we can cope. It's not the best we can do but at least we are not choking to death. People are still leaving on time, save for a couple. Even I can now go gym during lunch time and start to lose those KGs accumulated over the past 3-4 months.

There's so much work to be done and there will always be work. The main thing is to pace oneself. It's a long race and trying to go faster than what is human possible will only lead to tiredness and breakdowns. We need to maintain the right equilibrium between going too fast and not going fast enough. We are like muscles; must be exerted and trained hard else there's no progress. And the initial fews days are the most painful but as the muscles get used to it, there's less pain.