Right after my Vietnam biz trip, I went to China. I checked into the Shanghai hotel at about 4pm on Sunday (21 Feb) afternoon. At the beginning of a week long business trip, I was feeling tired, and a little sad and down.
Once I'm connected to Wifi in the hotel room, a Whatsapp message came through. It was from Carol, an ex-colleague from GFChrt. She said that she's thinking of me because she made a flower arrangement for a friend. We exchanged some messages; I shared my frustration of having bigger work responsibilities, and she shared news that a colleague started working half day at the beginning of this year when her triplets started P1. The messaging ended quite abruptly when I went out for dinner.
After we came back from the business trip, I had a good chat with my boss regarding where my career is heading. He gave me a day off, as he knew that I'm feeling drained. I took half day on 2nd March, and my first stop for the afternoon was to Far East Floral to buy flowers for myself. While browsing, I sent Carol pictures of flowers, telling her that her whatsapp message on the previous Sunday help cheered me up.
March had been a sad month for me, and Carol's been very busy with kids and her mum falling sick. We kept the whatsapp messages going for quite sometime, infact till now. It amazes me, how simple it is to stay in touch, as long as both parties made the effort.
Folks, if you are still reading this blog after so many years, I still hope that you will drop me a line..
Update 26/3 3.30pm:
Fate brought us friendship; fate sees to it that we stay connected, especially in these times when we both lost someone close to us. March 2016
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