I'm still around!!!

It's been a almost a month since I wrote again. Not really sure why I could not find the motivation to surf to this page and write something. Maybe it's the fact that I'm too busy with work that I've not given myself time to stop and think about life. Or maybe it's because life itself has not given me any inspiration lately to write about...

Anyway, CNY came and went... The financial crisis is here to stay for at least a while... companies are cutting cost (and work-force)... I could say that I am counting my blessings each and everyday that I am still around and kicking... But it's depressing to flip the papers every now and then to read about the economic situation deteriorating... hearing sad news of people being retrenched here and there...

Our company had just handed another batch of staff their "pink-slips" and the golden hand-shake. The mood is so gloomy once this happens. But I think the company is already doing the best of what it could to buffer the impact. It could have been worst than now.

My perspective of life now have to adjust from before. It's really time to slow down and start thinking of how to move ahead... I haven't been thinking about this for a very long time. Each time during the performance review, I'm being asked the same question: "Have you thought of what you're gonna do next?". And every time i would just shrug it off. I could not afford to do this now. I have to think...