5km only

Running around Mt Farber twice (approx 10 km) was a typical normal running route and I found it incredible that completing even one round is such a difficult and exhausting task. It is not the first time but my 3rd attempt since the marathon.
Being so quickly out of shape just one month after the marathon is a surprise and shock to me. I really got to be persistence and regular at it to keep in running shape. Plus, got to watch my knees and not get them damaged so much.

Changing job

Recently, several very senior managers jumped ship together. The rumor mill says they left for Barclay. The most senior have a 30 years history with the company.

I wonder if they can adapt to the different culture in Barclay. Maybe their senior position helps somewhat. Their movement trigger in me a need to re-examine my decision to make it work in this company and not change job again forever. No, there is no deep unhappiness. It is just wise to observe and evaluate surrounding changes constantly. Even if I do nothing, the world still changes around me.

I think the operating word is Forever, maybe I should not have said not change job forever but to constantly watch on the key factor of supervising manager and compare it what is available out there. And to learns the skill of reading a person character quickly.

Nickelback - Far Away

What she taught me...

It feels like deja-vu, the dodgy relationship is full of up and down over her army of suitors. And she could not understand it is not what they do or how many of them, it is her response to them that brothers me. For all her touching care and sweet kindness, what I needed most now is a open and transparent communication between us.

And from it all, I realized I would and could not do these because I could not. I simply could not. And then I realized I must because a gal will love her bf more if he did.

1. That a guy will stand tearing outside her home begging for her love. Not just one.
2. That older man offered her a unlimited card, 5K monthly, a condo and a car to be his gf.

Things that I would never do and could not do, and earning the first lessons of the new year. That while care is important, it does not really work for me compared to open, honest and transparent communication.