Friday, the last day of the week. To most people, Friday is the best work day of the week. In fact, in my company, Fridays are sometimes playfully labelled as “Friyays”. After a long week of slogging, people look forward to the weekend and friday is the day where things get kicked off. Early knock-offs from work, gathering of friends and the change of mood (and maybe pace too) as the...
Waiting is hard. Especially in today’s world, gosh it’s just so hard. In a world where we get everything so instantaneously, where, the next 2-3 steps is known and almost predictable (for better or worse), to live in this season of waiting in what feels like an endless time is hard. Heck, I even wrote a whole series on waiting on God a couple of years back just as I was waiting for a...
9 and 1/2 weeks 9 and a 1/2 weeks – thats how long of a paternity leave i took to spend time with my family. At the start of the paternity leave, I honestly wasn’t sure when I was going to return back. I had originally planned to return to work around the 14th of July as I was eager to get started in my new role after nearly 2 months of delay. The clients were painfully slow and my...
A HEART-To-HEART Q&A witH MYSELF Q: So… there’s a new nut in the house?Yes! We welcomed our third child—Baby Macadamia, or Mac for short. Following in the nutty footsteps of her older siblings Cashew and Pecan, Mac completes our trio of little blessings. Each one has brought their own kind of joy, but Mac’s arrival has felt particularly meaningful. Q: Was she a planned addition to the family...
This essay continues from where I left off in Part I. We met up for coffee in early November. It was great seeing my former boss again, the same guy I saw go up the ranks to where he is now today – a Mananging Director. It was wonderful to reacquaint after so long. After exchanging pleasantries, we got down to business and he shared with me the new role. I was intruiged by the offering...