Motivation

Today, the whole GES team plus my team celebrated VC's birthday. She is a Senior Tax Manager in my company and has served for more than 8 years. She also has tendered her resignation recently and her last day is next Wed. It's sad to see her go as she is one of the most dedicated staff and i admire her passion towards her job. Since I love taking photos, i became the photographer of the day during the party and i managed to borrow the digicam from my company to snap all the precious moments. my own boss called me a "Photogh" - a term used in channel E news on celebrities. haha. my boss is so sanguine !

The whole party went well and managed to surprise VC. We also got her a cake from Q Jelly (recent trend - cake made of jelly). Most of all, thanks to MV who put in the efforts to organize the party although the GES team is in peak period - 8 more days to file all the tax returns (due by April 30th). She also ordered some light snacks - po piah, sardine rolls, curry puffs and "Hung Kai Tan" (red hard boiled eggs - in chinese culture, chinese family will make hard boiled eggs and dye the egg shell in red during birthday as part of prosperity). Weina ordered the tea lady to make us coffee. After the cake cutting and feasting, Weina gave some motivational speech to the whole team basically to motivate them and thank them for their hard work to meet the April 30th filing deadlines. I have gone through the tax filing once and i truly understand their feelings. Usually, many of them will sigh and even complaint that they will quit after filing as you will have to work around the clock for 1 - 2 months to rush out the tax comps for clients. You must be thinking it's such a crap job that you work almost 24 hours a day for 1 - 2 months and still get the same pay each month. But please think about it, individual tax filing period only happen once a year (feb to april). The rest of the months basically you can go home at working normal hours. Management does see and appreciate the hard work and ultimately the hard work will be paid off.

My boss, June also raised out certain motivational points which is purely based on her experience in my company. She is so right to say that don't ever expect the managers or senior level directors to motivate us at work. At the end of the day, it's all from your own selves. basically, we must understand what exactly we want in life and never depends on others to keep us going. June is able to stay with the firm till today as she is so positive with her life and never ever think negatively about the work and the outcome. This is how she motivates herself to work everyday. There are always ups and downs at work but as long as you know how to control yourself and know exactly what you are doing, things aren't bad afterall. Always look at the bright side - motto of the day :D

I'm going to bed early today :).

Fon