A Personal Journey
Electronic Journal
A Sight Of Relief After A Long Day
Mar 17th
Heading Into The Sunset
Eventually, I struggled out of the comfortable warm bed. The air was a bit chilly for an Autumn morning. I joined the rest of Sydney battling through the busy morning traffic to arrive at work 5 minutes late. After organise everything; read and replying emails, had More >
Spending A Beautiful Day With The Family
Mar 12th
Sydney Acquatic Centre – At The Entrance
Haven’t had such a relaxing Sunday for ages. After crawling out of bed and had yummy breakfast (left overs from last night) prepared by my lovely fiancee, we took a half an hour drive on the quiet Sunday morning Sydney roads heading toward More >
I Am Please With Myself
Mar 10th
After some battling with myself on how best to approach the boss to ask for approval for pay rise for some of my staff, today I am really happy with myself that I have confronted the boss and got what I want. Sometimes, there are good moments to being a More >
Another Long Week
Feb 17th
Another long week soon will be over. 8:00pm, still sitting in the stuffy and hot office while the last ray of pink light shines upon the evening cloud in the distance. Waiting for the last few reports to be run and checked then I can head back to home. I More >
A Disappoitment On Our Young People
Feb 5th
While attending the Vietnamese Community of New South Wales Lunar New Year Festival at Warwick Farm, I pass by the stall for the Vietnamese Students Association of NSW to visit the association that I used to be a member when I was studying as an undergrad at the University of More >
A Trip That Opened My Eyes
Feb 4th
Charity Fund Raising
Through Colin McDowell, the owner of one of the largest privately owned national transport company in Australia, I met a very energetic and kind hearted Irish Man, Andrew Keating, from Kiama, south coast of New South Wales. Taken the offer to join Andrew and his wife, Anne, More >
I Need A Break
Jan 26th
For the last few weeks, my life has been evolving work – 10 hours at the office and further 4 hours at home. As mentioned so many time in the past, being a manager is not an easy and fun thing to do. Not sure how long I can last More >
One down side of being a manager
Dec 17th
With pressure from the top to get a project to be successful in its implementation and get the project finished as soon as possible, forced to be a bad guy, I had to reluctantly reduced the annual leaves for some of my staffs. I frantically tried to get as much More >
Vegetarian Christmas Party
Dec 14th
Raytheon Staff/Ex-Staff Christmas Dinner
After more than two years not meeting seeing all of them, I battled through the busy Epping Road to join some of my ex-colleagues from Raytheon Australia for a christmas dinner. No one has changed since the last time I saw them more than two years More >
Cherry Picking
Dec 10th
Picking Cherries
After an hour out of Liverpool, the bus stopped at a nice little highway cafetiara for us to rest and have a little snack. The cafeteria reminded me of the time when I travelled from Melbourne to Sydney with my mum and uncle. The thick white plates and More >