Orchid Story 45-46 - Summer holidays

July-August 2007

My Dear Orchid Story Reader

Even though it is always summer by the Equator, it seems that the past months passed by very summerly - it is HOLIDAY time! First my parents came to visit me, later my primary school friend joined me in discovering the region but there is way more to tell, too...

1. One month with my parents
2. Two weeks with my primary school friend
3. Work, friends and fun!

1. One month with my parents

After a long time, my parents and I got the chance to spend a whole month together in July! While I was working during the days, they were roaming around in Singapore and in the weekends we were wondering around the region together! We visited Rawa island in Malaysia where they got to meet 15 friends of mine to play beach volleyball and chill together. We went to the beautiful province of Chiang Mai in Thailand where we got to ride elephants, bamboo-raft and meet long-neck tribal women. Then we targeted the gorgeous island of Bali in Indonesia where, along with some of my friends, we had a look at legendary monkey forests, beaches and cultural & natural treasures. On our last weekend we enjoyed chilling in Malaysia on a nice island called Tioman! It was a very sweet quality time we spent together... :-)

2. Two weeks with my primary school friend

As I mentioned it really feels like it is summer holiday as right after my parents, my primary school friend, Soren (with 20-year-friendship ;-)) also came to visit me. Whilst he was roaming in this city, at the weekends we went to explore the Erawan Waterfalls in Central Thailand and then chilled on Tioman island in Malaysia (well, I actually had to study but c’est la vie!).

3. Work, friends and fun!

Lately a certain type of re-organisational limbo also coloured my life but the decision is made now: I became a Senior Regional Analyst, Talent Management! Amongst others, we are responsible for the performance management and appraisal systems in the Asia Pacific... we look out for high-potentionals, resource at junior, mid- and senior management level positions, coordinate career management related activities, run Deutsche Post World Net (parent company) talent programs, etc. What does this mean in the everyday life? Ask me in 1-2 months ;-)! I continue to handle change management so this combo is very much what I hoped for!

On the private side, there are some developments, too: in the meanwhile my Danish-Sri Lankan friend, Julie got married to the love of her life (what a new wedding experience it was with the Sri Lankan traditions!). What else? I got the chance to jump around for one of today’s favourite silly songs, the Candyman at the Christina Aguilera concert, hehehehe... ;-)

Hugs
Gitti/ Margit/ Hugi