I was pondering on whether I should blog this here or 'the other side'... I guess everyone can know how I feel so here it is, over here for all and sundry... but first, another movie and another phrase... The Scent of a Woman... when Lt. Col. Frank Slade (Al Pacino) said... “Now I have come to the cross-roads in my life. I always knew what the right path was. Without exception, I knew, but I never took it. You know why? It was too damn hard.”...
This morning my ex-wife Skyped me... it started off with some papers that needed attention to severe the last binding tie between us... the apartment... then she said she wanted me to know something before I found out from others. She told me she was 4 months pregnant. Tears welled in my eyes... here I am, last day in KL and in my office and at my desk... and I have tears in my eyes... they were tears of joy... pure joy... I felt so happy for her as she now has everything that she ever wanted in life.
I felt so relieved... I felt relieved because of the phrase in the first paragraph. We all have to make decisions in our life and the right decision is ALWAYS the hardest. Divorcing her was the hardest thing I ever had to do in my entire life. I knew the repercussions... emotionally, mentally, financially, socially, etc. But I went ahead... everyone... well, maybe not everyone... thought that I was an asshole to do what I did. Now... was I really? Sometimes in life you have to be cruel to be good. Was she the one who suffered the most? Think of my last post and Jimmy McGinty's phrase... what you see is not always what is.
Anyway... I am so, so happy for her and her husband. Now I can move to Langkawi with my conscience clear... clear that my sacrifice was not in vain and that she has achieved happiness and that I did the right thing for us and her ultimately.
Ok... enough... let's move on... Langkawi... the good news for today, the boss says she wants everything in the minibar to be on complimentary. Hmmm... nice... I like the direction we're headed.
It's my last day in this office and so far the people here have not seen me lose my temper... there was no reason to... well until today that is. This guy from Spritzer calls to tell me that I need a minimum of 6-7000 CARTONS a month on a 1 year contract to be eligible for custom bottling. I told him no way I can consume that many lah. So, I asked him... are there any other options. I knew he was evading... he proposed that I used Spritzer as it is and he can give me a very good price.... hey, my mom did not drop me on my head when I was a baby lah... why should I advertise for you? He suggests that I put a tag around the bottle's neck. Urghh!!! He obviously has absolutely no taste to even propose that. I kept asking him for options but he kept evading and kept pushing me to use the readily available Spritzer bottles. So, I asked him if I wanted a one time production of 10000 cartons, what would it cost me? He says for 10000 I can only have stickers and not shrink wrap labels. Why? Oh, it is not viable for us cost wise. Ok... charge me for it. Oh, then it won't be cost efficient for you and it will cost you about RM18 per carton as opposed to RM14 per carton. You wouldn't want that. That made me lose it... I told him (not very politely)... you don't decide what I want or don't want nor do you decide what I can or cannot afford... I decide. You just do what I ask you to do and propose what I asked for based on my specifications... I am the customer and I decide what I want and need, not you. My colleagues were shocked as they asked me what happened after that. The cheek of that bugger... he'd better pray that we never ever have to meet face to face...
It's my last day in this office and so far the people here have not seen me lose my temper... there was no reason to... well until today that is. This guy from Spritzer calls to tell me that I need a minimum of 6-7000 CARTONS a month on a 1 year contract to be eligible for custom bottling. I told him no way I can consume that many lah. So, I asked him... are there any other options. I knew he was evading... he proposed that I used Spritzer as it is and he can give me a very good price.... hey, my mom did not drop me on my head when I was a baby lah... why should I advertise for you? He suggests that I put a tag around the bottle's neck. Urghh!!! He obviously has absolutely no taste to even propose that. I kept asking him for options but he kept evading and kept pushing me to use the readily available Spritzer bottles. So, I asked him if I wanted a one time production of 10000 cartons, what would it cost me? He says for 10000 I can only have stickers and not shrink wrap labels. Why? Oh, it is not viable for us cost wise. Ok... charge me for it. Oh, then it won't be cost efficient for you and it will cost you about RM18 per carton as opposed to RM14 per carton. You wouldn't want that. That made me lose it... I told him (not very politely)... you don't decide what I want or don't want nor do you decide what I can or cannot afford... I decide. You just do what I ask you to do and propose what I asked for based on my specifications... I am the customer and I decide what I want and need, not you. My colleagues were shocked as they asked me what happened after that. The cheek of that bugger... he'd better pray that we never ever have to meet face to face...
LOL! good to know u still have "it"!!
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