The only thing I hate for holiday is when you return from work, the pile of work you must finish seemed to multiply hundred times than before. I decided to take baby step to get it done, first task would be to clean up my inbox. I had 2500 e-mail messages that I need to filed under the server. The sent item looks better, only 1500 items. Piece of cake! It took me more than 2 days for me to get this done whilst the new e-mails had started swarming in again.

Other than that, Lucy & Ronald were in Jakarta! Yay! They are on their orientation trip returning to home country after spending 2 years in London. So on Tuesday night, we had dinner in Warung Kopi with them together with Djatu & Mas Dedi, Djohan & wife, Henny and Lona. Unfortunately Chandra could not join us. I laughed so much I think I nearly dislocate my jaw. It’s amazing that I knew some of them only several months a go and only for few weeks and yet I have felt very comfortable among them.

The remaining days of the week felt like episodes of Twilight Zone to me. We had a workshop in this hotel about HR Functional Excellence and for the first two days I really had no clue what the consultant was talking about. That’s the thing I hate most in consultant. They could be painfully theoritical and completely ignorant about the real life. The way they approach the subject remained me of my high school days where the Teachers drone on about algorithms, linear etc and I had headache trying to comprehend how that would be implemented in the real life. Fortunately our Regional Manager seemed to do a good job in giving them feedback on how their material can be translated into earth language as the third (and last day) was so much better.

Other than that, it’s always fun to meet your colleagues from other countries. We took hundreds of pictures, had nice dinner and (of course) endless gossip. I will try to post some later on.