3 Cheers To Woman!

Little Leo is staying over at my mum's place tonight cos Gary and myself have to go to work early tomorrow. Finally have some time tonite to write my blog.

Metup with a client who intends to sell her apartment. She is a successful career woman who owns 2 spa outlets in Singapore. Single, in her early 40s, confident and independent. To me, this is the perfect image of a single woman. I have a few girl friends who are single and have a successful career. I think getting hitched is one of the last thing in their mind now. Woman in Singapore are getting more capable and independent. I think that's one of the reason why Singaporean man are expanding their search for a wife to countries like Malaysia, Vietnam and China. In fact sometimes i think many Singaporean man are juz too 'soft'. Undecisive, unwilling to take responsibility, not willing to take risk, complacent... (Sorrie guys, i say "many" not "all", and there are definitely good Singaporean man around). On the other hand, we hear man complaint that woman today are so materialistic, ambitious and unreasonable (actually its we have a mind of our own!), unlike their mother days where woman 三从四德 (Faint!!!). Its no wonder why there are more singles in Singapore nowadays.

Remind me of another client of mine. She is in her late 30s, a mother of 3 and a successful career woman. To me she has the perfect image of a woman who 进的了厨房, 出的了厅堂. Its not easy to cope with family and work, especially when the kid comes along ( I know this perfectly well cos Little Leo takes up most of my time when i am at home with him!). You have to be a juggler - doing many things at one time - and to be efficient becomes so very important.

3 cheers to the woman of today. I feel so proud to be a woman!

P/s: I am reading this book again by Donald Trump "Trump 101 - The Way to Success". The first chapter says "Don't waste your life on work you don't love; Passion will help you do better". Fully agree. I love what i am doing now cos i get to meet people, cos behind every face is a story. Passion, passion, passion - if you love your job, you will not be working for another day!

Some Updated Pics of Little Leo

Little Leo is already coming to 4 months. How time flies! Below are some of his latest pics:

"He is smiling more nowadays. Love his dimples. Such a charming boy!"
"Cute Cute Baby"

"My Sweet Devil! :) "

Emotional Detachment

Emotional Detachment. First read of this phrase from Maine's blog. "Maybe it's best to enjoy everything and be attached to nothing...so i have to learn the fine art of being detached, which will eventually probably lead to becoming less of an emotional & sentimental cat." (Taken fr Maine's blog http://iwannabeahousecat.blogspot.com/)

I have always been a less emotional person (less emotional = rational?). The last time when i felt very emotional was 14 years ago when i have to leave my JC mates and move on to the poly route. That was when i really understand the chinese phrase 天下无不散之宴席. Since then, i still enjoy myself in friends' company, but do not feel that emotional when it comes to an end. Juz like how we always describe our life as a bus journey. Along the way, people board and alight. Only a few will stay with you till the end of the journey.

The reason why i felt for this phrase Emotional Detachment now is becos of my little boy. I see him everyday since the day he was born. However, i be leaving for my holiday in States (Vegas & San Francisco) soon and will not be seeing him for around 2 weeks. I was abit hesitant about this trip initially cos i know i will miss him badly. However i decided to make the trip ultimately. I have always been a passionate lover of life. I always feel there are so many things i wanna do and life can never be a boring game. I love my work (I love selling real estate!!!), i love my friends, i love my family. I would love to do humanitarian work again & would love to travel to more places. There are so many things which will need so much of my time. The only way to do more things in such a short time is to be focused and to leverage (Oh gosh, see the rational and practical side of me?). I try to be focused and efficient in my work so i can spend more time with my boy. I leverage on my parents and in-laws to take care of my boy so i can spend time on my work and catchup with friends. I try to be emotionally detached from my boy temporary so i can focus on doing other stuff. FOCUS. This is really the magic word that makes the difference to doing a lot of things and doing a lot of things well.

Happy Deepavali!