#TheAspiredCXO

I baked a dark chocolate cake with coffee cream cheese. I baked extra to give to the security guards at my apartment. This morning I packed the cake into a paper bag and my husband asked, Why are there 2 packets of wet tissues in the bag?” That is because when they eat the cake, … Read more

Oh gosh! It’s already Thursday! I thought it was Wednesday. Where did time go, man? I totally forgotten that it’s #HariKhamis. Endemic we are in now. Everything is moving a bit faster already. Do you feel it? Already Ramadhan. Raya is coming. Then Harvest Festival. Merdeka. Deepavali. And soon enough it’s going to be Christmas … Read more

This is Aunty Vijaya & Aunty Doreen who are 2 of our office tea ladies. Irene & myself took them out for lunch to express our gratitude for their services especially during the pandemic. I remember during MCO, CMCO, RMCO cycles, they were always the first ones who came back to office with us to … Read more

This is Caryn from Finance and Irene from HR again. Two very happy jolly people. That is why I love to go out lunch with them. Our lunch is normally longer than the usual, because we laugh so much, we often forget to eat our food hehehe… However, they are not this jolly all the … Read more

This is Jeik. She heads our Accounts team so I nicknamed her the Accountant affectionately. Both of us are people managers for many years. And that day both of us were very stressed out with our own people respectively. So when I saw her messaged me, “Wanna lunch?”, I was like, “God yes, jom!” Many … Read more

This is George. He is the head of our IT Helpdesk. The other day my laptop went amok. Over 10 days, it went blue screen and auto-restarted for freaking 49 times. The team tried whatever they could but it was still restarting, so naturally the next solution was to replace it. Now, the process of … Read more

Everybody gets nervous. Especially me. Oh, I do get nervous all the time. But the thing about being nervous is, it also comes with this excitement inside. It’s almost like a mood accelerator, don’t you think? I remember the times when I was nervous. Though nerves were wrecked, it brought out this exhilarating feeling inside … Read more

The other day, a Consultant asked me, “Is it even possible for a consultant to hit a 6 months target in 4 months?” “Oh darling, of course it is. I was that consultant. And our targets were higher!” “How?” “Well, you just need to work really, really hard.” Then comes the question, can you have … Read more

I do take pride in servicing customers. And like most, I do have my fair share of hit-and-miss too. But when I did get a hit, the effects of the hit made me feel like I was on top of the world. Like the time I went on a regional call with the customer, all … Read more

Yesterday, a new found friend told me this, “Experience is better than knowledge with no application.” It reminded me this time when the team was pitching for a project that they had been following up for months. During the final stages of the pitching, my sales guy came to me and said, “Ling, their boss … Read more