Out of the storm

There's too much to be said about what has happened in my life since I last posted here (and yes, I sheepishly acknowledge that it has been exactly 5 months since that last blog entry...).

So let me keep it short and simple: those 5 months have been challenging, to say the least. Okay, May, June and July were not that bad. I would love to forget that August 2014 ever happened though.

In August, I nearly hit rock bottom, and if it hadn't been for my family and my best friend, I think I would have sunk into a depression. What happened was that I fucked up on too many fronts. At work, I didn't just let people down by not delivering, but  made those mistakes a few times. There were various reasons for this, from difficulties adjusting to the organization culture to various disruptions to a particularly mean colleague, but the fact still remains that I did not deliver the work I was personally responsible for and disappointed people. Unfortunately, problems at work were not the only problems I had to deal with in August. There was also some...drama that I happened between someone I care about very much and I. I don't really want to go into details here, except to say that with the help of my wonderful best friend, I spent days firefighting the drama that erupted in my personal life.

Luckily for me, my parents (kudos to my Mum in particular) were there to advise me as I cleaned up the messes I made at work while my best friend provided valuable help and support as I tried to save a relationship that I almost wrecked. A 9 day holiday to Hong Kong and Taiwan with my family was the perfect opportunity to get away to get away from it all, have some much-needed fun and family-bonding time and rejuvenate myself.

Things are better for me this September. I worked hard getting my act together at work upon my return from overseas and am happy to report that I am finally progressing. All the drama between that someone and I have been resolved after a good heart-to-heart talk and we're back to being on good terms now.

I'm back here on this blog because I do want to continue chronicling those unique points in space and time in my life. Both the good and the bad. As I continue to work out my direction in life and find myself, it would help to be able to look back at some of those defining moments and see how far I've come and what mistakes I should not make again. If you have been following me all this while, I'm sorry for the lack of updates. Ultimately, I write for myself, which means that I write whenever there is something I really want to say. I would try to write more though, and not be so lazy about it or I would accumulate too many unrecorded memories as was the case over the past 5 months.

So, yes, I'm back :)