How apt..

Was reading a chinese magazine before I slept last night. I've no fondness for Sun Yanzi; she can't sing for nuts (totally subjective, I admit). But I just had to rip this one liner of hers off the magazine and onto my blog. When asked to comment on her recent breakup, she summed it up in less than 20 words -

Liang3 ge4 dui4 de ren, zai4 cuo4 de shi2 hou4, ai4 le yi4 hui2
(translated "2 right persons fell in love with each other at the wrong time."

Anyway on to happier things. Been more productive lately. cleared quite a bit of stuff past 3 days despite the puffy and stinging sensation in my eyes. Sometimes I forget to take breaks and end up aggravating the condition. But surprisingly during last night's pool, I played not too bad at all. Well, maybe not as good as Leo (yet) but at least balls are going where I wanna place them.

Monday I'll start working on a leads-tracking system, to eliminate manual form filling and composing emails by the Customer Service officers whenever a new lead comes in. The system's supposed to be a "Click-as-you-ask" kinda thing: new phone query comes in, CS officer asks questions and fills up a form on her PC using the mouse. The minute you click "Save", system automatically sends an email alert to the personnel-in-charge of the product line, and cc Marketing about the new lead created. Sales or BD Managers can print reports according to different criteria, such as Salesperson or a date range. Editing and updating of a lead's status is also do-able via my system.

Yeah I know, we maybe a little slow in this aspect. Some (or most) companies already have such a leads program in place, but at least ours is totally proprietary. Especially when management's focus is on "minimal costs whenever possible". Coding in-house allows us to utilise what we already have, though time costs (spent on setting up and testing the system) could factor in rather significantly.

Thurs went salon with Angie after work. Totally impromptu. So glad we went: it's at Compasspoint (place where I hang out often), and I totally dig the stylist, Kef. He made me feel absolutely at home. None of that uncomfy feeling I had at Cinq's salon 3 months back - couldn't click with Henri (the salon director & stylist I requested for), and somehow felt they're hardselling things to me. For the record, Kef even offered to treat me dinner! Turned him down cos Angie's meeting her hubby and I certainly don't wanna eat with someone I knew like, 2 hours ago. It's just..... weird.

"Next time, I insist," he said on our way outta the salon.
I couldn't say no to that. Hmmm.. Don't know if it's his tactic to get us back to the salon, haha. Really prefer this look, and somehow everyone agrees I look better than with normal hair. Even colleagues who've never seen me with wavy hair before. Winks.