Little things that made my day at the end of a usual long work week.

1) My mentor gave me a little box on Wednesday
with a post it stuck on (so office, post-it!) that says simply:
Thank you for working so hard.

6 simple words almost drove me to tears.

2) Seeing my girlfriends on Thur for lunch

Although I see them almost every weekend,
I can't help feeling that I've been spending less time with them
ever since the nightmare started on 16th August.

3) My big boss looked at me in surprise and said in the middle of a TC on Friday
"That's a really good question."

5 words, and I instantly stopped feeling stupid and inadequate.
To be honest, I've been having alot of self-doubt lately.
All these hours that I've been putting in, is it really because there's so much work to do?
Or am I just incompetent?
Sometimes I can't help feeling that the team could be better off
if they let me go and replaced me with someone with prior experience in the fund industry.

4) A call that left me in pleasant surprise.

It's been so long since the last time a person actually called to ensure that I'm safely home when I didn't return an sms. It's a nice change from the usual treatment I get from friends since everyone seems to think that I'm independant and strong enough to take care of myself.

And oh yes, how can I forget this?
5) The arrival of my scheming beauty masks from Taiwan just this morning.

老女人要保养! 保养！！
If there's something I learnt from inventory control from my uni life
that I'm applying diligently in my everyday post-grad life,
it's stock re-ordering point.
And mine is at 10 pieces,
to ensure that I'll never be faced with a shortage,
and where holding costs are kept to a minimum.

Alright, back to funds, funds and more funds.