Today is the last day of work for a fellow colleague. She's quitting the company to start a new life in America. It was a teary occassion. She couldn't stop crying. Makes me think - you know, she's only 2 years in this company and she's already teary eyed? What about old fuck like me? Will I be teary eyed? Why are people crying like their mother died when leaving a company? Is it the because they missed the people they work with? Or is it the company? I would like to think that they missed the people and I should feel good that my team member miss the team here. Which means that we must have done something right to garner such honour.
In April 2008, Anne and I started our resolution to chant 1 million daimoku in one year. It's already Jan - and I am only one-third of the way. I really need to WORK HARDER - coz I made another 1 million resolution from Jan - Dec 2009. The chart you see on the right of this post is a chart that we put beside our butsudan. It tracked our chanting progress. Every 20 minute, we coloured one box. Mine is the one on top, Anne's at the bottom - you can see that she made much better progress than me! Hmmm.. come to think of it, I am not even at one third!! --- Edit 22 March 2009: Thanks to Google, a couple of friends in faith found this post and they want to know how many hours of chanting is required to achieve one million diamoku. Here it is. Based on our publication in Malaysia, 20 minutes of chanting is equivalent to 1,000 daimoku. So, one hour is 3,000 daimoku. 1 million would take about 333 hours. --- Edit 8 April 2018: Checking my blogger stats, this post is pretty hi
Dude, I had this 'teary eyed' experience or I shall said 'honor' to cry during my farewell given by my own department. Had many many lunches /dinners with various groups - each groups gave me different taste. Well, for me, it was a fraction of my precious life leh. Back then, I didn't clock in 9 - 5 aje, sometimes weekend and odd hours, all this add up for 6 years = quite a big part of my life. It's sentimental, many ups and downs, good and bad moments, hate & love situations - they were all learning curves - been thru, walked thru, tasted, I was mould into where I am today (to a certain extent), met many wonderful people along the way - all remain as sweet memories forever in my mind and photos :)
ReplyDeleteJust today, when I walked into your new office, the similar office look, met the ex-colleagues - already nostalgia.....Hari Ini Dalam Sejarah