Last Wednesday I had a short business trip to Jakarta, the plan was to discuss our IRF project and met new clients and partners. It turned out different from my expectation but I knew it's under God's control because I have prayed over it everyday.
I flew with Jetstar on Wednesday morning, it's smooth sailing. I had breakfast on the go which was don donki beef pau.
Touching down, clearing immigration and reaching hotel for check in were done within 2 hours. Reaching office just before lunch time.
I worked for a while in the office before meeting new client in the afternoon with the team. After coming back to office, we had internal team meeting to discuss IRF project.
Tired from the whole morning and it's a long winded meeting triggered my emotion. I couldn't think properly and while discussing with another team, one of the C-level came and cut my discussion without knowing the context. I was burst out and snapped on him. I felt so frustrated and angry with him and felt he's very rude.
Anyway, I tried to unwind by walking from our office to nearby mall. going for window shopping and having dinner at plant based restaurant, Burgreens. Then buying some snacks for office and home before heading back to hotel.
Reaching hotel room and welcomed by a sweet cake to sweeten my day :)
The next day, I went for a quick exercise and having breakfast before heading to office. I was supposed to have 2 client meeting and 1 partner meeting that day, but one client cancelled due to flight delay from Singapore.
In the morning, I received the call that one of our clients wanted to renegotiate the terms that have been agreed before. I was annoyed however I couldn't just snap out especially the one who called me was just a messenger. I told her, let have a call / quick meeting with your boss.
She said she will arrange, but her boss was a coward, she didn't want to liaise with me directly. Anyway we agreed to have a call the next day.
Meeting with partner went well, thanks God at least she wanted to help me out and gave some advises.
On the last meeting with a new prospective client went okay since it's intro call, but I found out that our rate was not competitive.
After that, I went to TA mall to unwind and have me time, so I did self care - hair treatment and cut. I was satisfied with the result and felt good about it.
Then, pamper myself with shirataki noodle from Bakmie GM before heading back to hotel for a rest.
On the last day of my staying in Jakarta, I started my day with exercise and healthy breakfast before going to office.
I had a call with a new prospective client, it turned well, however 1 hour later, the client messaged to tell me that he didn't want to continue the discussion because we had been in touch with their shareholder a year ago and our pricing was not competitive.
In the afternoon, I had call with this "annoying" client and we cleared it out. I told her what I felt and think and she did too. In the end, I knew that this client was not worth our time and energy. She kept pushing and negotiating what have been agreed before and going round and round with lots of excuses.
On my way to the airport, we had internal meeting for these clients and we decided not to proceed with this client based on their behaviour as well as supporting data. I felt so relieve hearing about this.
I bought some snacks before boarding for my dinner since after that we will go for ME bridging night.
Hubby picked me up and I felt happy and complete again. He's my support system and I poured out my feeling and released it from my system.
After that we had supper with our close friends at Prata house, talked about relationship during our courtship day and ended around 1230am.
Reaching home very late, I felt very tired but couldn't sleep well since it's past my sleeping time.
This morning, I felt very lethargic and tired and couldn't think clearly. Hopefully I had a good rest tonight and got my positive energy back.
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