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Hello hello. It has been a long while, again, since I have sat down to write down my thoughts. Let me share a little of a recruiter's life. Just a little background of myself, I've started my career in investment banking for 2 years then moved to being a recruiter. From a desk bound role to a people management role. Not easy. I've rode many emotional roller coaster where I could be super excited for something, then hit by a bad news. I have learned many, many life lessons from being a recruiter. It is not as easy as it seems. We are not just the connecter of clients to candidates and otherwise. We do more than that. We manage people's expectations, we consult, we advise on market trends and movements, we ought to know what's out there, what are the current demanding jobs there are across the industry. Again, we are not just the person to view CVs and send to clients. We filter, we assess the candidates from the body language and at the same time understanding their ...

Hey there! Again, i have not been posting consistently here since my last post. I think it is time to sort of commit myself to do so, at least a post a week. What do you think? Alrighty, something to share this week is all about self care! I have been watching quite a number of youtube videos ranging from self care, to slow living to mukbangs (in the middle of the night, hated myself for that) and to productivity. I was pretty inspired to practice self care by slow living. what slow living means is that, every single day, I will be focusing on different things. Will share the link here so you can have a look and perhaps have a try yourself! https://www.pickuplimes.com/single-post/2019/01/28/7-DAYS-OF-SLOW-LIVING-»-printable-guide I was thinking of printing the sheets but in the end, I opted to write them down in bullet journal kind of way. I have to admit, I almost gave up in the middle. I seriously don't have the patience to draw lines in the bullet journal to make all lo...

how time flies. 1 more month, actually 3 more weeks till I hit 25. I may be having quarter life crisis!! Many things have changed last year. Dealt with a lot of emotional roller coaster which was insane I must say! Loads of ups and downs, so much more as compared to last year (2017). I mean, people grow and so fast I have moved on to a new role in my life. And this current role, I deal with so many people, day in day out. Clients, candidates. I think you'll sort of get what I am currently doing right? Being a recruitment consultant is not just taking CVs and send to clients. You're absolutely wrong. We deal with people. People are the most complex creatures. As much as many is driven by financial reward, many too is not and that's when us, consultants come in. We are paid to handle situations, to deal with emotions, to dig as much as we can from another human who may not be willing to share, who may be cold af. How do you deal with those kind of situations? Not something ...

I have been fearing for my life of what is going to happen with me in the next few years. Where am I going to be? What am I going to have? What am I going to do? So many thoughts have been lingering in my mind past these few months and I have been sort of living in fear, at least subconsciously. Yes, I do enjoy my life when I was travelling to places with my bf. But you know that at the back of your head, you are fearing of something. Something that you can’t just say it outright. It eats you. It ate me. I was unhappy for a few months, because I don’t know what am I going to do. The uncertainties killed me or still killing me. At least I am slowly recovering from the pain, doubts, confusion. It was a bad wound. One thing that I have stopped doing when I was having those thoughts was working out and dance. I was always active with exercising and dance. I don’t know which affected which. Was it because of me stopped working out that affected my brain from producing the serotonin which ...

Hi all, It has been a long while since I have written something here. Actually it has been a long while since I've written my thoughts out. I have been having a lot of thoughts in my mind a few months now, and I think that's the reason for all the pimples popping up on my forehead, sigh. Putting that aside, I have been unhappy these few months. Mostly because of worrying the uncertain future that I am going to face. I have no idea why am I so concern of the future and etc. Because of the uncertainties, I have been stressing myself out. Giving myself unwanted worries. I have finally, or slowly taking baby steps. Meaning, I want to live in the moment where, I am only going to think of what I want to do this week and probably next week. Just want to start fresh instead of worrying so much on my future like omg, how many babies I am getting or whatever or if I cannot conceive when I want to have my own kids so bad. Okay, those are seriously unwanted stress! See? I think of all ...

Today is the day of chill. No plans for the day, a day to go with the flow. I thought about this a few days ago where, what is your meaning of success? Many wants to retire by so and so age. My question is why? what are you going to do next? What are you going to do in you're retirement? My mom retired from the workforce as early as in her 30s, after she gave birth to my youngest sister which is when she was 32? She retired in the age of 32. Many would kill to be in her position but being her daughter and from what she has shared with me made me not wanting to retire. I want to take a break here and there but not retire from the workforce completely. My definition of being successful in career wise is to work because I want to not because I need to. I want to continue contributing to the society no matter how old I am- as long as I can contribute, I will. Be it charity, talks or whatever channel to share my experience. That's why I really admire Tun M. Being the oldest PM i...

OK guys, podcasting is not as easy I thought it would be.. Well, technically you just need content, voice, software to record and edit. Well, I have the first and stuck at the second and third. Reason being, my voice was too soft! I thought the mic would help. Nope. Means, I have to speak at my usual pitch and volume. Lol. All these means, I have to record again which could be tomorrow since tomorrow would be pretty free.. I hope I won't be stuck at the polling station for tooo long. So there's that, the update on my podcast. Next, on my life update. It has been a pretty shitty weeks and this week seemingly getting better. First of all, I had breakout. have no idea why.. still trying to figure out. First suspect could be the product change. Girls out there, once you have found your holy grail that has been keeping your clear face, STICK TO IT! Obviously I didn't and was trying to "step out of my comfort zone" shizz that got my face upset. I'm truly sorry fac...