A couple of days ago, I was standing inside of the empty meeting room, right next to the window which overlook to the crowded residential area, right behind the row of tall office buildings. I love standing there during the small break from work, sipping a cup of hot coffee while gazing far away to the horizon.

My favorite time was the morning hours before lunch, when I can feel the warmth of the sun upon my skin. It was very peaceful. Although I usually only stay for a minute or two, not even enough to finish my coffee, mind you. But it was enough solitude to refresh and prepare my mind for the never ending assignments that comes with work. Read the rest of this entry »

It has been more than two months now since we didn’t have a maid anymore. Mostly it was full of tiring nights, when we need to do the clean ups all by ourselves. Perhaps some of you don’t even consider cleaning up the house all by yourself as a tiring thing to do. But nevertheless, living in a country where a maid’s wages are relatively affordable makes you somewhat spoiled.

Even though my wife and I shared the chores, where we have a deal that I should do the sweeping and mopping, and she would do the laundry. I usually did the dishes more often, but my wife did the ironing more often. We would cover for each other though, whenever one of us feels too tired to do the dishes or the ironing.

There’s actually much more details than I am willing to write here, being somewhat sleepy and all, but what I want to tell is how much we can learn to respect those people who do the small but important things, those people whom we would often took for granted. People who do things that we usually hate to do. Let’s face it now, who could honestly say that they love doing the laundry or the dishes? Read the rest of this entry »