Oct

Honoured to Author Lainy’s Musings (Part I)

By Uncle Che * 197 views

[To give chronology to the log, I started here but actually the real deal is Part II]

Sometimes I feel being a kid again is one of the most interesting adventures to embark upon. You don’t have to worry about making the right or wrong decisions because someone else will make them for you. Most of the time, those decisions will be positive and for your own good. Sometimes, the reverse comes into play. “To hell with that, anyway”, you murmur to yourself. “I need not worry because if anything goes wrong, I have Mum, Dad, Big Sis and Big Bro to blame”. “I can even extend to Auntie, Uncle, Grandpa and Grandma”.

However, when you are a grown up already, especially above 16, watch the decisions you make. Your choices can either give you wings and take you to the skies for a good flight, or rip you off, down to what you were at birth, and take you to the sixth feet to enjoy a good lengthy rest.

When Buwah (Baby) Noela asked me to leave my job and start a business of my own, I stared into her eyes for a long time and was still trying hard to believe what I heard. Business? No way! The very first thing that came across my mind was something Mum said about business and I. “Che, you are too kind, lenient and carefree to do business”. “Making profit will be very difficult for you because you will end up offering all available services free of charge”. “Maybe you should run an NGO“. Actually, Mum was right. Running a Non-profit organization and offering help to others has always been my passion and I am realizing that already with CIWABA. However, I also want to prove Mum wrong by stepping into the business world and making it big.

My job, though runs from 8:00am to 4:00pm, is actually an 8am – 11pm kind of job. I do lots of work in the office and take part of it to complete at home. I even show up at the job site on public holidays and Sundays after Church service. I hardly had enough time for myself, Noela and my family. I didn’t even give blogging the best of me because time was always a limiting factor and every time I sat in front of the computer, I was already tired and as good as dead. The only way out is being my own boss and creating a balance between work and leisure.

I have always been loyal to my Boss and did everything to make sure the Business runs smoothly, so quitting doesn’t really make me guilty. In order not to leave a gap when I am gone, I worked for the past two months like a robot. I was outstationed, completely cut off from Noela, Ate Ellaine, phone and the internet (no network coverage). For those two months, I spent less than 48hrs with Noela, less than 5 with Ate Ellaine, and less than 3 on my blogs.

Now that I have decided to quit the job and set up a business, I won’t be MIA (Missing In Action) again. I have already set up a business that involves PC Hardware maintenance and sales of spare parts and accessories, Word processing and Print designs, International call shop and internet café. Since I will be having three employees to handle various sections of the Business and Noela to play some managerial roles, I can have some extra time for myself and of course, more money :d Everything has been put in place except my internet connection subscription still pending activation.

As I earlier said, I am back into the Blogosphere and will be offering my best. I turned “An Angel’s Blogmate” into my personal hotspot on the web. That blog is now a site that aggregates all my content from around the web as feeds for easy accessibility to my fans. I enjoy blogging. Through my blogs, I get to give and take, and most of all make great friends from different angles of the globe.

Anybody who didn’t read the last post will probably be very surprised and wondering why Uncle Che is writing a post on Lainy’s blog. Well, this isn’t the very first time I am writing here. I did it before. What is special about now is that I will be doing it about 5 times a week. On the next post, I will add some spices to Lainy’s last post to explain how and why this temporal switch of Author for Lainy’s Musings all came about.