TOP THE BAR! Bar Topnotchers' Preweek Review

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A crack of sunlight (through office blinds)

I must say that enjoyment of the sun tends to bring out unhealthy extremisms. I mean sun burn, hyperpigmentation, prickly heat, oh please.

In part, I’m protecting myself from cruelly being broiled in the hot outdoors. And in part, I’m just consoling myself because summer is nearly over and still not a single item in my under-the-sun to-do list has been ticked off. If that’s not bad enough, I woke up to some radio weather report announcing an early rainy season. I tried to abort my laugh so it came out as a combination hack-snort. This was how I offered myself a slice of sarcasm for breakfast. Summer sun may be harsh but it was the interval of harshness from which I used to take refuge.. until this year. What about this year, you ask? I’m working, thankyouverymuch. Now I have to make best efforts in taking advantage of the few days of extra sunlight left.

Work Considerations

Just when I thought I know where my head is at, I fell victim to my own ambivalence in the quest of figuring my next career move. Stay or go? For several weeks now, in deep concentration, I shared my customary silent breakfast with this thought along with other things I worry about (will be discussing those other thing in my future post). Dawning on me both slowly and panic-past is the knowledge that I’d definitely be having the same morning ritual for a long time. Somewhere in my brain a well formed, springing inordinate amount of considerations in varying degrees for both options which immediately murdered any plans I’ve made from the past. I think I impaired my own judgment as I tried to weigh it out. As it is, pros overlap cons as quickly as cons upped a notch over pros (and vice versa). It’s not helping. I need someone to talk to about this. An expert perhaps? For a little over six months now, I’ve been doing marketing (and a little bit more) for corporate events. Not long enough to pass as a striking credential for my next employer but I’m young and I want things to progress in much faster pace. I want to get richer literally, by experience and by any meaning you can attach to the word. Trying to be analytic, in today’s economic environment, is it wise to switch jobs?

Inaugural blog

While I certainly don’t think I have the solutions to my conflicts, I try not to take myself too seriously. Making my joys and pains public isn’t exactly my cup of tea. But in the absence of trusty friends and confidants, when matters reach the point where peninsula pads come to serve the purpose of a therapist, blogging presents itself as a better option. Besides, a blog space might actually relieve me of the worsening clutter I generate from keeping memo papers and post-its of various sizes to which I scribble my thoughts down onto. So yeah, I’m starting a new blog.