To be honest, I’ve heard this line a million times.
“Your expectations are too high. Lower down your expectations”.

In a world where technology is here to make things works more efficiently and faster, humans became slower and less efficient.
Is that a trade off? Is that a price we need to pay for technology advancement?
If that is the case, I hope technology can slow down since human that creates them can’t keep up.

I am not sure since when it all changed.
Since when expecting an error free work submission is something too high of an expectation?
Of course I always get the feedback, “everyone makes mistakes”.
Which I agree, we all do. But if this is the same mistake repeated at least once a week or every other week is not just any ordinary mistake ❌.

Since when replying to emails during work hours are too high of an expectation?
Would you tell yourself to lower down the expectation if an online seller have not delivered the product you ordered and not respond to you.
Let’s not even add to the chaos where they keep getting your orders wrong and not respond to you.
Will you just let that slide? No, you won’t.

Because you paid , and expect your orders are right and you expect to get your products at the promised time.
And a great and responsive customer service is a given.

So, really. Stop asking me to lower my expectations. 😔
Cause we all know that is that is the basic.

Yesterday was an exciting day, a tiring yet eventful day.
It felt like I have been fighting hard in a battlefield for a whole day.
While most would think, the D day battle is most tiring but to me the preparation before the battle is far worst.

It is quite upsetting, when everyone keeps asking.
What are you doing? And I really don’t know how to explain what do I spend most of my time on.
I’m literally not working on any physical work, but the mind is constantly thinking and mapping the if, else if, what ifs.

While many hope to speed up the process – speed up the thinking process, speed up the looking into details granularity, speed up work.
I’m sorry, I can’t.
It’s a customized thoughts and thinking process, not automated factory process.

Everyone got their own role to play.
To the kings and queens 👑 out there, thank you.
Thank you for the time and space.
Thank you for the trust 🙏.
Rest assured I will be there standing next with you to make it happen.

Now, let’s  continue to win more battles.

Decisions are always hard to make.
Since the earliest of time, it was not something easy.
It is always best when we can have the best of both worlds.
But not everything in life happens as we all wished or expected.

There will be this very one day that make us all realize, 忠義兩難全.
And when it can’t exist at the same ecosystem, some decisions will need to be made.
What would that be?
I found my answer when I was scrolling online.
This line helped me come to a conclusion – 忠是對於個體，義是對於總體。

And guess what, as I was finishing this post the song 緣盡 was playing 😂.
The other irony part was the song 堅持到底 was playing from the playlist as I wrote this.
Sometimes god just have their ways of sending you hints and messages.

Someone told me Covid-19 is not all negative, look at it on the bright side 🌞.
We will all learn a little thing or two from it.
And bring us to realise things we never would on normal days.

On this very day, I finally realise tone and manner is so important especially on the “text” world.
I realise that there are many who type and reply without even reading, what more understanding the context.
And have the bravery to reply on a condescending “I am smarter than you, I know so much more then you ” tone.

But it’s also because of this, we found unity.
We all knew and mutually understood each other with just a 😂 emoticon.
I’m glad, at times like this many of us stood up for what is right despite previous conflict.
Even the smallest gesture of highlighting that one is missing the point and course correcting the conversation.

It is indeed a memorable day, as it was the first time we understood each other.

I find that it is getting harder to keep my cool 😎 as I grew older.
Getting all worked out over repeated questions.
Hate the fact that people just ask random questions out of thin air, without proper context.

At times it makes us felt like we are cornered or even used to provide an answer to others benefits.
And most of the cases, answers provided are just being used as a cushion.
The standard, I asked you and you said so.

Yes, I said so. And I am not shy to admit and will stand by to what I said.
Echoing the best line from my favourite movie – Oldboy: “Your gravest mistake wasn’t failing to find the answer. If you keep asking the wrong questions, you’ll never find the right answer”

Frame your question with a proper context, else you will end up keep asking the same questions and getting all the wrong answers.

I was commonly described as someone who has patience 😇.
I personally don’t agree with it. Think most of them are just too kind.
In fact, as I grew older I find my patience level is constantly put to a test.

It was not until recent, when it was in the lockdown that I noticed it’s not me that are patient.
It’s the people I am surrounded with are impatient and are becoming more impatient during this time.
The consistent deep breathe and that annoyed voice.
Occasionally they throw in some “tsk” sound and a raised voice.

Sometimes it makes us wonder;
What happened?
What is wrong with asking?
What is wrong with asking repeated questions to clarify and confirm?

Maybe I was outdated.
I wasn’t sure since when confirmation has become annoying.
Sigh 😪..  sometimes I guess we all wish something we did was wrong.
At least you can convince yourself, you deserve it because you did something wrong.