How Do I?

I admit that my newest member is a piece of work. This will take me a huge deal of patience and creativity to help him become a better engineer, for both our sakes and for his career improvement. Perhaps the long break helped me refreshed as I noticed that I have spare room to be calm and to objectively look at the situation. Although, I need to really weigh the reality right, because whether we like it or not, this will still boil down into - QUALIFIED or NOT.

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On my ex-fave subject HB, he endlessly amazes me and since this is my blog, I'd flatter myself a little bit. I think he is struggling more than I am with this arrangement of ours. We agreed to keep distance and maintain a strictly professional relationship, but I guess call it geniune friendship or he's just used to me, but HB would just manage to sneak in private conversations, joking about our previous dates, or the things we used to privately joke about when we were still together. It just makes it all the more difficult for me to truly move on, I am always reminded. Recently, we were having this meeting and my index finger was moving around the days on a calendar laid down the table while I was on deep thought figuring out how to re-draw the project plan. He just blurted out, it looks like I was playing spirit of the coin. He had to say it in Japanese, and he knows that he always catch me offguard whenever he does that. Then he suggested that we play it. Keep it cool, Em - I told myself. So instead of reacting to it, I played along and simply say 'oh, I wouldn't want to bother any spirit now...'.

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Lanye is being offered jobs by two segments, and she asked for my advise. I did my best to give the most objective and unbiased thoughts. Lot's of luck for you, and hope all goes well.