As expected, this week had turned me upside down. Since my HOD and all the managers were on leave, I had to attend meetings with the COO and the business unit CEO. The former was a lot tougher since the COO is quite demanding guy and he at least has an idea of what we do in our work. I got tasked to chasing our suppliers to supply the materials for our urgent production needs and hooked me up with the higher management of the supply companies. He told me to keep a close eye and I haven't been able to get a proper night sleep since Tuesday. The much feared nightmare happened. As of today, I still can't deliver 100% so I'll see what happens when all my bosses get back to work tomorrow.
Today is the new year 2024. Between the work pressures and the mounting study work, I don't know how I could balance my life. It's driving me mad that I'm a year older and still haven't found a good woman to wife.
On another note, I went to a small bookstore this morning. Let's call it 'IB'. I saw from their social media posts that they were having new year sales and I just found out that their store was not far away from my place. So after doing some laundry and work, I drove to IB and had a bit of a tough time to find the store. Reason being it's located in a business park with many shops -- unfortunately mostly empty. And the IB store is not directly accessible to the road. I was circling the area in confusion because Google Maps told me I already arrived but I couldn't find the store. Thank God I managed to find it in the end, the empty shops around it made it easier for me to navigate since there was barely any traffic.
So the shop was a small one. Maybe 15 feet wide and it was divided into a sales area and an office at the back. It was a small place though. The books that couldn't fit on the shelves were stacked on a few desks, and below them. And most of them were quality books that are rather hard to find at regular bookstores. It slightly bothered me to see copies of SMN Al-attas' The Covenants Fulfilled on the floor below the desks. On the desks were mostly popular books from international publishers. I was actually planning to get Orwell's Animal Farm published by Penguin. Unfortunately, there was no available stock so I just picked up a Malay novel. This will be a companion to Plato's The Republic that I'm reading. I will share a review later.
So that's my first day of 2024. Hopes, dreams, ambitions, etc. May they all be met this year. Happy New Year.
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