I haven’t updated my blog for really a long, long time, which usually means nothing worthy of mention has happened, but not this time. Actually a couple of things have happened recently, any of them along is big enough to change a lot of things. One after another, they have happened pretty quickly, almost allowing no time for me to digest.

            The biggest one, not to me but so infamous to all that I have to put it at the first, might be the earthquake. Yes, the earthquake, another one, the one once had been told that would not happen in Sichuan at least within a hundred years, hit Ya’an on April 20th, only five years after Wenchuan Earthquake. The city where I live was just affected area, we were still safe, but we all, once again, felt deeply about the angers coming from Mother Nature. Like last time, many co-workers have been sent to the most critical hit-area to help. Let our hearts, players be with the people who have suffered the most by this disaster.

           Another event, perhaps the biggest one to me, is that I have survived from the first round of the Reduction. Three girls out of six in our unit had become the first casualties of the firm’s cut-backs, so I guess that’s something Big. My boss once gave me an inkling what was to come, but I was still caught by surprise----so Soon and affected so Many. I remembered the day when L left, she tried all she could to keep tears back. We were not very close, but after 8 years working together, it’s really hard to watch her leaving this way. Perhaps it’s not bad on the whole for her, I mean now the company is like a sinking boat, those who stay must take double or even triple workloads with a gloomier future hanging ahead while, on the contrary the ones who’s left might have a fresh new start with a fat layoff pay, but I understand how she felt. It’s terrible, the sharp pang of rejection, the feeling of being expendable.

         The last one, I really don’t want to talk about it. After being plagued by a year’s indecision, my husband finally accepted the job in another city and left. How I feel about it? Obvious, isn’t it? For a woman like me, family always comes first before career, before ambition. However how I feel doesn’t count. So life goes on.

          Another little thing, I was nominated for Innovation. I created a website for my department. I felt restless those days, so I decided to do something to occupy my mind. I never expected that this tool could make my boss so excited. He forwarded my email to all and now they decided to upgrade this website for the whole region.

        Ok, Life is full of surprises, good or bad.