i thought i knew this!

i thought i knew that the business world is an evil and dangerous place, almost like the mafia.

what i didn't know: it really IS like the mafia.


i thought i knew men: i don't.

i thought i was smart: i didn't realise there's this much i don't know.

i thought i was good in english - until i'd sent an email saying 'gracefully accepted' in response to an apology.

i thought life's simple: it is. just that i hadn't noticed the extra kinks in the works until now.

i thought old people are gullible. i was dead wrong: the older they are the more careful you'd better be. you may be smart but they've experience. you may run fast but their reach is long. either way, you die.

i thought courtesy's a given: those who taught me that lied.

i thought there were no good men: wrong. there's a good man when the price is right. (mind out of gutter!)

i thought it's impossible to be nasty and polite at the same time: dead wrong.


so many things i thought i knew but heck! new things, new things, what excitement this is! and somehow, this makes me a great deal happier knowing that my friends are my friends are my friends and i probably won't have to deal with them in business.

i'm thankful to see another facet of the world; the 'gamer' side of people, the 'businessman' side of people, the 'goofball' side, the 'family' side, 'the other woman' side etc etc etc. i'm going in a wide-eyed greenie and am loving every moment of this growing.

the knocks and praises, all. and i'm very, very thankful to have this job.