Chasing executives, scooping competition, producing stories back to back on the menu for today.

This is my first face-to-face annual general meeting for the year and it seems like others will follow suit. I woke up early this morning to attend to some admin stuff before heading out.

It only took me 50 mins or less to reach Conrad since I took Skyway 3. I didn’t have to deal with horrible Edsa.

I spent gruelling hours attending back-to-back-to-back earnings briefing and AGM press briefings. All three overlapped so it was a feat that I was able to listen to all of them and ask questions and write stories. Whew! My copies were not super clean but my aim was to publish ahead of competition.

I arrived here early so I can start working on other things but I had to jump in one meeting right after another. Whew!

I wrote two time-sensitive stories back-to-back and edited some. I missed this adrenalin rush. Meeting the execs after a long time. One of the company owners told me I had slimmed down. Hahahahah! I told her we just hadn’t seen each other for two years that’s why you think that way.

I missed this.

I have no problem working here at Conrad because the view is always lovely. It’s just unfortunate that I couldn’t sketch because I was trying to beat the buzzer and needed to publish these stories ASAP.

I couldn’t drive back home now because my car is banned from the streets from 5 pm to 8 pm during Mondays. Now, should I waste my evening shopping around or should I waste money ordering coffee again? ☕️

Oooh, the president of this company just walked by and remarked to me, Oh you’re still working? Yup, gotta be fast, I replied.

Ahhh, I missed this kind of interactions. The small talk, the chismis, the market talk. This is why I have been doing this job for more than 16 years now. ❤️