I had a call with my APAC boss this morning to do a post-mortem analysis of the conference. She knew I was in so much stress and was exhausted last week. She then asked me, why don’t you take a holiday? That was a major event last week and you deserve a break. Our China bureau chief went to Thailand after doing the one panel session last Thursday.

Damn. Why didn’t I think of that. All I can think of was I needed to write all the leads I got because the window is so narrow.

It’s still about my job and being a good reporter. 🤦🏻‍♀️

I traveled all the way to Ortigas today and I wasn’t able to do an ambush interview because prospective interviewee got pissed with one obnoxious reporter. I tried getting close to him to ask my super duper secret question but he pretended to talk to somebody on his phone all the way to the elevator car. I no longer was able to chase him to his next meeting. 😭

Gas + toll. All the stress of having calls with my APAC boss and my manager (in the afternoon) led me to nothing.

I need a holiday.