Sunday, October 08, 2006

Emails...

After letting the emails in my outlook inbox accummulate past the 2000 figure (and this is just in the main inbox... it excludes all the rest within my sub-folders), I decided that a virtual spring cleaning was very much needed...

So I just spent the last hour or so clearing emails.. for now, I only have 1190 emails in the main inbox after much sorting and deleting... I will have to go through my sub-folders after this (since some emails I transferred from main to sub for classification sake)

anyway, in the midst of clearing the emails, I of course have to open some of these emails to see what the content is (email subject titles aren't that descriptive after all) and it was interesting to see how things and people have changed and moved along with time...

from emails congratulating the team on our appointment as MC 0607; to emails from the 0506 team discussing how to do transition to the 0607 team; to emails from the 0607 then-elects to each other (some of these emails start with "Dear LCP elects" hehe) asking about plans and ideas; to excited emails about the selection of our international MC; to excited emails of incoming trainees or successful events or meetings; to emails that sound so charged with emotion as people fight for what they believe in; to emails where the MC 0607 makes decisions after being updated on all possible scenarios; to crappy emails with content that you just can't help but smile at....

Looking back, it has been 9 months of journeying together as a team and what a remarkable 9 months it has been... what an amazing story it would be if we put down all that we have gone through in these 9 months...

Even the emails tell a story... and what a wonderful story it tells... it is a story about growth... growth of individuals, growth of the team, growth of our own legacy...

and I cannot wait to start clearing my email inbox again 6 months from now when the term 0607 is over... for then our story will be pretty much over...

then again, I think we will realise by then that it isn't that much of a story... well maybe a story for us... but all in all it's just another chapter in the book titled "AIESEC in Singapore"

2 comments:

Jingwei said...

Just want to say all the best to you. Quite a few MCPs mentioned to me that it is scary to think of the upcoming elections. Indeed, it is almost the time of the year a lot of people making decisions for their next steps in AIESEC.

Sometimes people get a bit distracted by the future and forget what they are performing is the presence.

I am looking forward to good news from you and @SIPO.

Ddee said...

Dear Boss *it's getting very comfy to call u this...and now reminiscing when we first started calling you boss and you said that you feel weird..but now, everyone else knows you're the 'boss'*

Now I agree with ya, why you said some emails are funny when you read em again...dejavu hah!!

Sometimes, we are to attach to something we lost focus n track, and now..when it's over..we can simply laugh it off.

Take care dear boss, eat more chicken soup *hihi