He Ain't Skinny, He's ...

Lordy me, but 'tis a tiring day!

The end of this year signifies many things.

The time for strategic company meetings to plan for the year ahead.

The time for reflection of glorious moments and lessons learned.

This year end for me, it's the time where I miss my bro.

You see, my bro has left my company to pursue something that he has a passion for. More hardcore programming.

As you all know, I am terrible when it comes to saying goodbye. Especially people whom I have become close to in the course of working. But since it was my bro who's changing jobs, I didn't really think much about it. In fact, I was actually listing down the pros of seeing less of him. I can go out and meet friends more often after work instead of worrying about which bus stand or lrt station to deposit him to. I can leave work whenever I want instead of waiting for him to finish up his work or being hurried by him whenever I wanted to stay back just a little later. Best of all, I can drop by any shopping mall for some retail therapy anytime I want after work instead of heading straight home like a good girl. Besides, I'll still get to see him at home mar.

And so, in the busyness of overseeing the handover of his responsibilities to my other assistants and work in general, I managed to quell most of my thoughts about not working with my brother again in the same company.

That is until I saw his empty place when I came back from a day long meeting today. My eyes automatically searched for his dear face, wanting to exchange a cheeky grin with him and whine about the loooooong meeting. But he wasn't there.

That's when it hit me. I no longer have one of my closest confidantes around at my work place any longer. I don't have someone I can comfortably bounce all sorts of ideas to - be it work-related or just general crazy thoughts. I no longer have a constant lunch partner. And I have no one to chat with on the way to and fro work each day.

Yeah, I miss the guy

sniff sniff

Ah well, after all that's said and done, I'm blessed to have worked with him. I mean, how often do you get such an opportunity to be your brother's boss and get paid to order him around? And it's great to know that no matter how in-ya-face and in-ya-nerves two siblings can get when they've been with each other nearly 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, love does conquer all. We made adjustments to get the space that we so need from one another. And we learned to become good colleagues and friends through this whole working together experience.

Bro, I just want you to know that it's been a swell 6 months working with you. I miss you but I know you'll shine in your new job. Thanks for being a good and understanding bro through all that we've been together. I love you heaps.