Choices we made in life

Seeing one of your hard work become reality and you are not part of it makes me feel empty and sad. But this is part of many choices and sacrifice we have to make at a certain point of our lives.

Being a career minded woman, I've never craved to be a housewife and doesn't have to work. It feels so disconnected when your life evolves around your baby, husband and parents. So, the decision to quit my job at the peak in my career has only one reason - to take care of Janna and spend more time with her since baby grows so fast.

Today I saw one of the projects that I started off with when I was still with G2 launched in Malaysia, as the first market out of 5 markets. I remember how we spent those nights rushing for brainstorm, how I came up with the pencil idea... and the presentations, and all the telecon with P&G just to sell the overall idea and theme. It was a very long and tough process. The cost approval was nothing easy but we managed to sign off with an amount that both party were happy with.

I handed over the jobs to my colleague because I have to leave on my maternity leave. At that time, the overall concept was already done and just going into implementation phase. I thought I would be going back to see the campaign goes life. I did not. Because I did not, I'm no longer part of the team that made this came true. Even though I do feel that this is my baby too.

Imagine you see something you created launched, it feels like you see your baby all grown up but you can't tell him that you are his mom. This is exactly how I feel now. Not a great feeling.

Not single bit at all.

Another baby that I cannot claim that it's mine...