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the corporate world since I bid it farewell seven months ago. Big changes in life comes with big adjustments, and once in awhile… big. manic depressive big. NOSTALGIA.

I miss my colleagues who I used to spend 12 hours a day, five days a week, with. Our conversations would range from work rants to downstairs neighbor drama to new lunch options to celebrity gossip to even my grandma’s latest happenings. I miss watching the clock ticks eight and heading over to our fave spicy noodle shop for dinner. I miss the late night (self-proclaimed) happy hour. I miss having the weekend all to myself, without a worry in the world until it’s Monday again. But if there’s one thing that makes me extra nostalgic, I’d go back just to relive it for another day, it’d most definitely be…

CORPORATE DRINKING.

Seriously folks, don’t underestimate the power of corporate drinking. Think of it as a… teambuilding event. And if you’ve ever taken a class in organization behavior, you don’t need me to tell you how important teambuilding is. Had a bad meeting in the morning? No worries, round up a few buddies in the nearby cubes and head for an alcoholic lunch. Just won a pitch and the client loved the idea? Great! Grab your things, we’re headed for happy hour. See? Corporate drinking is a medium that brings us all closer. And the best part yet - it’s free!! Well, not free free, someone has gotta pick up the tab. But that person won’t be me or you. We’re too underpaid and this is the corporate world’s way of making it up to us. So sit back, and throw one back while you can.

cheeeYEAH. You bet Don knows what I’m talking about. Startups and their light beers have nothing on these bad boys. 

Just the other day, V and I were discussing whether or not someone can be a “realist optimist”. To tackle this mind boggling term, we first needed to determine what it means to be an optimist. The conversation went a little like this:

V: Simply put, if there’s a glass with wine filled halfway, is it half full or half empty?

Me: Errr… I don’t know. But I would like the wine glass to always be ALL FULL.

You see? Just a realist optimist telling it like it is ;)