aladdin's lamp is mine

Or so it seemed at first. When what you want is presented to you, you look at what you have in your hands. You're full but still you say yes. And humans like me are like that.

Accepting the scholarship to the training for chambers of commerce and industry in Tokyo in the middle of the preparations for the first Cagayan de Oro Business Enterprises, Services and Trade Exposition [ORO BEST EXPO - one last advert] was a double whammy.

Anyway, it's the dawn to wake up not to chamber work but to closing loose ends and leaving my vacation message in my email boxes. The Oro BEST Expo is over and on the whole I want to think it is a success, though I do not want to over-rate it. I believe the ones who really lost sleep and slaved on a project are the ones who take it silently when an event is over. Those who just put on the show dress are the ones who really gush about how good it's been because they were simply there.

So well the baggage must be done - oops up to 20 kilos only! And I still haven't finalized the country report. And I have some papers to leave for the officers. And a memo to draft for the staff. The final paper due in MBA will have to be submitted when I'm back. I need to design Nika's gown. Same goes for mine! And that concept paper for the Cagayan de Oro ICT Business Council. And the finalization of the wedding missalette for Hans. And the chamber's water forum and a power investment forum when I'm back.

Yes when I'm back. I have to leave first. Aladdin never fully knew what his lamp means.