D-Day

Lately I corresponded with Mat through the posting on facebook. This is actually very ridiculous as there were some 'confidential' comments we might have to exchange. But I think by this time, there is noting so much of a confidentiality.

Today is 1-December, start of the last month of a year. Yes, by this day the house in Ghana is no longer contractually under our tenancy. I wrote to Mat yesterday asking him to update me on the 'evacuation' so that I can submit my report to Shukhen and duly pass my responsibility to whoever will take over my place in the future. Not to my dismay, Mat had not responded to my posting, same as to my other previous work-related postings.

Well Mat, I hope you are not proving me right again about you. I am actually very surprised by Mat's cool reaction to my sudden departure on my last day in Ghana. And it is his positive gesture that prompted me to hand over the house and car keys hoping he will be the one I can entrust to guard the house and the car.

Right now I am compelled to ignore whatever goes wrong over there for the simple fact that the management has opted to keep the operation running despite there is no one physically on site to monitor the situation. Now there are inactive bank account, unsettled pre-assessed IRS tax, unpaid company secretary's fees...

Well, what have I achieved during my stint as a Regional General Manger for this ambitious company that had mega plan in a far away land called the Republic of Ghana? A person who knew of his assignment only on his way to an interview knowing nothing about Ghana, who was 'frightened' by the way the airport welcomed him on his arrival, didn't get his deserved support form his assigned local assistant, without the instantaneous response (financially) at times from the head office - what can a man achieve under such adverse circumstances?

With my trivial Ghanaian Ice-age-knowledge, I would say personally I have gained a lot - add rich nourishment to my life, educate myself further to human behaviour, at time awake from the dream of comfort, so on and so forth. With this, I turn out to be a better man, thanks to all those have transformed me by way of their virtues.