Yay!!! The long awaited confirmation email!!

Yay!!!! Have finally got the long awaited (so long that we sometime thinks, without saying it out loud, that we did not get the tender) email that confirms us as the operator for Mr Bean Singapore's outlets in Guangzhou!!

Yes, Mr Bean has been our project for the last few months, they're expanding their operations in China, after the success in Japan.

This is officially the big turning point of my life book's chapters. That marks the transition from me working for my bosses, this time around, I'll be working for my staff! And together we'll introduce a new revolution that will see the everyday scene of the locales having a bubble tea drinks in their hands while walking the street to a Mr Bean drink in their hand and to have them acknowledge the change as being a change for the better!

Am excited much!


Hugs!
Ahtiow

Whew!!!!!

...in continuation of the last post regarding the waiting for the email:

Received an email from them, and as expected, it is not the email from them that finally tells us that we have been confirmed as their partner here, it is an email that tells us that they are having difficulties getting their raw materials into China. This came as a relief and also as an explanation why there was no words from them for almost 2 weeks since the last meeting we had with them that went well.

Well, guess we'll be waiting for some time more before we can kickstart the plan.

Till then, will tell you guys what we have been working on since I moved here in May. =P

Don't be surprised if I am still 'jobless' when I meet/talk with any of you guys. It's ok to wait, cause its not an easy thing for a foreign company to enter China market. Most important is, it's ok to wait on a project that all of us feels so good working on it and so comfortable with the partners whom we'll be working with.

It's easier to decide, its the wait that's hard.

Am still going strong here! =)


Hugs,
ahtiow

The wait

Just when things starts to looks as if its gonna happen for real, there gotta be a pause - a period of blackouts where you are put on hold not knowing what to expect. The actions and reactions contradicts the expectations and things that actually do happens.

I need to have an answer soon, the waiting has started to creep on me and I'm starting to question things. Jumbled.

I am now almost always checking my mailbox for a reply from them. No I am not expecting a final yes, I am expecting a mail that shows that I am still in the run as a candidate.

I want to know that the unreplied emails are only to be replied once they have firmed up the next steps for our partnership.

I am not losing it, I am standing on the edge and the pedestal on the edge is not normally wide enough to be comfortable to stand on and its usually windy and wobbly.



I need some distractions, really.


Hugs,
Currently Entrepreneuring Ahtiow