Eun's POV
I went to the food counter in one of the stalls, I choose to eat Asian cuisines, filipino foods to be exact. I have been away for long, it is been a long time since I tased filipino foods and I missed it already. Although I ate some when we went to Tagaytay but it is still different. I mostly eat western and french cuisines when I was away so why not try it again right?
I forgot to tell you that the stalls varies on their selected cuisines. Their theme also changed every week and I am lucky that their theme for this week was filipino delicacies. I scan their menu and decided to have one order of sinigang na hipon ( shrimp in tamarind soup) as my soup, 2 cups of rice and ginataang langka (junk fruit cooked with coconut milk) as my main dish. I also ordered banana con yelo for dessert and a half liter of pineapple juice for my drink.
These are some of the foods that I have been dying to eat again after a long long time. I also want to order some crabs and lobster cooked with coconut milk and mango float but I am not sure if I can finish it all so I decided not to order, I don't want to waste it.
( A: Me too, can you share some with me please? )
( E: Why Miss A? Did you miss filipino foods too? )
( A: Of course, I loooovvveee filipino foods too, I want to eat filipino foods again but I am miles away from the Philippines )
( E: You want some? )
( A: Yes, yes please please give me some )
( E: But I don't want to share, this is mine and it's not enough for me )
( A: But, but, but you can order another set for me, puuhhhlease? *puppy eyes* )
( E: Hmmmm I don't want to :P *smirk* )
( A: You are so mean, I hate you *cries* )
( E: You have to accept the fact that even if I order a new set for you, you won't be able to eat it, you're miles away if you forgot that fact *smirk* )
( A: *sulky look* )
Anyways, let's forget Miss A for now and let me enjoy my lunch slush snacks then we'll continue our stroll, I heard there is also a butterfly garden near the greenhouse, I want to visit it after I have my fill *smiles*.
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Eric's POV
After the board meeting, I attend a few more meetings with different clienteles for the new projects we want to collaborate with them and some meetings for the development of the branching out of Regal Knight Empire. Although the branching is almost done and is going smoothly, we still want to make sure that everything in under the plan and we are hoping to finish it earlier than plan or at least meet the deadline.
On lunch time, Yen and I just had a video call for a few minutes before I attended my lunch meeting with a very important investor for the project of new construction in Jeonju that me and my board of directors talked early this morning. Although they are worried about the project, but we need to proceed as planned. I understand where they are coming from, however, in the long run they will be grateful for this investment.
Being in the business world, you need to plan meticulously, and you should vision the future in the long run process not just for a short period of time. One of the reasons why businessmen failed in their business venture is because they always think about the profit that they can gain in the early stage of the business but not the long run process.
It is better to gain small amount of profit in the first three to five years that can make your business stay longer in the market than gaining a lot of profits in the early stage and vanish in the market without reaching the growth stage.
Business is a cycle where you need to plan wisely, remember worker smarter not harder. It has five stages in total, these are the launch, growth, shake-out, maturity and decline. The declining of your business inevitable but you can prevent it to occur early, if you plan wisely and meticulously. Slowly but surely.
I am currently during my final revisions for today's tasks before I leave the office. I miss Yen already and I am planning to surprise her by picking her up from her work and dine in our favorite restaurant. I already asked my secretary to book a private room for us and prepare some flowers.
Have I told you that my secretary is a guy? If not, then now you know it. So yeah, I took a guy as my secretary to avoid unnecessary troubles. Even though Yen is not a jealous type of person and it is fine for her if I have a girl secretary, it is my personal decision to take in the son of my dad's secretary and he is also my childhood friend that one of my trusteed people.
He is Renz Onpaco, he is a pure Filipino and a year older than me. Although our parents have a master-subordinate relationship, we became good friends. When I move to Korea after my I finished elementary, we still stay good friends and the communication between us continued. After we both graduate in college I started working in developing my company that I started in my junior year, to reach a greater heights, I asked him if he want to be my secretary, and he agreed at that very moment.
I booked him his plane ticket the next day and we started to work together. In the office and if we are working outside, we maintain the master-subordinated relationship but outside work we treat each other as brothers. We are been working together for six years now.
* After 30 minutes *
I am ready to leave, but I went to Renz's office first to inform him that I am off to go and to tell him that he can also leave the office whenever he is ready. I went to my private parking space, ride my car and left the place.
While driving, I will to our love story. Yen and I will be celebrating our ninth anniversary together in a few months. We meet on our high school days, but we started dating on our freshman year during our college days. We both are shy but with the help of our friends, we developed our relationship.
We are thankful to them, because without their help we won't realize that we both have feelings for each other. Maybe we are still both single until now if they did not interfere and acted as our cupid. I am planning to surprise her with a week cruise ship vacation on to be celebrate our anniversary and I am planning to propose to her before the tour ends.
Her office is an hour away from my office, but it only took me thirty-five minutes to reach their building. That proves how much I miss her. I want to see her, and her contiguous smile plastered in her beautiful face already and cuddle with her. I will talk to you later, I just have to pick her up first.