i'm on a high!

no, it's not drugs... it's my first week at the business school and lovin it! business is in my blood. literally. from my lola's store whom dad and uncles used to work as a kid instead of them playing outside. all of them became successful businessmen. my dad's company was my playground when i was 5. and i thought then the name of the company was 'hello APT' because that's what i hear from the office secretary. fast forward to college. my summers are not spent at beaches and clubs but there. i was required and would negotiate my salary to my dad. i often got what i wanted as a kid but it takes strategizing and justifying to him. he's like a client that i had to please for him to give it to me. realizing now, i wasn't spoiled after all. he taught me how to propose and sell an idea. so it's already dealing and practice.

he loved it whenever i do negotiations with him. he really was a good marketer and see trends in advance. he forecasts goods and economies and would tell me. like i remember clearly when he bought a toyota vios, he told me 'after 5 years vios will become a common taxi car' and i said, 'how do you know?' he just said, 'just believe me, it will.' and it eventually did. and he has other business trend insights that he usually shares to me. little did i know he was already the VP for marketing in the corporate world then he left and started his own when i wasn't born yet. so he had two babies in 1986. me and the company. 

i don't want to be an employee forever. i got that idea from him too. even my queen-tude. lol he was doing a project that was something big and told me, 'if this happens you will be the something queen and you will become a very rich woman even your grandchildren's.' then he started to get sick. maybe that was meant to happen because the project pushed through 3 years ago and it was really big but until now instead of profits the owners earned losses and still paying liabilities at taxes. still God is good. he had another option as a normal businessman, when he knew he won't take long. it could have been a good project for the both of us but time forbade. it's never implemented. so it's something i still have to do. i think it's my purpose in life to fulfill that agreement and that's what he wanted me to do too.