Love Business

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Date: Friday, March 13, 2015
Time Check: 6:00 AM

Two different alarm clocks had just rung.

Patrick lazily turned his clock off while Audrey happily got out of her bed and turned off hers with energy.

He was forced by his yaya to stand up from his bed. She lively went to her bathroom and started taking a shower.

He took a shower while Manang Celie prepared his clothes, packed lunch and bag. She fastly ran down to the stairs, already prepared to go to work but called by her Nanay Via to eat breakfast.

He is done fixing himself and his room, already going down directly to his car because he will eat breakfast in his office. She fastly ate breakfast, kissed her Nanay Via, Tatay Pim and Ate Aia goodbye because she will be meeting with the board at exactly 7:10 in the morning.

At exactly 7:00, Patrick and Audrey had arrived at LAS and Time Airways, respectively. Different positions but both leaders.

Audrey greeted everyone that she meets until she arrived at her office and dropped her things. "Rizza, are the papers ready?" she asked her EA, Rizza who came to her office with her. "Yes, Ms. Audrey. They are at your table in the conference room." They were having that conversation while they are both fast-walking towards the conference room. It was already 7:05 in her clock.

Patrick gave his car keys to the guard for him to park it. He walked past the people without greeting them back until he went to his office. Elly, her assistant, came in the office. "Good morning Sir," she said. He placed his things in his desk and said, "Do I have a meeting very important to attend to?". Elly dictated 2 meetings: a 9 o'clock meeting with the engineers and a 1:30 meeting with the board regarding their specific client. "Okay. Elly, get me coffee. Go and work. Thank you." And his assistant fast-walk exiting his office. He opened his laptop and read some emails given to him.

Audrey and Rizza are already in the conference room with the board. They are talking about a specific company wherein they must partner with when it comes to the maintenance of their airplanes. Audrey made the atmosphere of the serious meeting alive, instead of making it as a talk, she made it like a friendly conversation with them. The board never regretted choosing Audrey as the CEO of Time Airways. She never made every moment in the office a dull one. "Audrey, I suggest that you meet with them personally. So we can amend things with them and you can talk about our concerns. If it's fine with you, of course." a board member suggested. "Well, if you want me to talk to them personally, it's fine with me. You all know that I trust each and every one of you in all you say. Okay, so it's settled. Salamat sa inyong cooperation. I will update all of you sa mangyayaring meeting with them, I promise." Everybody in the room thanked Audrey and they left the room. Audrey and Rizza were the only ones left in the conference room.

"Ms. Audrey, ang galing mo talaga! Hanga ako sa'yo!" Rizza said happily

"Ano ka ba, Rizz. Audrey na lang kasi. Hindi ako sanay. And, I love what I'm doing, yun ang pinaka-important para maging maayos ang work. You have to love it."

Rizza laughed, "Sige na nga, Audrey. Pero kapag nandiyan yung ibang tao, Ma'am pa'rin ha?"

"Sure, no problem. Magkaibigan naman tayo. :)"

They fixed the things that are left in the conference room. It is a habit of theirs that Audrey and Rizza fix the room because Audrey doesn't want anyone bothered from their work by fixing it. They both went back from their specific offices to work. The whole office is alive, no dull, quiet moment. Everyone is working with a smile on their faces. Audrey opened her laptop and viewed the contract Rizza has made for them to sign. She called Rizza on the phone.

"Rizza, halika dito sa loob. May ipagagawa ako sa'yo." Rizza came in her office after the call.

"Rizz, i-check mo itong binigay mo sa aking contract and other papers. Ibigay mo kay JM ito para iparevise then ibalik ulit sa'yo para ma-check mo. Give this to me as soon as possible."

"Yes, Audrey."

It's already 8:50 and Patrick is in the boardroom where the other engineers are there for the meeting. They have just updated the status of the hangars they are assigned to. It was a serious and quiet meeting. Elly suddenly burst out in the room and she whispered something to Patrick. The meeting was done already. When he got the word from Elly, he immediately called Engineer Castro to go to his office.

"What is this I heard, Castro? Did you fail to fix the SC20 Aircraft on time? What had happened?"

"Sir, bigla po kasing tumawag yung kapatid ko, dinala yung mom ko sa hospital. Binilin ko naman po sa mga tao ko yung aircraft. Sorry sir."

"Ganun ba, sige. I understand. Ako na lang ang kakausap sa naghahandle nung plane. Sige, pumunta ka na muna sa mother mo. File a leave. You can go."

"Thank you, Sir. Pasensya na po talaga."

Engineer Castro left his office. "Elly!" a frustrated Patrick called his assistant and she went to his office.

"Yes, sir?" she was feeling nervous.

"Call Mr. Chua, I will meet with him after our meeting with the board. Tell the board to go to the conference at exactly 12:30. We will have our lunch meeting there."

"Okay, sir. I will call up the board. May I know sir kung what time yung kay Mr. Chua?"

"Oh, c'mon, Elly! You know what time we finish the meeting! Ikaw na ang bahala, okay?"

"Yes, sir. Right away."

Both Patrick and Audrey have a lot of paperwork to do but with different attitudes on that day. One is so mad and the other is happily loving what she does. Everything they have done for today is done. Both got home at exactly dinner time. Audrey had a pleasant evening with her family while Patrick ate only with her mother.

Audrey's phone suddenly rang...

"Hello?"

"Audrey, si Rizz ito. I would just like to remind you that you have to call Mr. Lim tonight about your meeting regarding some details."

"Oh, right. Salamat, Rizz. Good night!"

"Good night, Audrey"

She hung up on Rizza and immediately called Mr. Lim. On the other hand, Patrick was lying down in his bed with a lot of things in his mind when his phone rang. he answered the call of an unknown number.

"Hello, who is this?"

"(Aba! Ang gwapo pala ng boses ni Mr. Lim)"

"Hello? Kung admirer ka, please huwag ngayon, okay? Wala ako sa mood."

"Um, I'm sorry. This is Ms. Perez from Time Airways."