The Random Truths

If my life were a TV series, then Mbak Ira, my ex boss, would surely be one of the main characters in it. She first entered the show in Season 24, and in Season 25 made a permanent appearance when she recruited me as a part of the fabulous Skin Team.

Mbak Ira recently got promoted as VP of Ice Cream Division, after being Marketing Manager of Skin Care Category for 5 years, and so as a part of her farewell/good luck gift, the current Skin Team asked me, and other former skin team members, to write a testimonial for her. They asked to keep it short, so I did. This, however, is the extended version :)

Mbak Ira is more than just a boss, or a leader, she is a role model in so many ways. I think what I admire the most about her is the way she always puts people first before business, and how she's always sincere in doing so.

What we all love about mbak Ira is her clear directions, and the way she always got our backs. She's always there for all of us, like a mother to her children, which is why we often refer to her as "ibunya". LOL.

And she's not just super smart, but she's also super stylish. There isn't one day that she doesn't dress up, seriously! With all her branded bags, branded shoes, red lipstick of any shade (she can pull off any kind of red shade!), she inspired all of us skin chicks to dress up as well, otherwise she'd make a comment on how we should take better care of our looks, haha!

But Mbak Ira, no matter how smart & stylish, is still a teenager inside. She loooves Edward Cullen (yes, Edward Cullen, not Robert Pattinson), watched Twilight 10 times, made a picture of him her desktop wallpaper, and she even cut his pics out of magazines and sticked them in her notebook! In a way, it's good to know she still has that bit of alay-ish side, makes her human despite all her "super powers".

Last Friday all of us held a good luck party for her at Kemang Icon. It was heartwarming to see everyone there wishing her good luck and saying all those wonderful things about her, which we all knew were sincere and totally from the heart. I guess her principal, which she highlighted at the end of her speech, really came true, "I just believe that as long as we're sincerely good to people, then the goodness will come back to us"

Not only do I wish her all the best in her new role, but I also really wish that she will continue making appearances in this so called TV series called "My Life", because to me, she really is more than just a boss, a leader, a role model.. She's family :)

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