surprise email..

An ex-colleague left my previous company in end May. We were only colleague for a very short 3 months since I jumped ship quite early on.

Truth be told, I have not kept in touch with him ever since I left the place, except for the one brief SMS conversation we had a few months. People come, people go. I asmit I did not bother keeping in touch with him. I've not seen him for the last 8.5 months and it was a shock of some sorts when he dropped me an email.

It was a farewell email. One of those farewell emails that you'd send to your current colleagues when you're leaving the company to bid them "goodbye", "thanks for all the wonderful memories", "glad to have known you", "keep in touch", yada yada. That sort of email.

Except that he included some ex-colleagues in it as well. And I was one of them. It was a pleasant surprise...definitely something which I did not expect. He said this:

Michelle : Your flair for Marketing is superb, and your sensitivity Surpassing many a young lady executive… St James was FUN!

Needless to say, I did feel honoured that I was included in the farewell email, with a small little paragraph within dedicated to me. Didn't think that I would leave such a lasting impression on him.

Ok, you can discount the last sentence of the paragraph haha. What struck me more was that no one has ever said that I had a flair for marketing.

And this came at a time when I was just thinking to myself the other day if I would ever go back to marketing sometime in the near future.