Two Way Respect

Respect. Everyone wants it. It’s easily spread around in hopes of getting something good back out of it. The only catch is the real feeling behind it. Do you really respect someone or are you only doing it for something beneficial.

My album has been on a hold for quite some times. It’s at a ‘mixdown’ stage where the mixer takes care of volumes and effects. Now, I’ve been working with the mixer, MZ, since his work’s pretty good but he’s well known for his lack of respect for deadlines. The whole album was targeted to be done by the end of July but since it’s August and since I’ve been taking time trying to look thinner for my photo shoot, it’s really hard to guess the targeted date for my album release. When I reached MZ’s house, he could only show me one of my songs that has been worked on. He made this excuse about the other two being in some of his hard-drives which he could not find. The catch here is the fact that the song he had already mixed sounds MAJOR awesome. I knew I had to give him respect since it seems like that’s something he wants, I noticed. So, not out of fakeness, I praised him on this song and told him I couldn’t wait to hear the rest. Well, this was the most honest strategy I could think of. And, my convo with him seems to be range more than a hi and a bye. Respect, he earned from me and in return, I hope he would wanna show me more of his work on my work to get more respect from me.

One of my colleagues who work in the same office as SitarBro, Nsquare, and I exchanged a hi and a bye during my first day at work. Today just turned out to be Translator’s birthday and I joined them right after my meeting with MZ. Nsquare was uber friendly to me and he said it in the end. He said he has so much respect for me because I am polite? JajaMan was also laughing his ass off, telling me how me joining his team, has lifted the spirit in the team and how my arrival in his team means a lot to him. To be honest, I’d like to blame those two on beer but it does make me blush and quiet grateful that they like my humor and presence. I guess working for UN-Habitat is actually pretty awesome, even if it was only my third day. It’s also awesome that there’s no jealousy and it rocks that my colleagues are intellectual, with their whole aim to just finish their work and get paid. (Unlike the scenario of PR IV)

A new girl joined our team today from the Ministry of Foreign Affair, Japan, who will be with us for a month as her intern. A Japanese with a Canadian accent, who could not believe that it was still my third day at work, is actually cute and pretty friendly. FlagGirl (since her name resembles the name of the song with the same lyrics as the ID), sat near me and Partner moved away from me, which was totally awesome for her since she didn’t like to sit near JajaMan. It’s true though! I caught JajaMan looking at my puter screen while I was out talking on the phone!

Respect works both ways I guess. It’s not a hard job to think highly of someone and it is just so beneficial to have them be happy at what they are doing for you and would do anything to make sure you get the best of their abilities.