Lovely concerned colleagues

I just realized I have lots of concerned colleagues from our overseas office. When news came that my direct boss' contract was not renewed, many have sent messages asking how I'm doing. They were concerned that I would be very affected by the news. I thank them for their concern but I wasn't really affected at all. 

As the news came, I tried to weigh my positive and negative. 

Negative:

- I lost a free ride to office and back home

- I lost a 'shelter' at work

Positive:

- I can focus better at work without someone coming to my work station once every 15 mins to tell me which supermarket is having promotion or which brand of milk is giving free mugs

- I don't have to buy breakfast for everyone. Well, he made it mandatory for us to take turns to buy breakfast. That's right, even if you don't feel like eating, you still need to buy for the rest.

- I don't need to force myself to eat snacks I don't feel like eating at that point of time

- I don't have to worry about someone sneaking up from behind me and watch what I'm doing 

- I don't need to gulp down my hot tea just because he was standing next to me rushing me to finish my tea as he wants to wash my cup

- I can freely use the rubbish bin near to me without having someone nagged that we have to 'consolidate' rubbish bin so we can only throw our rubbish at one location (and it's not very near me)

- I can date the guy I love without having someone nagged that I should dump him and find someone else coz he has a kid

- I don't have to listen to gossips about other colleagues in the office

- I don't need to lie to the company owners and synchronize stories that I can never remember. I didn't have a choice because he was my direct boss -.-" It's a long story and I still feel unfairly treated. He is those type who will push his subordinates out to the war zone while he watch from afar.

Nonetheless, I guess the positive outweighs the negative.

What's more annoying is that he implemented the punch card system before leaving and kept insisting that it was the CEO who wants it when all of us knew it was him who initiated. He told us that he fought hard but the CEO still wants it. I find it hard to believe coz when I was quite new to the company, he suggested before but was turn down by my CEO as he felt that it wasn't really necessary to have one in place. 

My colleagues are now asking me to take his place. No thanks....a management role is good enough for me. A director role would be too stressful. I don't have the capacity to sit in his room.