A Time to Reflect with Thanksgiving.

Yesterday went to watch the movie "Chronicles of Narnia The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe" with 2 of my dear sisters... of all places at Tiong Bahru GV... hmmm, guess the overwhelming sales of the tickets..... Was quite lost during the movie, trying to catch n understanding what's happening... should have read the story first b4 going for the movie... but p. wee had told a bit of the story during last sunday sermon, at least helped a bit... =P

Hmmm, was thinking should i blog this as well, but.... anyway, nobody will knows the author of this blog except friends who know me and the existence of this bloggy addy.... haha... that's something good if u were to remain "faceless n nameless".... Yesterday took 2 hrs time off to a j interview, the c's hq was quite far from my current one, somewhere near sixth ave... the p.m make me waited for him for abt 40-45mins... it was a referral from my colleague... i wasnt too keen to take up the job, but again i wont mind go and hear from the pm... of course, the career prospects look bright there, quite a substantial pay rise, a very unfamiliar working environment and opportunity to travel. plus allowances.... (shd i stay on?) okay, all these nice n attractive stuffs are enough to attract me but the thought of leaving everything here and go somewhere unfamiliar??? hmmm, esp my family, church-mates, buddies n friends are all here... anyway i have committed this matter to God... so shall not worry too much since it's out of my control... =) will got to hear the results within this few days....

Dun know what's happening to my body? guess too tired!!! today again almost fell asleep at my desk after lunch.... (one of my lunch kakis also facing this prob since last week)...hehe... i wasnt alone leh....was made super busy in the morning... guess what... make a terrible mistake (one wouldnt imagine making that mistake and i have the honour... blurr) then had a hard time, trying to "repair" the damage... but it's not that simple, since the mistake brings lotsa of chain to other stuff as well... phew... almost had a heart attack... as one grows in age, body will starts to breaks down (and i dun exerise very often)... also due to the fact that i stay over few nights wrapping gifts n playing bridge... and little time to rest... aiyah....

Just wanna and hopefully, learns to cast all my fears, worries and uncertainities to God in prayer instead of just allowing it to affect me.... God, help me!!!

Blessed Christmas n a happy new year!!!

Trying to blog before the clock strikes 12midnight... =)
Just came back from playing bridge at CL's place... yawning... but still hang there just to play bridge with my friends who are also "bridge lovers"... hehe....

attended our ch combined svc, and had a short rehersal for this friday's p's farewell dinner cum svc... after which my cell had a xmas lunch today at Jh's place... wow, her pl look so nice after everything moved in and some minor renovations... almost every1 was present except handiworks and Jo... just missed them... wow, handiworks must be enjoying her Xmas in a "snowing areas"... suppose will snow during this period but depends whether u got the opportunity to see the falling snow... went shopping for a while at J8 while waiting for the rest of e pp like (W,G,B etc...) to finish their movie... saw a cheap stuff (not really), but they sort of cut the price by 50%.. so cannot tahan... grabbed it though the design i wanted was sold out.... but never mind... it's v cheap as compared to the before d/c rate.
Will be back blogging soon!!!

hmmm, as usual... for the past 2 days, have been lunching out with this colek of mine, tck (also same team with me) and W ( from another team)...today C also joined in.... was drizzling when we stepped out office for lunch today.... Went to our usual hangout behind our office though the food wasnt that cheap and lotsa of crowd from our building... No choice, pp would rather eat there rather walking all the way out to the nearby market/kopitiam or fastfood... unless u can afford to walk abt 15mins to reach the destination.... (that's how wu lo our office is)....

Every time lunch with ck, w, c and sometime CL would join us sometimes... but, he's on reservist for the past 2 week plus.... It's always very fun lunching with them.... coz they really keep joking... haha.... they's such a fun pp except that some of them smokes... but it's fine with me.... As usual, ck would complains abt our "boss" whom she lovingly addressed him as "bloody old man"..... seems, that only she's the only 1 who dares to defy our boss openly.... (the other 1, P who defies our boss has since left the com)... hmmm, i can still remembered the quarrels btw the P and our boss so loud that the pp in the offices can hear the details.... she would complains in such a humor way, that we just couldnt helped but laugh along her jokes.... Think she's one of the ways to help me release some of the work stress.... haha.... she's leaving in the 1st week of Jan next year.... which i think 1 less funny lunch companion next year.... some mentioned that they also planning to leave too.... 1 of the pp in my team still yet confirmed despite of her good performances (>6 mths)....

hmmm, think as what my lunch kakis mentioned, my boss is a very insecured pp... full of pride refusing to admit he's wrong when he's really wrong and will want to contest you to prove that u wrong even when u r right, pushing blames on other pp when he's at fault, wan to pull you down in front of pp, listening to gossips without finding out the truth/facts first, always insist that he's right and his methods are always right.... blurrr.... think the rest of my team pp just dun want to get in bad books.... oh, yes... he's very personal person, once you offend him, expect him to get back at u in due time....dun expects him to give u more responsibilites, instead he will starts to withdraw all your workloads and then sabo u in front of the directors during the "eat-in- lunch"

Ya, it happens to me before.... and it happened to ck... now that she "throws in the towel", everyday could see our boss would call her in and pick sometimes just to push the "blame" to her or just finding some1 to quarrel.... sometimes find myself sympathize with her... it's not entire her fault (heard from her that our boss will insist her to do something that he think it's right but actually not lah)... so she will reasoned with the boss... but end up arguing with each other coz our boss dun wan to hear her pt of view... n insist that she do...so when she do and he questioned her y she go and do and he will say he never instruct her to do.... aiyah.... it's like after u shit, then u ask some1 to wipe your backside... wow lao... have seen and experienced it myself during my 1 year stay here... could understand how she felt....

oh, did i mentioned that my boss is a christian? though he never mentioned to me b4 but he sort of broadcast to the rest liao... heard it 1st time from my supervisor then from ck... but didnt he know of the consequences meh? didnt he realised that none of our team pp dislike him til to the extent that we decided to exclude him from our Xmas lunch tmr? didnt he realised that his actions has hurt us in some ways or another? hmmm, didnt he asked himself y the rest of the "bosses" can get along and even become friends with their subordinates? today the team next to our team went out for xmas lunch and they invited their" boss".... could c the bond that hold the team together.... hmmm....

Anyway, i'm too hurt that i'm numb already!!!

Am lunching in today so might as well blog something... =)

Had our Xmas party at MCC yesterday, with quite of us bringing either our friends, coleks or relatives (oh, D who just recently converted joined us too)...
Think every1 of the people enjoyed themselves eating/snacking on the Xmas stuffs/food, hmmm, watching the skit/special item from the P.team, & of course participating in the Xmas quiz and games faciliated by R & AH respectively... Guess the children enjoyed the quiz the most coz they so eager to answer every questions... (hmmm, what makes them so excited.... the prizes lah) even some of the adults also joined in...

Had a very long day at church too... having to reach PL by 7.30am for WB to come and pick G, Jache and myself there... Thank God got transportation and Jache for making the initiative to ask WB... =) aiyah, still recovering from the lack of sleep... thus today was quite unproductive in my work... =( hmmm, managed to put up all the decorations before the bus reach MCC... Phews, with help from Handiworks, Jache, B, W, WB & CL... before they start rehersal...

Oh, yesterday also had a short game of frisbee due to the rain... aiyah... anyway, i'm also tired to play a proper game too.... hmmm, Y who had joined us last week, joined us yesterday... wow, his stamina is quite good at his age... given that he exercise almost everyday... Guess what's his age? u will be shocked if u know... but sorry... not convenient to disclose... =)

Ahead this week, will be quite packed for me, as i haven't even started wrapping the Christmas gifts... am also lazy to start... hehe...

Okay, shall end here.... continue another time....

Yesterday while on the way back from PL after p.m, was caught in a car/bus accident.... =( not that this is my first time saw a road accident...

actually i dun even noticed that there was an accident (somewhere near the SP training centre), quite strange after the green light, the bus still did not moved.... so very kpo me decided to have a check out... the car had ramped into the side of the bus, can see the front door of the bus was smashed.... and headlights dropped out, front portion was quite dented.... how come i know?

it's because both vehicles has totally blocked the passage for the rest of the big vehicles to go through excepts cars n motor-cycle... so of course the bus i'm riding on also genna stucked at the junction.... so been forced to get out of the bus and walked to the next bus-stop.... die liao.... i dun think i can get home like that which my bus still stucked at the tiny junction (it's e only bus that i can get home from tpy) if i choosed to wait... then must wait for the tow-vehicle to stow away the 2 vehicles before the bus can go through, by then will be midnight liao before i can reached home...

so decided to take a cab home.... hmmm, when i finally flag down a cab....some1 also wanna shared a cab... good thing our destination is the same... end... i only forked out 4 bucks to take cab home which is considered cheap... =)

Finally am at home resting after coming back from shopping for Xmas stuffs/deco...

Back to reality again... hopefully... =)

Ya, just wanna blog in the happenings during retreat... since i sort of shared during cell but shall blog it again... so lo so... haha... of course that's something which i wanna shared during cell didnt really come out to my tots...

Had our Hope retreat at Bukit Tinggi from 01-04 dec..... Basically, i had quite a lot of time to myself, but hmmm, didnt met up to what i planned to set time with God (hmmm, issues to sort out), as most of the time, i would lazed around... either doing nothin, or playing bridge... except purposely set time during the 2nd day when the gals went for horse-riding, i was alone in my room trying to catch up with the notes... at 1st was with my room-mate playing "tua dai di",

but after a while got a bit sick and decided to head back to room to catch up with the notes... (couldnt catch up with what the speaker's trying to share) as what handiworks said which i think it's quite true... most of the time, coz i kept falling asleep during the beginning of the sharing, was a bit lost when i'm back to the world... haha... blame it on late nights... who to blame? bridge? too bad lah, i'm one of the bridge-"fans/players" aiyah... but think for our usual regular players, i think i sort of broken the records by pushing the bid to "5 clubs"... hmmm, dun really remembered... but had a heart-attack time trying to win as many sets as possible.... aiyah... that's typical me.. trying to be as adverturous... think now i'm more risk-adverse... oh no... Oh ya, we wont the game... phew... my heart nearly drop out...

Okay, back to the 1st day when we took a bus from G.M tower en route to our resort... last min changes... my room-mate was suppose to be A.H. suddenly changed to G.H... oh no, our personality are pretty different ( can compared to north and South poles)... during the first half of the journey was pretty quiet as most of us are catching up with our beauty sleep... with breaks at the chinese restuarant, Yong Peng and 1 "wu lo" place with only toilet facilities... just before we reach the resorts, everyone become more alert and sessions of the bridge started.... =)

Though the sessions were sparsely apart from each other, just felt that the contents were quite rushly push through, think that's gives me little time to digest and put it deeper thoughts... but i like the discussions sessions... though i dun really enjoyed sharing in a big group, but this time round managed to shared with the group, esp with my spiritual n personal struggles... and added that i needed help in my spiritual life and how i can be helped?" talked to my HCL abt it, and he gave some really wise advise on how to approached this matter... am really appreciated his concern... also shared with the speaker during the meals when she came to sit down together during one of breakfast/lunch (me n my rm-mate was quite a early birds)....... was heard from her point of view as well... hmm, one of a concerned bro also asked too..... orginally wanted to speak to (.....) during the retreat, but kept procrastinating.... aiyah... d, sharing out wont kill u!!! perhap my skin's too thin...
hmmm, will have to practise it out instead of just saying...

Ya, before i forgets, one of the highlights of the retreat was the games"life game" organised by WB, Jess & Will.... i enjoyed myself at the game, though i didnt managed to get myself "converted" to a christian, even though i managed to get a university degree, n winning 2 sets of "bridge" at the R&R corner (2K dollars)... taught me that i may be drawn to achieving the worldy things that i may neglect/ forget the most important thing in my life.. Knowing God and doing His Will... ya, in the game itself, i may achieved what may be seems attractive to men, but i missed out the spiritual aspect... though Joe tried to bring me to church, but at the back of my mind, earning a degree is more impt..thus i missed out the opportunity to be a christian...
Hmmm, Joe, and I(p's wife) won the game... they deserved to win for their efforts in the game esp Joe for trying to bring as many non-christian to ch and get them converted...

Had our "last" service with p at the last day... had communion together... p shared on the 4 types of heart... guess mine belongs to the "crowded heart"... do need a major heart renovation by God.. guess i dun have that ability to change myself.... Was touched when p takes the opportunity to pray and bless every hope campers... Guess a major change will take place soon, esp moving back to the main church... have be more prayerful if not i may fall into a pitless hole again!!!

Guess will be able to shared in-depth of the contents of the when i finished reading the whole notes... wont be my learning during the retreat but rather after... hmmm...