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a great exodus to wordpress. Somehow everybody’s blog is in wordpress.. Well done wordpress! i give you 5 stars.. haha

Catching up on much rest this CNY before work starts on Wed and a long 2 months of no break arrives. You see, I never noticed these things, it’s my colleagues at work… anyway.. other than visiting, i’ve been watching a million episodes of Whose line is it anyway on Youtube. It’s soooooooooooooo funny… eh, victor finds it very funny k.. if Victor finds it funny, it IS FUNNY! And yet another addition to overcome and curb. I’ve been laughing so much during this holiday but once the ear phones are off, the atmosphere drops. I guess that’s why people get hooked on TV/drama/etc, because it provides a way out of normal mundane drudgery of life and let you experience other people’s exciting ones.

I recently just recovered (like only on friday) from a mild food poisoning incident (DON’T eat egg sandwich in the afternoon that you bought in the morning) that includes but not limited to fever, diarrhoea, vomiting, nausea and bad body ache. So the doc gave me medicine for diarrhoea and fever/body ache and charcoal, the charcoal’s really effective. Anyway so i just slowly got better and much to my despair, the medicine for diarrhoea was MUCH toooo effective and i ended up with case of constipation. It’s as bad if not worse than diarrhoea in my opinion. Saving the concrete details, I’m very glad to announce that i’m functioning properly now. I happily announced it to my parents yesterday after the guest went home after visiting us and resume eating much too much for my body’s own good.

And to miss charlene lye, i miss you toooo!! your taiwan trip was WAY too long lor..

And so inspired by my missing of charlene, i decided to do this card. hahah it’s in charlene’s favourite colour too..

 

ok la.. i’m selling it la.. at http://cardsncraft.wordpress.com/2009/01/27/missing-you-2/

Oh did i mentioned… due to some misscommunication and so on and so forth, i didn’t pay out salary to one of the staff in my school… it’s one of the reason why i’m dreading to go to work tomorrow. Because it’s much more than just writing a cheque and paying her… besides that 1 million administrative details that have to be settled (like signatories), it also affects my performance at work.

It adds to the careless-ness image that i have at work.. arghh it’s these things that just turns on the pressure at work. and make me all the more upset when i do make a mistake at work that can be attributed to my carelessness even though there are other reasons that plays a part. It’s just that people tend to focus on that ONE thing and label you as that. It’s such a simple word in Primary School when you say 5+8 = 12 and the teacher writes in your report card that you’re careless in maths. But for it to be tied in to your character, it’s really quite bad. Because it carries with it an attitude of i-don’t-care, not attentive to details, not bothered. I’m trying to get rid of that label… quite sticky though, because almost every mistake can be attributed to carelessness.

yet… it’s almost impossible not to make ANY mistake at work. When told to the parents, my mom said that it’s affecting me a lot right now because of my position at work. I basically have no power and I’m in no position to quietly rectify the mistakes i make. That’s why every small problem is being shown to the boss since she’s the only one that can help me with the solution.

 

Er no, it’s ok. You all go first.

Is my script everytime people ask me to go for lunch.

It dawn on me today then i don’t know why i never liked joining anybody for lunch. It hit especially today because the people who invited me for lunch are those that i quite enjoy talking to and i’m hungry. Yet i still say i don’t wanna go lunch. 

My parents did warn me about my tendency to want to lunch out by myself. That it’ll give a wrong impression to my colleagues and by and by they’ll stop asking me out for lunch and i’ll be alone……
Alone alone… all all alone…

So it got me worried. Which is why i suddenly felt the need to have to blog about my feelings regarding lunching out with colleagues. *BIG BIG sigh* what i am to do… 

What if they stop asking me for lunch and i have no chance to redemn myself?
What if I’m super anti-social to them?
What if nobody likes meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

At least i have less explaining to do once the 40 days fast comes in. But then again, there are so many Christians in the company that they’ll probably know where I’m coming from…

Sigh… i felt as if i’ve just shot myself in the foot. But why am i feeling so upset over something so small.. Especially since I’ve never had the need to have to have friends in the workplace. It’s just that….. maybe because someone actually pointed it out that’s why it stinged. Or maybe it’s just a carry on from what happened yesterday.. The feeling of small (ness) and out of place (ness)…

arghhhh Goodness! I just amaze myself sometimes.

 

Just go and do the right thing

Pearle is my Just-go-and-do-the-right-thing friend. And i think it partially comes from her simple desire to be right with God only. In contrast to me, when sometimes I just think too much about the consequences of my actions rather than just doing what God ask. Everyone needs a friend like Pearle, to set perspective right and by her simplicity of facing decision making in life and her trust in God that He will be with her through every aspects of her life. And of course to Wilfred and Pastor Phua who just have to share the right message at the right time. And to God who diligently chase after me, just so that I’ll draw closer to me through this.

It wasn’t a big decision, neither was it a big issue, neither did it has disastrous consequences in doing what God ask me to do. But it did deal with several big issues in my life that I’ve been asking God to deal with. Always, always be careful what you pray for.. muahhaha because God hears prayers.

Anyway everything is over. And I’m so relieved. The big stone in my heart that has been there since Saturday night, lasted through the whole of Sunday and this morning is finally gone. Praise God for His grace.

“Let God face the music with you” Pearle

 

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i didn’t know! I thought it was nice of them to let us access it for life. Because I sent resumes out using that email address, and i was so afraid that once i graduate, then the recruiters won’t be able to contact me. Then again, the resumes were sent for my internship which is…. 1 year ago. Oh well…. it’s still a nice gesture and i get to keep in contact with my professors. Er, although only 2 la.. but whatever.

 

The police also created this very informative ppt and sent it to all students in NTU informing them about phone scams:

 

1) Kidnapping phone scam (my sis’ friend’s father kena, say his kid kena kidnap but nothing happen cos he called the kid’s sister and she happened to be with the sis at that time)

 

2) Strike lucky draw scam (too good to be true, alot of people already know that it’s a scam)

 

3) Impersonating a police officer / Supreme court scam (I’ve been scared, revealed my name and NRIC number and ALMOST taken in. -_-”’) So yes, i think i know exactly how they operate.

 

I just heard from my supervisor that there’ll be 2 interns coming in next week (church camp week) and one of them will be tasked to do my work! (muahha cos i’m going on leave ma) so it’s going to be quite cool having someone under my wing, even if it’s only for a day. That’s something interesting to look forward to!

 

Oh, i must say that i was very ministered to yesterday while we were out on door to door evangelism. Many times even when we’re doing His work, He’s really more concerned about our growth.

 

Just don’t repeat it 3 times

Was what my nice General manager of Four Seasons Singapore said in reponse to making mistakes in the workplace.

 

In my current workplace. I’ve clocked up my SAME mistake twice. Only one more time to go before my client really blows up. He sent me an email that questioned my professional standards because it was just a balant, how-can-you-make-this-kinda-mistake kinda mistake. Well, i did! it was sadly due to carelessness. And with that i can imagine all my primary school and secondary school teachers grimly penning down the dread 5 words in my report book “Ruoling is a little careless” That’s what school teachers do, clients blast you through your email and not forgetting to cc your boss too.

 

But even so, he didn’t have to scold until like that right! hrmph. I was telling pearle, i’ll go buy products from my client as a consumer and then scold them back. muahhahaha

 

My boss was nice about it, although he gave me a little small lecture about checking and rechecking and re-rechecking my attachments and things that i do for the clients so that i don’t have to apologise to them. That was through msn, later he made the 30 step trip down to my seat and delibrately scared me and asked me if i was scared by the email that the client sent. I obviously said i was ok la. I was a little bit shaken at first, but it became better as time passed and after i went to the toilet. But i appreciate that check to see if i was ok. He’s like Gerry number 2. Don’t worry Gerry, you are still special.

 

Why that disclaimer you ask. Because when I told a friend that there was somebody in my hall that acted a little like him, he responded with ” =( i thought i was special”  You are la!