End of CNY holiday

Woah time does pass us by fast. It's now back to work for most of us and... sigh, dreading work man. Thankfully, today things are quite slow and there isn't much for me to do. Quite happy about it. But starting tomorrow things would definitely be hectic and I need to brace myself for what's to come.

So how's my CNY? As usual, been collecting angpaus and all. But lesser this year. I guess it's a good thing as well, coz I've been hanging out with friends which whom I've not met since high school! It was quite awkward seeing them earlier on, but I'm sure as we get to know each other again, things would be cool. Went back home town too... so here's some pictures for you guys to enjoy.


Went to the market with my mom and brother on the 30th chinese calender and it was pouring within half an hour we got there. Everytime when the rain subside a little, we would pack and leave, but the minute we start moving, it started pouring like crazy again! We waited for about more than an hour when mom decided that we would run to the car!! She said there's just too many things that we need to prepare and so, we rushed off. It felt like we were in a maze, trying to get to the car without literally drenching ourselves (fat chance!)... it was quite an experience! A fun one I would say :)



Went back to hometown with my mom and dad. Got cheated by my mom and ended up staying the night back there. I never realised how bad the condition was in that place until I saw the rotten buildings all around us... that place is rather old and quite nostalgic for me. I remember the whole gang of cousins going to the noodle shop opposite my late grandpa's place having our "lai fun" and drinks there, or going to the nearby convenience store to buy sweets or icicles... it's quite a different thing, because the money slang used is different. I remember having to adapt to using "chien" whenever I go back there as in the city it's called differently. Very nostalgic...


Met up with a friend whom I've not met for 2 years! Gosh, I never realise that he's been gone to Australia for two years now. It's been great meeting up with him. He never really did change, still the same person still! As funny and dong dong as ever! I was kinda stunned by him for a moment still. He actually told me he's a christian out of the blue. Stunned because he is so bold and direct and he doesn't care what was said by our fellow friends! I'm so excited for him. Am thankful to God that he's part of a big family now :)


Went to meet with a Singaporean friend (don't have her picture!) who came up for a visit along with Mel. She candid us two together doing something silly... quite a weird picture... oh well



Went to a friend's place to hang out during the break and we had fun! We were making pizza as dinner (I think we made about 7). It is rather quite tasty man. I think I would try to make it if I do have a chance again. It's quite fun! We played fireworks after that, in a super quite neighbourhood. Gosh, the fireworks are quite loud man. hahah... never realised it. We were like preparing to run in all directions should police come. Quite funny!

That's all the updates for now :)

Friendship

I do hope that my friends do think of me that way... well.. mebe not all, but some :)

With you, It's All About,

Voiceless Communication-

Always knowing Exactly What to Say,

But Never actually Having to Say It.

When No One Seems to Be Listening,

You Hear.

When I Hurt But ,

Don't Show It,

You Know.

When I turn Away ,

To Hide My Tears,

You See.

When I Feel like I can't,

Get Through to Anyone,

You Understand.

Your Eyes Glow Just For Me,

And I know You're Proud.

You Flash Your Magical, Healing Smile My Way,

And I Know Everything Will Be all Right.

You Know Everything there Is to Know about Me.

You know what Worries Me,

What Keeps Me Up at Night,

And what Shames Me So Badly

That I can't Share It with Anyone.

Most Importantly, Though,

None Of Those Things Bother You.

You've Restored My Faith In People

And Proved that There Is a Thing

Called True Friendship !!!

Ipoh Mali

Was in my car earlier and heard this really cool song. Okay, I've heard of it before but never really paid attention to its lyrics. It is rather creative and I find that it's not like a copycat of all the rap and hip hop songs out in the market right now. The song is titled Ipoh Mali by Point Blanc, who used to be with Poetic Ammo. I've always find their songs quite cool and now, there's a chance to listen to his songs again, so ... cool!! Do check out the song at Voyeur Records

Hope you guys will enjoy it as I did :)

Cheerios mates!

Psalm 23

The Lord is my Shepherd
That's Relationship!

I shall not want
That's Supply!

He maketh me to lie down in green pastures.
That's Rest!

He leadeth me beside the still waters.
That's Refreshment!

He restoreth my soul
That's Healing!

He leadeth me in the paths of righteousness.
That's Guidance!

For His name sake
That's Purpose!

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death.
That's Testing!

I will fear no evil.
That's Protection!

For Thou art with me
That's Faithfulness!

Thy rod and Thy staff they comfort me,
That's Discipline!

Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of my enemies.
That's Hope!

Thou anointest my head with oil,
That's Consecration!

My cup runneth over.
That's Abundance!

Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life.
That's Blessing!

And I will dwell in the house of the Lord.
That's Security!

Forever.
That's Eternity!

BLog

Okay, for those who have been reading my blog would notice that there's a lot of things happening for me in work department. Given that it's a new job and I'm practically learning while on the job, there's bound to be updates.

I guess it won't lessen anytime soon, but I'll be sure to try to update more stuff than just this :)

oh YA! BTW, I got a new baby!!! In the sense that I got a new handphone! It's a Sony Ericsson w710i

I'll talk abt it more when I have the timelor

What is Life

What is life? I am pondering on this at the moment. Why? You may ask me that. Probably it's because I've just watched a very sad show and the ending was that someone died.. Regret was one of the biggest fear of that person, and it makes me realise that it may be one of the biggest fear for me too. I fear regretting things that I should have done but never gotten around it, I fear regretting not loving those whom I cherish when I have the chance, and I fear regretting that I did not do what God wanted me to do in this life of mine. Maybe some would think that when I mention the last one, it's because I fear Him. I mean, I fear Him still, but in a manner of awe and respect, not fear that contains the negative feelings.

Sometimes when I hear of incidents that people want to kill themselves just because of certain minor things, I get very frustrated. Why can't they see that life is so precious? Don't they ever think of those that are handicapped and yet live their life worthwhile? Don't they ever think of their family? Don't they ever think of Jesus, who lived a pure and holy life and yet chose to give us life instead? Why isit just because of a failure, you would want to choose death? Why not instead, choose to stand up once again and be strong? If you are not strong enough, then ask God to give you the strength that you need to live this life. Why ask Him? Because it is when we are at our weakest point that God becomes our strength.

Dear Father, I pray for people around me Lord, that they may be able to view life as precious and not take things for granted. Forgive me even Lord, for I too sometimes take things for granted. Thank you for reminding me of how precious life is and how it is so important to continue to live this life to the fullest and to love to the fullest as well, because You are love. Thank You for giving me life and giving me hope. Thank You for Jesus Christ, who made the choice to let me live as well. Thank You most of all, for loving me for who I am.

Dear friends who read this, know that I love you even though I never profess it. Know that it doesn't matter if I just got to know you or we've been friends for years. All you need to know is you are precious to me as we are precious to Jesus and I will always love you all for who you all are. Forgive me if I've hurt you before, and know that I forgive you for hurting me and I will always forgive you no matter what. Last but not least, thank you for being my friend.

May have deviated from the main topic, but I guess I realise that life is about relationship, be it with God, family or friends... and relationship is what I will continue to build in my life...

Thank you Father, for the chance....

First Disastrous Project

I have a project running at the moment re work and as I'm a helper here, I need to back my colleague up as he is back in S due to some personal reason. I thank God my new GM is here, else I would've fainted.

As we were told that the setup would take place between 10 to 12pm, we've decided that we should reach there by 11am. When we got there, we were in utter shock for the fact that:

1. the guy was not even there yet. when I called him, he only states that he was on his way
2. the location booked was extremely dirty
3. it is near eatries (due to the nature of the project, we cannot be position near anything that produces strong smell)

My GM decided to negotiate with the tenant coordinator of that place and we've managed to relocate ourselves to a further end where the air's cleaner. When the guy got there at like 11 something, we girls help with the setup. We were actually supposed to start the project at 12pm, but the interviewers only reached at 1 something. We thought, fine, since they don't know their way here and all, so it's ok.

Then when the guy took out the sample, viola! He said, "eh, how come all same number??" My GM was shocked... pretty much me too, for that guy only took one box of the samples and he thought that per pack, the different samples are inside. What a dumbass (sorry abt the language)!! He was there during briefing on Friday and he can clearly see that the samples are separated into their number coding and also, he was actually arguing with the client on the sample availability. Seriously, he is really reallly those typical machoist male that thinks lowly of women. Why? Because when we said he had to go back to get the samples (a must for we can't run the project without it), apparently he was so pissed at us that when he got into the car he was letting off his anger, shouting and all. Even the guy who was fetching him back to the office was pissed at him and told him off saying that it was his own mistake.

Sigh.. I can go on and on about this disastrous thing, but I figure it's alright. I'm quite tired of working with him. God is really testing my patience re him.

Field WORK!

Has work been crazy? Actually these couple of days things are quite at ease for me. I'm rather thankful that God has blessed me heaps with this job. Am I enjoying myself now? I have to say yes. Though things are not as easy as it seems, with heaps of people to handle, I am thankful that I am still around and still surviving!

There's some complication at work today. We were supposed to have rented to shop lots at two separate malls for our field work. But then, I found out that the shop lots at one of the malls which I'm quite familiar with is next to some eateries!! Due to the nature of the project, we cannot be anywhere near eateries. Sigh, my GM and I were in distress due to that. And we felt so bad for disappointing the client. This client is really nice and all and we really want to be able to deliver it well. But thanks to that guy who didn't check properly, things gotten screwed up and now client need to suffer a bit.

Actually, another thing is that one of the mall is quite near my place and I thought it'll be cool coz I'll get to go there later! No need to go to the office and all.. but sigh, due to the screw up I would need to go much much farther! Faint, but thank God I can just park at my GM's in law's place and she'll fetch me there...phew... coz I oso duno how to go to that place! Super far.

Tmw we won't be in office at all, coz we would be at the mall to help out and supervise. At least we still won't need to be there so early. Just need to get there by 11am and then we probably can leave about 3 or 4pm. But tmw got practice at church, so need to go all the way to town as well. But praise God, at the very least I can still serve Him :)

Again, working weekend

Today is Saturday and now it's nearing 5pm in the afternoon. What am I doing right now you may ask... I'm in Starbucks with LA and M working! All three of us are out on a working date... haha, it was quite a funny turn of event.

How it started? Well, knowing that I need to rush off my presentation work as well as my report, I actually asked M whether she would be interested to join me at Starbucks to work. Since she also say that she gotta do work, so here we are working. When M got here, LA called. Apparently they were online earlier and M told LA that we will be at Starbucks working. So tada!! LA called saying she's on the way here to join us.

It is actually quite nice to be out working with friends. Though we are all doing different stuff, but yet we are all working at the same time. Whenever we break, we would chit chat about other stuff and it's fun!

M figured we could do this often and I agree with her too :)

How's the work in progress... hmm... well, been doing the mapping of work that my colleague asked me to do and I've done two of it. Probably there's another 2 more to go and I can start on the presentation slides! Yay! To be honest, I guess I've been procrastinating heaps and been putting off this work for a while, though I still work on it on almost daily basis but I am still not focusing heaps on it... I can't wait to get over this work so that next week would be an easier week for me. Shall see how things go. But for sure I will do this up and send to my colleague for feedback latest tomorrow afternoon.

One thing I must do is thank God for the time extension. There's supposed to be a presentation yesterday on the slides but it's now postponed. I love the postponement because now I can do a better job! My other friend, A, was also rushing work and we we're praying for each other and she prayed for the time extension. So I am thankful that God answered this prayer. So likewise I ought not to waste away God's blessing right! Hehe... ok now.. gotta get back to work!

Ya all, have a blessed weekend ya! Cheers!

Life of a Working Sue

I am up at 3 something in the morning today to do work. And for the fact that tomorrow is a holiday, how dodgy can that be? So sad huh??? My mom was like, why this job of yours is so “san fu” (hard in English). Probably they felt that it’s hard labour. It didn’t help that the day before I was on the bus for since morning to and fro for 12 hours just to conduct work that took probably two hours. As for me, it was rather sad as I only reached town at like 2 something in the morning and I have to bother my parents, who are old, to come and fetch me. If I could, I would not have asked them. But the fact that it’s a working day the following day, I can’t go around asking my friends to come fetch me. By the time I slept, it was already 3 something in the morning and I had to wake up at 8 plus for work as I have to attend a meeting at 10am.

I thought working for M and ME was tough. Man, this job is even tougher. I think I’ve never cracked my brain so much just trying to do my work. It’s been a while since uni life and things ain’t just the same working here as compared to my other jobs. Do I feel tired working here? Well, I’ll be honest and say yes. But it is a different kind of tiredness, it is a good kind of tiredness. One that you felt you’ve laboured and bear much fruit.

Alright now, though I would love to write more, it’s already 4am and I’ve yet to start on my work. So I think I’ll just stop here for the moment and concentrate on my work again. Till later...