Missing Gippy

It's probably nostalgic, but I'm missing Gippy again. I miss those midnight walks, I miss the star-filled sky, I miss the darkness that engulfs, I miss the peacefulness that surrounds me...

I guess I miss all the reminders of God that I saw back in Gippy. It's not that He's not around me right now, but rather, when I was in Gippy, I was able to truly just slow down and praise Him no matter where I am. Here, sometimes I find it hard.. there's just too many sounds around me that seems so distracting...

Ignore me, I'm just in those odd moods at the moment I guess...

Erratic Week

What an erratic week last week. There's just so many minor things that arises all throughout, literally keeping me on my toes! I am thankful that it's over now... don't really want to dwell in it. Hopefully things won't be like this crazy again for this coming week. Don't think I can take it if it does happen.

Went out with some new friends yday.. we went to this eatery called Marmalade in Bangsar Village 2. It's such a cosy place! Totally reminds me of Geri's room in Gippyland with the numerous bean bags around. I totally plunked myself on one and couldn't get up! hahah... so fun and funny at the same time.... with the next one, a friend offer to pull me up, but decided not to take up his offer, lest i pull him down instead....

Here's some of the pictures of the food we ate there... yummylicious!!


Here's the group pictures :)

Slow paced weekend

After a crazy last weekend, it turns out to be kinda slow for me this weekend... I'm actually feeling kinda bored right now, guess that's why I'm blogging as well.

Went to Janda Baik for a wedding today. Woah, it's really a beautiful place, one that really separate you from the hectic pace around us. Up there, you'll be surrounded by heaps of soft pine trees... assuring and easing you... cool wind breeze blowing through the whole area... taking whatever hectic feeling that's surrounding you away... ease.... wonderful..

I regret forgetting about my camera, otherwise I would've snapped non-stop.... here's a couple that I took using my lil camera phone...



I couldn't resist taking the following picture... it's just too cute to resist!

At the Cross

It never cease to amaze me that my tears starts to flow everytime I listen to the song, At the Cross by Hillsong. The lyrics may be simple, but it's so powerful. It's such a great reminder to many of us the sacrifice of Jesus Christ who gave us life.

Sometimes we're so busy with things around us that we, in our minds, acknowledge what God has done in our lives, but our heart remains distant from Him. We say we love Him, but our action shows otherwise. We say we want to do His will, but instead, we turn away when He asked us to.

What can separate us from Jesus now? Nothing, except for ourselves... who pulls away from Him....

At The Cross (Key E)

[Hillsong - Mighty To Save]

Intro:
A E/G# A | B |

Verse 1:
E/G# A2 B C#m7
Oh Lord You?ve searched me,
E/G# A2 B -
You know my way;
E/G# A2 B C#m7
Even when I fail You,
A2 Bsus B
I know You love me.
E/G# A2 B C#m7
Your holy presence
E/G# A2 B -
Surrounding me
E/G# A2 B C#m7
In every season,
A2 Bsus B
I know You love me;
A2 Bsus B
I know You love me.


Chorus:
E C#m
At the cross I bow my knee,
E/G# A
Where Your blood was shed for me,
B
There?s no greater love than this.
E C#m
You have overcome the grave,
E/G# A
Your glory fills the highest place,
B
What can separate me now?


Verse 2:
E/G# A2 B C#m7
You go before me,
E/G# A2 B -
You shield my way,
E/G# A2 B C#m7
Your hand upholds me;
A2 Bsus B
I know You love me.
E/G# A2 B C#m7
And when the earth fades,
E/G# A2 B -
Falls from my eyes,
E/G# A2 B C#m7
And You stand before me,
A2 Bsus B
I know You love me;
A2 Bsus B
I know You love me.


Bridge:
A2 B C#m7
You tore the veil, You made a way
A C#m7 B
When You said that it is done.

Monday Morning

It's Monday morning and I'm all alone in the office. Am not even sure if anyone is coming in later. But it's also a good thing that I'm all alone. I like being alone at times because you get to settle down and think about things.

Things have been hectic the past week, trying to juggle handling customers as well as trying to get things done for my boss. But praise God most of it is already settled. Next week will be another whirlwind for me I guess, with heaps of groups happening and rushing things again. Yeap, the timeline for this job can sometimes be quite tough. But I guess as one learns when to be focused and when to juggle things, one gets more familiar with it. Will learn in time.

Slow and steady win the race eh, be it in the rat race or even in our race towards to finish line.

Little Havana

It's 1.49am right now and I have a different reason altogether that I'm still awake. I just came back from a place called Little Havana. If you like salsa, latin dance, or even dance yourself, this is one place that you should visit. I felt like "katak di bawah tempurung" when I got there. Not knowing what to expect, a few of my friends and I ventured to this place unknown.

When I got there, it was really an eye opener! Why so? Because there's so many people who dances salsa there. And they are realllllyyyyyyy GOOD! I'm quite amazed with all the turns that the girls are doing and the leading of some of the guys there... Woah, never did I expect things to be so good there. One thing for sure, I love the music coz it really makes you want to dance. Sad to say, none of us dare to venture onto the dance floor as, as you would know, salsa dance is totally different from the clubbing scene. We just stood at the side watching people do all their turns and shakings. But I had fun watching as well....does makes me wana learn salsa... haha...

Work Work Work

It's 1.25am right now and I'm still AwAKE! What am I doing? Well, as the title says, I'm working still at this hour and I'm taking a short break for it (been taking heaps of breaks tho.. kaka) I need to rush one part of a report to my boss as he needs to send it to the client and thus me sitting here trying to crack my limited brain juice over what needs to be presented to the client. It's tough man... seriously never thought that things can be this tough. Nonetheless, it is good to try to get my stagnant brain to work again after so many years.

I'd probably need to do about 10 slides and I've drafted out 2 already. Hopefully the ones that I'm doing works right now. Else I think I will again go bonkers trying to crack my brain. Actually did some out but it doesn't seem to portray what needs to be brought out and thus I need to redo it. Sigh, oh well.. lesson learnt. Must always remember what I need to do I guess.

How is work thus far? To be honest, I really am not entirely sure. There are some upheaval happening in the office and I do think that my colleagues are a bit worried about me being affected by it. This I think they are worrying to much because:

1. Though work is tough at times, I'm actually enjoying it (can you believe it?? I'm still trying to gauge this as well)
2. Working late is fine for me, because then I don't have to wake up so early the next day to work
3. Not having a boss in the office at all times helps me to ease up the tension
4. I'm getting adapted to the workplace after so long
5. Music is my accompaniment at all times in the office

Haha.. okay okay, getting a bit off from the topic. Neways, things might (hopefully) be a little slower for me next week, so when I finish this I'm quite free already! Of course, there are certain things that I need to do for my boss and I need to prepare for them too. Slowly lar.

But once this report is done, my next step is to transfer everything out from this little laptop of mine and reformat it! Best is to get ride of whatever junk that is not necessary. So crazily overloaded with things that I have no idea belongs to who. Sigh....

OKay now, back to work lar!

Aja aja FIGHTING!!!

Praise God

I really want to praise God for today. I woke up with a prayer to God, praying and asking Him to bless me this day (after a while since I've last prayed such a prayer, i mean pray in the morning). Little did I know He has a surprise for me!

My boss came in early as we have a few groups on for the day. He told me that I am to sit down with him to discuss on a brief that I've prepared and he also passed me something to read and go through. So I did what I needed to do and waited for him to settle his before we do our discussion.

The minute we sat down, he told me he's not going to be around next week and started to review me there and then. The ill-prepared me just sat there listening like a blur girl.. wondering what triggered this conversation. Okay, a little brief info for those who don't know. I have started this job back on December 15, 2006 and am (should I use was?) on a 3 months probation. When I took this job, the pay cut was huge and I thought I wouldn't survive it (that's another blessing story altogether). So I made a pact with my boss that we are to review my salary package earlier if possible to at least the amount of my previous salary. I never pursue it as I was literally bumming around in the office for the first two months, with nothing to do...

Tada, God's surprise and blessing to me is that He blessed me with an almost 40% pay rise! Truly, it was unexpected and brought so much joy to me. God has truly blessed me for the past 3 months and taught me heaps re my job, that money is not everything. He's shown me that we can still survive with less money, so long as we continue to walk with God daily.

Maybe some of us are actually going through some financial matters right now, the best thing to do is really to commit the matter to God and tell Him what is happening and all. I am sure God hears your prayers and petition and will, in His own timing, seek to reveal more of Himself even as He help you out in life.

Father, truly, I thank You for such blessings that you've poured into my life for the past few months. I know, certain things I really don't think I'm even worth receiving it, yet You still give and pour out to me in abundance. I truly am speechless by Your grace and Your love that You've shown to me. I pray that You too will help those around me who are in dire need financially. I pray that You will bless them as You've done for me. Thank You Lord, in Jesus' name, AMEN

Funny Incident

Had an incident which I funny! Guess who the star is! haha..

Okay, today I had to go to client's site and it's been quite a while since I drove to that place. As the appointment is early, I've decided to go there earlier... slept late yday so this morning was a blur rush for me as I was just throwing things into my bag and flew out the door.

As I need to account for toll and all, I nicely went to get a ticket at the toll. As I was half, I started looking for my wallet and viola! I realised that I didn't bring my wallet! (rest assured, I parked at the side of the road while digging through my big bagpack) In a near state of panic, I started looking around if there's any cash in my car and even contemplated to driving into the toll's office to check with them what I can do. Whilst thinking still, I saw my COIN BAG! Happily I started digging through it. Mind you, that bag contains mainly one cents and five cents.

As I was digging, I managed to find the following:
two 10 cents coins
thirteen 5 cents coins
that totals up to 85 cents

I'm sure you've guessed what I did.. i gave the rest of 15 cents in 1 cent coins!

The lady at the toll was practically showing me black face and probably cursing me already. I was kinda embarrassed by it as well and had no choice still. That is all I can do :P

It was quite a funny incident that really woke me up.

Anyhow, I'm thankful for my kind GM that lent me RM50 for my usage for today.