Thursday, June 29, 2006
thanks for the reminder
i know i'm not very regular at posting... esp won't be for the next few weeks since the bosses are away and i kinda have to step up a notch in everything. kinda crazy trying to be so focused on everything and yet feel like you're still missing something.. ahhh and then you have all these other things distracting you that are completely irrelevant to what you have to do
well at least the first week is nearly over and it's been late nights and early mornings, which to be honest i didn't mind for the first few days, but today i was completely shattered waking up... physically and mentally. but once you're on the go you go, but it was cool cuz i was reading my bible on the way to work and esp the 2 Cor 12:9 "My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness.” soooo it was good to focus on the right things
in saying that, a few things to look forward to july... while i'm focused on the now ha
2 neena's bday, another junk trip maybe, loved the last one... oh will put pics up
13 coldplay baby
15 eph & brooke's wedding
16 blackeyedpeas
well at least the first week is nearly over and it's been late nights and early mornings, which to be honest i didn't mind for the first few days, but today i was completely shattered waking up... physically and mentally. but once you're on the go you go, but it was cool cuz i was reading my bible on the way to work and esp the 2 Cor 12:9 "My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness.” soooo it was good to focus on the right things
in saying that, a few things to look forward to july... while i'm focused on the now ha
2 neena's bday, another junk trip maybe, loved the last one... oh will put pics up
13 coldplay baby
15 eph & brooke's wedding
16 blackeyedpeas
Saturday, June 17, 2006
oh happy day (oh happy day..)
my favourite day of this week was thursday...
i can't remember what i was doing at work, but had lunch with a friend, (he ditched me on tues) and so he kindly treated me and THEN he called up when i was finshing work and said he had a coldplay ticket for me!! WohOooOhOOHoHooOO i was soo excited and still am. yeah :) july 13 baby
and then had gone to a friend's place for dinner and realised it was actually a bible study group... which was a bit of a surprise, a nice one at that. And his friend whom i've met a few times accepted Christ!! there's something special about being right there with people who say with their own words, I want to know jesus. so we celebrated after and went for some dessert which is always good
it's was about 10:45pm and the day is still not over, and i was on my way to the bus but wasn't quite ready to go home, so called up mandy and she was just coming back from a run and got to say hi and chat for a bit :) dropping by and saying hi to people isn't something you usually do in hk.. hah the castle street flats, or fat bottom girls were my usual stop offs on the way home, usually for a cuppa or just to pee - love it!
i can't remember what i was doing at work, but had lunch with a friend, (he ditched me on tues) and so he kindly treated me and THEN he called up when i was finshing work and said he had a coldplay ticket for me!! WohOooOhOOHoHooOO i was soo excited and still am. yeah :) july 13 baby
and then had gone to a friend's place for dinner and realised it was actually a bible study group... which was a bit of a surprise, a nice one at that. And his friend whom i've met a few times accepted Christ!! there's something special about being right there with people who say with their own words, I want to know jesus. so we celebrated after and went for some dessert which is always good
it's was about 10:45pm and the day is still not over, and i was on my way to the bus but wasn't quite ready to go home, so called up mandy and she was just coming back from a run and got to say hi and chat for a bit :) dropping by and saying hi to people isn't something you usually do in hk.. hah the castle street flats, or fat bottom girls were my usual stop offs on the way home, usually for a cuppa or just to pee - love it!
Tuesday, June 06, 2006
the day after...
went for a run last nite and it was a first in a long time. but it was GOOD! i'm rather sore today though... stairs are a killer. dude i ran hard, and in the rain, hah... so i was rather wet with sweat and rain by the time i got home. nice. and then i realised i forgot my house keys, and our doorbell doesn't work, so i ended up pacing infront of our door till nearly 10:30pm until i finally got over my stubborness and asked some random passerby to borrow their phone to call home to open the door!
today i'm feeling better about things. have been thinking a lot about stuff and sometimes that isn't good... you just need to get over it, accept it and move on. although eating chocolate helped - i had an oh henry bar today, it was rather tasty.
another thing i'm excited about is 24 tonight wohooo... sam i read on your blog about having to watch it from the start - you're prob right i've only watched the 5th season but it's sooo good! i'm sure it's going to catch up on me though, oh well. we should do a 24 marathon sometime ;)
today i'm feeling better about things. have been thinking a lot about stuff and sometimes that isn't good... you just need to get over it, accept it and move on. although eating chocolate helped - i had an oh henry bar today, it was rather tasty.
another thing i'm excited about is 24 tonight wohooo... sam i read on your blog about having to watch it from the start - you're prob right i've only watched the 5th season but it's sooo good! i'm sure it's going to catch up on me though, oh well. we should do a 24 marathon sometime ;)
Friday, June 02, 2006
bali photos
Thursday, June 01, 2006
a few things on the mind...
maybe it's just post-holiday syndrome that when you come back to your life and look at it and think I'd rather be somewhere else, doing something else... yeah it's prob just post-holiday and def post-bali…
it was BEAUTIFUL! I have pics somewhere... sorry i can't put a link on here to show you a glimpse of what it was like. i can send an email :) but anyway I don't think the pics do it justice, the smells, sounds, people, food and feelings makes it something different. for me, a few of my fav things were
- the towels in the villas, they smelt good and were thick and really soft,
- playing with the frangipanis, they smelt even better
- sleeping in double-queen sized beds with fat pillows all to myself!
- waking up and putting swimmers on (reminded me of our fiji trip!)
- having poached eggs (nearly) every morning
and yes of course the wedding! jaime looked gorgeous and her dress was soooo beautiful, Tim has an older brother so I actually have 2 brother-in-laws (that works right?) they're very english and proper, hehe I love it! I think the hardest thing for me was not having any of my friends there… it’s different meeting new people and getting to know them, and everyone else had someone. Funny I got asked a lot if I had a boyfy or where he was… ha it was a bit of a joke as now Jaime has an Englishman, sarah’s boyfy is English and so where’s my Englishman??
Anyway it was nice to be able to get away for a bit and escape responsibility and expectations of work and so on. But now I’m back and the holiday feels like a distant memory, it’s straight back into it and somehow I feel less energetic, somewhat apathetic towards what I’m doing. Had a talk to the boss today and lots of stuff is happening and the next 12months will be huge, which is cool. I just can’t seem to get excited about it. Don’t know why… and then mention of pay came up and it turns out that there’s no increase in salary or anything even though he knows I deserve to be paid more, but can’t afford to do so. Which I’m bummed about but also quite adamant to not let it get to me, as I know it’s just money and I don’t want that to be the reason behind what I do. But still have that niggly feeling about it all… worse of I’m not sure what everyone else is getting paid and so don’t feel like I can go about demanding a raise. Sigh I know God knows what I deserve and I went into this job acknowledging the fact that God knows how much I can handle financially and if I am faithful with the little things he will entrust me with more. I don’t want my worth to be justified by man, or money or things that I do, cuz I know to God I’m worth more than that… but is that enough? hmm I dunno
Ahh and then another thing is that an incredibly close friend from high school asked about working in our company. I’m really in two minds about this and have no idea what to do/say. It could go really well or really bad, thing is she would be really good we have similar work styles and get on super well. But don’t want it to effect our relationship. I know some people feel strongly that you shouldn’t work with friends/family and others say just give it a go… I really need to pray about this…
Anyway I’m trying to plan my next holiday… you always need something to look forward to and Vietnam is next on the list… I really can’t wait, but I know I have too.
it was BEAUTIFUL! I have pics somewhere... sorry i can't put a link on here to show you a glimpse of what it was like. i can send an email :) but anyway I don't think the pics do it justice, the smells, sounds, people, food and feelings makes it something different. for me, a few of my fav things were
- the towels in the villas, they smelt good and were thick and really soft,
- playing with the frangipanis, they smelt even better
- sleeping in double-queen sized beds with fat pillows all to myself!
- waking up and putting swimmers on (reminded me of our fiji trip!)
- having poached eggs (nearly) every morning
and yes of course the wedding! jaime looked gorgeous and her dress was soooo beautiful, Tim has an older brother so I actually have 2 brother-in-laws (that works right?) they're very english and proper, hehe I love it! I think the hardest thing for me was not having any of my friends there… it’s different meeting new people and getting to know them, and everyone else had someone. Funny I got asked a lot if I had a boyfy or where he was… ha it was a bit of a joke as now Jaime has an Englishman, sarah’s boyfy is English and so where’s my Englishman??
Anyway it was nice to be able to get away for a bit and escape responsibility and expectations of work and so on. But now I’m back and the holiday feels like a distant memory, it’s straight back into it and somehow I feel less energetic, somewhat apathetic towards what I’m doing. Had a talk to the boss today and lots of stuff is happening and the next 12months will be huge, which is cool. I just can’t seem to get excited about it. Don’t know why… and then mention of pay came up and it turns out that there’s no increase in salary or anything even though he knows I deserve to be paid more, but can’t afford to do so. Which I’m bummed about but also quite adamant to not let it get to me, as I know it’s just money and I don’t want that to be the reason behind what I do. But still have that niggly feeling about it all… worse of I’m not sure what everyone else is getting paid and so don’t feel like I can go about demanding a raise. Sigh I know God knows what I deserve and I went into this job acknowledging the fact that God knows how much I can handle financially and if I am faithful with the little things he will entrust me with more. I don’t want my worth to be justified by man, or money or things that I do, cuz I know to God I’m worth more than that… but is that enough? hmm I dunno
Ahh and then another thing is that an incredibly close friend from high school asked about working in our company. I’m really in two minds about this and have no idea what to do/say. It could go really well or really bad, thing is she would be really good we have similar work styles and get on super well. But don’t want it to effect our relationship. I know some people feel strongly that you shouldn’t work with friends/family and others say just give it a go… I really need to pray about this…
Anyway I’m trying to plan my next holiday… you always need something to look forward to and Vietnam is next on the list… I really can’t wait, but I know I have too.
