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Phew! Had been lost for a few weeks now; lost in the world of work... now I am back!

It had been a challenging few weeks following my return to work from my in-camp training. Had initially wanted to catch up with my blogging but then guess I won't have the energy to really chronicle everything, so I am going to just give a summary of what has heppened during these past few weeks:

• The Day I Conquered 200 emails - The first day back to work from my In-Camp Training was so daunting I just became so unsure how I am going to survive my next In-Camp. Remember coming back on the first day and I had like some 200 emails to follow-up. The miraculous thing: I managed to finish replying all the 200 emails and did the necessary follow-up work e.g. phone calls etc within just a day! Woo hoo! What an achievement! Anyway, gave thanks to God that week for seeing me through that horrible Monday, wasn't sure how I was going to survive but somehow did.
• The Day I Toured Toa Payoh Central - Can't believe I stayed in Toa Payoh all my life but just don't find enough time to really walk around the town centre. Met a brother-in-christ one day and had dinner and a heart-to-heart talk with him. And since it was his first time in Toa Payoh (he is a Malaysian), I played host and took him on a tour of Toa Payoh... what an eye opener!... Toa Payoh is just a town with so much character and history... didn't really take time to appreciate it until now...

Tour around Toa Payoh Town Centre

• Failing Eyesight - Think my eyesight failing me... Stood at KFC one day and realized I can't see the menu from the counter... think I might need glasses soon... guess long hours in front of computer doesn't really help... have to change image liaoz... now with specs... hmm what kind of specs would suit me? :)
• Long Prayer List - My prayer list seems to be getting longer and longer. These few weeks, I keep coming into contact with friends and people whom are going through a rough patch and I want to pray for them but somehow I just haven't been able to catch up with my prayers, in fact, stopped praying over these past few weeks because have somehow have buried myself in work... Guess is time to review my priorities and pray for those on my prayer list and talk to God once more.
• What on earth are they thinking?! - I really wonder sometimes whether what is wrong with some people? I really don't know what they are thinking of? During my In-Camp, read of stabbing in Henderson Road (seems like Singapore is having more and more of such shocking news), read of how a person torture a cat until his eye socket was hanging out of its body and had to be put to sleep (sicko!), came to be reminded of "Happy Tree Friends" which is just plain bad idea to mix violence with cartoon (super sicko!) and recently discussed about gross movies with friends; was told how horrible and meaninglessly gross the movie SAW was... senseless and brutal killing... OK call me "old fashion" or whatever... all these just worries me...
• Commissioned as a Fisher - Completed my "Becoming a Fisher of Men" course in church and am now a commissioned "fisherman" :) Learnt many a helpful lesson on witnessing.
  
• Being Hawker - My organization organized this internal fund-raising event for work done in some developing country and we all became hawkers for a month... each day, departments will take turn to sell food stuff for lunch and tea break... My department made chicken rice in the office and on another day we made chin chow and sold bee hoon with chicken wings... some departments cooked porridge, yam rice, agar agar, some made sandwich, brownie... it was a whole month of feasting and meaningful and fun volunteer work... Found out it is not easy being a hawker. Also had some fun working with my volunteers at another centre's funfair for our elderly beneficiaries and guess what I was doing? Yes, selling food again hahaha... had our funny moments e.g. put satay into oven to heat but later realized we didn't even switch on the power... me and my volunteers just laughed hard...
• Confirmed! - Yup, I got confirmed finally! And some more, on April Fool's Day... friends were like asking me, "you sure it is not a joke?" :) Finally, the 6 months seemed like forever. Anyway, I appraised myself and my boss appraised me too, ended up my own appraisal is way lower than my boss' appraisal but the appraisal was a good discussion of my strengths and weaknesses... wow realized so much has been achieved in these 6 months... with God's grace. Everything just fell into place for me during these few months so much so it can't be coincidence...
• Crisis in Association - My old workplace seems to be undergoing a crisis... was told that even the director has tendered his resignation. Seems like there are internal problems caused by undeniably bad management and also external problems and unreasonable opposition from an organization from the public sector... disappointing! Got me so worked up I just decided that I will renew my membership with the association and help with the battle.