Scrub Scrub Scrub

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I suddenly received news yesterday that I will be getting "new" cupboards today and so, I spent the latter part of yesterday packing up my things to make way for the cupboard.

Today, the donated cupboards came and amazingly, it fitted nicely into my room. I spent almost half of the day scrubbing the cupboard clean. Despite little "chips" here and there, the cupboard was generally in good condition and now I have a lot of filing space... As I scrubbed the cupboard with my colleague, I was thinking: "boy, I love my job". Where else can I get this kind of experience... it is really a humbling experience and it really teaches me to value things... I just gather that this might not have been something I will do if not in social services... chances are that we will just buy new stuff and throw away the old ones. After staying in the social service sectors and coming to this organisation, I have learnt to be careful with every single cent we spent because that would ultimately mean a cent less for the beneficiaries. OK, not to sound noble but then this has become somewhat second nature, maybe some will see as "stingy" :0)

Picture "Clean" by ana_labate

My room really looked like some war-torn zone yesterday and today and so I decided that since my cupboard came, I might as well take the opportunity to clean up the room and do my filing that I have not done for some 10 months now... In the end, I managed to put everything back in its place and also filed a great part of my projects carried out in the last 10 months... And today must be the latest I have stayed in office and in the end, I had a phobia of being locked in so forced myself to leave at about 11.30pm even though I was not finished. But it felt wonderful and it was a great achievement that my office is in order again.

War-torn office

These few days, another gifting seems to be surfacing. Despite being a very shy person, I seem to be able to build rapport with people easily over the phone. There had been 2 occasions this week in which people, total strangers, opened up to me over the phone and told me things which, in their own words, they have not even told their "loved ones". I am not sure if God is preparing my skills for the next calling. However, it is true enough that not only do people warm up to me easily over the phone but also me to them... somehow, I am less uptight over the phone...