Eventful Week

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This week has been a very eventful week with lots of things happening.

Firstly, remember the person who I met in my NS unit who I mentioned seem to be like a mirror of me, except that he is codfishy but many times more. I began to realise more and more how I am so similar to him e.g. we both will take out our watches when we work etc. I tried to befriend him and asked him out for break but he told me he does not go for breaks. Later, I bought him a bread from the canteen but he also rejected the bread. I am beginning to see how much I am like him sometimes and how sometimes people may wish to reach out to me but I won't let them. It was as if God is giving me a mirror image to tell me something. But anyway, we did kind of interacted a bit towards the end of my in-camp training as I worked with him more and more and as we exchanged ideas how to create a device that would auto-flip paper as they are being scanned out the machine. Well, in-camp has ended but then I kind of regretted not having gotten his number. I can roughly identify with his character and worry for him.

Secondly, I received an email from a cell member who told me that a devotion (from a email devotion I subscribe to) that I have shared with my cell may not be biblically sound. He then proceed to suggest that I keep to perhaps reading and sharing my interpretation rather than copy wholesale from devotions. Well, it was a lesson learnt but then in a hard way. I did feel kind of lousy after that and kept asking myself how I could allow something like that to happen; me disseminating a devotion that is not biblically sound. But then again, it is really not biblically sound? I don't know. But then one thing is for sure is that this incident, though painful, has thought me to be very careful about devotions because they are from man. And there are good devotions out there as well as false teachings out there. So I would need to exercise caution now that I am a shepherd.

Thirdly, I went through my appraisal with my boss and while I am very happy with my appraisal and stand amazed at how God has blessed my work ministry, I was a little disappointed that many of my scores given by my boss, went down as compared to the last time she showed me. It seems that a little accident happened after my boss showed me my appraisal and my boss accidentally saved my appraisal scoring over her appraisal scoring for me. So my boss had to redo her appraisal of me. Well, I don't think the difference is great but then I just noticed that there used be be rating "5"s in some of the items but the latest version of scoring does not have any. Well, it's OK, I guess it is not the grades that count but how God has blessed me and used me in my work ministry. Yes, a little painful but then I still have to move on.

Fourthly, it has been a week of little rest. I went for church prayer meeting on Wednesday and after that, the girl "who I was taking a liking to" suggested we stop by Macs to get an ice-cream. So we walked and talked a little as I walk her home. It was a good time to catch up but then I ended up being very tired the next day since I did not manage to get enough sleep. It didn't help that I did not have much to do in in-camp training on Thursday and needed to go home to prepare for cell group the next day and also a work presentation on Friday. I haven't packed as well for my upcoming church retreat and I have to be at Harbourfront by 7.30am on Saturday. Woah, tiring!

I thank God for cell group which has went well and so did the work presentation :) But then some of my colleagues commented that I have put on a little weight ever since I went to in-camp. I think it is true. Anyway, haven't been exercising recently so put on a little weight; now I am over 90kg! Need to do something about it soon.