My dog ate Part 2…and I am moving on

February 11th, 2010 The author

I like writing in parts.  Writing in parts relieves me because I can ramble one super long post and just cut it into small parts. However I do have one habit when it comes to doing this : I don’t finish my parts at times… this being one of the case.

I’m tempted to write about my November and December experiences…but I think I shall not. New stories for new posts I guess

Anyway January was so far quite an interesting month. I finally got to go to Sarawak, but this was no cuti-cuti Malaysia. Actually had some work to do there, but it was definitely a pleasant experience.  Didn’t get to see much of Bintulu, but from my little personal experience there, it’s definitely another chinaman town! Reminded me of Penang in that sense!

But I guess the highlight for January would be having my buddy from Canada actually come down and visit me.  It was actually a highly anticipated event for me, but I gotta admit, was a little tired toward the end. Maybe because with the whole travelling thing (I had just returned from Sarawak the previous week) and catching up with work during the weak…yeah i guess at the end of the 3rd day, I was just exhausted. But it was nevertheless still wonderful to see my friend after nearly 4 years!

Another major highlight would be my ministry retreat which we had at the end of January. It was really a wonderful and blessed retreat I should say. I guess the one thing I really learnt from the retreat was that God doesn’t need heroes. Too often we are so caught up with our ownselves and running things according to OUR own abilities, strategies and capabilities till we forget the Lord completely. And the irony is we’re doing it for Him! Anyway more thoughts on that on my new blog : http://thecatholiclife.wordpress.com. Yeap finally decided to start a seperate blog for my catholic writings.

Well that’s all for now… time for prayer and sleep.

Oh and a big shutout to my buddy who joined the Franciscan order earlier this week. You can read his chronicles here

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Post September 27th 2009 - Part I

January 17th, 2010 The author

September 27th 2009. That was my last entry

That’s a long time ago, roughly 100 days or more ago. Yes I am still very much alive and I’ve been tied up with work and..well other things.  In my absence, lots of things have happened,  and so, in order to do justice to my readers, and most importantly to myself, I thought I would highlight the events that have happened over the last 3-4 months

We begin in October 2009….

- My church group had organized a trip to KK, Sabah! Yeahhhh I finally had the chance to go to Sabah for the first time in my life! KK is a nice place, albeit the heat that one has to endure. Reminded me of my boyhood days in Penang, where the sun would just beat down on any pedestrian.

- Work resumed following my short vacation. I had 2 more training sessions to conduct. Thank God the training session for one of them was rescheduled to another date. At least the trainer had some breathing room! Both training sessions went well…. oh wait I think there were 3 training sessions that happened in October. 3 sessions is alot but I guess I managed to pull it off! For one of the training sessions I had to travel up to Kedah ; it was a good experience as I got to eat kampung food by the padi fields.

- October was also the time when I got the news that I would be heading the Sound in the Word Minsitry, a Ministry that is focused in providing content for my church youth group, Lifeline.  It was a welcoming change and something, though I didnt expect to get, was nevertheless a pleasent surprise. I could finally have a stronger say on the curriculum and content development of my youth group.

November 2009

- Work started pilling up. There was yet another training session for November 2009 and this would be the last one for YEAR.  So far all of my training sessions had gone smoothly except for one or two that I had done in Kerteh, oh well can’t blame me,  cuz it was the participants that didn’t show up for the session.  Thank god my project team had decided to revert all training sessions in KL hence forth. Yes, it did mean less travelling allowance for me, but it would also mean that I would not be held responsible should the trainees fail to show up… it was up to them after all!

- I also got involved in my first Company event, thanks to a friend in chruch who decided to rope me in. Though I groaned and at times got fed up with the work (I was in charge of communications so all the emails had to come from me), it was nevertheless an experience.  Luckily my supervisor had given me enough exposure in preparing communications materials for the project. Having that experience definitely allowed me to cope much better for this community day project activity.   It was also fun to coordinate and see backstage what are the components required to do a proper community day.  At the end of it, it was a job well done I should say

More in Part II on what happened in December and January

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Why do we say nice things about people only after they’re dead?

September 27th, 2009 The author

Newsweek recently ran an article on the late Sen. Edward Kennedy and many prominent figures, such as John Kerry (one of my favourite politicians by the way), and Bob Dole wrote beautiful articles, paying tribute to one of the ‘greatest senators of the United States of America of all time’… the articles were inspiring, many of them filled with memorable moments where Teddy made such positive impacts and contributions in their lives and to society.

But in the midst of all the admiration and accolades that were being lauded to the last of the Keneddy brothers,  it got me thinking…’jeez wouldn’t it have been nice if the old man got to hear all this when he still was alive?’

And that got me to think about Michael Jackson as well. At one time, he was nick-named ‘Wacko Jacko’ and who can forget his infamous baby-on-the-balcony-apartment antics, or his ‘pedophilia escapades’ or the ludicrus claim that he used to sleep in a special oxygen gas chamber?

When MJ died, suddenly millions were crying, millions more were saying what an amazing guy he was, how big was his heart, how much he cared for the underprivlleaged, how he revolutinized the music world, how his music made a difference in everyone’s lives, and how he will be missed.

Gee, if only Michael was alive to hear this…

So why is that do we only say nice things about people only once they’ve died? Is it because we’re just not used to flattering people? Is it because when people are alive, we only look at their faults, and when they’re dead, there’s no point looking at their faults, because these faults cannot be undo, therefore we rather say nice things about them?

Or is it maybe because death is the one thing we fear, and perhaps saying nice things about a person is one way of us coping with that inevitable nature of life?

Something to think about and ponder…

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