it's quite mind boggling that sometimes others know you better than you know yourself. perhaps it's simply because you are denying who you really are.
it's been a wonderful week with a scary weekend. i think i hardly talk bout my colleagues, should blog this down as a good reminder. one reason why i enjoy my work so much is mainly because of the ppl. since i'm helping out with the wine business, i really got to know more good friends. as they are all believers, not sure if i should be happy or sad.
we got hannah, an indonesian whose accent reminds me a lot of michael (raditya) haha.. i think she's my best lunch companion since we like similar food. few years older than me, she's a happily married woman with a good taste of design. yah she's our main designer =) another side, there's cecilia (my mentor). i think she's a superwoman, handling sooo many things in office yet keeping a cheerful attitude. i wonder if i would feel stressed if i had to take over her workload.. anyway, really enjoyed learning from her. linus is practically my second mentor in office. he just graduated from SIM but seriously he knows almost everything about the business. it's so fun talking to him cos he's perhaps the most crappy person in office besides me. too bad he's changing line soon, another one month and i won't be seeing him in office.. that's kinda sad considering that we've just got to know one another better. not to forget susie, sook ooi, pixia and wei hsiong who have been very patient with me. kris my partner who's really very humble.. sometimes i'd forget that she's older than me cos she likes to ask for my advice bout things in life lol, as if i'm some guru. but we're learning from one another and i'm glad that she's with me in this job transition together. last but not least soh may, my boss whom i truly admire. God really gives her the wisdom, it's just great talking to her, all the life lessons. there's always something that i can learn from just by a short conversation. she's hardly in office but when she's around, she would bought us cakes >< the other day she got us heavenly choc mousse... not to mention the dimsum treat from time to time..
sometimes i look back and think, my faithful God is giving me something that i don't really deserve right now. this is grace.
why do you wake up every morning and go to work? this is the question that i'm always being asked of. is it for the paycheck? gotta be more than that. purpose is something that i must always have, a meaning in life, impacting others. what would ppl write on my tombstone? here lies livi melinda, a good friend? a cheesecake lover? an anime freak? i pray that when my life ends, i will be remembered for more significant things, specific things.
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i shopped so much that it kinda scares me now. planned to go to sentosa on sat but as many couldn't make it, i ended up shopping with nicole instead. i've been wanting to buy a few things, so i didn't mind making that trip to bugis village. i am awed with the hours that we spent together and the no of shopping bags that i carried home >< i was practically rewarding myself with a new bag, dresses, shoes and accessories. sigh. once in a while should be alrite i guess. anyway, it was a good time spent, talked to her bout few things as well, mostly things that i've been hesitating to bring up.
liu-shu and his wife came from vietnam on fri nite to stay at the rc for few days. managed to talk with him for a while, a very fatherly friendly person. he knows cara and some of the ppl who went for the mission trip before. heard that he can cook really well, too bad i didn't get to eat his own cooked dishes. oh... his wife received Christ yesterday! that was amazing =)
me and weiling finally fulfilled our promise to go to garlic restaurant! not that i'm a big fans of garlic, but last time when we were both still jobless, we made a deal that we'd go there for a meal when both of us are able to settle down in new jobs. it's kinda like a declaration for God's faithfulness in our lives.
lastly i want to comment a bit on 'happy feet'. personally i think it's a good movie, more than what i expected. not just because the penguins are cute, yup more than that. *livi* 11:12 PM
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livi grace melinda
14/02/82
love everything but durian