Day four: When paths collide

Yay... Congrates to me... I beat my own record of spending $260 in 4 days!!!

Nah, actually that was quite stupid of me.... i thought that i had an extra $120 in my reserves.. but noooooo. Well, now i am living on a flow of less than a $1 a day...

Well, been four days since i updated, many things have came and gone by in a small matter of time.... And thus the reason for my post title... It may not occur to you that many people we meet, somehow play a very important role in our lives. Someone here may affect what others may think... and so on...

Someone may be going through the same thing you went through, horrible or pleasant, and some how its the person right next to you, aiding you in your life, but you dont know... For me, its a 100% true....

When i first realised it, i was shocked, amazed, perplexed, surprised and not to mention stunned at this point. It so happens that my friend was once the type of person i am trying to deal with, in my path... (Well, you must be thinking, what the heck is this guy talking about... Sad to say, i will cover it in the next blog, the path of the sentinel pt. 2 .)

So, my friend and I devised an excellent theory. If our paths were meant to collide with each other, there must be a master planner... and for a person to plan out another's life, it would take him his lifetime, yet alone the whole world. So, the master planner must be none other than God...

And so the path continues, even though i am very bored at home doing absolutely nothing other than play generals, when i am supposed to do my work, i find myself thinking of the past, present and the future... thinking how many things had to collide with each other to form a line of action..

One last thing... I urge you to note.... to think of the people around you.... and think about the circumstances that have led you to do things or to meet people... just try and think... it may surprise you...

Well, thats all for today... another post... another life touched...

Day three: Mission accomplished Commander

Well see there my good ole keeper jersey------>

Today was a full day, me rushing from place to place... collecting money as i went... distrubuting of jerseys can be real tough you know.... with all the ppl crowding around you.

Well, i guess my title has to imply something... indeed it does... Well after i seem to found out what my life was going to be... it was going to be an all out war against the one who seeks to oppose it, i knew that many battles have to be fought in orfer to assure the victory. And so as to say, i managed to finish a battle and win today.

Friends are the most key elements in life, in which plays a very very important role to provide support, help, one to share your burdens and so on.... the list is endless from many points of view. As in the saying of friends: "A burden shared between a friend is a burden halved." Well, i cant tell you how absolutely true that statement is... for it is quite rare in this society that we may find true friends, and here i go with another saying: "Finding friends is easy, finding good friends is hard." I really learnt the comfort of knowing that there are friends out there who would help, where in this world there may be very few... HAI... Life's tough, wadda ya expect???

To put it simply, try to reconsile all broken friendships for (here i go again): "Try to keep old friends, for there is no new one like the old one." Then one will learn to appreciate the friendship between both parties...

I really love this book: " the power of influence" by John C. Maxwell. It gives many quotes about friends and relationships, such as the ones above. Its quite cool really, one should take time to read it...

Well, to top it all of, i'll share a strange experience today... While i was in Toa Payoh, at a bus stop, i saw this middle aged man trying to please a lady with flowers. The lady seemed to be in a quarrel of some sort, with the man, as whatever the man did, she didnt care. Then the lady got onto a car, the man threw the flowers into the car while the door was still opened, and the lady threw the flowers back out... This is one experience i will never forget... In the public quarrel... Now, how many times can you see that... Its my second time really...

So there it is... today's post... time to sleep and get some rest for tomorrow's CIP duty... Again i go!!!!

Day two: Servant Leader

The world nowadays seem to think less and do more.... just like the attitudes of many ppl around us... inlcuding the ones we thought were our 'leaders'. This post is to help understand the most basic of all characteristics of a leader, to be a servant.

I was reflecting on several of my actions in the past, and after i read the book: The 21 indispensable Qualities of a leader, by John C.Maxwell. Chapter thirteen states: Servanthood. under the quotation: the true leader serves. serves people. serves their best interests, and in so doin will not always be popular, may not always impress. But because true leaders are motivated by loving concern rather than a desire for personal glory, they are willing to pay the price.

As i read through this part of the book, i cant help but feel that we need more of this in every leader around us. As our world gets even more immoral, as the weak is preyed on by the strong, as friends hurt when they are supposed to show care and concern... Dont we need this sort of leadership?

In relationship with my life... i can tell you its true... Many times in the past, because i show this loving concern, many fail to see the true intent, and seemingly bombarded me with insults and what was thought as "joking discrimination", this resulted in a destruction of a friendship, which was thought 2 years ago to be a fruitful one...too bad i cant curse... or i would have already done so to the ones who nearly ended my path...

I have payed the price for such, and yet i still continue on... why??? Because its my job and duty... To come here in this world, to make something right... And many people dont understand.... But they will... eventualy. If this is not true... then, feel free to determine for me... what is a perfect leader...

Becareful to those out there... If one decides to venture down the same path i decided to take... then take heed, for there are many jackels and vultures out there... waiting for the opportunity to go for the kill... Such as the devil does. In this world, those who show the love and concern for the people under him, will suffer the discrimination of many...( i call them pathetic... Am i not right? taking joy knowing that the other is suffering because what you done was "fun". If only you all have known what i would feel... I bet no one does... ) because you are not of the world... and again to those who serve under God, Dont lose faith my brothers, stand strong in your walk with God, and He will bless you with endless richess stored for you in heaven.
End note: Stay strong in your duty, stay strong, you will not regret later, but how late, its for God to decide.

Even as i think of it, i cant seem how not to relate my situation with my mother. Always showing loving concern to those who need, but always gets turn down. And when she does, i always seem to see her break down and yet somehow get back up again, and continue... Is this not like me?? Somehow... I find that God made me her son for a reason... Really i thank God. In fact, she was the one God chose to show me the msg He had for me. The one that changed my thinking and my desires. And got to what i had today. She would have been a good leader, just needed to know how to solve problems more effectively....

Well, thats all for today, another post, another life touched...

Day one: wedding crashers

First blog ever...

Today was like super long.... being hari raya puasa, i got alot of things to do... beats staying at home...(trust me, only can play fifa 07). Like the title implies, i had a wedding to attend... not that i crashed it of course... but some how i was an uninvited invited guest(hee hee).

For the past few weeks i was worried that the future may not hold much to me,because of the person i was training.. so worried in fact that i couldnt sleep... But today was the day i learnt to put my faith in God... In the early morning, i was supposed to meet an old sec sch fren at kovan mrt at 7... I set my alarm to go at 6... but ended up waking at 6.40 due to the fact that i was watching the death note manga till 1.30 am... so i rushed to get down to kovan asap. But some how or rather... I didnt feel worried abt being too late... and placed my trust in God... i went to the bus stop... in less than 2 mins... 53 came... and i took it to another bus stop... and 107 came in a flash... as i approached the station... i went through the under pass... and rode the escalator up... and i saw my fren comin down. Soooo... i was not or seemed to be not late at all... Then Somehow i learnt that by trusting the future to God, i would have not needed to worry so much... And now... the worried feeling is... gone....

In the late morning went over to friend's place to help him install his WC3 just to play dota.... it turned out that it was the disk's prob, thus the reason he himself cannot install. So after that i went down to PP macs for a meeting with the two QM's. Settled things here and there... spent almost $8 treating them...(on macs???) After that i went home to shower and get ready for the wedding. Then i went over to my junior's place to hang before we left... And for some reason... we were later for over 15mins. This was due to the fact that both my junior's were quarreling which team would beat the other in fifa 06.... Arsenal or Man u. Of course... Arsenal would win.. Me being a fan... They spent so much time on the game that it ate into our buffer time... thus we were late.

Now this was where my day began to become bad... We were late, so we took a short cut climbing the fence... and got caught by the bangla security guard( no i am not racist but this the truth) of the JC where the wedding was held. Well, i can say that i am not from the sec sch, but i was more worried for my juniors as they may get implemented in their records... so being senior and all... i tried to take the rap for them, but ended up having their names taken down...

I pray to God that it wont be too bad... then we did our jobs, handling the cars that came, funny thing was that it seemed at one point, zhi xiang was like reppeling the cars that approached the main gate... We then went through the whole ceremony and ate a delicious meal that consisted of only smoked salmon(there were others but I ate more salmon).

When i reached home, i decided that to write a blog, so as to remember what God has shown me... Cool night it is... nope... just the air-conditioning... BTW check out under youtube-feedback survey. click the funny one