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