Soli Deo Gloria

God really does provide.

With His Grace, i am now in a new company ....

Thankful for Him leading me to this place ...

Thankful for His guidance in the past 3 years in the previous co ... without going through those years, I would never appreciate what I have now ...

Thank you Heavenly Father .........

Labels: God, Work

Realised that the girls here like to keep things to themselves and complain to their bosses whenever they felt that they are 'ill' treated or when the other party does not give them the information that they need.

at first, i was not very sure about the causes of their unhappiness until today when one came in to my room to ask me some things and indirectly sharing with me her complaints...

it dawned on me that these people are habouring expectations abt how others should behave - just because that person has worked here long enough, just because he/she thinks that the other party has prior experience or is considered an experience staff ...

they are harbouring expectations based on prior knowledge for e.g. eh, last time my company not like that one... last time we do not do it this way ... (at this point, i felt like telling them straight in the face that things change and you need to modify your expectations ... rudely put, it would be "hello, wake up from your idea .. each place functions differently... if previous place is good, then why leave???)

they failed to see the point that they need to communicate with the other person, modify their expectations and make the necessary changes along the way ... ... well, i do not blame her for i myself fall into the trap at times ...

i guess i can only ask God for more wisdom, patience and understanding from myself and also for the rest of the people...

for changes to take place, it needs two hands to clap ... Jia you lor

Labels: Work

Gosh!

Apart from learning about the business, I am also learning to understand the dynamics of the people interaction here - especially the group of girls assisting us. I think there is some misunderstanding, some expectation gap between the old and the new and some form of communication breakdown ... How can I help? What new ways can I use ...

How to be an effective manager?

Labels: Work

Received this email and can't help but feel that i had gone for the cup.

New job - note easy here as in there is no fixed system, new team to work with and a new team to build.

i feel bad that i am unable to stay back and contribute (coz i wanna have life after work) ... somehow, i dun feel bad if i leave on the dot in my previous job... hmm. hope i wont become a workaholic.


read the story below:-

VERY SIMPLE STORY BUT VERY PROFOUND MESSAGE

A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university lecturer. Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life.
Offering his guests coffee, the lecturer went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups: porcelain, plastic, glass, some plain-looking and some expensive and exquisite, telling them to help themselves to hot coffee.

When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the lecturer said: "If you noticed, all the nice-looking, expensive cups were taken up, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. "While it is but normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress." What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you consciously went for the better cups and are eyeing each other's cups."

"Now, if life is coffee, then the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain Life, but the quality of Life doesn't change. Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee in it."

Don't let the cups drive you... enjoy the coffee instead.

Labels: random tots, Work

Started work last Thurs - feels shiok to have my own office but then i sensed some under current office politics between my boss and other departments...

dunno what she is trying to do or how she is like but i cant be bothered ... i am there just to spend my eight hours and get my salary to finance my hobbies ... ahhahaha ...

work wise, i feel that life is easier in my new environment - less reporting, more straight forward kind of reporting ..i think human beings are strange - when the reportig is too complicated, they want something simple... when things get too simple, they want something more challenging .. hmmm, hope i will enjoy my stay here ...

Labels: Work

My holidays are ending ... it has been both fun and bored to wake up to think about how i am going to spend the day when all the others are at work ...

the holidays began last thursday ... began the day by making agar agar for the rcia class ... kena suaned by Fr for "making only this in the entire day??" - "duh"... i started to clean my house - a clean house means i can laze around more comfortably ... haha ... it is hard chore cleaning the house ... i vaccumed, watched tv, vaccumed, watched tv, then mopped, then watched tv, then mopped... hee ... some tips for your - mop the floor with tap water and a bit of white vinegar - sure to make your floor smooth and clean =)

Friday - got a last minute call from my mum to bring my grandma back from her visit to her doctor...for the trip, i am really thankful that my FIL can walk about without any problem, thankful that my brothers/father/uncle/mum are around for my grandmother to bring her for her medical appointment and thankful that i have a car to ferry her around when no one is available... the trip makes me realised that my grandma is really old .. and she has problem walking even for a short distance (it is really short - like the distant of 3 provision shops took her a long time) ...later, went out with my mama to jurong point to shop, then laze around at my mum's house before pickig pete up and heading to spca...

it was my first time to spca ...quite sad to see those dogs being left by their owner in spca... and that was also where we met and pete fell in love with Sunny ...

we left shortly as it was closing time and my gang of friends were coming over to my house for a 'look-see' ...spent the night chatting and eating and catching up ... thankfully, i had mopped the floor coz they went round inspecting ..hahaha

Saturday - accompanied my FIL for his weekly fix - ba kut teh ... his favourite stall was not ready so we went to our favourite stall ... he doesn't really like that stall - kept complaining about fatty meat ... hahaha ...but he knows that it is out of no choice that we did not patronise his favourite stall ... then we went to SPCA again ... this time, we played with sunny ... he seemed to like pete lots and my FIL also seemed to like sunny ... but but but ... sunny does not seem to like me ... he didn bark but just walked away each time i tried to touch him.

Sunday - asked all our other friends about how to keep a dog ... booked Fides to go SPCA on monday ...

Monday - went with Fides, my FIL and ah pete to spca ... looked at the other dogs - pete n fil still like sunny ... i was attracted to a maltese ...sunny still doesn show any interest in me ...*worried....* fides was really sweet ... mobilised her brother to search for a pet shop with grooming service in woodlands ... the folks at spca were very nice as well ... =)... tiring day after settling the dog, brought him to my mum's house so that my brother can look after him while we went out for family dinner ... thankfully, sunny was ok at their house ... well behaved ...

Tuesday - brought sunny out for our first walk .... tried to leave him at home while pete n i attended a team mass for our next ee weekend ... i learnt a lot from the other couples ... nice evening ... went home and sunny was ok in his play pen ... good ... thanks to st. francis for looking after him ... hee

Wednesday - i was ALL ALONE with sunny ... got me mad a few times when he climbed onto the sofa, he even peeed on the carpet in the common toilet ... duh ... he did that tiwce today and both times, i was on the phone!!!... thankfully, fides was around today to talk to me, we had lunch - she was nice enough to buy me lunch - LJS ... .havent had that in a long long long long time - thanks sis ... hahhaha

cooked our own dinner today and went to pick pete from ikea ... sunny was a good boy in the car .. but he was really excited to see his daddy ... more excited than seeing me ... but ok la ....haha

lessons learnt:-

i need to work - not a career woman but something to keep my occupied for a few hours each day ....

i want to play but can i not be responsible? hahahaha especially wrt taking care of sunny - i got to pick up his poo poo ....

the idea of baby - ya, not be easy taking care of baby ... but i suppose sunny is a good experience ...

hmmm .... going to zzz liao - back to the "normal" life tomorrow ....

Labels: Family life, random tots, Sunny, Work