Friday, November 23, 2007

Worship or Workout?

My network was scheduled be backup choir (in addition to the main choir) for this week's church service. So yesterday, I went for the practice session, which had the biggest turn-out so far, since it was opened to network in September this year. We also had the privilege of having Bobby Michaels join us for this week's worship. Hehe.. still have his cassette at home, which I bought during the SLF days.

I should have known that it's not just purely a dry run of going through the workship songs and it's actions, but making the practice as if it's the live worship itself. We are jumping and prancing around singing to the "I want more, more more" song -- a high energy song. And I think it looked more like a mass aerobic workout session than a praise and worship session. And guess what, I came in my hispter pants without a belt -- big mistake -- I had to pull my pants after each song... how edifying :P And later, we had our arm biceps and triceps training, when we had to lift our arms straight and wave from the right to the left for about 5 minutes or so. This morning, I woke up feeling the aftermath of it. Boy, no need to sign up for any fitness memberships, just join church chorale can liao!

But I must say the presence of the Lord was so strong and everyone was soaked into the praise worship, expressing our joy and worship to the Lord. It's really a privilege stand on the stage to lead the congregation in worship and draw them into the God's presence. As what Pastor Joe Kum says, we are all worship leaders. May God be exalted in our worship.

Tuesday, November 20, 2007

Shiok-a-Doodle-Doo

Today marks the 2nd day of the 3-day conference for which I'm anchoring. This morning, my caterer came in late and my guests were left stranded at their hotel, cos the bus which I booked got stuck in a jam and have to book cabs for them instead. And after settling everybody in, I was feeling hungry, yet no appetite -- how contradicting hor -- but it's the same old catering food lah. However, still have to eat a little, cos haven't had anything for breakfast all morning.

On the sidetrack, as an events organiser, even when you feel bloated, still have to test the food to see if it's worth re-ordering. Maybe I should include my role as a food taster as part of my job duty in my next appraisal. But my all-time favourite caterer is Orchid Thai. Sure to have space for that -- all the time. I must say their food is tasty and it's defintely different from the rest. I especially like their tom yum soup, mango salad, lemon grass drink and many more. Contact Ah Jay. (Jay Chou's Bro)

But, today I have ordered food from another caterer. So as usual, the events team started wondering for alternatives for lunch. If you were to see the spread that we have catered for the conference and then see us eating something else instead. But we couldn't help, cos we eat catered food almost twice a month. I bet they must be wondering either the catered food is not tasty, or the events team must be something wrong up there.

And Aly (with the light blub shining so bright above her head) has to tempt us with the Malay rice at Engineering Canteen, and we unanimously agreed to her suggestion. Oh! How I miss the Malay rice there. A simple meal of fried chicken wing, sayur lodeh and their chilli is enough to give me the kick. Not forgetting also to drown it down with Coke from MacDonalds! Yummy lunch! It simply erased my distress from the morning, man!


Actually, we sort of missed the canteen food back at the Kent Ridge Campus (KRC), eversince we shifted to the Bukit Timah Campus (BTC), which doesn't even served the basic food, such as chicken rice or fishball noodles. So those of you who are still complaining about having the same old food at KRC, better be grateful that you have more than 60 over stalls to choose from the various canteens. Perhaps, you should drop by to BTC one of these days. Give me a call, if you were to drop by.

Monday, November 19, 2007

Are 2 Heads Really Better Than One?

Have been busy lately with events and especially anchoring one with mutliple organisers and secretariats event. It's tougher than I thought - the saying "Too many cooks spoil the broth" is so true.

So "Are 2 heads really better than one?"


I mean more feedback is good because you have more options, but there should be only one decision-maker. However, being in the Asian context, great ideas often become compromise(s). And I'm guilty of that because everybody contributes. Either that, if I insist I would be called "too domineering". Aiyoh, very kan-kor cho lang!


I feel that the ultimate objective of a meeting is to make the best decision out of the various suggestions. But often what happen?
- No conclusion.
- No follow-up.
- We try this and try that... in fact ALL options.
- And lastly, assuming that someone else will take care of the matter; or better still -- the problem will disappear into the thin air.

The more people there are on one job, the longer it will take. Personally, I find it more effective to just work with one organiser, whom I can turn to for decision making.

The ideal scenario would be to have a leader, who knows what he/she wants; and the ka-kia, who knows what needs to be done.

Thursday, November 8, 2007

Finally, BROADBAND for me

Finally, took the chance apply for broadband and to convert to Singtel MIO Plan, as we could save quite a bit from buying a a new mobile phone without contract.

I have been using dialup for years (yeah, I'm a dinosaur) cos can rely on NUS Dialup, which is free. But then the speed is a killer. The best time to check email then was around midnight. Thus, only checking my emails from home, when neccesary.


Eversince, it was installed on Saturday 3 November, I have been having sleepless nights from checking my emails, reading blogs and catching up with friends on MSN. VERY SHIOK! But it has been taking a toil on my eyes. Got panda eyes now.

Tuesday, November 6, 2007

My First Parking Summon

Today, I kanna my first summon at my MIL's carpark for displaying THE NEXT DAY'S date on my parking coupon. And Gavin took a dig at me that displaying parking coupon religiously is not good enough to avoid summon. Kanna double stabbed OUCH! OUCH! Cos I'm always reminding him to put in the extra coupons and not take a gamble with the parking warden. Thus, I have made it a point to replenish the parking coupons in the car.

But today, it's a really a stupid mistake on my part, but what's more STUPID is that I innocently went up to that woman warden, who was 5 cars away that I did put a coupon and it's still within the time period. Then, she gave me a straight-face answer, "Look at your date." Alamark! Luckily, she charged me for having an expired coupon from the one that I use during lunch. $20 can buy 2 $1 booklets or 4 $0.50 booklets leh!

Does appeal works? But I guess it's no use going through the hassle. Just take it as paying for a valuable lesson.