about me A loner, although do enjoy the occasional companionship, if you can handle it. Enjoys long term friendships, sensitive, ponders a lot about life and people. Sunday, March 06, 2011
Work hard, play hard
[ 11:56 pm ] Let’s see …. I spilled a full cup of water on my less-than-4-month old Macbook Pro. My favourite accoustic guitar broke … literally. My desktop PC of 5 years decided to die on me yesterday. Money come, money go. BUT, I choose to give thanks to God, for His mercies and blessings for allowing me the ability of cover these financially. If these were to happen 2 years ago, I’d cry a river of tears! But it’s not THAT bad la, thank God the keyboard silicone cover that I hated so much protected the water from getting into the mac, it literally flowed away! As for my accoustic guitar, it was a matter of time before it broke … it’s been through a lot; it was about time to get a new one. Who knew it decided to break 2 weeks ago when I was supposed to be serving for ACTSkids. My desktop PC on the other hand, decided to die on me yesterday, I think the CPU is fried. There’s power going in, just that it’s not powering up anymore. I blame this on wear and tear …. I hope the hard drive is ok, that’s where all the important things are. All these can be replaced … so I’m ok with that. Two weeks ago after the guitar broke, Evan and I went looking around for a replacement. I found a couple that I liked … just not the price though. I’m not willing to spend so much … maybe it’s just me, I’m just not willing to throw money around, especially hard earned money. It’s not easy to earn money, ok? I am not willing to spend RM5000 on a guitar … no matter how good it is. Partly because I don’t think the current skills that I have warrant a guitar of that price. Just last week, someone I knew from highschool passed away in a pretty bad car accident. We went to the same 1119 tuition before back in Form 5. I don’t recall much about him, the rest were a lot closer to him since they practically grew up in the same neighbourhood, me? I was just the new kid in town back then, so I never really got to know him that well. Strange… how come I can’t recall any of the conversations we ever had? I think he even stayed over my place once … His untimely death made me think about life once again. Funny how death always stops you in your tracks and make you ponder about your own life. What you’ve achieved in life, the wealth you made, the positions you’ve help … all gone in a blink of an eye. What values do all these things have when you’re gone? What about your money? Your hard earned money that you’ve been saving for years and not willing to pamper yourself once in a while with … all that wouldn’t matter anymore when you’re dead. Isn’t that a shame? You work your arse off and never tasted the fruit of your labour. I think that’s a shame. So, that brought me to this thought. I’ve been a stinge to myself. I work my arse off and I’m gonna reward myself for it! I got myself a new Windows Phone 7 to play around with (well, that’s not entirely true, since I wanted to have a feel of the device before developing anything on it) and this afternoon I bought the guitar. Well, not the 5k one, but a slightly cheaper one at 3.6k ... I’m loving it so far. I feel it’s ok to splurge on yourself once in a while. You don’t know the length of your days on Earth anyways; I don’t want to live in regret. Knowing that I should had done this or done that. The saddest thing is not about dying; it’s about not fulfilling all the dreams that you had. If you died today, will anyone miss you? Will anyone APART from your family shed a tear for you? I asked myself that question and was deeply discouraged and sadden by the answer. What would people remember you for? There is a lifelong project that I’m about to undertake, something that I’ve wanted to do for almost 10 years now. If I’m gonna die one day, in my death you’ll be BLESSED. Wanna know what it is? You slowly wait la …. I’m not going back to the Lord that soon :D Anyways, enough depressing thoughts for the day. Tomorrow is a new day! I’ll be conducting the final leg of our training stint at MMU. I’m not sure if I’m prepared for this, seem to have lost the momentum after bout of training in Jakarta, Singapore, Bangkok and Chiang Mai. I’m hoping to spot some talents tomorrow for future hires. You know, God has been really good to us. I’ve been counting my blessings each day! Sometimes we do take things for granted and forget that He’s been the one all along. You just to come into the realisation that the things we have now are not our own. It’s on loan. The prosperity of our business, do you really think it’s because of how awesome and clever we are? Not without the prayer support of our friends and loved ones and for His grace and mercies, I don’t think we’d come this far. To be honest, I’m even surprised we came this far! So, I’ll take this time to thank you God, for your mercies endure forever and You cause us to triump in Your name! We’ve been looking to hire 2 guys into the team. This has been one of my prayer request la … and to be honest, I haven’t done anything yet, no adverts or actively searching. Just HOPING that God will send someone along. Well, of course that doesn’t work. So I did some searching on my own and asking around. I thought about Leong since we’ve worked together before and I’ve known him for years now. I did asked if he was interested as I felt he deserved to be treated well than what he’s getting now. However, things didn’t pan out that well as he’s going to start a business together with his wife. As a friend, I feel that’s the best step forward for him and I’m really glad. I told him our doors are still open if he’s ever interested in the future. Good help is hard to find. Seriously. Well, a churchmate will be joining the company this coming April. I don’t think it’s a coicidence but by divine appointment. So … we’ll see how everything goes, this year is gonna be an exciting year of growth! 1 comments Archives nothing |
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