UP! – Relationships vs sentimental value

About 2 months ago, Alvin, Gerald, Seow Chean and I caught UP! It was a cute and funny show, yet with a lot of meaning.
After the movie, I penned down some thoughts for the night:
- Where do we place current relationships in comparison to things of sentimental value which remind us of past relationships?
- Are these memories more important and worth keeping, even at the expense of current relationships?
- Are we willing to “give old things up” for new things to come?
- And how about relationships in comparison to other tasks or things that are important to us?

I used to get upset over non-living things, like when my favourite TV shows didn’t get recorded, and made my whole family unhappy. I don’t anymore, not for TV shows, but there are still some things which I hold on to a little too tightly. I think each of us has. So the next time I face a dilemma, I shall ask myself: What are the things that will last, that are important for eternity? Don’t think it’s easy to always choose the right thing when I don’t feel like it, but ah well, I’ll try :)

Beauty!

This is Beauty, my new workstation at home, where I post all my blogs and do all my surfing from! Its not a “monster” comp – i.e. the specs are not super power – but its good enough, and pretty too, right? Haha. Plus she’s a Lenovo – my favourite brand for notebooks (although she isn’t one but nearly operates like one).

A great and affordable buy from COMEX in Sept 2009, thanks to Alvin and his fantastic persuasion skills! :D

Being happy with who I am

I'm terrible at counselling, at teaching, at giving verbal instructions, and basically anything that requires me to think heavily on my feet and not at my desk.

Give me something to manage and I'll gladly do it, yet I'm nowhere near a good leader.

I am someone who loves administration, silly and useless as it may be to some. I laugh at the man-made problems bureaucracy creates, yet I enjoy listening to these problems and I'm learning to sort between what's important and what's not.

I can't stand analysing words and processes, but numbers I'll analyse any day.

For the past months, maybe years, I have been upset with myself for not being able to do the things that people I look up to can do, yet I am lousy at. The world seems to be looking for people who can do what I can't. A friend who can listen and advise, a consultant to streamline processes, etc. Who really needs a leader who can't inspire or a fantastic book-keeper?

Once again, today, while I was being upset with myself while walking back home, I was reminded that God created each one of us different and unique. These things I can't do, because of my upbringing or my innate personality, were all within His plan. He had a reason for making me not the same as "everyone else", or at least the type of person I was thinking about. And with who He made me to be, He had a purpose for me.

So I told myself, even if my purpose is to be useful to just that 1 person in the world, I'll just faithfully keep to it. And I know that at least 1 person treasures what I think and finds what I say genuinely useful :)

At the end of the day, there are always things that I can learn to improve myself, but well, I shouldn't get too hard up if I take a longer time to catch it, as long as I continue to learn and grow each day!

Writing a story

A few weeks ago, Nicholas, my fellow P3 tutor, taught the kids about the essentials of a story (basically the 6 Ws), and got them into groups to come up with a story each, based on the genre assigned to them.

Here’s the fairy tale my 4 dearest P3 girls came up with:

Who:                Princess Qiao Mei and Prince Nicholas Alvin 
                          (thanks to Nick’s input)

When:              At night

Where:            In the castle

What:               Princess Qiao Mei and Prince Alvin had many, many 
                           babies.                

Why:                Princess Qiao Mei and Prince Alvin loved each other.

HoW:               They got married and had many, many babies.

Nick’s comments: Er… Girls, what is the problem and the solution? Too many babies?

(This account has been narrated to the best of my failing memory, but should not defer significantly from the original.)