Tuesday, July 24, 2007Y
abt losing directions and living life the way you want to
looking at my entries...realised i have not been posting much abt the creative aspect for a long long time. am i losing myself in work? i hope not. need a constant reminder and i am glad to have the blog to help me do that.
office front:was told that i'll be doing something different from what i have been doing. i'm moving on to doing travel, hotel, mobile phone purchase and events. all these fit into the reason for taking up the job in the first place. they are things i want to be exposed to and the network i will like to have. finally got it after 1.5 years.will see how it goes as contract is until dec 07. history seems to be repeating itself for now and i hope it's not going o repeat itself further....
2006 - offered contract job to assist with organising an annual event which is something i will want to experience, came in and job scope got changed to a routine administrative one, after event was over, continued to cover someone on maternity. before i know it, one year has passed.
2007 - it's the annual event again, will be involved administratively again. offered a job scope of what i want to experience and will be covering someone who will be covering the boss who's going on maternity. see the similarity? i hope history stops repeating from here and i'll get to learn what i initially wanted to learn when i accepted the job.
i need to learn. i need to experience new things. i don't want to waste my time and my life here with no major achievement because i know and i believe i can do much more and make a huge difference in society. i know i will.
passion front:having many learning
jewelry during lunchtime with very focussed participants. lots of beautifully completed projects. going to start a
knitting/crochet group soon. that will be another lunchtime session. with this, i'll be having 3 fun sessions during lunch time.
started a learning blog,
http://www.star-guidance.blogspot.com/, and have got the basics of knitting already in there. will continue with either jewelry or crochet and looking at having some simple patterns posted as well.
looking around for a shop space. have been visualising what i want the place to be like and what i want to achieve with it so i guess now's the time to look for one.
my amazing weekend:met up with an amazing lady on sunday. she's only 29 and already owner of 4 or 5 businesses and in the process of more to come....a millionaire at 25, what more do i need to say. listening to her talk has been an inspiration. got me thinking and rethinking how i should be doing things. what have i been doing not enough of? what's holding me back? i have so much more to learn.
life's an interesting journey - to learn and to influence and to achieve - we decide how much we want to do of each aspect or none at all.
everything's a personal choice.
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Thursday, July 05, 2007Y
an eventful Thailand trip
flight to Bangkok.....got off on time
reach Bangkok....on time
Bangkok immigration....a very long time....the queues don't seem to be moving and it took ages to clear immigration
Banyan Tree Bangkok....nice place to stay
event number 1: went to MBK and left my shopping bag in the toilet. didn't realise it till we were about to leave. lucky me....the one who picked it up brought it to the information counter. :))
event number 2: massage appointment was at 9am so set alarm to wake up at 8.15am. didn't realise i set it at singapore time so went to the spa at 7.30am thinking i've only got a half hour wait. no wonder everyone was giving me the curious look. no time lost....i went for sauna and a nice refreshing bath.
event number 3: all ready and looking forward to a relaxing massage to be told that the appointment has been moved to 10am. uh....why no one informed me? could have slept for another hour. anyway, decided to have a light breakfast while waiting and it was worth waiting.
after that it was what i've been waiting for...to meet up with my kids and go shopping with them. haha....then comes event number 4....a long long story.
Jeremy had a really bad tummy ache. thought it was food poisoning. turned out to be acute appendicitis. got admitted to Phyathai 2 Hospital, immediate surgery and stayed in the hospital for 2 days.
dawned on me how serious it was when we were at the entrance of MBK, the place he's been waiting to get to, and he says he can't walk. knowing him, he would just tolerate the pain and get what he's been wanting to get but he's telling me no he can't walk. he just wants to sit there. didn't want to move...not even to get back to the hotel. daddy went all over the area looking for a clinic....couldn't find one. looking back, probably not meant to find one. otherwise, he would have been diagnosed for food poisoning and sent back with some painkillers. the worst could have happened. what went through my mind then? something i read about a lady who ate at a roadside stall in bangkok, had a really bad tummy ache, dignosed for food poisoning but didn't get well. she didn't make it. fear went through me and i prayed to relieve his pain.
staff at Pathumwan Princess advised to go to the hospital, got a cab and the driver was just superb in service. we were caught in a traffic jam, he saw how much pain jeremy was in and took the initiative to try and get a motor-taxi for us everytime the cab had to stop. couldn't get one after 2 tries...he managed to weave his way through traffic and got us to the hospital in rather quick time.
what went through my mind in the cab? jeremy was clenching his fists and keeled over with pain, he was all tensed up. was there fear at this point? no, there was this pain in my heart because there was nothing i can do for him other than pray. miraculously, the moment i started praying, he was all relaxed till we reach the hospital. that was also when the traffic suddenly opened up and the driver was able to always find an empty slot to move forward and out of the jam.
at the hospital, superb service as well. he was registered, checked, diagnosed and ready for the operation all within an hour. this would never have happened in Singapore.
i was leaving my son's life in the hands of a surgeon i don't know anything about and in a foreign land. will all go well? i doubted and know i should not have when my sisters and brother-in-law and mum sent prayers reminding me that the Lord is the only surgeon and he will be the one to lead the surgery. how could i have doubted? from then on, i knew all would be well and nothing could go wrong because Jeremy will be in good hands. Praise the Lord for i know He will always be there for us. all went well and we're back in Singapore safe and sound.
all i can say about thailand is that their service is top-notch. there are things and processes that are not up to standards but it's difficult to get angry with them. they are all just so helpful...the hotel staff, the taxi driver, the hospital staff, even the locals.
one more event to back my claim on superb service....the taxi driver who was sending me from the hospital to the hotel didn't know where it was. i didn't have the address and my phone had run out of battery. all i know is the name of the station. he still took me there, got out of the cab to ask around and drove round the area just to get me there. no words of frustration, just smiles and apologies. i am really touched. we can never match that.
now for pics of jeremy in the hospital....
preparing for surgery
Jeremy's harem of nurses....to clean him and make his bed for him
his inflamed appendix....only the tip at the top is normal. the rest is the inflamed section. yucks....
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