Sunday 21 August 2011

21th August, Sunday

Last Sunday, we went to church, but not as usual, my mom got food poison, and hence she stayed at home with dark face. Well, this week, my dad caught a cough and looks so uncomfortable and so well, my mom, with an unexpressible face, with an unshakeable stand, told us not to go church. It naturally means that I would not be able to teach in the youth sunday school. I felt soooo sorry for the Wieland's as they are doing their best to keep us in the church. I am sooo disappointing them, I know so well.

The whole day, I have been feeling so strengthless, and I have to admit, it is whole week. I was grateful that I was able to accomplish something in the office yesterday so that I won't have to feel so panic in front of the managers before the course. This morning, my mom wanted to go and have blood check but we woke up so late because we didn't have to go to church as ordered by mom. Then, the whole day has been so dull and now I'm blogging. But I think I have done something pleasing my mom, I 'd washed all the clothings, not by machine, but by bare hands, and washed the toilet using the used detergent water. So well that she's our Queen, I got to obey her.

Then, how's my work now? It's hard for me to breath!! Tomorrow is Monday again, my mom got to be busy again, preparing food for her princesses ><

Saturday 6 August 2011

Crap

As always, I've been longing for the weekend to come, which indicates my off-days for the tiring week. These few days, I have been busy of tidying up my works before passing up to the hidden dragon, but unfortunately, I was not able to complete within my budgeted time, and she told me to do maximum 80 hours, so I said to myself, there would not be a problem for me to achieve that level, but then day after day, hour after hour, minute after minute, it seems I was getting closer and closer to the limit!! How could I be sooo slow, I just could not believe and she's coming back tomorrow again. I put my trust on the cute typist that she be able to complete the flawless piece of accounts before I could compile them together and send it for the first review, and the important point here is the directors will not be here starting by the early of September and it certainly means that I should speed up my pace and also in clearing off my files for storage!! That is another problem again. There are so many, almost countless things for me to do, confirmation to be chased up, finishing the file storage questionnaires, finishing the stock reportsss, and start on assisting my seniors......I almost could not focus myself on one most primary thing first. My dad always say that I'm entirely weak in arranging my schedule, and of course till now, still the same old me.

Fast Sunday, today has come. I thought today I could go and teach......and still, my mom told us to wake up earlier today to go exercise. Well, if I had been so disciplined and put the last night touching Korean movie aside, then I would have been able to wake up early to do exercise as wished and could even manage to go to church. Things just went haywire. Me and my sister just spending our sweet time watching the unfolding touching Korean movie until what time? It's close to 2 o clock. Well, I said to myself, maybe there is a maybe afterwards. Then wait, Sunday came, and I didn't prepare anything for the lesson, poor yougsters over there, they were being aborted again, by this useless crap!!!!

Well then, in the morning, of course we didn't prepare ourselves to go exercise, my mom is entirely dark faced, grilled and deep fried!! Then, another thing, my sister left herself upstairs reading book that can upright the moral characters, after having a quarrel with me, and I didn't even bother to quarrel with her. Well, I'm a crap again. I hope I could rectify these problemsss.......Things just go further like a rolling snowball, it just gets bigger and bigger, it's going to be an endless story and every finger will be just pointing on me, and the worst thing today was I spilled my entire green apple avocado juice, which my mom has prepared carefully and with love but also with dark-faced. Well, the only thing I could say about her is her mood is already not here since we didn't get ourselves ready for exercise. If I had prepared the lesson some more in advance, she'll be even over-cooked on her face!! Then, because I didn't wake up early, everything just swept from my plan!! Let's wait and see if I could even make it for the piano lesson tonight and the coming week. My heavenly father has spared me a lot of chances but I just could not satisfy his simple requirements!!!! So sad........

Monday 1 August 2011

2 Augustine 2011

These two weeks, I have been doing February Year End estate job. It's much like a formal estate job because I got to do the estate workers' remuneration analysis. The most frustrated part is they don't tie back to the ledger, and the only I think I could do is by using most of the information from ledger rather than from the workers' payroll as computed by the client. Then, very sadly soon after I started this job, I fell sick, and very tired, everday is like dragging a dead body to office and back home, there's no livelihood in me. And plus, he really seldom speak to me, even didn't bid me when I was just by his side!! Didn't he realise roughly who was standing by his side when doing something which needs high and concentrate attention? And.......it's ok but at least a reply on the phone is expected and it's short of expectation by this sense.

Anyway, I'm always number one in my family, the most important and the most special who should be given the most love. Parents are always loving in spite of their cruelty sometimes (it's always negligible when the love is so great). My mom, because of the love she has for us, wakes up every early in the morning to prepare breakfast and even lunch for us to bring to school and office. Everytime I take this food to office, I just always want to say how much I appreciate her love towards me, and my to my dad as well, as so far in my life, I haven't done something which is so proud enough to be presented to them, regardless of the past victory I have achieved. That's why, I always could laugh with sunshine despite of anything that could make me so sad and desperate and down. This is me! Sometimes, I'm hard to be predicted, and sometimes easily cheated, and sometimes pathetique......Anyway, that's all for today.

Well, what did I do on Saturday (30/7/2011)? I cut my own hair, quite satisfied on the first try, looks a bit like octopus?!

Sunday 24 July 2011

25 JuLy 2011

Dear Monday, would you please let me have time to rest more? One tiring week has gone, and the job I had requested one, is just sitting here, not much changes yet, sad......I have always been hoping that yes, I have done this below my budgeted time, but the fact is, I couldn't!! The one that did this audit last year was I think, by observation so far, an efficient one. Can I be a quarter of hers? Hopefully.

The last whole week, I've been busy on completing my Dec Year End jobs and now turned out that one more file left not yet approved by partner. But anyway, it's a great relief that I have finished my side income job, which is a very torturing job, I would consider it as. I love to write but at least not that urgent, please......plus, the fee received is only enough to spend for 1 week or two, and it's so frustrating that my brother didn't have much to do about lift up the fee a bit because he had agreed at the fee at the first place. Turning his head away means cheating! Well, just to tolerate a bit, as my brother has been so busy also, and it's kinda fair that I've delegate portion of the works to him, so I won't have to crack my entire head for the job. So, I consider it as segregation of duties that brings the better works.

So now, I hope I could focus much on this job so that it won't drag me 2 weeks to finish it, at least to be faster after I've done so many jobs so far, and people are always expecting a better me, and very weird to say that I could not exert more, lack of momentum!! And I didn't attend church meeting yesterday! I didn't teach in the Sunday School! Plus, I didn't say Goodbye to dear Nathan by my mouth!! That's a punishment for me?

Thursday 14 July 2011

15 JuLy 2011

Yesterday, we did talk, but really short and it's a bit nonsense. Anyway, glad to be able to talk to him. I was quite surprised that he said that he was left in office because they were afraid that he is too efficient until all the works are finished by himself alone! Did he read my blog? I'm curious to know but feel uneasy to ask and find out.

Well, today is the third day of getting back the my Miss Ang's job files. I did do clear the querries in every job but this plantation file is really a headache for me, and it's frustrated that she's highly dissatisfied with my work. She said all that I have done which is just following the last year's example is ok for me, but when coming to new things, I will face problems. This what she said to me and advised me to take extra time to learn and get the file cleared as soon as possible. I'm so sad and helpless. She directed me to ask for guidance from the seniors but instead, I ask from myself. I want to prove myself I'm not that poor. Can I succeed this time? Or it's another mistake again? God, Please HELP me to find out the answers!!!

Tuesday 12 July 2011

13 July 2011

I just have the feeling that the annual trip won't get its way through. First and foremost, I am not joining. hehe....just kidding. But yes, I crossed out my box on the "Not Joining" column. Initially, it's my suggestion to go to Bangkok and the rest of them chose Cebu, Phillipine and even Mabu Island and even National Park with the Tawau staffs. Anyway, I just have the feeling our president won't be so generous to join, even for his own sake only. He.....is so stingy and arrogant and.......much more........I just couldn't stand working with him. But sometimes, he does show his humour, in a way that it's quite a joke.

Well, I think even there's one trip, "he" couldn't join too. Sad.........and today, I thought we won't be able to talk but by surprise he was following us but again.........so funny, my senior said it's better we made our way back to office since there's not much work for me to follow up and since there's lots of files waiting for me to clear........Oh My Gosh.........really just for a while we talked.

Well, am I that cold enough that I won't feel anything? Am I that seems to be a steel? I don't know. Let's wait and see. And how is my work going on? Short comment: In A Mess!! But I was happy last night I got a call from my brother to write on a thesis for one subject. It naturally means that there will be $500 updated in my bank account but my brother said it's best that I could only use less than 50 hours to do it, which is really in a constraint because I'm really got stucked here in my jobs but at last I agreed to help in doing the thesis. Ganbatte Kudasai!!! I know that I'm still not at the bottleneck yet though it seems to be at.

Sunday 10 July 2011

Proposed Annual Trip

As I listened what was talked by my colleagues about the coming annual trip, I was shocked also, because I thought there won't be an annual trip, and even there is one, only travel locally. By surprise, I quickly opened up my mail and saw that the trip is to Bangkok, which I proposed once long time ago, and it's revived again! The annual trip costs for over RM1K, damned too much it seems to be! And very sad, I thought the trip could be made earlier and not November......It means I'll miss something......

Hard to explain what kind of feeling is this......probably I'm the only one who knows what is going on and the other one won't even know what it is all about. I thought I will be happy over this trip but not really, instead, a bit of pathetique......

By the way, Sister Wieland also sent me something which is amusable, it's crabs. I just love to eat crabs, they are especially juicy and nice. And plus one sentence there, going to Oregon for vacation? Yes, I would just like to say I'm doing whatever possible to save money to go to anywhere I want to go to, and also that's what I replied Sister Wieland. I wish she could see my determination to go over to their country. And at the same time, I would just say I wish to place my head on somebody's shoulder, and be like a baby forever. But who really cares? Except my family members and Heavenly Father, and my dear Brother Jesus.

Friday 8 July 2011

Transformer Night

Well, the guys in my committee decided to organise a movie night, of course without my consent, expected since the last dispute. Of course they would choose the movie of their choice and who I am? Only a nut in the bottle. Ok, that's fine with me. Since that incident, I really don't want to involve in their decision making matters, but so well that I also admitted my mistake of not doing the best I could. The movie was suggested when several of us were doing audit outside, but the good thing is I really enjoyed working there, because there were just somebody who willing to talk and laugh with me.

Anyway, I did follow this activity. Of course, I will not ever waste my RM6 contribution every month to the club. The movie was Transformer the 3rd. It's an action pact movie with lots of uncensored parts and which were not suitable for underaged, I think. But, fine, as the most important thing is to keep our thoughts clean and stable. It's not like Kungfu Panda that could relate to us the direct and pure love in the family, in which I've cried in the cinema. This movie, most of the time, I've been so dozing-off and I think mostly because of tired doing my work during the daytime =( Well, the entire night, I've been laughing loudly, but not like the Malay colleagues by my side who have been laughing and teasing loudly because of the uncensored parts. Well, at least for a standard LDS, I will not choose to do that.

My lovely Teo Chew colleague gave me rides to and fro, so I wouldn't have to worry about transport. And I got the chance to know her brother and sister. They just look like Korean people and my colleague told me that her brother is quite extrovert, and I could see that because he could just walk away with someone who is not familiar to him. That's great because he could make so many friends but I think that the bad thing is that he will be easily influenced by any kinds of factor, whether it is bad or good. Well, I would be happy if he could be guided by his family members so that he won't turn bad later in the future, because there is already plenty of bad guys just like what was illustrated in the movie and the result could be very serious. People and animal, even to an invention should stand at an equal horizon but because one or more characters wants to stand out from the rest that it will cause chaos at last, and the impact is snowballed.

The last thing, did I transform?

Thursday 7 July 2011

YHH Days

The audit work on this company is a long rally games for several of us, especially me and my permanent colleague, Chui Joo. And from there, we've become even closer =) I really don't know how much more hours I can charge on this company but it seems we have arrived at the bottleneck, and it is not only one or two, but several, and our senior got to do the consolidation. I know she's very PRO!! And of course I do admire and respect her very much, as she is just like mhy sister, teacher, scanner and everything you name it.

Everyday, my female colleague would drive us, sometimes 4 of us and sometimes 3 of us, to the client office to do the audit and almost without fail, she's our driver and this drove her lazy and fed up of doing so everyday because she grumbled a lot. She's quite Korean-oriented person, as can tell from the way she dresses herself, her bag, her songs in the car and the way she talks. And me, rather Japanese. hehehe.....Fortunately, I got the chance to listen and save lots of Korean pop songs from her, to be appreciated during my work =)

And I think we had lots and lots of enjoyable time working together, not that we had shared a lot of good ideas but we talked and enjoyed so much on talking and adding each other in the Facebook. These past three weeks, for me, is just like having vacation everyday. So, I really don't know if I have made a lot of mistakes during working. Lets wait and see......In this audit I got the chance to work with the brother of my permanent colleague and the sister of my old classmate. So coincidentally that all these people, I do know a bit of their backgrounds, of course this is espceially for the sister of my old classmate. She's just so cute and adorable, not like her sister who is a bit of bigger size, she's just like an underaged baby doll who work in one of the Big 4. hahaha......And my female permanent colleague cum driver in these trips, she's a Teo Chew, which is 100%, unlike me. She's fair-looked girl and is quite adorable also, but not like a doll. She studies in Curtin and I thought this school must has been all the while delivering quality teachings, but.......really out of my expectation, it's all overturn. Not like my uni, all of them are just like having vacation everyday and not strict at all. I think that's how I'm quite knowledgeable among my peers. I think if I had studied in that uni, I would have excelled.

And another who followed us to the field audit is a Malay girl who is very independent in everything. And she's highly efficient, I think she doesn't like to assist anybody and would like to outshine herself through handling  job on her own. That'what told me very earlier on. She's been working for 2 years in audit and yet she was still given with dormant jobs and she's highly dissatisfied. But at the end of the day, she just assisted us for one day because I was afraid she's not happy with the works she was doing and better to release her early.

And came the last, which is of much to be discussed. He's brother to my permanent colleague and he's still a trainee. This guy, he has a very outstanding body shape, which is one to be admired by girls! And, his work is also notably efficient, just like the Malay girl, but his work is much of logic, compared to hers and may be that's why she's so efficient all these whiles. His look, I can say is quite handsome too. Haha......I even told one of the staffs in the client office that he's a good looking person. And, the way he drives just like a middle-aged person, slow like a snail but........he turned to be faster when he only had to give me rides. That's weird! Well, we talked a lot, not like the comments the other people gave who do not really know him. He's cute too, and quite baby faced, just like her sister. I wonder why he's not satisfied with his body shape......

And I think yesterday was the last day I have to go down there to work and the rest of the days, I will do my own jobs and I have to say Goodbye to these sweet hours =(

Thursday 30 June 2011

~ Tiring Week ~

Today is Friday, which means I don't have to work so tough. From last week onwards, I have been following my senior to go audit a supermarket cum hotel company. I was not given mot much work to do, but yet doing so slow like a snail. It made me so tired on such pace. I want to do it faster but there's always something blocking me from going forward.

It was last week, and fortunately I was not like the others being ambused, I was told to perform stocktake, one is on 30th and one is 1st of July. Before that, I almost forgot that I had to call clients before going over. But of course calling clients is not the first step. I made the code opened first and took the last year files for her to view and comment. For always, I'm always expecting something new from Miss Sung, my audit manager. She told me to do the sampling plan first to get the number of items to be checked. I hope I have done it right to reduce the chance of being reprimanded. For another job, I emailed my engagement forms to another manager for her to review. Luckily she noticed my email and checked it, if not it would naturally mean that I won't be able to charge my time cost into this job and by that time, I would be complained by my senior of trying to charge over cost over her job =(

Then the next challenge is calling clients one by one before the days I went stocktake. One of the clients, though like offended by my words, willing to pick me up and fetching me back to office, Thanks God. Even my senior also impressed on how I could convince them to provide transport. Hehehe.......Thanks God once again!! But another one, they didn't able to provide any transport but merely a bottle of water. hehe.....better than none =) This time, my time cost shows a little improvement because I didn't take so much time as in the past to do the stockcount. That's a Good one, I supposed. And next, at night I'm planning to go for the branch social as invited by Sister Wieland and Brother Choon Sun. Then, after coming back home later, I will have to prepare my lesson on Sunday for the youth and also practice my fingers a bit for the piano lesson. Then, Saturday, I got to follow my sister to the island for the fishing activity, otherwise she will not join it. Wow, and the last is prepare a bit on my jobs for the next week, maybe to reduce some time cost and improve the efficiency? Just don't know......My eyes can hardly sustain......God, please help as I'm planning to improve more, I'm planning to give tithing also ~

Thursday 9 June 2011

Paper, Manager, Client, Family War

It's a matter of fighting, not really physically but involves a great deal of mental war. It's a tiny pay and yet it is so challenging. Our minds have to be especially clear on what we are doing at all the time. That's the work of an auditor! It's a curse and I learnt this word from University course, the Greyhound and this is a very sensitive dog. Its sensing power is so great that even a very tiny bag of drugs can be detected. And obviously we are equated to Greyhound by the people in surrounding us. For very small mistake, it could have snowball effect that will bring to a great adverse effect!! Thus, the blame is always on our wrongdoing, our poor focusing power and what not. I feel relieved when in a day client won't call me, manager won't chase after my files and partner won't tell me anything which is not nice.

Reaching home, I got to face a gloomy and evil face of my sister. She has turned into a cold lady, even colder than the winter time in Moscow, it's more than negative 500 degree celsius!! She's almost as bloodless as a dracula!! Everything that we talked to her were either not reponded or replied with a rude way of speaking. This is already a different character in her, just like Mr. Hyde!! I knew in myself, or assumed to know something that she has fallen in love with one guy which is hard to reach? I myself actually knew this much earlier on but kept quiet as ehm ehm....I myself do like him too but think that our relationship is hard to be defined as I think that he doesn't like me as his lover? Very complicated mind. I need to put my thought at rest. It has been a great struggling going on in  my mind all these while. I've turned old because of this!! I think this might be the first time I have such kinds of feeling......He has always tried to treat me just like his own sister and is that exceeding the border if I had that kinds of special feeling on him? Am I too evil to think about this? Or better just let it bygone be bygone.....as written by famous writer william Shakespear.

All these things have blended together to form my great stress. I'm not even doing on a big job, why can't I do them better, so that these group of people are impressed with my performance? From primary school onwards, I had been nominated as a model student. There's no way teachers and principal could find out my deficiency. Somehow and not expected, my life now at work is totally the other way round! I was totally blown off! The only simplest way I could relieve myself is to attach myself to my most beloved. He is readily available for me to sooth my temper and down feeling, except if the line tangled on his neck! Haha.....so, I'm so proud to be a pretty classical lady =)

Today is already Friday. So, I won't expect myself to be able to write anything not until next Monday. And Firday means I will have to prepare my sunday school class. I haven't checked what topic I'm going to teach but will try my best to improve by each lesson being delivered. Hopefully it is helping me to work towards a better me and to be ready of any challenge in the future, of course including mission that I'm planning now =)

Wednesday 8 June 2011

Chinese Orchestra Night

This is really a wonderful coincidence! Uncle Tiong, my dad's best friend bought four guests of honour tickets and were ready to watch it. I was not so sure whether he had been so sincere to watch it or not as most of the people would feel bored about. Anyway, he thought everything would turn out as planned, at least from his conversation with his naughty boy.

Then, it's the long school holiday that lasts for two weeks. They then changed their mind out of sudden to cancel their initial plan of watching the concert and went back home in Semporna! Uncle Tiong then raised his invitation to us to have the tickets! What wonderful chance! of course we were so excited and went to that concert. They splitted our group to two-by-two, so we would have chance to watch both the days. The first day was held on 1st of June, 2011 and the second was 4th June, 2011 which was the day we heard from Kevin that he would be transferred to Sibu right after he went to Singapore for visa run =( Anway, it went like this: parents went to the first session and children went to the second session. So it would be equal chance but not really the same as the first session, not the entire Sabah Ochestra Clubs were playing, so it sounded like the second was the most grand concert.

They have played lots of musics and most of them originated from Mainland and Taiwan. Of course, if the independent schools don't apple polish the governement, it would naturally show that they are going against them. Well, I don't have comment on this!

The most important point I was there because I do love chinese orchestra musics and have always dreamed to be one of them but because of my brother, I didn't join =( It was a miss that I didn't bring along the camera! What a MISSSSS! Anyway, I found out that Malaysian Chinese still have hope to cultivate their traditions here. But for me, probably I've been suppressed for toooo looonnnggg, I would chooce to leave this place and start all over in other places.

Particularly, I'm happy to learn how to sing this Kadazan's traditional harvest folk song. The following is the lyric that I want to remember:

Pak pak kang kudo
Sumunsui dot jambatan
Jambatan dot tamparuli
Pakasut tinggi oku

Silakan nodi kasutku
Naratu lod jambatan
Tinggal po dot sutakin
Nowitku ginumuli

Ontok do hari tiga
Tomu lod tamparuli
Mingusuk po hilod kadai
Mogihum dot kasut tinggi

I wish this song will be remembered and the language will not disappear as I know that this kinds of language is endangered because they have replaced their mother toungue with malay!! This is very sad!! And I hope that somedays later people will do some significant studies to make sure this language will be protected against the adverse deprivation effect created by people and environment!

Once again

When I was feeling down with all these things, works and reprimands, I was listening to this piece of familiar music. It's a violin play. For certain, it was once played by a Hollander, Willem Kampenhout. I was so obssessed of this piece of music and suddenly all these to be dumped feelings washed away!

Then, I recalled how he played, though not perfect because most of the parts were forgotten I really enjoyed listening and eventhough it's short. This piece of play has rooted in my heart. Sweet, romance, a little pathetique are the words to describe this piece. Sadly to say that I don't know the name of this play but someone plays for me once again, I'll recall that I've listened not only once.

Talking about listening to classical musics, I'm always the loyal fans, no matter what. When I feel down, I like to listen to them to sooth my emotion. When I feel happy, I love to listen to Allegro type. When I feel something to present my romance, it's classical musics again. Probably, there's no one genre that could replace it's utmost position in my heart! But there's one genre that I love too, it's new age type, especially composed by Yanni and Kitaro. I pray that these type of musics will overtake the rest of the musics and songs ! ^^

Sunday 5 June 2011

He left......

These days, I've been used to have him around in life. But, now, he's gone, I understood that because it must be a day for him to leave, as he has a special and important task to be accomplished. I wish he knows how I feel. The day just went blue, so as my heart, freezed for a while and came back alive.

I can't really tell what kind of feeling is this. Mom first time saw me having a hug with a male and she said I've improved and it seems I'm a lesbian!! My gosh!! I still remembered I really enjoyed somebody gave me something to eat and treated me so nicely, and sat so close to me. This is a "her"! Her name is Charlyn, if I have spelled this right. She used to treat me just like husband giving love to wife. I don't know even till now, whether she treated me as her wife or husband. But for sure, she's a lesbian as she gave me text messages every night without fail and suddenly she messaged me how I felt about her and she was disappointed that I only treated her like ordinary friend! From that day onwards, she never called me or messaged me anymore.....erm......She's nice if only she's normal! Then, after that there was a boy kept IM me every night, and I just knew that he has some special feeling on me but maybe the way I responded to him gave him a little hope but then dimmed out, so we didn't make that relationship further. Then, afterwards, came another guy again and this loves to drink liquor so much. He's arrogant, proud, not gentle but exceptional for me. I knew, from his words, he really wanted to further the relationship but because I don't like him, thus this was eliminated also! It's kinda cruel but I think it would be fair for both of us, at least not a long grief. So, essentially, I can be described as lone ranger all these while......

Then, came this one, which is exceptionally sweet, but I think most of the people of their kinds are nice and gentle. He was brave enough to accept challenge. Probably this has become part of his adventurous life. If I were him, I wouldn't have done that, perhaps, just to avoid any problem to be born. But I certainly like this kind of attitude. It's a Man's attitude. Compared me, I would have been avoiding any conversation with someone who's in great anger!

However, I could only, for the time being, have his image saved in laptop and in brain. My brain has been storing all kinds of things but I will sort out those which worth to be stored. Will I meet him again? I think yes, but it's going to be a riddle in my life! Let's wait and see!

Thursday 26 May 2011

Translation Day

My task lasted more or less 2 hours. I always love to be a volunteer but only if I could. Yesterday, the couple of my branch, President and Sister Wieland invited me to help them translate their messages and teachings into Malay and Cantonese. I was once a translator for university news. That time was actually a semester break and almost everyone was going back to hometown to have a getaway. My brother and I were coming back home also after a week long exam but as earlier on the air tickets that we bought did not coincidentally correspond to the schedule of our break, hence we got to wait for about more or less two weeks. Instead of wasting time staying at my house, I decided to ask for a temporary job in my area. Then, out of sudden, there was a vacancy for the data entry, so to speak. I went to apply for it and immediately, they arranged me for quick interview and tasks to do. Of course, may be I hadn't worked before, instead of compliment I had, it was the way round, complaintssss.......but that's fine with me, because I just planned to work there until the day before the flight.

All in all, those works were mainly related to editing and posting of university news, that's all. Anyway, I really love to translate, because we can find enjoyment from within! It sometimes calls for skills to interpret the message that someone else hopes to relate. That's the most enjoyable part, I supposed. Pres & Sis Wieland, and the rest of the missionarries are always so warm. They don't care how the places like for their visiting destinations. This is the biggest problem as I was dragged in also to do the translation. There are lots of our branch members are illegal immigrants, that is a constant trouble to our church because they have been degrading our reputation because they do not have legal documents to walk around. Not very long before, one of the local missionarries was caught by the authority and I cried over this matter once. It's sad but what can I do for him? The family we went visit teaching was another illegal family. The husband is a chinese, but is obviously not literated enough and his wife is a Phillipino, together with them are 6 to 7 children and the wife's mother. It's a very broken, old wooden house that was erected above the sea shore next to the other wooden houses to form a big village. That place, because was dwelled by illegal immigrants, was called also squarters area. I was not surprised that the place we were heading was this area but the dark pathway which was made up of shaky wooden planks was quite scarry, even a slendor size was I also got to be very careful on every step. Sis Wieland was amazing as she walked very fast without having to worry a lot! Her husband was not even a rival to her!

We reached there and I was like being punched on the head until the stars coming out of my sight after a long walk (it was not a long path either, but may be it's a bit scarry). We went in and the head of the family was there but was taking nap and we apparently woke him up to talk about gospel and to teach how to pray. I think every member before joining the church must have all the prequisite done before getting baptised but probably the rules and have been loosen nowadays......sad part of it. However, the children were so happy and sang a few hymns.

After that, we went to another member's house and found that the mother was busy sewing there. She was quite tough on her stand not to do any reading as Sis Wieland suggested for only a few lines. Of course not to frustrate her, we ended up just making a closing prayer and chucked off.

Anyway, anyway, anyway, I love to translate!

Sunday 15 May 2011

Spiritual Belief

From many resources I collected, heared, saw and even touched, I do know that the world has changed tremendously, from its preliminary face until now. I do sometimes wonder if this talk about revolution did exist. But I am so sure, from my personal experience, man does come out from the mother's womb, live, grows, becoming old and dies. I had neither a chance to attend my grandpa's funeral, nor my grandma's funeral too. I did not attend my grandpa's because I was too small to witness the entire process (said my mother) and I was not supposed to attend my grandma's because our Chinese horoscopes are the same. Of course, for a typical Chinese like me, I did follow exactly what was instructed lest this will bring bad lucks to myself, to the dead and to the family. A lot of time, it sounds so stupid to blindly follow this culture but for harmony, I compromise.

Next, talking about baptism, it is so much related to personal feeling to the belief we hold. If we believe, we definitely won't regret to be baptised to the church where we are associated to. But how if we, after baptism, do not follow exactly what the teachings and covenants we made during the baptism? Of course, all that we know, there is always exception to the general rules. But how if this is directly the relationship between Heavenly Father and ourselves? I personally believe because we do believe Father does exist, so as his teachings, I am definitely grateful for that, even proud of. But because lots of time, we live just because somebody needs us to, we do somethings just because somebody told us to, we follow this and that just because somebody hopes us to......It is certainly almost incredible to change this somebody's thoughts but to compromise hoping that this peaceful and harmonious state does continue. Although I am not from the Royal family like Prince William and Prince Harry, but I always find that my status quo always exists and I could hardly find room for further development.

Well, we can say "Time" can change everything, from bad to good, but there is alaways Plus and Minus as my dad always say. Weather would not stay fine for 365 days, so does the human's mood. Finally, this happened to my sister. She's the only one left in our family yet to be baptised, but because we do attend church activities, she's apparently one of the members. Can anybody kindly tell me, is baptism involve any worldly things, especially status in the society? spiritual escape? or even skin colours? Father does not differentiate human based on skin colours, but the humans do. I can tell that this somebody must be so confident in herself that she thought whatever done by her is always correct but I do know she has made a mistake. I do respect her but I do protest. But what I could do is only to constantly provide admonition to her. Sadly to say that most of the things I have said are not accepted, becaused this somebody has been so self-centred. Anyway, anyway, anyway, I will pray that Father will always pick us up from the drain.

Spritual belief can be compared to Harry Potter's story. Whoever acts evilly will be punished, even if this involves endless sacrifices. Sometimes, what we see is not what we are perceived. There are lots and lots of possibility. What we could do at the otherside is to guess and guess and guess, until it might turn out to be a useless piece of findings. What we could learn from is the process, the experience from it.