Day 3: <=72 hour

Yeap! Just came back from work and serisouly was lucky man! Guess what! Those 2 days that I've been working was amazingly quiet. Ok, you might say that I've brought back luck upon the palce but seriously... I always thought that mind cafe will be full house here and there... But to me... It's awefully strangly quiet.
Just as I was praying before the first day of my work that I wish that the store will not be busy and I will be able to be more slack in some sense... It came through! Wow...

As usual, I have to prepare my own meals and stuff and that is seriously something I enjoy doing now. Basically bread, milk and eggs for western style breakfast and beef "hor fan" for lunch. Might sound kind of simple but it mean so much to me... I prepare those by myself man! And the joy of doing QT whilst having meal adds on to the atmosphere and the ambience while you linger around with God's presence around you and really.. serious.. calmly having your quiet time with God. It was great and it minister to the closer and most recent issue that I was thinking about... The 7wonder.

Day 2:Home alone for <=48 hours

Did spend the whole day @ home watching show from youtube.com and also chatting online to kill s ome time. I thought I wanted to catch on some series that I have missed out on and those titles includes "Triumph in the skies" and "花樣少年少女 - Hanazakarino Kimitachihe ". So much show but so little time to watch! And soon enough... the sky turns dark without me knowing night falls again. So fast! And I just manage to catch only like 9 episodes from the "triumph in the skies" series. Man! Well... Did some simple cooking for breakfast and dinner and I found out that....
Hey! I cooks! And it taste ok man... besides being edible but should say tasty too! Wow... God uses this opportunity to allow myself to see someone in me that I have yet to realise for the past decades. Not bad not bad...

Yea! Went out with one of my buddy to school to settle some graduations procedure and paper-works. Still lingering on the fact that I've transisted from "student" to "un-employed", still couldn't really get use to days not being numbered and not being labelled as "monday" and so... Care-free and easy, but soon enough I will be caught to be more responsible and even contributing to the expense of my family... Who knows. Ya! Collected the gowns and invitation cards... They're so cool and... nice! I can't believe that I could get to wear a gradation gown again! I last wore that when I graduation from PAP kindergarden... And the best thing is.. I don't get to own the gown during the kindergarden days.. but I did now! Here are some shots...

Invitation letter

Met out with jacob (staff with RP) and had a real cool chat! And that he challenge me to sign up for university... And it reminds me of a promise and wish made to 2 of my teachers in my primary school days.. Miss Siti and Mrs Teo. And my teacher will always come to me and say stuff like "Good! I'll see you in university next time" and smile. But... University doesn't seems to such an easy words to bear anymore... It's more complex from "I want to go!" but it's about.. am I up to it. Apart from the fact that I hate to ever go for a lecture or even pick up a book to study draws me furtehr away from the mark of motivation for further studies. Unbearable and contridicting as it can be, I enjoyed being a student but I just don't like the norms that comes with it. So hard but so urgent for an answer. Well... I could only leave by saying "Good bye" to studies and "Hello" to adulthood for this while.

Oh right! I'm dead beat right now @ this moment because it's my 16th hours of continuous awaking mode after a 3 hours sleep since this morning 3am. It all happens as yesterday was mhy first day of work at minds @ boat quay and that the store closes at 3am normally on saturdays. I couldn't clock off earlier from work because the area under my care still has one more group of customer and their time will only officially ends at 0135 hours!

So I have no choice but to wait painfully for them to finish up their last bit of game as I eyed my watch at that time clocking at 0129 hours. Which means I'm working overtime for almost half an hour already! What pains me more is that I end up finish everything by 0155 since i have rto clear my area and make sure level 2 was clear (There's 2 level for minds @ boat quay) and it seriously was not something nice at all... why? Because I will be playing for my church's children ministry @ around 6 more hours later... which makes it 8am on sunday morning! MY GOD!

So the story goes.... And here I am after visiting one of my aunt (my dad's cousin sisters and family)... Tired!!!!

Right! Working issn't fun after all... but it is worth while after all as compared to all the job that I have taken up previously. Frankly... It wasn't that tiring after all since that yesterday was un-usually quiet for minds cafe on weekends. Which ever way, it's over ! :)

Oh OH! Man utd trash liverpool... I meant.. "won" by one score and that from what I heard about it... It was consider as a "lucky" shot. The ball was being grab hold of but than it came loose due to the impact and O'sheal came to rescue the day!!!! So much for a "KS" yea? But it doesn't really matters that much to me as I'm not that much into EPL anyway... So that makes me someone whom is always out of the frame when EPL fanatics or soccer enthu gathers and gossip a'lil about it.
Yeap! Anyway, I found out that any single one can't leave his or her relative house without being as the golden question that came years after years. The model ten years or more series questions.

--> (Your nickname in the family) ah... How's your school?
--> Got GF/BF or not?
--> You know what? My (HER son/ daughter) is now in _______ (fill in the blank with suitable category of schools) now know?

It hurts pretty much whenever comparision starts to take place from your relative whom are "smarter" in some sense and even the slightest fact of their child. My oh my...
What to do? Listen than... ;)

"Dear Student,

Congratulations! You have fulfilled all of the graduation criteria as stipulated for your Diploma course and will be graduating from Republic Polytechnic in AY0607 Semester 2."

These were the words that define the occupation from "student" to "unemployed". Wow... Looking back, it had been... 17 years in the education system already (inclusive from kindergarden to poly). If I am to add in uni life, that will be a cool 20 years man! WOW! How long can a person study man?! Besides the point... Now I felt that I do not just face the problem of knowing what's next in life, but also certain issue that regards my future and how should I lay my path/ pawns in order that this walk is the right one and a firm one.

One of the many issues I'm facing right now is joining staff. And certantly I'm still holding on to the bit and pieces of the jigsaw puzzle God had given me for the whole picture.

In the book "A table in the presence" by Lt Carey H. Cash, he too struggle from the fact that his father is from Navy and often engage in marine force in US. His grandfather too was a Navy officer... Coincidentally... His wife's granddad was in marine forces and is one of the greatest lengend of all time from the famous war of vietnam all the way to WWII.
He is in the midst of struggling in his military life and is hitting off in his journey towards his passion in joing the world's greatest force, the US Marine force. But just months after his marraige, he is diagnose to be down with a tumour in his head... and is quite a serious one. This tumour is located at the brain stem and is potentially highly dangerous to be remove through surgery. It's not cancerous but it leave symptoms like blurry vision and frequent light head experience or fainting spells. With that, he is considered "unfit" to be a soldier.

Through this, he manage to talk to his father-in-law whom is in the chaplaincy. Chaplaincy never cross his mind throughout the whole course because he is so blinded by the fact that he wanted to join the marines. And his father-in-law poped in a strage question... "Have you thought of being a chaplain?" After time of prayer and encouragment... He offered himself to the calling to be a chaplain... And he got his dream as well! A chaplain to the First battalion, fifth regiment US Navy Marine force.

"My heart nearly burst with joy. God's promise never fails, but to us it seemed that He really done the impossible this time"

Now this is something special that I would like to think about... Although not pretty sure how it seems like to me... But sure enough that I wouldn't want to make any rush decision this time

;)