Wrong lane for a shortcut

I was queueing up for traffic light while approaching my office. The farthest left lane is for left turning only. There was this car who just stop at the line when the light turning into red. I was right behind this car so i soft honk to signal him to turn to the left. At the moment i saw him glanced at me from his back side mirror, and ignored me. I figured he probably wanted to go straight direction and not knowing this is left-turning only lane.I flashed him with lights for couple times again and hoping he is not blocking the traffic behind by turning left. And he ignored again, and from his back side mirror i saw his expression on the mirror as if I am one of the road-buster. His face showed annoyance. At that moment i felt the urge to get down the car and tell him don't ever give this kind of look when he is on the wrong lane for a shortcut in a queue! I am a bit frustrated. He looks 40+ years old guy and i suppose he already had the driving license more than 20 years. Can't he even read the sign or follow the arrow on the road correctly?

I can understand people trying to cut queue or shortcut always for a reason. And i did the same sometimes. But cutting queue at the expense of blocking of traffic is a no-no case. People need to understand when you are trying to do things in a different way, one should not bring the impact on others. The public should not bear the cost of when you try to do things differently. In this case, i really want the guy to know that his annoyance is offensive and not respecting other road users.

But at the end , i didnot get down the car. Just wait till the green light and the car go straight and i turned left. I told myself that God forgives me and so I forgive him also.

James 1:19-20 "...Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires."

What Element is your Love?

Your Love Element Is Wood

In love, you tend to gently dominate and guide your partner. For you, love is all about sharing goals and future plans. You attract others with creativity and vision. Your flirting style is defined by your honesty and assertiveness. Growth and improvement are the cornerstones of your love life. You may focus on goals too much in relationships, but you never come out of them with a loss. You connect best with: Water Avoid: Metal You and another Wood element: will be doomed to a stormy relationship

What Element Is Your Love?

Volunteers

I took on a volunteer project that subsidized by our company. This is very interesting social responsibility project that we have over 100 students around 11 to 16 years old come joined in the project. We'd raised a lot of awareness on environmental issues - pollutions, damage of ecosystems, environmental protection, etc. What a great ideas to have this awareness created to kids who are growing up to understand about the environment. I found a great passion to be one of the volunteers in. Being a help to the students during their powerpoint presentation, their questions to answers, or even games to play with. They are pure and fascinating and cute!!! I have learnt not only how to communicate with children, and also the responsibilities about being a volunteer. So much to say about attitude of volunteer, which i probably will reiterate in my next post, I find the whole trip is just full of life learning opportunities. Given the pure heart of child, you never know what kind of questions that they will ask, and when they asked, you will be surprised what kind of thought is inside the little brain. Everytime i talked to the kid, it just reminded me that i used to be at their age. And i started to scratch my head of what i was thinking at that time compared to them now. Gosh! what an experience to be in this activity! The project will last longer as the students will be grouped to carry out the project again on 2 more phases. I can't wait to see the outcome which is expected to be by end of this year.

Life is unpredictable

Just got a call friend of mine who told me that the boss of the comic shop that i always been committed suicide yesterday evening nearby my condo. It was shocking and unbelievable! This morning i even helped myself to get his DVD and planning to return the DVD to him tonight. Yet he is no longer around. A man that I just talked to on last Sunday, and now he is gone. So fast, so unpredictable, and incredible. I was frightened the moment when i heard of this. Still remember couple months ago we are in discussion about selling off his comics shop business and i even introduce friend to him. To me, i think he is in financial difficulties and struggling to find ways out of the situation. We talked quite a bit and i even introduced him to get some printing job business from my ex company.
This incident is so sudden. Poor is the kids and wife that he left behind. Life is so short and people are struggling for different things at different stage. A lot of time if we cannot see through the bigger picture in this life, we may end up "speeding to the lake of fire". I am curious don't he wish to see what his chidren is like when they grown up? A purpose driven life is meaningful and should be full of joy even gone with trials. My condolences for his family and pray that God will comfort and delivers at time like this.

Paperless

I made a comment to one of my suppliers yesterday in a meeting that our company is very lean on paper - a well developed paperless environement. I used to keep a journal with me to record meeting minutes, notes, tasks to complete during the day etc etc.... and now bringing the journal is like a 'burden' already. Typing is most of the time rather Writing. This morning i tried to write something on paper later i found that i am only repeating the tasks on paper as already been recording in my laptop. Gosh, i am killing part of the tree here!!!

More and more of the trees are cutting down and i am sure everyone of you also feel the heat now in this country and no shedding available. Social responsibility is a big word to fulfil, but why not we start from little thingy to type rather to write?
which type are you?

Trust or Misled Imagination?

I was on a short trip to a friend's wedding last weekend. I borrowed a friend's laptop to check on emails, while he is away for another drinking session after the dinner. Something prompts me and i accidentally saw some pics that are not suppose to be seen. To me, the pics are okay and not devastating. But to the fact that it related to a trust that we put together. A series of questions prompt to my heads - shoudl I tell him i saw these pics and apologies for my invasion of his privacy? Those pics are enough to create some 'imagination' about his integrity and his behavior. To be clear, the pics are just about some friends hang out in a bar and pics taken with some nice and pretty waitresses there. No doubt it is just another guys nite out sort of pics.

It related to me an issue of trust. Because of breach of trust, I was led into pitfall of imagination that really demoted the impression i had with this guy. I don't know why, just don't feel good about it. At some point, i felt upset and disappointed. In another way, i am reluctant to believe that is true because he is really Mr Nice Guy in my life. However, being woman at this age, i must admit that we are all adult and can deal with this maturedly. To some extend, I didnot take any actions because it was our friends wedding and there would be some "aftermath" activities going on the next day. So i only mentioned that after we returned.

To him, it is just a misunderstanding of behavioral interpretation. To me, it is something hidden that refused to reveal. Hard to prove my imagination to be true and has a stand, I leave it as is. However, I know how hard it is to build a person's trust and integrity, especially someone we cared the most. I am a person that does not believe sentences that start with "I SWEAR...." it is also biblical "It is better not to vow than to make a vow and not fulfil it." (Ecclesiates 5:5) Trust is to be put on action,and need to be gained and not taken for granted.