Can you imagine how you would feel... a drowning kitten who struggle so hard for its life, trying to use the powerless jaws on front legs, squeeced as much as possible on the forehead, trying to give all its strength to climb up the side walls of a drain... she was hysterical, breath unsteadily, felt like the whole world is left behind, can't hear or see anything but her focus on breathing non stop. The oxygen can never be enough for the little nose and vein to get the blood stream down, it can never get enough to inhale suficiently... afraid there is not even enough strength to have the heart pumping, the beat is just too fast to catch up forever... this is the time one could wish to have a different system to survive, an alternative other than the heartbeat. She was saved, yet she was shaking heavily. she can't walk but just lied down restlessly. How much she thought she can just stay on the green grass for another one minute. But she was alerted, and she knows she can't, she has to continue the fight.... don't fall sleep, because sleep will never come awake to see the world. So she bearly survived. Struggled again to wake up to see the first light shined through her eyes. She know her destiny and time to wake up. Without delay, she was on the move, one step another, dragging along the weaken body. Just hope this is another day that nobody will see her suffering through. There is no reason to earn pity from another eyes. So she walked straight and see straight, heading the way back home. Imagine of a nice warm house just on the other end of the road, there is no hesitation but dragging along. Soon she know she will be home...
This story dedicated to a special friend who had been through the suffering just like the drowning kitten in his life. So sudden yet no preparation. How many of us can get through? I always felt for people who can describe, because to anybody else the situation is indescribable if not experiencing every bit of it. I believe every beating of his heart is precious and every laughter is wonderful to him and for him...Just hope he can get through the suffering. In God, we trust.
Saturday, May 3, 2008
Friday, February 1, 2008
Creating a Memory
Today i have attended a forum. There is this story that shared by a brother regarding "creating a memory":
Ken Blancard – One minute manager shared a story about a business consultant in grocery chain training more than 3,000 employees to approach their jobs with the goal of creating a memory for their customers; to distinguish their store from all the others
When Johnny, a 19 year old bag boy with Down syndrome heard this, his first response was “I’m just a bag boy” – He went home to share with his mom what the consultant had said
Johnny and mom pondered how he could create a memory for his customer
He had a habit of collecting inspirational sayings he often read; decided to print out these sayings and placing one in each of his customers’ bag and say “I’ve included some of my favorite sayings in your bag in the hope they will encourage you today. Thanks for shopping with us.”
After a few weeks, an amazing thing happened. One day the store manager noticed all the customers was lined up at only one cashier station even though there were other stations open. Manager panicked, thinking other stations were broken. Actually, customers wanted to come through Johnny’s line in order to get his sayings of the day!
One woman told the manager, “I used to comes to the store once a week, but now I come every day!” Johnny’s exa,ple spread to other departments in the store – florist giving a flower to each florist customer, meat department put Snoopy stickers on each meet with special greeting – The act of one bag boy changed the entire climate of the store
Like Johnny, Jesus was all about creating memories. How can you create a memory for someone in your workplace today?
Just over at lunch, a friend of mine, who just diagnosed with a kind of heart disease telling me this - "I don't know what to give you in return, what I could give you is visible, but do you know that what you given to me is invisible?" this message has been pondering in my mind for the rest of this afternoon. I am surprised to hear this from this friend. He showed me what is appreciation, just a simple sentence that actually reminds of me that when is the last time i show my appreciation to the loved ones?
Creating a memory - i actually didn't realize how much i have been creating a memory in his life. It is just a normal friendship thing. However, when he was diagnosed with that sickness, i had been encouraging him with God's words and just hope that he will always live his life to the fullest. He ever told me that there is no one around him that actually said this kind of things to him. It all looks new to him and unique. I believe in God's work, and maybe that is the purpose why i met him and why we can get along well. Although his length of life is so much unpredictable, but I just give thanks to God and continue to pray for his strength...
Ken Blancard – One minute manager shared a story about a business consultant in grocery chain training more than 3,000 employees to approach their jobs with the goal of creating a memory for their customers; to distinguish their store from all the others
When Johnny, a 19 year old bag boy with Down syndrome heard this, his first response was “I’m just a bag boy” – He went home to share with his mom what the consultant had said
Johnny and mom pondered how he could create a memory for his customer
He had a habit of collecting inspirational sayings he often read; decided to print out these sayings and placing one in each of his customers’ bag and say “I’ve included some of my favorite sayings in your bag in the hope they will encourage you today. Thanks for shopping with us.”
After a few weeks, an amazing thing happened. One day the store manager noticed all the customers was lined up at only one cashier station even though there were other stations open. Manager panicked, thinking other stations were broken. Actually, customers wanted to come through Johnny’s line in order to get his sayings of the day!
One woman told the manager, “I used to comes to the store once a week, but now I come every day!” Johnny’s exa,ple spread to other departments in the store – florist giving a flower to each florist customer, meat department put Snoopy stickers on each meet with special greeting – The act of one bag boy changed the entire climate of the store
Like Johnny, Jesus was all about creating memories. How can you create a memory for someone in your workplace today?
Just over at lunch, a friend of mine, who just diagnosed with a kind of heart disease telling me this - "I don't know what to give you in return, what I could give you is visible, but do you know that what you given to me is invisible?" this message has been pondering in my mind for the rest of this afternoon. I am surprised to hear this from this friend. He showed me what is appreciation, just a simple sentence that actually reminds of me that when is the last time i show my appreciation to the loved ones?
Creating a memory - i actually didn't realize how much i have been creating a memory in his life. It is just a normal friendship thing. However, when he was diagnosed with that sickness, i had been encouraging him with God's words and just hope that he will always live his life to the fullest. He ever told me that there is no one around him that actually said this kind of things to him. It all looks new to him and unique. I believe in God's work, and maybe that is the purpose why i met him and why we can get along well. Although his length of life is so much unpredictable, but I just give thanks to God and continue to pray for his strength...
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Being the GROWN up now
Today i am getting older, by age, .... yeah....
Not trying to sound sad, but got into some arguments with colleagues on some work issues recently and really found a big reap - not in age for today, but in the mind. It is all about learning to work with people, like what WO always tell me all these dragons that he learnt in his "dealing with difficult people" Dragon is all about hard core of a person's character, which is also a protective shield that a person put on to uphold the behavior. When the dragon of a person is exposed, it is easily identified. Yet when our own dragon exposed, that is the hardest and most difficult to deal with. Yes, a lot of time we see people's dragon but not ours. With the new grown by age and by this new year, whatever resolution it is, i have set my goals.
1) be peaceful, especially when argument arrives. I found 99% of time we will have no solutions when emotion is involved
2) be the one to back off during the 'hot' argument will appreciate and gain more credibility after the argument ( i got to learn about this)
3) Learn to have self-control (I am not young anymore, should not be so problematic onwards, right)
4) State positive sentences upfront before negative if had to ( i think i am the one who always straight to the point and that is why i never think much about 'beautify' my sentences before blurt out from my mouth)
Growth lesson never ends, but at least we are improving ourselves little by little in faith... Thank God who has given me the discernment!
Not trying to sound sad, but got into some arguments with colleagues on some work issues recently and really found a big reap - not in age for today, but in the mind. It is all about learning to work with people, like what WO always tell me all these dragons that he learnt in his "dealing with difficult people" Dragon is all about hard core of a person's character, which is also a protective shield that a person put on to uphold the behavior. When the dragon of a person is exposed, it is easily identified. Yet when our own dragon exposed, that is the hardest and most difficult to deal with. Yes, a lot of time we see people's dragon but not ours. With the new grown by age and by this new year, whatever resolution it is, i have set my goals.
1) be peaceful, especially when argument arrives. I found 99% of time we will have no solutions when emotion is involved
2) be the one to back off during the 'hot' argument will appreciate and gain more credibility after the argument ( i got to learn about this)
3) Learn to have self-control (I am not young anymore, should not be so problematic onwards, right)
4) State positive sentences upfront before negative if had to ( i think i am the one who always straight to the point and that is why i never think much about 'beautify' my sentences before blurt out from my mouth)
Growth lesson never ends, but at least we are improving ourselves little by little in faith... Thank God who has given me the discernment!
Wednesday, January 2, 2008
Complaint vs Comment
It had been quite a while that i didn't come back for this blog. What a lazy blogger i am. Dec 2007 marked a very very important month for my life journey. Being newly wed, I got so much to do and so tensions about welcoming this new life. Although it seems normal to him, but to me, Gosh, that is just full of things to adjust myself!
We had been discussing about Complaints vs Comments. To me by definitions, if somebody given me a "comment" it means what i do or say can be improve to better. When somebody given me a "complaint" means what i have done or said is wrong or negatively impact another. To me, complaint followed by comment is best to build a person's characteristics. Being newly wed, one of the biggest complaint that he alwasy said to me is that i got a lot of complaints. Complaints about life, work, friendship, and even our relationship... i sometimes also realized that i do make complaints, but i also comments. And important thing is not to mix the 2. I found it frustrated when these 2 are mixed and i was pre judged. i found it difficult to deal with if another pre judged you with some biased opinion. Given it is at work or at home or when you deal with your friendships stuff. Noises are being filtered, and more than 70% only what we want to hear will pass through the brain. I am upset, because my so called 'noises' probably didn't pass through at all. Disappointment & no responses created more complaints and comments.
Learning - 1) Clarify if you are making a complaint or a comment. If there is nothing wrong with the current situation, you make comment only to hope for improvement, which may not guaranteed to satisfy your need. In this case, you have the live with it or walk away with it. 2) make complaint if there is direct and great impact on you physically or emotionally, it can be grievance, but later make sure you add a comment of how to make it improve.
We had been discussing about Complaints vs Comments. To me by definitions, if somebody given me a "comment" it means what i do or say can be improve to better. When somebody given me a "complaint" means what i have done or said is wrong or negatively impact another. To me, complaint followed by comment is best to build a person's characteristics. Being newly wed, one of the biggest complaint that he alwasy said to me is that i got a lot of complaints. Complaints about life, work, friendship, and even our relationship... i sometimes also realized that i do make complaints, but i also comments. And important thing is not to mix the 2. I found it frustrated when these 2 are mixed and i was pre judged. i found it difficult to deal with if another pre judged you with some biased opinion. Given it is at work or at home or when you deal with your friendships stuff. Noises are being filtered, and more than 70% only what we want to hear will pass through the brain. I am upset, because my so called 'noises' probably didn't pass through at all. Disappointment & no responses created more complaints and comments.
Learning - 1) Clarify if you are making a complaint or a comment. If there is nothing wrong with the current situation, you make comment only to hope for improvement, which may not guaranteed to satisfy your need. In this case, you have the live with it or walk away with it. 2) make complaint if there is direct and great impact on you physically or emotionally, it can be grievance, but later make sure you add a comment of how to make it improve.
Friday, November 16, 2007
9 words of women
Nine words women use...
1.) Fine : This is the word women use to end an argument when they are Right and you need to shut up.
2.) Five Minutes : If she is getting dressed, this means a half an hour.
Five minutes is only five minutes if you have just been given five more Minutes to watch the game before helping around the house.
3.) Nothing : This is the calm before the storm. This means something, And you should be on your toes. Arguments that begin with nothing Usually end in fine.
4.) Go Ahead : This is a dare, not permission. Don't Do It!
5.) Loud Sigh : This is actually a word, but is a non-verbal statement often misunderstood by men. A loud sigh means she thinks you are an idiot and wonders why she is wasting her time standing here and arguing with you about nothing. (Refer back to #3 for the meaning of nothing.)
6.) That's Okay : This is one of the most dangerous statements a women can make to a man. That's okay means she wants to think long and hard before deciding how and when you will pay for your mistake.
7.) Thanks : A woman is thanking you, do not question, or Faint. Just say you're welcome.
8.) Whatever : Is a women's way of saying F@!K YOU!
9.) Don't worry about it, I got it: Another dangerous statement, meaning this is something that a woman has told a man to do several times, but is now doing it herself. This will later result in a man asking 'What's wrong?' For the woman's response refer to #3.
1.) Fine : This is the word women use to end an argument when they are Right and you need to shut up.
2.) Five Minutes : If she is getting dressed, this means a half an hour.
Five minutes is only five minutes if you have just been given five more Minutes to watch the game before helping around the house.
3.) Nothing : This is the calm before the storm. This means something, And you should be on your toes. Arguments that begin with nothing Usually end in fine.
4.) Go Ahead : This is a dare, not permission. Don't Do It!
5.) Loud Sigh : This is actually a word, but is a non-verbal statement often misunderstood by men. A loud sigh means she thinks you are an idiot and wonders why she is wasting her time standing here and arguing with you about nothing. (Refer back to #3 for the meaning of nothing.)
6.) That's Okay : This is one of the most dangerous statements a women can make to a man. That's okay means she wants to think long and hard before deciding how and when you will pay for your mistake.
7.) Thanks : A woman is thanking you, do not question, or Faint. Just say you're welcome.
8.) Whatever : Is a women's way of saying F@!K
9.) Don't worry about it, I got it: Another dangerous statement, meaning this is something that a woman has told a man to do several times, but is now doing it herself. This will later result in a man asking 'What's wrong?' For the woman's response refer to #3.
Thursday, November 15, 2007
Resistance to change
Recently i have upgraded my laptop software to office 2007. It is kind of new thing to me, cos i felt like i need to re- learn office. The layout is totally different and that is what called "ribbon setting" haha.... i see the reason why the design is being 'improved' to become ribbons --> less clicking --> more efficient. But i still see people resist to change. Some of my friends don't even bother to take a look at it just because of the new face lift is too 'shiny' on them and difficult for the to adapt, etc. Anyhow, i see this as normal. When it comes to things that totally change the usual perception, 1st reaction is always back off first -> wait and see. But i think MS is pretty smart about this. And could be the reason why they changed the format to .xlsx to signify the version. In fact this will eventually impact everybody who use MS office ; as more and more people is using the offie 2007, it creates the demand to change because the file will no longer be compatible to other version. Currently for compatibility reason, i always save my files to 2003 version, however when more and more people start using 2007 version, saving the file to 2003 becomes inefficient in work place and the people start to shift for upgrading to office 2007 .... MS really have a smart move to shift people towards efficiency by less clicking yet forcing people to change another way round!
Friday, November 2, 2007
I am still around...
It has been such a long time, i left this blog.... real busy and big change in my life for the past few months... Nevertheless, it is time back on track start again my blogging.
For the past few months i am so overwhelmed with everything that you would have experience in whole year. It looks like i am trying to rush up everything before the end of the year, but i actually i am not and not intentionally.
Anyhow, i need to reboot this blog. Again, this blog will focus on my personal thought every morning, and to share with all my friends...
For the past few months i am so overwhelmed with everything that you would have experience in whole year. It looks like i am trying to rush up everything before the end of the year, but i actually i am not and not intentionally.
Anyhow, i need to reboot this blog. Again, this blog will focus on my personal thought every morning, and to share with all my friends...
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