Wrapping up the year

It is the last day of 2010. I've gone through all the ups and downs alone with a little help of my faith in the Lord. I can't forget the end of every year as it is the best time in the year. Friends that never fail to surprise me even two days after my birthday. SJ4P gave me a special treat last night and sorry to all the other guest in the restaurant for the inconvenience when the restaurant go black out for the sake of my birthday cakes' entrance.

Happy Birthday

It is my birthday today. My thank you list is so long but ultimately to these special people whom I've met in person during this season.

Thank you list: Julia, KahSoon, Catherine, WaiLeng, Swan, Yang, Eugene, ChongEe, Sandy, CY, KokAng, and Terrene.

The gifts are very much appreciated.

Love in Christ,
Gabriel

Eve & Be-Early B'day

Thanks to these people, Eddy Fung & May, Dong, Vanice & YingYing. We had our Christmas dinner at Alexis, Bangsar before the surprise pre-birthday celebration. I'm so blessed to have friends who remember my birthday. A simple cake cutting ceremony with some gift receiving (not exchanging) because I didn't prepared any. :(

I pray that you people will excel in your career path and continue to cultivate our friendship.

Thank you.

Scale

A giant construction is going on with my heart as I'm building a handsome heart.

Caution: WORK IN PROGRESS.

*When your heart is beautiful, it makes you beautiful in a whole package.

Merry Christmas

Have your wishlist ready? I've got a whole long list but it is for me to achieve and I know since young my parents are the only Santa & Santarina. Be good to them this Christmas and start to love the real important people around you.

God has given us the best present which is an entry ticket to Heaven.

Happening week

Year end will always be the most anticipated time of the year for me, as it is Christmas season and not forgetting the time where I need to jot down my age 3 days after Christmas. Soon after that it will be another year. I hope you enjoy this season as much as I do.

Age vs Maturity

I've known some friends since primary and secondary school days. Unfortunately they have been quite idiotic which leads to broken friendship link. I mean if we bump into each other they would still put up a show saying hi but behind that its all sissy gossips. It can be quite annoying knowing a bunch of liars thinking you were born yesterday but after a while it doesn't matter much because you know that they have not grown in spirit just physically aging. These friends were in different proffesion some I've given advice and helped in their career however due to advices being bold and honest some think that it is offensive. I don't blame them nor do I ask for an appreciation. I do not count blessings I give to friends. So now I shall explain why they are childish in a few of many ways. No pointing fingers just a general classification of the "niche" group. As we all know we are at the age of building our career in our own ways, in real world friends exchange contacts or pull strings to create opportunity for each other and ofcourse build business together. These cavemens would treat it as if people will do better if they introduce or they previously bullshitted about their contacts. Ofcourse no obligations with contacts, after all it is personal preference. I think in a community especially relatives and friends there are uncountable opportunities to be unearth. Sharing contacts is totally FREE. Another example: If I'm working in a bank and so happen I've a relative who has contacts in another bank, the relative could actually pull some strings and create opportunity in my career or even just introduce for network building sake. You never know next thing in the pipeline might be a billion dollar bank to bank deal. Non of the example is directed to anyone specific. I just think that people around me are overly conservative and not mature enough to look beyond their own selfish character. We are in the echo boom generation, are you going to stay at where you are and work till you retire or are you ambitious to look at the big picture. Grow up kids!

古月天

Our Bank's Regional CEO, Country Manager, General Manager decided to head out for lunch last night. As a small fry in the bank I get to tag along. Dining with them is always good, the dining table is where we could be less serious about work and crack some jokes. Food quality remains high everytime we eat out and we charged it to the bank. I'm blessed to be working here with good mentors.

Alcohol

Had a great time on Friday night over at a friend's place downing shots of Bacardi neat. Haven't been drinking for ages and surprised that I could still stay up late that night and finished a classic flick showing on AXN.

Sat night was the a family dinner with relatives and grandparents. After dining over at King Crab, we head over to Uncle's residence and had wine while catching up with each and everyone. This is the night where I was told to work overseas, I'm really taking that into consideration after much persuasion.

1/2 day

Took half a day off so that I could go help Julia out with the cell gathering and maybe practice some music. Might stay over at Jules's inn depending on transportation arrangements. I'm actually quite excited to hear from Ps. Lee Choo's sharing.

Highschool sweet heart dropped me a message today to arrange for a meet up. It has been ages since we last met. Reminds me how I fell for this highschool sweetheart. It feels like a joke to look back on how silly I was back then shying away from the girl you like. Nowadays falling for someone is as tough as eating vegetables. I just can't be bothered and like what LiYen said single soul that are married to work might have to take some time off to do some serious soul searching.

Breakkie

Took some time off during my lunch to update this poor little abandoned blog of mine. I've been doing alot of work basically taking up new role and at the same time doing analyst's job. It is going out of hands that I think they should pay me the salary of the analyst + my current job since they still haven't find someone to take over my job. Over the weekend when I was in Singapore, I've noticed that I'm actually missing someone back in KL. So I just bought a souvenir hoping that it will put a smile on her face.

Before the work starts pilling up, I shall get it cleared as soon as possible.

A weekend away

I'm glad that I managed to took a day off on Monday which gave me the opportunity to run away from the Malay land and cross the bridge to a 1st world country. Met up with some friends and my dearest couz. I just don't know where to start if I had to talk about my trip.

That's me walking towards Esplanade. Pretty tired already spending my entire Sunday at Universal Studios.

Son

Today my boss passed me a bank receipt which I've claimed my expenses in Labuan. He banked in the cheque for me and he paid attention to my account details. As I have a joined name account with my mum so that she can sign and withdraw money as she wish but ofcourse she didn't abused it. So my boss noticed it and gave me confirmation saying that I'm a good son. I wonder if anyone else is doing this? My thought was that my money should be shared with my parents since they have been feeding me well since I was born.

爱与命

最近在面子书上最热门的就是那为爱自杀的傻瓜。
年纪轻轻才他妈二十二就决定离开父母兄弟姐妹。
唯一觉得他“吊”的就是他有种而且够痴线。
所以爱情这东西都是成熟点去面对和体会。

老土的讲一句：不是有心就不要随便谈恋爱

Route

I want more...

More of You

more of you Jesus.

Nothing more, not relationships, not tangible goods.

Double the joy

This year I've got something on top of my year end bonus which is actually the share that I've bought last year. Year on year gain was more than 100%. I remember I bought it at around 87cents a share and now I'm selling it off at 1.90 per share. Seems like God is walking on my side lately.

Tuesday

I didn't notice it was an off day until one of my cell member reminded me when I was invited to join prayer meeting. However I need to allocate some time to practice the song that I'm going to lead this coming Wednesday which is also 40&3's last meeting for year 2010. I was thinking maybe next year I'll have to focus further on my career and God's work. Being really good this year has brought me a lot of reward. Anyway back to what's new today would be me waking up to clean up my room and it was way more work than I've expected. How did you make use of an off day?

Finale trip

I'm heading to Singapore on the 10th this month as a closing for my outing this year. Had my tickets to Universal Studio reserve thanks to my new friend in Singapore which I haven't met yet. Not doing any Christmas shopping because I'm more focused on getting the things which I've already had in mind. I don't like to waste money on things that creates no value especially for the means of showing off. I think having the zeroes stamped in the bank book or assets worth a whole lot more.

I strongly agree that we should not judge a person's wealth by appearance.

Visitor

It was great last night at cell with visitor Allison dropping by. I've also visited her cell which has an awesome name Passion and Zeal ("P&Z"). The last time I dropped by P&Z was during mooncake festival and coincidently it was Celine's farewell. I hope she is doing well in Singapore with my fellow cell member KahSoon. I'll be dropping by Singapore to pay my friends a visit and hopefully I can get in to Universal Studio to check out what is all the hu-haa about.

Besides cell I've been spending most of my time reading and going through the web searching for business opportunities. I just can't see money sitting in the bank account accumulating without a better purpose. I would like those hard earn money work for me a little maybe they'll earn me a small pie every year as a bonus.

Realistic aim

Some time ago, a friend asked whether I've achieved certain goals I've set this year. To be honest, I don't set short term goals and put them down in a list. I set realistic goals. Well since I have no actual goals drafted out I shall recall from my memory what I've actually wanted to achieve. Last year was not a very good year as I was caught in a relationship that sunked like the titanic. So I've wanted to recover so badly and it did happened and I was glad. During the period I've also met people who are really special which I don't deny I might go after the special person someday. I've also prayed for a breakthrough in my career which was realised second half of the year. Basically my year was pretty good with the trips to SiemReap, Bangkok, Bali, Macau, HK, Labuan & Singapore. I think its worth the dollar and cents checking out places around the region. I think I'm all good for now considering I'll turn 25 soon. The partner issue I shall worry later because I think it takes time to meet the correct one and even if I've met the correct person it would take time to convince the other party that I'm Mr. Right for her. Did you readers had a good year too?