My wish in this life......for the life next...

I have not been blogging this days....so long so as you may have think that I have left the blogging scene..but actually not quite...I was actually quite busy this days...piano shifting, piano tuning (tomorrow actually) and guess what...we bought a double decker bed 2 weeks ago...only to discover that the bed was infested with brown black ants measuring 1 cm in length.....wow what a traumatic experience......well managed to return it back to the vendor but the replacement parts will take a couple of days..and meantime T&F sleeps in the hall with aircon on at nite...hopefully things will be back to normal next week. Sweetie was down fever in the start of the week and her leg suddenly experience extreme pain on the right side.....accompany her to the CGH A&E...but everything is OK for now...probably just a muscle sprain..

Today is Friday...and some how was invited to a sumptous lunch and beer by my one of my colleague....as these days when people invite you to lunches there must be a reason to it...as you don't get free lunches everyday....so it is natural for me to ask what was the occasion...my colleague being the playful (like myself) kept on insisting that is nothing actually....well nothing? Really? When the invitation was extended to the entire department and you tell me that the free lunch was just a goodwill lunch...that's all?Well hard to believe...anyway...so we went to Brewerks for lunch...the portion was monstrous...I ate half and kept the rest for my colleague. It was not that I do not want eat...it was good...but it just that I am unable to finish the entire portion of fish and chips. Now coming to the reason of the lunch invitation...during lunch my colleague revealed during lunch he is now the DyMgr and that is the reason of the free lunch. ....and during lunch there was so much talk about organisation change, who sits where and who will be shifting to a bigger office and who will be appointed as Asst Mgr..[Btw, what is the difference between Asst Mgr and Dy Mgr].....etc etc that kind of typical talk about office politics...and who will be their new subordinates etc etc etc.......I listen intently and quietly over my glass of Brewerks beer...I can't help but to think of what St Therese will be telling me if she is present at the table at that moment...most likely...most likely... she will be telling me this: ALBERT, AIM HIGHER.....all this things....all this things on earth like.... positions of office, size of office, whether you have a secretary or not....are actually quite futile....short term....and very, very temporary....and perhaps a stumbling block to our eternal destination...we have been told in our faith that set not your hearts on earthly things but on things in heaven...

Thinking back these things use to matters me a lot and a great deal 10 years ago but as I grow with age, somehow these things do not really matter to me much anymore....the passing on of my mum recently, my colleague who recently down with Stage 3 cancer.... seems to put all these in perspective......in fact these things matters to me the least..nowadays.....it somehow saddens me hearing all these in front me but somehow unable to make a change on the situation but St Therese would definitely recommend praying under such situations where you can't make much of an impact, the way to go is to pray....but having said all these, this does not mean I have lost all zeal to strive for a better career prospect and be laid back...but it just that I have to constantly remind myself my thoughts and opinions has to be align with God's plan for me in this world in my daily encounters with HIM and not let myself be caught in the worldly pursuits which will distract me from intended path.

Back to office my roomates ask me how I felt about the revealed office situation....as I know they are concern as I have not been promoted since I join the organisation since day one... 7 years ago..I told my roomamtes am I am perfectly OK as like everyone else...myself too needs a boss...even in heaven...I still need a boss!

But here is my wish in this life, and I told them this....I hope that in heaven there would not be politics of such....like who is the Director....who is the Dy Dir...etc etc....and worst infighting for such "positions"....This is my sincere wish. Anyway, I am OK with where I am...staying clear of office politics....and do my part and enjoy life and oberving a more prayerful life with the long a term focus on heaven..This is my simple daily philosophy in life...

Today is Friday....need to go a jog in YCK!
God Bless!
AlbertY