Saturday, July 30, 2005
A Series Of Fortunate Events
My friend just got back form France for holidays, she bought me Freewave, a super nice book about designs. She told me that the book was the most expensive gift compared to the other gifts she bought for her other friends. She said that it's because I'm such a nice friend. Hehe I just smiled when I heard that. I know I'm a nice guy =P
One of my students just got back from Singapore and bought me a BIG block of delicate and yummy chocolate. A colleague of mine, a Singaporean teacher, also bought me another BIG box of chocolate from Singapore. So I've been munching chocolates all the time this week and I hope it will not affect my weight.. but hey, why do I even care about that anyway? It's chocolate baby! Nobody can get too fat to eat another bar of chocolate right? All chocolate fetish out there, raise your hands and say "Yeah!" if you agree! Hahaha!
And then, another gift. A friend just got back from China and she bought me a very nice choker (for guys who don't know what a choker is, please get yourself some girl-friends =P ) Well I don't usually wear choker but that's not the point, right?
And there was another thing. I collected my salary two days ago and when I counted, the amount was not the same as what was written in the contract. It was more. I was so surprised and ask the finance staff whether it's a mistake. She checked it in her computer and she said there's no mistake, that's exactly the right amount I had to receive. Happy but confused I realized what just happened, I just got another (yep, another) raise without my permission! Damn! Lol! Hahaha! Maybe the Principal forgot to tell me about this, maybe he'll tell me in a few days. Well it doesn't matter =P
And later that night I went out with a friend. While having dinner she started to tell me her stories and her problems. Family problems. By listening to her, I learnt that I've taken too many things for granted all this time. Too many things and too many times. I have a great job, the students love me (Entry Within Entry: Bright And Warm click to read my story about this), I have the best family, I have lovely friends, and eventhough sometimes I need help but I can help other people with what I have. But yet I still keep complaining all the times, whining and getting mad for not being able to get some things I think I want. I'm an ungrateful idiot. All this time I've been looking and focusing at the wrong side of everything while I should be enjoying the other side. God has granted me with abundant grace, but just because I couldn't get some small things, I've been wasting all the grace and threw them into a trash can. And I insulted God and the people who care about me by not noticing and appreciating them as the precious grace they are. The thought slapped me hard. I was so ashamed of myself.
I need to refocus.
My friend just got back form France for holidays, she bought me Freewave, a super nice book about designs. She told me that the book was the most expensive gift compared to the other gifts she bought for her other friends. She said that it's because I'm such a nice friend. Hehe I just smiled when I heard that. I know I'm a nice guy =P
One of my students just got back from Singapore and bought me a BIG block of delicate and yummy chocolate. A colleague of mine, a Singaporean teacher, also bought me another BIG box of chocolate from Singapore. So I've been munching chocolates all the time this week and I hope it will not affect my weight.. but hey, why do I even care about that anyway? It's chocolate baby! Nobody can get too fat to eat another bar of chocolate right? All chocolate fetish out there, raise your hands and say "Yeah!" if you agree! Hahaha!
And then, another gift. A friend just got back from China and she bought me a very nice choker (for guys who don't know what a choker is, please get yourself some girl-friends =P ) Well I don't usually wear choker but that's not the point, right?
And there was another thing. I collected my salary two days ago and when I counted, the amount was not the same as what was written in the contract. It was more. I was so surprised and ask the finance staff whether it's a mistake. She checked it in her computer and she said there's no mistake, that's exactly the right amount I had to receive. Happy but confused I realized what just happened, I just got another (yep, another) raise without my permission! Damn! Lol! Hahaha! Maybe the Principal forgot to tell me about this, maybe he'll tell me in a few days. Well it doesn't matter =P
And later that night I went out with a friend. While having dinner she started to tell me her stories and her problems. Family problems. By listening to her, I learnt that I've taken too many things for granted all this time. Too many things and too many times. I have a great job, the students love me (Entry Within Entry: Bright And Warm click to read my story about this), I have the best family, I have lovely friends, and eventhough sometimes I need help but I can help other people with what I have. But yet I still keep complaining all the times, whining and getting mad for not being able to get some things I think I want. I'm an ungrateful idiot. All this time I've been looking and focusing at the wrong side of everything while I should be enjoying the other side. God has granted me with abundant grace, but just because I couldn't get some small things, I've been wasting all the grace and threw them into a trash can. And I insulted God and the people who care about me by not noticing and appreciating them as the precious grace they are. The thought slapped me hard. I was so ashamed of myself.
I need to refocus.