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August 7, 2007

Understanding others

Filed under: Christianity, Personal Ramblings — hendrikch @ 11:46 pm

Is it just me, or is it common that human want other people to be what they want them to be? Sometimes it is hard to accept people the way they are. Every single person is created uniquely, no one is the same. When we interact with others, sometimes (or maybe a lot of times), we want other people to be like this, like that, the way what we want them to be. And when other people can’t be what we want, that’s when the conflict came about.

We are all learning and growing, and as part of a process, we’ll fall down sometimes. However, it is not how many times you fall that defines you, but it is how many times you get up after you fall down that will determine your future. Why is human’s life so difficult? Because human being is the highest creation of God, created in the image of God. As the best creation that God ever created, it is mandatory that humans have to undergo life trials and tribulations. When you buy a diamond, you’ll make sure that it has been tested and certified perfect and worthy of the price you pay for it. Will you bother if you buy $2 stationery? In the same way, more worthy and more valuable creations, like humans, have to be tested and passed all the trials before can be certified perfect.

Back to the main topic, it’s not easy, we tend to want others to understand us, without first trying to understand others. I am in the midst of learning how to accept others the way they are, and realizing I do not have unlimited chances to fail, hopefully I can pass this lesson in life before I have used up all my chances. Fingers crossed. And of course, I do realize, and am very grateful for all the chances that I have been given. I will treasure each and every chances I have now, and treat it as possibly my last chance already.

Do you treasure what you have now?

Filed under: Personal Ramblings — hendrikch @ 12:38 am

When you lost a precious jewel that fell on a mud, won’t you get yourself dirty and try to get the jewel back? Won’t you feel guilty when you have something precious, lost it, and didn’t even try to get it back? Is it wrong that we try so hard to have something so valuable? Precious things are meant to be with persons who appreciate them well. In the parable of the talents, the person who appreciate and worked his five talents reaped another five, while the person who didn’t appreciate his one talent that he had, even that one talent was taken away from him and given to the one who had ten now.

There are lots of things to treasure in life, like people around you, and even your own life. Those are all precious things to have in life. If you don’t appreciate the people around you, don’t be surprised that one by one of them will be taken away from you. If you don’t appreciate your own precious life, don’t be surprised that your life will be so miserable. If you don’t realize and appreciate how much you have now when you have them, then you will realize and appreciate how much you had when you lost them all. Sadly, regret always comes late, and human like to learn the hard way, including me.

August 3, 2007

A tiring week

Filed under: Personal Ramblings — hendrikch @ 11:59 pm

Felt that this week has been a very long week. Non-stop meetings and discussions defined my work whole day whole week. I’ll come into the office at 9, eat up my breakfast while clearing up my email, and from 9.30 onwards I’ll have meetings, discussions, tele conference, video conference, and all those sorts that have more than one person involved. I then usually take a break for lunch, then continue again around 1.30 or 2pm, and go all the way to 6-7pm. Only in between those 30 minutes time after lunch or in the morning, or after 7pm, that I can find “personal” time to do my own work, replying emails, and really do some work. Not that meetings and discussions are not work, but yeah…. you get what I mean, I hope hehe….

And that has been my typical day every single day this week. And I know these intense discussions and meetings will continue probably for another two weeks or so. Besides that, from now to probably November, every Monday afternoon and Thursday afternoon, there’ll be Project meetings (tele-conference), every Wednesday morning, there’ll be a Team meeting (face-to-face), and every Friday afternoon, it’s Project Status update (video-conference). Thank goodness all the meetings was fun-filled and not drab. Especially the latter, it’s great to have a video-conference where you can see other people from other parts of the world on a huge plasma TV, although that has been plagued by a couple technical difficulties so far, like today. Note to self, complain feedback to AV team next week.

It’s tiring, really. But it has been fun working with these guys, everyone are very smart, focused, and committed to the project. Fun right? No need to work, just go for meetings whole day haha…. :p In the evening, when I reached home, somehow this week I have quite a number of tasks I had to do, for my sister, for church, for fellowship, and of course for myself. Time management time management !!! haha….

Another thing, on weekdays, I have been trying to stop all my activities at 11pm every night and use that 30mins-1hr time to do something that I don’t usually do, like reading, or spending 10 minutes to just stop and think, or connect back to friends that I have not talked to in months or years, or anything that is not typical. (Anyone care to contribute some ideas for this? :) ) We’ll see how it goes in a couple of months time. Frankly, I have not been very good in keeping my discipline on all these kind of things :(

August 2, 2007

New $20 note for taxi driver? No way!

Filed under: Personal Ramblings — hendrikch @ 10:28 pm

Last night, I took a taxi back home from Chijmes, after a night out at Bobby’s. After dropping my friend back home at Clementi, I continued the journey back home. When I reached home, the taxi meter was $13.10. I reached for my wallet, inside it was a $50 note, and two new and shiny $20 notes that I’ve just gotten from DBS Bank. I gave the taxi driver $50 note, the uncle said he had no change. I was looking into my wallet, contemplating if I should give this new $20 for the uncle. After *much* thought, I dug into my backup, and pull out $10 note, plus two pieces of $2.

$20 to give out? No way! Just seems too rare to get that I’m not willing to give it away haha… Maybe I’ll just pass this to my mom for her collection instead :)

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