What’s in a Name?

The office space waster today did the ultimate today… he called me VICKI when he walked into the office.  Don’t get me wrong I have nothing against that name but that is not my name!!  How sad is it that I’ve been working here for more than a year and he still doesnt know my name?  It just really shows that he hardly comes into the office enough to remember a name…  like I said before… he wastes space in this office… pity my boss refuses to get rid of him.  I have suggested taking his desk and stuff out into the garden or the shed since that’s pretty much where he belongs…

Surprise!!!!………… NOT!!

One of our friend’s sister decided to throw a surprise party for her sister, the birthday girl yesterday.  Things were going well to plan – more or less… we all managed to keep our gaps shut and not let the cat out of the bag.  BUT…. just as the b’day girl was arriving at the sister’s house, she recognised a car in the drive way that did not belong to any of the family and she immediately guessed what mischief we were up to….

Oh well… it was a nice try anyway… Happy Birthday RT….

What’s so hard abt answering a question?

OK… so YSF suggested that I write a book abt people that I’ve come across either at work or socially and write abt them as it entertains her …but I think I’ll give it a shot on the blog first

Yesterday at church (again) I asked this girl, where her dad was.  Only because every week she comes to church with her dad.  To me, that was a very normal question… isn’t it?   Besides, I know this girl coz we go to the same cell group- so it’s not like she’s some random stranger I started talking to!! So after I asked her that question, she just looked at me and started ummming and ahhing and errring…  and you could see the indecisiveness in her eyes and her thoughts of should I tell exactly where my dad is…??

In the end, I just said Oh forget it, just too hard a question for you to answer….  and turned back and chose to ignore her for the rest of the day and maybe more days to come…. Seriously, couldnt she just have said oh my dad’s not here today… or my dad’s resting at home… even if she didnt want to tell me exactly whatever her dad was up to?  Is it worth being friends with these sort of people where all you do is ask a simple question and you cant even get an answer?

And to think, CY thought that my percentage was increasing from 3.75%…. I dont think so!!

Australia Biggest Morning Tea

Today, the church organised the Australia Biggest Morning Tea – which I helped organised. Basically it is a fund raising event for the Cancer Council. Altogether, we managed to raise $1,483.75 from the morning tea

There was a pretty impressive spread of food, at last count there was approximately 20 different dishes and some other people had very unexpectedly brought stuff as well without telling me. All in all I think (I hope), people were impressed with the amount of food – I mean for a minimum of a gold coin donation, you get 20 different foods!!!

A few people were appreciative and thanked me for doing a great job. Sadly, my own cell leaders didn’t bother to thank me. I dont really care that people thanked me or not, but it’s just kind of lame that if other people can make an effort to be appreciative of the amount of work that had gone in to organise this event, then surely, my own cell leaders would bother a little to say thanks. Just like yesterday when announcements were made at cell regarding next week’s Global Day of Prayer, the leaders were emphasizing about the 2 worship leaders that would be representing our church but nobody bothered to announce that my brother will be in the video team, running around showing live steam throughout the event… yeah I ended up going for cell despite some reservations – but hey I didnt want to lose out to having steamboat but hhhmmm…I think my steamboat is better

Anyway enough whinging. I didnt do the event for any glory or anything…. at the end of the day it’s all abt doing God’s work. I’ll try and get some photos of the spread we had – once my appointed camera man for the event stops trying to impress some girl and remembers he has friends.

Me… A Ringleader??

It is funny how that now I work for a very small company, I dont have any office politics to deal with or being treated as a child as how I was treated in my previous company. But now, I am being treated as a child in church… I wonder if I am back in Sunday School??

Anyway, this was what happened it sounds like something that happens when you are in school… the leaders of the YA grp that I go to decided to split the groups up for a couple of weeks to guys and girls cells… some people were keen on this idea… some (like me) weren’t so keen… Anyway, last Saturday the leaders for the girls decided to talk on a topic of BGR (Boy Girl Relationship)… I thought it was a stupid topic, and so decided not to go. Why stupid… well we’re all adults this sort of topics are more for teenagers for one… if by now I do not know how to behave with guys, I would be a social outcast…. also, most of the girls in the group are either married, attached or engaged (only a few of us are sadly single – maybe they were trying to single out the singles?), so really, why even talk abt the topic? Some of the questions were dodgy… like is it ok for guys and girls to be friends… what era are we living in?

So, of all the times, I decided to be nice and called the leader up to tell her I wasnt going because the topic was stupid and bleh… that sparked an entire conversation of her telling me that my reason wasnt good enough… like hello… other people have given more lame excuses and have gotten away with it, and she wouldnt accept my reasons? Would they rather I lied and said I was busy so I cant make it as opposed to telling the truth? When I tried to apologise, I was even told there’s nothing to apologise for – seriously that really upset and pissed me off majorly – what a waste of my phone credits in trying to be nice I get a bloody lecture as though I’m still in school. In addition, I thought I was doing her a favour by telling her that a couple of other people that I know of are not going as well… and what happens? I get frigging labelled a ringleader…

To put the icing on the cake, another leader from another cell group comes up to me last nite on MSN and tells me that he had a word from God – a strong conviction from God and gave me some passages from the bible for me to reflect and meditate on… and coincidentally what are the passages in reference to… but abt being a stumbling block to others… how is it that just this once I’ve chosen not to go for personal reasons, and others who did not go chose not to go due to their own other reasons, I get finger pointed at? And ironically, this cell leader that told me abt his convictions last nite has his own ringleaders to deal with when none but 1 of the girls from his group turned up for cell for one week and no one finger pointed his more obvious ring leaders or gave them lectures and me an innocent bystander who decided just for once to stand up and tell the truth and not go due to personal reasons get so persecuted??

In all seriousness, isnt this going to cell meant to be voluntary, and not forceful? Why can’t the leaders not accept that if someone doesnt want to turn up to cell one week it could just well be they want some time to themselves?  Why cant they accept the truth if someone outrightly tells them the truth?