Mission Accomplished

So I managed to feed the masses at camp – total number being 100 people. People thought I cooked most of the food that went out to feed them…. on the contrary I had actually arrowed people to cook. My job was just organising people to cook and hopefully they had enough and to heat up the food in time for lunch and dinner together with my helpers. I have to admit I got pretty stressed out and became a grumplin…. and also a kitchen mummy…. where people who came into the kitchen asking dumb questions got told to piss off.

All in all, people said I did a pretty good job and that I can do it again next year. My reply… I’ve retired. I mean seriously, I dont think I want to go through a week of sleepless nights again stressing out if there would be enough food!!

Feeding of the Masses

OK so once again I’ve been put in charge of food and this time it’s the church camp.  And this time round I am seriously getting stressed out as there’s approximately 80 people to feed for 3 days  and 2 meals each day!!  I’ve had to organise people to cook and that was an effort in itself as not everybody is going to camp… and those that are cooking don’t want to cook for more than 30 people, so that means finding more people to cook the same stuff!  Admittedly this has given me a couple of sleepless nights….  Now the organisation of the food is done, I have to buy the fresh vegetables, refreshments, etc to feed the people…. and my constant worry of is it enough food lingers at the back of my mind!!

How did Jesus feed the 5000 people and STILL have leftovers?

Attitude and Tolerance

OK… so for those who know me will know that I have an extreme low tolerance for people… people who I think are ‘dumb’, irritating, gets on my nerves, fake, superficial, etc. For these people, I just put on a fake smile or fake expression that those who know me will be able to pick out when I give these fake smiles or sometimes, I just ignore them. If they can be fake then so can I. There are quite a few people in that category Having said that, I make no apologies for being who I am, friends can either accept me for who I am or dont bother being my friend.

Anyway, last week there was a farewell dinner & bowling night for a friend who will be moving to Singapore for work. Actually he said he will only be in Singapore for one year… so really, to a certain extent I didn’t quite understand the big ‘hoo hah’ abt this farewell that had 50 people attending – the organisers admitted that it was like a mini nightmare wedding…. and we kept getting msn and email reminders that if we bail out of the dinner we still have to fork out $15.

So off I went to this farewell… the only positive thing was that it was just down the road from my house. When I got there, the first thing that irritated me was people who I thought are my friends did not reserve a seat for me at the TS3 table…. but consolation came when I saw J&ST sitting at another table and so I headed off to sit with them. Later on, as the table filled up, but it was filled with some people who fall under the above category of people I find irritating…. so immediately, the fake smile and facial expression lighted up.

As dinner was abt to commence, the organisers realised that we had 12 people on our table and there was 7 on another table… and so they started asking 3 people to move to the other table. OK here’s the stupid part… the 7 on that table, was from another group… so really, wouldnt we be uncomfortable moving to an unknown table – like I said it was like a mini wedding…. but on the other hand, I thought it would be only courtesy that the last 3 who arrived on our table should do the right thing and move to the other table – afterall we actually made room for one of that other 3 people that came last…. but no… they just sat on their arses…

Next, JT tried to get himself and 2 other guys to go to the other table of 7 – but one of the other guys being a total wimp did not want to be moved as he wanted to be seated with his other friend and gf. So that idea was canned. By that time, I was getting seriously sick of the whole thing. Sure I could have said I’ll move, but hey why should I move when I wasnt the last to arrive?

So in the end, nobody moved and then comments were said that since there was 12 of us and food was only for 10 on each table, there might be insufficient food but they will pass down food from the table of 7. So by that time, I got tired of the whole issue and decided to walk out of the dinner. So walked out I did. ST said to me that I wasted my $15 but seriously, I would rather have wasted my $15 than to sit with a whole bunch of hypocrites who call themselves leaders in the church or serve in some aspect of the various church committees. After I walked out I sent txt msgs to 2 people telling them I had left the dinner and they didn’t bother to reply straight away, rather waited till after the whole thing to send me a msg on msn and to reply at abt 11 ish. On hindsight, I think that was a stupid thing for me to have done.

What finally topped it was at cell on Saturday, the same friend that I considered a friend but didn’t bother to reserve a seat for me in the first place commented to me that me walking out showed that I had a ‘bad attitude’ for walking out. However, this person who said that is at the moment battling an attitude of being anti-cell and anti-church which I think it’s worse than me with an attitude of walking out coz I was sick of people… but hey, who am I to comment since I have a bad attitude?

Control Freaks

OK… back to the church again…. seeing a pattern here?? I think volunteering/helping out in the church is as bad as working in an office – when you have some crazy freaks in there. The only problem is that you cant quite gossip abt these people in church with other church people coz technically we’re not suppose to be gossiping about other people… ah.. what the heck.

Anyway, there are these 2 paedentic control freaks in church… they just insist on being in control of everything especially the spelling and grammar of materials that go out from the church – like seriously, they think their grammar and spelling is tops – big frigging deal…. What makes things worse is that everybody entertains their whims and fancies as well  and usually sides with them when the little ones like us try to say something about them to the higher authorities….  What made it funny is that one week in the bulletin, they spelt “science” incorrectly… that made my day

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?