Working is definitely different from school, army. Exposure to office life has given me fresh perspective of sort. (Picture of my workspace). Been quite free this week during working hours due to no real workload yet. (No emails to send that is) This had given me time to explore most of the government websites, time to read plus the time to do the daily soduku(s). Reminds me of the sneaky days in secondary school doing these puzzles during lessons.
I learnt through FBI really good stuffs. How living in God's specific will for me starts with obeying God's revealed will in the Bible- to be holy and set-apart. (1 Thess 4), for God's glory and honor.
The other thing which I am really thankful for is the wisdom my parents have in bringing us up through childhood. I was reminded and learn that "he who spares the rod, hates the child; but he who loves him is careful to discipline him." (Proverbs 13:24). Society seems to teach otherwise nowadays. Yet the Bible is so strong that the word hate is used instead of just spoil. Wow.
That should be the cane that most parents used. (Source online). I remembered how such caning had been so effective for my parents always follow it up with explanations and self-reflections. I remembered how I always hear words and actions which seems perplexing to me at that time. Words like "pain in my heart when I hit you", and my mum will sometimes get emotional and tear from from the corner of her eyes. What is done in true love definitely will bring forth obedient children of sort (at least it worked for me). Yet, the other extreme which I do know of, and I learnt is this: caning with the intention to hurt, for personal(selfish) reasons will breed a rebellious child. There will come a point where parent cannot subjugate them anymore. How tragic when I recently heard this young guy told me: 'you can keep me here for now, but that doesn't mean I cannot go (away) next time' The Bible's clear. And I intend to abide by these useful wisdom if I were to even have children.
Another thought to note is on the evolving text language used online. Besides acronym which gets really weird like ttyl, brb to i duuno what, there's also the purposely mistyped similar (or more personal, appopriate used to express) sound like nao(now), naise(nice). Yesterday I even read on news its even in the chinese community with words like 有木（沒）有，神马（什么), other more ridiculous ones like 偶（我）and
稀饭（喜欢). Really amusing.
Not long back I saw something on how flaws in handwriting things brings that personal touch and makes it more real. Probably this is also so on the use of these lingos, to add that bit of human in the mist of words with the same font, size colour. Which makes even more sense how CAPS is used to shout your view and emoticons are used to further bring forth feelings/emotions. All these definitely helped, as how the head of the department i am working at now commented at the sheer difficulty in getting the tone(mood) of the customer in an email. "We are still learning", she aptly pointed out.
Lastly, the upcoming youth activities are kinda important in a totally different scale. How much we value the comfort yet have forgotten the people outside this fellowship? It's high time to have the burden and act upon it (especially for myself that is). Let's do the great commission and win souls. Prayers, participation or both will be greatly felt as we labor.
That should be it.
Life's not fair when grace takes over, Grace upon Grace
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