Trust

This morning was a bit shaken, but at the end, with the help of many friends, we will trust in the Lord...

Fantastic 4

We are Fantastic 4 we joke about it. It was a good team meeting which we all turned up this round in London office.

The team made of 2 colleagues from Scotland, 1 from Manchester and myself from KL.

JW and BG, are nice funny bits and talk real fast like bullet train. Luckily, they won't mind me asking them to repeat when I don't get what they said :-P

JW just turned 50, a funny single man who will talk all way in his way, you can't easily interrupt. I remembered there is one conversation on the tele-conference with him, I only managed to say " Hi J, How are you?" and "Good to talk (huh??) to you". He has sweet tooth as I am, he can't go away without desert every meal, he sure introduced me a lot of good stuff every meal.

GB 40, is a nice lady, like shopping a lot. She is the one that lured me to Covent Garden and I find a new high street to shop, a nice piazza to sit outside a cafe and have a nice cup of coffee. I told dear I must bring her to Covent Garden high street when she is with me. It is like those time we were in Italy, great discovery :-)

ER, 52 who is from Manchester, a real close friend to me, more like a good sister who take good care of a brother. She is the oldest among us, I click with her because we joined the team the same day, we went through induction together and work on may projects also. She likes to walk and enjoys sunshine, which she brought me to walk around Victoria, Westminster and bridges around our office.

Myself, though I am not the youngest, but receive equal respect from them. They seek my advice and opinion on their work or project and I don't feel I am any lower than them. Just that social wise, they will treat me like little brother :-) I thank God that I always have someone senior than me to work with which I reckon I mix pretty well with seniors - I tend to be a bit dominating with equal peers :-P

Another shocking news I got as we get to know one another better - Our boss A, who is the YOUNGEST, 34. Yes !!! That shocks me when I see the way she manages people and projects, insights that she has which we can't think of - I started to appreciate the culture that people value ability and knowledge you have, rather looking at the seniority.

We are fantastic 4, why? we are totally moving into something that 4 of us (excluding our boss) would not reckon and expect - and that is really FANTASTIC for us and we all keep telling one another - we will get on eventually :-)

Silly Me :-P

I had wine every dinner this trip... I was nearly drunk every night :-P

Close friends who know me will know I seldom drink. My colleagues can't go away without wine especially the two from Scotland, JW and GB. ER took good care of me, she always orders the mildest white wine for me :-)

One particular dinner, I felt my heartbeat was drumming very fast after a few sips, and I literally fell asleep. I wondered whether I had talked any nonsense in front of them, what I remembered was I walked back to my room, took off everything on me as I felt so hot in the room, and straight into bed and slept... Luckily I could made it the next morning..

The only thing I regretted is that I signed on the bill that night, and it costed about £170+ ouch!!! I wonder my boss will question me after that :-P

My colleagues must have conned me into this, haha :-P I guess I must train myself up with wine, be better equipped rather being a fool of myself. Very much regretted also I always say no to wine in Godson's place, I would have been better this round if I get used to it that time, righttttt ???

Welcome Home

I always make sure I have Sunday in London, to break away from the normal norm church experience at home.

This trip I attended 2 services, one that was very word centric and good fellowship which I need very much as a lone traveller. The other one at Hillsong London, which was very 'heavy' worship and the word time was equally inspiring :-)

One that was capturing me was the welcome screen at the service : Welcome Home

Home is such a word that triggers my heart especially when you were away from home. I see around and started to understand what it means.

The minute I stepped into the theatre (their worship location), the ushers would come to you, offer you a cup of tea or coffee, and have a friendly chat with you. I guess they genuinely like to connect with you though they don't know you. When you get yourself seated, people next to you, who may be foreigners as well, would greet you and chat with you, as if you are part of them. This time I had 2 Korean sat next to me, a bunch of kids with their pastor visiting the church sitting a level up. I started to understand "Home' in a broader sense. We are united in Christ alone and as his followers, we are equal and called as brothers and sisters in Christ.

People were participating in worship and word time. Eagerly taking notes and pray with you when prompted. You know God's presence is there, every time I visited.

I am very much a 'reasoning' , rather than a 'feel' person - I started to think who has part in making such home feeling?? God, His people, worship, word?? I guess all has a part to play. Dread to feel a bit alien at home church, perhaps this is the spirit that I long for ....