Prattle

Came back home early today and tried to watch a DVD but after 1 hour, I couldn't take it anymore. I slept like a log for a about 4 hours before being woken up by my project mate, T. And now, even though I'm still tired and bleary, I find it difficult to sleep back just like that. So, it's a good time to blog some prattle.

Now about T, looking at our good working relationship now, it is difficult to believe that I had a very bad first impression of him and dreaded to be working on the same project together. Turns out that behind his obvious weaknesses lies a big and warm heart. Herein lies the lesson of not to be quick to judge others before getting to know their heart. Even if it takes a second or a third or even a tenth encounter.

I think that what lies in the core of someone's heart is almost impossible to change and will be the building block of that person's character. Thus, close-minded people would most likely always be close-minded and close-hearted in their dealings with others. I hope that no matter how many unpleasant encounters I have with others, it will not make me a jaded and skeptical person with a shrinking heart. I think the only remedy is to continually let God heal, refresh and enlarge my heart, and to surround myself with positive and refreshing people.

After all, someone once told me that you will be just like the people you hang around with if you hang around them long enough. Scary if you work 8 hours or more a day with people who have a traumatic influence and blazes a path of destruction wherever they go. So, be sure to source and keep positive friends around you (if that's what you want to be lah).

Going back to bed now... I sense a yawn coming... yawn

Tiddlydoo for now!

The restaurant owner greeted me with a slight smile, "Leng Lui (beautiful girl), what do you want to drink?"

In the past two years that I ate there, it was the first time she ever called me that. It was pretty uncharacteristic of her. Some of the food stall owners would call anyone Leng Chai (handsome dude) or Leng Lui just to boost their business. But not this lady, not that I know of anyway.

I didn't do anything special to warrant that. Maybe it's because I looked like I was in desperate need to hear a compliment. Or maybe because she was in a benovalent mood.

Or perhaps, perhaps... perhaps... she actually meant what she said.

Wow.

When I got home after the mission team meeting, I was in a good mood and when I saw some dirty dishes on the sink, I washed them clean and stacked them neatly away before going to sleep.

Then this morning, I woke up to a mini-commotion going on downstairs. Apparently, my bro discovered that the dishes he left unwashed in the sink had disappeared. True to our family trait, he could not rest unless he found the truth behind this mysterious occurance.

He "accused" my dad for being the culprit behind it. My dad hotly denied it and valiantly maintained his innocence. This caused the din that woke me up from my fitful slumber.

I decided that it was up to me to do something about it if I were to get some more beauty sleep! So I got up from my bed, pattered to the staircase and casted a sleepy eye on towards the direction of my dad's voice.

In my most civil tone (my bro later told me that it was downright slurry!), I said, "Ok, ok, I did it. Now can you guys be quiet down there so that I can have some sleep?"

Almost immediately, they quietened down and peace once again was restored in my household. I pattered back to bed feeling rather pleased with myself and I slept on for another hour.

Much later, I discovered that the two men in my life actually couldn't really make out what I was saying to them in the morning. They thought that I was just mumbling in my sleep!

Ah well, it doesn't matter anyway because it managed to silence the rather strange argument about the mysterious dish washer.