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read between the lines
day 1 of ENGAGE so the fasting has started...i can't believe i remembered it...mus be sth god relly wants me to work on today. i've told my accountability friend that i remembered...so far so good. i think. it's sth i've been trying to fast on for a long time already so this is no diffren from other days...except for the fact that this fast is official.btw my stomach reacted badly today, jus like i predicted. but thank god it only reacted badly before and after classes ended, as in it had the usual pain from the gas inside. but this time not so bad...not as painful as yesterday. and thank god i'm not in pain now. i jus had a cuppa milo and a packet of my fave waffles (peanut butter!) at canteen one bout an hr ago. n then i came here to the library to do my online classroom assignment thing. today's one was a piece of cake and i enjoyed doing it. basically i had to answer one very simple question: recall a good or bad experience u had of customer service. so i recalled a bad one...cos it's easier to elaborate more on the bad ones as u have so much to say....and i provided my reasons why i thot it was bad. it was a recollection of bad service at Dome cafe in city square, jb a few yrs ago. back then they had jus opened in jb n they were rivalling Starbucks n Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf in the same building....and they lost the war for ppl like me! haha...yeah...i dunno bout the service at dome now, cos i have boycotted that stupid place since that horrible experience marred my previously good impressions of the place...and i am now a faithful attendee of starbucks. somehow the ppl there r friendlier than in coffee bean. in fact i come by so often now (since i'm in times of troubled thots these days n i always need somewhere quiet to pray or write or think things thru) that i recognise some of them. there's this malay guy who i see sometimes on weekends, n he's surprisingly eloquent in english for a malay guy in jb. unlike singapore, malay ppl here usually speak more malay n less perfect english. but that's generally speaking, no offense. i kinda like him, as in his service, cos everytime i pop by he always gives me a smile and asks me how my day is. very nice and...charming in a way...heheh...but in a businesslike charm sorta way. he shows concern for his customers by asking them how their day is (not jus me, but the other customers who order as well...n he'll ask the new ones if this is their first time visiting here...n he'll build up a conversation based on that.) n in my opinion, that's definitely the service u'd wanna get if ur in a restaurant or coffee house. cos those ppl that dun relly bother to ask questions....they jus remind me of robots. they stand at the counter, recite their usual "yes, madam, what can i help you with?" and "thank you"s and opening n closing of the cash registers...but to me they're jus going thru the motions. n some of them give really fake smiles...which i feel is worse than giving no smile at all. but that's jus me. i prefer more "interactive" ppl, that's all...hahah. back to the "engage" thing (see previous post for explanation), i felt i haven't spent enuff quiet time with god yet today, so hopefully i won't procrastinate n i'll get more time done later. but i skimmed thru the booklet already today...albeit the fact that my mind was somewhere else when i was reading the pages. but the very fact that i was actually empowered to occupy myself with work n was back to my strategy of multi-tasking is definitely a good start. in case u didn't read previous posts, i've found that multi-tasking is prolly the most effective way rite now to avoid thots of depression or negativity. in fact rite now i'm listening to south on the headphones while typing this. basically i multi-task to shut out the negative "voices in my head"...haha. i also jus thot of this idea as i was eating my waffles...why not chronicle these 12 days of official "engage" fasting? n later read thru it n reflect on where i went wrong or what seemed to work. btw i lost my singapore phone with the singapore sim card inside today....so i dunno relly what i'm gonna do eventually. i'm jus praying it can be found soon...i think i put it in my room somewhere...but i dunno. sigh. this is the problem u get when u carry two phones and two sim cards around. cos i bought a brand new phone at a relly cheap price (used the money from my attachment), but the stupid phone's back cover is extremely hard to remove, so i cudn't jus bring the other sim card n carry one phone like i used to. so i've been carrying around two phones since i bought the new phone cos i need to use both when i'm out...pathetic. wish i lived in singapore so i needn't have to carry both. i relly hope i haven't lost it...cos if i have, then this will be the THIRD time in one year that i have lost my singapore sim card....yeah. relly sucks when i think of how i lost it...n u see how uncommon this problem is? i can't think of anyone else who has to face this problem: the possibility of losing ur own sim card...that's becos everyone always carries only ONE sim card in ONE phone. siah..... |
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