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Sunday, November 01, 2009 |9:41 PM

i don't know how i should title this entry because many things are running through my mind while i am blogging this entry. As i mentioned in my previous posts, the past 2 months have been crazily busy. Ever since i got to know i was "enlisted" into our unit's outreach planning team some time in July. I was like "uh oh" should i consider it good or bad? The initial decision that made up the team was all the core team in the unit ->seetoh, yanjie, hewen, zing, adrian and myself and led by xiaoli and joel as our advisors. However, the final team combination was -> weilong, yanjie, hewen, adrian and myself still led by xiaoli and joel as our advisors. The team finally met up sometime in Aug officially @ East Coast Macdonalds to brain storm for ideas what should we have for as our events. Xiao li and Joel came up with Paint ball for our first event and all of us readily agreed. Transport was easily settled with dinner easily available. So everything was like not much planning needed and i must say i was like "lalala" kind of mood. The team evaluated on the first event and of course improvement points were mentioned. Then in a short period of time, we had to plan for our 2nd event. When the team first met in Aug'09, we came up with ideas to have things like car boot sales, car rally etc.. but in the end all these ideas were scrapped and we had to brain storm again for ideas..finally sometime in Sep, 3 events came up-> Go kart, Dragon Boat and Night Cycling. In fact, it was between go kart and Dragon Boat. Adrian was in charge of Go Kart while Yanjie was in charge of Dragon Boat. But well since Yanjie had to sail for a good 12 days, so i followed up on the research of the Dragon Boat. After 2 other meetings, a sudden email was sent our and the final decision -> Go Kart. (in the course of it, in fact dragon boat was like a "kiv")

The team drew lots on 1 fateful sat-> 19 Sep while i was happy holidaying in Beijing and the team leader emerge to be Weilong while adrian was in charge of publicity, yanjie-> accounts and administrative while hewen and i was doing logistics. When i saw i was doing logistics, it was like aiya..easy lah. We got all the contacts readily available liao. But due to a turn of events, logistics was no longer readily available and i have to start the search all over again for logistics. The search was tough. In my earlier posts, i said of looking up yellow pages and calling the respective Singapore transport companies 1 by 1 to enquire. Then i search up the malaysia yellow pages as well and did the same thing. That was the beginning of my agony. But thank God He sent an "angel" to me and helped me in this. Soon, logistics was settled.

Then next came our dinner place. Our initial idea was to have dinner @ a Korean dining place. Well to search for the place was a big headache. To call up the place and speak to the person was also terrible. Heard of a chicken and duck communicating? yes that's it! Just as i thought it was all over, a few days just before the event, someone highlighted to me the issue of cost. If the bus is already $15/pax and the dinner was to be so expensive, it would blow everyone's budget. So we had to re-look @ the dinner. By the time i was already so vex and i told adrian about it.Somehow i was really frustrated why did a team of 5 become a team of 3? Adrian kindly held a con-call with weilong and myself to discuss this matter through and we had a conclusion, we will relook @ the dinner place. Then after much liasing with the guy in charge of the coach, we settled on our dinner place.

Just as i thought all these were all over and we collected payment on 30/10 (just the night before the event), we had people telling us they aren't able to go. The good thing is, weilong enforced that since the people had earlier confirmed their attendance they still have to pay up. So we manage to collect the total payment for the bus.

From the series of events above, God worked in my life. Well first of all, God put me in an area which i never felt competent about. Logistics..never have i dealt in this area. Then God tested me in the area of "are you a good follower?". In fact, this question, my cg leader, Jeremy also asked me before "are you a good follower?". While i was reflecting, i could have reacted against Weilong's decision for the sudden email about the decision that it was Go Kart coz afterall, quite a bit of effort was put into researching for Dragon Boat as well. But i was glad i didn't. I just supported him in this decision and followed through it to support him. Another major area i was tested was also the heart to outreach. I remember every morning while doing quiet time, i was like "God...send the people." What was put in my heart was "the harvest is plentiful but the labourers are few." Finally, 1 last area was this. I checked up the weather forecast and it turned out that sat was supposed to be a stormy day. Even on friday afternoon, lightning, thunder and heavy downpour struck our sunny island. So on Friday evening, i decided that i should just fast and pray for the event. In fact, i was really really hungry coz i didn't eat much for lunch that day. But i felt it was really needed because no matter how good the planning, event can be, if God is not in the picture, it all comes to ZERO.

Sat (The d day finally arrived) and the weather in the morning was still looking gloomy..but as the day passed the skies cleared up! After a few minor hiccups, we finally reached the place. Friends and members enjoyed themselves and some even played 2 rounds. So glad that the whole thing ran smoothly and it was more interactive compared to the first one. Most importantly, i am so thankful God was in it all.

35 satisfied faces. (Yanjie went back to SG after lunch while Double K was still going for his 3rd round.) Look @ the clear blue skies!

Of coz the above video clip is your dear princess..signing off here :)