Update of the short busy period of nov
Tuesday, November 28th, 2006Has been a while since I seriously sit down and write on the updates of my life. Had a "gone-in-a-flash" november. It started off with Andrew’s wedding, met a lot of "jun nan mei nu" around once again and felt love so sweet in life. Quite "san gui" as I had never been to rasa sentosa. Nice place to hold a wedding,in my opinion.
Then I had a short day spent do a free teambuilding workshop for a big company and had so much learning in facilitation in a day. The lead guy was simply fantastic as he virtually covered every blade of grass on the plan.
Next up was the demoralising first paper of my exam period. As I progress later in the days, I realised I’m probably lacked a lot of practice and that’s why I’m close to failiing each semester. Took 3 papers and it will be a miracle if I manage to pass all three. Do I have a cutting of an engineer, I wonder??? I really don’t felt like it at the moment, but like running the marathon, perservence will pay off one day.I just have to bit the bullet. (Apologies, Zheng Song, for missing your important day on the 25th to prepare for my last paper. Wish you eternal bliss)
In the midst of all this, I also facilitated for two days for an up-coming industry and really saw diversity at play real time. A short 5 min talk by a small stakeholder on stage had put everyone on the edge,especially the sector group of social NGOs. I felt so blessed as I met a leader that put every participant at ease and conflicts didn’t arise throughout the session. One thing that I encountered was a new-found friend was sharing with me on how tough free-lancing can be(especially with no CPF), and how his son ended up taking up a regular job after 10 years of free-lancing. Now I have a viewpoint on what are the cons of free-lancing. If I do a career switch in another few years time, I really have to think hard.
I also started a co-current short night course on organisational facilitation at RP. Met friends who are in the commerical sector and realised there are actually a lot of perspectives that I can tap from there. I have people from banks,MOE, mindef at different levels and even advertising. What stuck me the most was what a lady shared on how faciliation was used in her life. The class laughed on her example of how she used it on her family members, but the bottom-line is, I, if not all, are still so impressed by the way she used it to maximise the potential of everyone in the family.
The other learning at the 3 days so far was how internal facilitators can actually play important roles in the organisation development. I had been wrong all this while, as I felt lonely on the front due to my passive nature, when what I could have really done is to intiate active engagment of my direct client, who is my boss. It will really help the situation and I couldn’t have seen it without my friends’ sharing during the class.
The last update I have is that I have found the "her". She has been with me all these years. It would be wonderful if we can go all the way till old age. Yet again, we have just started and I’m feeling the effect of encouraging her to take up the cruise job. Now, I only get to see her once in a while every few months. Temptations did increase the moment that I get hitched, have to really resist them nowadays( I don’t mind a few more "sisters" though)..not single anymore,so have to change the thinking.
Going back to work tomorrow and guess things will start to change as the effect of my workcentre merging starts to sink in. Look forward to the challenges ahead and wish everyone happy holidays….and thanks for being in my life so far.
