The Year At A Glance

Let me list down some important things I need to remember for the year 2007.

A gloomy New Year: I started the year without my family; without the usual smoky surroundings from deafening firecrackers; it is just so dull to celebrate New Year in Singapore and I end up sleeping with the entire boredom over my head. Before the end of January, Dan and his family went back to Naga so I spent the next 2 weeks without anybody at home but walls.

February: I started attending Care Group at Dover (now held at Holland)

April Visit: At last had my family and my mother came to visit me for a month – that wasn’t long enough!

May and June: Noel, Bong and Myla arrived in Singapore and stayed with us. Unfortunately, only Bong stayed behind to stay for good.

O-Seven, O-Seven, O-Seven: Finally, my family arrived in Singapore to stay for good – at God’s favorite number! July 7, 2007!

August: We manage to enroll Deni and Sam for the fourth term of K2 and K1 respectively and at the same time we enrolled Deni for Primary 1 which started last January 2 this year.

September: Deni and Sam formally started schooling in Singapore.
November: My sister Bing and her children, PJ and Andrew and my mother came to Singapore. My mother stayed for a month and returned to Naga for the holiday season. Deni graduated from K2.

December: I met up with my Filipino colleagues and joined them in their Christmas Party.

We had our own Christmas Party celebrated as well and we had it held at the poolside of Banyan. Macy, Honnie’s sister, and her friend Sarah was there to join us fresh from Thailand. Francis and his fiancé, Donna was also present. Our CG brothers and sisters also added color to the night by singing Christmas Carols to us! Myla came before midnight.

Work: I have visited over a hundred (mostly Japanese) companies in the entire year. I have reimbursed more a thousand SGD for my taxi claim and have booked the company car over 20 times. I have also learned to love macro programming to provide some of my customers some conversion program so that they can do interface between their accounting system with our ebanking system. Though unofficial, my boss has given us the “go” signal to use my program in the event that our customers strongly request such requirement.

Spirituality: God never fails to remind me that I cannot rely to my own wisdom and understanding. I did struggle a lot but all these happened so that God can display His marvelous work in me. In this brand new year, there will be new trials and sufferings but I know I will always end up victorious in Jesus name!