New Beginnings!

Today is the 4th day in my new job and tomorrow no need to work due to National Day! Yes!!!

Not that I don't like this job. But I was very tired. Yesterday, I had the honor of going to Leng Kee CC to see how the elderly programme was runned there. The volunteers there are really on auto-pilot mode. They know the elderly people there and will get them to the proper places first before doing any other things. Yesterday's experience was a bit long though. My colleague, Andrea and I were not told that the MP for this area would be joining us for the lunch which was sponsored by the CC. So we went with our activities and when we were about to cut the birthday cake for those whose birthday falls on this month, the person in charge of the CC told us to wait till the MP came. That really caught us by surprise. What is ever worse is that some elderly asked my colleague where there would be ang bao given to them. We thought, "Not Chinese New Year, where got ang bao?" But we were wrong. There was really ang bao given, to celebrate National Day. Though the event went well, it was very tiring. We ended our session there and reached office at 4pm.

Then we rest for a little while before moving to our hospital visitation. The person whom we visited had a heart operation. Though he had the operation only on Monday or Tuesday, he had most of the wires removed for him. In fact, I was so happy for him that he recovered so fast. He looked so healthy and energetic that you would not suspect that he was a patient in SGH. Besides, his recovery is so fast that he can be discharged tomorrow. Really thank God for His hand protecting this elderly and given him such speedy recovery.

Working in this organization really gives me a sense of hope, belonging and makes me squeeze my creative juices to come up with suggestions. Though I don't know some people yet and some of them look like they are really scared talking to me, I pray that through the days to come and the retreat, we can break the ice and be a team, working towards a common goal. As we are going to bring the elderly to an outing next Thursday, I pray that everything will go on smoothly and every one including the volunteers will enjoy ourselves. On 15 Aug 2008, the Mayor for our district is coming to visit our organization. I also pray that on that day, every thing will run smoothly.

Thank you Lord for everything!