August.. a sudden revelation..

I blogged a similar entry in my blog.. and i thot that i wanna share this here too!

August is a special month...

Not my birthday.. but it's National Day.. Special place in my heart.. cos i'm Singaporean.. Was juz watching a program.. how Singapore became a nation..

Special mention about the parade in 1968.. how it rained on the day of the celebration.. but everyone was already at attention.. and awaiting the arrival of the PM and President. Interestingly, everyone juz stood in the rain.. including spectators.. PM came out of his limo and walked steadily to his seat and joined the rest of the ministers in the rain..

It was heart warming to see how everyone was determined not to let the rain get to them.. children included as the choir sang the national anthem in the rain.. a simple parade.. not like the parades of these years.. but the Singaporean spirit no doubt was evident!

Today, we also celebrated the 20th anniversary of FCBC..

Even as i was watching the program, how Singapore became a nation after we were 'cut off' by Malaysia, it dawned upon me a certain revelation.. and drew the parallel with how FCBC was started when my pastor was 'disowned' by his previous church...

And i was pleasantly surprised at how much blessings have been poured on us.. as a nation and as a church.. May God continue to bless us even more!

prettily dressed!

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Prettily dressed..

Some low-level office-political issue

I actually wanted to share something about dreams, but I shall put that on hold and tell you all what is really disturbing me at the moment.

And so, I shall start.

For those who do not know, I am temping at a bank now. The contract is for 2 weeks only. This is only my 3rd day but I sort of sense that my colleagues (aka fellow temps) dont really like me. Oh well, relationships' fine, but only on a superficial level.

And the reason why I think they dont exactly like me?

Because I work too hard. Or so it seems.

What I think I am doing is what I am paid to do. I do not feel that I am overly hardworking nor am I in any way try make my boss like me more by proving my work capabilities. I do not have to and I do not want wish to.

The problem comes because the rest of the temps are simply too slack in their job. Their teasing about me getting the 'employment of the month' gets to the point of sarcarsm. (And by the way, I'm only working there for 2 weeks, remember?) I am seriously only doing what I am suppose to do (hardly even 'doing things with excellence'), occasionally helping improve the system of working simply because my supervisor told me to...okay...probably I took too much initiative in doing some things. You may say that I am stupid in doing more than I am supposed to. That's fine. But the issue at hand is not my 'over-enthusiasm'! (I am not overly-enthu, just in case you really think I am)

Okay, here's where you all can input.

I want to know:
1. Am I really working too hard?
2. Is it stupid to be doing more than what you are suppose to do (sometimes)?
3. Assuming I am just doing things at a normal rate (which i think i am), yet still hitting super high quota, what can I do to not let the rest of the temps appear lazy in front of the supervisor? But I mean...my quota is my quota and theirs is theirs. Numbers dont lie.

So in a sense, a 2 week-exposure is really a good learning experience for me in handling kids' infantile behavior. (Yes, they are all younger than me. Except for one guy who was my coursemate last sem)

I am disturbed by the way they think. And I am baffled because I dont know if I am in anyway wrong. If I am, can you all please tell me, so that I can learn to be wiser in future. I dont think this issue is serious enough to be termed "office politics" though...haha...way too low-level. Hmm, but aiyo, if you are an employer, you want to pay your workers to do nothing meh?!

Please give advice!