mave’s

Dummy Guide to HOW TO GET INTO YOUR BOSS’ LITTLE BLACK BOOK

Welcome to my desk full of life. haha.
My favourite is nappy the frog which is in a boiling pot.

Well you can see that I was restless at about 10pm, still in the office.

My colleague, Juliana, who sits with me
couldnt suppress herself and started singing at the top of her voice
very suddenly.

Pardon the blood shot eyes and dark eye rings.

Just imagine those as onion rings.

Goodnight good people.

We are back and stuffed.

Update soon!

I know Ive already blogged not too long ago,
but please, dear people,
help me decide if I should cut my hair.

Should I or should I not?

And so we celebrated the I-that-broke-through-the-roof’s birthday today (:

In all honesty, I was really anticipating the fellowship and food that we were going to share!
And I wasnt let down in both

Presenting the birthday girl to you,

Am pleasantly surprised that our friendship didnt end at the retreat
Never thought that my endurance for an ‘I’ could last that long
But I secretly hope that my endurance would be forever
Cause Jolin is reaaally a good friend to have
and I would love to keep her by my side, or in my pocket for that matter.

Kay, Jolin, you can move that dagger away from my spine now.

We ordered a BTO birthday cake for her!
Yea, Build to Order GRIN

Look at those colors!!

May our friendship blossom till we grow old darling.

You know what?
Jason wanted to pay for our Starbucks meal with his card,
both NETS and Mastercard,
but the NETS machine at Starbucks broke down.

At the end of the day, after holding up the queue behind him,
with many people trying to peek over his shoulders to see what was happening,

our meal was on the house!

And so we decided that Starbucks has social responsibility heh heh,
but exclusively at The Cathay only.

**Jason and I will be dining at a glorious place tomorrow, stay tuned!

I did this today. GRIN

There were 3 words I could used to describe me in the past
Excellence, Passion, Color.

I put in my best in everything I did
but I didnt like the high expectations which branded me.

As I grew up
I became tired and wary of how people looked at me

They always expected the best of me
which many a times I thought I couldnt match up

I wanted to be like so and so,
I couldnt bring myself to be me.

The mavis who loved art colors and music
but suppressed the passion so that she could blend in with the crowd

I didnt like to stand out so I could make myself fair just ok
make it just a little above the mark
so that I wouldnt be noticed.

When I decided to take on Yahlan’s offer to take a break from leadership
I thought, finally, I dont have to lead in any way anymore.

The more I wanted to step down from the high profile
the more I died on the inside.

What Jason and Shaun said really carved something in me
that I am sunshine
that God’s gift will always emerge and come running back to me even no matter how much I try to shut it behind the door and lock it up with chains and padlocks.

Today while I was surfing through blogs,
a sudden faith came back into my heart.

I feel like new wineskin.

I feel like a changed person.

I want to be who I was, and even better,
I want to be who God made me to be.

God is a God of second chances,
and this day shall be a day that Mavis comes back.

And here we are,
2.5hours to Jason’s birthday! (:

I needed 3 colleagues to hint to me that somebody did something to my monitor

I was almost drowning in work, running to and fro my desk and the photocopier,
didnt notice it!

After everyone laughed at me for not noticing it,

they did it the second time.

Why why..why do I have colleagues like these.

2 more days to Cookie’s birthday!