Live Out Loud

What I often say: "I'm not good at this" What I really mean: 'I'm not comfortable doing it, so I won't' How much easier it is to just say "I can't" than to choose to do something that's a bit uncomfortable. Change and breakthrough will come through small decisions to obey. I want to overcome

A typical lunch (Zha jiang mian), costing about $3 Food here in Singapore is very affordable, never mind tasty. For lunch every day, my co-workers and I go to the food court at our school, which has a wide range of food options ranging from $2.50-$4 (USD). When I worked at Deloitte, it would be a treat for me to eat out for lunch. Here, because it is so affordable (and perhaps even cheaper to eat out than to pack lunch), I eat out every day.  My favorite part of my job so far has been going to lunch with my co-workers every day. /// We meet for church here at the mall. That sounds a bit strange, but there are quite a lot of spaces attached to malls here so it's actually quite common. Naturally after church, we go eat together at the food court at the mall. On Sunday after church I unexpectedly ran into my co-worker at the food court. Turns out his church also meets at the same mall on Sundays :)

#1: Being able to bless co-workers through Asian buns:  I woke up late for work, leaving no time to eat breakfast at home like I usually do. I started dreaming of the Asian buns I could eat at the bakery downstairs and simultaneously thinking about how I wanted to respond to co-workers when they would inevitable wish me a happy birthday. The idea of blessing others came to mind and I ended up bringing 15 buns to the office instead of 1. I'm not sure if this was the HS but I could tell this counter-cultural act left an impression on my co-workers. Hoping people come to see over time that it is the grace of God that allows me to be this way.. #2: Discovering a surprising loophole in the airline refund system: Back in April I bought airline tickets in advance to visit my brother in Seattle during Labor Day. Of course back then I thought I would for sure be in PHL and booked tickets that way. When I found out I was leaving the country, I called American Airlines to find a way to at...