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Monday, November 20, 2006
Friday, November 17, 2006
Someone's gonna DIE!!!
I just drove back from teaching and because Bush in is Vietnam, most of the roads are closed and stuff...Well I was travelling on a street and a fat policeman came onto the road and gestured for everyone to keep right....then he came straight into my path and I couldn't keep right because there were bikes so to avoid him I had to swerve left behind him... The fella then took 2 steps back and stopped my bike and slapped me across my arm...What the HELL???Wah I am pissed!
I just drove back from teaching and because Bush in is Vietnam, most of the roads are closed and stuff...Well I was travelling on a street and a fat policeman came onto the road and gestured for everyone to keep right....then he came straight into my path and I couldn't keep right because there were bikes so to avoid him I had to swerve left behind him... The fella then took 2 steps back and stopped my bike and slapped me across my arm...What the HELL???Wah I am pissed!
Wednesday, November 15, 2006
Monday, November 06, 2006
Tuesday, October 31, 2006
Watch what you eat
Today as Chai Fong and I were heading up to class... an empty packaging laid on the floor, it looked strange for it had a vaugely familiar koren woman on the cover.
Upon closer observation, we gasped in horror as we saw.... The 'Da Chang Jing' Beef bean curd skin... It was utterly unbelivable... I mean celebrity endorsements were one thing but a drama serial endorsement? What the hell?
Today as Chai Fong and I were heading up to class... an empty packaging laid on the floor, it looked strange for it had a vaugely familiar koren woman on the cover.
Upon closer observation, we gasped in horror as we saw.... The 'Da Chang Jing' Beef bean curd skin... It was utterly unbelivable... I mean celebrity endorsements were one thing but a drama serial endorsement? What the hell?
Friday, October 27, 2006
Thursday, October 26, 2006
Tuesday, October 24, 2006
Vietnamese Wedding Photos
Imagine this... you have your wedding photos taken on an island of grass in the middle of the street during rush hour... You take your bride's hand and kiss it....in the background, hundreds of vietnamese motorbike riders slow down to catch a glimspe of the action (and also in the background is a singaporean man taking photos of the entire scene)..... The shot is taken..... when you look at the picture again all you see are hundreds of faces staring into the camera lens (with a singaporean pointing his camera at you)
In the 'tacky! tacky!' picture, ask yourself whcih is scarier...... The pose the couple is in...or the man who's riding with one hand turning to see the commotion (not keeping his eyes on the road)... ... ... ...
Imagine this... you have your wedding photos taken on an island of grass in the middle of the street during rush hour... You take your bride's hand and kiss it....in the background, hundreds of vietnamese motorbike riders slow down to catch a glimspe of the action (and also in the background is a singaporean man taking photos of the entire scene)..... The shot is taken..... when you look at the picture again all you see are hundreds of faces staring into the camera lens (with a singaporean pointing his camera at you)
In the 'tacky! tacky!' picture, ask yourself whcih is scarier...... The pose the couple is in...or the man who's riding with one hand turning to see the commotion (not keeping his eyes on the road)... ... ... ...
Monday, October 23, 2006
And the situation is?
6 MONTHS!!! I have been in Vietnam for 6 months now and things have still been wonderful… Last month was perhaps the hardest month for me, I had many many problems at the work place
Feeling insignificant and being taken advantage of, I felt crappy and going to work was a chore to me. However God was faithful, He always provides for my every physical and spiritual need. He continues to dig up the really deep and troubling issues of my life and works it out with me and well how this is done cannot be described with mere words but know that the joy which comes with this is unbearable! Woo Hoo!
The big ‘O’
Last Sunday’s sermon was shared by a pastor of the international church in Indonesia and it was on the topic of Outreach. His message was from the book of Acts chapter 13:1, and he showed us how the church was made up of the most peculiar group of people ( namely a former blind murderer, a businessman, a potentially scary dude who was affiliated with king herod and I can’t remember the last person…but go find out)
But anyways… There came a point in time when the pastor challenged us by asking (and asking us to stand) who will INTENTIONALLY make an effort to OUTREACH and in my heart I knew that I wanted to jump up and down from my seat, but when he called for us to stand (eyes closed)… I did it with a very heavy heart
Many years ago a couple of us from church went to Wesley for a talk/sermon on missions and the hall was filled up with maybe 250-300 people and at the end of the sermon we were challenged to make a commitment to God and His mission by standing…So when they called for us to stand, I stood up (with our eyes closed) and when I opened my eyes barely a handful of people stood. Then the seated people around me fervently prayed for me deep in conviction and very genuine…the entire congregation was praying as one… but it felt very lonely standing there by myself….
Well back to last week… I was afraid that I would be standing with another handful of people… But when I opened my eyes 90% of the church was standing together with me making the commitment to intentionally perform an outreach to someone whom God has called us to. It was unbelievably beautiful and that moment I knew I was in the right place. A church where people from every tribe and tongue came together to worship the living God, working together to carry out the will of He who has called us.
The 40 year prayer
I can't remember if I had written about this before but I remembered that I wanted to share this testimony with you guys.
In July, Sharon a singaporean lady after hearing the sermon on sunday felt the need to simply just go to the airport and meet someone and give them a welcome...and she did...at the airport she met an elderly malaysian couple from Penang and she greeted them and invited them to stay in her home as they had no plans...
They came to Hanoi because they got free tickets....and because it was such a sudden thing, they didnt book a hotel or anything....and when Sharon approached them...they eargerly went with her...(not something that i would do...but hey who knows) So in their conversations Sharon found out that the wife was a believer however her husband was not and she had been praying for him during the last 40years (or 30...) That sunday he came to church and I met him and he eyes were brightly lit and he was excited to meet everyone...
During the course of the week the older singaporeans and malaysians brought them around and what impressed this man most was how happy everyone was....as he had always been a skeptic towards christians....however Godworked his way into this man's heart and he accepted Jesus into his life during his week's stay here in vn...
Yesterday during service, Sharon stood up and told the chruch that the man passed away last month... I cried so hard and I thanked God for allowing me to witness him fufilling a 40 (or 30) year prayer... I know where he is today and at times we feel that our prayers are not heard but God answers them in His time (40 maybe 30 years)...that has been a lesson that he has been constantly teaching me here in vn....
Agape
Tobias
6 MONTHS!!! I have been in Vietnam for 6 months now and things have still been wonderful… Last month was perhaps the hardest month for me, I had many many problems at the work place
Feeling insignificant and being taken advantage of, I felt crappy and going to work was a chore to me. However God was faithful, He always provides for my every physical and spiritual need. He continues to dig up the really deep and troubling issues of my life and works it out with me and well how this is done cannot be described with mere words but know that the joy which comes with this is unbearable! Woo Hoo!
The big ‘O’
Last Sunday’s sermon was shared by a pastor of the international church in Indonesia and it was on the topic of Outreach. His message was from the book of Acts chapter 13:1, and he showed us how the church was made up of the most peculiar group of people ( namely a former blind murderer, a businessman, a potentially scary dude who was affiliated with king herod and I can’t remember the last person…but go find out)
But anyways… There came a point in time when the pastor challenged us by asking (and asking us to stand) who will INTENTIONALLY make an effort to OUTREACH and in my heart I knew that I wanted to jump up and down from my seat, but when he called for us to stand (eyes closed)… I did it with a very heavy heart
Many years ago a couple of us from church went to Wesley for a talk/sermon on missions and the hall was filled up with maybe 250-300 people and at the end of the sermon we were challenged to make a commitment to God and His mission by standing…So when they called for us to stand, I stood up (with our eyes closed) and when I opened my eyes barely a handful of people stood. Then the seated people around me fervently prayed for me deep in conviction and very genuine…the entire congregation was praying as one… but it felt very lonely standing there by myself….
Well back to last week… I was afraid that I would be standing with another handful of people… But when I opened my eyes 90% of the church was standing together with me making the commitment to intentionally perform an outreach to someone whom God has called us to. It was unbelievably beautiful and that moment I knew I was in the right place. A church where people from every tribe and tongue came together to worship the living God, working together to carry out the will of He who has called us.
The 40 year prayer
I can't remember if I had written about this before but I remembered that I wanted to share this testimony with you guys.
In July, Sharon a singaporean lady after hearing the sermon on sunday felt the need to simply just go to the airport and meet someone and give them a welcome...and she did...at the airport she met an elderly malaysian couple from Penang and she greeted them and invited them to stay in her home as they had no plans...
They came to Hanoi because they got free tickets....and because it was such a sudden thing, they didnt book a hotel or anything....and when Sharon approached them...they eargerly went with her...(not something that i would do...but hey who knows) So in their conversations Sharon found out that the wife was a believer however her husband was not and she had been praying for him during the last 40years (or 30...) That sunday he came to church and I met him and he eyes were brightly lit and he was excited to meet everyone...
During the course of the week the older singaporeans and malaysians brought them around and what impressed this man most was how happy everyone was....as he had always been a skeptic towards christians....however Godworked his way into this man's heart and he accepted Jesus into his life during his week's stay here in vn...
Yesterday during service, Sharon stood up and told the chruch that the man passed away last month... I cried so hard and I thanked God for allowing me to witness him fufilling a 40 (or 30) year prayer... I know where he is today and at times we feel that our prayers are not heard but God answers them in His time (40 maybe 30 years)...that has been a lesson that he has been constantly teaching me here in vn....
Agape
Tobias
Monday, October 16, 2006
O $ PAY $
Its a sad state when you can't trust your own company to reimburse you for the things you've paid for... I now make photocopies of everything and pin them on my wall......
And as for the issuse of the medical expenses claim... I am not allowed to do so as it wasn't stated in my written contract...
(however during the verbal discussion of the terms of my contract, my understanding was that as long as I had seen a doctor at the approved clinics and produced a valid receipt, I could be reimbursed the amount I had spent)
Well I know my fate... here in this company... Its ironic that the have no qualms about sending people on these redundent flights all across vietnam costing them $usd300 each time... (they flew a teacher in from Danang to teach for 3 days until a new teacher came in and they would then fly her back....like DUH!)
Its a sad state when you can't trust your own company to reimburse you for the things you've paid for... I now make photocopies of everything and pin them on my wall......
And as for the issuse of the medical expenses claim... I am not allowed to do so as it wasn't stated in my written contract...
(however during the verbal discussion of the terms of my contract, my understanding was that as long as I had seen a doctor at the approved clinics and produced a valid receipt, I could be reimbursed the amount I had spent)
Well I know my fate... here in this company... Its ironic that the have no qualms about sending people on these redundent flights all across vietnam costing them $usd300 each time... (they flew a teacher in from Danang to teach for 3 days until a new teacher came in and they would then fly her back....like DUH!)
Friday, October 06, 2006
I'm amused
Yesterday we had a mini-celebration for the mid-autum festival and the school hired a troupe to perform for the kids. It was 'interesting'...i suppose...
The event started off with a 'raffia-string' Lion dance and it was nice to see a semi-mouldy/faded lion costume (that had obviously been kept in the store room for too long) But it did move very well...
Then there were the animal acts
I was utterly disturbed when they made the monkeys do tricks. There was a chain and collar around the monkey's neck, and the monkey-man would just yank the chain to get the monkets to move wherever he needed them to be. So as he lifted the monkeys up, they would grab on the the chain with their dear life so as prevent themselves from being choked and strangled....The kids were utterly estacticly amused (am i allowed to use a sentence like that?) and well all the expats were throughly disturbed....myself included
There were also the dog acts but those were more erm...humane? dancing dogs, spinning dogs, flipping dogs, rolling dogs, balancing dogs... I mean as long as they're not being prepared for dinner I suppose its ok that they get to entertain children...
As you can tell all the animals featured in today's post are edible :)
Yesterday we had a mini-celebration for the mid-autum festival and the school hired a troupe to perform for the kids. It was 'interesting'...i suppose...
The event started off with a 'raffia-string' Lion dance and it was nice to see a semi-mouldy/faded lion costume (that had obviously been kept in the store room for too long) But it did move very well...
Then there were the animal acts
I was utterly disturbed when they made the monkeys do tricks. There was a chain and collar around the monkey's neck, and the monkey-man would just yank the chain to get the monkets to move wherever he needed them to be. So as he lifted the monkeys up, they would grab on the the chain with their dear life so as prevent themselves from being choked and strangled....The kids were utterly estacticly amused (am i allowed to use a sentence like that?) and well all the expats were throughly disturbed....myself included
There were also the dog acts but those were more erm...humane? dancing dogs, spinning dogs, flipping dogs, rolling dogs, balancing dogs... I mean as long as they're not being prepared for dinner I suppose its ok that they get to entertain children...
As you can tell all the animals featured in today's post are edible :)
Wednesday, October 04, 2006
Just another day in Paradise
Well Mom's come and gone, and Ive got to say it was a good trip (dispite all the arguements and normal family stuff) I now face to horrors of work and frankly im getting a wee bit tired of everything thats going on here.
Last minute changes and constant unnecessary stress make it more difficult for me to teach and I could see this from yesterday's class. I was prepared for the class but i couldnt execute it well.... Ich habe viel stress....
Ich learnen Deutsch und habe viel stress
And heres the thing that i found appalling in Vietnam...They fine (adult)students for not doing their homework. I was absent for 4 german classes coz mom was in town and I was made to pay a SGD$4 fine......What the hell!
White make-up and red lipstick
Here are pictures taken during the week mom was here
Thursday, September 21, 2006
Tuesday, September 19, 2006
Monday, September 18, 2006
Oh so high
It’s been a hectic month and so many things have been happening in my life, many of which would really just suck every ounce of spirit out of me.
On the 14th of August I got really sick with an intestinal infection and whilst I was traveling to work (all bloated and ready to explode across the street) a wonderfully cool breeze blew through me and at that moment an overwhelming love for Vietnam came pouring into me. It is a difficult description however I shall say that it felt like a deep, rich golden honey slowly oozing out of my heart and it was such a wonderful feeling. I knew that gud had placed this in me, for only he has such power to change one’s heart and wow it was beautiful.
And so I couldn’t keep this feeling inside me and I had to tell everyone about it. The Vietnamese were overwhelmed that I suddenly loved Vietnam and they could see that I was genuinely happy. Thanh was especially ecstatic.
Thung Thanh (Cheung Thang)
Last November when I was here backpacking(I didn’t write much about it but you could still read a little about it in my Nov blog post), I met Thanh who was working at the reception of the guesthouse I was living in. He’s a really friendly guy and we just hit it off chatting for hours, but on the last day of my trip I told him that I hated the country and that I would never return and I bade him farewell thinking that I would never meet him again.
When I came in here in April and met up with Thanh again, he was rubbing the ‘I hate Vietnam and would never come back again’ statement in my face but it was ok, and now when he heard that I loved Vietnam he couldn’t stop laughing ( I told him this when I went with him back to his village and he went about telling everyone in his household and they were laughing too, sigh what’s this fat city boy to do?)
And there were the phone calls home
I called a couple of close friends and told them that I loved this place and a couple of them were really surprised coz the words ‘love’ seldom parted my lips. I mean those who knew how I was back in Singapore would also know that I was a pretty miserable soul, always living by a thread, parents who continually break my heart, hating the job situation and failing to meet my objective of getting my university degree.
But Vietnam has been really kind to me over the past months ive been here and that could only happen through the grace of gud. And its true ive never been happier, I no longer worry about not having money, neither would I have to worry about the problems my family would give me, the stress level here is really low and I can appreciate the wonders of this world a lot more. The air seems sweeter (dispite the pollution…but that’s probably what made the air sweeter in the first place), the skies are always filled with stars, falling raindrops feel like kisses, the sounds of the blaring traffic seem to fade into nothing as you take it all in.
Ah Mah
I called home 3 weeks ago and my Ah Mah told me that she had a lump in her left breast and that they needed to perform a mastectomy (cut the breast off) and I called my aunt, but what she told me was that it was only a minor operation to see if the lump was cancerous. I could hear from my grandmother’s voice that she was afraid and I was worried for her to. I then fasted food for the last 9 days of the 40 day fast, for I asked gud to revel himself to her. One night I suddenly awoke and started writing a letter to my grandmother,
Dear Ah Mah,
From the phone call I could tell that you are very afraid, please don’t be. I remembered that when I was young you would always give me joss sticks and ask me to pray to ‘Tee Gong Zhor’ (which literally mean Heaven’s Lord) Ah Mah, do understand that ‘Tee Gong Zhor’ is the creator of heaven and earth and that his name has never changed in the history of the Chinese people for thousands of years. Ah Mah ‘Tee Gong Zhor’ is “Shang di” (shangdi is another name for the creator, it is also the name that cris’ians use for gud) and we know of his holiness, his power and his sovereignty but we don’t know of his love for us, Ah Mah Jesus is ‘Shang Di’ and he was revealed to us through the jews. Je’sus wants to build a relationship with us so that we can understand gud’s love for us and he wants to reconcile us with gud. But we as men have sin and the price for sin is death but because gud loves us so, he has allowed his own son to redeem us from the price of sin. Ah Mah know that I love you very much and that you are very important to me, I ve been very afraid to say these things to you but this fear has been taken away because I love you so much so please let Je’sus take your sin from you so that you can be reconciled with gud. Ah Mah don’t worry because many people in Hanoi and in Singapore are praying for you. And don’t worry about me because gud has always taken care of me and im in good hands with the people from church. Love you lots Toby
Dear brothers and sisters who are reading know that my Chinese is terrible but the holy spirit has given me the grace to write all this out in chinese and I was overwhelmed....
Styrafoam Bubbles
Poverty is still around but the pe ple here are much simpler and contented. As I was riding home for teaching, my heart ached to see 3 street children (a boy and 2 girls of which one was probably 4) all dirty and tattered. But they were laughing gleefully as they let handfuls of Styrofoam bubbles into the wind which carried them into the river off the bridge they were on. Believe me it was so beautiful… for that I know that I have a purpose here and that I am to fulfill it. The lord of hea’ven and earth has a plan for the salvation of all man and we are a part of it. He has no desire to see anyone perish and I know that this is where I am to carry out his will. So continue to pr’ay for me and yourself that we’ll all be obedient to him when he calls and that we will not doubt or worry for he will provide…I am a witness to these things.
It’s been a hectic month and so many things have been happening in my life, many of which would really just suck every ounce of spirit out of me.
On the 14th of August I got really sick with an intestinal infection and whilst I was traveling to work (all bloated and ready to explode across the street) a wonderfully cool breeze blew through me and at that moment an overwhelming love for Vietnam came pouring into me. It is a difficult description however I shall say that it felt like a deep, rich golden honey slowly oozing out of my heart and it was such a wonderful feeling. I knew that gud had placed this in me, for only he has such power to change one’s heart and wow it was beautiful.
And so I couldn’t keep this feeling inside me and I had to tell everyone about it. The Vietnamese were overwhelmed that I suddenly loved Vietnam and they could see that I was genuinely happy. Thanh was especially ecstatic.
Thung Thanh (Cheung Thang)
Last November when I was here backpacking(I didn’t write much about it but you could still read a little about it in my Nov blog post), I met Thanh who was working at the reception of the guesthouse I was living in. He’s a really friendly guy and we just hit it off chatting for hours, but on the last day of my trip I told him that I hated the country and that I would never return and I bade him farewell thinking that I would never meet him again.
When I came in here in April and met up with Thanh again, he was rubbing the ‘I hate Vietnam and would never come back again’ statement in my face but it was ok, and now when he heard that I loved Vietnam he couldn’t stop laughing ( I told him this when I went with him back to his village
And there were the phone calls home
I called a couple of close friends and told them that I loved this place and a couple of them were really surprised coz the words ‘love’ seldom parted my lips. I mean those who knew how I was back in Singapore would also know that I was a pretty miserable soul, always living by a thread, parents who continually break my heart, hating the job situation and failing to meet my objective of getting my university degree.
But Vietnam has been really kind to me over the past months ive been here and that could only happen through the grace of gud. And its true ive never been happier, I no longer worry about not having money, neither would I have to worry about the problems my family would give me, the stress level here is really low and I can appreciate the wonders of this world a lot more. The air seems sweeter (dispite the pollution…but that’s probably what made the air sweeter in the first place), the skies are always filled with stars, falling raindrops feel like kisses, the sounds of the blaring traffic seem to fade into nothing as you take it all in.
Ah Mah
I called home 3 weeks ago and my Ah Mah told me that she had a lump in her left breast and that they needed to perform a mastectomy (cut the breast off) and I called my aunt, but what she told me was that it was only a minor operation to see if the lump was cancerous. I could hear from my grandmother’s voice that she was afraid and I was worried for her to. I then fasted food for the last 9 days of the 40 day fast, for I asked gud to revel himself to her. One night I suddenly awoke and started writing a letter to my grandmother,
Dear Ah Mah,
From the phone call I could tell that you are very afraid, please don’t be. I remembered that when I was young you would always give me joss sticks and ask me to pray to ‘Tee Gong Zhor’ (which literally mean Heaven’s Lord) Ah Mah, do understand that ‘Tee Gong Zhor’ is the creator of heaven and earth and that his name has never changed in the history of the Chinese people for thousands of years. Ah Mah ‘Tee Gong Zhor’ is “Shang di” (shangdi is another name for the creator, it is also the name that cris’ians use for gud) and we know of his holiness, his power and his sovereignty but we don’t know of his love for us, Ah Mah Jesus is ‘Shang Di’ and he was revealed to us through the jews. Je’sus wants to build a relationship with us so that we can understand gud’s love for us and he wants to reconcile us with gud. But we as men have sin and the price for sin is death but because gud loves us so, he has allowed his own son to redeem us from the price of sin. Ah Mah know that I love you very much and that you are very important to me, I ve been very afraid to say these things to you but this fear has been taken away because I love you so much so please let Je’sus take your sin from you so that you can be reconciled with gud. Ah Mah don’t worry because many people in Hanoi and in Singapore are praying for you. And don’t worry about me because gud has always taken care of me and im in good hands with the people from church. Love you lots Toby
Dear brothers and sisters who are reading know that my Chinese is terrible but the holy spirit has given me the grace to write all this out in chinese and I was overwhelmed....
Styrafoam Bubbles
Poverty is still around but the pe ple here are much simpler and contented. As I was riding home for teaching, my heart ached to see 3 street children (a boy and 2 girls of which one was probably 4) all dirty and tattered. But they were laughing gleefully as they let handfuls of Styrofoam bubbles into the wind which carried them into the river off the bridge they were on. Believe me it was so beautiful… for that I know that I have a purpose here and that I am to fulfill it. The lord of hea’ven and earth has a plan for the salvation of all man and we are a part of it. He has no desire to see anyone perish and I know that this is where I am to carry out his will. So continue to pr’ay for me and yourself that we’ll all be obedient to him when he calls and that we will not doubt or worry for he will provide…I am a witness to these things.
Saturday, September 09, 2006
Yes I am a Singaporean
Hello! Its been a really long while since I've blogged and I feel terrible cause Ive got loads to share. Its been a roller-coaster ride with my Grandma's cancer, work related stresses and my trip to China. But before I share on that....
Yesterday at 4.40pm, a 40-page report was literally dumped on me and I was told to vet it... I had to submit it this morning... I looked at the clock and told the chief accountant that I had less then 14 hours to do it... She then replied, 'this is a singaporean company and you are a singaporean and you should be used to it...'
I stared at her saying that whatever it is it is no excuse to give anyone such last minute work and as I was telling her about how disgruntled I was, she replied by saying...'i don't know, i was only asked to hand this to you' YEAH IM SURE!
Anyways im now at the empty office sitting here waiting for people to come in... I've not had any sleep but at least the report has been completely vetted. The problem was, the english translations the vietnamese use makes no utter sense...english sentences are written with vietnamese grammer and the words used are utterly bombastic. (the vetted pages are RED with ink)
I really love Vietnam, but this company is making it really difficult for me to work well here. Everyone is disgruntled, im treated like dirt and am constantly being bossed around by really uncaring people.
My only relief is when I spend time with my church mates, and bible study last night was wonderful. God really took my mind off all the crap that was being thrown at me and it was wonderful to be in fellowship. Although Im not too thrilled with the unjust treatment im getting right now, i am only comforted with the knowledge that God has a plan for me here in Vietnam and I have to live it out in obedience to Him.
I ll share more soon...
Agape
Tobes
Hello! Its been a really long while since I've blogged and I feel terrible cause Ive got loads to share. Its been a roller-coaster ride with my Grandma's cancer, work related stresses and my trip to China. But before I share on that....
Yesterday at 4.40pm, a 40-page report was literally dumped on me and I was told to vet it... I had to submit it this morning... I looked at the clock and told the chief accountant that I had less then 14 hours to do it... She then replied, 'this is a singaporean company and you are a singaporean and you should be used to it...'
I stared at her saying that whatever it is it is no excuse to give anyone such last minute work and as I was telling her about how disgruntled I was, she replied by saying...'i don't know, i was only asked to hand this to you' YEAH IM SURE!
Anyways im now at the empty office sitting here waiting for people to come in... I've not had any sleep but at least the report has been completely vetted. The problem was, the english translations the vietnamese use makes no utter sense...english sentences are written with vietnamese grammer and the words used are utterly bombastic. (the vetted pages are RED with ink)
I really love Vietnam, but this company is making it really difficult for me to work well here. Everyone is disgruntled, im treated like dirt and am constantly being bossed around by really uncaring people.
My only relief is when I spend time with my church mates, and bible study last night was wonderful. God really took my mind off all the crap that was being thrown at me and it was wonderful to be in fellowship. Although Im not too thrilled with the unjust treatment im getting right now, i am only comforted with the knowledge that God has a plan for me here in Vietnam and I have to live it out in obedience to Him.
I ll share more soon...
Agape
Tobes
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