Just another (Christmas) Tuesday

No holidays here, and no family here too.

Throughout the weedays last week, I was in and out of the office doing RuiAn stuff. They had a party on the friday, I had to setup the videos and photo slideshows and was also invited to it. I hung around, had some drinks and snacks. and went home after 10pm. Played SSBU till late.

Saturday, I spent all day at home and played a lot of SSBU till late.
Sunday, went to church and almost no one is around, had lunch with keith and jenny. Before heading home, I went to an area nearby my place and looked around, spotted quite a few western restaurant, including spanish, french and german. Might eat there when i get the chance.

Farewell party

After the retreat (8th/9th), I returned to work as usual, once in a while updating what is need for the upcoming company annual dinner and also preparing Christmas songs chords for this friday's Christmas/farewell party. On top of that, I was given a bunch of farewell videos from ex-cellgroup members and I was to compiled them into a single video. On wednesday, I went to the hotel where the annual dinner would be held to do some site measurements. I wanted to start on the farewell video that evening after work, but procrastination got the better of me. I finally worked on it when it already got so late, but the very least I've lined up all the videos and went to bed. I continued editing the video at work the next day, and suddenly simple ideas came to me while editing. I finished around dinner time, played a few round of games, then rendering the video before going to bed.

On Friday, I went down to Ruian around 11am, and finished in about an hour, I had lunch in the area then headed home to relax until the party.

At the party, we had Singaporean food, saw people I haven't seen in a while, had carolling and the farewell bits. I went home a little later and called a cab home.

The long awaited Saturday was here, but it somehow still felt like crap despite me finally having a free day to myself. I got out of bed really late, and played some video games, I didn't eat anything and there was no water in the house... Evening came, I headed out to my colleague's wedding dinner. Nothing much happen, I pretty much secluded myself from the rest of my colleague who was there even though we all sat on the same table, and just ate the food. The dinner ended around 8.30pm and so I headed home.

Woke up early on Sunday morning to go to church to serve in media, sermon was about suffering. Was invited to go lunch at an expensive place for final farewell and even though initially decided to go, but somehow I felt like I was warned so many times about how expensive it was thatI turned it down in the end. I had lunch inside the hotel instead before heading home. Spent the rest of the day pretty much playing monster hunter.

A December retreat

4th~7th (Tue~Fri)
A kind of a big prep week, in the office I was tasked to do 3 things for the upcoming annual dinner, make an opening video, a ppt, and a poster. I managed to find free psd file for the poster, and just changed the title and text. PPT was mostly prepared by my colleague already, i just had to change some text and add a few pages. The opening video was the most tedious, I have almost no motivation to do it, but I went online and download a free trailer music, from there I just add photos of the events of this year and added simple effects (zooms and pans).
Outside of work, I also had to prepare worship for the retreat on the weekend, it was kind of last minute and that worried me a bit, but my team of musicians managed to send me their song picks and it went well. Friday night, I started preparing the slides for everyone and chords for myself and also last minute packing, I finished a little later than expected.
Saturday morning, I woke up around 6am, and headed out to the meeting point. Everyone was on time and we departed around 7:30am. It took about 2hrs to reach our destination at ChongMing Island.
Retreat recap (8th/9th):
During retreat, we went through the book of Joshua. It was quite a packed schedule, the moment we arrived, we checked in and headed to the meeting room for our first session. Then Afternoon came, we had lunch and departed to a nearby park. We walked, enjoyed the scenery and each others' company and took photos. We returned back about 3 hours later and session 2 started. Followed by dinner, session 3 and 4. We had a nice hour of sharing before we finished around 10pm.
Sunday morning, we got up around 7.30am for breakfast and had our closing session, before finishing up with a bible game and white elephant gift game. We had lunch at noon, and departed back to shanghai at 1pm and reached at 3:30pm. We had our short goodbyes and I headed home.

Home again and back

26th (Mo) - Went for BSF
27th~28th (Tu/We) - Just normal days at work, helped out with upcoming NioDay event a little.  Played Mario Odyssey and MHW after work.
29th (Th) - After work, went for CG retreat comittee meeting, but just 3 of us. Good curry dinner. Went home afterwards and did some last minute packing. I seemed to have failed to sleep early everytime, sleeping only 6~7 hours instead of 8+hours
30th (Fr) - Brought luggage to work, during lunch I cycled to the bank to withdraw some cash then went home for lunch and picked up my toiletries which I forgot. After work, I went to the airport and departed at 9pm+ homeward. Mom picked me up at 2am.
Dec 1st (Sa) - Followed mom to salon, she had her hair done while I had a minor haircut. We went to Nagisa restaurant for lunch and to celebrate my mom's birthday. After that, my mom and I went shopping a bit. Then we went home. There was still some time, so I got changed quickly and went for my cousin's wedding solemnization. When it was over, I went home for a short break before heading out for the wedding dinner. After the dinner, we hung out at Waterfront for a while before heading home.
Dec 2nd (Su) - Had breakfast with mom, went to church after that. After church, went to rimba to play some Pokemon Go, had lunch nearby then went to edmond's house to play some MTG. After MTG we went to have dinner at BK, then went to pick Nigel up from riverson. Afterwards we all just hung out at my house a bit.
Dec 3rd (Mo) - Went for breakfast with Aaron, then lunch with Ivan and Thomas. Relaxed in the later afternoon and spent time with my mom and sis. Went to Little Italy for dinner with family. Then Yamcha with edmond before I return home to get ready to return to Shanghai.