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.

Thnksgvng

I didn't spend my free time at the venue wisely...
22nd (Thu) was showday. I just coop up at the back as I always do. After the show ended late at night I was sort of forced to stay overnight at the venue waiting for my colleagues to set up the main area after the 1st night show, it took them all night. I found a couch somewhere and tried to sleep till morning (23rd, Fri). I did my part, stuck around until 1pm and went home to shower and relax.
24th (Sat), I arrive 10am and cooped up at the back until evening and headed for thanksgiving dinner, I stopped by a supermarket to buy apple juice. Had Thanksgiving dinner then went home.
25th (Sun), Served media at church, Had lunch at nearby bagel shop, went home to play monster hunter.
26th (Mon), Back to office as usual, trying to sort things out. Time to do some reflection and get ready to return home this weekend.

work work november

From 11th (Sun), it was a 6-day work week.

12th(mon), 13th(tue) Had to work overtime, missed out on BSF and boardgame night. Just waiting around while clients look at LED floor+wall.

16th(fri) - Cellgroup at Jenny's place, Joe's Pizza isn't that good imo.

French jewelry event work:

17th(sat) - Had pancake brunch with a friend, rested and play MHW in the afternoon until work starts at 9pm. I finished around 2~3am.

18th(sun) - Woke up 12:30pm, missed out on ICS 10th anniversary, relaxed until had to go to work by 5pm. Finished around 12am. Played until 4am.

19th(mon) - Work gets earlier for some reason, work starts at 3pm. Finished around 12am.

20th (tue) - Work starts at 9am, at this point I'm just on standby only all day. Finished around 10am

21st (wed) - Work starts at 10am, a little more sleep is always good. Finished around 12am.

Early Nov, no brakes

29/10 - 4/11 on the Monday I finally returned to BSF and had a great meal. On Tuesday I decided to attend a meetup to play board games, I got to meet some new people but the board game was a bit draggy, the burrito was amazing though. Wednesday had CG retreat committee. Thursday, finally a break, and Friday had CG as usual. (Wow, day time is just work so nothing noteworthy at all).
Saturday was suppose to be a work day, but I took a day-off and went for kids church practise, had lunch and generally relax at home afterwards. Sunday came, I passed a guitar to a new friend to practise and served at kids church, I should get into drums one day. We had lunch at Moka Bros and then I headed home.

5/11 onwards,
This Monday was suppose to be a holiday because of the Import Expo, but instead I had to go to Beijing for a Italian jewelry event. As expected, security was high around the expo center, took slightly longer to reach the railway station. I departed in the mid afternoon and caught up on Deltarune on the train. I arrived without trouble, headed to the hotel, explored the surrounding area, had dinner and went to bed as work hasn't started.
Tuesday to Thursday is setting up the video and lots and lots of waiting and some rehearsal. Show began Thursday night.
Friday, woke up, had good omellete and headed back to Shanghai. Arrived back later in the afternoon, put luggage back home, prepare some ppt slides and headed to CG. Spent almost all of Saturday playing Mario Odyssey and some MHW. Sunday was a work day, sad, in the evening went for retreat committee meeting.

end of Dis

RuiAn work ended on a Sunday and I returned to office come Monday until Thursday, working on Roewe show for next week. On Friday I was scheduled to go to Suzhou, so I stayed home during the day and departed in the evening.

Suzhou event (19th-26th):

As expected, after I arrived I didn't had anything to do for at least 2 days, instead I was given the task to get a bunch of laptops and OS updated and ready. After that, for the next 4-5 days my work started, but only at night. I slept early in the morning and had free time during the afternoon until night. In my free time I checked out surrounding area, played Majora Mask 3DS and generally killing time on the internet.

On show day (26th), I needn't stick around for the show, after I finished my part in the morning, I immediately ask my company to book a ticket back to Shanghai in the early afternoon and checked out as soon as I could. I returned Shanghai and relaxed the rest of the afternoon, playing some Spider-man before I headed out to CG in the evening. During CG we did a skit. After CG, I went home and slept for about 11hrs and 30mins.

Sat: Woke up almost noon, immediately got ready and headed out to Shanghai Comic Convention, it was all right, not very big but a lot of cool figures to look at. I finished around 3pm and had some free time, so I decided to go to the Miku Expo happening that day instead of Sunday. I arrived and bought a ticket, spent time looking around and participate in the mini event, chat up with other fans and met the American running the fan website. 7:30pm came and the concert began, it finished at 9:30pm and I went straight home after.

Sun: Woke up early to serve for today's service. After that was left behind and I had to travel to the lunch place myself. Had lunch, had coffee afterwards, then I went home. At home, caught up with some anime and played MWH.

Mission failed again, is there a next time?

Change is tough.

Since the last blog, there was a few days of work before I flew back to KK again. I was given quite a bit of work to do.

Then I flew back to KK again on Sept 29th. To summarize my trip, I tried plenty of burgers, spent a lot of time with popo, brother had the mattresses specially cleaned, went to see choir with Ivan, played some switch games, some pokemon go here and there, and terrible dates. Went to see the dentist (no problems!), hung out with aaron and his wife, cooked tikka masala at home. I didn't really do anything out of the ordinary.

On the 9th, I returned Shanghai and things pick up too soon imo. Immediately, it was fashion week in XTD, a short runway show I was occupied with for 2 days, followed by RuiAn work which was too simple and had me coming over during the weekend.