Curtain Call

As the year 2007 is closing to an end, another chapter in my life is about to be closed. I would like to count all the blessings than heartaches that I received this year.



One: My wonderful marriage with my beloved Jon.

I thought today was a great time to express it, because at the same time today is our 5th months anniversary. Yes, we are still brand new married couple and our honeymoon is blessedly prolonged. Last month when we hit our fourth, Jon told me that I should've reminded him about it and because I didn't, we missed it. So I messaged him today reminding him of our bond together. Yesterday was not really a good moment for the both of us. It started wonderful, but as the burden of our job claiming our sense of peace our exchanges became shorter and ebbing. The good thing was it lasted only for a short while and we traded our "I love yous" soon after. I enjoyed listening to him reading the Bible to me at night. Beat watching late night TV all the way. The way Jon read was quite theatrical, sometime I'm amazed that he still got all that energy even that late in the night. He always made me smile with his antics

Two: My daily miracles.

All the good things that happen in my life, is not a coincidences. One of them is of course, my upcoming new job. As I was applying for a better opportunity, the response is few and slow. Sometimes I wonder if my resume was really that bad, or I don't know what. I hardly got a phone call from a good decent company and so I was getting more hopeless each day I didn'treceive that solid phone call. So one day, I receive one call for interview for this small ad agency. This company was not even my focus to begin with as I was looking toward banking. But I entertained the call and went for the interview anyway. One thing... Although I was having high hopes and dream about working for advertising, the dream soon dousing off, after none offered to me. And so, I was quite surprised that this company called me back even with my lack of experiences, to say the least. The interview went well and the interviewer even sounded a hint that I'm on my way to become their next employee. Another note, when he first called me on the phone for the interview, he stated to me," You're not a creative person, are you?" My answer was, "It depends on what constitute creative..." So at the interview, I asked him, "why did you say that I was not creative?" He said, "I was looking at another resume." Sometime I still wonder if I was not even considered to begin with. But that would prove even better, that God helped me. On the way out, I met with Elaine. She was the next interview candidate. What a small world. Perhaps God decided to bless us both. I was quite excited for the prospect to work for this ad agency. But of course there's the part whether or not this is the right one, etc. So I prayed for a guidance, that is if Elaine is accepted that means it the job for me too, because at the moment this company is looking for 2 persons to work for them. Elaine got the job first. And soon after they called me back for a second interview and at the end of it, I was offered the job with a pay that's quite decent. Not as much as I wanted, but pretty much 1.5x my current pay. That was the big one, but the small events such as big orders, nice people on my paths and random taxis when there seemed to be hopeless keep on popping up to me.

At the moment I have not resign yet. I am still waiting for the bonus that is rightly mine. I know it's kind of inappropriate to resign right after receiving the bonus, but at least I'm not faking that I am in the business of receiving money. And I know another miracle is coming :)