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9 days Mute mode

After receiving the vision of Eagle, it guides me to discern what God wants from me for my next step. I know that my time in this company is going to end soon, I don't have a heart and excitement to come to the office any more. Personally, I have my own deadline but again I want to align my desire to God. Thus, in this 9 days starting from today until next Tuesday, I plan to do spiritual and physical detox 9 days Novena Mother Mary Abstinence from all unhealthy snacks, fried food and sugar I want to discern two big things When is the right time for me to move on What is the next thing God wants me to do I have personal deadline which is I plan to start a new next year but not sure where and what should I do. I prefer to wait and see for this 9 days what will be the direction. This is my heart's desire 1. I want to go for personal healing (physical and spiritual)  going for gym in the morning rewrite my personal goal and plan 2. I want to spend quality time with the kids be ther...

On Eagle's wings

You who dwell in the shelter of the Lord Who abide in His shadow for life Say to the Lord, "My refuge, my rock in whom I trust!" And He will raise you up on eagles' wings Bear you on the breath of dawn Make you to shine like the sun And hold you in the palm of His hand The snare of the fowler will never capture you And famine will bring you no fear Under His wings your refuge, His faithfulness your shield And He will raise you up on eagles' wings Bear you on the breath of dawn Make you to shine like the sun And hold you in the palm of His hand You need not fear the terror of the night Nor the arrow that flies by day Though thousands fall about you, near you it shall not come And He will raise you up on eagles' wings Bear you on the breath of dawn Make you to shine like the sun And hold you in the palm of His hand For to His angels He's given a command To guard you in all of your ways Upon their hands they will bear you up Lest you dash your foot against a ston...

The Way of Eagle

Yesterday we had a spiritual enrichment with ci Pat and the topic about prophetic intercessory prayer. One take away from this session is we need to know God's heart and desire so we can pray over according to God's will instead of asking God to do our will. And during praise and worship, I had a vision about Eagle. The eagle is roaring from the deep forest to the blue sky and God said that I will be saved under His eagle's wings. He will protect me against all undesirable things. It really intrigues me thus I searched about this special bird - eagle. Born to soar God created the eagle to soar ! He is born to soar ! As such, he is a picture of the believer who is born again to live a victorious life. The eaglet is born in the nest. Its needs are met by his parents. The eaglet has no desire to leave the nest as it's quite comfortable right where it is ! But an eaglet is born to fly and soar. So the mother spends a great deal of time preparing it for that glorious moment ...

10th business trip to Jakarta (18 - 22 Sep 2023)

This is my 10th business trip to Jakarta and it's an eye opener for me to learn different business models from different industry, talking with C-level and business owners in their different stage of business. The non-experienced young business owner is very idealist, visionaries but have no money The little experienced more mature business owner is "let's do it" attitude, has some plan, bootstrapping and needs more fund The experienced young business owner is open for discussion, opportunity and profit oriented, have enough cash flow The experienced more mature business owner is visionaries, has solid plan and partners, needs more fund The experienced mature business owner is has some projects in hand, successful business model, needs more injection for new projects In this trip, I also had second initial discussions about setting up new partnership in Singapore for circular economy. They have created the blueprint and the commercial scheme proposal which I am going ...

Family Time !

As a full time working mom, time is so precious. 24 hrs seems not enough. Juggling in between work, travel, school, church ministry, family, friends and taking care myself. Squeezing every moment as every minute is valuable and precious. The currency is no longer money but time. Sunday is my DO NOT DISTURB time and dedicated for quality time with my loved ones. Having meals and listening to the kids stories and laughing for their lame jokes refresh and recharge my soul.

Focus one at a time

As I have been decluttering my life as there are many noises and choices, I remembered this advise from one of respectable finance coach in Indonesia. He told me as a company, you need to focus on one thing, go deep, master and be the market leader and not half way jumping and starting another company.  It just resonates with what hubby told me last night. Pick one, focus and learn and be a master of it. I realise that God gives me multi talents, I can learn many things in the shortest period of time but I lack persistence. When there are big giants in front of me, I am easily distracted and looking for way out instead of digging through it and make a break through. I realise that I am racing against time. I am not that young that can job hopping, try here and there as I have more responsibilities in my hand right now.  Thus, I really need to focus, pick one subject, dive deeper and master it. I guess these are the steps that I am going to implement  1. Refresh my life pu...

Declutter !

As I've been approaching the last miles of my career, I feel that there are many opportunities out there that looks lucrative. However, I am not sure which ones are really meant for me as I only can see the top of the iceberg. Currently, I am taking sustainability course with BCG Rise as I want to dive deeper into this. It's not because of the trend, but more on personal advocate to create social impact to the people and environment. Meanwhile these are some opportunities that I could see : 1 . Work for people - Joining competitor whom I respect the founder from his own story, insights and sharing that inspiring me Pros : I can adapt quickly as I know the product roughly, tap into my networks and have a chance to grow their business faster as I could see that their products are simple, less complicated and suited to the market Cons : I can't join directly as I have non competition clause for 3 months and it's more on the ethical point of view that the earliest I can joi...

Reinforcement !

As I have been pressed, purified, processed, transformed to be pure and have high value, God never leaves me alone. He sends His angel to accompany and help to journey together with me which is hubby. After going back from Indo, I was so tired, overwhelmed and wanna give up. I told him that I can't do it anymore, it's really heavy burden. My physical health was affected as well as my mental health and it's not worth it. He was on my side to cheer me up that the process will be ended soon, he believed that I will get a new opportunity soon that suit me well. He asked me not to give up yet and keep going and push a little bit more everyday. He consoled me by asking me out to watch movie "Meg 2" at Jurong Point and had snack after movie at McDonald. On Saturday, we had morning jog and had Thai food for lunch and Lok2 for late dinner at JB something that I've been craving for. We returned home after midnight because of the traffic jam, but I was happy able to enjo...

Burn out !

I was so burn out at my work and career right now. I can't sleep well this week, I just felt the high energy inside me but it's in negative ways. I felt so angry and helpless at the same time with the management. What I don't like is they're arrogant, yes they are smart and experienced people but they are not humble to learn from others. It was so messy and chaotic inside and slowly the value was drifted from the vision and mission. The leadership team was lost but didn't want to listen to the market needs and feedback. That's on the high level, on the micro level, I had little control on my time management. They tracked the timing in and out, no more flexible working arrangement. I felt so powerless and tried to embrace the situation and told myself to keep going and walking. But I knew inside that my heart was burning, I kept and suppressed the feeling, silence tear and smiling with pain. I really want to say it quits, not because of the job itself, but the va...

9th Business trip to Jakarta ( 28 Aug - 1 Sep 2023)

This month was a hectic month, I spent total 11 days in Jakarta and this my 9th business trip. The main highlight was we had event at ICE BSD and it was our first trade event that we set up booth there. It reminded me the old good days when I set up booth for AR cards product 8 years back. I arrived on Monday at stayed at Aloft Simatupang then went to office to pick up some stuff before heading to ICE BSD to set up. The event was 3 days from Tuesday to Thursday and it's been a fruitful event. We met other enablers, building relationship with them, discovered many business ideas and the ecosystem partners, talked with business owners understanding their pain points and challenging in finance. There are some familiar faces who visited our booth as well. On Thursday, we wrapped up and had dinner with the team at Plaza Senayan. I went back to Singapore on Friday morning to do my part as citizen to vote for the upcoming president.