Emotional Roller Coaster Week

Just finished watching The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, basically the end of Bilbo's journey and I cant help but be emotional as I ponder about his relationship loyal with Gandalf. For me, it paints a picture of how God is to us most of the time: leading us to adventures, sometimes perils. But one thing never fails... He keeps saving/redeeming/surprising us. And no matter how you almost died at the journey, one thing's sure: you'll make it home. With a lot of memories and lessons to take home.

What a good movie to end my roller coaster work week. Have you got those weeks where aside from being dragged by your tight calendar schedule, you also try to manage the emotions brought about by the results of your work? (I'm speaking more to the ladies since men don't have hormones that get them emotional) January 20-23 was that kind of week for me. Part of my job role as PM is to organize marketing events for Microsoft and I just had 3 consecutive events for Jan 21 and 22 (Wed and Thurs). I've organized a lot of events last year and they had good turnouts. I wasn't expecting that this year's pioneer events would have very low turnouts. I'm so disappointed with myself and I'm sure I disappointed my partners from Microsoft and my superiors. Having the "responsibility" personality makes my finger point at me event though I wasn't really the one in charge of getting the confirmations. It got me to think a lot and I thank God for comforting me and giving me a lesson to "OWN" my events next time.

After this pit comes another hectic day, Friday. In my mind, I have another day to disappoint myself and other people. I happened to be a contestant for a Demo Cup between 9 companies partnering with Microsoft. I was't really looking forward to win because I wouldn't get the prize anyway because of unreasonable company policy. I however still did my best because that's how God raised me up since I was a student: to always be excellent. So after the contestants have finished presenting, I was ready to leave the room but to my surprise, my name was called for the Grand Winner! In my heart, I know that it was God's way to redeem my week. I would've been still on disappointed mode this weekend if not for Him.

Thank you for Lord taking me to places... And making me do unbelievable things. ‪