Sometimes A Bright Star Shines

Today is one of those days where everything turns out good!

You can’t always get what you want… but if you try sometimes, you’ll find, you get what you need 

Had a friend request from Virb today. Everyone meet Marcus Kuerten! He’s from Germany and he has an awesome playlist, called Mechanisms over at his Virb site. It’s very interesting and one of a kind. In fact, it never crossed my mind to do this. I usually know an idea is good if after hearing it I’d wish that I had thought about it in the first place. And this is a D-Oh! moment where I wished I had thought about it. Speaking of  these moments, I had a D-Oh! moment at Guardian tonight. If you’re a girl you can ask me. But I think I really need to patent my ideas!

So I mentioned Marcus because of his message to me. Remember the song which I crossposted on this blog and on my Virb site? The title is Finding My Identity and it’s under the Prayers album. I am not much of a singer/guitarist. The tune was made out of me strumming a few rudimentary chords during my quiet time. I don’t even think I can sing well, I just want to write lyrics which can touch people. I once read that poetry is putting in to words universal emotions in a new light.  I want people to easily identify with my lyrics/poems/stories and yet find it refreshing.

His message touched my heart a lot, and I appreciate his feedback. I quoted his original message below:

From: marcus kuerten

Subject: Friend Request Message

Date: Feb 11, 2008 – 12:04 AM

hello bohochick,
“finding my identity” is the most emotional and real track i’ve found here since a long time. great! the only thing i don’t like is the fact, that it is not possible to download.
make more “prayers”, please.
best regards and greetings from cologne, germany.
marcus kuerten

I’m not used to being honest and real in my writings. But I really put myself out there when I posted the song. So, his message is simply inspiring to me.I do doubt that I can ever write a lot of songs, maybe lyrics, but I’m not trained in Music at all. I’m self-taught which means about 90% of what I know may not be valid . So I’m thinking of being a performance poet. I’d write, record and post it on the Virb site. And maybe also on TalentDatabase!  I wrote three poems during my quiet time yesterday. The one that I especially liked was about trusting God’s heart when you can’t see His hand. Will post them up once I have revised and polished.

I’m strong to the finish ’cause I ate me spinach…

I decided long ago not to blog about my work. So whenever I mention my job, I write in vague terms. Besides there’s a confidentiality clause that we had to sign. I apologize if the following sentences don’t make sense at all.

Work was supposed to be stressful today. Because all the accumulated work from last week has snowballed. But surprisingly, I wasn’t too bummed about it. Normally, I would be worried, stressed and extremely bitter because of this certain colleague who …ok I’ll stop at that because I don’t want to be upset. Anyway, I was calm and not so irritable! 

 Talked with one of the meanest+rudest+most unreasonable customer ever! He’s an ang moh who has a bad reputation among my colleagues. Because people end up either hanging up on him or shouting at him then hanging up.

And I managed to handle him with great grace, it took a lot of time though, but I passed with flying colors. LOL, I have no idea how, but thank God! My bosses are impressed because I managed to tell the guy off without offending him and also not cause much hassle to them by forwarding them the case. It’s a good thing I prayed and meditated before I went to work. Or else, *shudders* I can get cranky and totally unhelpful. Attitude is a very tough thing for me to handle. In the end, we were more like friends than the first few minutes where I got shouted at for doing my job! 

I am so excited. Ideas are coming my way! And I’m just brimming with stuff to blog! But that’ll be overkill so…till then toodles!

blogging with Wacky

Wow! I can blog with my iPod Touch! This is so cool! Work was tough, met very rude customers. But I’m glad I was able to handle it well. Thank God! Ok I’m having finger cramps. Shall blog more later