in praise of God
4 weeks ago. i started planning for the Business & Economics High Table at Bruce Hall. Said to myself that I have to be the first to organise a high table, since i'm holding the Formal Dinners portfolio within the SR team in Bruce Hall.
Well.. I had big ideas - I wanted it to be a dinner where academics can meet business professionals. I wanted representatives from consulting firms and investment banks to come. I dreamt big.
2 weeks passed and I only had 2 replies. one's my lecturer, the other, a tutor for the course the lecturer is teaching. (micro 3). at least he's working full time in a private econs consulting capacity, so it's not too bad. but then again.. i've 2 weeks to go. Need to get guests.
Managed to get suggestions of more names from research schools around the ANU, namely the Crawford School of Economics and Government. I had the guts to invite the Director to come. he couldn't come, but gave me more names. Great! And I got more successful - one more replied.
So now it's 1 week before the event and i only have 3 guests. WOW. i have at least 5 tables.. and only 3 guests. that's horrible. that's on the wednesday exactly a week before my event. the next day, another replied.. and i gave myself the green light to carry on the high table. the night before i had already arranged to discuss with my head of hall about cancelling the event due to 'lack of guests'.
We had OCF meeting on friday. i had a prayer request for the smooth running of the event. i had only 4 guests for 5 tables then. at night, the Director of Crawford replied he's coming! that got me really excited, and the sign up sheet i put up for the event on thursday, was already full by saturday night.
high expectations. and thanks to my 'attention deficit' (don't know if it's caused by stress) .. i just can't concentrate with my work. studies suffer for a bit. but nevermind. on monday, i got a few more last minute replies.
from 3 guests and almost calling the whole thing off, now i just returned from a very inspiring evening with 10 guests. we had a blackout with the main lights.. but the night turned into a candle-lit dinner. and the whole program worked out really well, i even had positive comments from non-econs students about how much they enjoyed the evening.
i can't elaborate more, but certainly i know that I'm not alone in this one ( i had a friend organise this with me, but that's not the point). I'd say this is like a miracle. totally. unimaginable.
and when i was most down, i chance upon a special person online. too good to be true?
Only one person who fail to amaze me over and over again.
And the most amazing when I'm least believing in myself.
None but Jesus.
Well.. I had big ideas - I wanted it to be a dinner where academics can meet business professionals. I wanted representatives from consulting firms and investment banks to come. I dreamt big.
2 weeks passed and I only had 2 replies. one's my lecturer, the other, a tutor for the course the lecturer is teaching. (micro 3). at least he's working full time in a private econs consulting capacity, so it's not too bad. but then again.. i've 2 weeks to go. Need to get guests.
Managed to get suggestions of more names from research schools around the ANU, namely the Crawford School of Economics and Government. I had the guts to invite the Director to come. he couldn't come, but gave me more names. Great! And I got more successful - one more replied.
So now it's 1 week before the event and i only have 3 guests. WOW. i have at least 5 tables.. and only 3 guests. that's horrible. that's on the wednesday exactly a week before my event. the next day, another replied.. and i gave myself the green light to carry on the high table. the night before i had already arranged to discuss with my head of hall about cancelling the event due to 'lack of guests'.
We had OCF meeting on friday. i had a prayer request for the smooth running of the event. i had only 4 guests for 5 tables then. at night, the Director of Crawford replied he's coming! that got me really excited, and the sign up sheet i put up for the event on thursday, was already full by saturday night.
high expectations. and thanks to my 'attention deficit' (don't know if it's caused by stress) .. i just can't concentrate with my work. studies suffer for a bit. but nevermind. on monday, i got a few more last minute replies.
from 3 guests and almost calling the whole thing off, now i just returned from a very inspiring evening with 10 guests. we had a blackout with the main lights.. but the night turned into a candle-lit dinner. and the whole program worked out really well, i even had positive comments from non-econs students about how much they enjoyed the evening.
i can't elaborate more, but certainly i know that I'm not alone in this one ( i had a friend organise this with me, but that's not the point). I'd say this is like a miracle. totally. unimaginable.
and when i was most down, i chance upon a special person online. too good to be true?
Only one person who fail to amaze me over and over again.
And the most amazing when I'm least believing in myself.
None but Jesus.
thoughts of tanoshi at 7:30 PM
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updates!!!!!! >_<
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