JonesLiew.com

Oh boy, it’s been such a long and busy week for me ha!, not that I’m complaining, in fact I’m enjoying every single minute of it. It has been 13 days since my last post, and I almost failed to keep to the promise and my commitment to my 1 post per week.   So here it is… ha

For the first time in my short 5 months plus working  at The  Absorbent Mind, I get to train and facilitate 5 days straight and with 4 different groups of audience! It all started from Tuesday and below are the list of program I’m involved.

• Tuesday (14^thOctober 2008) I was leading a training program at Ang Mo Kio Secondary School,  Using movie clips to train the Normal Technical (N.T.) student on a few values that I hope will serves them in their life.
• Wednesday(15^th October 08) was a ice-breaking session with Shines’ new batch of “O”-levels student with students coming from all parts of the world from nearby Thailand to China, to Uzbekistan and  even Russia. It great to see different nationality coming together and have lots of fun. It was great working with them.
• Thursday (16^thOctober 08) I was with a corporate company, a car-grooming company, it was a team bonding session at the Safra-Yacht Club at Changi, have a challenging time there as I was alone dealing with 35 adults that don’t really know each other, and my job was to break their ice and have them talk and mingle with each other. I believed I did a good job as when the session end, I saw lots of happy and smiling faces and I received lots of thank you from the participants. I so glad that I had been able to make their day happy.
• Friday and Saturday (17^th &18^thOctober) were fun too plus it is also a great learning session. It was a 1½ day team building training with a chemical company. The participants went through a series of activities including the intermediate rope elements. Again, taking a group of 15 adults that are holding management post and are older than me, presented me  a certain level of challenge.  Despite that, as the sessions went on, I was able to get their respect and trust and it turns out to be one of my best facilitation session. In fact, one of them, a foreigner gave me a pat on the shoulder and say thank you and say that I have let him learn something valuable from this 1 ½ day training. I tell you… that’s was such a morale boosting for me.

So what the point typing all these on the net and frankly it doesn’t seem to matter to anyone. But for me, it does and there are certain learning points for me to take note.

Taking today to rest and reflect back on the week, makes me realised, that indeed, I do love my job. And I do enjoy working with youth and adults more than anything. The feeling of able to be part of another person life, able to put some laughter  and see people getting bonding more than before, puts a smile on my face.  It makes my world feel peaceful and full of hope.

 The world should be like that, where everyone should be happy and everyone will give a damn to another human being.  That’s really one of my dreams to see that happen, but you know what a lot of people tell me??

 They say don’t be stupid and I’m dreaming. No one really have time and care for another person. They will only care for themselves and their own family, other than that who cares!

Well for me, I just beg to differ. That’s because I’m not like other people, I’m Jones, I believed that the world can be full of love, care and hope for anyone and everyone. Just Image what the world will be if that is the real reality and the real world we all live in. Don’t you want to live in that kind of world? J