wonderment

Itinerary is up!

22 Mar SIN - KLIA : ETD 1725
22 Mar KLIA - ICN: ETD 2150 (ETA 0755, 23 Mar)
28 Mar ICN - KLIA: ETD 1135
28 Mar KLIA - SIN: ETD 1930 (ETA 2025, 28 Mar)

VOOT!

I nearly bought up the whole of Robinsons yesterday … well nearly. It was fantastic going with a buddy who likes shopping as much as you do and well … we did quite a lot of damage to our wallets.

I’m not very ready for the trip though. The other side has been slow in coming forward to give us information about the conference and I’ve been chasing them for a while but nothing concrete yet. For a must-confirm-everything-maniac like me, living in uncertainty can get rather disconcerting but something CL said this morning gave me something to think about. She said that instead of hounding them for our schedule (which we suspect they don’t have) , we tell them what we have to help them slot us in somewhere.

I know this sounds a little odd but for self-proclaimed conference queens!! like us, we should have known earlier. This conference must have been planned way in advance, with all the speakers all nicely lined up and informed already. However, when our host suddenly invited us late last month, the organisers did all they could to scramble around to put us in somewhere.

Koreans are big on etiquette and we guess that any visitor, no matter what your rank is, gets VIP treatment anyway. So on one hand, you have an already confirmed guest list, but here comes your boss with another 2 guests and expects you to stick them somewhere.

Now, knowing that made me suddenly realise how difficult their job is and why the utter lag in communication. In any case, the only things we can really speak about is our radio ministry and we’ve already got a powerpoint done for deputation purposes. We informed them about the content as well as how long it’ll take to go through it. We hope that at least with that, they know where to go from there.

Living in uncertainty is disconcerting but perhaps one thing that I’ve learnt is that to be truly happy and contented, you don’t have to know everything. Just remember that no matter what unexpected situations pop up, God has allowed it to happen and He is teaching us something through it.

Right now we’re wracking our brains on suitable gifts for our host and the people we’ll meet. Work is getting more urgent too, to meet the deadlines for the next few weeks. Suddenly after 2 weeks of going into relax mode, we’re back in the fast lane pushing late nights and cramming as many things to do in the shortest amount of time.

Exciting lah, life is.