Another item of thanksgiving! Today Andrea called me over to her desk for a moment. I didn't know what to expect - was I in trouble again? I haven't done anything wrong recently! Hehe!

It turned out that yesterday (13th March) I had been with the company for six months already and after six months our salary gets reviewed.

Andrea informed me that my pay was reviewed, and I met all performance targets so my salary has increased an extra £500, which means I now work for £13,500 a year! =)

Little bit more money for me each month and a little more for mum too.

The Lord has mercy on our family at this tough moment. I pray that I may never forget this.

In the morning Alan gave out a bundle of survey returns to me. Had ten in this bunch, so I started looking through the survey reviews mainly Q2 answers. Had six 10's of the ten surveys. Not quite seven or eight Greg had me expect, but still good. A 'Mr Smith', who whilst on case notes and courtesy call expressed satisfaction at CRC service and outcome gave me 1/10, surprised. Anyway, I went to toilet and came back to my desk when Kirsten was talking to Scott. Kirsten then turned aroudn to me and said, "Oh Gordon, just the person I need to see. I'm here to give you a ten for tens." So I said, "Oh alright" and saw I got six 10's, signed and dated clipboard. Kirsten counted six £10 notes and gave them to me. All six £10 notes I folded into my wallet then meditated a prayer to God giving thanks.

Initially I thought I might keep £20 for myself and give mum £60, if I got £80. But since it's £60, I thought give mum £40, but at the end, when i was in the kitchen about to hand money to mum, I decided it was better to give £50 to mum and I keep £10.

I would feel better and mum would make better use of the money. Also next month there will be another £10 for 10/10 incentive but also average grade has to be 7.4+.

So thanks to God for His mercy on our family and I hope I have more opportunities to get more money, and give thanks to God.

Writing this whilst at work, to be transferred to Grace Book later.

A few moments ago, I asked Greg Burnett if it was possible to look at our survey returns for this month since there is an incentive that offers us £10 cash for every 10/10 we get returned from customers. The system was down so we were not too busy and had no queues etc.

Greg jokingly asked me if I wanted to see how many tenners I'd be getting. I sheepishly smiled back. Greg raised his hands and asked if I wanted to know how many tenners I'd be getting - and started raising his fingers - from thumb to total of seven fingers and he wiggled eighth finger saying "possibly".

I was surprised / amazed by that, and could only say, "really?!". Greg saidI have the highest rating in the centre this month or something along those lines. Alex heard and made a comment of respect or awe.

All I could say was "praise God" but unfortunately I did not say it loud enough.

The Lord really had mercy on our family. I prayed a few weeks back telling God if I got any amount of money I'd give most of it to mum to support the family. So if I get £80 I plan to only take £20 and give rest to mum. I think we'll get our cash at work in a few weeks time. I cannot wait to see my surveys. Will write again when I get the money. =)

It's amazing how God can speak to us. Tonight Je and I spent a few hours talking things over, talking over our situation.

For the past two months we've been together, yet not 'together' as such. A sort of unspoken 'agreement' or 'feeling' for each other, but how long can this sort of thing go on for?

We already agreed last time that we are "more than friend, less than lovers". Recently we've been really close and really it's like we're boyfriend / girlfriend but not officially kinda thing.

At end of our discussion we concluded two things:
i) Je might not be emotionally ready to start another relationship
ii) We should give more time and now include God in our relationship.

So we prayed together about wher our future lies, and asked God for guidance in our lives. It felt much better after that and from then it felt 'fresh'.

So came home, bathed and prayed to God, again, asking for guidance and forgiveness for leaving God out of the picture. Went to sleep and Lye Yoong texted me, 1:29am.

Message: "Do not let busyness of everyday life take ur eyes off God n Christ or crowd out the Holy Spirit's guidance."

I was like 'Wow! Amazing!' It cannot be a coincidence Lye Yoong would text me such message out of the blue. Must be God speaking to me through her.

So I forwarded the text to Je to encourage her too and show her God's wonder.

Just so cool. So yeah, we should be praying more often now. And Jean also mentioned she would rely on me a lot for spiritual guidance. Not necessary a bad thing seeing as it would mean I need to keep my spiritual walk in check. =)

Thank You Lord for car tyres
Thank You for patience
Thank You for friends praying
Thank You that I can read English
Thank You for understanding
Thank You for street lighting
Thank You for safety on roadside
Thank You for torch light
Thank You for strength
Thank You for easiness of nuts to come off
Thank You for smooth changing of tyre
Thank You mum came down
Thank You for mum's warm and filling dinner
Thank You for mum washing up
Thank You for shopping with Jean in car
Thank You car is safe.

Amen!

Yesterday Andrea informed me I had a meeting scheduled with her today 10:15am-10:45am, a Q&A meeting thing. I had a little feeling inside it may not be as simple as that as usually it is Gillian the QA lady who would give people feedback on their calls. So 10:15am came, I came off my call and sat next to Andrea, put on a headset and watched the screen capture.

Things got a bit awkward when I saw eBay website during the call. Oh my gosh - Wednesday morning, few minutes after 8am, my first call, and all got captured! How I searched for info from customer's VIN number, how I took up eBay website whilst waiting for customer to tell me VIN etc. Oh dear! Only the week before did I sign an 'agreement' saying I will not use the internet during work - only at breaks and lunch. *gulp!* Luckily, Andrea said I will not need to attend a hearing about this, as it's my first offense and Andrea is not going to pursue it further. I apologised and I have learnt a valuable lesson.

Sorry God, sorry Andrea!

There is justice! God is just! =)

Tuesday 13th December I used Buy It Now to purchase 40 Mach 3 Turbo blades from an eBay member for £36.97 and paid instantly through Paypal. Two days later 15th Dec I got email fom seller advising her suppliers had been delaying the stock and next available delivery date would be 21st Dec. I had a choice of sticking with order, to be delivered 21st, or a full refund. I chose full refund and asked for confirmation. 19th Dec still not heard from seller so emailed to ask for update - still nothing.

28th Dec still no sign, so emailed seller asking to settle the case amicably or I shall report to eBay if no notice within five working days.

4th January, five working days were up - I reported situation to Paypal. They looked into the case and attempted contacting seller on by behalf. Gave seller till 14th Jan to respond. No response from seller by 14th and she was asked to supply proof of mailing out product to me.

Yesterday, 17th January, I came home from work and found a white jiffy bag sent to me by recorded delivery. I picked it up and saw it was opened at the corner of the seal. Inside it was empty! Cat signed for it easlier in the morning. So, puzzled I was, I checked for parcel status on Royalmail website and it said package held - strange. Called customer services who gave me number of nearest holding office to call this morning.

I called during this morning work teabreak. Was advised packed delivered and signed for yesterday. Must be that envelope!!! I advised envelope was opened and I wanna complain. Girl advised it was signed for in that condition, cannot do anything =(

Called home to tell mum, also felt lousy, like I was conned my money. Work got busy, not much chance go online. Came home and checked email after dinner and saw Paypal ruled the case in my favour. I was refunded £36.97, what I originally paid the seller. I am so happy. Just wanna praise God - thank Him for His justice. I think after five working days I'll buy blades from a better seller. =)