Peak of activity

Go fest asia is now just 3 days away, i can smell it in the whole atmosphere at YWAM and the accommodations. I am now feel the extreme heat of the activity. The past few weeks have been a heck of a busy time, with hardly any time for play or stuff like blogging.

The madness started since i went back to work after the 4-day episode of grandma's funeral. Arriving at base on sunday night, because it was a movie night at base, i saw everyone else in the room watching a movie, while my hospitality team was outside, doing work! I have not been told of any meeting, but i knew i should get involved too. Since then, i felt the pressure was on us, and was only to grow. It aint no play time anymore.

Since then, from how we spent the evenings playing and bonding and hanging out often, it was reduced to zero play time ever since. Instead, we worked morning till night. Staying over at ywam base only means you have more time to do work. Probably if i went home after work everyday, i would be doing much less work. but thats not exactly what i want. Gone are the good times... it will never be the same again, even after go fest.

The hospitality team thought we could get a breather when registration closed - with a total of 274 registrants, about 80 being Singaporeans - and we are relieved of most office work. How wrong i was - field work proved to be much more demanding! Though many times it didnt require us to work as hard and drain our brains out like the office work did, it required to be at the site of activity for much of the time; be it at the accommodations or at the airport to welcome delegates, draining us physically and demanding way lots of our time.
Unprecedented in office days, i am now even forced to give up my weekend to work. saturday morning and afternoon was burnt at SAV, i demanded to go back at night, and denied the request of my leader to go back to work on sunday.

this madness will only happen once though. and after hard labouring comes the harvest of fruits. which i may not get to harvest, sadly.
Speaking of that, it is all due to my family holiday to Japan, just very unfortunately timed to coincide with the peak of activity, and the go fest event itself. There could be no timing worse than this. But u have made my choice, after much dilemma, and i will go to japan, the first time for me. I hardly gave thought about the trip, and it caught me by surprise to realise it is just a few days away. Oh wells. till then when i blog again, i might have already gone there and come back!