Archive for May, 2009
Thank you ECCL Choir
May 27th, 2009 by Leo
We had our first choir presentation during the last Sunday service. It was such a wonderful experience being able to praise God in music!
It is my first time being a conductor. I think I would give myself 5/10. I have been singing in choirs of Miss Stephenie Chan and Asso. Professor Karen Grylles, I don’t think I have 1% of their musicianship!
I am sure everyone had a great time. I would like to send my best wishes to all the students who will be leaving Lausanne for the next 1/2 year. I am so looking forward to singing with you in the choir next year when you come back!
We should have enough choir members to keep the choir going. But I run out of scores. Can anyone send me some easy Mandarin choir scores please?
A relaxing day
May 27th, 2009 by Leo
Boss is on leave today. All staff are on business trip except 2 admins and myself.
I have been on this job for about 2 weeks now. So far so good. The only thing I am not too happy about is the computer. I am using the slowest computer of the whole office. My boss thinks that adding a piece of RAM onto my computer would make it fly LOL. Hence I don’t get a computer. I probably won’t get a computer until this one breaks.
One of the admin’s computer was broken on Wednesday, and hence she got a new computer with a giant screen right the way. She only works here part time and she only uses Outlook and Excel. But I use Photoshop and Dreamweaver! And I only got 512MB of RAM and a P4 2.8 CPU!
Can anyone tell me how to break a computer in a ‘natural’ way?
On the other hand I don’t really want the new computer – coz it is in French Windows Vista Home Premium version. (If you are interested, it doesn’t support server/client environment. It is not meant to be used in the office.) It is just not good to use at all! If one day I got a new computer (I doubt when that time would come) I will format it and install XP onto it.
The problem is my boss won’t listen. She only looks at the price. And she hates to create pollutant – hence she is reluctant to replace the computers. When I interviewed with her, she told me all computers are reasonably new. I can tell you they are not! She thinks 5-year-old computers are new.
Last Thursday was a public holiday and hence Doris & I went to Bern and Fribourg. I am sure Bern is one of the most beautiful town in the world! A lovely town with stylish buildings, surrounded by a river. Photos on Doris’s facebook!
Lots happening!
May 7th, 2009 by Doris
It has been a while since the last update…many things to write … where shall I start…
1) We spent the Easter holidays (9-13 April) in Vienna, Austria. It was a great trip! It was a great start to book a 4 stars hotel with a low price. The weather was awesome (in fact was a little bit hot that we had to go and buy summer cloth after we arrived) and there are plenty to see. The mozart and Strauss concert is probably what we enjoyed the most!
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2) Leo has a few interviews for job but none of them is promising. The previous job was from a Tobacco company and so Leo decided not to take it even though the salary is very very high. Another job which matches his profile perfectly but then he found out that it was related to futune telling! He went to another interview last week, the job description during the interview is not the same as it is on the post. And the manager seems to be a very demanding person and told him that she wouldn’t defend her staff if things go wrong … ohhhh…. Keep praying lor 
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3) 19 April 2009, we started our first church choir practice. This is the first choir amongst the chinese church in Switzerland. Praise the Lord! From the first audition, we found that most of member have a wide range and the guys can sing high (someone can touch high C!). Although not many people has sung in a choir before or have learnt the skill of singing, everyone has a good heart of serving Him. May the Lord continue to keep and lead us.
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4)Last Saturday at 10pm (2nd May), when i was about to go to bed, I got a call. The children sunday school teacher got sick and I was asked if I could replace her for Sunday. Yes, it was a very last minute but noone can predict “emergency”. And since I have no material with me, I have to quickly search online for a story, chat with Jennifer from the state about games, etc. I also wanted to do bible verses but we don’t have a white board or pen or bluetag to stick the card… resources here is very limiting. At the end, I found some pins and decided to use cardboard box as board. It was my first time teaching the sunday school here in Lausanne and thanks God everything went well and the kids enjoyed it! The resources here (both materials and people) are very limited and make me realize how lucky we are back in New Zealand where we can have everything we want.
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5) Carnaval de Lausanne – 29 April – 3rd May. There were rides, music, dances, street plays, food, etc. The city was packed with people and everyone was having fun (especially the kids)!
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6) H1N1 has brought scare to the world. Cases have been confirmed in many countries around the world. Will it become a full pandemic? Pay more attention to own hygene especially while travelling. Hopefully it will settle down soon. We have decided to postpone our spain trip till later.