Christmas came early...

This is an awkward post to write, because there are several ways it can be scripted, but i'll just type it out as the words come, and hopefully it will be made sense of. 

Firstly, about three weeks to a month back, I joined a competition that were giving out access passes to Blackberry DevCon Asia 2011. For those who do not know, DevCon means Developers' Conference. 

Blackberry DevCon Asia 2011 in Singapore

Now, i need to make it pretty clear that my knowledge of being a programmer or a developer is pretty shallow actually. I have always thought about going, but it was only for the fun of just mingling around with big-time developers. The competition basically was to submit an idea for an app, and i precisely did that. It was nothing more than idea, there was no restrictions or constraints, so i just tried my luck with no expectations to win or anything.

However, sometimes when you least expect things to happen, it's those things that catches you by surprise. On the 2nd of December, I got an email notifying that I won one of the pass that was being given out, and on top of that was, every person attending the conference was given a free Blackberry Playbook (tablet) in picture. It's something that I had actually been wanting to buy for sometime, and was planning to save up for Christmas, as a present to myself. The present presented itself.

Playbook Companion Book , Blackberry Playbook and DevCon Asia tag

In addition to that, a further few months back I joined another competition to win a Blackberry Playbook companion book, on Crackberry.com. The writer Matttew Miller a.k.a Palmsolo on twitter is a Christian too #justsaying. Well, I just tried my luck as well and it's kinda odd to have a book without having the device that the book is for. The book took a long time to arrive from Canada, and it finally came yesterday. My Mom and a close friend told me that luckily the book came later, if not I would have been prompted to buy the tablet not knowing that I would have been able to get it free later.

Some free goodies that I brought back for some Blackberry gang

On top of all that, my expenses in Singapore were kept to a minimal staying under the roof of my cousin and his family, where i was very well taken-care of. Seeing my nephew was priceless too.

The adorable little nephew!

 I'm someone who has never been very good at receiving praises and perhaps have never known how to recognize the blessings upon my life, that God has to make it so obvious that there is no blind spot for me to miss. I'm not bragging, but i think it'll be injustice if i do not talk about it at all. So I'm thankful for that. I have very understanding parents, a wonderful girlfriend, a very tolerant sister, the best friends that anyone can ask for...(it's a long list). Thinking of such things, sometimes will make us overlook the other things that we feel short-changed for, because it weighs alot more than those we've lost overtime. We can't have everything, that's life.

Final word, I believe that God will always take care of those love Him, and take care of His house. I urge those of you who serve to continue to serve, it's not easy and it will never seem to get easier, but sometimes we just gotta bite the bullet and do so. There's nothing wrong in expecting God to bless and we should, but then we shouldn't tie His hands that it becomes an obligation. We have to be very careful that our motives don't deviate in the process, it should always be Him as a priority to our best capacity regardless. I can say that because at this point of life, I've always done whatever I've could.

Besides.....who knows, what the future holds? Who knows you might be next to receive an early Christmas.