Still waiting for godaddy.com to activate the servers where this blog is hosted.. as such my full public online launch is held in suspended animation for the time being.

I can’t wait.. This should be fun.

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I’ve started reading a book lent to me by Mikki (a Christian officemate and new friend I made in WILD — more about it later) – it’s The Winning Attitude by John Maxwell. After 2 chapters, so far so good. Maxwell writes in a style reminiscent of Max Lucado – fresh, conversational, but insightful. I’ll post my thoughts and gleanings from this book as soon as I’m done reading it.

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WILD has officially invaded my corporate and personal consciousness. Since I started joining it 3 weeks ago, I have among other things started songwriting again (yep! after 2 years of being devoid of song.. hehe, I finally completed one that I started writing a long time ago.. and seems like the tunesmith in me wants to further write some more as I’m about to burst in song after last week’s WILD! nice.. )

Furthermore, I have discovered that one thing that is starting to drive me nuts is my being ‘multichotomous’ — that is, having a multifarious personality and living them out as separately characterized entities in the office, in church, at home, and in private. This official online journal is a means by which I am trying to unify all the different Allans you know out there. The people at WILD have effortlessly reminded me of one thing: that I am first and foremost, a Christian. Not a deputy operations director at IBM who happens to be a Christian, but fundamentally a Christian who happens to be a deputy operations director at IBM.

So, goodbye to my private blog (for now, hehe).