Went to Raffles hotel for marketplace luncheon headed by Pst YK - so interesting to see all the more well known biz ppl from chc like elim, nanz, martin ong, gerald wu, pst tan, pst derek, pst ming..Jon's mum and Jon himself

And of course the YK bunch every ready to back Pst YK - Euzanne, daryl who says he wont go but ends up putting up the Marketplace banner, angeline, pauline, boon kiat, olivia, melvin toh, eling, rick..

Q&A was as usual dominated by XH - haaa. he asks questions that have another question convoluted in it! haa.. but was good - smart la.

Mr Sek, the CFO of SGX is an interesting person, u can see his very steady, very 'C' nature from how he structures his prestation

so got an insight into what caused the financial crisis - which made me feel like im back in the SMU classroom again - lots of graphs, tables and really the incredible leveraging and debt that you can see the US wall street get themselves entangled into

echoes what pst Tan shared abt greed and a crisis of values

biggest takeaway?
was at the last portion where he shared his personal opinion and really talked about how we as christians can really share the gospel to others in times of crisis - how much more ppl need God

he talked abt how when he was 20 and he got his first bible how much more fervent he was to serve God and he realised that the past 15yrs he has earned a lot, been promoted but yet was serving self. I think it takes guts to admit that to a huge crowd of high flyers and executives

and he shared that many of us carry medals around our neck - for most men, the medal is their work esp for those who have had certain achievements, but yet more than that we need to look beyond and see our biggest medal is really God in our lives, to serve him, our family etc

no pt if you gain the whole word n lose yr soul amen?